Decide the fate of Borneo's favourite backpacker.
Open the door- 17 votes
Leave it alone- 18 votes
If you want me risk contracting a deadly virus, open the seal and see what's behind the door, then register at Singles121 via this link -
I can tell then if people try to vote more than once. Every registered person who uses this link will go down as one vote for opening the door.
If you don't want me to open the door, and think I should leave it alone and get on with facing the jungle and its many and poisonous hazards instead, then register at Singles121 via this link-
You must complete the registration process for the server to count one vote for you. I changed the links to both show the same site as I had mail telling me it was harder to register on one site than the other, I can tell which link is used and how many times by unique visitors, so this way one person cannot mass vote and fix the outcome.
Voting ends on 20/03/02 and I will abide by the final count.
Current count at dusk on 12/03/02 is
17 for opening the door
18 for not opening it.
Considering that 6 billion people can look at this site, it's not much of a response for risking my life is it??
BORNEO DIARY
12/03/2002
Can't stand to be down there at night anymore, I get this tingling feeling all over my body. I was vomiting last night too and some of my hair is falling out, it must be the lack of fresh air.
I'm starting to get a bit worried about the vote, only a few people are bothering, but yesterday more were voting for opening the door. Do I turn or burn? You decide.
I did try to go further down into the tunnels, they start to get less engineered and I got to this area where the walls are just rock like this-
It's like a maze down there and I am getting the strongest feeling that I should just leave this place.
Wes E-mailed me this-
Just out of curiosity how are you making money. I mean the loan has to have run out by now right? Also I dont think that you would get enought donations off of this site to support yourslef and your traveling.
Well, most of the loan went on my travel and equipment, but I don't NEED money out here, there aren't many shops! I do make a few pence from the banner adverts on this site, but not many people bother to click on them, and I hope to use this money to buy some rest time between expeditions, I hope to one day find my way out of Borneo and perhaps head for China or Russia, but for the moment I just want to stay alive. Thanks for asking Wes, have you voted yet?
11/03/2002
Thanks to all the people E-Mailing me, some begging me not to open the door, some begging me to open it. Thanks to Lynda Buendel for pointing out it's hard to work out how to register on the "no" vote, I have changed the link. It would be nice to get a big response and know people care about me , all alone, out here in Borneo.
Slept on one of the beds last night, it wasn't as comfortable as the jungle floor. I also found a trip switch that turned on some lighting, it's low, emergency lighting but it means I can explore further down here before I run out of light. There is a dull hum in the background, so I may have turned a generator on somewhere. I am scratching arrows into the walls to help me find my way back, but every new room just seems to be full of more metal drums.
Just that one sealed door seems to hold any answers down here.
I am outside now, back near the entrance to the underground complex, and I can hear what sound like human screams out there somewhere. It might just be a bird or animal, but it sounds a lot like a woman in pain.
10/03/2002
I got lost.
There's a lot of space down there, large hangers full of metal drums, long corridoors that go deeper and deeper down, it must have taken years to build which is amazing when you consider it's all the way out here in a remote corner of Borneo. From what I've seen, It seems to be some sort of toxic waste dump.
I even found some military rations, I've brought some up with me, and some clothes to wear, green fatigues with the words "bio" on them, I could actually live quite comfortably down there, but I came out here to explore the jungles, not some manmade abomination. Which brings me to this. I found a sealed door down there -
It's got one of those wheel things to open it like you find in submarines, but there is a warning not to and a biohazard symbol, I was tempted to explore inside, but I decided against it, worried about infection, then I found myself going back and peering inside, so I am going to chill out in the living quarters, set up camp outside the entrance and take a vote, let YOU decide!
05/03/2002
I'm back out, I have been underground in a complex hidden beneath the Borneo jungle for a couple of days now, unfortunately I was trapped in a small lavatory for a while, using a normal toilet was a luxury I could ill afford as once inside I was unable to unlock the cubicle door, I managed to live on the cistern water for a while but this made me ill and I managed to break the lock open with the toilet seat. Another triumph against adversity.
At first I imagined it was an abandoned bunker or power station down there, concrete corridoors, metal pipeways and numbers on walls. There are living quarters (I spent the night on a real bed, with real bedlice) and large rooms full of metal containers, like oildrums, I suspect it may some sort of secret underground oildrum storage facility.
It's been a while since anyone was down there, and it smells, damp and dead. I get the feeling it was not meant to be found way out here. After I've eaten some fruit and a snake, I'm going back down with the camera and laptop to explore some more.
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