Urban exploration and haunted places go hand in hand, don't you think? Imagine crawling through

the window of an abandoned building out of curiosity, only to suddenly emerge an lively lobby full

of people. People dressed out of time. Not so abandoned anymore when the spirits come out,

force some entertainment, and who knows, maybe you're the entertainment.

Welcome back to unexplained encounters. I'm your host, Darkness Proveils, and you can follow me

on Twitter at Dark Proveils, where I talked about this super cool guy who voluntarily dismantles

landmines to keep people safe. What a hero. Today I've got several stories for you featuring urban

exploration gone scarily wrong and some very haunted places. Enjoy and don't forget to send me your

stories of the unexplained at darkstories.org so I can narrate them in future episodes.

And I've got a quick request. Please go to Spotify or Apple Podcast, whichever you prefer,

and leave the two shows I host a review. Those shows are unexplained encounters,

and tales from the break room. Thank you. Now let's begin.

Schools scared us the most. From Anonymous.

Back in high school and early college, my friends and I used to explore abandoned buildings and

stretches of land in our free time. I'll be using fake names for the sake of privacy.

Our group consisted of five people. Will, who often wouldn't show up. Jake, who drove us

everywhere. John, my best friend in the group. Anna, Jake's girlfriend. And me.

Before Anna came into the picture, I'd been the only girl. And as a very small girl,

I was always eager to prove that I wasn't easily scared, even though I was. We went to

explore places all over the southeastern US. Some of our favorite places being mental hospitals or

funeral homes. When I talk about it now, people always assume those places were the scariest.

But they weren't. The scariest places ended up being the schools, hands down.

...