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I dont know if you've heard of urban exploration, but its basically exploring derelict buildings, hospitals, etc, and taking photos, theres a pretty big movement behind it (theres the infiltration zine and masses of websites about it- google urbex)
I dont currently do it, although its definately something that I'd like to play around with in future, but anyway, i saw this report of an amazing exploration and had to share it with you:
http://www.28dayslat...read.php?t=5921
That said, that is perhaps the most amazing urban exploration i've ever seen, have a look around that forum and the google term above for more, almost always with amazing photography of a lost world.
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Posted 13 January 2007 - 12:41 AM
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Posted 13 January 2007 - 05:22 AM
honestly i think its scarey to realize that there are places that big abandoned
i just hope our planet doesnt become like coresaunt instar wars all though that would be the ultimate place for Urban exploration.
but definatly props to those guys
i just hope our planet doesnt become like coresaunt instar wars all though that would be the ultimate place for Urban exploration.
but definatly props to those guys
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Posted 13 January 2007 - 07:28 AM
OMG. I love this type of shit. So I have an abandoned 4H camp at the end of my road. I love going in and seeing whats inside, etc. One time me and my cuz cut a power line in half or something (Dunno what it was) but come to find out it was still active and we were lucky not to get hurt.
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Posted 13 January 2007 - 11:29 AM
I've done a fair bit of urbanex and it's great fun and sometimes very useful.
However it is very fucking dangerous, when the shit hits the fan you know it's very bad.
I have once dangled upside down from a steam pipe waiting for my recce guy to get back and get me down.
By all means try it but tell some people who aren't going where you're going to be, give them a map and your plan and tell them to ring regularly.
If you don't answer a call tell them to go get help and give the authorities or whoever all the info neccesary.
Sure you may get fined or imprisoned for a month or 2 but it's better than having your face melted by a steam pipe or sitting in a furnace room knowing you have about 1 hour to live if someone doesn't come quickly!
However it is very fucking dangerous, when the shit hits the fan you know it's very bad.
I have once dangled upside down from a steam pipe waiting for my recce guy to get back and get me down.
By all means try it but tell some people who aren't going where you're going to be, give them a map and your plan and tell them to ring regularly.
If you don't answer a call tell them to go get help and give the authorities or whoever all the info neccesary.
Sure you may get fined or imprisoned for a month or 2 but it's better than having your face melted by a steam pipe or sitting in a furnace room knowing you have about 1 hour to live if someone doesn't come quickly!
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Posted 13 January 2007 - 05:43 PM
have any of you ever done urbanex in Active buildings?
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Posted 13 January 2007 - 06:44 PM
Most urbex I do is in active buildings for several reasons:
We don't have many abandoned buildings in my city
I love the adrenaline rush.
I love being able to watch security and employees walk around not knowing I'm 30 cm away from them. Or knowing that I could jump out of my dark little hole and steal information worth millions of euros.
It's addictive.
We don't have many abandoned buildings in my city
I love the adrenaline rush.
I love being able to watch security and employees walk around not knowing I'm 30 cm away from them. Or knowing that I could jump out of my dark little hole and steal information worth millions of euros.
It's addictive.
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Posted 13 January 2007 - 07:06 PM
thats really cool,
the clossest thing i do to urban ex is sneak around my school after everything is locked
do you do it in teams or by yourself?
the clossest thing i do to urban ex is sneak around my school after everything is locked
do you do it in teams or by yourself?
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Posted 13 January 2007 - 08:05 PM
I don't often work in a team, not because I'm not a team player but because I prefer to be independant of others.
That way if they're in bullshit, I'm not.
I've worked in a team once or twice with excellent results but it's not my favourite thing in the world.
That way if they're in bullshit, I'm not.
I've worked in a team once or twice with excellent results but it's not my favourite thing in the world.
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Posted 14 January 2007 - 10:47 AM
This is something I would really like to do, but like sas01 there really aren't to many abandoned buildings in my city. However at a recent LAN party (just me and some friends) we went out at about 4 am to a construction site for a new condominium. It was a 3 story tall building with just the frame put up and floors and ceilings. It was pretty cool, but so many people were paranoid. There wasn't to much cool things to see, as it was under construction but that wouldn't stop me again.
