Tell us about the places you've explored and your experiences while you were there, share pictures, and ask questions or advice.
>>770137
All dat amazing brickwork.
>>770137
>Old boarded up building
>Only way in is through broken window
>Full of drug addicts squatting
>GTFO before I get stabbed
>10/10 would see why kids stay in school again
Done tons of climbing and investigsting old buildings and train tracks. Also know the entire storm drain system of my city. I can travel 10 miles across my city without being seen at all. You have to keep moving though because you run out of oxygen quickly in the tunnels and get dizzy.
>>770657
That's kinda cool anon, how do I get into that? Will I smell like shit?
>>770137
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmKcb79MzQY
i used to back in the day
>>772072
i hope to start doing it over
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7u8GoqrzrKU
another one, i know camera work is shit but still..
Tips: get lockpicks and learn to use them. Dont get caught with them. Better than breaking windows and making noise. Look up bosnian bill on youtube on how to make and use.
Seriously a very underrated skill to have. I always carry a small set at all times innawoods or not.
>>772134
this guy gets it
>>770659
Storm drains are usually empty. They aren't sewers. Just enter any water run-off pipes in your city, alternatively you could lift up one of those crates on the side of the road that has water flowing under it during a storm. Don't do this during high water levels. If you hear it start raining, gtfo asap.
>>772134
>Don't get caught with them
>I always carry a small set at all times
>>772134
Don't get caught with them on private property or you might be charged with B&E, My cousin had to do 8 months in prison for it.
Granted he got caught being a nigger and stealing copper pipes but i don't they even charged him with the B&E.
But i guess if you are just exploring abandoned places no one goes to anyway it would be pretty hard to get caught unless your just really dumb about it.
How does a summerfag get started on urban exploration, if I do I'll hope to post here?
>>772393
First go outside. Second learn to trespass. Third learn to trespass on spooky stuff.
Hey, should we go in? What gear should we bring? Really new to this, but we really want to try. Beneath the hills where I live are many old mines and caves that were used to produce stuff during ww2.
Urban ex is fun, biggest issues are knowing as much as possible before getting in, watching for dust, sharp stuff, and avoiding dumb ideas. And if you're underground, watch the weather forecast.
>>772882
Lots of good stuff to be found if you are willing to keep an eye out. I've spotted places just walking around my neighborhood, such as abandoned warehouses and drainage systems, found this place via Google maps while checking directions to a state game lands. Can also just search for well known spots in your area.
The most important tool for finding places to explore is the willingness to take a look a little further beyond.
>going to jail
>getting shot by cletus
>falling
>getting trapped
no thanks
>>773124
im guy who posted vids, and still alive.
you gotta risk sometimes faggot
>>772134
I'd say just buy them. Most of the good picking tools aren't that easy to make if you don't already have serious equipment in your backyard. It's hard to master lock smithing and lock picking at the same time, desu, but otherwise solid advice
Once I was urbexing when I saw I skeleton. It said boo and turned into a ghost then it was a demon. Very scary, desu
How do you guys usually go about getting into the building? I have a place in mind but I think it will take a bit scouting before i can find a way inside
Anyone in Alaska want to go exploring ?
How do you find your sites, lads?
I'm living in a pretty big city and there aren't that many abandoned places and those that are abandoned are filled with people.
>>773399
i-is th-that a triple double?
>>773309
Watch out, there's a skeleton inside you right now
>>772072
>>772077
Damn, that's pretty awesome. My parents are from Poland so I visit there often, and there's a shit ton of abandoned brick towers everywhere that I'd love to climb. But how do you gain the balls to climb those if you know those handles can break at any time? You don't know if they haven't rusted enough and all it takes is for one of them to be at breaking point, you know?
Damn, any tips for someone who would like to start climbing these things?
>>773399
A Triple Double?!!!?!!
My humble advice - just drive around cities nearby that are older looking or around cities that had industrial companies in the past. You should generally be able to tell by your city if there's cool abandoned places to check out.
I know this sounds useless, but the point is if your city is not sufficiently "old," rural, or industrial enough any place you do find will either be monitored by security or filled with hobos.
>>772072
that's awesome, anon, thanks for sharing, I really enjoyed the video.
