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Clever Girl
Location: Circle of Least Confusion
RPS is inside all of us
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<Reply # 21 on 9/30/2007 4:31 PM >
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Turrel
Location: Pawtucket, RI
Gender: Male
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<Reply # 22 on 10/1/2007 12:59 AM >
| | | | Got started in California just last year, actually... the hook didn't set in entirely until I was looking at pictures of abandoned morgues and such one day, and then read all of the infiltration website.
The hook dug itself very deep, indeed. Still haven't been able to see a hospital or asylum yet, but one of these days...
[last edit 10/1/2007 1:00 AM by Turrel - edited 1 times]
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OHHELLOKERRY
Location: Long Island/buffalo, New York
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<Reply # 23 on 10/28/2007 5:40 AM >
| | | | i was seventeen & i loved it.
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90rock
Location: Calgary
Gender: Male
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<Reply # 24 on 10/28/2007 4:26 PM >
| | | | 15 at a drain a block from my house.
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Steed
  
Location: Edmonton/Seoul
Gender: Male
Your Friendly Neighbourhood Race Traitor
| | | Re: The First time
<Reply # 25 on 10/29/2007 12:24 PM >
| | | | How long after your first times did you all actually know the name "urban exploration?"
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90rock
Location: Calgary
Gender: Male
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<Reply # 26 on 10/30/2007 4:52 PM >
| | | | a month
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Aye.Eye
Location: Wonderful Land of Oz
Gender: Male
| | | Re: The First time
<Reply # 27 on 10/31/2007 5:57 AM >
| | | | I was about 14, I found an abandoned saw mill in the bush behind my house. I still remember the day it got burned down by kids that were younger than me... 
Now I've got that feeling once again, I can't explain, You would not understand, This is not how I am... I have become, Comfortably Numb... |
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kelsey
Location: Budapest, Hungary
Gender: Male
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<Reply # 28 on 10/31/2007 10:32 PM >
| | | | 13 or 14, and a building of uncertain purpose, half built and let to decompose, just around the corner. it was great... 
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//Bryant
Location: Connecticut
Gender: Male
"Deep into the darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing." -EA Poe
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<Reply # 29 on 11/21/2007 8:08 PM >
| | | | I was about eight, and it was a drain that ran under my grade school playground. There was a large water run-off/half assed pond in a wooded area right behind the swings. I climbed over the chain-link fence and found a drain. I crawled in (NO WAY I would still fit!) and went as far as I could. At the mouth it was probably about 25-30 inches in diameter, so I was on my hands and knees the whole way. As I got further in, the pipe got narrower and narrower. It was about 250 feet long, and I was never able to get to the end because of how small the pipe got. Looking back, it was surprisingly dry and clean.
The first time I heard the term "Urban Exploration" after my brief draining: about 11 years.
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Trying my hand at UE photography...: http://Bryant-Photography.imagekind.com/ |
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gr8fzy1
Location: Waterbury, CT
Gender: Male
Fewer and Fewer...
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<Reply # 30 on 11/23/2007 6:16 PM >
| | | | Posted by racetraitor
How long after your first times did you all actually know the name "urban exploration?"
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About 22 years 7 months...
Softly creeping through
Empty hallways decades old,
glimpsing history. |
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volodia
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<Reply # 31 on 11/26/2007 12:18 AM >
| | | | At my first home, there was an old abandoned castle across the way. I remember ever since I was old enough to have any memories at all, always going into that castle and rooting around. I suppose that's about as good as it got in that town. 'Twas in the middle of nowhere.
When I was 17 I started serious trips, the first of which was an Old Asylum about 40 minutes from my home.
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Soldat
Location: Philadelphia, PA
Gender: Male
The Mayor of Noobtown
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<Reply # 32 on 11/26/2007 4:09 AM >
| | | | When I was 7 I visited my aunt who lived in a house that used to belong to the caretaker of an old pumping station. My parents took me around the huge ruins of the two old buildings while we were there. I'd say that would be my first time.
