I noticed that my regular clothes that I had on was gone. I had a pair of white pants in some cotton fabric, and as a t-shirt I had an old straitjacket with alot of metalbuckles.
I was lying on a strange bed in some even stranger cell. It looked like it haven’t been used for 50 years or something like that...Next to me lied a pair of shoes, they seemed a size too big, but who am I to complain. I put them on and got out of the “bed”.
Who had taken me away, why?? And where am I??
I knew that I wouldn’t get any answers by sitting here so I got up and I felt on the door and to my surprise (and happiness) I noticed that it opened without any hassle, well except the noise the old hinges made when I opened the door, so now I have to find my way out of this place...
I was in a long corridor with many more cells like I had been lying in...what is this place? I was starting to get nervous here.
I tried to look out trough the window, but the dirt was so thick I couldn’t get it off...just to keep on going i guess...
It was a labyrinth down here. So many corridors...I had no idea where to go, and no one to ask...maybe it was a good thing that there wasn’t anyone to ask. I don’t want to bump into some more weird people.
I walked around for what seemed to me like hours. The only noise I heard was the water dripping on the puddles on the floor and my footsteps. There wasn’t almost any light down here so with the sound from the water and my steps and the bad light it was just like those bad horror movies when people are in these houses and monsters jumps out and eat them.
After a while I came to this staircase and I could get up from this “dungeon” cellar...but it wasn’t easy at all, the first steps had been broken down so I had to climb my way up...
When I finally came up I thought I was home free, that now it can´t be worser. But I couldn’t be more wrong...I was apparently in a huge abandoned "house", actually it looked more like a "factory" of some sort...
I started to look for the entrance to this place, and after I had been walking around a while I saw some footprints...well more actually I saw shoeprints.
So someone had actually been here! But how long ago was that?? And who was it that had been here, for all I know it could have been a homeless person looking for a shelter or it could have been a robber looking for a hideout...or maybe it was just someone that was into taking photos of abandoned places.
In one of the rooms I found a telephone, I picked it up and...no, no ring tone. Not very surprising, next to the phone was a photograph of a little boy in a toy airplane. I stood there just looking at the photo, wondering who the little kid was, who put it here and what happened to this kid and his family.
I got out of the room, continuing to follow the footprints and I came up to an even bigger room. In that room was a huge window. That usually wouldn’t catch my eyes, but the weird thing about it was that it wasn’t that dirty and someone had put up a note on it.
I couldn’t read all of the text on the note, either it was some language I couldn’t read or maybe it was the person’s handwriting that was too bad.
Below what looked like a message to someone, was what looked to me like a username and a password for a computer or something...but a computer in this place? And is there any power I wondered...
I started to look around and soon I found some computers hooked up on a simple made table. They weren’t the latest high-tech PC´s but it looked like they might work...
I took a wild chance and turned one of the computers on, and to my big surprise it started up without any problem, sure it was slow and all. But still, they work.
I came to a login screen and I had to enter a username and a password...but I didn’t have any username or a password...then it came to me! The note on the window!!
This was too weird...I have been taken away by some people. Somewhere unknown, they took my clothes off and replaced them with some other clothes. I had been walking around in this “building”/”factory” for hours (it felt like that for me). And now I found these old computers...
What is going on...?
I thought that it can’t be worse than it is now so I went to get the note when I heard a noise...it was the sound of voices...I think...it came from outside.
I turned against the window and looked outside but all I could see was...
This round house in a huge backyard...but no people out there...
Did I really hear voices...or was it just the wind that blew through the windows...
I stood there for a while and looked around, sometimes could see that the grass outside was moving and I thought that it was someone there, sneaking around. But then I came to realise that it must have been the wind...who would be out here?
I took the note and went to the computer again and entered what I presumed was the username and the password.
It worked and I got into the computer. There weren’t any files other than internet explorer and a modem dialling program...
“This is weird”, it thought, “how can there be a modem internet connection out here and the telephone isn’t working”...
I checked the cables and there was this ethernet cable connected to the computer and it disappeared into the wall.
I didn’t want to pull the cable, if the internet connection was working I didn’t want to ruin this chance of getting a message out...and hopefully get some help.
Maybe the phone was working after all...
. . . .
So this is where I am now. I am still stuck in this house, I have no idea how long I’ve been here, but I’m going to start making my way out of here soon...I must.
End of the line Dillinger
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I want to give out a BIG thank you to Henk over at Abandoned-Places.com for letting me use his wonderful photos to help me illustrate this chilling (but true? maybe who knows...) story.
Visit his site and be prepared to be taken to another place:
The pictures in this story are Copyrighted © to Henk van Rensbergen 2004
Used with permission
2 comments:
thanx! ^_^
hey kalisekj!
thanx! he he, informative...cool! haven´t thought of it that way ^_^
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