Do you have the name of the song? Shazam failed me.
>>773399
>>773765
also in first vid, last one almost came off, you can see how damaged top is, i struggled little bit, you can notice if you take look at end of the video. it was going of literally. but still think
>>773853
Do you have a backup plan in case you get injured or trapped inside one of these buildings? Would you call the authorities or do you have a mate as backup that could get you out?
I think if I was going to do this I'd always at least go with one other person.
>>773051
No I'm not a fucking pussy and I have my 5k down to below 17 minutes.
>>773861
I have so many questions. tell us everything please.
>>773861
take close-ups of the ferns growing in the walls.
>>773866
in first one, i had mate, he appears in second video, climbing from inside, in second vid, another guy with us, but not seen in video.
>>773952
Well hopefully you can run faster than the speed of light to evade those CCTV cameras
>>773952
You probably leave a trail though, like a salt shaker
Dawson Forest City of Atlanta Tract.
It is a former US Air Force nuclear testing facility. They left all the cement foundations, basements, and tunnels in place when they closed the site. It is now a forest with hiking trails, camping, and of course irradiated cement structures that are partially buried.
>>773051
Most places I've found do not have any sort of active security or CCTV. Notably, for CCTV to be an active response sort of thing someone has to be watching it, which unless it's a site where work is being done is very very rare. Usually your worries are owners, security, or police patrolling a site or an after the fact issue. If you are worried about say, a camera picking up your plate numbers the easy secret is to park away from the site and walk in. If you suspect a site has active security or just nosey neighbors, it is better to hoof it in. Ideally, this is why you case a spot prior so you know the surrounding area enough to leave safely in the event of emergent issue.
>>773366
Case it first, sometimes it's obvious. Don't go in if you think you can't get out. You may have to surreptitiously try doors/gates. Ground floor windows work too.
>>773399
Oh baybee a triple! I sometimes find stuff online via Google maps or just searching Urban Ex forums and then case the place. Others friends point out. A lot of stuff like storm drains, local spots I find just by keeping my eyes peeled, pic related was literally 5 steps from a well traveled road.
>>773760
Follow up, I have been asked to leave a location exactly once by an owner who was hunting the land.
>>773866
Go in pairs if you can. Always have a phone. Always tell someone where you are going. You have to watch your opsec but if someone doesn't hear from in in say, 24hrs, better to call the cops than be dead.
>>770657
>keep moving though because you run out of oxygen quickly
+1 to the 70 confined space deaths per year
only urbex in areas with fresh air, and remember: a breeze keeps you alive
>>772558
>tunnels/mines/tubes/etc
some gases are heavier than air, and will displace oxygen. these often collect in areas, like mines, where they aren't disturbed. people die all the time from this
>>773770
To add to this, looking for railroad tracks is important. These will lead you to industrial buildings, which have the highest chance of being disused.
This is the Atlanta Prison Farm. Awesome place, accessible to all. Look it up!
>go explore an elementary school that has been abandoned for 15 or so years
>midnight, new moon, pitch black inside except our flashlights
>we're down the second of three classroom wings, inside a classroom
>our flashlights all flicker and shut off
>oh fuck
>bash them a bit, only one lights back up
>just as it lights, hear a HEAVY sprinting bipedal noise on the roof
>it was definitely at least the weight of a man, not a small creature
>we all freeze and it stops
>suddenly hear it again
We booked it the fuck out, me holding my working flashlight on point, ready to stab anything that got out in front of us. The school is near a creek bottom and forest, with a small field in between. The school itself is on a never-used road, and completely overgrown by brush and saplings. Spoopy. No noises were made. I think I have a bipedal haunting creature for when I'm out in spoopy areas.
Have also explored an old farmhouse with barn and shed in the depths of the woods that has local legends saying it was the home of a family of inbred deformed "goons". It's been abandoned since what looks like the 70s, though. Nothing spooky there.
I went to an old railway power transfer station. I'm going to be going to an old butchers plant and an old hospital.
>>773765
Climbing/rappelling instructor here, if you're really scared about the structural integrity of something like that, don't climb it.
