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 Garutachi
    
Location: MA
Gender: Female
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<Reply # 20 on 1/23/2011 3:26 PM >
|  | | | I wish I could go alone. I love my friends but for photography purposes it would be much easier and more enjoyable to go at my own pace and take my time. I find that when exploring with non-photographers, they'll get bored and impatient with me pretty quickly and I always feel rushed. I think my fiance' would probably kill me if I ever tried it alone though. I'm not afraid of the dark but I am afraid of getting injured and not being found in time. That would suck.
"The Earth is not my home, I'm just passing by." -Tom Waits |
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splumer
Location: Cleveland, Ohio
Gender: Male
| | Re: Has anyone explored an abandonment alone at night?
<Reply # 21 on 1/24/2011 1:00 PM >
| | | | About 22 years ago I made a return trip to the Cleveland subway tunnels, which offered an entry to what was then an abandoned apartment building by myself. I was armed with nothing but a cheapo 2 D-cell flashlight and a couple of road flares.
I don't think I could ever sleep in a location, though. I think I would be too tense to fall asleep, plus I'd be afraid of waking up to rats eating my face.
“We are not going to have the kind of cooperation we need if everyone insists on their own narrow version of reality. … the great divide in the world today … is between people who have the courage to listen and those who are convinced that they already know it all.”
-Madeline Albright |
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Buffalonian
  
Location: Buffalo, NY
| | Re: Has anyone explored an abandonment alone at night?
<Reply # 22 on 1/24/2011 3:21 PM >
| | | | ... sorry I only listen to Goth music and weep in the basement of abandonments.
I cream, you cream, we all cream for .. white spooge. |
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cr400
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Gender: Male
| | Re: Has anyone explored an abandonment alone at night?
<Reply # 23 on 1/24/2011 6:57 PM >
| | | | Not so much at night, but it was dark. I spend a lot of time in steam/communications tunnels, we're instructed to always carry a flashlight with us in case of emergencies.
I always have my UER keychain LED with me, sooooo, one time as I'm inspecting this 2.5 mile section of steam tunnel alone, I thought I'll just go this particular 250' section with only my UER LED light.
The tunnel is lit in 250' sections, we have to shut off the lights as we leave each section, and flip them on as you enter a new section.
As I'm walking along with my little light, thinkin' of the latest vampire movie I just watched, I suddenly hear what sounds like a large truck driving over those large metal street plates, the construction type. It's a long way off, but it's coming my way fast........I'm about to shit, piss, vomit.....I'm actually starting to run from this thing......No exit for 1000' or so, who am I foolin'.
This godawfull noise gets loud as hell, passes me and continues on its way.
An air bubble in a steam or chilled water pipe, thats all the plant technician said, happens now and then. In ten years I never heard anything like it. And haven't heard it since.....
This is with the lights on.
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You can see a million miles tonite, but you can't get very far.
Honorary member of UER lifetime acheivement award winning, 2Xplorations and Guide Services, Texas. |
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DJ Craig
   
Moderator
Location: Johnson City, TN
Gender: Male
Break the Silence
| |  |  | Re: Has anyone explored an abandonment alone at night?
<Reply # 24 on 1/25/2011 9:43 PM >
| | | | I spent a whole night alone in an abandoned hotel in Dayton. This hotel is in incredibly good condition. In the hotel rooms the beds were made and everything was intact and clean. But there was a huge thunderstorm that night with a lot of thunder and lightning. And the whole hotel was full of skylights. It was so recently abandoned that the clocks behind the front desk were still ticking.
I am not superstitious at all and not very easily scared exploring, but that was a very eerie experience and I didn't sleep very well that night. But I DID make it through the night there and it beat sleeping in the back of my car.
"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go..." -Dr. Suess |
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cr400
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Gender: Male
| | Re: Has anyone explored an abandonment alone at night?
<Reply # 25 on 1/26/2011 3:34 AM >
| | | | Late at night up in the mountains many years ago. The wife and I had been traveling most of the day, 4 Wheelin' on some old logging trails.
We happened along a boy scout camp, and stopped to take a look at it. A couple came out of the office, and we started talking, saying we were looking for a place to camp for the night. The couple said we could rent one of the boyscout cabins for $20.00 for the night...
We paid, played some pool in the rec room, shared our beer with the couple. We finally got to our cabin about 2am, and found that the door would not lock. Since it was the cleanest cabin, the couple loaned us their dog to watch over us for the night, cause there were bears in the area. I had a shotgun and 357 with me, but all that would do is piss a bear off.
We woke up in the morning to find that the couple was gone, the place was totally looted, ransacked. They left the dog, probably not even theirs. We fed him and took off. To this day I'm not sure if I could find that camp, it's been over 20 years.......
But I can't believe I paid scrappers to sleep in an abandoned boy scout camp!!!!!!!
You can see a million miles tonite, but you can't get very far.
Honorary member of UER lifetime acheivement award winning, 2Xplorations and Guide Services, Texas. |
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Rinzler
Location: New Jersey
Nomad
| | | Re: Has anyone explored an abandonment alone at night?
