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Hertz
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| | | | Re: What's the story behind your first location? < Reply # 61 on 6/16/2014 4:26 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | First site visited was actually under the guise of a Paranormal investigation. The location - known to a very very many - is probably the most famous in MD. Went with 2 other friends. To give a rough date when we visited... the theater was already dozed by the time we had our first visit. We definitely overpacked. Brought many EMF detectors, IF thermometers, cap flashlights, cameras, lots of water, change of clothes... did I mention we overpacked? A short visit wound up becoming a 6+ hour trip in the dead heat of August. Found next to nothing in the way of paranormal anything. (An EMF jumped a few times, but was determined it was when we got it too close to a cell phone.) We were entirely too amped when night fell, some regulars managed to be a floor above is in the main huge building and it scared us quite a bit. We ran out of there scared to death, kicking an unseen can outside and making as much noise as a blind newbie could make. A heck of a rush, but an absolute fail on our parts. (Over the years we would visit the place time and time again to see more of the roofing bricks kicked off.) We enjoyed visiting it again and taking more photos of the place, but I have to say I would use it as a cherry popping site, and nothing else now. Too much wrecked.
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| Light__
Location: Where ever I am is where I'm at. Gender: Male Total Likes: 65 likes
| | | | Re: What's the story behind your first location? < Reply # 65 on 7/3/2014 9:21 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | My first legit explore, and not using that in terms of legality, was an old saw mill. I was just driving around looking at places and wound up finding it by turning the wrong way down a road. I went back a second time, didn't really get up the courage to get anywhere near it because there were people EVERYWHERE, the first go-around. On this second journey though I went closer and got some good pictures. (#1) Taking a broader definition of urban exploration I couldn't really narrow my first time down to one specific instance. I've always had an interest in my surroundings, in particular buildings and other infrastructure. I’ve also liked to find out how things work, like elevators, dams, drain systems, things of that nature. Before I found out there was a technical term, urbex, I was working at an old Navy yard. There was an old water treatment facility on the property – the guts long since removed. One night while hanging out on the boat, bored out of my mind, I went for a walk and checked it out. Recently I took some pictures of that too. (#2) **Disclaimer - When shooting the water treatment plant I wasn't shooting in RAW... Since then that's all I'll shoot and I have become better at editing; or I think I have anyway*** 1. 2.
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| romainpp
Location: I'm in your area Total Likes: 318 likes
| | | Re: What's the story behind your first location? < Reply # 70 on 7/16/2014 1:12 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | My first exploration was the Paris catacombs. Before I was going to leave for San Francisco, I thought it would be a shame not to go down there at least once. It's a unique location, I was sure I couldn't find something similar in SF, and the fact that people have been visiting this massive underground network for centuries in the middle of Paris has fascinated me. So I started asking looking for ways to get in. Shouldn't be so hard for a centuries-old and 100 kilometers-long network described in several books, right? Not quite, because a large number of convenient and previously well-known entries have been closed. In fact, an entire public service team makes sure that people don't go there too often, of course you get (sometimes) fined if they catch you. I did manage however to find a way in by reading several stories online (journalists tell way more than they should) and reading through http://ckzone.org/, a french equivalent of uer.ca which has a specific section about the catacombs. I even found an entire map of the catacombs online! It was very accurate, zooming on rooms to visit and warning about some dangerous tunnels and floodings. I got down there for the first time two months ago with my cousin and two of his friends who took amazing pictures (see below). He already visited it once, but I did so many research and map study before that I basically guided the group the whole time, even if it was my first time exploring! We stayed down there for 9 hours. We met several other "cataphiles", all very friendly, some of them even brought sound systems and had parties in the large rooms. 1. 2. PS: If any of you goes to Paris and wants to go down there (I know you do!), I will be happy to help, send me a PM.
