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This week, everything’s in ruins. What makes a place eerie is an almost intangible quality. And this intangibility only adds to the eeriness. It’s a cold, clammy vicious circle - a feeling found somewhere between mind and location fuelled largely by the imagination and often a history laced with tragedy.New England Ruins is a selection of rather beautiful pictures taken in the New England area by photographer Rob Dobi. Taking in abandoned psychiatric hospitals, disused industrial mills and businesses, the loneliness of once burgeoning spaces is captured to quite startling effect. Over at triggur.org’s silo section a couple of intrepid explorers have compiled a photographic journey round a disused underground missile complex in the mid-west of the USA. You can click where you want to go on a virtual tour of a deserted locale that was supposedly out of date technologically before it was even completed. But why travel when dear dirty London has secrets of its own at Derelict London. Aside from the majesty of overgrown churchyards there’s a section on disused public houses, some of which (The George Robey in Finsbury Park, for example) were once social focal points of the city’s music scene. Now only those ghosts drink there. Elena Vladimirovna’s road trip to the wasteland of Chernobyl is a fascinating foray into the eerie as she takes on the role of a female Mad Max, cruising desolate highways in search of human contact and indeed the few who refused to leave the disaster area. It’s quite possible she glows when the lights are off. Finally, no eerie tour would be complete without a trip to hell – or at least one its many portals on Earth. Entrances To Hell collates such innocuous entrances and you may well be surprised to learn that one lurks just around the corner from where you’re actually sitting at this precise moment in time.
Richard Hector-Jones
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 useful linkstriggur.org/silo www.derelictlondon.com elena vladimirovna’s chernobyl site www.entrances2hell.co.uk
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