#RecEv: A recording from Tallinn Airport, Estonia, from an incredibly unusual lift:

Aug 17, 2014, 02:57 PM

This is one of the strangest lifts (elevators for American readers) I've ever been in. It's in Tallinn Airport, Estonia, and when you walk in, you close the door manually. It's not a sliding door however, it's a regular door as you'd find on a house, or some older train carriages. It gets stranger though. Instead of the entire room moving, only the floor moves. The walls stay still, and there's no roof on the platform, so as you're moving up, the acoustics of the room? Box? Change as you rise. It is a most unusual, and dare I say, unsettling feeling to realise that yes, in fact the room is shrinking. When you're on ground level, it's as if you're in a very tall tower. By the time we reach the floor we should be on, it's no higher than an averagely tall room. I could have jumped and touched the ceiling. I hope you enjoy this recording, I forgot I had it in the archives. It was made on December 30 2013, soon after I landed.