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| Bang
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| | | Re: What's the story behind your first location? < Reply # 72 on 8/12/2014 12:13 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | My first exploration has been a mall in the small city I live. The mall is abandoned, because of the economy crisis 2008. A friend told me that you could enter the building through a broken window. Me and my friends I was hanging around with all wanted to climb on the roof. I have been the only to be against climbing up there, because it was in the middle of the city and the tallest building around. Everybody could see us. My friends and me entered through the broken window our friend told us about. And inside there were big empty halls. Only some shopping carts that were kicked around and some empty fire extinguishers. We took the turned off escalators to the highest floor that has been available for customers when it was still open. Then we entered the "Personnel Only" Area and looked for roof access. Suddenly we found a room that had still furniture in it and looked like somebody would live in there. That's when we thought we should leave until the resident comes back. I still don't know who lived there. Maybe someone homeless. "We had come that far we should at least go on the roof," we thought. We found a ladder that led upstairs, but it didn't lead to the roof. We had to crawl through a ventilation shaft to finally access the roof. Unfortunately I only took pictures of the view from the rooftop. A few weeks later I met somebody on a Party who told me that also went up that roof and got caught by the police. He had to pay a fine for trespassing... We went really lucky. And that guy wasn't the only one who got "busted". Today all entrances are sealed with wooden boards. That's why I didn't enter again to take more pictures. Also this building is getting demolished by the end of the year to make place for a new mall. That's how my UrbEx story started...
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| Aran
Location: Kansas City Gender: Male Total Likes: 1848 likes
Huh. I guess covid made me a trendsetter.
| | | Re: What's the story behind your first location? < Reply # 73 on 9/9/2014 2:14 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | My first location was an abandoned riverside warehouse. I saw an article in the local paper detailing some proposals to renovate it, and decided to check it out. I scouted the area, and found a POE around back, as well as some gang-related graffiti. The POE was a gap in the fencing. The entire fence was a psychological barrier at best- tall and imposing chain link in the front, but go around back and the fence there is nothing but stakes and chicken wire- with a gap where it meets the building. From there, I just had to climb through a window on the first floor, right next to the cargo lift. I friend of mine came with me, and we had done some research beforehand- we had tennis shoes, thick clothes, gloves, hats, and cameras. We climbed through, and took a look around the first floor. I took some pictures of the cargo lift, boilers, boxes of chemicals, and so on. We also discovered that the front door was alarmed, though someone had cut the wires and the owners never fixed it. Now, we were nervous, and had a few reasons to be- while scouting, I encountered three gang members, one who flashed a knife at me when they saw me hanging around. Furthermore, the graffiti around town indicated a possible gang dispute. Also, there was human activity outside before we went in. When we reached the second floor, we decided that perhaps we had overstayed our welcome. The second floor showed signs of water damage, and every step we took caused the entire floor to creak. A barn owl took off suddenly, and scared us rather badly. The fact that I whipped around towards it with my fists up indicated what kind of mentality our nerves were putting us in. We went back to the POE, and attempted to climb out, only to encounter two middle school- aged kids- they were more scared of us then we were of them. They apparently thought we were gang members- (heavy clothes in summer, faces obscured, etc) and asked us if they could go inside. We told them we didn't own the place, and left. I soloed the place a week or so later, and now can walk around the building without a hint of nervousness. The second floor was sturdier than I though, and seems to be safe as long as you test your steps. I've been back 2 times since then, and took a lot of pictures. An article ran in the paper detailing a plan to turn the warehouse into low-cost apartments, and the area is well known and graffitied, but it was a pretty cool place to start, even if it won't be up for much longer.