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Posted 07 February 2007 - 05:46 PM
I've actually been Urban Exploring for awhile. I live in an area that just recently (last 15 years) really boomed, construction wise. So there are a lot of huge farm houses with barns, etc. We've found some pretty cool stuff. I live near an old gun powder producing complex as well. I recommend this website. It's good. They have a forum as well. They really know what they're talking about. I don't want to sound all "preachy" but the main thing to remember is don't take or damage anything. Leave only footprints. Dont just take everything you can find. Take mainly pictures. Plus if you get busted or anything you dont want to have your pockets full of stuff. 1) because its harder to run. 2) they're going to want to stop you on trespassing, and maybe breaking and entering. And the last think you need is burgulary.
PS - - sas01 - - I recommend NOT going by yourself. Just two weeks ago, I stepped through the floor and would have been seriously injured had it not been for my friend
PS - - sas01 - - I recommend NOT going by yourself. Just two weeks ago, I stepped through the floor and would have been seriously injured had it not been for my friend
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Posted 08 February 2007 - 10:37 PM
If you guys want to check out some beautiful photography of urban exploration, head on over to http://www.opacity.us/locations/. The people there have done some amazing work.
This post has been edited by NightStalker: 08 February 2007 - 10:38 PM
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Posted 16 February 2007 - 07:26 AM
so the story goes (because ive never actually found out for myself) that theres this town in my state, and basically everybody went crazy, there were a lot of unexplained deaths, yadda yadda yadda....
well, anyway, the town isnt on a map, and its patrolled by police now and then. ive heard stories of people being fined and arrested for being found there after dark, and the only way to get there is to hike (no public access etc., i think it was established too long ago)...anyway, it sounds really freakin cool, and ive always meant to find out more about it.
on to a REAL story, theres a place in the town next to mine (a HUGE town, mostly woods...if you know glastonbury CT then, well...you know) that i used to go to with friends now and then. we call it Spooksville, and there are several rumors as to what it really used to be. basically, deep in the woods, sort of on a mountain, you set out on foot for about a quarter of a mile (no way to get there by car, but once you get there everything is paved). Theres all sorts of crazy shit painted everywhere, like pentagrams and the like...well anyway, the last time i went there was the most in-depth experience i had. i must have been with at least ten people, but it the experience was bone-chilling nonetheless.
we searched for many entrances into these giant slabs of concrete in the ground, of which we found about two. the one we all went into was a hole in the ground about 2 feet in length by about 4 feet in width, and maybe 3 and a half feet deep...except the hole slopes at a horizontal angle for about 10 feet. once we slid through the hole (NOT for the claustrophobic), it opened up intoa sort of sub-room with a door on the left wall, and i figured it to be an old staircase. (picture a subway entrance with dirt covering the stairs and floor, with a small pool of water at the bottom.
this room emptied into the biggest room we could find, which had all sorts of hazardous looking things on the walls, you know like yellow diagonal lines of paint, red lightbulbs every ten feet...some weird stuff. there was another room that lead further down, and lead to two small rooms (everything that i describe usually was only accessible because dirt hadden caved in there), with a couple of tools in one (hammers) and a couple of matresses in another(?) the only other room I could find, because i was the ambitious thrill seeker, was blocked. there was a slope, like ten feet of dirt had been swept up against one of the walls, so on one side of the room you could walk up to the ceiling. in the very far corner, where the dirt didnt go up to, was another room of at least the same size. so my tiny laoshan friend who is afraid of nothing started to squeeze in, only to get freaked out by a couple of bats. i still think there is more to that place to this day, and im sure there are secrets hidden by the past that are just waiting for me.
one of the popular rumors is that it was a missle silo, which is plausible, given the location (a rural area, away from the population, high elevation). who knows...i would sure like to find out...
this has nothing to do with hts, but i have certainly had to use some social engineering to do some of these expeditions, mostly just dealing with locals. who knows whats still out there though...honestly, i was shaking the entire time i was there, mostly out of excitement, but a little out of fear...
