Deserted island

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He'll eventually get banned, probably permanently considering the amount of spam he posted here.


Anyway, I've noticed I never posted in this thread, heh. A really nice find, Sovz. It would be pretty cool to pay a visit there. I get the shivers just by looking at those photos, I can't imagine how would it feel to see it in person.
 
I don't know about you, but I always loved abandoned places you can explore for hours on hours. Since you've enjoyed the island, here's another deserted place - an old Soviet village named "Promishlenij".

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Some preview pix:

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Enjoy.
 
Very cool why was it abandoned is it to close to chinoble or something or was it just economically a bad idea to live there since the fall of the USSR?
 
A Ghost Island called Hashima

Lots of interesting pictures here about the ghost town of Hashima.

According to the wiki there was a coal mine operating there and after it shut down in the 70s the island/city became deserted.

It looks very post-apoc in the same vein as Pripyat (minus the radiation), thought I would share.
 
Paladin Solo said:
The clue to the island's mystery lies in coal mining. Reached by long descending tunnels, coal beds below the bottom of the ocean near Hashima disgorged huge quantities of high-grade coal for almost a century.
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Silent Hill
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My insatiable apetite for more Silent Hill and rust just immensely grew. The Japanese are excellent marketeers.
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Actually if I am not completely wrong here Silent Hill is somewhat based on an actual city in the US which happens to be close to a Coal seam fire (those kind of situations seem to happen more often then one might think : Coal seam fire in the United States)

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*Though if you guys want to see some post apoc places why not just considering a vacation in destroid ... I mean detroid ?

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6WKMNmFsxM[/youtube]

get that post apoc feeling now ! For a cheap prize. Fighting for your life and food included. :D

You also might want to do a big travel trough the rust belt of the USA
 
The Silent Hill movie was inspired by Centralia, I am not positive if the games were, my guess would be no. I have visited before when I was in the area for something unrelated. Not a terribly exciting place to be honest, just kinda cool to think of what was and the causes of what is still going on.
 
well what did you expect. Zombis walking down the strets and pyramid head selling toys to tourists ;)
 
As a teen I went with a few friends to an abandoned community for the mentally ill. Apparently back in the day it was thought that the mentally ill should all live away from society, so they built small towns with schools/living/hospital/police ect. Anyway, that inofitself made going there kinda scary. We got there and decided to go into the old hospital. Just the way it was set up was freaky, it had 2 floors above ground, and 3 floors below. Armed with flashlights, we made our way down to the bowels of the old hospital, the discarded blunt wrappers strewn about eased the tension as we walked around trying to scare each other. After a time, seeing as we were 3 floors below ground and our flashlights were dying, we decided to head back to the top floor to leave. (access was only to top floor via fire escape)
In the room before the fire exit, we were all just chillin, it was daylight out, so no more scares. I stood on one side of the room looking out the window silent. 2 girls were in the middle of the room conversing, while my buddy was doing like me not talking but looking out the window on the other side of the room. That is when I heard a man's voice. I tell you I thought nothing of that voice, for I figured it was my buddy interjecting in the girl's conversation. However my view of the afterlife changed forever when I heard him clearly say "Did anyone else just hear that?" "I DID!" I replied.

We all looked at eachother, screamed in unison, and BOOKED out of there. The interesting thing is, just as we ran down the steps and got to the car, up the road comes this old man in a red truck. I guess he was a groundskeeper of sorts, or someone who comes to scare off bluntsmokers. He could have been an axe murderer for all we cared to find out. The thing that I find interesting, was the timing of the phantom voice. Was it a warning for us to leave so we wouldnt be caught by the old man?

Anyway thats my abandoned/silent hill story. The old community has since been completely demolished.

http://www.weirdnj.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=95&Itemid=28
This is it, if anyone wants to see pictures. The last pictures with the weird steel hatches were inside the hospital.
 
Wicked story, mobucks. And equally wicked setting for it to happen. High-five for no one getting caught and disembowelled by a scary monster. :ok:
 
Yeah, things like that are pretty cool. I would like to explore some place like that one day, but I'm afraid that it won't happen. Too scared of getting arrested for trespassing or falling through a rotten floor or something... :shrug:
In New Orleans there is a big abandoned Six Flags amusement park-- I saw some photos of it on BoingBoing at some point. It seems like an interesting thing because of how recent the abandonment was-- the owners just never returned after Hurricane Katrine.
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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bcja8UBtXdk[/youtube]
 
Muff said:
Very cool why was it abandoned is it to close to chinoble or something or was it just economically a bad idea to live there since the fall of the USSR?
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[high school geography]

The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant is near Pripyat, in the Ukraine, in eastern Europe.

Hashima is former coal-mining town on an island off the coast of Japan, which was never part of the USSR.

[/high school geography]
 
I would be interested to know what does the geiger count looks like in such places.

Is radiaton the reason of their abandon ?

Edit : I'm talking about the original post obviously, Hashima and other post-nuclear-bomb cities

Edit 2 : Wow, I just realised looking at the other pictures Hashima is some kind of artificially extended island !
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Damn, that would be a wicked setting for a post-apocalyptic plot...
I also realised it's abandoned not because of radiation, but just because of economical collapse.
 
Arr0nax said:
I would be interested to know what does the geiger count looks like in such places.

Is radiaton the reason of their abandon ?

Edit : I'm talking about the original post obviously, Hashima and other post-nuclear-bomb cities

Edit 2 : Wow, I just realised looking at the other pictures Hashima is some kind of artificially extended island !

Damn, that would be a wicked setting for a post-apocalyptic plot...
I also realised it's abandoned not because of radiation, but just because of economical collapse.
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Wow. This post. It's like watching someone think out loud.
 
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