molestary

While it's fun to play off the word, especially in such sensitive times (news flash: the Pope says sexual abuse is wrong!), this location was a Catholic school, not a monastery. It's highly improbable that monks were picking up a game at the basketball courts just over the hill behind the school. The construction reveals it to be of modern materials, illustrating further that this is no '17th century monastery.'

For no strange reason, rumors abound about the depth of the structure. Noting the entire building is littered inside and out with every kind of beer and alcohol bottle, there's little doubt that the wild claims of up to 50 subterranean levels are the visions of drunken visitors and kids with overactive imaginations. Not that there is anything wrong with a healthy imagination, one can certainly add to the enjoyment of an abandoned location. But some imaginations are truly laughable. One account of a visit to the 'monastery' claims that scratches on the walls of the monks' rooms (3 subterranean stories down of the 10 they visited that day!) were embedded with fingernails.