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The original Backrooms photo
2002
807 Oregon Street, Oshkosh, Wisconsin
Bill, for Bob Mazza · Copyrighted free use · Wikimedia Commons
In June 2002 somebody photographed an empty second floor room here while a hobby shop was being fitted out in an old furniture store. The picture went up on the shop's renovation blog the following March, drifted onto 4chan, and in 2019 got posted with a caption about noclipping out of reality. That turned it into the Backrooms, the yellow carpet and humming lights behind years of liminal space videos. Nobody knew where it was until a Discord group traced it back through the Wayback Machine in May 2024 and landed on Oregon Street. Fans have been turning up ever since.
That was 1 of the hidden places.
Location: historic site
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