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Chilling? Not really. It's great photography, though!

I just didn't see a picture of his wishing tree, (shamonay!)

These photos are only creepy because they were taken at night and the place seems pretty unkempt. Oh, and Michael Jackson owns the place (shivers).
It also looks like some crusty old man is going to come out of the woodwork somewhere muttering something about how he would have gotten away with it if it weren't for "those meddling kids".

If by creepy you mean made of WIN! Seriously I would love to go there and I'm 20 years old.

I wonder how they went in and took the pictures...

Most of them were at night, had to sneak in huh?

Moonwalker for Sega Genesis: Touch the kids to power-up.

Gotta love it.

The pictures do a great job of showing how majestic the place is. Micheal had a great vision that he could actually have come to life, how many of you could do that. Not me for sure. no $ -.-

Am I the only one that wants to go visit it now? Damn that place looks fun!

I'm sorry, but this is just far too creepy: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tunnelbug/2208182953/ ...

it's not chilling, it's sad.
his ranch speaks volumes about how he clearly didn't have an enjoyable or regular childhood, as well as being caught up in how ***** mega famous (no one really as big as he was since) he was at one point.
he's like a 50 yr old child

after seeing this i can definately see him being innocent.

lol, looks like someone sneaked into CP central at night.

such detail on the rides, at least the artsy ones

He did it for teh lulz

Looks like the dream world of a naive, innocent man with a peter pan complex.

It hasn't been used in a awhile. Creepy indeed. Nice photographs though. It will probably never be used by kids or very little.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDbrsqJ_2x4

wes craven would have a field day...

Not very chilling, looks like an amusment park, that's about it. Whats really chilling is that someone with enough money would actually spend it on an amusment park for a home and maintain it on royalites.

Although it is obvious that the reason it seems "creepy" or "chilling" is because they're night shots, does anyone realize that for most of the time Michael Jackson is there he's the only person there? That in a ride with 50-odd seats, he's the only one sitting there?

One of the things that really creeped me out was the pic of the cotton candy cart. Could there actually be someone working there, that Mr. Jackson strives for that feeling of an authentic childhood that he actually needs a cotton candy seller, whose only customer would be him. Does anyone else just find that extremely creepy?

Has anyone here been in a theme park when it was empty, or even close to empty? It does make you feel quite uneasy.

Anyway I agree with illt that it is very sad that this man feels he has to create this make-believe-circus.

On a lighter note: kudos on the great pictures, whoever took them. If this person (people?) actually had to sneak in at night, they certainly managed to get some marvellous photography.

MJ is an old guy that seems to live in some strange fantasy world.

Look what he has had done to his face... he was once very cute and now
his face is just scary.
I can't say if he has ever done anything wrong to
any kids... I hope not.
Something has certainly gone wrong inside this poor
soul :-( I truly wish him all the best but I fear his is going to be one of the worse
celebrity trainwreck endings imaginable.
I can't imagine him surviving much longer.
The horror of a 70yr old MJ is too much for anyone to imagine... least of all him. :-(

The only chilling thing I've seen here is the poster's ability to write misguided headlines.

that place looks ***** great

Chilling? Hardly. Shooting the pics at night was a nice try, but fail.

This is depressing. Just makes me feel sorry for MJ and the way the American people treated him. Everyone looked at him as guilty, even though he was trialed innocent. Its sad. Very sad. I guess the old "Innocent until proven guilty" does not count for people that look different.

So Neverland is closed, is this good or bad? The whole Michael Jackson thing seems to be something that nobody will ever be able to extract truth from.

There was nothing chilling about that in the slightest. Any fairground photographed in the evening would be the same.

they forgot to show the best ride of all

Climb the tree, climb the tree!

I really liked those pictures.

I'd rather get molested than ride that damn "Zipper". Unsafe POS.

I'm glad this thread hasn't turned into a "OMG jacko is a sicko" thread.....

I'll tell you, their are WAY more ***** up people than him, he just has the money to pay for it all.

And I acctully love the fact he lets kids come in to neverland WITHOUT opening it up to everyone.

I would happily let my kids go their, jacko ain't a threat to any child, because he is a child himself.

wow, what alot of wasted money

This reminds me of that South Park episode where Eric Cartman gets rich, then buys an amusement park, and he only allows himself to use it. Eventually the maintenance problems kick in and he has to start letting people back in to pay for the upkeep costs, and of course he loses it in the end.

I looked at the pictures and I thought about the fact that these are in a middle-aged man's own backyard, and not for public use for a few bucks, and all I can think is, That poor bastard.

I sometimes wish I had the money that MJ has, but if this is what his childhood did to him and his family, than they can keep their money. The man is building a fantasy for himself! No-one builds a fantasy for themselves that is so elaborate, so REAL, that they can go play in it, without that person being severely deficient in several areas of their mental structure.

It's named Neverland for *****'s sake! The land where naughty boys, who hated their parents, went to live and never grow old, fighting against that symbol of ageing, Captain Hook, under the leadership of Peter Pan. I've never heard it said before, but I wouldn't be surprised if MJ told more than one visitor that he'd like to be called Peter, "under the advisement of my public relations people."

MJ is seriously ill, and he needs help. The only thing creepy about these pictures is that they show the physical embodiment of the mind of a man who is seriously depressed by growing old, and he will apparently try anything to combat it. Actually, he's not just trying to combat it, he's trying to get younger by surrounding himself in youthful enjoyment.

Poor bastard.

Some of it is shot in a way that reminds me of Silent Hill.

There's something fitting about watching this slideshow whilst listening to Fall Out Boy cover 'Beat It'

Did this guy sneek in at night and took pictures?

When I was a kid, I would have let Michael Jackson molest me in exchange for riding on his cool rides. Rides without lines is worth the price of admission.

i think the creepiest bit must be that cat from alice in wonder land and that picture of the little boy under the sign '' no head on collisions'

Did anyone notice the stars that looked like a question mark? One over the farris wheel and it was in another picture as well. That was weird.

that is one epic place.

I love how the same people that base their morality about the law (which is, in my opinion, lazy and sheepish) cry about how this guy is a pedo (even though he was acquitted) and go on an anti-pedo tough guy rant.

I don't find this chilling at all.

When he finally DOES have to sell it(and he will!) it will be a huge contract for some demolition company to get all of that junk out of there and convert it into something some plutocrat can actually live full-time in!

i wonder if this is still up and running these days?

and i wonder if the photographer "snuck" in as its at night...

at any rate, excellent pix!!