If you're going to anyways, but you're still really scared, get some 2 inch webbing an learn how to tie a harness and get some climbing rated non-wiregate carabiners.
Walk up to the tower, yank on the lower steps and slowly lower your body weight on to them to see if they'll hold. Once you clip into one, take the other carabiner and clip it to the next rung, repeat.
If one is loose, go to the one above it.
Don't die. If you really think it has a risk of falling apart, don't climb it, please. If you're decently confident, spend the $20 for 10ft of webbing and a few carabiners. Even if you end up not using either of them for this purpose, they're both super handy to have.
>>774379
>old butchers plant
creepy
>an old hospital
also creepy
take pics & post them please
Not exactly urban but i love going out in the wood and finding shit people just left to rot and get overgrown.
I found this on google maps and chatted up a bunch of rednecks so I could cross over their land.
>>774459
>>774460
this is what it looked like in 1920
>>774374
>one day that qt indian girl will get painted over by filthy graffiti tagfags
>>774469
that indian IS graffiti
>>774525
But it's not some shitty tag.
>>774339
Have you ever camped in any of these places?
>>773753
>triple double
Huh?
>>774419
>non-wiregate carabiners.
Non-climber here; what's wrong with wiregate carabiners?
>>774419
>dont die
What will happen if i accidentally die?
In forest found old houses basement that could be used as a bunker, im thinking that i could clean it up and put some useful stuff there if shit gets real. Things like gasmasks, food, matches etc.
>>774655
I mean, they can be just as strong as locking ones, but have the chance of slipping or being depressed if something along the face you're climbing protrudes out, leading to possible slipping. (and then falling!)
They're fantastic for daily use or attaching chalk bags and such to your harness/belt, but just aren't quite safe enough to use as primary carabiners when you're climbing.
There are also two types of locking carabiners, one that has a spring loaded locking sleeve that rides on top of the gate, and ones that are threaded and you have to screw/unscrew to lock. Spring loaded ones are better for climbing like I described in my other post, as they're much faster to work with, while threaded ones are optimal for use in static positions like at the tops of rappelling courses or used with grounded belay points for climbing.
Good read if you're interested. Piece the url back together
https://www.rei.com/learn/expert-advice/carabiners.html
>>774838
You'll go from /out/ to /under/
>>774463
old pool?
>>774774
Saltier than an octopus' arsehole
>>774652
Yes! I am going to look for a couple of pics from a recent one, abandoned tunnel that we camped in. It's doable but keep in mind the dust and of course finding out there are other people around. Pro tip: Concrete is cold as shit to camp on in November.
>>775563
Salty because you're a pussy?
>>775988
>>774652
Grainy, but this is from the maintenance building of abandoned highway tunnel. It's a pretty well known spot but still cool. I forgot that I put all the images on a shared drive, going to pick out a couple.
>>775998
From the first time I went there with friends, outside one of two tunnels.
>>776000
>>776003
>>776007
If you look at the bottom of the building here, there are 2 windows. That was our way in. Each tunnel had one of these structures and they housed ventilation equipment, maintenance, etc.
>>776009
Aforementioned equipment
>>776022
>>774374
That art is amazing
>>774378
I don't believe you m8
>>774423
I second this
>>774459
>>774460
I like it too, it's really nice in a strange way to know that something used to be there and seeing that even though it's gone it hasn't been swallowed by the woods yet
>>774842
That's awesome. Did you find anything in there? and please take pictures next time you go inside
>>775995
More bitter than a lemon's taint
>>776516
Bitter because I have the freedom to walk anywhere and have never been arrested for it?
Metro in Paris
>>776580
>thinking that this is only true in uhhmerica
>The world's greatest magic trick: talk to an American and the rest of the world disappears
>>776580
Stupider than tits on a bull
>>776007
This looks like that turnpike in Pennsylvania.
>>778088
That's because it probably is lol
>>778094
More confusing than your grandmother's dick
>>778432
You are bad and you should feel bad
>>778530
No, that would be a liability. But I really want to check it out one day. Something neat about abandoned highways.
>>773755
>>778534
More irrelevant than a prostitute's panties
Have been exploring across Eurp since 2008 or so, used it as a medium to get into photography, often post on /p/.
