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Stevenston

Published May 20, 2020 at 2560 × 1706 in Derelict Scotland © Luke Duncan
Outside steps up to an abandodned buiding at Stevenston © Luke Duncan

Stevenston © Luke Duncan – permission for use kindly granted using this creative commons license (CC BY 2.0).

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Stevenston indoors © Luke Duncan

Ababndoned interior at Stevenston © Luke Duncan
Ababndoned interior at Stevenston © Luke Duncan

Derelict Scotland © Luke Duncan

Model astronaut houses, Hat Yai Observatory, Thailand

Model astronaut houses, Hat Yai Observatory, Thailand
Model astronaut houses, Hat Yai Observatory, Thailand. strange rusting pods connected in a row of three with eye like fogged over windows.

Model houses for astronauts, Hat Yai Observatory, Thailand © Joe Murray

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Abandoned Train at Janakpur station, Nepal Railways
Abandoned Train at Janakpur station, Nepal Railways

Abandoned Train at Janakpur station, Nepal Railways © Bijay chaurasia

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Abandoned © Tom Hart Industrial factory building
Abandoned © Tom Hart Industrial factory building

Abandoned © Tom Hart

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black and white photo of abandoned toilet with paint peeling from the walls © clo photo
black and white photo of abandoned toilet with paint peeling from the walls © clo photo

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The Green Mile, green corridor with abandoned chairs © Puste Blümchen
The Green Mile, green corridor with abandoned chairs © Puste Blümchen

The Green Mile © Puste Blümchen

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empty swimming pool © Puste Blümchen
empty swimming pool © Puste Blümchen

where’s my water © Puste Blümchen

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abandoned room with bed and a green wall. © enki22
abandoned room with bed and a green wall. © enki22

abandoned room © enki22

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Ducor Pool. The swimming pool area of the former Ducor Palace Hotel in Monrovia, Liberia. Diving Board and decayon blue tiles © Mark Fischer
Ducor Pool. The swimming pool area of the former Ducor Palace Hotel in Monrovia, Liberia. Diving Board and decayon blue tiles © Mark Fischer

Ducor Pool © Mark Fischer

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Gas station in Ludlow California, great architecture, white. © el-toro
Gas station in Ludlow California, great architecture, white. © el-toro

ludlow, cal © el-toro

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The pool at Grossinger's Catskill Resort Hotel, Liberty, New York © Forsaken Fotos
The pool at Grossinger's Catskill Resort Hotel, Liberty, New York © Forsaken Fotos

The Pool at Grossinger’s Catskill Resort Hotel © Forsaken Fotos

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room in an abandoned 1920's house, yellow walls and plantlife encroaching. © Cameron Evans
room in an abandoned 1920's house, yellow walls and plantlife encroaching. © Cameron Evans

Abandoned © Cameron Evans

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Abandoned © Basheer Tome
Abandoned © Basheer Tome

Abandoned © Basheer Tome (The Cape Romano Dome Homes)

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Cool light © Forsaken fotos an abandoned clinical room in a hospital with peeling paint and a bug surgeons lamp
Cool light © Forsaken fotos an abandoned clinical room in a hospital with peeling paint and a bug surgeons lamp

Cool light © Forsaken Fotos

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A vertical view of the tiki bar at the Penn Hills Resort © Jonathan Haeber
A vertical view of the tiki bar at the Penn Hills Resort © Jonathan Haeber

Abandoned Tiki Bar © Jonathan Haeber

Kenopsia

n. the eerie, forlorn atmosphere of a place that’s usually bustling with people but is now abandoned and quiet—a school hallway in the evening, an unlit office on a weekend, vacant fairgrounds—an emotional afterimage that makes it seem not just empty but hyper-empty, with a total population in the negative, who are so conspicuously absent they glow like neon signs.

Etymology: From Greek, kenosis "emptiness" + opsia "seeing"

From the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows. Thank you John Koenig.

Here is John Koenig's short film: Kenopsia: The Eeriness of Places Left Behind.

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