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Location: New Jersey Gender: Neither Total Likes: 2 likes
| | | Eerie Scouting Experience? Good Judgement? < on 2/25/2021 6:31 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Hello, this is my first thread post ever on here. I'm new-ish to exploring. I've only really gone with my friends who are more experienced and they would take the lead on stuff. Recently, I found an abandoned gas station. It was a small independent gas station with two pumps, and then a building with a mechanic garage-office combo behind the pumps. I kept an eye on it from afar for a while to make absolutely sure that it was not being used before checking it out. The nozzles were removed from the pumps and the pumps were turned off. Also, during a heavy snow fall a few weeks ago, it wasn't cleared out at all and there were no tire tracks indicating that there were people coming through. At this point, I think the place hasn't been in use for over a year? maybe a year and a half? I remember it seeing it closed up in late 2019. I felt pretty confident that it was abandoned for the time being. Recently, me and one of my more experienced friends got closer to check it out and when I went by the garage/office area, I noticed that there was a computer that was still on in there showing the feed from the cameras, but no indication that there was anyone that used that office recently (jackets hanging up, trash, lights on in the office, snow disturbed by the door to the office from opening it or footprints leading up into the snow). We ended up just leaving as soon as I noticed that because I said that I didn't feel comfortable poking around there anymore, in the off chance that it was still being used/monitored. We thought it was weird because the place was completely deserted and wasn't being used but there were no "no trespassing" signs and the power was obviously still working because of that computer. I was curious: Is it common to have power running in a gas station that hasn't been active in over a year? Why keep the power running when the nozzles were removed and the pumps shut off? Was it good judgement for me to want to leave? (I thought so) Is it possible the gas station is still in use, just for some other purpose? All I can think of is that it was a deterrent. I just found it super eerie. Thank you.
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| Veylia
Location: WNY & VT Gender: Female Total Likes: 10 likes
| | | Re: Eerie Scouting Experience? Good Judgement? < Reply # 8 on 3/23/2021 3:28 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Super late to this discussion. But we've got an old abandoned gas station in my town. Was super popular, owner died, huge fiasco with whoever inherited it, blah blah blah, gas station went under during the whole thing. All the equipment for the pumps were removed a few years ago when it closed and the power to them is gone too. Store is locked up, boarded up, the usual. My place still has a light on a couple cameras on the property, even though it's been dark for about seven years now. It's mostly just to watch if someone comes in to screw up the place. A lot burglaries back then were motivated by people wanting to steal the copper pipes to resell the metal. I know the new owners come by and use some of the equipment in the back on some occasions(some sort of basic car repair/maintenance place used to be run in the same building), so it's not entirely abandoned. Chances are if it was abandoned fairly recently, they might just be monitoring the premises to make sure someone doesn't come in and steal things in case they want to get the place up and running again, or maybe to deter a break in of someone hoping to finding some long forgotten cash or something. That'd explain why there's still power to the place, just to run CCTV. Also you mentioned snow? Maybe they keep the power on to prevent the pipes from freezing inside the building during the winter. I wouldn't sweat it, but leaving was probably a good move. You never know if the owner is tight about trespassers, or if he lives nearby.
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