Well, today I did my first urbex in an abandoned location. I must say I really enjoyed it, although this place was massive and overall very forbidding. The location is a nursing home in the middle of a clean and nearly crime-free small town, abandoned for eight years and not visited for at least three, until now. It is surrounded by neat suburban homes, and although not looking completely abandoned from the outside, the inside is nearly all in complete blackness and has the look of a location hastily forsaken for some sinister reason.
The history of this place isn't great, and having read about it more after visiting I feel more uncomfortable about having been inside. People give terrible reviews, (which are hard to find), of staff and nurses being negligent to the elderly residents, unsanitary conditions, and residential conditions bordering on abusive. The photo below of an unfinished and abandoned breakfast, untouched and left in pitch blackness for eight years brings thoughts of serious disregard. Because this building opened in the mid-1980's, hundreds upon hundreds of people died there, especially because it was more of an intensive care facility so the amount of new elderly residents coming in per year was very high. Seeing how it was built for patients who required intensive care, these covered-up and hard-to-find tales of staff negligence are very worrying. I can only imagine the pain and suffering that went on in there for years on end.
Another element to the building's general spookiness was that the power still works, albeit slightly. The occasion light works in the facility's seemingly endless hallways, creating rings of light that break the building's blackness.
Overall, this was a very interesting and somewhat saddening location to kick off my abandoned urbex career, and this location has a lot more to it than just a deserted building. I feel I'll be visiting again soon.
Here are some of my best shots from the trip. Any critique or comment you might have would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, and enjoy!
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Abandoned shoe by
Daniel Burgess., on Flickr
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Exit to afterlife by
Daniel Burgess., on Flickr
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Patient care by
Daniel Burgess., on Flickr
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Nursing home rooftopping by
Daniel Burgess., on Flickr
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Wtf chair by
Daniel Burgess., on Flickr
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Hallway light rings by
Daniel Burgess., on Flickr
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Go away by
Daniel Burgess., on Flickr
Apologies for the high noise levels on this one - it was nearly just a frame of black before I used Lightroom to fix it.
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Unfinished breakfast by
Daniel Burgess., on Flickr
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Kitchen w/bowls by
Daniel Burgess., on Flickr
Thank you for looking!