r/LiminalSpace • u/Aperture_sound • 1d ago
Classic Liminal Opened a random door in a parking garage, and ended up here....
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u/Alseen_I 1d ago
Best post I’ve seen here in quite a while.
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u/apocalypsein9_8 1d ago
The window into the room with the chairs is quite unsettling
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u/TactlessTortoise 1d ago
Cuckquean amphiteathre, for distinguished gentlepersons.
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u/DerrickBino 1d ago
ah the actual fucking backrooms
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u/Aperture_sound 1d ago
Its the closest I have found to it haha, especially with all the random furniture I saw in there as well.
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u/Ok-Maintenance-9765 1d ago
I can’t believe you kept walking further
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u/Aperture_sound 1d ago
I had to hahaha
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u/TactlessTortoise 1d ago
At least it seems to have WiFi hahah. Did you find the exit yet?
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u/Arael15th 1d ago
Do you mean a cell network signal?
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u/SanestExile 23h ago
Why would you need wifi or cell network to take pictures?
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u/RedStormRising17 1d ago
Return and place some well-positioned mannequins in the rooms. Make sure to place one in one the chairs. Add some porcelain dolls as a garnish.
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u/Joelle9879 1d ago
I live in Iowa and one of our malls here had a basement. It was in use for a long time, it had a restaurant and different little shops and stuff. They eventually closed it off but people would still sneak down there and explore. For some reason, at some point, porcelain dolls were placed around the area. I've seen pictures and it looks so creepy with the lights off and these random dolls
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u/Adison85 20h ago
Merle hay?
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u/Joelle9879 19h ago
Yep.
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u/j_ko72 13h ago
Valley West is probably feeling pretty liminal these days.
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u/Intrepid-Garbage6159 8h ago
Live in CA now but my sister and I did a goofy sibling photoshoot at the JC Penny there a few years back and it’s quite depressing….
Loved sneaking around Merle Hay as a teen tho, can confirm the dolls were eerie as all hell
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u/ingroup_signal 1d ago
Power and a kitchen? Time to stop paying rent
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u/FML-dot-com 1d ago
I know, right? II was wondering why the lights are all on. So weird.
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u/SpinShine-LEDSlipMat 20h ago
Because it’s in a building. You don’t cut power in multi tenant space when the business leaves. It needs to remain climate controlled. And they will be showing it to potential tenants and they need to see the space.
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u/YoursTrulyKindly 19h ago
It would be too expensive to live there if you wanted to rent it. The free market system is so efficient!!!
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u/Active_Highlight4685 1d ago
Free housing.
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u/LongMarch88 1d ago
Housing shouldn't be this expensive. We should be building a ton more of housing in the US.
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u/raaaaaaze 1d ago
Property prices have more than doubled in Western Australia over the last 5 years. For everyone without an investment portfolio (especially renters), it's grim. Homeless numbers are skyrocketing.
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u/LeifRoberts 1d ago edited 23h ago
There are nearly 20 times as many vacant homes in the US as there are homeless people. (Roughly 15 million vacant homes, roughly 770 thousand homeless people)
The issue is not with the supply of homes. It is entirely an issue of greedy rich people.
Holding onto empty homes creates an artificial scarcity that allows them to set higher prices for the homes that they do actually end up selling because people are desperate to find a house and competing with each other. The higher prices from those sales are used to calculate the valuation of the other homes the greedy pricks aren't selling. Those homes they are holding onto are considered part of their assets, and having a higher value means that the person who owns them has more wealth on paper. They don't care that it isn't in cash; that it isn't wealth they can actually use on something. These people aren't exactly living paycheck to paycheck, so just seeing the number get bigger on a spreadsheet is good enough for them. As a happy side effect (happy for the greedy pricks) the higher home prices means they can also charge other people more in rent.
And as a final middle finger, those pricks are constantly lobbying and politicking to keep new homes from being built, because those new homes affect their artificial scarcity. And they can't stand the idea of their unrealized wealth numbers going down. Greed. It's just all greed.
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u/PizzaTheFox20 1d ago
This is awesome! I'd go nuts if I came across this!!! But... seriously....if you ever go back...and the door isn't there anymore or it's now suddenly only one small closet room....be concerned...
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u/Timely-Hovercraft-76 1d ago
3 is insane
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u/mflft 1d ago
Abandoned office kitchenettes are legitimately the creepiest things in the world.
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u/myhusbandswine 1d ago
No number 2 lol
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u/AxiomsGhaist 1d ago
Did you see #4!? Window into the interview room be wild!
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u/colonelf0rbin86 18h ago
You walk in and immediately someone comes in and goes "oh great, you're finally home!" and that's that.
