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Anybody a spelunker? How about just an explorer?
Personally, I've always had an interest in caves, manmade or natural. There's something about the darkness, the enclosed space, the danger... something very enticing that really makes for a great setting if you can capture the mood.
Share your underground stories or share other folks' underground stories that you think are interesting – and nifty enough to inspire a story or two!
I'll start with a link to an abandoned missile silo. I wasn't the one doing the exploration but I stumbled over the site and found it was so thorough it was really like you were there (short of the smells and sounds).
Here's a blurb from a page just after descent into the complex:
Personally, I've always had an interest in caves, manmade or natural. There's something about the darkness, the enclosed space, the danger... something very enticing that really makes for a great setting if you can capture the mood.
Share your underground stories or share other folks' underground stories that you think are interesting – and nifty enough to inspire a story or two!
I'll start with a link to an abandoned missile silo. I wasn't the one doing the exploration but I stumbled over the site and found it was so thorough it was really like you were there (short of the smells and sounds).
Here's a blurb from a page just after descent into the complex:
We are standing on a platform at the top of the elevator shaft, looking back at the entrance pit. The concrete column (painted 'toxic') was apparently dropped into the pit to block passage, but really provided a means of climbing down. Beyond the column is a small, dark room containing the sealed-off staircase to the surface. The steps down into the elevator shaft are to the right of the photo. True for all of the underground photos, the place is NOT usually this brightly lit; there is NO electricity at the site, and everything is musty, damp, pitch black. Interestingly enough, there are NO signs of life anywhere in the whole complex; not even a rat or a spider. This may mean that it's just pretty well sealed, or it may mean something worse, that something is preventing things from living down there.