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I felt like I was in a choose-your-own-adventure story today…

I was working in some remote hills, hiking a fence line when I came across an abandoned underground bunker. The place belongs to a client who only recently bought the big piece of property.
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I was afraid there may be some critters in it so I made some noise before getting closer. I peaked in and used my phones camera to light it up.


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Okay, so creepy hidden opening, no roads around, a buried cargo container…

Would you open it? Or would you go safely about your business and never let it cross your mind again?
I would have to open it!
 
I heard a song this afternoon from the band HAIM that made me think of this thread. The song is called "Don't Wanna". I was going to post a link to the song, but then, curious girl that I am, I decided to see if there were any other songs with the title "I Don't Wanna" or "Don't Wanna." So, for your listening... pleasure(???), I humbly present the "I Don't Wanna" playlist. The Youtube link for each song is inserted in the song title. I don't wanna break Lit by putting the Youtube posts directly into my post. There's a mix of R&B, punk, country, and pop. Two of the songs are performed by more than one artist. Patsy Cline's "I Don't Wanna" is reworked by the group Total. If you're gonna pick one, I recommend the original. Suzy Bogguss and Cheryl Wheeler also recorded their own versions of the song "Don't Wanna"

Disclaimer - This list does not purport to be a definitive report of all the songs with these two titles. I'm curious, not crazy. 😊

I Don't Wanna - The Dead Milkmen

I Don't Wanna - KeKe Wyatt

I Don't Wanna - Patsy Cline

I Don't Wanna - Pet Shop Boys

I Don't Wanna - Total

I Don't Wanna - The Call

I Don't Wanna - Beck Bennett & Scarlett Johansson (from the movie "Sing")

I Don't Wanna - Aaliyah

I Don't Wanna - Jagged Edge

Don't Wanna - HAIM

Don't Wanna - Electric Light Orchestra

Don't Wanna - Suzy Bogguss

Don't Wanna - Cheryl Wheeler

Don't Wanna - Warpaint

Don't Wanna - The Lemonheads

Don't Wanna - Estelle (feat. Kranium)
 
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I felt like I was in a choose-your-own-adventure story today…

I was working in some remote hills, hiking a fence line when I came across an abandoned underground bunker. The place belongs to a client who only recently bought the big piece of property.
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I was afraid there may be some critters in it so I made some noise before getting closer. I peaked in and used my phones camera to light it up.


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Okay, so creepy hidden opening, no roads around, a buried cargo container…

The entrance loos dangerous, like it could collapse on its own at any moment…

Would you open it? Or would you go safely about your business and never let it cross your mind again?

Have you ever seen the movie Inheritance?
 
I felt like I was in a choose-your-own-adventure story today…

I was working in some remote hills, hiking a fence line when I came across an abandoned underground bunker. The place belongs to a client who only recently bought the big piece of property.
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I was afraid there may be some critters in it so I made some noise before getting closer. I peaked in and used my phones camera to light it up.


View attachment 2195428

Okay, so creepy hidden opening, no roads around, a buried cargo container…

The entrance loos dangerous, like it could collapse on its own at any moment…

Would you open it? Or would you go safely about your business and never let it cross your mind again?
It is a still. Or a drug lab depending on how far back in it is. Look for a water source. If there is water...it is a still.
 
I felt like I was in a choose-your-own-adventure story today…

I was working in some remote hills, hiking a fence line when I came across an abandoned underground bunker. The place belongs to a client who only recently bought the big piece of property.
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I was afraid there may be some critters in it so I made some noise before getting closer. I peaked in and used my phones camera to light it up.


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Okay, so creepy hidden opening, no roads around, a buried cargo container…

The entrance loos dangerous, like it could collapse on its own at any moment…

Would you open it? Or would you go safely about your business and never let it cross your mind again?
I wonder whether the new owner knows about it.
 
