Ghost town pictures [Archive]

Ramrod

06-06-2005, 10:40

link (http://www.ghosttowngallery.com/).......interesting stuff......... :)

orangebird

06-06-2005, 10:42

Oooh, great site! I love things like that. Have a greenie :tu:

In a similar vein, this (http://www.starfury.demon.co.uk/uground/cutncover.html) site about old disused tube stations is (IMsadO), a really good read. :)

TheBlueRaja

06-06-2005, 10:43

Is it just me or is Ironton right outta Blair Witch?

Chimaera

06-06-2005, 10:52

Oooh, great site! I love things like that. Have a greenie :tu:

In a similar vein, this (http://www.starfury.demon.co.uk/uground/cutncover.html) site about old disused tube stations is (IMsadO), a really good read. :)
That's an amazing site OB - to think of all the hundreds of times I've travelled on the Underground and never noticed any of the things mentioned on there - I'll have a good look next time I'm in London. :tu:

jtwn

06-06-2005, 11:02

http://www.kiddofspeed.com/default.htm

I'm sure many have seen it before but its still a really interesting, freaky look into Chernobyl.

Ramrod

06-06-2005, 11:31

http://www.kiddofspeed.com/default.htm

I'm sure many have seen it before but its still a really interesting, freaky look into Chernobyl.Nice find. Awesome pics.
I knew someone who was forced to go to Chernobyl to help contain it. He died soon afterwards of a brain tumour.............

TheBlueRaja

06-06-2005, 11:32

http://www.kiddofspeed.com/default.htm

I'm sure many have seen it before but its still a really interesting, freaky look into Chernobyl.

Good read!

Ramrod

06-06-2005, 11:32

Usually, on this leg of the journey, a beeping geiger counter inspires to shift into high gear and streak through the area with great haste. The patch of trees in front of me is called red - or 'magic" wood. In 1986, this wood glowed red with radiation. They cut them down and buried them under 1 meter of earth.

The readings on the asphalt paving is 500 -3000 microroentgens, depending upon where you stand. That is 50 to 300 times the radiation of a normal environment. If I step 10 meters forward, geiger counter will run off the scale. If I walk a few hundred meters towards the reactor, the radiation is 3 roentgens per hour - which is 300,000 times normal. If I was to keep walking all the way to the reactor, I would glow in the dark tonight. Maybe this is why they call it magic wood. It is sort of magical when one walks in with biker's leather and walks out like a knight in a shining armor. :erm:

TheBlueRaja

06-06-2005, 11:47

In Ukrainian language ( where we don't like to say "the") Chernobyl is the name of a grass, wormwood (absinth). This word scares the holy bejesus out of people here. Maybe part of the reason for that among religious people is because the Bible mentions Wormwood in the book of the revelatons - which fortells the end of the world....

REV 8:10 And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters;

REV 8:11 And the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.

:eek:

Millay

06-06-2005, 12:03

http://www.starfury.demon.co.uk/uground/belsize.html

is my favourite especially the mercury arc rectifier still working away since 1941...

jtwn

06-06-2005, 12:06

Usually, on this leg of the journey, a beeping geiger counter inspires to shift into high gear and streak through the area with great haste. The patch of trees in front of me is called red - or 'magic" wood. In 1986, this wood glowed red with radiation. They cut them down and buried them under 1 meter of earth.

The readings on the asphalt paving is 500 -3000 microroentgens, depending upon where you stand. That is 50 to 300 times the radiation of a normal environment. If I step 10 meters forward, geiger counter will run off the scale. If I walk a few hundred meters towards the reactor, the radiation is 3 roentgens per hour - which is 300,000 times normal. If I was to keep walking all the way to the reactor, I would glow in the dark tonight. Maybe this is why they call it magic wood. It is sort of magical when one walks in with biker's leather and walks out like a knight in a shining armor.

Yeah, I remember the first time i read that bit, sent shivers down me spine..

