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 germs
   
Location: Great Barrington, MA
Gender: Male
the coolest koala on uer.
 |  |  |  |  | A haunting in Chesapeake?
< on 2/18/2009 12:52 AM >
|  | | | Out on a drive through the country with my girlfriend, on our way to my parents house, I noticed this abandoned complex. They used to manufacture sheds, barns and fences here, apparently. My best friend who always accompanies me on all of our UE trips, joined me 2 days later to investigate. We parked outside of the overgrown gate, with just enough room to pull in off the main road without anyone noticing our car parked. The place was becoming so overgrown, even in the winter months, that I don't think anyone noticed us in the complex. I saw two cops drive by while we were on the grounds, thankfully not even glancing in our direction. We circled the main house twice, photographing the various workshops and barns. The place is completely vandalism free, or at least appears to be. They kept plenty of livestock there, with numerous pens and small pastures. There was something like 100 55 gallon barrels there, each with a hole cut and a smaller bucket inside. I'm not sure what these were used for. You can see them throughout the pictures. There was also a small family graveyard right in front of the house.
Infiltration. We go in through the back, it's dark and spooky. Everything has been left behind. There's medicine bottles and pills scattered about the dining room table and floor. Judging from the car outside, somebody was in a bad accident. Coming around the corner from the back bedrooms and dining area, we entered the kitchen and noticed crime scene tape sanctioning off the next room. About this time, we hear loud footsteps on wood, then a key going into a lock. Wrong key, another key is tried. By this time I'm already halfway out the tiny kitchen window and turning to see my friend throw his camera at me and dive out head first. 10 seconds later, and 50 meters away, we hop the fence on the opposite side of the complex from where we parked. Because of the overgrowth, we can walk along the road in front of the complex, but still in view of the house. Nothing. No open doors, no sign of life. No other cars parked. Back at our car and on our way out of there, we discuss what happened. We both agree that there was no disturbance in any of the dust on the floor, or anywhere for that matter, so nobody had been there in awhile. I thought the footsteps were upstairs, he thought they were on the porch which was covered with a tarp. I don't know what happened here, but I got that eerie sinister feeling that's usually associated with death. Most recent date was 2002. Noticed it on calendars and prescription bottles.
We'll probably try to go back and get pictures of everything we missed, and as soon as he sends his half of the photos I'll add those.
That was the last picture before I hopped out the window just to the left.
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UniqueStyle
Gender: Male
| | Re: A haunting in Chesapeake?
<Reply # 1 on 2/18/2009 2:07 AM >
| | | | Nice place wild story
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Wishful Goddess
Location: Hampton Roads VA
Gender: Female
| |  | Re: A haunting in Chesapeake?
<Reply # 2 on 2/18/2009 5:20 AM >
| | | | Wow. Thanks for posting that. I live in Chesapeake and I am very intrigued. If you do plan to go back and would like to meet up with a couple of other explorers, please let me know. My boyfriend and I keep looking for places to explore, but they tear buildings down way too quickly around here and we haven't found too much. I'd love to see and photograph this place.
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germs
Location: Great Barrington, MA
Gender: Male
the coolest koala on uer.
| | | | | Re: A haunting in Chesapeake?
<Reply # 3 on 2/18/2009 8:53 PM >
| | | | Posted by Wishful Goddess
Wow. Thanks for posting that. I live in Chesapeake and I am very intrigued. If you do plan to go back and would like to meet up with a couple of other explorers, please let me know. My boyfriend and I keep looking for places to explore, but they tear buildings down way too quickly around here and we haven't found too much. I'd love to see and photograph this place.
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I got some background information on the story of that place. It seems somewhat interesting, but we currently have a lot of bigger targets in Virginia Beach and Norfolk that we'd like to explore. Plus, that place is really spooky. Actually, it might be a good idea for us to hit it up in numbers and have more of a plan in case anybody or anything is still there. I'll let you know when we're going back.
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Kroc
Location: Salisbury, Maryland
Gender: Male
| | Re: A haunting in Chesapeake?
<Reply # 4 on 2/19/2009 5:39 PM >
| | | | the barrels were most likely so that buckets of feed could be set inside so that they didn't become waterlogged. The livestock could stick their heads in the hole in the barrels and access the feed.
