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hellaobscura.bsky.social
#nikon #photography #joliet #illinois #graffiti #urbex #explore #bluesky #resist #smellykelly #JustAnotherHotMess
Graffiti on rusted steel panels. Left panel has a white gelatinous ghost-like figure with a large black mouth smiling. He has white eyes, and is surrounded by a strange symbol, similar to a backwards 'at' symbol. The right panel is a one-eyed alien piloting a bulbous caricature of a ufo. The craft has a tractor beam abducting a human shaped shadow.
March 10, 2025 at 1:51 AM
hellaobscura.bsky.social
#BlueSkyArtShow #Windows
A rotting metal window frame in the foreground with sharp edges frames out a large blue building in the background. Green plastic window panes still occupy some of the panels in the window, while another is draped with translucent white plastic, and several are missing panes entirely. The ground outside is littered with unidentifiable refuse. The blue rear building is missing a large overhead door and large window.
March 8, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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chadlewis.bsky.social
Need a Mental Health Break?
If you want to be whisked away from daily life for a bit, nothing is better than a good book on the supernatural. Here are 3 great choices:
1. Richard Freeman's Adventures in Cryptozoology
2. David Weatherly's Strange Intruders
3. @itsasherz.bsky.social Indrid Cold
March 5, 2025 at 3:47 PM
hellaobscura.bsky.social
You wouldn't believe where Santa spends the rest of the year...

#BlueSkyArtShow #abandoned #bando #urbex #explore #history #grimy
February 23, 2025 at 2:18 AM
hellaobscura.bsky.social
#blueskyartshow #monochrome #explore #abandoned #bando #photography #amateur #beginner
A photo of a door centered in a brick wall. Monochrome, high contrast visuals. Ominous and bleak atmosphere, the door is blocked by a pipe running horizontally across it. The door is very dark in color, evidently wood, with a bright window frame inset in the top half, dividing a window into 4 quadrants. Vague hints of graffiti appear on the brick wall to our left of the door, but the graphics or lettering are not completely clear. Through thin horizontal windows across the top of the wall we can see a building behind this door, implying that this was an exit door. The building behind this appears to be have a corrugated texture with a large window in the siding on our left. Our overall vantage is facing the door from maybe 20-ish feet away, through a gap in debris, perhaps wrecked wood and metal sheets, giving the feeling of having just chanced upon this door and acknowledging the foreshadowing it implies.
February 16, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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intotheobscure.bsky.social
This tomb was already opened. Pic was taken on an ancient cell phone years ago. You can see that some kind folks have left offerings to the occupant(s) of this destroyed tomb in New Orleans #nola #grave #tomb #burial #cemetery #eerie #taboo #explore #hidden #bsky #creepy
2 panel photo "infomatic" titled "Caveau". Photo is of the inside of a tomb in New Orleans that was already opened. It's a tubular brick structure with a rectangular concrete frame at ground level, and apparently a dirt floor. Various debris is seen inside, including bricks, stones, dirt, pieces of concrete and clay. Possibly a human long bone and skull cap, but these details are not clear in this photo. A few dollars and coins lie just inside the tomb on the right hand side, presumably an offering to the displaced spirit or spirits that once occupied this grave.
February 12, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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ilrock-rollmuseum.bsky.social
Stop in to 9 W Cass in Joliet, IL and check out our newest exhibit...the WAJP radio station!
#music #history #museum #bsky #photography #vintage #illinois #joliet #DoJo #artists #art #volunteer #chicago #musicians #album #rock
Click into our website:
roadtorock.org
a photo of a replica of the old radio station WAJP in Joliet, IL. Sound dampening panels, dingy with age, line the walls. "Radio Lane's" sign adorns the back wall. A large turntable is directly in front of the camera, a telephone on a shelf to the left. A portable speaker hangs on the far wall, above a reel-to-reel. Tapes sit on a shelf above another turntable, and a tall cabinet stands in the far corner housing all sorts of the electrical and musical devices needed for broadcasting.
February 11, 2025 at 8:02 PM
hellaobscura.bsky.social
In the basement of my favorite Downtown Joliet #DoJo location. 1929 building, currently undergoing renovations and improvements.
#nikon #photography #resist #urbex #explore #bsky #havefun #smellykelly #JustAnotherHotMess
Photo in a dingy basement. We are inside a room, a large metal door to the right is open inward. We cannot see out of the room. A rusted coal shovel rests upright against the gray steel firedoor. A rusted metal cabinet hangs on the wall to the left, the cabinet door is open exposing a shallow shelf with various unidentified objects resting on it. Lighting is from the right, outside of this room, providing deep shadows
February 11, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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ilrock-rollmuseum.bsky.social
Lou Hinkhouse, our Media Chairman, chats with Jerry Bryant on the legendary JBTV. 2 Amazing Illinois talents on the same podcast! It's a quick watch, please check it out!
youtu.be/6RorGyxXEfA?...
LOU JBTV
YouTube video by Lou Hinkhouse
youtu.be
February 11, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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musicboxonline.bsky.social
Illinois Rock & Roll Museum on Route 66
The Illinois Rock & Roll Museum on Route 66 is a public charity 501c3 nonprofit organization that exists to preserve the history of musicians and bands with ties to Illinois while educating visitors a...
roadtorock.org
February 1, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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musicboxonline.bsky.social
Buy a cool shirt. Rent the podcast room to record. Learn something about music history because music history is tied to the country's history.

