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 Shane
  
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Location: Bronx, NY
Gender: Male
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< on 9/13/2003 8:54 AM >
|  | | | We recently discovered a closed down hospital(pretty recently closed, within a couple of years) in a mostly industrial area. There is still power in the building, and some of the lights are on(mostly near stairwells, the center of the hospital seems totally turned off. There don't seem to be any signs of on-site security.
Here's a picture of the inside taken through a window:
http://upload.hyposomnia.com/corridor.jpg
Now our dilema has to do with the entrance. It is a glass door (cant really be seen from the street) that has been smashed with a fire extinguisher by someone else. Coming from inside the hospital is a constant high pitched beep, sounds like it might be some kind of alarm. Now, since we weren't sure if the door had been smashed that night and where the smashers were, we decided to leave and return the next day. We didn't want the cops to show up and end up having them blame us for smashing the door, or run into someone else who just smashed the door to get in. We figure that if we go back tommorow and the door is still open and the alarm is still going off, it should be ok to enter as the call won't be responded to.
Now the problem is, we don't know if there is any kind of active security system in the rest of the hospital. We did spot some video cameras in the hallway, but have no way of knowing if they are functional. Ideally we would have some kind of lookout stay outside and keep an eye on the place and radio us if anyone else shows up, but that is most likely not gonna happen. It would kinda suck to be that person and have to miss out on such a neat exploration, and stay alone for a while in a car or something. So any tips from someone who has had experience with semi-abandoned places? Most of the places we have done are either completely abandoned and forgotten or very much live and open. This place seems to be in-between, it's closed, but there may still be some kind of activity there. Any tips/info would be appreciated.
"Because there's no possibility of real disaster, real risk, we're left with no chance for real salvation. Real elation. Real excitement. Joy. Discovery. Invention. The laws that keep us safe, these same laws condemn us to boredom. Without access to true chaos, we'll never have true peace. Unless everything can get worse, it won't get any better." -Chuck Palahniuk |
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Avatar-X
     
Alpha Husky
Location: West Coast
Gender: Male
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| | | Re: Need advice on closed hospital.
<Reply # 1 on 9/13/2003 4:56 PM >
| | | | Well, if the alarm has already been tripped, you won't be able to trip it again...
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uem-Tux
Iron Wok Jan
Location: Montreal
Gender: Male
UE Geek
| | | | Re: Need advice on closed hospital.
<Reply # 2 on 9/13/2003 6:01 PM >
|  | | | A lookout sounds like something you shouldn't do without though. That someone in the car can see the building after the risk factor is determined. Better than getting busted.
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Caput_58
Location: Virginia, USA
Gender: Male
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<Reply # 3 on 9/13/2003 6:24 PM >
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In general though, very few hospital's are built with security systems, seeing as they are open 24hrs/day. And its not very likely that the hospital went out of business and then payed to put in a brand new security system to protect the empty building. But better safe than sorry I guess.
Caput_58
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Apostrophe
Gender: Male
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<Reply # 4 on 9/13/2003 8:42 PM >
| | | | The noise you hear is likely pest contol. Usually in commercial buildings they will use these devices.. Many are audilble.. If the cameras are active, they usually feed to a monitorng station in another state. Be careful. Go in and do not show your face to the camera. Then leave immediately. Stay in the area, if the system is actively monitored either police or unmarked security will pull up or do a slow driveby. Do not do this alone please. I am a electronic technician actively in the alarm, and cctv business. Good luck this looks like a once in a lifetime find. I look foward to hearing of your adventures, but please be safe.
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robdobi
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<Reply # 5 on 9/13/2003 10:24 PM >
| | | | i once scouted a building for just about ever and upon entering heard a very audible BEEP so i took off, and waited to see what would happen. after 20 minutes of nothing happening i headed back in only to notice every smoke detector in the building was beeping. jesus are those beeps loud.
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Shane
Moderator
Location: Bronx, NY
Gender: Male
| | | | | | Re: Need advice on closed hospital.
<Reply # 6 on 9/14/2003 10:59 AM >
| | | | Well, we went back tonight and had quite a successfull run. Check out pictures from it here:
http://www.uer.ca/forum_showthread.asp?fid=&threadid=2414&currpage=1&pp#post0
Now as far as the security situation goes, we found the source of that beep. It was actually some kind of alert for the oxygen delivery system in the ER, which was silenced with the press of a button on a panel.
To make sure there wasn't an active security system me and one of my fellow explorers entered the building while 3 other guys waited outside in a few diff spots with radios to keep an eye on the building.
We had to sneak through the parking lot of a still active office building which is fenced off to get into the hospital. A couple of minutes after we first entered the building, one of our guys on the outside told us he heard some kind of yelling from the building next to us, but he couldn't make it out. So we waited a few minutes and it stopped. After about 10 minutes, he said there was some more yelling, but that it seemed to be someone in the building yelling to someone else, who may have been down a hallway or something, it didn't seem to be related to us at all. So a little while after that, the rest of the guys made their way in and we explored.
One more thing on the security situation. On the lower level, there was one security camera pointing at a door and it was next to the "security tv room" from within which there was an on and off beeping noise going. We decided to leave after noticing that, but apparently that was not being monitored as we left and hung around across the street from the place at a gas station to see if anyone was going to respond to it. After an obscene amount of time, it was obvious nobody was going to show and we went home.
