Urban Exploring Plus Other Stuff

Yeah, so I can't stop my brain from thinking about making a super cheap movie that I wouldn't be embarrassed about, but would for sure be able to at least make back the budget.

Cool locations where we can fuck shit up and not care. Spreading blood in locations, ie friend's houses, is not fun.

I've been thinking about maybe shooting something at this asylum I've explored a couple of times. Long abandoned, it's got like 22 buildings that are all creepy and different. That's production value right there.

Plus, I'm trying something else that may make me some dough. Testing it. If it works out, I'll share it here.

So my brother and I went back to the asylum. Got there about 1:30pm. As soon as we came out of the woods we saw two young girls walking our way. They said something to us about one of the buildings and I said, "Yeah, we've been here a couple of times."

Then they started asking questions--what was the best building to go to? The main one, we said. It's got the morgue and some cool hallways. Are we going there, they asked? Yes. They're like, Can we tag along with you?

I'm thinking...Jesus...this is how young girls get killed. They don't know my brother or I, and he's a huge guy. I'm not small, but he's bigger than me. Then I'm thinking, "I don't want these girls hanging around, getting in shots and stuff."

My brother said, "Well, we're not going to that building right away..." They got the hint, and took off.

We went into the "entrance" building. It's the one that cuts toward the center, so you can stay hidden from the guards better. You won't have to cross as much bare land.

 That's my brother and I posing in a cool dark hallway in the entrance building.  Today was an unseasonably warm 62 degrees on Feb 6th...yet this building is so cold it's uncomfortable. You gotta understand, there's tons of giant windows all over, and parts of the roof are caved in.

So how does it stay so cold? I figure it's the ghosts.

Then we headed off toward the church...

We got to the church. I didn't take many pics. My brother did, so I'll post some of those here when I get them.

Then to the main building. And my complete failure as a person.

We shoot a lot of cool pics and video. Here's some:

The buildings are falling apart a lot more than the last times we were there. There were also downed trees, like BIG trees.

We hear voices outside. Kids.We keep shooting. They're approaching, and being very loud and stupid. It's trespassing, and they're acting like they don't know it. There are signs EVERYWHERE.

I hear them getting closer so I walk toward the front door. I can't exactly tell where they are or how close, so when I come around the corner they were RIGHT THERE.

Two guys and two girls, probably around 17 years old. The girls SCREAM and run, as does one of the guys. The other guy had started running but I guess it registered that we weren't machete-carrying murderers, and he'd stopped and turned back.

My brother and I are smiling at the scene, but the running guy fell and hurt himself. He was limping. They all laughed, we told them we were just taking pictures. They said "So are we!" and held up their iphones, and my soul died a little at that.

And I'm kicking myself for not rolling video on the whole thing. Stupid. Would have been viral gold.

We went back to taking photos downstairs where the morgue is. (it's the fourth picture from the bottom one above) We heard them talking upstairs, and then we didn't. I guess they decided it wasn't smart to go into a building with strangers, even if they have convincing props that make them look like photographers.

It was getting dim, so we knew we had to get out of there .If it got dark, we'd have a hard time navigating the woods to get to our car.

Anyway...more to come.