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To me the creepiest thing about this photo isn't the depth of the water or falling into it in the dark so much as the stagnant water itself, just sitting there, brewing, full of strange life forms that live in darkness....growing and thickening in the old, dirty water. A truly alien world in that hole!

Wow, and that looks like new...

I think that if I were to be walking around in an abandoned building...and I came across a room like this one...I would freak out and leave immediatly. None of the other pictures scare me...nor does Pennhurst. But this picture with the wheelchair in the cornor with the walls painted scares me. Especially since its flooded and has no light.

No offense taken. But being a child right before the Salk vaccines were first administered to school children and having childhood friends who came down with the disease, the iron lungs were the only way to keep these children alive. I guess we have a lot to be thankful for today that polio is virtually wiped out in this country.

I know of many many kids in my school who, on weekends, come into these tunnels and drink and smoke up. When they first mentioned tunnels I thought that they meant sewage tunnels underground until I saw these photographs. I think its really messed up of them to be going in and messing around in here. There are so many guards watching this place at all hours of the night, that Im surprized that any of them dont get caught.

This reminds of my lunch times spent in detention...*coughs* I mean...watching my friends in detention, as the rest of us laughed in the bright sunshine.....

Here I am a newcomer, but I was looking for pictures to fool around with with my Trial edition of Photoshop, and I encountered your site. Your photos are AMAZING, and really capture the moods in the scenery. This shot is awesome, mainly because of the lighting and shadows amongst the irony of having stairs where there are so many wheelchairs. (Wonder if that was ever blocked off to the children or something such a long itme ago.)

I wasn't laughing at the iron lung or the polio epidemic, I was simply amused by the irony of that sticker being there because I just took my son to OSV for the first time last week.

Just had to make a soap dispenser comment huh?! lol.

Couldn't be in a patient area, could it? Putting an exposed fire alarm box in an area accessible to patients is madness.

pull it pull it!!!!

cool, life imatating art

wonder if our pal dookie got narced simply because of that comment

this is soooo cool lol

Thanks, I will definitly look at her comments. Lol..and I might give the guards a donut!! lol...I wonder what kind they like?