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jonrev
Location: Lake Wazzapamani Gender: Male Total Likes: 735 likes
Observer of obsolesence
| | | | Re: What's the story behind your first location? < Reply # 4 on 11/5/2013 11:54 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Can't explain without saying the location, so... It began with the demolition of Lakehurst Mall in Waukegan, IL - which led me to Deadmalls.com, which led me to their writeup on Dixie Square Mall, which probably led me to a site called Chuck's Photo Spot. Chuck Janda was part of the DSM Documentary that was never finished, so at some point I wound up on the site for that, and it sort of picked up from there... Several years later, after dicking around some random unremarkable places and ruins of a farm in the woods around the block from home, DSM was my first major explore. Interestingly, it was with Chuck and the documentary crew. In short: this is an offshoot from being a retail nerd.
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| Stina_lou
Gender: Female Total Likes: 41 likes
| | | Re: What's the story behind your first location? < Reply # 11 on 11/21/2013 7:31 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | long story ahead! I got into UE by way of geocaching and through a community on instagram that posts pictures of decaying paint and graffiti... my first 'location' (not exactly an abandoned structure but was my gateway to UE) was an epic graffiti wall under a bridge. I ended up there by chance while looking for a geocache http://www.geocaching.com. This was the spot after this, I noticed another 'graffiti wall' across the river from there... after a little trial and error, I found this spot... and started to take interest in not just the graffiti, (though I will always love graffiti) but in the decay and abandonment here.. 1. 2. 3. basically that's how I got started, from there it's history! At one point I was interested in going in the abandoned mill buildings near this area, but got reprimanded by a creepy voice coming from a trailer at one point.. I haven't been back in awhile, wonder how the spot is doing... started with graffiti, moved into UE and RE, and clearly I am now hooked. Thanks for checking out my story!
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| Jared Kat
Location: Colorado Springs, CO, USA Total Likes: 10 likes
Coming to a drain near you!
| | | Re: What's the story behind your first location? < Reply # 12 on 12/8/2013 3:42 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Honestly, from a high-school dare to go crawl through a little 2 foot RCP drain, and well, I was the kid to actually do it. From there, online research and more draining, hiking, and the like, found this website, and on from there, an interest in all other aspects of urban exploration became interesting. (Unfortunately not too many abandoned buildings around, though some exist). The next step is photography.
| In a society that has destroyed all adventure, the only adventure left is to destroy that society |
| Crvna
Location: Boise, ID Gender: Female Total Likes: 4 likes
| | | Re: What's the story behind your first location? < Reply # 16 on 12/17/2013 12:05 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | I think I was always kind of prone to wander around, as my mom often kicked my brother and I outside when we fought too much or she had work to do. We lived in a poorer neighborhood, so there were open canals that ran under the yards and we would go down under our neighbors yard when it was running and use it as a fort. She always freaked when she caught us, but we were fascinated with the idea of getting into the sewer system next. It never happened, and eventually we got to big for our "fort" but I caught the bug for trying to get into isolated areas. However, I didn't explore much until I went to Bosnia after high school. We worked a 9-5 day and had free time on nights and weekends. All throughout my neighborhood were abandoned houses and around town were construction sites that had been abandoned because of the war. We nicknamed one of the houses "The mystery house" and would discuss its mysterious past daily. We ended up exploring old houses and driving to a destroyed castle that had been used a hide out in the war. I think we spent an entire day sketching, taking pictures and climbing to out of reach areas. The gentlemen that lived nearby were confused at our interest and insisted we sketch them. Coming back to America was rough, there's not nearly as much to explore where I'm at. This was pretty typical for when I went, functional and fixed up at the base level. Still destroyed on the top floors, complete with bullet holes.1.
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| Ozymandias
Location: Danville, VA Gender: Male Total Likes: 1 like
| | | Re: What's the story behind your first location? < Reply # 19 on 1/5/2014 11:56 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Everything that could have gone wrong on my first explore absolutely went wrong. Two other friends and I decided to check out an abandoned school that had been turned into a storage facility. We had to enter through a second-story window, which was fine. We checked out the second floor, and everything was fine and it was really cool to see all of the decay and whatnot. Once we went down to the first floor, however, everything went downhill. As soon as my friend got down the stairs and began to look around, an alarm went off. Needless to say, the three of us sprinted back to the window from which we entered and got back onto the roof. Adrenaline was pumping pretty heavily, so all three of us just jumped off of the roof. Once we got back to the car, it would not start. The battery had died because my friend left the keys in the ignition. Luckily, someone came and helped us out despite the alarm ringing right next to us. We left and everything turned out fine, but we were all rattled a little bit. This mishap didn't deter me from further pursuing urban exploration, though.
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