Deserted Town. (501 hits)
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Submitted by ilikesteak (View user info) at 2007-08-15 01:08:06 EDT
Time seems to stand still out there. No signs of life. The trees look like they're just there because they have to be. The playground is frozen. The town is empty. No signs of force. Silent.
I'm pretty sure this place used to be a coal mining town. The old mines are closed off pretty much everywhere, but you could get in if you felt like it. It seems like everybody just left one day, and didn't take anything with them. It's fairly creepy. You just get the feeling that there should be people around. There should be children running and playing. There should be a cat sleeping on a front porch. None of this really makes sense.
I went in once. Just to see what it was like. There are no barriers to keep people out. There is no chain link fence with barbed wire atop. No warning signs. No keep out signs. I guess that must be so it doesn't stand out or pique anyone's interest. Nothing out of the ordinary but it feels like there should be. At least it'd explain something.
A bike path runs through the town. That's how I found it. I even stopped at the bench by a cabbage patch. The whole town smells like cabbage. It could be in a horror movie. I mean the good kind of horror movies, which focused on actual horror more than on gore. It's that creepy.
The strange part about all of this, is that it isn't fiction. I really wish it was.
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Submitted by UA_MARINE (user info) at 2007-08-25 03:27:59 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
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Submitted by TheUniter (user info) at 2007-08-16 01:26:53 EDT (#)
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Submitted by testify0 (user info) at 2007-08-15 15:56:29 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
This picture looks like a picture of a model. Like from a model train village.
Submitted by haikumikoo (user info) at 2007-08-15 14:37:35 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Pull the sword from the stone dude!
Submitted by DirtyHarry (user info) at 2007-08-15 11:40:32 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Ghost towns kick ass, and there is nothing creepier than an empty play ground with the swings moving slowly in the breeze.
Submitted by rorrim (user info) at 2007-08-15 10:26:49 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
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Submitted by Amontillado (user info) at 2007-08-15 10:16:24 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Cool. I've always wanted to go to a ghost town.
Submitted by Brdn_Nkd (user info) at 2007-08-15 09:59:07 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
is that in AZ? That looks very familiar, if it's not the same one I've been to one just like it. I've also been to several tin and lumber ghost towns in the black hills of SD. always cool to explore.
Submitted by SunnyG (user info) at 2007-08-15 09:38:11 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
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Submitted by azurefroz (user info) at 2007-08-15 07:05:30 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
This was done, much better, by particle man three weeks ago.
Submitted by Berty (user info) at 2007-08-15 05:27:25 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by Merlina (user info) at 2007-08-15 02:58:27 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I mean the good kind of horror movies, which focused on actual horror more than on gore. It's that creepy.
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Couldn't agree more.
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That basically means a horror movie that make use of a high pitched whine going "eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee" in the background. For realzies, peeps, dat's wot make de heebies jeebie.
Submitted by Merlina (user info) at 2007-08-15 02:58:27 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I mean the good kind of horror movies, which focused on actual horror more than on gore. It's that creepy.
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Couldn't agree more.
Submitted by joedaddy (user info) at 2007-08-15 02:17:34 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
way back when, a small group of us used to go to all the ghost towns in Cali to basically loot and dismember them piece by piece...inc the cars(Ford Model T's)
there were hundreds of them back in the 60's and early 70's
but then the "big boys" got involved with their fucking helicopters and double flat-beds and generally fucked it up for everyone
you should'a seen Bodie, BEFORE, they ran us off
and Masonic and Wild Rose and and and etc
Damn good times
Damn good
Submitted by Zeglamancer (user info) at 2007-08-15 01:42:41 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
I had actually forgotten about it until I saw the .txt on my desktop earlier and was like "Oh man wtf why haven't I been using this?"
Submitted by ilikesteak (user info) at 2007-08-15 01:12:15 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
THE YOSHI RATE IS BACK!
Been wondering why you stopped.
Submitted by ilikesteak (user info) at 2007-08-15 01:11:30 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
I take a knife with me when I go through.
In every horror movie, nobody grabs the appropriate equipment. When a guy in the theatre yells "Run bitch, run!" it means they should have noticed what was wrong long before some random asshole interrupted my moviegoing experience.
Submitted by Ballare (user info) at 2007-08-15 01:11:00 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I've been to a town like that.
It's fucking creepy.
Submitted by Zeglamancer (user info) at 2007-08-15 01:09:30 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
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