I heard a song this afternoon from the band HAIM that made me think of this thread. The song is called "Don't Wanna". I was going to post a link to the song, but then, curious girl that I am, I decided to see if there were any other songs with the title "I Don't Wanna" or "Don't Wanna." So, for your listening... pleasure(???), I humbly present the "I Don't Wanna" playlist. The Youtube link for each song is inserted in the song title. I don't wanna break Lit by putting the Youtube posts directly into my post. There's a mix of R&B, punk, country, and pop. Two of the songs are performed by more than one artist. Patsy Cline's "I Don't Wanna" is reworked by the group Total. If you're gonna pick one, I recommend the original. Suzy Bogguss and Cheryl Wheeler also recorded their own versions of the song "Don't Wanna"

Disclaimer - This list does not purport to be a definitive report of all the songs with these two titles. I'm curious, not crazy. 😊

I Don't Wanna - The Dead Milkmen

I Don't Wanna - KeKe Wyatt

I Don't Wanna - Patsy Cline

I Don't Wanna - Pet Shop Boys

I Don't Wanna - Total

I Don't Wanna - The Call

I Don't Wanna - Beck Bennett & Scarlett Johansson (from the movie "Sing")

I Don't Wanna - Aaliyah

I Don't Wanna - Jagged Edge

Don't Wanna - HAIM

Don't Wanna - Electric Light Orchestra

Don't Wanna - Suzy Bogguss

Don't Wanna - Cheryl Wheeler

Don't Wanna - Warpaint

Don't Wanna - The Lemonheads

Don't Wanna - Estelle (feat. Kranium)
I love it when you put your research hat on! This is great. The only link I could not get was the last one.
 
I felt like I was in a choose-your-own-adventure story today…

I was working in some remote hills, hiking a fence line when I came across an abandoned underground bunker. The place belongs to a client who only recently bought the big piece of property.
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I was afraid there may be some critters in it so I made some noise before getting closer. I peaked in and used my phones camera to light it up.


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Okay, so creepy hidden opening, no roads around, a buried cargo container…

The entrance loos dangerous, like it could collapse on its own at any moment…

Would you open it? Or would you go safely about your business and never let it cross your mind again?
So wait... did you open it @AlexBailey
 
I feel compelled to apologize on be half of all Canadians, since 1/3 of the Hallmark Christmas movies are made on an assembly line in a converted Jeep factory west of Toronto and 1/3 are made at the same BC Ski Resort an hour north of Vancouver. Toronto and Vancouver routinely stand in for New York, Chicago and Philadelphia, which have neither mountains nor the CN Tower.

The other 1/3 are made using and advanced animation technique so the images look almost real. The dead eyes and permanent fake smiles are a giveaway.

Be warned.

Stolen from a humour site (hence the ad):

WE ARE A PICTURESQUE SMALL TOWN AND WE REFUSE TO BE THE SETTING FOR YOUR ROMANTIC COMEDY​

by RACHEL MANS McKENNY


As of this date, the citizens of Spirit Falls approve the following resolutions:

1. Any ex-lovers of residents of Spirit Falls must file, in writing, their intent to enter city limits ninety days before an intended visit. The paperwork must include a notarized affidavit of intent to not participate in, instigate, or be the recipient of romantic gestures.
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2. We, as a community, no longer have boutique small businesses that require saving. The following businesses have been brought back from the brink of corporate take-over and/or foreclosure and/or family disagreement threatening financial ruin:
  • Our used bookstore, Second Chance Books
  • Our coffee shop, Coffeenation
  • Our combination coffee shop and used bookstore, Bean There, Read That
  • Our doughnut shop, Fried and True
  • Our combination bookstore and doughnut shop, The Hole Story
  • Our brewery, Hops to It
  • Our florist, Business is Blooming
  • Our bakery, Muffin to See Here
  • Our combination florist and bakery, Flour Shop
  • Our combination wedding dress shop and bakery, I Dough
  • Our combination wedding dress shop and pet day spa, Bride and Groom
3. Local lumber industry professionals should refrain from wearing tight flannel shirts in public.

4. Our town festivals (Spirit Falls All-Hallows Bash, Unspecified Winter Celebration, and Summer Festival Strangely Overblown for a Town This Size) have a clear management structure and budget in place to ensure their success and need no assistance from big-city lawyers fresh from a break-up; spunky accountants returning home for indeterminate reasons; writers looking for meaning in their life; or dog walkers whose cars happened to break down at the city limits six months ago and for some reason are still here.
5. Our hotel, The Spirit Inn, offers only rooms with two beds.
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“A key barometer of the literary climate.”
The New York Times
6. Our bed and breakfast, The Falls Inn, has no beds at all.

