An urban explorer has found a creepy abandoned lab that was once used as an animal testing facility.
Ben Stevens regularly makes eerie discoveries, having visited deserted hospitals, mortuaries and asylums, to name just a few locations.
The 31-year-old from the UK stumbled across a derelict animal testing lab just a few weeks ago and was keen to take a look inside.
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The ex-facility was filled with bottles and tubes that appear to contain mysterious leftover “chemicals”.
Microscopes still remain untouched on some of the worktops.
Ben also came across marble slabs likely used to perform autopsies on the animals.
“It felt very sinister inside,” Ben, who is from Cambridgeshire, UK, told What’s The Jam.
“It used to be an animal testing facility so it had everything in there from chemicals to microscopes, to teaching labs and pathology tables.
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“The marble tables that you can see in the photos are actually for doing autopsies on animals.
“They’re like mortuary slabs but for animals rather than humans.”
Ben found the marble slabs to be the most fascinating part of the building, which is located in Portugal.
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He was shocked at how small they looked, as he is used to seeing larger-sized slabs when he has visited mortuaries for humans in the past.
He said: “My favourite part about the place was seeing the marble slabs – I’ve never seen anything like that before.
“I’ve seen plenty of slabs in mortuaries and hospitals for humans so in comparison these were miniature sized.”
According to the urban explorer, who has almost 165,000 followers on Instagram, the neighbours who live close by are terrified to go near the property.
They have reported strange sounds coming from the building at nighttime.
Ben said: “According to the neighbours, they hear animal noises coming from the place at night.
“They have said that they hear screaming and barking.
“Obviously that wouldn’t be possible as there aren’t any animals in there.
“The neighbours have told me that they actually refuse to go anywhere near it.
“It did feel really creepy and very scary in there.”
He has since returned home to the UK and is set to jet off to the US very soon to continue with his abandoned adventures.
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