The macabre scenario of an abandoned asylum

Urban explorers, photographers who venture into long-abandoned buildings, are fashionable. Responsible for this new photographic trend is human curiosity, which searches the loneliness of a building all your old life and, perhaps, traces of explanations for leaving â€" so many times in a hurry, as we have read in Green Savers.

This time, the pictures are even more frightening. Johnny Joo documented the former Forest Haven asylum in Laurel, Maryland (United States), and collected evidence of a Dantesque scene: a 1925 building abandoned in 1991, when the 15 patients were moved to another location, most modern.

Composed of 22 buildings, this gigantic asylum still retains the appearance of the years 90-chairs, beds and even frames with messages. "The size of the complex was incredible, and as we jumped from building to building, trying to figure out how big it was. Each of the buildings was enormous, and at one point was 15, 14 to be visited. I loved ", explicuo Joo.

In addition to finding written records of former patients, Joo got several surgical equipment â€" a scary scenario and do remember movies or video games of terror and suspense.

Beyond all the mystique of abandoned buildings, there is a real problem of urban planning and sustainability. All these buildings could be reclaimed â€" some, all over the world, already are being â€" and it is necessary to send for recycling all the panoply of trash there found, much of it with toxic compounds, as seems to be the case.

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