7. The Falls Inn has a preordained inheritance structure, which the owner’s will specifies will be left only to family members who have not experienced recent heartbreak and/or downsizing at their big-city, ambiguously titled but surprisingly well-paid marketing job.

8. All billionaires in Spirit Falls must be in a long-term committed relationship and/or talk about Bitcoin to the extent that precludes romantic interest in them.

9. Weddings in Spirit Falls may not include enemies in the opposing wedding parties, be catered by former best friends who kissed once and never talked about it again, or host entertainers who are attractive single parents nervous about getting back on the love market.
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10. Bucket-list items are not allowed to be checked off within county limits. After recent public indecency charges at the fishing hole and broken arms at Spirit Falls, “dares” and “bets” will be considered on a case-by-case basis and may be discussed with our risk ombudsman between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Thursday.

11. Our town hospital (which is well-appointed and provides a confounding range of services for a community with a population of 7,500) will have medical practitioners who are, at best, a six.

12. All snow removal will occur promptly within the municipal area, specifically the roads to and from the Spirit Falls Cabin Resort.

13. Coincidences will be fined. The town council is free to determine what includes a coincidence, up to and including running into a best friend’s little sister while jogging, crashing one’s car into the fence of a childhood crush’s new home, and seeing your work rival while checking out embarrassing personal items at the town grocery store.
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Failure to comply with any Spirit Falls ordinances will be strictly prosecuted by our town attorney, Chet Anderson, an attractive but irritable recent widower with rumored ties to a small European nation’s throne.
You've obviously mistaken me for someone who gives a rat's ass!
 
I heard a song this afternoon from the band HAIM that made me think of this thread. The song is called "Don't Wanna". I was going to post a link to the song, but then, curious girl that I am, I decided to see if there were any other songs with the title "I Don't Wanna" or "Don't Wanna." So, for your listening... pleasure(???), I humbly present the "I Don't Wanna" playlist. The Youtube link for each song is inserted in the song title. I don't wanna break Lit by putting the Youtube posts directly into my post. There's a mix of R&B, punk, country, and pop. Two of the songs are performed by more than one artist. Patsy Cline's "I Don't Wanna" is reworked by the group Total. If you're gonna pick one, I recommend the original. Suzy Bogguss and Cheryl Wheeler also recorded their own versions of the song "Don't Wanna"

Disclaimer - This list does not purport to be a definitive report of all the songs with these two titles. I'm curious, not crazy. 😊
Phu! That was quite a list. But I took the time to listen to them and liked the most of them. My favorites was "The Dead Milkmen" and "KeKe Wyatt". What a voice she has! And "The Dead Milkmen" did touch just that feeling of defiance I feel when I DON'T WANNA!! :)
 
Phu! That was quite a list. But I took the time to listen to them and liked the most of them. My favorites was "The Dead Milkmen" and "KeKe Wyatt". What a voice she has! And "The Dead Milkmen" did touch just that feeling of defiance I feel when I DON'T WANNA!! :)
The Dead Milkman sounded like they were literally a Garage Band. But I did enjoy them.
 
So wait... did you open it @AlexBailey

Have you ever seen the movie Inheritance?

I wonder whether the new owner knows about it.

I am opening that shit immediately and pillaging and gear inside... Oh wait, is the zombie apocolypse not started yet?

The owner hadn’t been in that area yet. We did some poking around and found some vents and electrical wires and the the remains of an old outhouse.

There are some other things to suggest their used to be a travel trailer parked nearby and what could have once been an access road.

It was creepy and I was imagining all kinds of Inheritance like shit. I’m more fantasy/sci-fi so I was thinking Sandman. :rolleyes:

It looks like there was a place for a generator inside the dirt entry, nothing but empty oil cans left.

I opened the door of the cargo container a crack to the smell of mildew. It’s an old weed growing bunker, probably from when weed was still illegal and expensive enough to make a profit even after burning twelve hours of gas a day.

No skeletons, no cash nor stash, just some old fans, a dehumidifier, a space heater, a couple of old lighting ballasts and drying stringers across the ceiling. 🤷‍♀️

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It’s history now. :LOL:
 
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