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This is an old aircraft munitions depot about an hour away from my house. My dad used to take me there when I was little and the things that lie beyond the fence have always fascinated me.

I say old, because it's not entirely abandoned. The facility is located on a wildlife sanctuary and while you park at the entrance of the bunker complex, the trials runs through the woods around it and seems to keep a lot of foot traffic away.

Large, complex padlocks an intricate system of doors and threatening signs make the front gates very intimidating. But after years of decay and rust, the 12' tall barbed wire fence afforded us an easy access just 200 yards up the line.

Security is minimal. There are signs of current use as most of the large block buildings are used to store wildlife management equipment for the state and several of the garages have recently registratered and inspected cars and trucks.

It was also Sunday afternoon. It's usually the best time to do things like this.

There was something wrong with this building. Nothing looked right about it. Most of the lines we no longer straight. The one door that was ajar had it's top bent open and the bottom was almost closed. Some doors were chained closed. There was one (and only) large square window in the second story that was wide open but we couldn't see inside. We didn't make it back to this building.



This is the building we entered. There are garage doors, but I doubt they work.



This truck is marked "For snow removal only".





There is very little graffiti. It doesn't look like many people come here:



This is small storage building with open garage bays. I didn't take a close look at this tractor but like most of the other equipment there, it seemed to be in good shape.



The rest of the building is in disrepair. Besides what appears to be a chemical hood, there is not much indication of what the building was used for besides these little shiny, rusty pieces of steel about the size of a ruler laying around:



There are also no lights in the building:






You can make out about half of the bunkers. There are two rows of bunkers (back to back) and a road running down either side:




There are dozens of block buildings just like this one littering the compound. Inside is filled with rocks and has a smaller concrete foundation in the center. There are old electrical leads and bolts coming out of the concrete. It looks like something very heavy was mounted there by the water marks on the ground (lots of wasps, too):




Most of the doors are wide open:





Which doesn't surprise me considering how thick they are:




Most of the bunkers have visible markings on the outside and are similar to this:




About half of the bunkers don't have provisions for blast doors, but the garage style doors are very heavy and operate on a chain pulley. The bunkers with blast doors either have theirs removed or are retracted.

Some are a little more closed than others:




Most of the doors are locked in this fashion. If you're tall and clever enough, you can lift the whole locked mess up and partially open the door. Some opened enough that I could fit under and some only opened enough to get my camera lens under





But a few were locked like this:

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The Rev

I think you finally found the perfect site for that kiddie porn dungeon you've always dreamed about.



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SmokeaJoint

All I could think of when I saw some of those bunkers is, Damn, if I could just run some power into those, it would be perfect for a grow op. I mean, if there wasn't wildlife workers around too. *sigh* Too bad though.

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The Rev

Honestly, those bunkers give me the creeps. They remind me alot of the replica gas chamber I saw at the Museum of Tolerance in L.A.



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HTAM

I really figured you make some joke along the lines of "If you've ever been in prison your asshole could be considered 'former weapon storage" however your 1st response falls well within expectations anyway.




And cool pictures and backstory to your thread Osirus.

dubtrice

cool find

I love exploring "off-limits" places like that.. and its that much better when I don't have to be the one trespassing.

mothernature

I agree it would make a great grow op. Nice find. Thanks for the pics.

kitch

hey osirus pm me a location. ever been down in the bunkers in Nahant?

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John F. Kerry

cool photoessay mang. ! that place looks interesting as fuck. reminds me of this place (i dont really know why) near where i live that has this waterfall and shit and then if u go off to the side you see this old cottage that was probably lived in like 100 years ago and its got similar old looking shit lying around....

whoever used to have their cottage on the edge of a waterfall thats now a park must have had a nice freaking view... i wish i had some pics im pretty sure i have em somewhere

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Flamingnun

Nice dude. Part of the old Pease AFB?

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Meth0d

I live about 30 minutes from Pease and it's still open. There's biotech research firms there and still a ton of air traffic. I was up there at the Redhook brewery on the premises and I saw a C-130 doing touch and go's. It gotta be the most active "closed" base I've ever seen, granted a lot of what I saw could be commercial planes there's still a lot of activity there.

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Flamingnun

I'm just going by google, living on the other side of the planet and what not, but apparantley the base was shut in 1991 paving the way for an Air National Guard refuelling wing, and an International Trade Port, so sounds pretty active, albeit not an Air Force Base.

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Meth0d

Of course, I was just reminded of how surprised I was at the activity there. I think its awesome that theyre still using the facilities there. Whe the news came out that they were closing the estimated job loss was aroung 15 thousand people. Re purposing the place rather than closing it allowed a lot of people to keep their jobs and with the fee charged to the many many commercial flights that go through there those people should be gainfully employed for quite some time as well as creating more jobs due to the extra air traffic they see there now.

I just though it was cool that what started as a major blow to the local economy has resulted in more work for people and what was a military base aka a black hole for tax dollars has become a source of revenue.

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osirus2020

I wasn't going to disclose the name because of how untouched the place is but that's pretty good considering you live on the other side of the world and all. Did you just start looking at all the airports around where I live?

The base is very active. When my father was still fishing he would see A-10 Warthogs flying out of Pease all the time. Seeing a pair of Warthogs flying over you is fucking awesome. You can go watch the tankers take off and land when they are.

You're basically right on though. I think 6 or so tankers are parked at the far end of the runway (relative to 95) and there are some serious pipelines that run throughout the [active] facility.

They usually hold an air show at the end of the summer, which I definitely recommend going if you're in the area.

Kitch, I guess I don't need to PM you the location but if you go there please don't vandalize the place and please don't tell a bunch of people.

I've never been to the Nahant bunkers. Is it legit?

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Meth0d

The last time I was there was about 2 years ago and a lot of the bunkers are sealed with concrete. If you want to head north to Rye there's Odion point where there's still the turntables the coastal defense cannons were set on as well as some bunkers that you can get into with very little trouble. Theres also the remnants of a coastal defense base in Truro on the cape. I've never been but from the pics it looks really cool.

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Flamingnun

Ah, my bad. Nah, I just hit "Former weapon storage area" into Flickr, and it popped up, I actually thought you lived like way more southeasterly for some reason. You guys are lucky to have such a vast country, everything like that over here's been broken into and documented a billion times already.

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Roach

looks as tho most of the bunkers that are in tact are used for perhaps leased storage.

that type of bunker is reqiured for storage of commercial grade pyrotechnics/fireworks and gun shops for storing amunition.

would also make a nice quiet apartment/growroom.

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kitch

yeah the nahant bunkers are really chill, supposedly used to have tactical nukes down there. It's up inside Bailey's hill, and there's a couple ways in still open although they do bulldoze em all the time. bring a flashlight it's pitch black.

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