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There are things that are meant to be abandoned.
Bad habits, old resentment, unhealthy relationships, but most abandoned places are just plain creepy.
Whether it’s hospitals, entire Olympic arenas that are truly more like small cities, or
like we have today, military bases.
The reasons why people would abandon military bases are truly beyond me, but abandoned they
are.
Let’s take a tour, then, through the Top 10 Creepy Abandoned Military Bases!
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10.
Fort Ord, California Closed in 1994, what was once one of the biggest
military bases in America, is now one of the scariest abandoned ones.
Back in the day, it used to be a training facility that prepared soldiers for combat
roles.
It was equipped with 28,000 acres, a lot of amenities like an Olympic-sized swimming pool,
and dozens of barracks.
All of the above are now totally abandoned and unused.
After so much time giving soldiers a strong foundation of skills to use during battle,
you’d think they’d thank it for its service and send it along to some post-military life,
but it just sits there now, rotting to the ground.
Granted, in 2012, Barrack Obama designated several thousands of acres of it to be considered
a national monument, but is it really attracting tourists?
9.
Ghost Fleet, California Ghost Fleet, or “Mothball Fleet” as they
call it, is a group of ships that represents the remains of the U.S. National Defense Reserve
Fleet.
There’s about 50 of them and they sit all by themselves near San Francisco in Suisun
Bay.
They’ve actually been there, just rocking to the coming-and-going of the tides.
The ships include troopships and tankers and are probably going to be stripped, and recycled
in the near future.
So, while they have been creepy for decades, they’re probably not going to be available
for you to freak yourself out by visiting them.
Don’t worry, though, they’ll be made into something beautiful.
In fact, the Navy has a program that turns ships into artificial coral reefs, sinking
them after they’re cleaned.
8.
Duga Radar, Ukraine Unlike Fort Ord, this isn’t a massive military
base with tens of thousands of acres.
It’s just a structure which they’ve nicknamed the Russian Woodpecker.
Now, you can make of it what you will, but it was actually part of the Soviet’s OTH,
or over-the-horizon radar system.
It was used to warn people of missiles.
It did this by creating a tapping sound that was picked up by shortwave radio which was
widely used in the 70’s and 80’s, when it was in operation.
However, it’s right next to Chernobyl, so after the incident, it’s been declared radioactive.
This not only means it’s abandoned and creepy, but also still dangerous and bad for your
health - so we recommend avoiding it if possible.
7.
Hashima Island, Japan If you’re a fan of the game Battleship,
this island may be just where you want to sightsee.
See, Hashima Island, a 16-acre island, also nicknamed “Battleship Island”, is an abandoned
base near the city of Nagasaki.
There are another 500+ neighboring islands that are entirely uninhabited.
So, in case the scary battleship island doesn't scare you, you can always make your way to
a bunch of other ones where no one will help you.
Back in the 1950’s, the island had over 5,000 residents, the most in its history,
but after the mines were closed in the 1970’s, they all left.
Before the miners, during the 1930’s, the island had a pretty dark existence.
It was a place of forced labor, a concentration camp, if you will, for Koreans and Chinese
prisoners who were forced to work in those mines.
6.
Carlstrom Field, Florida Named after 1st Lieutenant Victor Carlstrom,
this site was built in 1918 during the United States’ involvement in WWI.
During that time, they built 90 buildings over the 700 acres and used an airfield for
training pilots over a six-week course.
After WWI, they continued using the base for new aircraft, testing it, then reopening the
base again in 1941 for WWII.
Of course, wars end, so after the two world wars, Carlstrom Field was closed.
That should be the end right?
Just let us have a good ending!
No, it was reopened again as the “G. Pierce Wood Memorial Hospital”, which closed in
2002.
Finally, in 2014, the state of Florida sold the property to Power Auto Corporation, for
the construction of a driver training facility and a hotel.
5.
Greenbrier Bunker The name of this location makes it seem like
a barely liveable situation where you sleep next to sweaty, tired dudes and turn quickly
into a sweaty, tired dude yourself.
If you’re a woman, that could be particularly concerning.
However, Greenbrier is not a bunker, but a luxury hotel and resort in the mountains of
West Virginia… or is it?
In the 1950’s, the United States came to the hotel with the mission of building a secret
center for congress called “Project Greek Island”.
It was made so, in case of a nuclear strike, Congress could go there and be safe.
However, this clearly never happened, so after 40-some years of sitting there, they decommissioned
it.
The abandoned location has 710 rooms, 20 restaurants, lounges, and 11,000 acres of land.
Underground, however, you’ll find the empty fear of a nuclear holocaust that never came...
4.
Kalama Atoll Islands The Kalama Atoll Islands, also known as the
Johnston Atoll territory, are “unincorporated territories” of the United States.
You can Google that and check out just how many places in the world are unincorporated
US territories, which is a lot, but today I’m just telling you about this one.
It’s a place that for 70 years was under military control, used for a variety of things,
among them a bird sanctuary, a naval fueling station, and an airbase, where weapons would
also be tested.
You know, your run-of-the-mill nuclear and biological weapons tests.
Sure, Chernobyl is bad, but did you know the US also has mass areas of lands that are polluted
with hazardous materials?
At Kalama Atoll, chemicals like Agent Orange took years to clean up, contaminated buildings
were demolished and abandoned, the soil is contaminated and piled in a 24-acre death
zone called the Pluto Yard (after plutonium of course).
If this doesn’t scare you, I don’t know what will.
3.
Balaklava Submarine Base, Russia Unclassified in 1993, this Russian submarine
base was designed to take direct atomic impact.
How can you even prepare a military base for atomic impact?
Somebody, please, I’m building my kids a treehouse and it needs to be bomb-ready.
Just like my kids’ treehouse, the base was actually built in a “secretive residential
area”.
However, unlike my kids’ treehouse, most of the people who lived there worked at the
base, and it was actually functional.
Family members didn’t have direct access either, they’d have to use ID and have a
purpose for being there.
In 1993, they started to decommission the base until 1996, when the last Russian submarine
left.
Now, it’s just another abandoned site that once held military activity and who knows
how many secrets.
2.
Maunsell Army Sea Forts The Maunsell Army Sea Forts are named after
their designer, Guy Maunsell.
They were decommissioned in the 1950’s, but that was hardly the last time they were
used.
Since the 1960’s, they’ve actually been used for a variety of activities, including
illegal ones.
In total, there are 6 forts which used to hold anti-aircraft guns and anti-bomb defense
weapons.
After some time, the abandoned Army Sea Forts were used as, of all things, pirate radio
stations!
The government didn’t have a way to stop them until they passed legislation to ban
the radio stations in the late 1960’s.
However, if you can up and build a radio station in an old fort, you have to imagine much scarier
things can be done there too, right?
1.
Beelitz-Heistatten This base was a sanatorium later turned into
a military hospital during WWII.
They built it in the early 20th century, but it wasn’t until Adolf Hitler was treated
for a war-wound there in 1916 that it started being highlighted in the history books.
Long after the war ended, it still treated military personnel as a hospital.
However, in 2000, the hospital was closed and now, it’s abandoned, save for the energies
and spirits of those who went to the hospital but never made it out.
I mean, it’s a military-grade resistant hospital, if the war can’t get in, who can
get out?
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