
Eerie photos have emerged of an abandoned college campus with the remains of animal carcasses rotting on shelves, yellowed paper strewn across classroom floors and stained Apple computers from the 1980s.

The eye-opening pictures were taken in the science department of Knoxville College, Tennessee which was a liberal arts college founded by the United Presbyterian Church of North America in 1875 for African-American students.

However student numbers began to dwindle during the 1970s and the educational institute closed in May 2015 after just 15 students enrolled for class.

The teaching staff at the time of closure numbered 35, over double the student body.

Despite originally planning to reopen again in the fall of 2016 the college doors remained shut. Much of the campus had been left to the elements since the late 1990s when students numbers reached new lows.

Knoxville authorities ordered the college to clean up the buildings after around five fires broke out there last year, but its owners failed to respond and as a result it has been boarded up.

Most of the photos take you inside the Stewart Science Hall which had to be thoroughly cleaned by Environmental Protection Agency who deemed the block to have potentially harmful toxic chemicals seeping through its cracks.

The pictures and footage were taken by urban explorers The Proper People from Knoxville.

Past: A door for a classroom in the Stewart Science Hall of Knoxville College. The urban campus stretches 39 acres but most buildings are in complete disrepair

Gone: A dead dog, that would have once been used in science experiments, is left unburied. Its carcass sticks to a chopping board on a shelf

Old: One of Apple's previous logos hangs proudly in a computer lab. Much of the building has been abandoned since 1997

Remember: An archaic looking Apple desktop computer seemingly ready for use. The science block has been left to the elements since 1997

Ransacked: The president's dining room has seen better days with desks and draws emptied. The school endured a long path to bankruptcy

Rot: A classroom with dirtied tables and a damp floor. Knoxville College began to struggle financially in the 1970 and in 1997, the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools withdrew Knoxville College's accreditation. As a result enrollment dropped precipitously and the school's financial situation worsened

Ready: Scientific equipment still remains in place and in seemingly decent condition. After losing its college accreditation enrollment plummeted along with the school's debt and it was soon unable to pay its faculty or electric bills

Motion: This lab looks as though it was left in a hurry. The school became unable to pay its faculty or electric bills in the late 1990s and most campus buildings were shuttered and abandoned, and most degree programs were discontinued

Bones: The skull and a spine of an animal. The college attempted to make a comeback in 2010 and hired Dr Horace A. Judson as an interim president who devised a six point plan to restore the college to its former glory

Left: The new president's efforts proved futile and he left his post shortly after starting. Things went from bad to worse when the Environmental Protection Agency seized control of the long-shuttered A.K. Stewart Science Hall to conduct an emergency clean-up of toxic chemicals that the college had improperly stored in laboratories

Dirt: The canteen's floor us covered in mud and graffiti adorns the walls. In April 2015, the school announced it was suspending classes for the Fall 2015 as only 15 students enrolled. The college is still struggling to pay back a $4.5 million loan from 2003 and more than $425,000 to the federal government for the Stewart Science Hall cleanup. The government has also recommended that the hall become Superfund site, meaning more hazardous waste needs to be removed from the premises