“Exploration is really the essence of the human spirit.”
 

Introduction

          Throughout different cities and landscapes urban exploration has become known today to explore abandoned houses, haunted spaces, or unknown areas and artifacts that arise suspicion. Urban exploration in haunted landscapes can be terrifying but an activity an explorer wants to finish as “the aesthetics of ruined spaces are intrinsically linked in our culture with the horror genre” (WG, 2010). Areas that can be interpreted as haunted, such as buildings, houses, or abandoned cities, can be explained as having a “deep cultural symbol, an archetype burned into our collective unconscious that goes back to our earliest societies” (WG, 2010). There can be many different experiences that a person can encounter when urban exploring, it can allow people to come across perceived haunted spaces or houses, ghostly artifacts, and beauty and decay amongst various landscapes. Urban exploration can also allow recognition that “they are not dead fragments of a previous way of life; they are glimpses of our current way of life as if it were already gone” (WG, 2010).