<Reply # 26 on 1/26/2011 5:30 AM >
| | | | Ive been alone at Skillman aka NPDC twice. First time i got separated from my group and was alone for about an hour/hour and a half while i waited for them to catch up. 2nd time my friend was dropping me off so we could safely park the car in this *secret* spot and security had seen him pulling in and made him leave (i was already out of the car) and he had to leave me on the grounds for about 2 hours while i made my way across the campus to the main road so he could pick me up. All i had was a pocket knife and a little flash light but i managed.
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Rinzler
Location: New Jersey
Nomad
| | | Re: Has anyone explored an abandonment alone at night?
<Reply # 27 on 1/26/2011 5:34 AM >
| | | | Posted by RenegadeOfFunk
One of my first times I ever went exploring was at Huber Coal Breaker at night, by myself, with my cell phone. I went back the next day with a few of my friends and I have no idea how I didn't fall and die.
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Youre fucking insane for going there at night. Ive been to the Hagerstown one at night a few times. I atleast had a flash light to help my odds of not dying by like 2%. You my friend are lucky at that place.
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hatsumi
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<Reply # 28 on 1/26/2011 7:23 AM >
| | | | yes and without a torch, sufficient streetlight gave me opportunity. it was a morgue from ww2 but was no longer used as such, had been converted into a large laundry facility for a hospital. thence walked across the way and explored an old abandoned medical students housing.
funnily enough the medical students housing was more creepy to explore than the old morgue.
i was aware that squatters, or more likely, meth addicts ( rehab was next door ) could be lurking inside, and that alone it would be highly unlikely anyone would find me for some time should anything go south.
but it was partly why i did it, empty old buildings can be boring enough, i wanted to add some flavor to the whole thing, and it was worth it.... loved the adrenaline of creeping around alone in the dark.
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splumer
Location: Cleveland, Ohio
Gender: Male
| | Re: Has anyone explored an abandonment alone at night?
<Reply # 29 on 1/26/2011 1:16 PM >
| | | | Posted by cr400
But I can't believe I paid scrappers to sleep in an abandoned boy scout camp!!!!!!!
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That's hilarious, but when they agreed to share beer, I would have been suspicious. Plus, if they were campmasters, they should have been in uniform. But only a scout person would have known that.
Still a great story.
“We are not going to have the kind of cooperation we need if everyone insists on their own narrow version of reality. … the great divide in the world today … is between people who have the courage to listen and those who are convinced that they already know it all.”
-Madeline Albright |
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TheWolfman269
Location: Nashville, Tennessee
Gender: Male
If it looks like a wolf, acts like a wolf, and howls like a wolf, it's probably an asshole.
| | | Re: Has anyone explored an abandonment alone at night?
<Reply # 30 on 1/26/2011 6:49 PM >
| | | | Posted by DJ Craig
I spent a whole night alone in an abandoned hotel in Dayton. This hotel is in incredibly good condition. In the hotel rooms the beds were made and everything was intact and clean. But there was a huge thunderstorm that night with a lot of thunder and lightning. And the whole hotel was full of skylights. It was so recently abandoned that the clocks behind the front desk were still ticking.
I am not superstitious at all and not very easily scared exploring, but that was a very eerie experience and I didn't sleep very well that night. But I DID make it through the night there and it beat sleeping in the back of my car.
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That is awesome. I would have loved to do this. I wouldn't have gotten any sleep either though but mostly for the reason of I would have felt compelled to check out every room and find the master suites and such so I could sleep there.
"I've got military training, a giant crowbar, and I've already been shot. What can really stop me?" - Myself |
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TheWolfman269
Location: Nashville, Tennessee
Gender: Male
If it looks like a wolf, acts like a wolf, and howls like a wolf, it's probably an asshole.
| | | Re: Has anyone explored an abandonment alone at night?
<Reply # 31 on 1/26/2011 6:50 PM >
| | | | Posted by cr400
Late at night up in the mountains many years ago. The wife and I had been traveling most of the day, 4 Wheelin' on some old logging trails.
We happened along a boy scout camp, and stopped to take a look at it. A couple came out of the office, and we started talking, saying we were looking for a place to camp for the night. The couple said we could rent one of the boyscout cabins for $20.00 for the night...
We paid, played some pool in the rec room, shared our beer with the couple. We finally got to our cabin about 2am, and found that the door would not lock. Since it was the cleanest cabin, the couple loaned us their dog to watch over us for the night, cause there were bears in the area. I had a shotgun and 357 with me, but all that would do is piss a bear off.
We woke up in the morning to find that the couple was gone, the place was totally looted, ransacked. They left the dog, probably not even theirs. We fed him and took off. To this day I'm not sure if I could find that camp, it's been over 20 years.......
But I can't believe I paid scrappers to sleep in an abandoned boy scout camp!!!!!!!
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This story is also awesome. lol. This is totally something I would have done too. Cept I wouldn't have left you my dog.
