[Cabbie]

http://www.fcdnet.org/chernobyl/chapter1.html


Interesting read and tons of pictures of good ole Chernobyl by a lady biker who went through the ghost town. She's got balls thats for sure.

The most heartbreaking part was the last set of pictures the author took. Shots of a kindergarden.

[.::Tin Can::.]

Wow. Neat find Cabbie. Great pics too.

[Taristin]

Those last shots were painful.

Some tourists companies have been trying to arrange extrim tours in this town, but people- their customers scared and complaining about silence which is hard to stand in empty town. They charged 1200 hryvnas for 2 hours excursion and town guard says, they all were leaving in some 15 mins, complaining that silense is tremendous as if one got deaf and it ring them in ears and place is bad...

   It looks like all the training didn't help too much...

[Rictor]

she's got balls, I'll give her that.

the Chernobyl zone might actually be a one of a kind place on earth, total horror movie type atmosphere. I'de like to go there sometime, just to see what its like.

or just wait for STALKER to be released.

[IceFire]

Apparently that whole thing is a work of fiction.  So says my digital culture prof...

Hard to say...pretty stark images tho.

[Cabbie]

Originally posted by IceFire
Apparently that whole thing is a work of fiction.  So says my digital culture prof...

Hard to say...pretty stark images tho.

So you mean the pictures and story was a hoax? That piqued my interest please elaborate.

[Rictor]

What is? The pictures or the Chernobyl accident itself?

and how would you digital culture prof know, this has only just been posted (unless you already saw the pics at an earlier time, in which case, my bad)

[NGTM-1R]

This has existed for at least a few months...I've seen it before.

[kasperl]

A mate of mine told me about this somewhere last year. I always said I'd check it out, never got to it.

[WMCoolmon]

Originally posted by IceFire
Apparently that whole thing is a work of fiction.  So says my digital culture prof...

Hard to say...pretty stark images tho.

As I was reading the site I thought that too. Something about the writing, the photographs didn't make sense. Maybe because so many of the photographs seem to have been taken with different cameras.

Dunno if they're completely false, I just doubt the page was made by who it says it was.

Edit: Who were these pictures taken by, for example?
http://www.fcdnet.org/chernobyl/chapter22_files/image22.JPG
http://www.fcdnet.org/chernobyl/chapter19_files/image19_002.JPG

[aldo_14]

Originally posted by IceFire
Apparently that whole thing is a work of fiction.  So says my digital culture prof...

Hard to say...pretty stark images tho.

http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/weblog/comments/1026/
http://www.uer.ca/forum_showthread.asp?fid=1&threadid=8951

[Fr3z3r]

Originally posted by WMCoolmon
Edit: Who were these pictures taken by, for example?
http://www.fcdnet.org/chernobyl/chapter22_files/image22.JPG
http://www.fcdnet.org/chernobyl/chapter19_files/image19_002.JPG

Read that carefully, WMC... She clearly states that she had a native guide, of those who make a living from guiding "tourists" through the ghost town.

Oh yeah, this one reminds me of the Chernobyl radiation stories... In the southern Poland, where I was born, the threat was recognized pretty quickly. I was like 6 months old and they gave us the "Lugol's Solution" in order to prevent dying from radiation exposure.

When the rad-cloud reached us... Nothing happened. The extreme doses of Lugol (applied by horrified nurses and parents) did more harm than good.

Anyway, I think Elena hasn't made it up. I've heard similar reports from the dead zone.

[Clave]

Elaboration and hoaxes aside, there's enough interesting stuff there.  It must be hard to describe the utter silence and abandonment of a place like that...

[Grug]

I fail to see what parts of the story would be worth making up?

I can understand a bit of poetry when making it, even if the poor english defeats the purpose.

But it is a spooky story. I wouldn't mind going through their myself one day though.

[Turnsky]

that's a true definition of a modern-day ghost town.

[Gloriano]

I believe it's true what She Writed, that area is dead there is some peoples around mostly old and animals.

[aldo_14]

Originally posted by Grug
I fail to see what parts of the story would be worth making up?

I can understand a bit of poetry when making it, even if the poor english defeats the purpose.

But it is a spooky story. I wouldn't mind going through their myself one day though.

Apparently there's not even birds living there.......

[Cabbie]

According to http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/ she was actually with her husband and friend. The photos are pretty much the real deal though.

[Singh]

An interesting site. Even more interesting that it was supposedly fake, even tho the photos look somewhat real.

I've bookmared the tour guide page. Maybe one of these days, I'll make enough money to go down and pay a visit.

This may sound like a strange question actually, but how exactly did they make the 'sacrophagus' that surrounds the reactor itself? I've heard from somewhere that it was considered sending a remote vehicle inside to have a look through the facility?

[vyper]

It was done using a lot of concrete and less than the truth with the people being sent in to do it.