this is the story according to some half-witted website, theshadowlands.com:
Glastonbury - Nike site - This place is great for mountain biking or driving your car through during the day. This place is very big and takes up a section in the meshomasic state forest. During the day, visitor’s will notices graffiti markings of witchcraft on the rocks, along with some racial remarks. The Nike site itself is an old abandon military site that lies behind several yellow gates. This place was once used as a missile pad during the cold war era. The buildings, silo, and pad are all plowed over or demolished but many parts of it still remain. It is believed that there is still an entrance that leads underground to tunnels of the old silo. People have already tried to find this entrance and got lost in doing so. Once night falls the Nike site turns into a very Blair witch place. Sounds of random people walking around in the woods can be heard as long with their voices. This place has been nicknamed the insane asylum by the locals. Glastonbury - Nike site - This place is great for mountain biking or driving your car through during the day. This place is very big and takes up a section in the meshomasic state forest. During the day, visitor’s will notices graffiti markings of witchcraft on the rocks, along with some racial remarks. The Nike site itself is an old abandon military site that lies behind several yellow gates. This place was once used as a missile pad during the cold war era. The buildings, silo, and pad are all plowed over or demolished but many parts of it still remain. It is believed that there is still an entrance that leads underground to tunnels of the old silo. People have already tried to find this entrance and got lost in doing so. Once night falls the Nike site turns into a very Blair witch place. Sounds of random people walking around in the woods can be heard as long with their voices. This place has been nicknamed the insane asylum by the locals.
well, anyway, the town isnt on a map, and its patrolled by police now and then. ive heard stories of people being fined and arrested for being found there after dark, and the only way to get there is to hike (no public access etc., i think it was established too long ago)...anyway, it sounds really freakin cool, and ive always meant to find out more about it.
on to a REAL story, theres a place in the town next to mine (a HUGE town, mostly woods...if you know glastonbury CT then, well...you know) that i used to go to with friends now and then. we call it Spooksville, and there are several rumors as to what it really used to be. basically, deep in the woods, sort of on a mountain, you set out on foot for about a quarter of a mile (no way to get there by car, but once you get there everything is paved). Theres all sorts of crazy shit painted everywhere, like pentagrams and the like...well anyway, the last time i went there was the most in-depth experience i had. i must have been with at least ten people, but it the experience was bone-chilling nonetheless.
we searched for many entrances into these giant slabs of concrete in the ground, of which we found about two. the one we all went into was a hole in the ground about 2 feet in length by about 4 feet in width, and maybe 3 and a half feet deep...except the hole slopes at a horizontal angle for about 10 feet. once we slid through the hole (NOT for the claustrophobic), it opened up intoa sort of sub-room with a door on the left wall, and i figured it to be an old staircase. (picture a subway entrance with dirt covering the stairs and floor, with a small pool of water at the bottom.
this room emptied into the biggest room we could find, which had all sorts of hazardous looking things on the walls, you know like yellow diagonal lines of paint, red lightbulbs every ten feet...some weird stuff. there was another room that lead further down, and lead to two small rooms (everything that i describe usually was only accessible because dirt hadden caved in there), with a couple of tools in one (hammers) and a couple of matresses in another(?) the only other room I could find, because i was the ambitious thrill seeker, was blocked. there was a slope, like ten feet of dirt had been swept up against one of the walls, so on one side of the room you could walk up to the ceiling. in the very far corner, where the dirt didnt go up to, was another room of at least the same size. so my tiny laoshan friend who is afraid of nothing started to squeeze in, only to get freaked out by a couple of bats. i still think there is more to that place to this day, and im sure there are secrets hidden by the past that are just waiting for me.
one of the popular rumors is that it was a missle silo, which is plausible, given the location (a rural area, away from the population, high elevation). who knows...i would sure like to find out...
this has nothing to do with hts, but i have certainly had to use some social engineering to do some of these expeditions, mostly just dealing with locals. who knows whats still out there though...honestly, i was shaking the entire time i was there, mostly out of excitement, but a little out of fear...
