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Twisted

AJM

What's that weird winch thing sticking out at the end of the bed towards us? it freaks me a bit.

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03

AJM

It looks official so it sounds right it's a heating location system. But still, awfully small font.

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Narrow

AJM

The way the freezer trays slide otu obviously means it was a morgue so they could examine the bodies and brains of the mentally ill for research.

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Lone Chair

AJM

Why is it chairs can have this overpowering presence of eerieness when in the middle of some empty place such as this?

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Pit Of Oblivion

AJM

These kind of pictures fascinate yet terrify me. Someone, either adult or child, has drawn this long ago, created a picture of the world they knew around them within those walls, of the people around them.
Probably heard of the phrase black sheep to mean an outcast, so used that since they were all outcasts of society back then (and in some cases even now), and the names make me chilly.
The fact these are real people the artist knew perhaps. Jean maybe died somehow as did the other unnamed sheep. Bennie? and Jo have managed to escape the pit, and Marcia and Mary seem to be between heaven and hell itself.

or it could be just a drawing someone drew and named the sheep because he or she wanted to.

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Crib Shadows

AJM

I can imagine sleeping in it all alone and without any thoughts to picture out what I needed to think.

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Stagnant Playthings

AJM

What draws my eye the most is that there is still a perfectly good drawing in chalk on that little blackboard.
Someone's dream that managed to live long after they died, I guess.

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Soot Stairwell

AJM

Reminds me of Silent Hill. Actually, ALL of the pictures remind me of Silent Hill.
This one feels more like it though....the pure gibberings of insane loneliness people must have felt in here, some couldn't speak so they screamed through carvings.
Others couldn't write so they screamed until they become whispering echoes.
And others who couldn't do both screamed inside themselves so powerfully that their essence remains.
But that's just me.

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Lone Chair

AJM

That chair gives me chills. I felt something bad from it. And something sorrowful.
I'm not psychic or anything, so don't worry, I'm not a nut :P I'm just thinking on gut instinct.

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Kodak Moment

AJM

The shed makes me imagine some sort of childhood home of someone, at first filled with the false perceptions of happiness you remember...but then when you return to it, the bad memories fly from the door into your arms.

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Show Me to the Suction Machine

AJM

I don't trust any of the staff if they couldn't spell resuscitator right.

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Keystone

AJM

If it wasn't for the windows on the right of it, it would look creepier to me as being all stone and coldness.

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Strange Bathroom

AJM

Kinda Wonderlandian somehow....but the stairs to the window...yeah it is like Winchester Mansion...either that or they were making it easier for suicide jumpers.

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Carousel

AJM

That elephant looks so evil in the light.

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Shadows

AJM

Reminds me of the basement of the playschool I went to. No toys were there, just this cold kitchen. Nobody wanted to go down there but it was only there to keep kids separate and not have a huge ruckus.

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