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21 Photos From the Depths of Abandoned Mines

Dark passageways, narrow corridors, and nobody to hear you scream; yeah, abandoned mineshafts are pretty dang scary.

By Daniel Bonfiglio

Published 9 months ago in Wtf

Dark passageways, narrow corridors, and nobody to hear you scream; yeah, abandoned mineshafts are pretty dang scary. 


But some weird people have an obsession with exploring places ready to kill them, and old mines are just as much a part of history as battlefields. Here are 21 shocking photos from people traversing the depths of human industry. 

  • 1

    “I couldn’t believe my eyes when we found this loaded flat car 900ft down an inclined shaft.”

    21 Photos From the Depths of Abandoned Mines

  • 2

    The dragon’s eye.

    21 Photos From the Depths of Abandoned Mines

  • 3

    21 Photos From the Depths of Abandoned Mines

  • 4

    Inside an old fluoride mine.

    21 Photos From the Depths of Abandoned Mines

  • 5

    A silver mine from the 1700s that was continuously worked till into the 1920s.

    21 Photos From the Depths of Abandoned Mines

  • 6

    Continued.

    21 Photos From the Depths of Abandoned Mines

  • 7

    Tombstone, Arizona. 475 feet down.

    21 Photos From the Depths of Abandoned Mines

  • 8

    A roughly 170-year-old wooden ore cart still sitting in a drift next to a shaft station.

    21 Photos From the Depths of Abandoned Mines

  • 9

    “Long abandoned mine tunnel through a mountain. This coal mine tunnel originally ran around 6,000 feet entirely through a giant mountain ridge, but there is now a catastrophic collapse about 1,500 feet in. The decay and acid mine drainage brought out brilliant colors for some photographs however.”

    21 Photos From the Depths of Abandoned Mines

  • 10

    “Cleaning up the car cave. This old slate mine in wales was used as a dumping ground by the owner for locals who would found it cheaper to dispose of their old cars rather than paying the council.”

    21 Photos From the Depths of Abandoned Mines

  • 11

    Somewhere under Germany.

    21 Photos From the Depths of Abandoned Mines

  • 12

    “This timbering is 120+ years old.”

    21 Photos From the Depths of Abandoned Mines

  • 13

    “I found a locomotive while out exploring.”

    21 Photos From the Depths of Abandoned Mines

  • 14

    “Civil War bituminous coal mine.”

    21 Photos From the Depths of Abandoned Mines

  • 15

    Stairs deep under mountain.

    21 Photos From the Depths of Abandoned Mines

  • 16

    2,000 foot deep bore hole in Idaho.

    21 Photos From the Depths of Abandoned Mines

  • 17

    “Creepiest thing I ever saw underground; this mannequin that someone dragged into a mine in Scotland.”

    21 Photos From the Depths of Abandoned Mines

  • 18

    Old cars in an abandoned mine in Switzerland.

    21 Photos From the Depths of Abandoned Mines

  • 19

    A decayed Union Carbide can full of more than 70 sticks of old dynamite.

    21 Photos From the Depths of Abandoned Mines

  • 20

    Old limestone mine.

    21 Photos From the Depths of Abandoned Mines

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    21 Photos From the Depths of Abandoned Mines

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