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| Piecat
Location: Milwaukee, Wisconsin Gender: Male Total Likes: 97 likes
| | | Re: What's the story behind your first location? < Reply # 74 on 9/25/2014 4:24 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | My first real location: the radar building and barracks of an abandoned NIKE missile installation, formerly protecting the Milwaukee area industry from the Soviets. For those of you who aren't familiar, "Project Nike was a U.S. Army project, proposed in May 1945 by Bell Laboratories, to develop a line-of-sight anti-aircraft missile system. The project delivered the United States' first operational anti-aircraft missile system" http://en.wikipedi.../wiki/Project_Nike So, I was introduced to Project NIKE in my HS freshman American History class. We were doing research about various cold war topics, and mine was project NIKE. Now, at the time I was already interested in cold war era military/industry, as well as abandoned buildings. I was doing my research, when I stumbled upon a Wikipedia page with a list of each NIKE installation, along with location, condition, and ownership. As it turned out, there was a former base right by my house, at a local park that I had been to hundreds of times. So, one day after school, me and a friend trekked through the park forest and found where the buildings were according to Google Maps. In the middle of a bunch of trees was a paved area surrounding three buildings. The whole place was half surrounded by rusted chain link and razor wire. No one was around, and save for one building, the place looked like it hadn't been touched in ages. Here's what the place looked like: (Sorry for the poor picture angles, I wasn't very good at photography at the time). It was peculiar, because all of the contents of the buildings were outside, including some army cots, some old power supplies, and some boxes full of children's toys This was my first successful Urbex mission, and by far my favorite one. The thrill of finding a piece of history combined with the adrenaline and feeling of success is unmatched by any other location I have found. Here is the full album of pictures I took: http://imgur.com/a/RdjuV#0 (Sorry for the picture quality, I wasn't great at photography at the time). There is, of course, a sad ending to the story. As I'm sure you might have seen from the album, there were signs for asbestos removal in one of the buildings, and all of the other buildings were being emptied. Me and my friend came back the following spring to an empty field of dirt and grass seed- they had been demolished.
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| Salty Trees
Location: Utah Gender: Male Total Likes: 26 likes
| | | Re: What's the story behind your first location? < Reply # 78 on 10/14/2014 4:48 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | 1. As they say "pics or it didn't happen" 2. Looking into the cellar I live in Salt Lake City and as many of you probably know, Ted Bundy used to live here back in the 70s. He had a house up Emigration Canyon and up until some years ago his house was just left standing up there. It has since been torn down and the only thing remaining is the cellar. I wish I could say that I had gone to the house while it was still standing, but that's not quite the case. My two buddies and I were staying the night at the Grand American Hotel and just messing around and it came to be about midnight and we decided we wanted to go explore some old creepy stuff. The first place we decided that would be creepy enough was the old Salt Lake City Cemetery. We parked near the east side of the cemetery and went through the gate and explored. It was pretty creepy, lots of old graves dating back to the 1800s, full moon, cold air, all the stuff that's in a cliche creepy movie. That wasn't enough though. We decided then to go Ted Bundy's cellar since it was close and a place that belonged to one of the most notorious serial killers ever. By the time we finally found the place it was about 2a in the morning. I forgot to mention this, but this all happened in January so there was a good amount of snow in the ground and it was really cold. We went around the green gate that says "no trespassing" and onward to the cellar. We found it with the large hole busted through the plywood that had been put up to keep out young hoodlums.We kept hearing an owl up in a tree right next to cellar. After a minute or two of acting like a bunch of little girls, we decided who would go inside first. We all filed inside one by one. It's a pretty small cellar, not much to explore, but it was covered in graffiti with beer bottles and cans tossed around the floor. There was an old boiler/water heater in the bottom left corner of the cellar and a hole through the right wall that went to who knows where. After a couple of minutes of looking around and speculating on what happened down here, we bounced. Looking back on the night, there was nothing really to be freaked out about. But the vibes we got from that place were just really bad and evil. I've heard stories of Satanists sacrificing dogs down there and all other types of crazy stuff. I heard this story of this guy who went there and when he shined his flashlight down the stairs of the cellar he heard the most terrifying voice yell up to him "GET THE F*** OUT OF HERE!" and he just booked it out of there. I don't blame him either. This was all a long time ago, but it was the first time I ever remember going onto private property to explore a place that had been abandoned. I had never even heard of this website back then (even up to a week or two ago) but since I went to Ted Bundy's cellar I've been hooked on exploring old forgotten places and can't wait to keep finding more.
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