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Infiltration Forums > Rookie Forum > When did you start UE?(Viewed 6455 times)
ryan5685 location:
Cincinnati, OH
 
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Re: When did you start UE?
<Reply # 20 on 11/14/2017 9:49 PM >
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And I did end up taking her to that building!


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Re: When did you start UE?
<Reply # 21 on 11/15/2017 1:29 PM >
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Been interested for A long time, first explore was a abandoned trailer a month ago. Didn’t go in but got some pics (which I posted, they’re junk though). 14. Sophomore in HS oddly enough.



odiedog1 location:
Oregon
 
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How did you originally get into UE?
<Reply # 22 on 11/26/2017 10:06 PM >
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Hello everyone! I am a photographer looking to get into UE, but my city demolishes pretty much every abandoned building before I can even get a chance to explore. This has led me to an interest in rooftopping, but none of the local rooftoppers even want to talk to me because I dont have any experience. I guess you could say im just having a hard time getting into the scene, so, how did you get your start?



Im new to the scene, please don't be too harsh on me!
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Mission Control
 
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Re: How did you originally get into UE?
<Reply # 23 on 11/26/2017 10:19 PM >
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By doing it.
Decades ago there was no such thing as UE.
No internet.
Just curiosity and the urge to explore.
No 'need' to show anything to anyone except yourself and maybe a friend.




Just when I thought I was out... they pulled me back in.
jonrev location:
Lake Wazzapamani
 
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Re: How did you originally get into UE?
<Reply # 24 on 11/27/2017 2:47 AM >
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The cult of Dixie Square Mall.



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Soof location:
MA
 
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Re: How did you originally get into UE?
<Reply # 25 on 11/27/2017 3:29 AM >
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There's a large abandoned site near my town, so a lot of kids my age had already gone there, some of whom were my friends. I heard it talked about a lot, and drove by it a ton. So eventually, once I got a camera, I finally had a substantial reason to go there. Little did I know that I'd enjoy exploring places such as that one just as much, if not more, than merely taking satisfying photos there.



Steed location:
Edmonton/Seoul
 
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Re: How did you originally get into UE?
<Reply # 26 on 11/27/2017 5:49 AM >
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My story is pretty bizarre. After moving to Korea, I spent a lot of time talking to people in my hometown over MSN. One guy back there was getting into urban exploration. Then one day some random stranger added him on MSN, claiming they'd met the other night. My friend said he didn't remember meeting anyone, and the guy said "Well you seemed pretty drunk" which wasn't true. This guy was pumping him for the names of other urban explorers and wanted to be put in contact with anyone else.

So we decided I could talk competently about it, and had absolutely zero fear of consequences as I had a pretty solid alibi for about anything they could throw at me. My friend thought he was a cop and I figured he was a journalist looking for a scoop on this subversive group. I was going to feed him all sorts of fake stories about unbelieveable sites, with plans to reveal to him my most secretive find: a dead body in a tunnel under a government building, and see what he did with that.

Before I had the chance to go that far, his MSN screenname was changed to "THIS ACCOUNT IS NOW HACKED." Other urban explorers apparently got to him in real life, and found out he was a private detective working for a property owner who wanted to gather as many names as possible of people who would have trespassed on his property for prosecution. It seemed pretty bizarre to me anyone would go to such lengths, but here we were.

A few months after that, it was revealed to me that Korea had more abandonments than just about anywhere in the world and nobody was exploring them, so I started out here.



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Re: How did you originally get into UE?
<Reply # 27 on 11/27/2017 12:36 PM >
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Most stories of how people got into it aren't all that interesting or exciting.

Neither is mine



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TheYuman location:
Kennesaw GA
 
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Re: How did you originally get into UE?
<Reply # 28 on 11/27/2017 1:46 PM >
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I didn't really know how extensive UE was, but my roommates and I always drive past this recently abandoned school on the way to college, and one night we decided it would be cool to snoop around. We ended up going there and busting down a plywood barrier off of a window (something which we no longer do), and got inside. Once inside we ended up setting off the motion detector(s) without us knowing. We had just hopped back outside when the cop rolled around, so we all took off running in different directions and ended up meeting back at the car eventually.
The adrenaline rush was crazy so I started to do some reddit research on more places to go (hoping not to get the cops involved again). Now I'm here.



mookster location:
Oxford, UK
 
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Re: How did you originally get into UE?
<Reply # 29 on 11/27/2017 4:51 PM >
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England has an abundance of ruins and ruined castles, and I was always fascinated by them as a kid growing up. Actually for as long as I can remember I had always loved abandoned things, rusty things, stuff people didn't care for. There was a pair of houses in the next street over from mine that were derelict and overgrown for years, and in a nearby village me and my parents used to walk our dog to there was a beautiful abandoned thatched cottage that I always used to look through the windows of.

