The "Bee" Apartments




Julie and I hit the road yesterday for an amazing and exhausting road trip to finish our book "Abandoned Places: Abandoned Memories (Desert Edition)." We found an abandoned baseball field, a derailed train and an abandoned apartment building. This is the apartment building. There were hoards of bees nesting in it, so we could not get too close to the inner workings of it as killer bees are a big issue here in the desert. We did get some cool vid and pics I share with you here.

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  1. That was an interesting place. We saw it from the back first and it looked small. Then we went around the front and was so much bigger, (an apartment building). That was a bummer about the bees swarming the place because we could have done some fun exploring in that building. What a creepy building. It reminded me of the house next to Tom Hanks in the 'burbs. My photos and story will be posted later...

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  2. The Klopek's right? I loved that movie--a classic! I once had neighbors move in next door and only make noise at night and quiet in the daytime and did weird shit and I called them the Klopeks all the time. Haha. I was so bummed about the damn bees! They ruined all my fun. That place was filled with the residual of past residents. How interesting it would be to read room after room, although we likely would have fallen through the rotted boards, so perhaps the bees saved us. (yes, I tend to be an optimist)

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  3. Yes the Klopek's..... bees and all, lol. Perhaps those flying stingers did save us from dropping through the floors, but we will never know.

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  4. That is quite interesting. Thanks for sharing. Just love seeing abandoned places! Thanks so much!

    Cheers!

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  5. You two crack me up....why don't you just call each other and talk?

    Fun stuff. Love the shots. But for some reason the bottom one didn't download. What is it about the desert that invites so many abandoned locations? Ideas??? Tell me.

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  6. Refreshed your site and got the video. Nice. How abandoned can it be when there is a truck and a boat on the property....are you two trespassing? Naughty.

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  7. MM;
    Seriously, it didn't download? I want to hear if anyone else is having problems with that. Might be YouTube having kittens at the moment. The town we went to was Miami and it was a major copper mining town. The place is torn to hell and nasty but at one time it was a thriving booming mining town with a huge schoolhouse with the doric columns and the whole shebang, but then mining operations pulled out and people left and there's a helluva lot of desert-worn buildings. The only people there now are the few that still work with what's left of the mines and people who simply want to hide from the world in the desert mountains. The west was really based on boomtowns that go bust. They are a dime a dozen here.

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  8. Actually, those were for the home next door. They were using the driveway from this place and the place is for sale so we pretended to be looking for a writer's retreat. Of course, it would have to be totally bulldozed. The upper floors didn't barely have any floorboards even left in them. I think the bees scaring us off saved our asses.

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  9. Those bees are pretty bad and it's good you did not get stung.

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  10. Echo;
    I have no issue with bee stings, but in AZ most of the hives are killer bees now and they will chase you for miles and never get winded. Yikes!

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  11. I love it! You are a great photographer too. I love abadoned places.

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  12. Thanks Jessica. Sometimes my perspective is kind of weird, but then so am I. I can't get enough of abandoned places which is why I'm glad Julie and I are doing this book series!

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  13. Where's the ghosts ?

    I want ghosts damn it !

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  14. I did get some good psychic reads on the place, but no ghosts. Only bees. Perhaps the next site, Max.

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  15. Wow! That place gave me a HUGE Creepy Vibe! I get the feeling some not-so-cool stuff may have happened there. Maybe some of your abilities are rubbing off on me! LOL Really awesome pics and video though! Loved the abandon(?)boat. Yep, caught that out of the corner of the video at the beginning.

    Speaking of not going in a possibly falling through the boards, the Beau has decided we need to go back to Mayesville and explore that hotel...EVEN UP-STAIRS!!!! Woo Hoo!

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  16. Little Sis;
    Get videos of that and lots of pics! I wanted desperately to go inside that place. It was driving me nuts but I knew that we had nowhere to go if the killer bees chased us. That building was my favorite place I've ever gone. It haunted me so much. Julie told me, "you really liked that place" when she noticed me sighing about it. I seemed to just linger there in my head. I imagined it in its prime, but I also thought at nighttime in the dark, how creepy it would be to sleep there. Each room no doubt had memories of the occupants. Every psychic pore in me was tingling.

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  17. The apartments looked very cool!!
    I bet the rent is cheap!

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