Dialogue Continued

I did a lot more looking at abandoned hospitals than you might think from just the last few posts. Here's part of the previous conversation that I left out earlier:

Friend: WHY were you looking at pictures of abandoned mental hospitals??

Me: Because they were cool, and creepy, and I was looking them up because I wanted to see if maybe I could go and take pictures of them too. And then I was looking up what asbestos looks like to see if I’d encountered any while exploring my dorm's basement, but I couldn’t really figure it out, so. . .

Friend: . . .

Me: Don’t worry, most of the abandoned hospitals around here have been demolished now. And I probably wouldn’t go anyway. There’s asbestos. And it’s not like I could get there. I don’t have a car. So that would be a problem.

Friend: I think there is a bigger problem here than your not having a car.

. . .She may have a point there.

See, the thing is, I love exploring abandoned places. Like the basement of my residence hall, for example, or an abandoned cabin in the woods, or a beautifully maintained yet completely empty estate hidden in the heart of the suburbs.

Apparently, I'm not the only one.

Apparently, exploring abandoned places is no longer just the domain of the idiots in horror movies.

Apparently, it's become a thing.

A thing called Urban Exploration, or "UrbEx" for short. There are all these websites dedicated to it, and articles and photo journals about people's favorite haunts (no pun intended), and it's fascinating to read through them all.

I can't believe there are other people as stupidly curious as I am! Lucky for them, they managed to discover/explore/photograph these places before they were torn down.

All of the (extremely creepy and wonderful) abandoned places near me have been demolished within the past few years. Looks like I've just missed out.

But! There are these photographs and articles, and I can live vicariously through them.

There's even a movie. . .

A few years ago, a low-budget horror movie was filmed in one of the best abandoned mental hospitals in New England: Danvers State Hospital.

The movie is called Session 9.

From what I've heard, the setting makes the movie. Here's the trailer:

I can't wait to see it!