So here's one for you... [image heavy]

I detest Photobucket. DETEST IT.

That said...

This is an interesting one. There are actually two parts to this, but I'm going to start with the more "sensational" of them. This is an historic location in MD, though I'm not specifying exactly where. If you've been involved with anything paranormal in MD, you might recognize this place. The reason I choose not to say where it is is because part of this area has not been vandalized(probably because the bored kiddies with spray paint haven't been able to find it) and because the parts that have been vandalized have been through enough. :P

All photos in this post were taken in July 2012. I have older ones from previous visits that I'll post up sometime, including one very interesting one that I wasn't expecting.

These are the remains of a church

That part is sort of important. The full history of this church is known, though I'm not going to write it out because again, it would potentially reveal where it's located. It is in its ruined, abandoned state due to natural disaster. Said natural disaster also killed a bunch of people-- not necessarily at the church, but in the immediate area nearby.

Definitely ruined, definitely abandoned, definitely vandalized

There is a lot of paranormal speculation surrounding this place, some of which is legit and some of which is basically ridiculous. There's weird stuff that's gone on here, though not as, um, "imaginative" as some would try to make you believe. I've been here on numerous occasions and every damn time something slightly off-kilter has occurred. The most memorable event was the August day(and if you've ever been to MD in August, you know exactly how insanely hot and humid it is) that a friend and I ventured here, and upon stepping in to the vestibule(I use big words) we were hit with utterly freezing cold air. It was like stepping in to a room with the air conditioner on full blast, except, well, there's no air conditioning here.

No, no air conditioning. It would be sort of pointless.

Yes, that's me in there, only on this occasion there was no cold air, which was a shame, because it was hot as balls.

Actually, on this trip, there was a whole new element in place. It was utterly bizarre and not something I've ever seen out there before.

It was this.

That's a black vulture if you can't tell, and while they aren't all that unusual in MD, they're certainly less common than the boring old turkey vultures that are all over the place. This thing scared the crap out of me, not because I have some irrational fear of large black birds, but because it was directly above me when I stepped inside and I didn't realize it until I glanced up. It was not especially keen on leaving its spot in the window, but did eventually flutter over to a branch in a close by tree.

A branch. In a tree. Close by.

It did not move from that spot for the entire time that we were there. It certainly appeared to be guarding something-- a nest I would assume-- though it seemed late in the season to have little vulture chicklets running around. I also didn't hear any screeching of disgruntled youngsters, so... who knows. Maybe it just digs hanging out here.

OR MAYBE IT'S STRAIGHT FROM HELL!
Sorry, I couldn't resist.

Anyway, I've heard everything from "there's a vortex here u guize!" to "iffen you go at night you'll see dozens of red eyes staring at you from the trees OMG1!one" to "there's this freaky red mist that appears out of nowhere! Nowhere I tell you!". Now, on that last one-- red mist-- I have seen a photo that is purportedly of said mist and was taken at night. It does appear red in the photo, however, that's so amazingly easy to fake and there's no way to verify the validity of that photo, so... that garners some pretty hard skepticism from me. Additionally, it did not come from the most reliable of sources, so I'm inclined to believe it's not the real deal.

Here are a couple more shots that are of the ruined interior:

It's ruined all right




One last thing about this place-- it was a Pentacostal church. I can't tell you the number of snakes I've seen here-- seriously.