Okay, got a scary place:
Up the street from my house is a shopping mall. This mall was once the local city mall until the mid-90s when it fell on economic hardship after the dot.com bust (which as a side note should make you go 'hmmmm?' when considering that the last 'financial crisis' was only a little over a decade ago - but I digress) and virtually everything in the mall went out of business.
But just last year they completed work on the new Bella Terra Mall, rising phoenix-like from the ashes of the former mall - the Burlington Coat Factory is one of the only things that remain from the original mall, the rest having been built up around it. I realized I forgot to take a picture of the rest of the mall, but needless to say, there are more shop off to the right of the edge of the pic:
And while to some, the very existence of the mall would be frightening in itself, this preamble was only to give perspective on the
actual scary place:
For some reason, even though the rest of the mall was torn down and rebuilt, this monstrous, derelict Montgomery Ward storefront remains. It is literally right next to the new mall:
It even has a ghostly remnant of the former sign that adorns the facade:
The entrances are routinely smashed in and are periodically boarded up:
Who knows what goes on inside this place when it's broken into:
One entrance they more or less gave up on and boarded most of it permanently, incidentally, this is the side that faces the new mall. The boards across the upper part of the building are blocking where you could enter the Ward's building from the second level of the original mall when it was connected to the storefront:
It's also interesting to note that even though the new mall has only been open for a little over a year, ALL of the storefronts that face the abandoned Montgomery Ward are out of business:
They even tried painting a little mural on it to spruce it up, but it really is kind of a band-aid on a sucking chest wound:
So, shall we try the spot you feel has good positive energy one more time?