It was such a nice day out today, that my husband, daughter and I piled in the car for a small road trip. I had been playing around on the internet this morning looking for ideas for old run down buildings to photograph... I am still on that kick for some reason, so don't ask. And I found a photo of Bennett College down in Millbrook, NY (Dutchess County).
Note that we knew nothing about this place, other then it was one beautiful old, run down building that I wanted to shoot. It looked like old wood, stone, some cool woodwork and archways. Great texture right? We had thought it was old, from maybe the late 1800's, and as it turned out we were right.
Please note that part of this is part of an apartment complex, so be mindful of people. I parked (you can see my car in a few of these pics) by the front of the building (well it turned out to be the back) and got out.. felt good, was excited about what I was seeing, and how my pics were going to come out. I am not above the smallest of trespass to get the shot I want, but I will not endanger myself, this place was def dangerous. So I vowed to stay safe, use the big lens, and shoot away. Further down my journey in front of the building (this place is HUGE) i started to feel funny, my head was heavy, eyes hurt, and found it very hard to breathe. It was almost surreal feeling (sorry I dont know how to explain it) the further i went, the heavier the feeling. It got hard to talk, and my ears started to bother me. My husband was with me during all of this, and I felt like i had to yell for him to hear me when I was talking. We continued to walk around, and eventually back to my car. My daughter had told us that she experienced a lot of feelings, emotions, blood shed, murder and and even sucide there. She also said that she got sick, and moved the car forward when we walked out of sight.
When we were on our way back home, we did some googling about what had happened there, the school went out of buisness in 1978, but had been founded in 1893 (there is that year again). it was an all woman's school at the time after it was a hotel. The majority of the students committed sucide and some killed other students. That might explain alot of the things, feeling that we both felt today. My husband, of course did not feel a damn thing. I felt fine on the way home, until I opened the photos to look at them.. and I got the same feeling as I did when we were there, but on a leser scale.
I wanted to post what happened to me and my daughter today.. because I really havent had anything like that happen since I last visited the witche's grave.
Not my video: but you can see it better with no leaves on the trees
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