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Mysterious/Urban Legend Urex Locations?
< on 11/6/2014 4:06 PM >
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You guys personally explore or here about locations that are absolutely mysterious (in their purpose) or are urban legends, places that sound too amazing to be real but could be? Underground bunkers, secret caves, etc. Sorry if this is a topic already I didn't see one.




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When I started doing some research about locations in SF, I kept hearing about the mysterious tunnels under San Francisco that can lead you to any place under the city... Oh wait it actually exists, it's called the sewers system!

In Paris, it's mostly about the catacombs. They are of course well-known and very real*, but some old tunnel networks are still subject to rumors among the explorer community. In particular, a lot of gypsum quarries existed near Montmartre and the Père Lachaise cemetery, even appearing on official maps, but they have been officially entirely blown up a long time ago.

I guess most big cities have variations of this "mysterious tunnels" myth.

* Although some Parisians still believe they are crowded with satanists, criminals and neo-nazis, a friend of mine had trouble explaining his parents that it's not true, but that's good because it keeps most people away from exploring and ruining it.



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This forgotten tunnel of the Essex Mountain Sanatorium was a local urban legend for me.

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http://tfpec.blogs...-mountain.html?m=1



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This forgotten tunnel of the Essex Mountain Sanatorium was a local urban legend for me.

https://m.flickr.c...72157647934174858/

http://tfpec.blogs...-mountain.html?m=1


I wish i had known about this place earlier. By the time i found out about it, it was mostly all gone. If i was a few years older i could have seen pretty much most of it.




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UVB-76 in Russia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UVB-76


This is probably one of my all-time favorite mysteries. I'm sure there's a reasonable explanation, but it's just so fucking creepy. I watched a video a while ago of some people who managed to explore the old, original building it broadcast from. Whoever was in there before wiped the place clean.




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I wish i had known about this place earlier. By the time i found out about it, it was mostly all gone. If i was a few years older i could have seen pretty much most of it.


Yeah, I only got to see the Female Employee Building once, when I was way too young to be exploring. My father pointed it out to me when we were riding bikes up there ages ago. Such a shame.




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Yeah, I only got to see the Female Employee Building once, when I was way too young to be exploring. My father pointed it out to me when we were riding bikes up there ages ago. Such a shame.


I got my license the last year the place was standing so I think only like 3 buildings were still standing at that time.




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UVB-76 in Russia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UVB-76



I've had an interest in this for quite some time now. It really is strange. I know there are other stations like ito ut there too, just a matter of figuring out where I suppose.

There is a website that broadcasts the station 24/7 and I haven't looked into it the last year or so to see if anything new has come through on it.




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This is probably one of my all-time favorite mysteries. I'm sure there's a reasonable explanation, but it's just so fucking creepy. I watched a video a while ago of some people who managed to explore the old, original building it broadcast from. Whoever was in there before wiped the place clean.


Do you still have a link to that video?




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A couple spring to mind, one I actually managed to explore and one I missed out on by a good seven years but when attempting to dig up info on the first stumbled across by accident.

The one I missed was a very mysterious, quiet place simply called 'MOD Aquila' - as the name suggests, a Ministry of Defence site, specifically a secret research and development complex. There is almost zero information about what the purpose of the complex was, and at the time no photos at all. The well known explorer Simon Cornwell managed to get inside (whether it was permission or not I don't know) shortly before the buildings were demolished in 2004, and these are the only photos around of the site available to view...mysterious indeed.

http://www.simonco.../e020304/index.htm

The mysterious location I actually managed to explore was another military site which also had almost no readily available information about it's purpose on the net, most of what I know about the site I gleaned from bits and pieces seen in various buildings, and from paperwork rescued whilst the buildings were pretty much being demolished around us at a later date. It was located about two miles from one of the UK's best-known locations, the National Gas Turbine Establishment (or Pyestock as it was better known), closed at the same time as it in or around 2000 but laid undiscovered until a decade later when bits of it were starting to be demolished. It was called the Centre for Human Sciences and was an amalgamation of various military and medical organisations run under the Defence Evaluation and Research Agency banner. In the huge facility they tested and developed equipment for use by military personnel engaged in combat situations at home and abroad - some of the facilities included a pair of enormous climatic cold chambers and matching hot chambers to test extremes of temperature on equipment and the people using the equipment, as well as hypobaric chambers, anechoic chambers, fighter plane cockpit testing rigs as well as the UK's only fully operational human centrifuge which was the only active building left on site.

I explored the site 5 times between the end of 2010 and beginning of 2011, the site is totally demolished now apart from the operational Centrifuge. In my eyes it goes down as one of the most overlooked locations ever to pop onto the scene given it's proximity to perhaps the most famous urbex site in the UK

Here are some sets from my times there...

https://www.flickr...72157625458879205/

https://www.flickr...72157625722221323/

https://www.flickr...72157625848372338/




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Here's the site that streams it I believe. I can't get it to play at the moment however.

http://uvb-76.net/




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When it comes to most places I go people always think there is some crazy story associated with it. Often times there's not, but sometimes there is some truth to it. For instance a mansion was rumored to have owned slaves that escaped and killed their owners. Trust is, they did own salves, and they did escape, but they didn't kill the slave owners.

Recently I came across a possible flooded nuclear shelter.. Haven't made the trip to confirm..

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A couple spring to mind, one I actually managed to explore and one I missed out on by a good seven years but when attempting to dig up info on the first stumbled across by accident.

The one I missed was a very mysterious, quiet place simply called 'MOD Aquila' - as the name suggests, a Ministry of Defence site, specifically a secret research and development complex. There is almost zero information about what the purpose of the complex was, and at the time no photos at all. The well known explorer Simon Cornwell managed to get inside (whether it was permission or not I don't know) shortly before the buildings were demolished in 2004, and these are the only photos around of the site available to view...mysterious indeed.

http://www.simonco.../e020304/index.htm



This is a fascinating read! Thanks for sharing the link, as well as your photos from the other one.




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