I finally made it in!!! This place was the most challenging yet. I had to use a ladder and crawl through a partially broken window and put my equipment in first and.......well lets just say it took planning. These apartments were built in 1927 and their main purpose was to house the newly arrived U.S. Steel executives and managers. This place was beautiful and once inside, you could hear the hustle and bustle that once echoed throughout the marbled floors and oak laden walls. Whomever stayed in the Penthouse on the eighth floor must have been someone important. The entire floor was devoted to only two apartments with servant quarters. I spent hours here and took a large amount of photos. I am going to add these to my portfolio slide show but I will but a couple of teasers below........thanks for viewing.
I have personally witnessed the aftermath of very violent acts and deaths at this location.You could tell that these were once very nice apartments but my experience then has been that these apartments now are rent by the week or month and will allow any person to rent there.The drug of choice back then was Heroine and I have seen individuals in the hallway passed out with needles in their veins and there was never enough light in there.The place smelled of cigarettes, alcohol and death.There was always someone moaning that usually turned into screams.No one seemed to care…… about anything.
There in one person who really likes to go into old abandoned buildings as much as me and that is my father Alex.He is very close to me and when I was a very young child, we were always together either taking things apart or exploring places.On May 12, 2008 my father shared his 72nd birthday with me.We went into 2 abandoned buildings, and he explored everywhere within them and I took pictures.Just like old times.Both of us doing what we love to do.The first location is the Jackson Arms apartments and the second was 769 Washington Street.Now, there are a lot of people that see images in my photos and this day must been a perfect day for it.I have not changed or enhanced any of the photos, what you see is what it is.All I can tell you is that we did not see anything out of the ordinary but both of us felt as though we were not alone.The “spots” can be explained as a reflection through the lens but the “spots” move in different frames with the camera staying in the exact same location (use of tripod) and I have never seen this with the lenses that I used that day.There are a lot of photos so I will break it up as #1) Jackson Arms apartments and #2) 769 Washington Street.So dad, here is to you!!!!!
When most people here the phrase, "in the witching hour", they think of 12am or the beginning of a new day. I did a little research and actually 3am is the "real" time of the witch and time for most demonic activity. The reason I found is that 3am is the opposite of 3pm (the time in which Christ died). The 3 also stands for the Holy Trinity so the inverse of this would be powerful Black Magic.......Humm. Well I worked the midnight shift the other night so I took my camera and tripod. I took these pictures exactly at 3am and shortly after. The shutter times were slow and varied from 3 to 6 seconds. Here are the images that I got. None of these were colored enhanced...kinda demonic to me!!! I like it!
