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 DevilC
   
Location: Washington, District of Corruption
Gender: Male
I serve as a blank screen on which people of vastly different political stripes project their views.
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<Reply # 20 on 8/1/2013 3:02 PM >
|  | | | So I am not the only one ...
Posted by fiftyone_eggs
At first, I was just looking for places to stash my dead prostitutes.
That's how my passion for exploring was born!
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Science flies you to the Moon. Religion flies you into tall buildings. |
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fiftyone_eggs
 
Location: jerzey
Gender: Male
| | | Re: What's your story?
<Reply # 21 on 8/1/2013 3:15 PM >
| | | | Posted by DevilC
So I am not the only one ...
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So that was you piling up bodies in my spot!
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GLP.
Location: Minneapolis, MN
Gender: Male
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<Reply # 22 on 8/7/2013 6:54 PM >
| | | | Pretty common story I started back when i was like 13-14 going into creepy farm houses and such and always working my way up to better locations and instead of growing out of it my interest just kept growing and now im older with more means to get my self into trouble ;)
We are professionals pretending to be amateurs. |
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Ansion
Location: BC, Canada
Gender: Male
The same, except different.
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<Reply # 24 on 8/7/2013 9:17 PM >
| | | | Been exploring ever since I was old enough to walk to the end of my street. Very small town. There was a huge old abandoned winery at the end, and I used to explore it all the time, along with some other neighbourhood kids. There were even tunnels* that joined up with other old buildings in the town. In a shack out back, totally overgrown in vines, was an old army half-track, along with crates of ammo & even grenades! This was in the 70s.
I guess I was born an explorer, haha. I never carried a camera until very recently, and had no idea it was a "thing" until I stumbled upon this site.
* all but 1 were blocked off; I learned about the connectivity years later in a newspaper piece, when the tunnels were "discovered" while putting in new water mains
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"Explore thyself." ~ Henry David Thoreau
"...and abandoned stuff & things that look neat." ~ Ansion |
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Dayman
  
Location: Oxford, Ohio/Middletown, Ohio
Gender: Male
"Too Much, Too Soon...You're way out of tune"
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<Reply # 25 on 8/7/2013 10:11 PM >
| | | | Well, for me I've liked old and abandoned buildings since I was really young. I remember my mom had a couple of PBS VHS tapes about the history of Western PA, and one in particular was called "Things that aren't there anymore." I watched the shit out of that when I was little.
Back when when I was 14 for whatever reason I had been watching Youtube videos of people going through abandoned buildings, and that started to spark my interest along with this abandoned building I had been by several times that fascinated me. Well, I decided to try to do some research on that building through google and I clicked on a link which took me it's entry in the UE DB. I ended up exploring the site and found another building not far from my where I live, which resulted in me joining UER.
I did end up exploring the original building I liked, it was the most amateur 'splore ever though but, it got me hooked anyway. I haven't been able to do much with the fact I don't live close to any abandonments and I just now going to be getting my license in a few weeks. I have tailed off over the past year or so but I've really gotten interested again in the past few weeks after realising how its been since I've been on here or exploring. So hopefully once I get my license, I can actually do some legit exploring.
The Artisan Pizza Blood Line
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baglock1
Location: Colorado Springs, CO
Gender: Male
| | Re: What's your story?
<Reply # 26 on 8/7/2013 11:19 PM >
| | | | I saw Goonies when it came out and have been looking for access to One Eyed Willy's cave in old buildings ever since.
That's actually somewhat true. I had an active imagination as a kid.
Dan |
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unlighted-zero
Location: Hamilton, ON
Gender: Male
havin a time
| | Re: What's your story?
<Reply # 27 on 8/8/2013 1:37 AM >
| | | | I didn't really have any sort of "one day I woke up and registered on UER" moment. I just became interested in the old, decrepit buildings in downtown Hamilton when I moved here about 15 years ago. With that interest came a huge curiosity over what was in them. Didn't take long for me to satisfy that curiosity. As time went on, I found out there is a hobby devoted to what I was doing and like most people I found infiltration, bought a crap load of zines, found UER, registered, etc.
