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UER Forum > Archived US: Mid-Atlantic > looking for nc spots (Viewed 1484 times)
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looking for nc spots
< on 1/16/2009 9:07 PM >
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Anyone know of any spots in the Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill area? I've lived in the area for a few years but haven't had the chance to scope out any place. Just met a friend who's an urbexer as well so we're trying to get out there and find some places.

Any help would be appreciated.

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Re: looking for nc spots
<Reply # 1 on 1/16/2009 10:07 PM >
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It's cold, but I know of some drains and a building or two in Raleigh. I've had to slack off in the face of schoolwork, unfortunately. I'm gonna be busy Saturday and Monday this weekend.

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Re: looking for nc spots
<Reply # 2 on 1/21/2009 6:01 PM >
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I know of a few easy, and a few more advanced locations in and around RTP. I've got your mint-condition abandoned farmhouse, Your boarded up brick school,
your half-scrapped brick factory (that MADE bricks, not made OF bricks), and your gutted government research facility. Let me know and I'll send you some maps.


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Re: looking for nc spots
<Reply # 3 on 1/25/2009 8:12 AM >
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Gutted government research facility... if this is where I'm thinking its not the most fun place to visit, I'vE had a gun Pulled on me At this place.

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Re: looking for nc spots
<Reply # 4 on 1/25/2009 5:41 PM >
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Yeah, nix the research facility. I had just scoped it out when I wrote that post, and I just explored it yesterday. Boooooring. They've stripped it down to bare concrete floors and cinder block walls- it's totally empty. So unless you like empty gray rooms, don't bother.

I didn't see any guns, though. That sounds exciting, which this place was not.

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Re: looking for nc spots
<Reply # 5 on 3/4/2009 11:06 PM >
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me again...sorry i would love any help with maps etc. although i would love to drive around all day, hubby wont...lol


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Re: looking for nc spots
<Reply # 6 on 3/4/2009 11:38 PM >
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You do better than a lot of people, you've been to just about the schools I know of in this state.

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Re: looking for nc spots
<Reply # 7 on 3/5/2009 12:27 AM >
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yeah i know, im just ready for something new and having no luck, guess i'll have to drive further. i really wanna go to davis hospital.

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Re: looking for nc spots
<Reply # 8 on 3/5/2009 3:57 AM >
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Its not worth it.

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Re: looking for nc spots
<Reply # 9 on 3/5/2009 5:56 AM >
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Hey guys..... I was really big into exploring back in high school but like you were all mentioning above, school has taken over. I am a film student in the Greensboro area and would like to know if I could also receive a map of abandoned locations. I am in a production class and I am planning to film a horror short and would like some nice exterior shots of something abandoned.

I appreciate the time.

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Re: looking for nc spots
<Reply # 10 on 3/5/2009 5:58 AM >
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my email is [email protected]

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Re: looking for nc spots
<Reply # 11 on 4/30/2009 12:17 AM >
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I live in Wilmington NC and don't know of much, I checked out an old microwave tower so far, that's about it. anyone around here?

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Re: looking for nc spots
<Reply # 12 on 4/30/2009 12:46 AM >
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mmccann2 and Staples,
Most people who find cool things did so by searching or researching. We covered the countryside on foot or car or bus, taking hours and days we could have spent doing something else. Or by checking maps, current and historical and topographical, and referencing old property records and news clippings and other sources. Quite a lot of us spend many risky hours staking out active sites, finding entrances and exits, learning guard locations and camera-viewed areas, checking doors and windows and basement vents and trapdoors and access panels.

An economist would think of it as 'earning' the right to get there. Putting in the time to find a way in and out pretty much gives you an inarguable "right" to keep that information or share it as you please. It represents hours of work, for which some of us could be paid enough money to -buy- the places we explore (especially long-time explorers!). I personally will take any willing person who I meet to some places, and after I trust them I'll reveal anything I have - and other explorers seem to work in a similar way.

I don't like marking my locations on a map. That makes it too easy for the wrong people to get in. People who are unwilling to put in the time to get there aren't the right ones to go - If you're unable to put in the time to find locations, then find people and they'll take you with them if you convince them you're the right person. So, use that User Search and the regional forum to meet people, go to meetups when you can, and have fun.

