[Liam-]

Cooling tower of an abandoned power plant

[kirklancaster]

Originally Posted by Ammi

..you can almost see people sitting on those chairs, can't you...all drinking their beer, chatting and playing dominoes.....I don't think I've ever actually watched Most Haunted, do they 'find' anything in the houses or just go to 'feel' scared..?...

The locations and brief backstories are the only things which make Most Haunted worth viewing. The actual content has no paranormal value at all and is shameless scripted fiction. Nothing ever happens, except noises and the odd item being 'thrown' - for which the only 'evidence' we have is the dialogue between the show's cast - sorry, presenters - and at any time when an inanimate object slightly moves ie a table or chair, we are never shown a full shot of the object to prove that no one has 'helped' it move.

As someone who is deeply interested in the paranormal I find the program a joke which actually lends weight to paranormal de-bunkers, in much the same way as fake clairvoyants like Colin Fry and company, are used as evidence by skeptics that all clairvoyants are fake.

It's just my opinion and I apologise if I have veered off the subject of this thread.

[kirklancaster]

Originally Posted by Ammi

Turquoise Canal, Venice, Italy. Just like any other city, areas of Venice are boarded up and abandoned

This is just so eerie, and evocative of the creepy 1973 Donald Sutherland film; 'Don't Look Now', which was set in Venice. Brilliant.

[kirklancaster]

Originally Posted by LiamPRW

Hafodunos Hall in Llangernyw, North Wales.

This is a fantastic photo.

[Liam-]

Nara Dreamland in Japan

[Liam-]

Angkor Wat in Cambodia

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by kirklancaster

Thank you, I will check it out. I write short stories, of which I've been lucky enough to have a few published (horror, paranormal, and romance) and have had very near misses with a couple of TV screenplays - both were well received but ultimately rejected, though I did receive encouraging feedback from both channels - a rarity in itself.

Unfortunately, life's realities overtook my literary aspirations, and I 'temporarily' put writing on the 'back-burner' because I had a living to earn. That 'temporary' period became ten years, but I have just started writing again, so who knows - 'que sera, sera'.

'Food first, then aesthetics' (apologies to Bertolt Brecht ).

...ahh, it's a shame about your writing because it's something you must love doing..?...but maybe you'll get time to fit some in with your work at some point in the future..?...but you're right of course, it's not something you can prioritise unless it's making you enough income as well...and it'll always be on that back burner when you have time to pick it off again, which I truly hope you will...we have a creative writing section on the forum as well, I don't know if you've seen it..?..but you could post some of your short stories in there if you wanted to...I'd love to read some, sometime...

Originally Posted by LiamPRW

Nara Dreamland in Japan

....I think theme parks/playgrounds and schools are some of the most sad abandonments, Liam...

[Ammi]

An abandoned waterpark

[Ammi]

Boathouse, Obersee Lake, Germany




..a great contrast of 'decay' and beauty...

[Ammi]

Abandoned hallway

[Suze]

Originally Posted by Ammi

Church in St. Etienne, France

That is absolutely stunning.

[Suze]

Originally Posted by LiamPRW

abandoned railway in France.

That is eerily beautiful.

I want to visit all these places now. I could spend every day in threads like this My imagination could go wild trying to picture in my minds eye the buildings in better days and the people in and around them.

This could only be an Ammi thread

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by Suze

That is eerily beautiful.

I want to visit all these places now. I could spend every day in threads like this My imagination could go wild trying to picture in my minds eye the buildings in better days and the people in and around them.

This could only be an Ammi thread

..haha..yeah I'm the 'old stuff' Suze...I know what you mean, I love to imagine them how they were and 'alive' but I also think that abandoned buildings also quite often compliment their surroundings by contrast as well and it makes them become 'beautiful' again....

[Ammi]

Gary, Indiana, was founded in 1905 during the boom of US steel. During the 1950s, more than 200,000 people worked in the bustling city. As the manufacturing sector declined, nearly half of the city fell into disuse.

[Ammi]

Church in the snow, Canada

[Liam-]

Originally Posted by Ammi

....I think theme parks/playgrounds and schools are some of the most sad abandonments, Liam...

I agree, it's really disheartening to say a place dedicated to making people happy decay so much

[Marsh.]

Imagine being in that abandoned water park when it's covered in snow.

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by LiamPRW

I agree, it's really disheartening to say a place dedicated to making people happy decay so much

..and also how much noise there would have been anywhere with children and then all so quiet...

Originally Posted by Marsh.

Imagine being in that abandoned water park when it's covered in snow.

[Liam-]

Willard Asylum - Willard, New York

[Marsh.]

That Sharon pic.

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by LiamPRW

Willard Asylum - Willard, New York

..old asylums are quite creepy and disturbing I think because of the awful 'cures' that would have happened in them...it's not so good 'imagining' when they were active and full of people...it's more screams than laughter etc......but still, imagination is balance as life is so I think it's still fascinating, maybe not 'beautiful' as such but very thought provoking....

[Ammi]

Abandoned mining track, Taiwan

[Ammi]

Abandoned Jetty

[Ammi]

Bare footprints in an abandoned nuclear reactor

[Ammi]

Blue spiral staircase in a European castle