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hush
Location: London, Ontari-ari-ario
Gender: Male
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<Reply # 33 on 11/26/2007 5:47 PM >
| | | | I was either eleven or twelve and it would have been the then-active Brickworks or a decrepit pioneer homestead near Haliburton (circa mid-1800's and one floor of weather blackened, moldy, rotten slanted goodness ... which sadly collapsed about 20 year ago). I loved that house even though it scared the crap out of me.
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Watcher
Location: Louisiana
Gender: Male
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<Reply # 34 on 11/28/2007 12:31 PM >
| | | | I was 11 or 12, I think. Explored some abandoned house on a neighbor's property out in the Ozarks. Was not that great.
"Well, let me just jump into my time machine, go back to the Twelfth Century and ask the vampires to postpone their ancient prophecy for a few days while you take in dinner and a show." |
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Krescentia
Location: Oklahoma
Gender: Female
[Zerstörer der Herzen]
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<Reply # 35 on 11/28/2007 3:57 PM >
| | | | My father used to take me and any other willing sibling to visit abandoned locations.. though back then I was too young to know anything about it other than climbing the ruble was fun. The first I remember was a castle like building, don't remember where it was, I was about 4 or 5 years old. I got strongly into "UE" around 9 or 10, then continued to explore alot until about 15, then when my father became really sick I had nearly completely stopped exploring until about a year or so ago.
Es kommt wie es kommt. |
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Atomsk813
Location: Portland, OR
Gender: Male
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<Reply # 36 on 11/28/2007 8:21 PM >
| | | | i ws like 12 or 13, me and my 2 best friends checked out this abandoned house on the side of the 2nd most busy street in burien lol. turns out it wasn't a house but either a bar for pedos or a daycare. there waqs this bar like thing and the walls were painted with rainbows and kids like in a daycare.
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Deliberate Ambiguity
Location: MD - DC
Reality is what you can get away with.
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<Reply # 37 on 12/4/2007 4:30 AM >
| | | | I guess my first urban exploration-type experience was when I was about 11. A friend I’d made in a small town in Illinois took me and one of her friends into a large wooded area behind a school. We were on bicycles, but eventually ended up chaining them to a tree so we could climb a very steep incline. The destination was some disused elevated railway track that spanned over a creek. We ended up climbing onto the girders under the track to enjoy the view of the water from above.
I didn’t know about urban exploration (as a description of that kind of activity) until less than a year ago. I became fascinated with it when a friend told me about checking out Haverford State. Sadly, I didn't get to see the place before it was demolished.
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joeyofnepal
Location: Memphis
Gender: Male
| | | | Re: The First time
<Reply # 38 on 12/13/2007 1:22 AM >
| | | | My first time would've been when I was six or seven, going through my late great grandmother's house which my grandparents just left to rot. It just amazed me that people would leave condiments in the fridge, and it's what got me so interested in the fact that houses basically die when people aren't occupying them. It was also an added bonus that my grandparents let me keep whatever I could carry out, which included letters my great uncle wrote to my great grandma during WWII.
I didn't know what Exploration was until the beginning of this year.
There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum. -Arthur C. Clarke |
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Veruth
Location: Missouri
Gender: Male
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<Reply # 39 on 12/14/2007 3:34 PM >
| | | | I'm not quite sure when the first time was, I've always been wandering around in abandoned places. One of the earliest ones I remember was an old trailer in a eucalyptus grove near my house. It was weird, whoever had lived there didn't take anything with them when they left. There was still food rotting on the tables and fridge, clothes on the floor and in the closets, a kama sutra book in the bedroom, huge pile of hypodermic needles in the front yard, etc. It was a weird experience. There was also a big hole in front of it where something underground had collapsed, I still regret not checking that out. The whole area burned down recently so I don't think I'll ever have the chance to go back there for another visit, which sucks since I would have loved to have gone back there to reminisce and take a few pictures.
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