We were at an abandoned housing complex at night and the light was on in one of the rooms so we just avoided that area and we went sneaking on the other side. As we were looking around we hear footsteps and see this guy walking towards us with a shotgun (idk if it was real or like a BB gun) we ran so fast and as I was climbing the wood fence the beam I stepped on broke and I fell back down... Scariest thing I've experienced

Finland really isn't that dangerous for urban explorers, as our gun and trespassing laws are completely different from USA, and even the police don't use force.

My top three of dangerous things:

3.
We had explored an abandoned hospital and were slowly walking down the main stairway. About midway we heard a scream and a group of people started running full speed. We then got an alarmed message from a friend outside telling us that a group of men dressed in vests of a criminal organization had just ran out carrying beer packs.

2.
I usually photograph buildings from ground floor to the top to see what's above me. Once, when visiting a building I had visited several times before, I just walked up to the top floor without thinking much. After all it was a brick building, so I assumed the floors would be made of concrete.

When I reached the second floor, I realized that the floors were of wood. A part of the floor had collapsed between the floor beams and the planks which formed the roof of the first floor. When I looked up, I realized that the planks forming the roof were completely rotten and the only thing I had been walking on were the rotten floor planks. The rotten points were in the same place on each floor so falling through one floor would mean falling directly to the basement.

I did explore the whole 1200 square meter building, but did mind my step after that.

1.
We found a luxurious old villa, the owner of which clearly didn't like urban explorers. The porches and staircases were filled with barbed wire, which was everywhere. It wasn't just on the ground, it was on the entire height of the space. A part of it had been torn away from the building, so it was in the grass and bushes too.

Well, I did crawl through it and photographed the building with just one cut - on my forehead. It could have been the eye, though.

look at my profile photo, ive found an assortment of stuff on my explores but finding a radioactive lab at the top of Historical hospital will always be my #1 find

I was SCUBA diving off the coast of Palomares, Spain once and found a big, metal cyclindrical shaped object sticking part-way out of the sand that had USAF B28FI Mod 2 Y1 stenciled on it. I beat it with my dive light a few times, but it didn't budge, so I couldn't take it as a trinket.




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P.S. I'm just kidding! Most dangerous thing I or any of us will likely ever come across while exploring is a startled adult male human - we're often violent & otherwise unpredictable.

One thing I don't fuck with is electrified subway tunnels. I missed out on two subway lines under construction this year, not getting down there until there were warning signs everywhere about electricity. When they reach that point, I give up.

A 1 lb bottle of dried picric acid crystals. Picric acid is an extremely sensitive shock sensitive high yield explosive used in both military grade explosives and occasionally in metallurgy.



I wrote a full writeup of the experience on the thread here.

Damn Aran! that's a little freaky. Good thing it never activated. For me, the most dangerous stuff I've found has been in drains. I've found a number of knives, while there is often silverware. My favorite drain find was some brass knuckles that were in great condition.

This wasn't necessarily immediately dangerous, but I went exploring in a cave about a month back. When I reached the end of the cave, there was signs of a satanic ritual being performed. Pentagrams painted all over the wall and the end room was covered in candles as if it was the only light used in the cave when they were there. Pretty spooky

This happened a month or so back and was 'kind of' exploring as the property was derelict and we were being paid to clear it out through work. The former occupant of the house used to work for, among other things, a railways maintenance company, and in one of the outbuildings I uncovered an alarmingly red plastic container with, among others, the word 'EXPLOSIVE' stamped on it in big letters. Inside the container was a stack of maybe ten discs with lead straps over the tops, and it turns out they were designed to be strapped to a railway line in thick fog or other abject conditions to warn drivers of an obstruction ahead - the pressure sensitive charge would detonate when the train wheels passed over the disc and alert the driver.

On their own they weren't too powerful, and were pretty stable, however if for some reason the entire container had decided to go up it would have been the equivalent of about a dozen large fireworks going off at once.

Needless to say I was on the phone to the relevant railways company and they dispatched a guy to come and collect them from the property!

Posted by mookster This happened a month or so back and was 'kind of' exploring as the property was derelict and we were being paid to clear it out through work. The former occupant of the house used to work for, among other things, a railways maintenance company, and in one of the outbuildings I uncovered an alarmingly red plastic container with, among others, the word 'EXPLOSIVE' stamped on it in big letters. Inside the container was a stack of maybe ten discs with lead straps over the tops, and it turns out they were designed to be strapped to a railway line in thick fog or other abject conditions to warn drivers of an obstruction ahead - the pressure sensitive charge would detonate when the train wheels passed over the disc and alert the driver. On their own they weren't too powerful, and were pretty stable, however if for some reason the entire container had decided to go up it would have been the equivalent of about a dozen large fireworks going off at once. Needless to say I was on the phone to the relevant railways company and they dispatched a guy to come and collect them from the property!

