A Bricked Prison

Posted on July 22, 2012 by Mike

….that howls well into the night and smells like death itself. Dogs will not approach this wall and children quiver with dread. Beware!

51 thoughts on “A Bricked Prison”

John on July 22, 2012 at 7:41 am said:

Years of search and speculation never revealed what happened to Jimmy Hoffa…

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- m5son on July 22, 2012 at 7:49 am said:
  
  A point well taken. He may well have been fed to the beast.
  
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tearoomdelights on July 22, 2012 at 7:48 am said:

Tombs?

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- m5son on July 22, 2012 at 7:52 am said:
  
  Aye, but one remains alive…
  
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Dezra Despain on July 22, 2012 at 8:53 am said:

The Cask of Amontillado. Someone insulted the bricks and ended up behind them. I’m sure of this.

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- m5son on July 22, 2012 at 8:59 am said:
  
  Poe. You may well be right. Since I found this image there are many nights I wake up in sheer terror, scratching at an invisible wall. None is revealed, but my finger nails are cut and bleeding. Help me Dezra!!!!
  
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  - Dezra Despain on July 22, 2012 at 9:50 am said:
    
    I would, but I’m buried below some floorboards, my heart beating wildly!
    
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  - m5son on July 22, 2012 at 10:39 am said:
    
    Rob banks with me.
    
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  - Dezra Despain on July 22, 2012 at 10:47 am said:
    
    Ok Clyde. Will do!
    
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- usermattw on July 22, 2012 at 11:39 am said:
  
  Yep, the Poe came to mind, too. I guess if Mike didn’t hear the victim’s wails, then he was too late. Perhaps if he goes back at night….
  
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  - m5son on July 22, 2012 at 11:48 am said:
    
    Much too afraid.
    
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  - Dezra Despain on July 22, 2012 at 11:53 am said:
    
    We’ll go with you, Mike. And hold your hand. Creeping along the bricks, hunched low to avoid detection. And I promise not to yell, “BOO!”
    
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  - m5son on July 22, 2012 at 11:55 am said:
    
    Holding my hand is the draw there. Who is we’ll?
    
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  - Dezra Despain on July 22, 2012 at 12:04 pm said:
    
    You think I’m doing this alone? Anyone who wants to come along! It’ll be fun.
    
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  - m5son on July 22, 2012 at 12:07 pm said:
    
    But you are the only one touching my hand….
    
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mcolmo on July 22, 2012 at 10:07 am said:

You must be devastated, a door covered with bricks…

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- m5son on July 22, 2012 at 10:41 am said:
  
  Beyond words.
  
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apronheadlilly on July 22, 2012 at 12:43 pm said:

It was just a OCD fix to a broken window. The “Nevermore” in his head had nothing to do with it!

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- m5son on July 22, 2012 at 1:01 pm said:
  
  OCD! Yep, that would qualify.
  
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snowbirdpress on July 22, 2012 at 2:13 pm said:

Mike, I have to tell you, it looks like a wall/door to a defunked bank in a deserted shopping mall around here. Every time I see that door, it amazes me that banks go bankrupt…that towns disappear… that shadows and sand and emptiness stare at us from walls bricked up … there’s nothing behind the one here… and probably nothing behind the one there… yet odd to say someone felt it necessary to brick up the emptiness… 🙂

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- m5son on July 22, 2012 at 2:23 pm said:
  
  abandoned homes and buildings littering America. Many countries actually. Bricks that close a door don’t tell of families destroyed. Hungry children, lost souls. and full prisons. Schools closing, church bells ringing, marching bands that can’t afford instruments. Oh I wish I had a river, I could skate away on.
  
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  - snowbirdpress on July 22, 2012 at 2:47 pm said:
    
    Yea, bricking up the emptiness… perhaps bricking up all the tears falling … but I have a feeling even the tears have dried and blown away….
    
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8teen39 on July 22, 2012 at 3:03 pm said:

Ok, you and Dezra and me. I ‘ll drive us there and keep the motor running while you two check it out.

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- m5son on July 22, 2012 at 3:43 pm said:
  
  That works for me Paul. I would love to hang out with a guy as clever as you.
  
