HAUNTING pictures show a long-abandoned mortuary found by an explorer.

Matt Scott, 25, made the eerie discovery while out exploring some woodland in Abergele.

 

Matt Scott, 25, made a haunting discovery while out exploring some woodland in Abergele.

Matt Scott, 25, made a haunting discovery while out exploring some woodland in Abergele.

 

He stumbled across an old mortuary on May 8, which has been abandoned for more than two decades - frozen in time.

 

Matt Scott, 25, made a haunting discovery while out exploring some woodland in Abergele.

Matt Scott, 25, made a haunting discovery while out exploring some woodland in Abergele.

 

Matt, who runs Facebook page 'Lost Places and Forgotten Faces' to document his exploring, said: "After taking a scenic stroll through the Welsh woodland, I spotted a small, creepy building hiding in the trees."

 

Matt Scott, 25, made a haunting discovery while out exploring some woodland in Abergele.

Matt Scott, 25, made a haunting discovery while out exploring some woodland in Abergele.

 

He added: "I was shocked at what I had found. There was a strange feeling of coldness - it was unquestionably eerie.

"It had a very foul smell - the amount of dead bodies that tiny room must have seen was very evident in the odour."

 

Matt Scott, 25, made a haunting discovery while out exploring some woodland in Abergele.

Matt Scott, 25, made a haunting discovery while out exploring some woodland in Abergele.

 

He added: "I got the feeling that there were thousands of lost souls still trapped inside, looking for peace in a morgue that's been abandoned for more than two decades."

 

Matt Scott, 25, made a haunting discovery while out exploring some woodland in Abergele.

Matt Scott, 25, made a haunting discovery while out exploring some woodland in Abergele.

 

Matt, from Knaresborough, north Yorkshire, said the mortuary closed in 2000, and has remained out of use ever since.

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The building, completely deserted, was once the temporary home of thousands deceased persons in preparation for autopsy or funeral arrangements.

Hauntingly, the building still contained the fridges where bodies were stored and a post-mortem slab.

 

Matt Scott, 25, made a haunting discovery while out exploring some woodland in Abergele.

Matt Scott, 25, made a haunting discovery while out exploring some woodland in Abergele.

 

Matt also found old paperwork, coroners reports and death certificates still laying around dating back to the mid-eighties.

 

Matt Scott, 25, made a haunting discovery while out exploring some woodland in Abergele.

Matt Scott, 25, made a haunting discovery while out exploring some woodland in Abergele.

 

He said: "The idea of visiting an abandoned morgue is both sad and very creepy."

 

Matt Scott, 25, made a haunting discovery while out exploring some woodland in Abergele.

Matt Scott, 25, made a haunting discovery while out exploring some woodland in Abergele.

 

He added: "What an incredibly thought provoking place this was, and a sad reminder of what awaits us all one day.

"One of the creepiest explores I've ever done, for sure."