Finding the Locations of Popular Liminal Spaces (ft. kylie & Adrian Ghastly)

When I hit 100K subscribers one day, I'll try and visit as many of these places as possible. NOW that's a good video idea. ❤Special thanks to: Adrian: www.youtube.com/channel/UCnETRShCwR4pM9qYno7w-rg kylie: www.youtube.com/channel/UCL5_yRx9ujWPqH2lwD5d5_w Discord Server: discord.gg/cpk9p2WrU2

This guy literally doxxed the backrooms what a legend

I’d like to point out that the indoor neighborhood is almost certainly designed for people with dementia. A highly clinical setting can be extremely confusing and stressful for those suffering from dementia, so placing them in a more familiar and comforting setting can really help increase their quality of life

The reason nursing homes sometimes design hallways like a neighborhood is mostly for the folks with alzheimers, dementia, sundowner. It helps them be settled, living in something that looks like old neighborhoods they may have grown up in.

I love the concept of liminal spaces as an architect. Those images are an exemple of what should we avoid in our projects, so we don't give the uncany valley feeling on people

i’ve actually stayed at the level 188 hotel place on my vacation to europe last year, it was funny bc me and my friend saw it and were like “haha it looks like the backrooms” and took a bunch of pictures unknowing it was actually a backrooms location

you have no idea how long i’ve been waiting for someone to make a longer than five minute video of “finding liminal spaces”, and with actual locations and not just vague answers

I'm from Indonesia and I've been visit that Strawberry restaurant. It's a nice restaurant, good food too but fun fact the menu there has absolutely nothing to do with Strawberries, it is just for decoration and the food are mainly savory.

I freaked out a little when I first saw the "dead mall" image at 8:35, because it had an even more uncanny familiar feeling than normal. As it turns out, I actually had been there once. It's the Mountaineer Mall in West Virginia, and I'd stopped there on a road trip to try and find something to eat.

Fun fact about the seniors home, a lot of places aren’t like that, but they’ve found that for older people with Alzheimer’s or dimentia, having your apartment or room or whatever look like a distinct home helps them ground themselves and find their own room, rather than just having it look like a normal apartment or hotel where every door looks the same

I think the playgrounds, libraries, arcades etc are like childhood landmarks, and in a sense they DO represent a transitional period or place between. It’s THE transitional period! Your adolescence. The place between being a baby and being an adult. I think that’s why we feel nostalgic and yet a little uneasy when we see those pictures

The Rainbow Funhouse images are crazy! The contrast of beautiful gothic architecture and garish rainbow plastic is so interesting to me

I think the magic of liminal spaces is mainly in the lighting, at some points there are bright lights, and at some points the place is void of lights at all. I think it truly puts the charm that liminal spaces give.

To me, liminal spaces aren’t as scary as other people make them out to be. They’re calming and like a gateway to the good old days of being an innocent kid. I wish I could walk around them and thanks to this video, I guess I could now.

I think an important detail is that they feel like they shouldn't be empty. Either because they're normally a place you associate with having a lot of people (scholastic book fair, empty auditorium, etc) or because they're missing detail and feel like they've been "smoothed out" (the backrooms, the pool hallway). It makes our imaginations start to imagine what else /could/ be in those spaces

i remember going to watch the fnaf movie when it first came out. i went to the toilets about half way through the film and to my surprise as soon as i left the movie hall i was struck with an insane feeling that i could only link with the backrooms. its very eerie being in a place thats normally packed with people when its not. the only sign of "life" was a faint sound of popcorn popping. i get chills just thinking about it

Honestly, I have respect for anyone or company that is willing to perform the maintenance to have an authentic Rock-a-fire explosion band

I think liminal spaces are a type of uncanny valley effect for environments rather than faces. Just like how robotic faces are creepy, liminal spaces are usually artificial, manmade spaces that are meant to imitate something else (fake nature, trees, kids play area). Humans have a collective awareness for what types of interiors are soothing. e.g. Nobody would consider churches or palaces liminal even though these locations are still widely used and frequented in modern day. In Europe there's the concept of "altbau" (old building) which are buildings dating beyond 100yrs and have high ceilings and other architectural markers. They never appear in liminal imagery even though many schools, homes, offices and institutes are housed in them. Maybe because those locations are old enough to feel authentic or soothing in collective human memory, which contrasts with the uglier "uncanny" spaces built in the past few decades.

Hey guys, I'm the person who took the photo at 6:28 ! (You cited a Reddit repost of my photo that I originally posted with the title, "The party's been over for years" on the LiminalSpace subreddit) Anyway, about the photo: I admire the amount of digging you've done to find the location of it - as I had no idea about the newer name "At-Play Amusement." With that being said, this photo was taken in 2014 while the place was still called "Fun Zone," although the place was barely operational anymore by that point. At the time, I assumed this was the original Music Express ride after getting ripped apart. Funny to find out now that it was actually a new ride being prepared for the rebranding of the place!

Here back after the og backrooms image was found