Pic related, abandoned Tucker Sno-Cats in a barn in Belgium. More of my photos here: https://www.flickr.com/j-st/
Mainly seek out industrial buildings, powerplants, factories etc. Currently in the final stages of planning and mapping out a road trip across France, Belgium, Germany, Czech Republic and Austria for this August hopefully getting in some wild camping and river/lake swimming. Used to do quite a bit of draining but found it got a bit samey with little variety, plus one of my friends slipped and broke his arm and we had to haul the fucker out.
2spooky4u: About 5 years ago I was exploring some of the Maginot line bunkers in North France with close friends, we had walked about 3.5km along the underground railways to a Gun block. We had come in to the complex through a “Caserne” or one of the barrack blocks which are out on a limb. Took photographs of rusty big guns and walked back along the rails, there was a general feeling between the four of us that something wasn’t right, felt a bit uneasy. Back at the caserne, we were setting up a shot with torchlight and I caught sight of a person dressed in white walking away from me, shouted something panicky at the person and at the others who were a few yards away. White figure had fucked off by then, it was the only time I ever lost my bottle and ran, the others followed.
Can’t really explain what it was, it made me shit myself. Bunker was about 6 miles from nearest town, in the middle of woodland, took us an age to find the entrance because of overgrowth.
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>>779511
Picrelated, in this post
OhShit: Have a small number of run ins with the Police, German were pretty chilled and just made sure we weren’t Romanian copper thieves, UK cops are usually cool too when you can talk them round and they’re happy you’re not doing illegal things. French are not so cool.
Advice:
Don’t go alone, take a torch, take a mobile phone, don’t take stupid shit like lockpicks, knives / multitools or even matches / lighters unless you’ve got cigarettes too. Shoes are important, I use approach boots that are gore tex lined, solid enough toe for climbing plus they’ll keep you dry. Gloves too, those thin, lightweight builders gloves with the grippy palm are perfect.
>>779170
Woman.
>>775040
>You'll go from /out/ to /under/
Kek. Under rated
An abandoned tannery
>>779511
>https://www.flickr.com/j-st/
Some of your photos are very cool.
>>779516
More beaten than an ISIS hostage
Me and my friend went to an abandoned hotel downtown that had plans to be renovated. We made it all the way up to the roof but while coming down we ran into a security looking guy who didn't seem happy to see us. Chased us down 6 flights of stairs but we got away.
>>780544
>abandoned
looks more like a construction site
>>770137
I live literally right down the street from an old abandoned woolen mill. It used to be very cool to wander around inside. And then the town cleaned it out. Huge old boilers gone, steam engines in the basement gone, all the machinery gone, all the spare parts gone. Now it's just a boring empty building. Blah...
>>780708
renovations were started but the company that bought the building filed for bankruptcy, I think someone else got the deed and is doing something with it but I haven't been there since aforementioned.
>>780541
Looks like your butt's a bit bothered
Went to the old aqueducts/ abandoned subway in my city. It's mostly graffiti now and a few harmless bums.
>>781656
2 spooky 4 me
>>781658
Last one that's any good
Anybody from Denmark here? I went to Værlose Flyvestation yesterday, they have some really nice bunkers and maintenance shacks, along with some plane hangars, which are all great for climbing. There's also and old barracks, which is completely abandoned, and there's not even that much graffiti. All of this is inside the legal perimiter, it's not fenced off.
Further up the road there's another bunker, but also a large fenced complex. I could easily squirm under the fence, but I'm gonna go later with some friends and a mask, cause there's video cameras on the building across the road. It might still be in use, but it's hard to tell. Didn't take pics cause I forgot my phone, but I'll get around to it one day.
Any other danefags that know of good spots on Zealand?
That shit looks fun
If i did it in my country i would probably get killed for my shoes
>>781775
where do you live anon? You could always arm yourself
I lost my old phone with photos but there is this abandoned mansion that people broke into all the time, it had hidden rooms and corridors. Pretty soon they blocked everything up but we used an old garden house to rappel up a balcony then we jumped from the side balcony onto the roof where there was a window you could open. Found a bunch of needle, muriatic acid and bleach with some batteries lying around.