A few years later in my early teens I was browsing the net and stumbled across the Derelict London website and found the photos of Cane Hill Asylum and from then on I was properly hooked, just as a forum browser and 'armchair explorer'. Until one day one of my friends who I got to know through my other main interest revealed to me that he'd been doing it for years, had explored Cane Hill and many other things starting way back in the late 1990s, and he took me on my first proper trip and the rest, as they say, is history.


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Wheedle location:
Northwest Georgia, USA
 
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Re: How did you originally get into UE?
<Reply # 30 on 11/27/2017 6:10 PM >
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My dad drove a truck, hauled natural gas all over the Southeast. I spent a lot of time in the truck with him from the time I could consistently not crap my pants until I was a teen. He liked old barns and farmhouses, and taking the back way. A few of the industrial places we went to had old unused sections that we would explore for a bit after unloading. I guess I got my wanderlust, my love of hole-in-the-wall diners and bbq shacks, and my love of old abandoned places from him.



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Fleeting location:
Toronto
 
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Re: How did you originally get into UE?
<Reply # 31 on 11/27/2017 10:39 PM >
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Toronto has incredibly high building turnover as well. While you may not find things left behind or anything in pristine condition, buildings on the chopping block are much easier to get into. (You can't seal every hole in a building that's being crushed, can you?)

Whenever I'm in a car or on the bus, I always look around to see if I can find condemned houses, buildings, or anything out of the ordinary. Good luck!



One day I got a good camera.
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Paronix location:
Toronto
 
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Re: How did you originally get into UE?
<Reply # 32 on 11/28/2017 3:35 PM >
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I realize I'm new here but that might be a good thing as my "getting into urban exploration story" is pretty fresh.

In 2005 I spent my entire Christmas break reading through the old Infiltration website. After nights of adrenaline at the prospects of doing this myself, I never looked into it again.

When I started dating my girlfriend she told me about the one time she'd done it with a group of her friends. They'd explored an abandoned old folks home (now demolished) in the suburb of Oakville, Ontario. That story alone gave me such an adrenaline rush that I started researching different places in the GTA that were prime for exploring.

Posted by Fleeting
Toronto has incredibly high building turnover as well.

This became the biggest problem. Shit does not sit for long in the GTA. Especially with rezoning of old warehouses etc into residential areas. (I used to do all the marketing and proposals for large condo builders, redevelopment is hotter than it's ever been.)I want to go to more abandoned places, they just seem so few and far in between. Any locals interested in a tag along?

Anyway, because of this my interests turned back to the classic Infiltration scenarios. Places I'm not supposed to be. I've done a few of those now and finding yourself the bowels of some ancient buildings, especially when you're "not supposed to be there" has me hooked.


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Duemus location:
Newark, Delaware
 
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Re: How did you originally get into UE?
<Reply # 33 on 11/29/2017 1:09 AM >
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I’ve always had an interest in exploring but before I had a car I would explore local places that were in walking distance ( just like any kid would) then about 3 years ago I had found that my mom worked in a state hospital years ago in the 80’s that has closed down in 2004 and was abandoned. That was the first place I went to and ever since then I haven’t stopped. This is my absolute favorite thing to do in the world.



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bmull463 location:
Pennsylvania
 
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Re: When did you start UE?
<Reply # 34 on 11/30/2017 12:14 AM >
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I think I was about 10 when I started and have done it since. Recently it has become a big hobby of mine and to start photographing the places I go, I'm now 22.



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Re: How did you originally get into UE?
<Reply # 35 on 11/30/2017 12:44 AM >
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In 2007 I rode the bus to highschool and every day it would drive past an abandoned red house. It was the only one I'd ever seen before and I would look at it for the five seconds it was visible every time and wonder.

One day I finally rode my bike over and after a few passes due to avoid cars, ducked into the driveway. The way into the house was scary to me at the time so I didn't get in there, but the barn was wide open and I poked around inside that for a little bit.

This is the first urbex-related photograph I ever shot, in 2007 on an elderly flip phone and upscaled from its native resolution of 640x480:



I went home later and after some googling, found abandoned-places.com. Since then I only explored when I happened to notice a site (which was almost never due to my area), until May 2015 when I found someone else who liked exploring and we began actively hunting for locations. And thus here I am.



ryan5685 location:
Cincinnati, OH
 
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Re: When did you start UE?
<Reply # 36 on 12/2/2017 4:29 PM >
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I think I've told this story on here on here before, but my first interest with UE was when I was in third grade. There was an abandoned steam power plant for heating the buildings in my town, and I wanted to go in there so badly. I was with another kid in second grade and he was too scared to go inside and there was no way I was going inside alone.

I left that town soon after and returned my sophomore year of high school. I finally had the courage to go inside and once I did, UE became so much more interesting to me. I had always loved exploring but once I had a taste of abandoned buildings I could never stop.



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