Every Urbex forum you'd trawled told you that Mine-Town 53 was closed yet there you were, walking down roads that shouldn't have existed and peering into homes that were meant to be destroyed. They'd never been wrong about a lost site before, there was always someone near to the location who would post photo proof.
They never did for Mine-Town 53, it was just the word of eighty or so Urbex accounts against your own two eyes so you did what anyone else would have done, you took as many photos as possible. The only places you didn't go were locked homes and a couple of storage sheds whose floors were too unstable.
As the sun began to reach its peak, you decided to head back to your car for a break in the air-conditioned chill... where did you park your car? The squat houses blocked your view for the most part but it wasn't a particularly large town. You walked from one end to the other, circled the perimeter and still couldn't see anything but those dusty, crumbling homes and dusty crumbling roads that lead to nothing but ruins.
By the time you decided someone had stolen your car it was noon and you could feel the sun etching itself into your skin in searing waves that would burn and peel later on. Hiding yourself away in the nearest building you decided to review all your photos just in case you had somehow taken a photo of whoever else had been there.
Every image showed the same patch of desert from a variety of angles. Your car was visible in most of them until several spindly figures crawled out of the dusty ground, climbed in and drove off, leaving you to sit in a building that didn't exist, in a town that didn't exist and where nobody would think to look for you.
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