In recent years my intensity for the hobby has kind of waned, I'm more of an armchair explorer/heritage buff now, especially considering the fact that most of the amazing abandoned buildings that were in Hamilton are long gone, sealed up or re-purposed now but open doors and black signs with yellow text still light up my eyes in the same way.
/flail it til ya nail it |
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xRedx
Location: MSP
Gender: Female
| | Re: What's your story?
<Reply # 28 on 8/8/2013 3:59 PM >
| | | | I don't have the typical story. My best friend has been exploring for years, and I'd lived vicariously through his photos but never joined him because of intense claustrophobia. At the same time I was having these crazy panic attacks for no reason and was in therapy trying with little success to get them under control. One day a couple of years ago, my friend used a new painting by a graffiti artist that I really liked ( TCB ) to lure me into a drain. I was freaking out for the entire time, but I pushed through it. For the next week I didn't have a single panic attack. My therapist told me to keep doing it, so I did. Over the course of a summer I realized I really loved it, and my anxiety and claustrophobia became mild background noise. Exploring has been a life changer for me.
I'm not your mom, but I probably could be. |
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GLP.
Location: Minneapolis, MN
Gender: Male
| | Re: What's your story?
<Reply # 29 on 8/8/2013 6:14 PM >
| | | | Posted by xRedx
I don't have the typical story. My best friend has been exploring for years, and I'd lived vicariously through his photos but never joined him because of intense claustrophobia. At the same time I was having these crazy panic attacks for no reason and was in therapy trying with little success to get them under control. One day a couple of years ago, my friend used a new painting by a graffiti artist that I really liked ( TCB ) to lure me into a drain. I was freaking out for the entire time, but I pushed through it. For the next week I didn't have a single panic attack. My therapist told me to keep doing it, so I did. Over the course of a summer I realized I really loved it, and my anxiety and claustrophobia became mild background noise. Exploring has been a life changer for me.
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Wow that isnt ordinary im happy you were able to work through it all and thats awesome your therapist told you to continue doing it
We are professionals pretending to be amateurs. |
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Abby Normal
Location: Las Vegas
Gender: Female
| | | Re: What's your story?
<Reply # 30 on 8/8/2013 7:35 PM >
| | | | Posted by xRedx
I don't have the typical story. My best friend has been exploring for years, and I'd lived vicariously through his photos but never joined him because of intense claustrophobia. At the same time I was having these crazy panic attacks for no reason and was in therapy trying with little success to get them under control. One day a couple of years ago, my friend used a new painting by a graffiti artist that I really liked ( TCB ) to lure me into a drain. I was freaking out for the entire time, but I pushed through it. For the next week I didn't have a single panic attack. My therapist told me to keep doing it, so I did. Over the course of a summer I realized I really loved it, and my anxiety and claustrophobia became mild background noise. Exploring has been a life changer for me.
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Congratulations on working through the issues! I have a fear of heights that sometimes gets in the way of my mine exploring. As I spend time in various vertical situations, my fear has diminished but not disappeared.
Abby Normal
"Government is not a solution to our problem, government is the problem." Ronald Reagan |
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Aurelius
Location: NEPA
Gender: Male
Who Dares Wins
| | Re: What's your story?
<Reply # 31 on 8/8/2013 11:49 PM >
| | | | Well I got into it a few years back because there's a small hotel that was abandoned in the late 80's literally two streets down from my house. The story goes that it was built with mob money but the local government found out and somehow put a stop to its construction when it was all but finished. The rumors among us kids those days were that the swimming pool was filled with blood, that there were massive steel doors inside chained shut, and that there were deep animal-like scratches on the walls and ceilings of some of the rooms. Also I vaguely remember something about a body being left to rot in a bathtub.
So naturally I went in. I found out, to my slight dismay, that the place wasn't some sort of mafia torture chamber. I also found out that it was actually really enjoyable to see how structures decay when left to rot by humanity. And I guess the rest is history.
