3,698 Comments Posted by Motts

I don't remember smelling anything very strong, maybe a faint odor of disinfectant and the usual stale air smell.

The notebook was labeled "Swimming Pool Readings," I think it was a log of the pH, temperature, etc.

Almost all buildings have stairwells in case there is a fire and the elevator is out.

Since the room was so dark, the exposure time was for a good 30 seconds or so. I moved out of the doorway while the photo was taken so I am not visible, but my tripod is however :)

Yup, all empty...

Yes it was a reflection from the moon.

It's a beam that moved up and down to create the pumping action used to draw water from the wells.

I think the railing is more of a decorative accent rather than a functional balcony if my memory servers me correctly...

A padded room? Not for me... I don't seek anything out in particular, although some pretty neat things have been left in some psych hospitals (straitjackets, ECT machines, brains and organs, etc).

Please keep the topic on Rocky Point, not religion. Thanks!

Nope, I'm a drummer :-)

Gotta mix it up every now and then!

Alex: well no this isn't the first padded room I've come across. I jumped ahead in my sequence of photos to get to my Europe trip online. There is a room at one of the locations on the main page with a large padded room; it had a thick rubber material on all four walls. I guess you could call it an actual "rubber room."

They are pretty rare to come by though in my experience... I only know of about 4 of these types of rooms. Sound proof and / or stain proof seclusion rooms seem to be a more popular solution. Then again, many of the pads in these types of rooms are held up by Velcro or a similar temporary method, so they might have been removed and an explorer would never know. I think I remember this hospital having another set of these green pads laying around outside, and I've seen a dismantled padded wall at another hospital in the states.

The blue one was a little tight around the waist... :-)

I used to leave a card in an obscure place or write my name on a chalkboard when I started, but now I don't bother.

Getting into some really untouched and risky places and leaving something like that behind can make the location impossible to get back into once someone realizes people are sneaking in; I've seen it happen more than once.