Drains aren't hard to find, and google will reveal a few sites - which may or may not still be present! At my own college, there are 'explorable' things all over, from drains to utility rooms to steam tunnels. Have fun, I guess that's why we're here.

mmccann2, hit me up on Snail mail: [email protected] I might could walk you through some ways to find spots in Greensboro so that you know how to search.

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Re: looking for nc spots
<Reply # 13 on 5/1/2009 6:57 PM >
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That was very well put, AppleSnail. I think many folk on these boards are not quite so diplomatic towards people asking such questions.

Echoing AppleSnail, the cool things often take a lot of research and a long time to gain access to. Places like missile silos or abandoned hospitals and factories are often either hidden, locked up, watched, guarded or otherwise not easily accessible. Then again, sometimes you can just walk right in.

My point, is that you can have a lot of fun UEing smaller stuff, too, and lots of it is probably right around the corner from you. When you drive places (work, store, etc), intentionally take different routes than those you normally do. I've definitely been surprised to find a derelict factory on a street one block over from the street I took to work everyday. Another resource for learning how to find places is the book "Access All Areas" by Ninjalicious (RIP). It shows up in the "Of Interest" box on the left side of this site a lot, but you can find it on Amazon just as easily. It's a pretty detailed primer on most all things UE, and it's well-written to boot. It could probably give you a lot of ideas on how to branch out and find the interesting stuff in your area. Now that the author is deceased, I don't know who gets the royalties from his book, but I can't plug it enough...

Exploring entails a lot of searching and research, but a lot of times that can be half the fun.

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Re: looking for nc spots
<Reply # 14 on 5/3/2009 3:14 AM >
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Posted by Staples
I live in Wilmington NC and don't know of much, I checked out an old microwave tower so far, that's about it. anyone around here?


I'm in Wilmington. Hit me up sometime if you want.

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Re: looking for nc spots
<Reply # 15 on 6/14/2009 9:33 PM >
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Figured I would bump up an old thread instead of wasting more space creating a new one, My name is Travis and I am from Fayettenam(Fayetteville) NC and some friends and I are self proclaimed ghost hunters. We have been to several abandoned schools(one of which we can not find any info on, we have searched for over a month online and our local library only to find out who owned it and that they wouldnt tell us anything), several abandoned graveyards, and a few abandoned houses. I am new to UE and only a few months into ghost hunting but I would love to go on some "expeditions" or get some good references on where my friends and I could go, we arent really interested in drains, mostly just abandoned buildings.

I leave you with this chilling picture, unfortunately I dont have the high rez copy that is on a friend's computer, this was taken the first night we went out ghost hunting. We were in an old abandoned confederate graveyard.

I was standing with my back to a bushrow that was about 10 feet high and 30 feet across, I was maybe two foot ahead of it and as you see there is an apperition behind me to my right(left in the pic) that is wearing confederate clothing, holding a musket, has a gunpowder sack on his hip, and has blonde hair. None of the 4 people in our party had blonde hair or was wearing brown... or had a musket.

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Re: looking for nc spots
<Reply # 16 on 6/15/2009 3:29 PM >
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I can't speak for everyone, but I don't really believe that urban exploration and "Ghost Hunting" should be grouped together. If anything, UEing has convinced me to stop believing in Ghosts. I'm not saying that being a UER should make you stop believing, but it's certainly not the same hobby.

For example, graveyards have also mostly been taken out of the DB. Just because people aren't buried there anymore or the place isn't upkept doesn't make them "abandoned", as they certainly still serve their purpose of containing the dead.

I'm not going to criticize the authenticity of exploring an abandoned school, though.If you want to earn some trust around here, post the pictures from these locations, and tell us about these explorations. If you can't find info, don't give up. Your library won't have everything; you may have to visit the school board office or the city hall, but there are records of any public building, schools in particular.

If you're interested in "expeditions", then I have no doubt you'll find plenty of places to explore on here. Meet-ups in the mid-Atlantic aren't overly uncommon, with at least one coming up this summer. But do keep in mind that the average person on here isn't a ghost-hunter. You'll find photographers, genuine explorers, artists, architecture enthusiasts, and thrill-seekers. But you won't see too many paranormal investigators.

Try to branch out a bit. Try a drain, try infiltration, climb a crane, visit some rooftops, and give the hobby itself a shot, without the paranormal.

On a side note, that picture is horrendous. Many explorers you'll see on here could take a clear picture with a Holga if they had to. Learn to use a tripod and understand what your exposure settings do. I don't claim to be an expert, or even "good" for that matter, but do try to show some effort. You don't need a $938947297 SLR, but don't just accept anything as a decent picture.