"I've got military training, a giant crowbar, and I've already been shot. What can really stop me?" - Myself |
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AnAppleSnail
Location: Charlotte, NC
Gender: Male
ALL the flashlights!
| | | | Re: Has anyone explored an abandonment alone at night?
<Reply # 32 on 1/26/2011 7:43 PM >
| | | | I like abandonments at night, things are quiet and pure. It's just you and the darkness and whoever else is in there. The sounds and atmosphere are different, and everything is slower and closer, while everything outside reaches in through the windows to tell you what's happening.
I'm gonna plug the Flashlights, Torches, and Portable Lighting board from the User Board list. For you people who find yourselves in places with no light at all, get a keychain light. Neither UER keychain light is bad (I prefer white over red for seeing with), and it'd be a damn shame to break an ankle because you didn't want to blow $3 to $5 on a last-ditch light. Lasts longer than a phone. No light is stealthy, though.
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\/adder
Location: DunkarooLand
Gender: Male
I'm the worst of the best but I'm in this race.
| | | Re: Has anyone explored an abandonment alone at night?
<Reply # 33 on 1/26/2011 10:32 PM >
| | | | Posted by Played
You're fucking insane for going there at night. Ive been to the Hagerstown one at night a few times. I at least had a flash light to help my odds of not dying by like 2%. You my friend are lucky at that place.
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We tried to use as minimal as possible light there. At night really you can't see how how up you are when climbing the stairs inside it so here's a downward shot from the top of the stacks.
(I still didn't know about using a camera then.)
Also fun times: walking down the catwalk along the coal chute, not watching where I was walking, and then feeling nothing but air below me ... My hands clenched the rails and I looked down and realized there wasn't anything but air below me is how I discovered the first missing grate or three.
Exploring at night is way more dangerous fun.  Everyone should do it.
"No risk, no reward, no fun."
"Go all the way or walk away"
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cr400
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Gender: Male
| | Re: Has anyone explored an abandonment alone at night?
<Reply # 34 on 1/27/2011 3:02 PM >
| | | | Posted by splumer
That's hilarious, but when they agreed to share beer, I would have been suspicious. Plus, if they were campmasters, they should have been in uniform. But only a scout person would have known that.
Still a great story.
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Well to be honest, as we were playing pool, they were packing up canned food from the kitchen area. They said the place was closing up for the winter. The place was in pretty poor shape, it wasn't till daylight that we saw it was totally ransacked.
As for that dog? Not sure it was even theirs? Maybe they came back for him? Or he might have belonged to one of the nearby cabins/homes within that little valley. He was a great big lumbering tank of a dog, and a good guard for the night, I hope he lived a long and happy life.......
You can see a million miles tonite, but you can't get very far.
Honorary member of UER lifetime acheivement award winning, 2Xplorations and Guide Services, Texas. |
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-insertnamehere-
Location: CO
Gender: Male
"...We're taking photos" ... "PHOTAHOES?!?!?! ?!"
| | Re: Has anyone explored an abandonment alone at night?
<Reply # 35 on 2/2/2011 7:09 AM >
| | | | The only thing I won't do alone is Drains. Everything else is more fun with others, but If I can't find someone I trust to go with, I go alone.
The scariest thing that has happened to me thus far was listening to a baby rabbit die directly outside the abandoned train I was inside.
...Or setting of the alarm in an active stadium during a blizzard. When you're in the middle of the field and all the field lights turn on to the tune of a massive Klaxon alarm, you know you're truly alive.
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splumer
Location: Cleveland, Ohio
Gender: Male
| | Re: Has anyone explored an abandonment alone at night?
<Reply # 37 on 2/2/2011 1:33 PM >
| | | | Posted by shotgun mario
Once locked away safely inside a dreamland of decay, I always sleep like a baby--
so long as it's not too cold out. ;)
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And as long as RATS AREN'T EATING YOUR FACE!!!
“We are not going to have the kind of cooperation we need if everyone insists on their own narrow version of reality. … the great divide in the world today … is between people who have the courage to listen and those who are convinced that they already know it all.”
-Madeline Albright |
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Decayed_Beauty
Location: Western NY
| | | Re: Has anyone explored an abandonment alone at night?
<Reply # 38 on 2/2/2011 10:30 PM >
| | | | Been to numerous locations at night alone, to sleep and just to explore or catch a good view and have never had any bad encounters.
Be prepared and aware and you should be fine. Know what kind of neighborhood you are in as well. I have found spots that are obvious shooting galleries for druggies and was lucky enough that somebody was not there.
No War But the Primal War! |
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Cullivan
Location: Southern NY
Gender: Male
| | Re: Has anyone explored an abandonment alone at night?
<Reply # 39 on 4/14/2011 2:08 AM >
| | | | Taken at an industrial abandonment near NYC
There's nothing covering those windows, it actually was that dark outside.
In some ways it was less creepy than being there during the day- I wasn't afraid of seeing anything in the darkness or turning a corner and finding something scary. In fact, I felt like -I- was the scariest thing in the building. If anything was going to scare someone, it would be me freaking out someone else. All I had to do to be completely invisible was turn off my flashlight.
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