colin schultz week 3

  Today my friend and I thought we'd take a little road trip to Woonsocket, Rhode Island. I have heard of this abandoned bank from other urbex explorers and I was very excited to check it out. This was by far one of the creepier explorations i have done. On our way in there just so happened to be three kids our age leaving and warned us about the homeless man in a tent on the top floor who scared them out. It was a nice heads up but very unnerving to know. Nevertheless we still went in. The way we had to enter was to  go under the fence and climb down this steep rusted old ladder. If you fell it was a good twenty foot drop. After that there was a bulkhead/cellar door you had to enter. Another ladder leads you into the basement. Thankfully this one was sturdy. We had no idea where we were and didn't realise we would be in the ghetto somewhere walking around. Once we got into the basement and walked down the long dark hallway we were greeted with the sight of a dead crow on the ground. I still wonder how it got there. We found the stairs soon after and made it to the main lobby of the bank, It wasn't boarded up much instead the doors/windows were bolted shut and locked. Thankfully this made it nice and bright in the building. This place was incredible. By far one of my favorite spots. The main lobby was huge so we spent most of our time there. There were four more floors to explore though. The realisation we were getting closer to the scary homeless man became more real. Our paranoia made every creek in the bank sound like footsteps. We must've been a floor under him a little ways later when we started hearing noises coming from nowhere. We would enter a room and the light would randomly shake or the old rusted AC unit would randomly make a loud jittery noise. After we heard something drop above us we ran back down the stairs and stayed in the main lobby. About thirty minutes later maybe forty five we left the only way we could leave back down the creepy dark basement and past the dead crow. We decided we are going back with more people next week to explore further into the building.