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I Explored An Abandoned Crematorium And Found Human Remains

It’s been a long time since the thought of exploring this crematorium made its way into my curious mind. Still, every time I tried to enter, all sorts of difficulties prevented me from doing so. This time, though, I got lucky. I found a way to get inside.

This crematorium is definitely one of the top 10 buildings I have explored. I don’t know how to describe it. Sinister? Lonely? For me, it was at least interesting. I leave it to you to discover what emotions the series of photos convey.

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I Explored An Abandoned Crematorium And Found Human Remains

I only took a few steps into this sleeping building to be greeted by the suffocating scent that almost made my heart beat out of my chest but also increased my curiosity. There were urns with ashes everywhere, abandoned, their past wiped out, their memory forgotten. I stepped into the funeral home, where all religious services took place. The bodies used to be lowered through a slit into the basement, where the ovens were silently waiting.

I Explored An Abandoned Crematorium And Found Human Remains

House of ashes

I Explored An Abandoned Crematorium And Found Human Remains

The family

I Explored An Abandoned Crematorium And Found Human Remains

The library of souls

I Explored An Abandoned Crematorium And Found Human Remains

I also went down the stairs, as I was inquisitive about what secrets were kept in that room. Inside, the smell was stronger, heavier. The walls were dark and chipped, a sign of decay, of rotten misery. I would say that not so many people would like to see themselves inside such a place. Pushed by curiosity, I found myself in front of a lonely black door. Hidden behind it was a room sheltering coffins, crosses, and urns, which, in their turn, were supposed to shelter the last remaining image of a memory. Along the way, I discovered several rooms, all of them dominated by darkness. Some stairs led somewhere under the ovens. I hardly gathered the courage to go down. Darkness is all there was. I lit my flashlight, and all around me were spider webs, like curtains drawn after the show. No one has been down there for a long, long time. At first, I saw all sorts of strange objects lying around and even more coffins, but then, as I looked deeper, hidden behind an oven, were remains of human bones. That moment was the hardest to bear.

Ash factory

I Explored An Abandoned Crematorium And Found Human Remains

The remains of human bones

I Explored An Abandoned Crematorium And Found Human Remains

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Billy The Kid 3 years ago

There has got to at least be a caretaker of some sort. Like the author said, it is sad how people have been forgotten, but then how many people of today go and visit their ancestors in the church yard?

9points

RoseTheMad 3 years ago

Scary and saddening thing is, Crematoriums and Funeral homes can and have gotten into awful states, be it a lack of income/money in general to upkeep the "business", unproperly qualified workers, or simply being too inundated with a large amount of dead. The most infamous case of a Funeral Home going to **** (sorry for the term, if it seems disrespectful, but there is no other way I can think to describe it, other than "horrific) would probably be the Tri-State Crematory in Georgia. If anyone is interested, Ask A Mortician has a video on it, but the TL;DR version would be that a son inherited his fathers crematorium business, and many bodies went uncremated and were left around the property, as for whatever unknown reason, the son was "unable to perform the cremations", (likely unqualified,too many bodies to deal with, or a f'in psychopath). Families ended up recieving concrete dust instead of their families ash, it's horrific.

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Esté 3 years ago

Nobody gonna talk about the flowers? Okay!

5points

F. H. 3 years ago

Most of them might be plastic, but there's a fresh pine twig in one of the pictures. I suppose it's out of service and not maintained, but relatives still visit. Just look at the way the urns are arranged: It seems to me like people did this to have some kind of memorial place for the ashes that weren't buried. That makes it even sader.

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