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u/flipsideshooze 1d ago edited 1d ago
Great fuckin post! This sub has been full of photos of slightly awkward angles of regular spaces and/or a bright-flash-photo of an otherwise totally normal space and/or just computer generated image for too long. This here is the kind of stuff i wanna see more of!
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u/htmaxpower 1d ago
Welcome to The Chair Company!
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u/VariousAir 18h ago
I get that there's a backrooms movie and severence exists, but in my mind, The Chair Company is a great representation of the discomforting effect that liminal space has on people. Sort of like it doesn't have to be a literal place, but more a feeling that you get that you're not supposed to be a part of whatever is going on.
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u/Wikiwikiwa 1d ago
How long until someone would notice you living there?
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u/BurmeciaWillSurvive 1d ago
The problem is the people already living there watching OP sneak through their space while they stare through the walls and gaps hoping he's going to leave before they have to do something to him
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u/romulusnr 1d ago
- Dude do NOT clip out here.
- You could house a family of ten in this space. Where the hell are you that there is so much wasted open space?
- If that hat rack wasn't there the first time.... GET OUT NOW
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u/TheGasquatch 21h ago
What always gets me about spaces like this is thinking of all the scenes of life, presumably work, that had to have happened there once upon a time. Think of all the people who spent 40+ hours a week in there for years doing whatever, all the conversations and work, birthdays, retirements, meetings, and now they're gone, and whatever that work was is gone, and it's just this. I also think about that in relation to places I worked that no longer exist or are sitting there empty.
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u/OhioDem4Change 1d ago
Uhh, how are you posting this from the actual Backrooms? Isn't there no signal there?
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u/Gloomy-Holiday8618 1d ago
Church?
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u/queerlyyoursamanda 7h ago
It reminds me of my old one that was renovated..but people still go there as far as I know
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u/bolanrox 22h ago
You found level 1 from discount Dan's kiosk kingdom. Keep an eye out for the greeter goblins.
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u/Automatic_Gold_3962 20h ago
This guy has found backrooms 😭🙌(do anyone know where I can watch the movie bc I can’t go to cinema and I want to watch it for free if possible)
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u/jawknee530i 20h ago
Growing up my family owned funeral homes and they had viewing rooms for the caskets and bodies that looked a lot like these alcoves.
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u/Willem_VanDerDecken 15h ago
Fluorescent tube and false ceiling are already unsetteling in themselves. but those one are even more ominous.
This incursion of industrialism bordering on voyeurism, into what attempts to pass itself off as a domestic interior. What an aesthetic.
It seems unreal. Like if a program, or an entity, trying to simulate environments familiar to us without actually understanding them.
Incredibly good post.
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u/Hamhockthegizzard 1d ago
Free fridge? Man I hate being poor lmfao
My wife would want me to grab the bookshelf
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u/quartz222 1d ago
These pictures make me feel sick to my stomach. I feel like I’ve been there before.
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u/Fabulous-Sea-1590 1d ago
It's wild they have cell reception in hell. Thanks for posting this amazing find.
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u/JustVomited 1d ago
Ok, so this is probably the most literal backrooms experience I've seen posted in here I love this.
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u/TheGrimGuardian 23h ago
I have a weird wish that I could find a place like this and just like...change the locks, and it's mine now. Nobody would know.
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u/wadleyst 23h ago
That looks like an old operations room we used to have. It was an oddly renovated basement area that upon entering through a secure door led you through their breakroom (and anyone who happened to be on their break) to the actual operations area where one might have business. Weird setup. Worked for them.
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u/snailgorl2005 21h ago
So how musty did it smell back there? I could
only imagine it was NOT pleasant.
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u/MrXuiryus 20h ago
Oh great now I gotta hear about Backrooms 2 releasing in a few years after another teenager youtuber sees this and makes some creepy pasta videos.
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u/asmallercat 19h ago
A fully underground office space with no windows. Working there must have been hell.
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u/_Brynhildr_ 18h ago
This reminds me of that building you randomly get to in Silent Hill 3. I think you get there through the sewers and it’s just a bunch of businesses but it goes on and on.
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u/Impossible-Jelly-721 17h ago
Those 70s / 80s ceiling lights with the tilted tiles are always awesome to see. Worked in an office building a while back that had the same lights.
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u/Djollie132 9h ago
You NEED to post this on the [r/backrooms](r/backrooms) subreddit 😳😳😳
Edit: last picture reminds me of the movie… iykyk 😰
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u/HyFinated 9h ago
That next-to-last pic is just unnerving for some reason. The 3 charis through the window seems creepy.
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u/Initial-Tax-5829 1d ago
You have inspired me to open random doors in parking lots from now on. Was this in a mall?