Thats just a theory tough, still trying to flesh it out.
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don_corleyone
 
Location: F/RoX
Gender: Male
I have abandonment issues
| | Re: A haunting in Chesapeake?
<Reply # 5 on 2/19/2009 6:01 PM >
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leave the gun. take the cannoli.
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Katetron
Location: Middlesex New Jersey
Gender: Female
melting your brains
| |  | | Re: A haunting in Chesapeake?
<Reply # 6 on 2/19/2009 9:29 PM >
| | | | picture 2 is downright unAmerican!!!
too many people not enuff swet |
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Aleksandar
Location: United States
Gender: Male
your darkest shadow, my oldest friend; the world's become ashes, this is the end.
| | Re: A haunting in Chesapeake?
<Reply # 7 on 2/19/2009 9:47 PM >
| | | | feels kinda like a squatter situation -- the glass panes in the windows, the stovetop, etc, is all pretty shiny and clean so it doesn't look very long abandoned. while a lot of the place looks dusty and littered (and obvious signs of rats) i get the feeling a squatter is probably there. a good sign is the propped open door.
tires on the intact car don't look flat yet -- though it looks dirty. probably hasn't been there too long.
nice job on the explore & on the pictures though!
(edited for clarity)
[last edit 2/19/2009 9:48 PM by Aleksandar - edited 1 times]
Freedom breeds war; and Peace, slavery. So it shall be forevermore: Men who love freedom buy it with their lives, and lovers of peace with their freedom. |
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germs
Location: Great Barrington, MA
Gender: Male
the coolest koala on uer.
| | | | | Re: A haunting in Chesapeake?
<Reply # 8 on 2/19/2009 11:20 PM >
| | | | Posted by Aleksandar
feels kinda like a squatter situation -- the glass panes in the windows, the stovetop, etc, is all pretty shiny and clean so it doesn't look very long abandoned. while a lot of the place looks dusty and littered (and obvious signs of rats) i get the feeling a squatter is probably there. a good sign is the propped open door.
tires on the intact car don't look flat yet -- though it looks dirty. probably hasn't been there too long.
nice job on the explore & on the pictures though!
(edited for clarity)
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The stove top was actually in the little truck in the yard. It was also covered in rat feces. You can't see down inside of it from the picture, but I guarantee you nobody has been using it. However, squatters would be completely possible. We never made it upstairs in the house, and there was a porch which was covered in a tarp and separate from the rest of the house. One of those locations is most likely where the noises were coming from. Thanks for the compliments, I'm constantly striving for improvement in my photography, and that makes me really happy since I'm just starting out.
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germs
Location: Great Barrington, MA
Gender: Male
the coolest koala on uer.
| | | | | Re: A haunting in Chesapeake?
<Reply # 9 on 2/20/2009 2:29 AM >
| | | | Posted by Kroc
the barrels were most likely so that buckets of feed could be set inside so that they didn't become waterlogged. The livestock could stick their heads in the hole in the barrels and access the feed.
Thats just a theory tough, still trying to flesh it out.
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That's exactly what I was thinking. It was like the entire property was a pig pen with all those barrels around.
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Doberlady
Location: North Georgia
Gender: Female
| | Re: A haunting in Chesapeake?
<Reply # 10 on 4/3/2009 7:10 PM >
| | | | Posted by germs
There was something like 100 55 gallon barrels there, each with a hole cut and a smaller bucket inside. I'm not sure what these were used for. |
Around here they do the same thing with the plastic drums. Primarily for two different reasons.
1) Livestock:
Salt/mineral licks for large livestock, such as horses, mules, and cattle. Sometimes with grain feeds to prevent wetting from weather.
2) Roosters:
The bottom is filled with litter, (in a removable container for easy cleaning) and a rooster is tethered near so it serves as a chicken house. There is only one rooster to a house and houses are staked far apart to prevent them fighting amongst themselves.
~The People should not be afraid of their government, the Government should be afraid of the people!~ |
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Doberlady
Location: North Georgia
Gender: Female
| | Re: A haunting in Chesapeake?
<Reply # 11 on 4/3/2009 7:12 PM >
| | | | Nice photos by the way, look forward to seeing more.