I should head back to that hotel sometime to get some decent pictures. It never occurred to me to bring a camera there before but the place is pretty cool. There's an indoor pool half-filled with rusty water (aka blood) and the basement is set up in a really strange way. Not like it's far from me, after all.
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seltonejock
Location: Burwood, Melbourne
Gender: Male
| | Re: What's your story?
<Reply # 32 on 8/8/2013 11:54 PM >
| | | | I grew up in a small town that only had 1 abandoned building, an old meatworks that was left during the 70's.
When i was even 10 I'd wander about just fascinated by the stories I could think of by what was left behind.
And when I moved to Melbourne I realised that I had plenty more to explore and find it so much fun taking friends to new places that we can explore 
famous last words of a drainer: Finally! A cool breeze! |
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skibbitybeebop
Location: Northeast
Gender: Female
| |  | Re: What's your story?
<Reply # 33 on 8/10/2013 2:26 AM >
| | | | I grew up in walking distance to an old power station and when I was about 12 a group of us kids from the neighborhood found our way in. Needless to say, it was fascinating and terrifying at the same time! Thinking back, it was a horrible place for kids my age to go! Once I got a little older and started driving, I started to make up fake maps that took me miles into upstate New York: Drive 2.5 hours, make the first right, drive 15 minutes and make second right, get to a light and flip a coin and so on. We got totally lost but found some cool sites that I would probably never remember how to return to. It took us past abandoned farmhouses and stables where we would pull over and quietly check things out. Creepy little old cemeteries, burnt up barns and sheds. Nothing big. It was a good way to kill gas and learn your way around, that's for sure. It sort of satisfied my need for adventure.
I never really pursued it as much until about a year ago when I was looking at videos of people light painting. One of the locations they were filming at is fairly close by and I was really intrigued by the property. I had to see it. Needless to say, I took the hour and a half drive up to visit the hospital. Upon learning of it's twisted history, it led me to other locations that had closed around the same time and before I knew it I had a bucket list of places in the area! UER kept coming up in searches and there seemed to be a cool bunch here..so...I signed up.
Want something you've never had? Do something you've never done. |
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CooperArt
Location: Lansing
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<Reply # 34 on 8/10/2013 2:17 PM >
| | | | I grew up Rural Mi. There are tons and tons of abandoned farm-houses here.
While doing Big Brothers Big Sisters at my old school, we were told we couldn't go in our usual room, so we went to the old cafeteria I had used when I was there. It turns out, the old cafeteria had been unofficially--as had that entire side of the building--roped off due to asbestos, lead-paint, mold, and constant flooding. (The other part of the building was much newer, and that's where all the classes got moved to.)
I had no idea... and it was the girl's suggestion. >_<
Well, I had my starter camera on me. (It was a film camera primarily, but I quickly realized I preferred taking photos on it.)
She wanted to see what was under the stairs, in the complete darkness, so I took a picture with flash. STill couldn't see with my eyes, but the camera showed a bike had been left there--for no clear reason.
Climbing up the stairs, we found chairs and tables stacked on each-other, and on the window over-seeing the playground: (in white finger paint) ABCDE
After that, I found the biggest farm-house complex that was visible from my usual route to school, and explored it. I got quite the rush from it. I was cemented as an explorer when I was caught taking pictures of one farm-house closer to the school... and subsequently told it was cool, so long as I sent them a copy of the pictures. (I got super-lucky there.)
So then I started doing other explorations, officially declaring myself an explorer after the 3 story house I explored.
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NotBatman
 
Location: MSP
Gender: Male
Secret Cult Member
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<Reply # 35 on 8/10/2013 11:36 PM >
| | | | It was the late 1970's and I was six or seven years old and we lived in New York. (I only know that my sister hadn't been born yet - the rest is guesswork.) My first rooftop was a weird pyramid-like park building. Sketchy climb, great view. This led us to the roofs of several buildings closer to home. My first abandoned building was a weird warehouse across the street (part of it was active). I asked my father for a flashlight so I could explore it and he wasn't having it. I stole enough money to buy my own (shitty) light and had at it. My first drain was in the same park as the pyramid building. It didn't go far, but I had a bike and a flashlight so fuck you. There was a neat room back there that I would hang out in, sometimes.