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A Chess Records display at the Illinois Rock & Roll Museum A dress worn by Koko Taylor, housed at the Illinois Rock & Roll Museum. Chuck Berry items on display at the Illinois Rock and Roll Museum Cheap Trick items on display at the Illinois Rock and Roll Museum.
February 1, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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musicboxonline.bsky.social
The Illinois Rock & Roll Museum in Joliet is in its infancy. Progress was slowed by COVID and a tornado. But it has a lot of cool artifacts and information on the Illinois music scene and a lot of promise for what it can be. No one was there. Stop by. Make a donation...

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A replica shotgun shack as part of the Muddy Waters display at the Illinois Rock and Roll Museum. Some of the Muddy Waters items on display at the Illinois Rock and Roll Museum. The Great Migration changed the Chicago music scene immensely. Little Walter, Howling Wolf, and Big Bill Broonzy display at the Illinois Rock and Roll Museum.
February 1, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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singulartobias.bsky.social
Check out what my friends got me for our annual holiday gift exchange! 😃
February 10, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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ope-a-ghost.bsky.social
Looking for a paranormal true story? Try @troytaylor.bsky.social The Devil Came to St. Louis. It’s the true story that inspired the film The Exorcist. It’s a fascinating tale that reveals all in elaborate detail including the name of the boy at its center.
#opeaghost #podcast #paranormal #booksky
Book cover of The Devil Came to St. Louis: The True Story of the 1949 Exorcism. The back of the book detailing, in the usual way, the content of the book.
February 10, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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intotheobscure.bsky.social
Episode release this Thursday, February 13th!!! The amazing Amelia Cotter joins us, exclusively on Paraflixx!
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February 9, 2025 at 5:14 PM
hellaobscura.bsky.social
#nikon #photography #urbex #abandoned #bando #bsky #explore #travel #art #resist #BlueskyArtShow
A photo of a chest of drawers, each drawer is open to varying degrees. It's in an old closet with built-in shelves, peeling green paint, and clearly abandoned. The drawers are wood, stained dark, but the sides of the dresser have been worn to their natural lighter color. A single metal drawer sits on a shelf next to the dresser, open about halfway, rusting and probably full of tetanus.
February 9, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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intotheobscure.bsky.social
Exclusively on Paraflixx! Sign up here: paraflixx.vhx.tv/checkout/sub... and use code OBSCURE25 for 25% off of your first year!
February 5, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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burntundertones.bsky.social
February 4, 2025 at 2:26 PM
hellaobscura.bsky.social
No Signal

#nikon #resist #bluesky #smellykelly #JustAnotherHotMess #explore #urbex #abandoned #bando #history #photography #illinois #joliet #industrial
Photograph of a series of vertical lights, similar to a traffic signal. Red on top, amber in the middle, green on the bottom. Yellow paint is peeling to rust underneath. A distinct industrial vibe inside an obviously derelict and abandoned warehouse. A line of large windows, two row high offer diffuse lighting, complemented by the gaping holes in the ceiling, causing the puddles on the floor to shine.
February 5, 2025 at 4:10 AM
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intotheobscure.bsky.social
Drive-in theaters always remind me of the movie The Outsiders! I need to get back to this location and see if I can get more information from this machine, like the full model number so I can make a more complete history of it. @hellaobscura.bsky.social @karaphilip.bsky.social #resist #bluesky
photograph of an old drive-in movie theater projector. It was found forgotten in storage at a derelict drive-in. It's an aqua colored Christie machine attached to an International Projector Corp Super Simplex projector, circa 1950s but I don't have the exact model/dates right now. It's in rundown condition, unlikely to be functional in its current state.
February 2, 2025 at 9:39 PM
hellaobscura.bsky.social
New location for me, quick cell phone pic teaser.
An abandoned building, made of brown brick. Clearly decaying structure, bricked up windows and broken glass. The shape of the building kind of reminds me of the Alamo, though it is not actually that similar at all.
February 2, 2025 at 4:22 AM
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ope-a-ghost.bsky.social
Looking for classic UFO nonfiction? Try this one on for size. 👽 It’s based on interviews & official reports vetted by the USAF. This 1953 book helped seal the notion that the USAF was involved in a UFO cover up. 🛸
#opeaghost #podcast #paranormal #ufo #uap #coverup
January 29, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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intotheobscure.bsky.social
#cute #cutespider #jumpingspider #infomatic #tradingcard #resist #resistance #spiderbro #smellykelly #spider #paraflixx #paranormal #haunted #bluesky #urbex #explore #nature #urbannature #illinois
A vertically oriented image divided into 2 sections. The top is a closeup photograph of a Zebra Jumping Spider o a window frame on an exterior door. It's called a zebra because the adorable spider is striped alternately white then black. The spider is looking at the camera, evidently posing in the classic jumping spider pose. The bottom half of the image is text, describing some basic facts about jumping spiders. It ends with a request to not squish jumping spiders.
January 30, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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danielphilip.bsky.social
Oakwood Cemetery, Joliet, Illinois

#photography #bleak #cold #resist #resistance #bluesky #intotheobscure #smellykelly #hellaobscura #JustAnotherHotMess
Photo of a hooded figure from the side, in front of a large gothic styled memorial marker. Taken at Oakwood Cemetery in Joliet, Illinois. A row of memorial obelisks taper off into the distance.
January 30, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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sassyartgirl.bsky.social
New to this platform, trying to navigate my way around and find my footing.
While I do that, please enjoy this beautiful piece by one of my favorite artists, Robin Power.
If you like art, give me a follow.
I will bring you on an amazing art journey and a front row seat to my little amazing gallery
January 27, 2025 at 11:05 PM