~The People should not be afraid of their government, the Government should be afraid of the people!~ |
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germs
Location: Great Barrington, MA
Gender: Male
the coolest koala on uer.
| | | | | Re: A haunting in Chesapeake?
<Reply # 12 on 4/10/2009 9:36 AM >
| | | | Posted by Doberlady
Roosters
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Seems like the most logical explanation. Brilliant! Give me a Guinness! Anyway, I will be posting much, much more, as I have plenty of new locations and pictures stored on my digital memory card, unfortunately my cocker spaniel puppy decided to eat my camera's usb cord. So as soon as I pick up a new one, there will be more!
-germs
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Karamar
Location: Shreveport, LA
Gender: Male
Wait...... What?
| | Re: A haunting in Chesapeake?
<Reply # 13 on 5/10/2009 12:03 PM >
| | | | Nice pictures. Looks like an interesting place. Any plans to go back?
Well...... crap........ |
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mesomewierdo
| | Re: A haunting in Chesapeake?
<Reply # 14 on 5/10/2009 6:22 PM >
| | | | Pic #1 there totally looks like a ghost figure in the leftmost window. Kind of a long haired Moorish fellow.
If the car has an inspection sticker in the windscreen that could indicate when it was last on the road, +/- a year.
[last edit 5/10/2009 6:23 PM by mesomewierdo - edited 1 times]
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germs
Location: Great Barrington, MA
Gender: Male
the coolest koala on uer.
| | | | | Re: A haunting in Chesapeake?
<Reply # 15 on 5/19/2009 3:35 AM >
| | | | Posted by mesomewierdo
Pic #1 there totally looks like a ghost figure in the leftmost window. Kind of a long haired Moorish fellow.
If the car has an inspection sticker in the windscreen that could indicate when it was last on the road, +/- a year.
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I hadn't really looked at that picture so closely before. Now that I have, I went back and looked at some other pictures that I hadn't posted. It looks like a shadow cast on the window from inside, and it moves from shot to shot. It's too dark to be the reflection of the tree which I initially thought it was. Creepy. In another shot, of a glass door, downstairs, you can clearly see a demented looking face glaring back out the window at you... Makes me want to avoid this place.
The car's inspection was dated 2002. So was everything else, inside and out. Prescription bottles, calenders, etc.
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anathema
Gender: Female
| | Re: A haunting in Chesapeake?
<Reply # 16 on 5/19/2009 1:56 PM >
| | | | I'm a bit skeptical about ghosty faces in windows, but who knows? Go back and take more shots -- if you continue getting the same thing, it could be.
This is a cool find, though. Places like this make me wonder about the backstory.
"Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower." ~~Steve Jobs |
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Karamar
Location: Shreveport, LA
Gender: Male
Wait...... What?
| | Re: A haunting in Chesapeake?
<Reply # 17 on 5/22/2009 5:13 PM >
| | | | | I hadn't really looked at that picture so closely before. Now that I have, I went back and looked at some other pictures that I hadn't posted. It looks like a shadow cast on the window from inside, and it moves from shot to shot. It's too dark to be the reflection of the tree which I initially thought it was. Creepy. In another shot, of a glass door, downstairs, you can clearly see a demented looking face glaring back out the window at you... |
You should post those pics and see if anyone could think up any type of explanation for the faces in the windows. I know my first thought for that first pic is a tree maybe if there were some clouds out casting some wierd shadows on the house. Was it a clear day or were there some clouds in the sky?
Well...... crap........ |
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Forever_Devoted
Location: North Fayetteville NC
Gender: Male
| | | Re: A haunting in Chesapeake?
<Reply # 18 on 6/14/2009 10:27 PM >
| | | | Wow, that is awesome, would love to go explore it sometime, would have loved to have been there for the sounds, I ghost hunt and have heard footsteps many of times.
A NC "Ghost" Hunter. |
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IcarusBurns
Location: MD
Gender: Male
| | Re: A haunting in Chesapeake?
<Reply # 19 on 6/14/2009 11:39 PM >
| | | | Awesome story. I love the picture of those old VHS tapes, I have a pretty big movie collection myself and it was neat seeing those.
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