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Mona on July 22, 2012 at 3:53 pm said:

I chuckled at your caption … great shot, by the way

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- m5son on July 22, 2012 at 3:56 pm said:
  
  I offer you chuckles, snickers, and a three musketeers too.
  Thanks Mona.
  
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Carol Dunnigan on July 22, 2012 at 7:39 pm said:

That’s interesting. When I went to Mexico, there were 2 places we went where windows were bricked over because of death threats!

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- Carol Dunnigan on July 22, 2012 at 7:39 pm said:
  
  From years ago BTW, not recent. It’s a part of history….
  
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- m5son on July 22, 2012 at 7:58 pm said:
  
  There is violence and corruption in Mexico. There is violence and corruption in the US. In Mexico the beaches are much better and so too are the margaritas.
  
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  - Carol Dunnigan on July 22, 2012 at 8:18 pm said:
    
    Pina Coladas!
    
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The Jagged Man on July 22, 2012 at 10:27 pm said:

Funny you should use the word well in your post …..not because it is a funny word but that water is the reason there is a well. Notice the bricks, both the ones of the original structure and the ones that came later, have a point where they faded into a zone of sameness: only water mixed with time can blend the old and new together.
This place has been flooded a time or two but has the look of a desert. I too have the look of the desert but have had the healing floods come upon me a time or two. Nice pic man!

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- m5son on July 23, 2012 at 10:04 am said:
  
  I have looked at those bricks and notice that the ones on the bottom do seem washed out. I thought perhaps they get more sunlight, but water is in the mix as well. Thank you Jagged Man.
  
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  - The Jagged Man on July 23, 2012 at 6:50 pm said:
    
    No gutters on the building maybe? The water splashing up on the wall and then the sun coming out could faded it as such.
    
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  - m5son on July 23, 2012 at 8:03 pm said:
    
    Didn’t notice if it had gutters. My guess is rain and sun.
    Jagged brother.
    
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Soma Mukherjee on July 23, 2012 at 12:14 am said:

Mike!! seriously … the ghosts now call you in dreams i am sure
…and Horror hidden behind that wall is calling my name too,someday they will come out for spirits so evil cant be stopped with reasons or rhymes…one night it will happen i think i should be there when it does 🙂

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- m5son on July 23, 2012 at 10:05 am said:
  
  I think you should be here too. Email me as to your plans and I will make sure you see that wall, and others too 🙂
  
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Teepee12 on July 23, 2012 at 12:39 am said:

I hear spooky music. Cask of Whatchamacallit from Edgar Allen Poe?

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- m5son on July 23, 2012 at 9:22 am said:
  
  At the very least 🙂
  
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Robin on July 23, 2012 at 9:21 am said:

With all the work involved in that kind of masonry, there MUST be something hidden in there that someone hoped wouldn’t get out.

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- m5son on July 23, 2012 at 9:24 am said:
  
  agreed.
  
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The Blissful Adventurer on July 31, 2012 at 5:51 pm said:

reminds me of the classic country tune “hello wall”

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- m5son on July 31, 2012 at 6:11 pm said:
  
  Country I don’t do. Accept for Waylon and the boys.
  
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  - The Blissful Adventurer on July 31, 2012 at 9:00 pm said:
    
    I believe it was written by Willie Nelson. I think he qualifies as one of the boys
    
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  - m5son on July 31, 2012 at 9:02 pm said:
    
    He was. They were called outlaws if I recall.
    
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Sylver Blaque on August 5, 2012 at 9:51 am said:

The UFO from Roswell? And the autopsied aliens, too??

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- Mike on August 5, 2012 at 9:55 am said:
  
  Jimmy Hoffa? Amelia Earhart? My youth?
  (by the way…..you were my 50,000th hit this morning. I like that quite a bit)
  
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  - Sylver Blaque on August 5, 2012 at 11:09 am said:
    
    Yay! 🙂
    
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  - Mike on August 5, 2012 at 11:50 am said:
    
    And you win a new matching washer and dryer and a trip for 2 to Cincinnati.
    
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  - Sylver Blaque on August 5, 2012 at 12:02 pm said:
    
    Can’t I just have Pumpkin?
    
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  - Mike on August 5, 2012 at 1:06 pm said:
    
    No Pumpkin For you!! Google the show ‘queen for a day’
    
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elizabethrklinem4 on October 14, 2012 at 5:18 am said:

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