I found this place right around the corner from the creepily-deserted Green Acres house (in a lonely, wooded spot in Matawan) It gained it's nickname from the enigmatic '265' spray-painted in dark-red on it's front (yeah I'm real creative with nicknames that way, ha) One of the strangest things was the way there was a little door, cut into one of the big doors... we were joking around that it was a door to another dimension, or something, heh. We couldn't test the theory though, as we couldn't find any way to open the weird little door. D'oh.

There were broken windows everywhere... one in particular had strange little deer stickers on it and was broken into an evilly-jagged maw (that skull in the one shot is a reflection of a tshirt- don't get excited heh). Some of the upper windows were still intact, and it was as we looked into them that I started to get that feeling that we were not alone...

That feeling intensified as we went around the west corner and discovered someone's outdoor 'living room' alongside the place; hidden away under the canopy of a massive pine like a leafy den, there was a sofa bed, 'nightstand' (with some boots on it), a grill, a stove, some pots and pans, etc. One of the more bizarre parts of this arrangement was how someone had taken numerous old trophies and set them up at each broken window on this side of the place, like enigmatic talismans (or maybe shabby-chic decorating at it's finest? Hmmm)...

The side door looked like it had been smashed off it's hinges from inside, and lay on the ground like a drawbridge leading to the outdoor living space... directly inside was a dark staircase, and a small wood-paneled room (see my 'getaway' car through the window? Ha) The small room led nowhere; the staircase led up... but as I started to mount it's rotting steps, we heard a low, guttural sound- like a cough or someone clearing their throat- from up above. Um, we decided not to proceed, heading back out into the open...

We didn't feel threatened, exactly... there was just the uneasiness of not knowing if someone was around/watching us or not (and if that someone was friendly or not, and/or was armed or not, heh) We decided to continue around outside and check out the east and back parts of the place (while keeping a cautious eye on the building, heh) A chain link fence lined the east side. Out back the place looked pretty much the same, and was bordered by a square, dry field. Some kind of big, red, farm-ish machinery was abandoned back there, but I don't know exactly what it was...