"Because there's no possibility of real disaster, real risk, we're left with no chance for real salvation. Real elation. Real excitement. Joy. Discovery. Invention. The laws that keep us safe, these same laws condemn us to boredom. Without access to true chaos, we'll never have true peace. Unless everything can get worse, it won't get any better." -Chuck Palahniuk |
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Mancubus
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<Reply # 7 on 9/14/2003 10:33 PM >
| | | | Take a laser pen and position it to shine into the lens of the camera, walk by with it still shined on the camera until you are out if it's field of view. That way you can waltz right past and it won't record you because the camera was blinded.
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Shane
Moderator
Location: Bronx, NY
Gender: Male
| | | | | | Re: Need advice on closed hospital.
<Reply # 8 on 9/14/2003 10:47 PM >
| | | | Posted by Mancubus
Take a laser pen and position it to shine into the lens of the camera, walk by with it still shined on the camera until you are out if it's field of view. That way you can waltz right past and it won't record you because the camera was blinded.
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That's not too much of an issue, we were all wearing half mask respirators in case of asbestos, so most of our faces were covered up.
"Because there's no possibility of real disaster, real risk, we're left with no chance for real salvation. Real elation. Real excitement. Joy. Discovery. Invention. The laws that keep us safe, these same laws condemn us to boredom. Without access to true chaos, we'll never have true peace. Unless everything can get worse, it won't get any better." -Chuck Palahniuk |
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Apostrophe
Gender: Male
| | Re: Need advice on closed hospital.
<Reply # 9 on 9/15/2003 12:35 AM >
|  | | | Glad to see it worked out for you and your team. We look forward to seeing more pictures from your expidition.
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j0lt
Location: Kobe, Japan
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Need advice on closed hospital.
<Reply # 10 on 9/16/2003 5:37 PM >
|  | | | Posted by Shane
Lower level hallway:
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This is one of the best pictures I've seen as far as giving off the creepy ambiance of a place.
j0lt: Larger than life and twice as ugly! |
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Valiant Dancer
Location: Villa Park, IL
Gender: Male
| | Re: Need advice on closed hospital.
<Reply # 11 on 9/16/2003 6:40 PM >
|  | | | Posted by Caput_58
In general though, very few hospital's are built with security systems, seeing as they are open 24hrs/day. And its not very likely that the hospital went out of business and then payed to put in a brand new security system to protect the empty building. But better safe than sorry I guess.
Caput_58
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Not true. I've worked at three hospitals. All of them had security systems. Since there are limited visiting hours and outpatient clinic hours, security is confined to these areas primarily. Usual off hour access by staff is through a locked door with fob or key access.
At the hospitals I worked in, break in detection, motion sensors, and cameras were in use. The high pitched squeal is the break in detection alarm or other alarm klaxon. It would be alerting a security station within the building. There is an off chance that it will still alert local authorities.
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Ninjalicious
Gone, but always with us
Location: Toronto
| | | Re: Need advice on closed hospital.
<Reply # 12 on 9/16/2003 9:23 PM >
| | | | Yeah, hospitals tend to have pretty decent security systems. They deal with a lot of drugs and desperate people.
Ninj
http://www.infiltration.org
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Mancubus
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<Reply # 13 on 9/17/2003 6:07 AM >
| | | | Heh, they probably do it to keep people like my avatar guy from breaking in with the weak hope to find leftover morphine or something. :-p
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Detroit
Moderator
Location: Ottawa /Gatineau /Montreal
Gender: Male
4-aminophenol and 2-5% potassium hydroxide
| |  | | Re: Need advice on closed hospital.
<Reply # 14 on 9/17/2003 8:13 PM >
| | | | Ack!!!... please delete that freakin avatar!!!
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Avatar-X
Alpha Husky
Location: West Coast
Gender: Male
yay!
| | | Re: Need advice on closed hospital.
<Reply # 15 on 9/17/2003 8:32 PM >
| | | | hahah that pic is from the Weezer music video "Buddy Holly"
huskies - such fluff. |
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j0lt
Location: Kobe, Japan
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Need advice on closed hospital.
<Reply # 16 on 9/18/2003 5:12 PM >
| | | | Posted by Avatar-X
hahah that pic is from the Weezer music video "Buddy Holly"
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Isn't it one of the clips they used from 'Happy Days'?
Fonz >_< Eyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!
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Mancubus
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<Reply # 17 on 9/18/2003 10:58 PM >
| | | | Probably. But I don't know why some crazy asian dude in a suit is in a 50's diner.
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j0lt
Location: Kobe, Japan
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Need advice on closed hospital.
<Reply # 18 on 9/19/2003 5:30 PM >
| | | | Posted by Mancubus
Probably. But I don't know why some crazy asian dude in a suit is in a 50's diner.
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*sarcasm*
Yeah, what the hell would an asian dude be wearing a suit for?
j0lt: Larger than life and twice as ugly! |
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Jester
Location: Vancouver,B.C. Canada
Gender: Male
Always just out of sight...
| | | Re: Need advice on closed hospital.
<Reply # 19 on 9/19/2003 5:32 PM >
| | | | He owned the place, he was normally in white kitchen outfits though...
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