AndrewJ

06-06-2005, 12:21

http://www.kiddofspeed.com/default.htm

I'm sure many have seen it before but its still a really interesting, freaky look into Chernobyl.

Amazing read, honestly perhaps one of the best I have ever seen ever.

You deserve a rep to a gold pip for that post.

greencreeper

06-06-2005, 12:48

I've enjoyed reading the links in this thread - from the interesting to the terrifying. The ghost towns are very American - you need the space. We have ghost towns in the UK, known as "pit villages", but we still occupy them. Hmmm. I wonder what goes through the mind of a man disabling the safety systems on a nuclear reactor?? :disturbd: A gay community website I'm a member of was planning on running a "trip" to Chernobyl. It beggers belief.

fireman328

06-06-2005, 12:56

Oooh, great site! I love things like that. Have a greenie :tu:

In a similar vein, this (http://www.starfury.demon.co.uk/uground/cutncover.html) site about old disused tube stations is (IMsadO), a really good read. :)

That link to the tube history site is awesome !
I thought I knew a lot about the Underground after spending some of my time pulling bits of people from underneath trains but that site is amazing and is safely lodged in my favourites thanks again

orangebird

06-06-2005, 13:12

That link to the tube history site is awesome !
I thought I knew a lot about the Underground after spending some of my time pulling bits of people from underneath trains but that site is amazing and is safely lodged in my favourites thanks again

My pleasure. I've gone over that site about 8 times, and never get bored of reading it. :cool:

Stuart

06-06-2005, 13:23

A gay community website I'm a member of was planning on running a "trip" to Chernobyl.

Maybe thats an idea for the next forum meet... :D

greencreeper

06-06-2005, 13:25

Maybe thats an idea for the next forum meet... :D
:erm:

Stuart

06-06-2005, 14:10

Maybe thats an idea for the next forum meet... :D
:erm:

It was a joke...

greencreeper

06-06-2005, 14:12

It was a joke...
I know - I was contemplating who we could accidentally nudge off the road ;) :D

Ramrod

06-06-2005, 15:57

abandoned-places.com (http://www.abandoned-places.com/) :)

danielf

06-06-2005, 16:33

abandoned-places.com (http://www.abandoned-places.com/) :)

Fascinating site that...

budwieser

06-06-2005, 17:39

link (http://www.ghosttowngallery.com/).......interesting stuff......... :)

Excellent Link Mate, Have a Greenie!
Anyone listened to " Dry County" by Bon Jovi?!!!:D

budwieser

06-06-2005, 19:22

I've enjoyed reading the links in this thread - from the interesting to the terrifying. The ghost towns are very American - you need the space. We have ghost towns in the UK, known as "pit villages", but we still occupy them. Hmmm. I wonder what goes through the mind of a man disabling the safety systems on a nuclear reactor?? :disturbd: A gay community website I'm a member of was planning on running a "trip" to Chernobyl. It beggers belief.

Please Don`t tell me this is compulsory!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:erm: :erm: :erm: :erm: :(

BBKing

06-06-2005, 20:23

I was pleased to see the radiation in Kyiv is less than that in many western European cities - I spent a week there in the summer of 1992, swimming and loafing about the parks. I did wonder at the time if I was frying my DNA in some horrible way. However, I'm fine, apart from the extra thumb.

Millay

06-06-2005, 21:45

I was pleased to see the radiation in Kyiv is less than that in many western European cities - I spent a week there in the summer of 1992, swimming and loafing about the parks. I did wonder at the time if I was frying my DNA in some horrible way. However, I'm fine, apart from the extra thumb.

and just imagine all the things you can do with an extra thumb ;)

greencreeper

06-06-2005, 22:41

Please Don`t tell me this is compulsory!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:erm: :erm: :erm: :erm: :(
For whom? I think the trip idea was scrapped. It would have achieved what the Nazis nearly did - mass sterilisation of a significant proportion of the UK gay community :erm:
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and just imagine all the things you can do with an extra thumb ;)
There was a bloke in Hyde Park - ran a newsagents. He had two thumbs on one hand. Freaky :disturbd:

AndrewJ

07-06-2005, 00:11

I would goto Chernoby. but then again I would be packing a full radioactive protection suit.