It was the mid-1980's and I was about 12 (sixth grade) and we lived in MSP. We'd been playing the Ultima series of video games on my friend's Apple IIe and one day we noticed just how many outfalls along the river near home looked just like the entrances to the dungeons in the game. Drains, caves, bridges and anything semi-rural we could reach on our bikes were about all we did, that I can remember. With the arrogance of teenagers, we figured we'd seen everything there was to see underground in MSP. (HAH! Right?) Self-declared experts, we let a few classmates come with us, from time to time. Eventually we discovered girls. Some of them would come with, of course, but we were teenagers and there were better things to do...
It was the late 1990's and I was in my early 20's and I was home from college, restless and agitated. I tricked my friend back into draining, a little. He wouldn't push and I wasn't confident enough to go alone, yet. I started playing around in active buildings, instead. I found myself trying any strange door I passed by without even thinking about it, slipping inside and having a quick look around whenever one gave way. (While I've let other activities come and go (and come again!) I've never given up on trying doors and hatches and whatever.) I learned to pick locks during this time with the expectation that the locked doors might be even more interesting, but nothing came of it, at the time.
It was the mid-2000's and I was in my early 30's and my wife found Roller Derby as soon as she was able to leave the house after our son was born. Being home alone with The Boy ALL THE TIME led to a mental break and I declared "Adventure Tuesday!" as my escape. I tried a BUNCH of different things, but eventually I came back to exploring. I started exploring abandoned buildings and playing around in active ones. Eventually I found UER and realized that bringing a camera could be fun.
After that I started putting up a few flags online until I eventually made contact with the local community. They spelled out just how much I didn't know about the underground and it was on. I've made great friends, I've had epic adventures, I've had some pretty awful failures. Then I tricked my best friend (xRedx) into trying it out and we've been rolling together since.
I'm 40 years old and this has been the best time of my life.
I'm a "Leave only footprints, take only pornography" kind of guy, myself. |
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glossolalia
Location: New York City
Gender: Female
| | Re: What's your story?
<Reply # 36 on 8/11/2013 7:42 AM >
| | | | A friend of mine dragged me along exploring an abandoned school. The thrill of getting in after all of that preparation was incredible. Suddenly we had the whole place to explore. I felt like I needed to go back, to track down every single story the place held.
it's darker later than it was at first |
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Dayman
Location: Oxford, Ohio/Middletown, Ohio
Gender: Male
"Too Much, Too Soon...You're way out of tune"
| | Re: What's your story?
<Reply # 37 on 8/11/2013 2:59 PM >
| | | | Posted by glossolalia
A friend of mine dragged me along exploring an abandoned school. The thrill of getting in after all of that preparation was incredible. Suddenly we had the whole place to explore. I felt like I needed to go back, to track down every single story the place held.
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I've tried that with a few friends but they are always like, "We're gonna get murdered or something! I never want to do this with you again!"
...Lightweights
The Artisan Pizza Blood Line
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Psychocotton
Location: Knoxville Tn
Gender: Female
| | | Re: What's your story?
<Reply # 38 on 9/22/2013 7:59 PM >
| | | | I have always loved cemeteries...the older the stones the better. They relax and calm me and i love taking photos there as well. My love for the old stones got me looking into history and that brought me to exploration
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Oelky
Location: Atlanta- ITP
OTP sucks.
| | Re: What's your story?
<Reply # 39 on 9/23/2013 12:51 PM >
| | | | Stumbled upon postings and pictures online from time to time involving urbex. One day I got curious and stumbled upon UER which really helped motivate me to get out and actually explore. For me urbex was the perfect combination of adventure and photography.
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