Source: Dailystar.co.uk

USA – PENNSYLVANIA -The Birchwood Resort was home to “spanking parties” and bondage in the late 90s, with rumours circulating that sex-mad holidaymakers were playing naked hide-and-seek in the woods. But now it looks like a ghost town. 

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The Birchwood Resort in Pennsylvania was once the dream of couples jetting off for their honeymoon.

It had private, romantic cottages scattered around its greenery-clad setting, with large sport facilities, a swimming pool, bowling alley and nighttime entertainment. It even had a roller skating rink and cross-country ski area.

But the most recent images of the abandoned complex look like something out of a post-apocalyptic nightmare. Its swimming pool, once sparking blue, is now a shade of green so disgusting it’s hard to look at, with furniture underwater, smashed concrete and overgrown weeds. So what happened? It is safe to say the resort has had a colourful history.

According to US reports the venue, in Poconos, became known as the “$100 Hamburger” given the cost it took to get there, to one of the area’s small private airports.

Brochures, featuring attractive young couples and bikinis, promised couples a “fly in” service, and became a hit for those living in New York and New Jersey.

It then became fetishised as an “erotic” resort, and hosted its own “spanking party” in the late 90s, with bondage fans checking in. While no pictures appear to exist from this, that may be all we need to know…

Neighbours even heard rumours about naked hide-and-seek and one game known as “spank the naked bowler”.

Yet after a series of newspaper reports, pressure mounted on Birchwood for it to be closed, and eventually it was.

Then, unexpectedly, it resurfaced in the news in 2014 after a 48-day manhunt.

Eric Frein, later sentenced to death for shooting a police officer dead, was detained at an abandoned airplane hanger nearby.

There they found incriminating evidence including a rifle, and it was not clear how long he had been hiding there for, although he had been hiding for seven weeks in the surrounding forests.

He was also found with ammunition, a computer, toilet paper, binoculars and bibles plus DVDs and handwritten notes.

Scott Malkowski, a task force commander with the US Marshal’s Service, said: “He had nowhere to go. There is nothing he could’ve done.

“From what I saw, he felt defeated because we’d won. We’d defeated him.”

In the most recently pictures available, the resort looks like a ghost town, littered with smashed windows, crumbling cabins and decaying facilities.

Recent reports of what has happened to it are not available, but it’s safe to say it’s had an eventful life.