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RowanJ
Location: Brattleboro, VT Gender: Female Total Likes: 2 likes
| | | Re: That "Oh Shit" moment < Reply # 386 on 6/15/2018 4:47 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | When I first started exploring, a friend of mine and I decided to go check out an old tb hospital pretty close by that we heard about. It was about an hour or two until sunset and we had no intention of going in until we got there. POE was easily visible and wasn't too sketchy other than some glass, so we decided just to go in for a few minutes to scope it out and come back a few days later to actually take photos and explore. When we were going in, we heard soft voices coming from upstairs and saw some camera flashes through the window so we figured they were harmless explorers like us, which they were, but also super sketchy and kind of ominous. One said that they'd been watching us the whole time we were entering and was curious when we were going to join them. (!) This freaked me out a bit but I brushed it off, made small talk, and moved on as fast as possible. The hospital was a mirror image on both sides, however we entered on the right side of the building and in the far right upper wing there was a fire a long time ago so it got a bit unsafe if you went too far down the right wing. We wandered up the stairs watching the floor, and when we reached the top we stayed to the left side of the building. Eventually we found ourselves up on a balcony-ish area on the top floor and the sun was starting to set, as we were in there for more than a few minutes trying to find our way around. We decided to leave but go to the left, the opposite way we came before, as the set up was mirrored on the opposite side, the floors were safer & no sketchy people. We got to the end of the hallway, went down the stairs, got through the fire door, almost out, and the last door was jammed from the other side. Of course! At this point the sun had set, and we were using shitty iPhone 4/5 flashlights. Not smart. We had to retrace our steps all the way back up to the top floor and out on the other side where we came in, all while trying not to fall through the floor or run into the strangers we found inside. Definitely not smart on our part, in more than one way. But hey, we got out safe & learned from it
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| Dee Ashley
Location: DFW, Texas Gender: Female Total Likes: 1378 likes
Write something and wait expectantly.
| | | | Re: That "Oh Shit" moment < Reply # 388 on 5/5/2019 6:13 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | I had kind of forgotten about this one, but reading all of these brings back the memories... I had just arrived at a fairly well-known ghost town in eastern Colorado and was gathering up my photo gear to catch the sunset when I heard a man behind me yell out, "Who are you with?" I heard it before I turned around and saw it; the unmistakable click sound a gun makes when it's being cocked. I turned around and saw a man at the back door of one of the main buildings with a semi-automatic pistol in his left hand. He repeated his question, which sounded more like a statement this time "Who are you with." I tried not to look panicked or flustered and told him I was alone. I carefully lifted my camera so that it was in plain view and told him I was here to take photos. After an awkward moment of him staring me up and down, he broke the silence with a smile and said, "Oh, okay. So your here to take pictures. Sorry about the gun." He uncocked it and briefly disappeared inside the building he was standing beside and reappeared without the weapon. His attitude became downright friendly once he was convinced I was alone and armed with nothing but a camera. As it turned out, he had recently bought the entire town of Model, Colorado. Two weeks before I had showed up, two guys showed up and robbed him, stabbing him in the neck in the process. Assuming that the story was true, it seemed to explain his heightened response to my presence there. By the time all was said and done, he was unlocking old buildings and offering me trinkets and random antiques to take home with me (all of which, I politely declined). I stuck around for a brief time after sunset to do a little bit of light painting, but despite his 180 degree change in demeanor, I couldn't shake the nervousness I felt about being alone in the middle of nowhere with some random, armed dude. Maybe it was a little paranoia of my own, but I could practically feel him watching me and everything I did. I decided to cut my trip a little bit short and leave a little earlier than I had planned. Here's one of the last shots I took before I bailed:
by Dee Ashley, on Flickr
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| Apollo Mey
Location: Atlanta TX Gender: Male Total Likes: 31 likes
It's all about the context!
| | | Re: That "Oh Shit" moment < Reply # 392 on 5/6/2019 3:24 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | I was also one time on a fenced abandoned shopping street, There was a the front gate entrance and a hole in the fence at the opposite side. We came in from the back and made our way through, it was probably a large homeless camp, tons of beds, trash and things set up. We got closer to the road when we heard a voice in the distance, we didn't think anything of it because we where smack dab in the middle of town and we figured it was someone just giving a speech, right? The voice was in Spanish so I couldn't really tell what they where saying, but it was getting louder. At one point, it started to sound closer and closer until we though he surely had to be on top of us! We booked it back out the back entrance and once we where out and back to the car, we saw a Hispanic man giving a speech with a megaphone a few blocks over, and he was moving back and forth and sweeping over the crowd with the megaphone, so it sounded like he was moving closer.
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| Cfourexplore
Location: North Carolina Gender: Male Total Likes: 583 likes
Never a dull moment in Midworld.
| | | Re: That "Oh Shit" moment < Reply # 395 on 5/6/2019 5:19 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Back in January I'd made a trip to a pretty well known location; I parked my car nearby, walked onto the property (the gate was wide open) and started looking for my PoE. There were plenty of signs...enough that plausible deniability or selective perception likely wouldn't have helped me...but I kept moving. As I get to the front entrance of the building, I see 2 medium sized dogs about 150 yards ahead of me, running like hell towards me. They aren't barking...which made me even more nervous, and I'm wondering if they're guard dogs. I'm standing there holding my camera, not wanting to run (at this point where the hell am I going?!), when I see a third dog (a German Shepherd) come running up... I have no way to fend them off, no food to offer; all I can do is stand there and pray it'll be a quick, relatively painless death (I'm not trying to be funny, I was 100% sure I was done). The first two dogs reach me, and gave me a few sniffs, than began to mill about as the third dog approached, and they all began playing with each other...I had begun to slowly back up, saying a few nonaggressive words to them, and eventually we went separate ways. They had to have been neighborhood pets, one had a harness, and I just arrived at the right (or wrong) time to be a point of interest; but it had me scared shitless for a couple minutes...at which point I decided to let that site go; for that day, at least.
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| Dee Ashley
Location: DFW, Texas Gender: Female Total Likes: 1378 likes
Write something and wait expectantly.
| | | | Re: That "Oh Shit" moment < Reply # 399 on 5/8/2019 12:54 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Posted by ryanpics There's a pretty bad town over the mountain from me that had a very recently abandoned school. I had just finished eating 10 lbs of Golden Coral and headed across the street to scope the place out. As soon as I walked behind the school I got an uneasy feeling that other people were there. A few moments later, I turned a corner and ran almost head on into a homeless guy who was obviously on something. I said hi and he said hi back and I quickly walked away. After turning another corner, I turned around to see 2 more people, who looked like they were shooting up, quickly hide behind another building so I wouldn't see them. The worst part is that there was a fence on the other side of the school, meaning I had to walk back past all the people. I never ended up finding a way in but it looked spotless inside. Maybe I'll try in a year or two. For most people this wouldn't be too much of an incident, but being 12 and by myself at the time made it quite a weird situation.
| You're 12 years old??? First of all, you must be really mature for your age because I never would have guessed you were 12 years old. Secondly, I believe that you have to be even more careful than most, because no matter how mature you are, you are still residing in the physical body of a child and people like the ones you describe above will see you as more of a target because of your age. I'm female, so I have a similar issue (to some degree). But the upside to your situation is that it's a hell of a lot easier getting out of sticky situations with owners, LEO's and the like when you're that young. Just be careful out there!
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