Glad they didn't get set off. What an odd way of communication though, isn't there are risk of damaging the engine? Or are they just not powerful enough?

Posted by Aran Glad they didn't get set off. What an odd way of communication though, isn't there are risk of damaging the engine? Or are they just not powerful enough?

On their own a single charge wouldn't do any damage to the loco or the track - it'd just make a loud bang to get the attention of the driver. It's a very oldschool method of signalling but is, surprisingly, still used today.

very large crates labeled "iran" in the back of a complex that was almost empty a month or two before. It could have been machinery, but what is made there? It fueled our curiosity for weeks and someone ewent back and the place was empty again. It was an odd location. We were trying to figure out a way to look inside (instead of leave lol) but someone else tripped an alarm and we had to go.

Posted by Aran A 1 lb bottle of dried picric acid crystals. Picric acid is an extremely sensitive shock sensitive high yield explosive used in both military grade explosives and occasionally in metallurgy. https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pw/AM-JKLWypLDKE2zX4dtpyJgehrcbl72CbDkd6-Xb6sEhZW2eQuVtzzHpCS90wpOR mLlWu9XmpleRkgEEQXVRyAV0QmN79q4SPpPHyq1IGPGf9gEsmc0R_MGt3NfTaSdwm-JoAQgU7WqsKqNUIe4FZiyx7P_T=w724-h90 3-no?authuser=1?.jpg I wrote a full writeup of the experience on the thread here.

Amazed something shock sensitive is stored in glass bottles!

Posted by mookster This happened a month or so back and was 'kind of' exploring as the property was derelict and we were being paid to clear it out through work. The former occupant of the house used to work for, among other things, a railways maintenance company, and in one of the outbuildings I uncovered an alarmingly red plastic container with, among others, the word 'EXPLOSIVE' stamped on it in big letters. Inside the container was a stack of maybe ten discs with lead straps over the tops, and it turns out they were designed to be strapped to a railway line in thick fog or other abject conditions to warn drivers of an obstruction ahead - the pressure sensitive charge would detonate when the train wheels passed over the disc and alert the driver. On their own they weren't too powerful, and were pretty stable, however if for some reason the entire container had decided to go up it would have been the equivalent of about a dozen large fireworks going off at once. Needless to say I was on the phone to the relevant railways company and they dispatched a guy to come and collect them from the property!

I blew one of those up one time and really pissed off the neighbors

A pile of 100s of needles at an abandoned hotel.. One of the floors seemed to become somewhat of a homeless hotel. I documented everything, and will have to get the pictures uploaded soon. Such a sad epidemic, yet another reminder of the dangers we face when we step inside the beautiful derelict places.

Posted by Steed One thing I don't fuck with is electrified subway tunnels. I missed out on two subway lines under construction this year, not getting down there until there were warning signs everywhere about electricity. When they reach that point, I give up.

Third railed subway tunnels?

Posted by Steed One thing I don't fuck with is electrified subway tunnels. I missed out on two subway lines under construction this year, not getting down there until there were warning signs everywhere about electricity. When they reach that point, I give up.

I know somebody whose exploring buddy died when the latter took a piss on/in-proximity-to a third-rail/electrified-component. Not a joke.

Posted by Steed One thing I don't fuck with is electrified subway tunnels. I missed out on two subway lines under construction this year, not getting down there until there were warning signs everywhere about electricity. When they reach that point, I give up.

I used to be a regular subway explorer when I lived in place that had subways.

In NYC, there are a number of abandoned subway stations and tunnels that are accessible only by walking the tracks. Some are more difficult than others.

There's one abandoned station in particular that is infrequently visited even though it's probably the most well-known. The sidewalk hatches are alarmed and the cops show up within minutes. That leaves only a very long walk in the dark on tracks with trains that run 80 MPH. Since it's CWR and there are no track switches in the area, the trains run silent and come up quick.

Hunter's Point, where it's still probably more dangerous outside.

Does contracting bubonic plague while exploring count?

Actually, I was hunting prairie dogs, but I did some exploring that day.