Good morning Phoenix and welcome to Wacky Wednesday! We made it to Hump Day, so the weekend is just around the corner.
How about some hauntingly beautiful abandoned places?
• Pripyat, Ukraine - The Ukraine city of Pripyat was home to 49,000
residents until it was evacuated and abandoned following the Chernobyl
disaster in 1986. Although the area remains abandoned, it’s been deemed
safe to visit and some outfitters there offer guided tours of the site.
• Lake Shawnee Amusement
Park, Mercer County, WV - According to the New York Daily News, the
Lake Shawnee Amusement Park in southern West Virginia was abandoned in
1996 after two young guests died accidentally. Though many of the old,
creaky rides still stand, what was once a lively play place is now a
decrepit plot of and that many say is haunted. Those who’ve dared to
explore the deserted site say they’ve seen the ghost of a little girl.
• Kings Park Psychiatric Center, Kings Park, NY - This eerie, aging
asylum dates back all the way to the late 1800s when it was created to
serve as a treatment center for New York’s mentally ill. Long Island
locals simply refer to it as the “Psych Center,” and while the large
plot of land was declared a state park after the institution was shut
down in 1996, the site more closely resembles the setting of a horror
movie rather than a refuge for outdoor recreation.
• Trans-Allegheny
Lunatic Asylum, Weston, WV - (pictured below) This long-abandoned
Civil War-era mental institution was left to deteriorate when it was
forced to close in 1994. The brave souls who have visited since report
that the building is now haunted and the current owners offer ghost
tours year round. Plus, in October guests are invited to the asylum for
seasonal festivities such as the Asylum Ball and Zombie Paint Ball.
•
Chateau Miranda, Celles, Belgium - Curbed reporter Spencer Peterson
called the Château Miranda (or Château de Noisy) a “ghost hunter’s
paradise.” Well, at least it looks that way. According to photographer
David Baker, construction of this enormous Gothic-style structure began
around 1866 and was finished in 1907. Now, Baker wrote, it’s “in a heavy
state of disrepair,” but despite all of the destruction and decay it’s
endured, “the building still maintains [its] beauty.”
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