Abandoned

Disney’s River Country Water Park
On the shore of Bay Lake, Walt Disney World Florida

River Country, Disney World’s first water park, was opened on June 20, 1976. On Thursday, August 28, 1980 a sad story of a young boy’s death was reported in newspapers. A rare but deadly disease caused by an amoeba found in Florida’s fresh-water lakes took an 11 year old boy’s life after he spent his vacation at River Country. At this time, this boy was the fourth victim of this disease in Florida, but the only one linked to River Country. The disease attacks the nervous system and the brain. Officials reported in the article that Disney World was not to blame due to the fact that the amoeba can bread in any freshwater lake during hot weather. Photos and maps of River Country showed that the park had two bodies of water. The smaller one was chlorinated swimming pool water, and the larger half seemed to be a natural cove, connected to Bay Lake, Disney’s largest natural lake on property. There was never another disease related death in River Country due to Disney doing everything they possibly could to not have a repeat of the tragedy.

In the 1990’s, Disney banned all swimming in its lakes. The park closed at the end of the season, as it usually did, in 2001. When the time came in 2002 to reopen, it didn’t. It is said that the reasoning behind Disney’s decision to not reopen was due to a new Florida law prohibiting the use of natural water bodies and requiring chlorination in all water parks. River Country never reopened. 

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petechia-and-petrichor:

West of Forsyth, Montana.

ragealldayeveryday asked: I stumbled upon your blog by accident! But I'm glad, such a bad ass blog haha

Thanks so much!!! 

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yeltumpar:

Abandoned Star Wars sets, definitely the coolest thing you will see today… 

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Danvers State Hospital 
Danvers, Massachusetts 

Danvers State Hospital has been abandoned since 1992. During the 1920’s-30’s the hospital used controversial treatments such as shock therapy, various drugs, and frontal lobotomies. It may have even been the birthplace of the frontal lobotomy. 

In 2006, some structures were demolished and apartment buildings were built in its place; in April 2007, the buildings and several construction trailers went up in flames. Any efforts at renovation since then have been avoided.

Holy Land USA
Waterbury, Connecticut 

Holy Land USA was once an 18 acre Bible-themed park located in Waterbury, Connecticut. The park had about 40,000 visitors a year until it closed in 1984 for renovations. Holy Land USA never opened back up again due to the death of owner John Greco in 1986. It has been abandoned ever since. The abandoned acres of the theme park have been watched over by groups of nuns for decades, but the place keeps getting more and more creepy as the park continues to deteriorate. 

On top of the vandalism and eeriness the park gives off, a teenager was murdered on these abandoned grounds in 2010. Since then police records have shown that the amount of trespassers have been decreasing which just means abandoned Holy Land USA is as creepy and deserted as ever.

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-Melissa

abandoned-playgrounds:

The Sanzhi UFO houses (also known as the Sanzhi Pod Houses and/or the Sanzhi Pod City) located in the Sanzhi District, New Taipei City, Taiwan, were a set of abandoned pod shaped houses.

Constructed in early 1978 and meant as a vacation resort for military personal, but due to investment losses and several fatal car accidents it was unfinished and left in 1980. The deaths were said to have been cause by the act of bisecting the Chinese Dragon sculpture to widen the roads into the resort, which caused bad luck and since the grounds have been believed to be cursed.

As of 2010 the whole resort was demolished. How very sad.

cleverclevercleverclever:

Norwich State Hosptial. 2009.  Patient ward. 

passittothemoon:

Some abandoned building in Detroit

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ladylocks:

This is beauty to me #Salem #salemoregon #insaneasylumn #haunted #hauntedhospital #hospital #insane #creepy #abandoned

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cleverclevercleverclever:

A building at a State hospital in CT that burnt down over a year ago. 2008. 

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