>>782195
Ever seen the graffiti from Pompeii? Awesome stuff
Maybe Saturday I'll attempt to make my first mac and cheese that doesn't include orange cheese powder in a foil packet. Should I bring /ck/ along on my adventure?
>>782801
Yeah, bloody hilarious.
What I found funny was when I visited a former penal colony in Tasmania, Australia and in one of the old cells was a bunch of graffiti. For a second I was shocked until I realised that the graffiti had been done by the prisoners over a hundred years earlier.
>>782985
People are people, only the time is what changes.
Literally etched in stone in Pompeii is what you see written in Sharpie marker on the toilet stall of a high school bathroom.
>>782830
well, you could always head over to /ck/ and ask them yourself
Probably unlikely but anyone know any places in Israel to check out?
How to get into a place that's nearly inaccessible? There's a house near mine I'd like to explore but that grass is some tall shit.
>>783443
Are you kidding? Watch for snakes / nettles / other shit, maybe wear some covering clothes and walk through it. Care for the eyes if there's thornes, but that shit right you can just power-march through.
>>>/wsg/1112605
This is an old video, with really shitty resolution, it was made in an old abandoned hospice.
the hospice is situated in a semi-ghost town in italy.
we are talking because there too many candles on the floor.
see the image all the sparkling things are little candels
>find awesome cold war air base on the side of a mountain about 2 hours away
>tfw noone is a bad enough dudes for weekend adventure to check it out.
feelsbadman.jpg
Don't quote me on this, but I think this tunnel is an offshoot from Governor Gold Mine in Acton.
There was what looked to be a former coyote den nearby, so I didn't want to chance going in at the time.
If anyone is braver/smarter than I am, it's within the area of 34°26'39.7"N 118°12'55.8"W
>>773399
WITNESSED
>>783443
Grass? Oh shit well I guess you'd better stay at home then.
>>783816
Where you at? NJ here?
>>784390
VT.
East Mountain Air base in the NEK
https://urbanpostmortem.wordpress.com/2014/09/11/the-east-mountain-experience/
One of the largest SAC bases is 5 minutes from my house. 75% abandoned, large aircraft hangars, schools, hospital, rec centers, radar centers, atomic warhead storage igloos and underground tunnel networks connecting it all. Spent many a summers exploring.
>>783458
Thanks, and I know my question may sounds stupid to you but I'm not big into going through grass that's up to my head when I go /out/.
>>784248
>>785064
>pic related
>>785324
Take a machete and chop a path in front of you
>>785480
>not taking your bulbasaur
>>785619
Haha. That made ma laugh, anon :)
>>772558
I would bring some tools to break off that door. Thats a definite hazard. Some crack head could lock your ass down there or it could get stuck if it closes in on its self
I would love for someone to go with me. Its an adbandoned Pillsbury factory that opened in the 30s and closed in 2001. Its in Springfield IL in the middle of the ghetto of the city. Pretty sure theres a few groundsmen keeping kids away but for the most part it should be easy to get into. Apparently its been explored thoroughly but no pictures have even been taken on the insides. It was sold in 08 for scrap and has been recently scheduled for demoliton due to mishandling asbestos and improper disposal. Dude was apparently cutting that shit out with a hand knife and just thowing it into trash bags or some shit.
>>781009
Sure you probably see me there. Got a tip that hunters use the section in winter, might not want to get caught in the crossfire. (technically the tip was "during hunting season")
The tunnel is cool and chilly, even when the sun is shining outside on a hot day.
You guys should NOT go into storm/sanitary sewers.
I'm confined space trained and you couldn't pay me to go down without proper PPE/monitoring.
>>785912
Lethal infections are the least of my worries usually.
Falling and asphyxiation are the two main concerns. In storm sewers you can easily be swept away by a surge from upstream.
I'm an engineer so I don't do confined space entries often, but my older coworkers have good stories.
>>785916
Do tell
>>772077
>no slav squat
1/10
>>773399
>Witnessed
You could always just look for old property that's not been owned in over 10 years.
do you guys aware of the fact that you make beautiful abandoned places into tourist attractions with this threads?
>>786172
How else are we going to find out about them? And most people come here to look, hardly anyone actually goes.