A note to some of the previous posters in this thread, asking for a map: UER has a mapping feature that displays locations in your area; however, it's based on the database, and I (believe) requires a full membership to access. Even then, most people will slightly offset the exact locations in order to hide the information from people they don't feel comfortable sharing it with.
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Re: looking for nc spots
<Reply # 17 on 6/16/2009 1:52 PM >
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Posted by programmer437
I can't speak for everyone, but I don't really believe that urban exploration and "Ghost Hunting" should be grouped together. If anything, UEing has convinced me to stop believing in Ghosts. I'm not saying that being a UER should make you stop believing, but it's certainly not the same hobby.

Easy there buddy, I didnt say anything about them being one in the same. I simply mentioned what I was into that happen to lead me to this site.

Posted by programmer437I'm not going to criticize the authenticity of exploring an abandoned school, though.If you want to earn some trust around here, post the pictures from these locations, and tell us about these explorations. If you can't find info, don't give up. Your library won't have everything; you may have to visit the school board office or the city hall, but there are records of any public building, schools in particular.

We originally explored both schools for hauntings but came to the conclusion that both were not haunted, Unfortunately my Kodak 740Z fried a few weeks previously on a Confederate Graveyard trip so I have no pics of either school, there is a pic of Linden HighSchool on Wikipedia(if anyone is in the area and would like to know how to get in without breaking anything LMK, just make sure you go with a facemask and gloves because there are a lot of pigons in there), but there is no information at all on the Elementary in Grays Creek(went to the library, city hall, and the owners... who wouldnt tell us anything about it), we couldnt even get an address. Judging by the architecture(and proof by the Linden school) they were both built in the 1920's and both had the same light fixtures which were from the 50's. Linden school had power and still had a $1million insurance policy, we found that out while exploring.

Posted by programmer437If you're interested in "expeditions", then I have no doubt you'll find plenty of places to explore on here. Meet-ups in the mid-Atlantic aren't overly uncommon, with at least one coming up this summer. But do keep in mind that the average person on here isn't a ghost-hunter. You'll find photographers, genuine explorers, artists, architecture enthusiasts, and thrill-seekers. But you won't see too many paranormal investigators.

Try to branch out a bit. Try a drain, try infiltration, climb a crane, visit some rooftops, and give the hobby itself a shot, without the paranormal.

Once again, I am not here for paranormal activity, I am here for the "Sport" of UE. I admit to being a noob since I havent really done it for the sake of exploring since highschool.

Posted by programmer437On a side note, that picture is horrendous. Many explorers you'll see on here could take a clear picture with a Holga if they had to. Learn to use a tripod and understand what your exposure settings do. I don't claim to be an expert, or even "good" for that matter, but do try to show some effort. You don't need a $938947297 SLR, but don't just accept anything as a decent picture.

Yeah, as mentioned previously, my camera is out of commission until I get a new one which wont be anytime soon but that picture was taken with a cell phone. My camera fried earlier that night when we were taking EVP's, I removed the batteries and memory card and the memory card was so hot it slightly melted where the metal is on the part that fits in the camera, the batteries were so hot one exploded when I dropped it(I dropped it because it was burning me, didnt think dropping it on dirt would hurt it... I was wrong), and the screen was so hot the LCD melted against the viewing area in a dark greenish black blur. Oh and it was mounted on a tripod and I had some very good night shots, I dont claim to be a photographer but I do know a bit about photography. I normally only take photos of cars and buildings since that is my passion and I do know bout exposure times, manually focusing, ect.

A NC "Ghost" Hunter.
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Re: looking for nc spots
<Reply # 18 on 6/16/2009 8:38 PM >
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Wow someone has a few axe's to grind. Hey if ghost hunting is your thing I know of some real creepy possibly haunted places to check out. Best place to find some spirits is graveyards and old building if you ask me.

Well...... crap........
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Re: looking for nc spots
<Reply # 19 on 6/16/2009 9:20 PM >
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Posted by Robby
Wow someone has a few axe's to grind. Hey if ghost hunting is your thing I know of some real creepy possibly haunted places to check out. Best place to find some spirits is graveyards and old building if you ask me.


I'm gonna meet some ghost hunters nearby for ghost hunting, but I'm not sure yet how I'll explain my lack of gizmos.

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