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Location: Edmonton/Seoul Gender: Male Total Likes: 2674 likes
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| | | | Re: How did you originally get into UE? < Reply # 26 on 11/27/2017 5:49 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | My story is pretty bizarre. After moving to Korea, I spent a lot of time talking to people in my hometown over MSN. One guy back there was getting into urban exploration. Then one day some random stranger added him on MSN, claiming they'd met the other night. My friend said he didn't remember meeting anyone, and the guy said "Well you seemed pretty drunk" which wasn't true. This guy was pumping him for the names of other urban explorers and wanted to be put in contact with anyone else. So we decided I could talk competently about it, and had absolutely zero fear of consequences as I had a pretty solid alibi for about anything they could throw at me. My friend thought he was a cop and I figured he was a journalist looking for a scoop on this subversive group. I was going to feed him all sorts of fake stories about unbelieveable sites, with plans to reveal to him my most secretive find: a dead body in a tunnel under a government building, and see what he did with that. Before I had the chance to go that far, his MSN screenname was changed to "THIS ACCOUNT IS NOW HACKED." Other urban explorers apparently got to him in real life, and found out he was a private detective working for a property owner who wanted to gather as many names as possible of people who would have trespassed on his property for prosecution. It seemed pretty bizarre to me anyone would go to such lengths, but here we were. A few months after that, it was revealed to me that Korea had more abandonments than just about anywhere in the world and nobody was exploring them, so I started out here.
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| mookster
Location: Oxford, UK Gender: Male Total Likes: 2377 likes
| | | Re: How did you originally get into UE? < Reply # 29 on 11/27/2017 4:51 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | England has an abundance of ruins and ruined castles, and I was always fascinated by them as a kid growing up. Actually for as long as I can remember I had always loved abandoned things, rusty things, stuff people didn't care for. There was a pair of houses in the next street over from mine that were derelict and overgrown for years, and in a nearby village me and my parents used to walk our dog to there was a beautiful abandoned thatched cottage that I always used to look through the windows of. A few years later in my early teens I was browsing the net and stumbled across the Derelict London website and found the photos of Cane Hill Asylum and from then on I was properly hooked, just as a forum browser and 'armchair explorer'. Until one day one of my friends who I got to know through my other main interest revealed to me that he'd been doing it for years, had explored Cane Hill and many other things starting way back in the late 1990s, and he took me on my first proper trip and the rest, as they say, is history.
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| Paronix
Location: Toronto Gender: Male Total Likes: 7 likes
| | | Re: How did you originally get into UE? < Reply # 32 on 11/28/2017 3:35 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | I realize I'm new here but that might be a good thing as my "getting into urban exploration story" is pretty fresh. In 2005 I spent my entire Christmas break reading through the old Infiltration website. After nights of adrenaline at the prospects of doing this myself, I never looked into it again. When I started dating my girlfriend she told me about the one time she'd done it with a group of her friends. They'd explored an abandoned old folks home (now demolished) in the suburb of Oakville, Ontario. That story alone gave me such an adrenaline rush that I started researching different places in the GTA that were prime for exploring. Posted by Fleeting Toronto has incredibly high building turnover as well. |
This became the biggest problem. Shit does not sit for long in the GTA. Especially with rezoning of old warehouses etc into residential areas. ( I used to do all the marketing and proposals for large condo builders, redevelopment is hotter than it's ever been.)I want to go to more abandoned places, they just seem so few and far in between. Any locals interested in a tag along? Anyway, because of this my interests turned back to the classic Infiltration scenarios. Places I'm not supposed to be. I've done a few of those now and finding yourself the bowels of some ancient buildings, especially when you're "not supposed to be there" has me hooked.
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| SaladKing
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| | | Re: How did you originally get into UE? < Reply # 35 on 11/30/2017 12:44 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | In 2007 I rode the bus to highschool and every day it would drive past an abandoned red house. It was the only one I'd ever seen before and I would look at it for the five seconds it was visible every time and wonder. One day I finally rode my bike over and after a few passes due to avoid cars, ducked into the driveway. The way into the house was scary to me at the time so I didn't get in there, but the barn was wide open and I poked around inside that for a little bit. This is the first urbex-related photograph I ever shot, in 2007 on an elderly flip phone and upscaled from its native resolution of 640x480: I went home later and after some googling, found abandoned-places.com. Since then I only explored when I happened to notice a site (which was almost never due to my area), until May 2015 when I found someone else who liked exploring and we began actively hunting for locations. And thus here I am.
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