Ghost Town - Chernobyl from the back of a motorcycle

[merithyn]

I don't know if any of you have seen this website before, but I think it's pretty damn cool. She's got other pictorials she's done, including the protests following the 2004 elections in the Ukraine. Worth checking out, I think.

Ghost Town - Chernobyl

Elena's Main Page

[Razgovory]

Very old.  Also I think it's a hoax.

[ulmont]

Very old.  Also I think it's a hoax.

Wiki votes that the photos are real but were taken on a bus tour.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elena_Filatova

[merithyn]

I believe she put up new pics and stories as of 2007, which is different from those initially posted. I could be wrong, but still interesting to see, nonetheless.

[Martim Silva]

Other pics here:

http://magna.aimoo.com/General-Discussion/CHERNOBYL-24-YEARS-AFTER-1-459656.html

For some reason, they remind me of Fallout 3... 

(everything's radioactive, of course)

[derspiess]

Actually reminds me of Call of Duty 4.

[Ed Anger]

Reminds me of Harlan.

[The Brain]

Man that's a blast from the past.

Reminds me of S.T.A.L.K.E.R.

[Lucidor]

Actually reminds me of Call of Duty 4.

Yep! I must play that level again. The end fight was very tedious, though

[derspiess]

Yep! I must play that level again. The end fight was very tedious, though

I liked the level up until that last wave.  I could not get through it on Veteran, so I basically hid in the ticket booth until the rescue chopper arrived

[Razgovory]

Reminds me of Harlan.

Who's Harlan?

[Ed Anger]

Reminds me of Harlan.

Who's Harlan?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlan_County,_Kentucky

[garbon]

This doesn't remind me of anything.

[Josquius]

Very old but very cool nonetheless.

I was unfamiliar with this being controversial. But...why does it matter if she was on a bike or a bus tour? - both in the sense of her lying to begin with and people poking holes.

Damn I'm looking forward to my new computer in a month and a half. Two new Stalker games!

[merithyn]

That was kind of my opinion, too, Tyr. Though, she wasn't on a bus tour, apparently, but rather drove through several times with her husband and a friend. She has since ridden her motorcycle through, as well, but not until after the controversy.

BTW, I disagree with calling this a hoax. She did take the pics, she did go through the area, and the area really does look like that. A hoax is, to me, something that didn't happen at all, but that is told as though it did. This is more an exaggeration of facts in order to make a better story. Not the same at all.