Abandoned Theme Parks or Stores

[andrew8798]

Does anyone ever watch these videos on YT where people go into the old Abandoned Parks or stores?

I remember watching ones on when people went into Six Flags New Orleans after Katrina. It's a interesting video

[ayumidah]

I sometimes will watch things like from Chernobyl with all of the abandoned buildings and things until I get too creeped out.

[zrowsdower]

Yeah, it's fascinating and creepy how much stuff gets left behind in some of those places

[Oh Cry Me a Screwball]

It's amazing how hazardous a fully stocked grocery store can become if abandoned.

[Long A, Short A]

I watch Abandoned, Dan Bell, and Ace's Adventures. I'm shocked by the businesses and schools that look like they've been abandon for decades that aren't even ten years old.

[GuyOfOwnage]

I think the most famous story of an abandoned mall was the Dixie Square Mall in Harvey, Illinois. It was open from 1966 - 1978, briefly used in The Blues Brothers in 1980, and sat abandoned until it was finally demolished in 2012. You can find countless videos on YouTube of people exploring it while it was still standing. It's actually quite fascinating to watch.

[sfvega]

I saw a YouTube video of a local mall (Jamestown Mall) that had been abandoned for like 6 years or so. It was the scariest movie I've seen in the last 15 years. It creeped me the hell out that I could get that spooked by a video of a place I've been so many times. It felt haunted, but it makes sense since the last time I went there it was closed due to a murder/suicide in the food court about half an hour prior.

[Stu]

The mods are going to love this thread.

[Jiren]

Not really watched Malls but I do like the Theme park ones, especially some of the Disney ones

Some are quite sad, places like "American Adventure" where I used to go ALOT as a kid but now gone.

[Can you afford to pay me, Gah]

Mar 25, 2017 10:18:00 GMT -5 sfvega said:

I saw a YouTube video of a local mall (Jamestown Mall) that had been abandoned for like 6 years or so. It was the scariest movie I've seen in the last 15 years. It creeped me the hell out that I could get that spooked by a video of a place I've been so many times. It felt haunted, but it makes sense since the last time I went there it was closed due to a murder/suicide in the food court about half an hour prior.

I second this one. It's was cool to see local stuff. I believe he did Crestwood Plaza as well. If I recall Jamestown he walked to the movie theater and stopped because he realized he was walking in mold. I haven't watched it in a while but I remember parts of them.


Speaking of the topic. Adam the Who has done a lot of cool places that where Abandon. He goes beyond just theme parks or stores. He finds just about anything. Some of my favorites was a part of Nick Studios. He found the ranch they used for Hey Dude!

[Powerline]

I love watching the mall and theme park ones specifically. I forget the word, and I wish I knew it, but there's a word for the feeling of "a feeling that comes from being alone while being at or seeing a place that's made to be occupied by many people". But I love that feeling.

There is a mall near my hometown (though it's on the other side of the city, so it's no short drive), that I remember visiting when I was a kid and it first opened. "The Great Mall of the Great Plains". I remember a FLOOD of people coming through there and it being one of the busiest places I'd ever seen when I was younger. I went back a few years ago for the first time since, and it was absolutely stunning how different it was. There were HUGE empty storefronts, two arcades still open with one of them half-filled with broken machines just piled onto each other, a rather stylish movie theater that still did decent business for the area of town it was in, a huge bookstore with an insane amount of backstock just sitting in piles in the store, and these wide hallways and arching stairs/walkways that made it seem less like something made for navigating a mall and more for a replica of a Tony Hawk's Pro Skater level. I was there for a big tournament an arcade from another mall was holding (they had no extra space within the mall they were at), and anytime I left the area where the tournament was, it felt like I was somewhere I wasn't supposed to be and security would come around the corner any second and toss my ass out.