>>776000
Sadly I recognize two of those tags and would guess your in PA.
>>779511
Can you share any sites in Austria? I'm here for a year and I've not found much in the way of abandoned buildings. Back home (UK) there's heaps of old industrial buildings and the like, but here I guess it all got bombed or Mashall Aided into new life.
So I found an abandoned firehouse while on a walk last week.
Should I chance it...?
>>786132
>>786018
One of my coworkers was the engineer for a large stormwater pump station. To access the wet well(where the water comes in), you needed to descend a large stairway marked with "CONFINED SPACE ENTRY ONLY" signs.
Contractors usually disregard these signs whenever possible (muh profit). One guy went down and didn't come back up. His friend went down after him and died as well.
The wetwell was still under construction. Exposed patches of soil offgased into the area and displaced the oxygen.
You should never go in if someone's in an emergency.
Pic related. Me in some water system vault.
>>786378
What sort of gas mask would protect you from this? And is there no warning for if you're experience this sort of thing? Is it just one breath and you're rip?
Please tell more, I'm interested!
>>786396
No gas mask necessary in most cases. A vault like this doesn't have many hazards besides the long fall, but you can see my line which is attached to a tripod.
Air monitoring is done before and while you're in the space. Conditions are constantly monitored by an attendant. Someone usually shouts down every minute or so to see if you're still conscious as well.
More hazardous locations will have you carrying your own personal monitor and respirator. From what I understand you'll usually have time to get out. If not, you can be pulled out with the tripod winch.
If you REALLY don't know what the hazards are like in a chemical spill, you'll have dedicated hazmat teams come in with Class A suits and SCBA gear. I'm 40 hour HAZWOPER trained as well but don't really do any of that stuff.
>>786411
I see! I meant in an urbex sort of situation, in which you might be underground and encountering any sort of gas. Also, what about things such as asbestos or something similar?
As far as air test kits or readers/monitors, are they all super expensive or are some cheap enough to be accessible for the average person?
Any knowledge you have would be super helpful!
Abandoned factory in NE Pennsylvania
Homemade swing made from a steel beam and garden hose
>>786213
*you're in PA
See, that's why you're a graffiti artist and not a billionaire
>>786378
Reminds me of that scene in the last crusade where they send guy after guy in to get past the first trap
>>786411
>Haz woper, will travel
I live in a village in the UK so there isn't all too much near me but there's always something
>>786917
i'll post some from a few places
>>786918
This little farmhouse was pretty cool to look around
>>786921
some books in the garage
>>786922
didn't take any pictures inside the factory but this is on the roof
>be me back in last year of high school
>insurance building is boarded up and walled up
>going to be destroyed in the near future
>Know some m8s who used to sneak into an abandoned brewery every know and again
>tell them about this insurance building
>think we're the first in
>all the copper wiring gone
>everything worth something has been taken
>piss about, decided to climb to the roof
>just as I get on the roof, another friend who chose to go first says there's a police car slowing down by the building
>We'refucked.jpg
Good times.
>>786924
Hey, I see one of those apartment buildings on the train almost every day, London?
>>787031
no it's the middle of Leicester
>>787100
Weird, the red and white building is on my daily train ride.
>>786032
does this make you feel better?
Anything in South UK?
I stumbled across a sturdy stone shack on the edge of a cliff today
>>787543
Got any more pics?
I've been places. Sadly, there are no pictures, because the places I've seen are technically illegal for me to be in, and I'm not sure on statute of limitations.
Basically, several locked or abandoned houses or government buildings, late at night.
This one time, when I was 5, I got chased out of a crumbling house by a crazed junkie in a bedsheet.
>>787608
>>787648
Id live there desu
>>787674
same. shit looks kinda cozy.
>>787685
I don't know if I'd live there but it would make a really nice getaway.
>>787648
It's sitting 5 feet in front of this ledge
>>786396
a gas detector / o2 meter, and a rescue bottle or scba,
personally i use a papr when going into any industrial buildings( perk of my old job was a papr) with a back up dual cartrage half mask. , and we all have gas meters and 5 min self rescue scba.
I worked for a industrial safety company, and we would provide confined space and hazwoper services.
got some nice gear as a result.
