My buddy Jana, and I, decided to take a little excursion today. By excursion I mean a wondering through the landscape-y baron back roads of Oklahoma in search of "ghost towns" or abandoned towns" as the internet informed us they were. Well......let me tell you something...
I looked up the word "abandoned" in the dictionary, just to make sure I was right, and sure enough...it said that the definition was exactly what I though it was. Which is the pickle, people. How can a town be abandoned, even according to our own News (lol) stations, if a whole slew of people live there? Yeah...it had us scratching our head too.
But...needless to say...we DID get to see some abandoned buildings in some really shady looking tiny towns. As you will note the pics I uploaded to Facebook, and will upload to Instagram, depict The towns of Ingalls, Oklahoma and Skedee, Oklahoma.
Both have actual residents. We even met some! Like the lady who answered her door to me...a stranger...and allowed us on her property to photograph the buildings of Ingalls. I was very happy I didn't have a gun trained on me, at least that I could see, when I walked up her front steps.
We got some pretty neat photos and scored a little lovin from her three dogs. Precious lil things they were! We also got numerous "drive-bys" from the local volunteer firemen. I'm guessing those young fellas were quite curious as to our business there so they had to call everyone of them in...in all three of their vehicles...to make sure we weren't "up to no good." **wink wink.
After we finished there we decided to head on to Skedee. Let me till you...you haven't lived until you have driven straight into the center of bumfuck Oklahoma with only 10 miles left on your tank. I would swear the clouds parted and the angels wept when we stumbled across a gas station/casino!! Yep...Jana won $9 I lost $5. Tis the way of it, ya know?
I lovingly gave my lil ride a drink, to the sum of $10, and we began on our way again. GPS was super sweet to us as it led us to our next destination. You can imagine our surprise when this town had living people in it too!! Where the hell were all the dead folk, I ask you!! (No worries, I'm ok now.)
Sooooo...we took some pics of the areas that WERE abandoned, and set about our way...again. Lol. However, this time The lady in the GPS thingy decided to be a bitch and simply wouldn't talk to us. We were NOT happy about that but, since Jana and I are seasoned travelers, we knew we had this. And sure enough...it might have taken a minute...but we made it to our next destination....ARBY'S!!!! Damn straight...beef & cheddar, baby!!
By this time it was getting late and we had one more place to go. We shoved our food down and sped away to Guthrie, Oklahoma. Logan County Memorial Hospital...here we come. Now, we knew we would not be able to get inside. But that didn't bother us. We simply wanted pics. This is where it gets creepy, folks. The story behind this hospital is sketchy. It changed hands many times since 1932. In the 1980's, I believe, it was finally purchased by a group of private developers who planned on turning it into an apartment complex. Ok...that's all good.
So why didn't they? The only excuse given was that it fell through. That having been said, they used to allow paranormal teams inside...yet they stopped doing that. Ok...maybe they just changed their minds...no problem there.
BUT....
Here's the weird part. Jana and I got there, parked in a parking lot across the street, and walked over to it. No fence, people. Nothing at all. But we are respectful and simply wanted photos. We were there a total of 10 minutes, at the MOST, before the cops showed up. Yep...the 5-0 rolled up on us. Spotlight and all. Funny thing was about 3 minutes before Jana had noticed a camera in the window, pointing out. Weird, right? Not pointing at the door, but at the street. As the police began walking towards us, we made our way to them. I told them I was an author, cause I am, and that Jana was my photographer, cause she is. The fellas were very nice and just asked us to stay on the sidewalk. No problem there. Nothing kooky about that...until he mentioned the cameras. He said we were "being watched". That it happens all the time.
Okaaaaaaaaay...I'm a little freaked now. It wasn't a censor that was set off alerting the police. It wasn't a neighbor who had called alerting the police. It was someone watching us on that camera. I don't know about ya'll, but I'm a little curious about a place that doesn't have a fence, has not been refurbished (possibly due to funds) but has the moolah to equip an abandoned building with high tech cameras PLUS pay somebody to monitor them. A little odd in my book.
We spoke of it on the way home and, as soon as I walked my dog, I did a little research. If this place has been investigated by other teams here why can I not find any pics of the inside? I've looked, trust me. If ya'll find any, let me know. I also found a website that had the link to the webcams that are supposed to be, put in by the owners, so that the public can look for evidence on them. Guess what? I went to the site and I got a big ol' FORBIDDEN at the top of my screen. Yeah.....I'm still scratching my head.
Oh...did I mention Jana's camera wouldn't let her take pics of certain areas of the building? Yeah...chew on that for a bit. We will...
Blessed Be )O(
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