this is the story according to some half-witted website, theshadowlands.com:
Glastonbury - Nike site - This place is great for mountain biking or driving your car through during the day. This place is very big and takes up a section in the meshomasic state forest. During the day, visitor’s will notices graffiti markings of witchcraft on the rocks, along with some racial remarks. The Nike site itself is an old abandon military site that lies behind several yellow gates. This place was once used as a missile pad during the cold war era. The buildings, silo, and pad are all plowed over or demolished but many parts of it still remain. It is believed that there is still an entrance that leads underground to tunnels of the old silo. People have already tried to find this entrance and got lost in doing so. Once night falls the Nike site turns into a very Blair witch place. Sounds of random people walking around in the woods can be heard as long with their voices. This place has been nicknamed the insane asylum by the locals. Glastonbury - Nike site - This place is great for mountain biking or driving your car through during the day. This place is very big and takes up a section in the meshomasic state forest. During the day, visitor’s will notices graffiti markings of witchcraft on the rocks, along with some racial remarks. The Nike site itself is an old abandon military site that lies behind several yellow gates. This place was once used as a missile pad during the cold war era. The buildings, silo, and pad are all plowed over or demolished but many parts of it still remain. It is believed that there is still an entrance that leads underground to tunnels of the old silo. People have already tried to find this entrance and got lost in doing so. Once night falls the Nike site turns into a very Blair witch place. Sounds of random people walking around in the woods can be heard as long with their voices. This place has been nicknamed the insane asylum by the locals.
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Posted 16 February 2007 - 11:58 PM
Sounds both scary and cool...
You could try camping out there one night with a load of people... (not necessarily in the silo - but outside of it). The only problem is that it's a mile and a half hike to get help if something does go wrong...
That abandoned town sounds interesting too... Probably a secret government operation, but still intriguing none the less...
You could try camping out there one night with a load of people... (not necessarily in the silo - but outside of it). The only problem is that it's a mile and a half hike to get help if something does go wrong...
That abandoned town sounds interesting too... Probably a secret government operation, but still intriguing none the less...
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Posted 18 February 2007 - 01:56 PM
You need to get handy with a nice camera, abandoned places make awesome photos :P
Sounds a pretty cool place.
Sounds a pretty cool place.
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Posted 19 February 2007 - 09:29 AM
omg anderson,indiana is full of old factorys and shit one was a place on the northside of anderson which made the actual rails for the railroad tracks, it closed in 1999 and origanally opened like sometime in the early 1900's anyway the place closed over night, i went in there b4 they started tearing it down it it was cool as shit it had dirt floors in most of it, but back in the locker rooms was the best, found old tools some dating back to the early 1900s that ppl prob just forgot about
anyway i ended up trippin on a slab of metal "it was 2am and dark as fuk' and broke my damn foot, and as that happen the cops walked in and i almost went to jail for tresspassing lol. but some of the old tools and shit i found , i found out later was worth a good chunk of money...
only if the cops would have let me keep it lol
but anderson has so many abandoned factorys , which are fun to go check out most of the facts were delco remy "general motors" facotrys which have all closed
anyway i ended up trippin on a slab of metal "it was 2am and dark as fuk' and broke my damn foot, and as that happen the cops walked in and i almost went to jail for tresspassing lol. but some of the old tools and shit i found , i found out later was worth a good chunk of money...
only if the cops would have let me keep it lol
but anderson has so many abandoned factorys , which are fun to go check out most of the facts were delco remy "general motors" facotrys which have all closed
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Posted 19 February 2007 - 07:46 PM
correct me if iam wrong, but ddog you made the mistake of picking up the tools, thats stealing and you don't do that while "exploring"
I think somebody mentioned it a bit earlier in this post that the last thing you want if busted is getting busted for stealing to...
Anyways it all sounds cool and it makes me wish that we had some close buildings and stuff around here....
We got a school and ofcourse construction sites, but nothing major...
I think somebody mentioned it a bit earlier in this post that the last thing you want if busted is getting busted for stealing to...
Anyways it all sounds cool and it makes me wish that we had some close buildings and stuff around here....
We got a school and ofcourse construction sites, but nothing major...
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Posted 19 February 2007 - 11:01 PM
I believe that the traditional morals of urban exploration are to follow the traditional rules of the UK national trust and various walkers groups around the world:
Take only photographs; leave only footprints.
That said, your morals are up to you, but you + stolen stuff + spray paint can will get a far worse reaction from police / rent a cop than you + camera + tripod 'taking photos for your homework assignment' :P
also, random pics: http://www.flickr.co...ers/pool/page2/
Take only photographs; leave only footprints.
That said, your morals are up to you, but you + stolen stuff + spray paint can will get a far worse reaction from police / rent a cop than you + camera + tripod 'taking photos for your homework assignment' :P
also, random pics: http://www.flickr.co...ers/pool/page2/
This post has been edited by littlegreenguy: 19 February 2007 - 11:02 PM