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Simulacra
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Very good work dishman! I can tell you that there is a tunnel system somewhere below these buildings. Perhaps just for spill water, but the white "bench" structure looks like an air vent. It's often possible to track tunnels by observing vent and tracing possible tunnel routes.

I have asked my fellow UE friends in Sweden about the black fenced drains.
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For the record... the hi-res photos of the old document have been added to the trip report - see the end of Section II. I hope this helps...

http://www.gttx.org/~sdishman/urbanhunt-tripreport-07272004/tripreport.html
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Simulacra
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The black fences around drains are there to protect grass cutting machinery from running into the drains.
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Nice report & photo's dishboy,
but did you also take a picture of the document and it surroundings before you picked it up ? That also might give some clues to the document.

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reefer wrote:
Nice report & photo's dishboy,
but did you also take a picture of the document and it surroundings before you picked it up ? That also might give some clues to the document.


sadly, no... honestly, I happened to see the document right after taking the pictures of the inside of the power plant, and I was so excited (because I was hoping it was a clue) that I just snatched it up and put it away real quick to make sure nobody saw me picking up crap from around the power plant dumpster. From what I remember, there was nothing particular about the immediate area that was a clue, though I cant be sure. I wish I had taken a picture of the dumpster, but I don't remember any markings on it. Nothing else was around the document. If I could go back I would have been more careful and thorough, but I guess I got a little too caught up in the hunting, and forgot about being a good detective in this case...
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Dishboy: did you see that gate in the video?

Just curious, on your visit to the hospital did you see the gate or anything like similar to the stuff featured in the video?

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Re: Dishboy: did you see that gate in the video?

rabbitsnake wrote:
Just curious, on your visit to the hospital did you see the gate or anything like similar to the stuff featured in the video?


There is definitely no gate there. The buildings are a little harder to tell. The first two bear resemblance to the large Recreation Center, but I don't think they match exactly - I especially didn't see the handicapped-entry ramp that is to the front-side of the building. My guess is that none of the buildings in the video are there anymore, but I will more closely compare the video to the pics once I get home to be sure...
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The radio frequency of Cambridge State Hospital

From a website listing the approved scanner radio frequencies of Cambridge, MN:

158.7750 CAMBRIDGE STATE HOSPITAL

http://www.cityfreq.com/mn/cambridge/

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OK - I finally had some time tonight to dig into the document I found at CMH and give it a hard read. I wrote up an analysis which is linked from my trip report, or you can get straight to it here:

http://www.gttx.org/~sdishman/urbanhunt-tripreport-07272004/document-summary.html

Reasons for thinking it is real include:
1. It looks legit. It passes off very well for a very old document.
2. It mentions legit entities, such as Pillsbury Engineering, the State Commission, and the architect Clarence H. Johnston.
3. It yielded no obvious clue, even after a full read.
4. It was laying near a dumpster. It might have blown out, or been dropped while a stack of papers was being carried out.

Reasons for thinking it is fake include:
1. It is just too dang big of a coincidence!



As you can see, evidence right now is in favor of it being real. That's by no means definitive, but for right now, that's all I got.

OK, sleepytime...
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Woah. So, by coincidence, you found a 70+ year old document...

Not in game? That would be very very strange.
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You haven't got any reply in your spam folder yet dishboy? Wink
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It does seem so unlikely that you'd find a 1929 document. The cover looks unusually clear compared to the inside of the booklet.

Unless perhaps if you'd have looked in the dumpster you would have seen they just did a clear out and there were hundreds of documents!

It's pretty cool either way. And if it sounds legit, someone would have gone to a lot of work to write that many pages for it on the off chance one of us might goto the hospital and find it near a dumpster.
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db, great work on all of this.

did you find anything that looked like this:

http://cambridgementalhospital.com/thehole.html

on your travels? that rope looks very new and [spec] might have something at the end of it?[/spec]

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blag wrote:
db, great work on all of this.

did you find anything that looked like this:

http://cambridgementalhospital.com/thehole.html

on your travels? that rope looks very new and [spec] might have something at the end of it?[/spec]


Not at all... I specifically hunted for some of the things in the pictures, and couldn't find a single one. There has been spec that the tombstone in the picture on the site might be in the cemetery that I pictured, but I didn't get a chance to go back there and confirm. Not yet, at least...
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dishboy wrote:

It does mention the name "Pillsbury Engineering", which may be worth googling,


Standard "I'm new here" (read the faq, read up on progress etc, and searched the forums for what I am about to post)... and a big g'day from australia!

So I'm trawling for info on google and I am fully aware that I am most likely getting carried away and reading into everything finding links that don't exist... so bear with me:

1) Arthur F Pillsubury. 1904-91 Survived by two sons. One named Charles.

http://dynaweb.oac.cdlib.org:8088/dynaweb/uchist/public/inmemoriam/inmemoriam1993/2788

2) Map here first reminded me of the 'style' (not at all layout) of hospital map. A search of the page (for pillsbury) links the document to the company, year wise. ie 1930-ish.

http://www.lib.ndsu.nodak.edu/archives/collections/Blueprints.htm

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I assume too far-fetched (ie they seem to be existing sites) but I am having fun. Let me know if this kind of 'grasping at straws' is frowned upon...

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