One of my favorite adventurous activities I still like doing when I was younger was

exploring abandoned buildings.

I've been in abandoned schools, banks, industrial plants, churches, hotels, mines, tunnels,

and office buildings.

It's pretty dangerous, but I liked it.

As one time I was exploring an old hospital with a friend and as we were walking through

it, we heard a noise in one of the rooms.

We looked inside and there was a cat sitting there, slowly waving its tail back and forth,

staring at us.

And right in the middle of the room was an empty cat food bowl.

The cat seemed to be living there and someone was feeding it.

I was strange, but we kept walking down the long corridor of this abandoned hospital.

We heard a noise behind us.

I quickly turned around and I swore I saw a door swing close way at the end of the hallway.

But it was so far away and it was so quick that maybe I didn't see it.

A lot of the windows were broken in this building and the wind was blowing so I just stood there

in the middle of the hall and I stared down it.

Frozen, looking to see if any of the doors would just swing open or close by themselves.

But nothing, no movement, no sound.

Did I see someone or was this my imagination?

This creeped us out so we went back down the hallway to leave.

When we got to the room where that cat was, we looked in it.

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