What most haunts your nightmares? Fear of failure? Unfaltering hordes of undead brain-eaters? Translucent ghosts reflected in the bathroom mirror? Cats? Clowns wielding bloods-stained machetes? Sex? Nakedness? Waking up? The sound of saliva being moved from one side of the mouth to the other? Enclosed spaces? Wide open spaces? Swarms of cockroaches sweeping over the kitchen floor like some kind of living carpet?
How about breaking into a derelict wildlife sanctuary to find, in the basement, the darkened silhouette of a decaying shark, suspended, unmoving, in a green tank of formaldehyde? No, seriously, this is real...
In a disused wildlife park in Victoria, Australia, below the many rooms covered in broken glass, litter and human waste, some unfortunate urban explorers stumbled upon something too creepy to seem real. It honestly looks like something out of a Wes Craven film.
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I should come clean
It all started...
Open water
Vertigo
It's almost a feeling of vertigo, that I don't know what's underneath me - I get nauseous whenever I can't see the bottom.
Deep Blue Sea
Things got worse when I watched 'Deep Blue Sea' when I was eight. Particularly the scene where Sam Jackson gets chomped.
The cure...
In an effort to cure myself, I tried to laugh at my fear by indulging in the vast array of ridiculous shark films that have come out over the past two decades. Such as...
Sharknado
Sharknado is a film about - you guessed it - a tornado of sharks. I can't remember how this came to be in, but I don't think it's important.
Megashark vs Giant Octopus
Sharktopus
Then there's the immortal 'Sharktopus'. I'll let the gif speak for itself.
Ghost Shark
'Ghost Shark' is among the best of them. It's a about a ghost shark that can get you anywhere you are. I can't remember how they got rid of it - possibly a shark-based exorcism?
But...
But, the films never really cured me. I'm still connected to my own ghost shark, lurking somewhere beneath the blue.
Now...
Of all the films my subconscious conjures up when I think of sharks, this one, taken in Australia, is amongst the worst.
It begins...
Remnants
Deeper
Downstairs
And then...
And then... Well I'd spoil it for you. You're going to have to watch the video.
Here's the video.
Here's the video, watch it all the way through to get a feel for the suspense, it really is amazingly filmic.Creepy
How creepy is that?! I'm not sure if it's the green of the formaldehyde, or the way that the shark seems to float in mid-air. But I just find it terrifying.
But why was it closed?
Watching the video raises a lot of questions. Why was it closed in the first place? Well, I'll tell you.
Shut down
Not closed, but shut down, in 2012 by the Department of Sustainability and Environment. For not holding a license to display animals in public.Don't worry about the animals.
Who's behind this?
Viral
Now the video's gone viral, with over 9 million views and an extra 50,000 subscribers to the channel.
Check out his uploads.
You should look at the rest of the uploads. The urban explorers trespass on some pretty interesting places like...