Raistlin

07-06-2005, 00:13

Just make sure you wear tight underpants if you got to that part of Russia, otherwise Chernobyl fall out..........

<I'll get my coat then shall I?>

AndrewJ

07-06-2005, 00:15

abandoned-places.com (http://www.abandoned-places.com/) :)

Great site :tu:

budwieser

07-06-2005, 19:11

Just make sure you wear tight underpants if you got to that part of Russia, otherwise Chernobyl fall out..........

<I'll get my coat then shall I?>

ROFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Not heard that for donkeys Mate!!!:D :D :D :D
Have a Greenie!:disturbd:

skyblueheroes

09-06-2005, 09:11

this (http://www.starfury.demon.co.uk/uground/cutncover.html) site about old disused tube stations is (IMsadO), a really good read. :)

Sorry to resurrect this, but just found time to read this site about the underground before going into work. Great read. I must admit to only have been on the tube once and to be honest its a bit intimidating if you're not from the big smoke.

Before I knew it I'd spent 40mins reading it and was late for work :p: :)
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On a similar note, how about Famagusta in Cyprus........

http://www.inhostage.com

Richard M

09-06-2005, 09:17

On a similar note, how about Famagusta in Cyprus........

http://www.inhostage.com

Incredible. :eek:

Nemesis

09-06-2005, 09:55

Incredible. :eek:

Been very close to this place, both from land and sea.

Incredible to see it ...

Ramrod

13-06-2005, 23:59

Abandoned (http://www.abandonednj.com/) :)

mrlipring

14-06-2005, 03:20

We do a lot of similar stuff over at hidden glasgow.

http://www.hiddenglasgow.com

skyblueheroes

14-06-2005, 07:43

http://www.westworld.com/~elson/larail/PE/tunnel.html

The Pacific Electric subway in LA.

Ramrod

26-07-2005, 13:40

Thought I'd resurrect this thread with Abandoned Russian buildings (http://www.abandoned.ru/index.php)............they do things in style over there :disturbd:

Stuart

26-07-2005, 14:46

link (http://www.ghosttowngallery.com/).......interesting stuff......... :)

I like the picture of swansea (http://www.ghosttowngallery.com/htme/swansea.htm) :D

Paul K

26-07-2005, 14:50

link (http://www.ghosttowngallery.com/).......interesting stuff......... :)

I like the picture of swansea (http://www.ghosttowngallery.com/htme/swansea.htm) :D
The sunshine gave it away lol ;)

Stephen

26-07-2005, 15:00

We do a lot of similar stuff over at hidden glasgow.

http://www.hiddenglasgow.com (http://www.hiddenglasgow.com [/QUOTE)

completely forgot about that site. I saw it last year sometime, very interesting.

skyblueheroes

03-08-2005, 07:05

Another one. A missle silo. Click the pics to move on.

http://triggur.org/silo/site.html

skyblueheroes

10-11-2005, 10:27

And another. Camp Hero in New York.

Apparently hosted the Montauk Project in the 50's. This allegedly opened a time tunnel and also dabbled in creating Super Soldiers.

Rumour has it that there is a large underground bunker too.

http://www.subversiveelement.com/Montaukhistory.html

Ramrod

04-12-2005, 21:46

modern ruins project (http://www.oboylephoto.com/) :)

Hom3r

04-12-2005, 22:14

http://www.kiddofspeed.com/default.htm

I'm sure many have seen it before but its still a really interesting, freaky look into Chernobyl.

I once went on a coach trip to Chenobyl, the problem came at the end when we did a head count!:Yikes: :Yikes: