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 Green K
Location: Montreal, QC
Gender: Female
What time is it?
 |  | What's your story?
< on 7/30/2013 11:12 PM >
|  | | | Hey guys
I was thinking recently how people become explorers. In other words, after which event or series of events do they think: "Decided, I want to go on more adventures!"
For instance, I remember how me and my classmates found a building that was being renovated at that moment. The walls there were painted in splashy colours: yellow, purple, pink, green... I also remember a pile of long branches in one of the corridors, some hobo's stuff on the second floor, and how someone was sure that the traces of red paint on the floor were dried blood! >.<
So now I am wondering about your experience people! 
PS: Notify me if a similar thread exists and please refer me to it.
"Every day was strange, until the day everything became quite normal... which was strange." |
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PKR_UrbanXplorers
Location: Dutchess county
Gender: Male
| | Re: What's your story?
<Reply # 1 on 7/30/2013 11:32 PM >
| | | | I got into exploring maybe 5 years ago. Me and a friend of mine used to walk the train tracks taking pictures of artwork, we found a train tunnel with lots of ice in it, long Bridges over creeks, and once we found some big cement buildings (i never knew what it was, but now I know it used to be a packing plant, but now demolished for a new bank)
Well we started going there more and more, but we were visable on 2 sides from main roads, and one time a cop showed up, but we didnt run since we weren't doing anything wrong, just climbing on stuff. He turned out to be really cool, he just took our names and gave us no trouble, we were talking and he told us about a "100' water tower" where people did paintball. He said Noone would bother us down there. It took me a while to find what he was talking about, but a year later I found it. It was really a 300' cement silo surrounded by other buildings and close to a mile of abandon waterfront property. We explored EVERYTHING. first on foot, than on bike, than by quad, than by truck. Lakes, mines, tunnels, trails, bricks, a barge, old cars, weve been going there for 4 years now and we still find new things there.
Climbing the laddering the elevator shaft is scary the first few times, but the view at the top is totally worth it. The mines are very hard to find, we stumbled across them biking when my friend had to stop to take a piss. Who woulda knew? This place is in a few books and I swear I know this place better than anyone else. I would move closer to it just so I could spend more time there.
But nowadays, I just look for new places, and I only need to go there once, cause there's just too many places to check out to go to the same old place every weekend.
But this cement company and brickyard is what really got me into exploring. And brick collecting. You can tell how old and where a brick came from just by the markings.
Never stop exploring! Who knows what you'll find next! |
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mhester
    
Location: Hails from parts unknown
Gender: Male
| |  | Re: What's your story?
<Reply # 2 on 7/31/2013 2:20 AM >
| | | | Not much of a story been doing it since I was a kid. Back then we just called it (Hey lets just check out the creepy abandoned house), and I just never grew out of it.
Long time Urban explorer, who wants to push my love for the abandoned world into the art community. |
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Meriwether
Location: Shanghai
Gender: Male
| | Re: What's your story?
<Reply # 3 on 7/31/2013 2:42 AM >
| | | | Posted by PKR_UrbanXplorers
I got into exploring maybe 5 years ago. Me and a friend of mine used to walk the train tracks taking pictures of artwork, we found a train tunnel with lots of ice in it, long Bridges over creeks, and once we found some big cement buildings (i never knew what it was, but now I know it used to be a packing plant, but now demolished for a new bank)
Well we started going there more and more, but we were visable on 2 sides from main roads, and one time a cop showed up, but we didnt run since we weren't doing anything wrong, just climbing on stuff. He turned out to be really cool, he just took our names and gave us no trouble, we were talking and he told us about a "100' water tower" where people did paintball. He said Noone would bother us down there. It took me a while to find what he was talking about, but a year later I found it. It was really a 300' cement silo surrounded by other buildings and close to a mile of abandon waterfront property. We explored EVERYTHING. first on foot, than on bike, than by quad, than by truck. Lakes, mines, tunnels, trails, bricks, a barge, old cars, weve been going there for 4 years now and we still find new things there.
Climbing the laddering the elevator shaft is scary the first few times, but the view at the top is totally worth it. The mines are very hard to find, we stumbled across them biking when my friend had to stop to take a piss. Who woulda knew? This place is in a few books and I swear I know this place better than anyone else. I would move closer to it just so I could spend more time there.
But nowadays, I just look for new places, and I only need to go there once, cause there's just too many places to check out to go to the same old place every weekend.
But this cement company and brickyard is what really got me into exploring. And brick collecting. You can tell how old and where a brick came from just by the markings.
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That's really cool! I wish there was a place like that where I'm located, it sounds like an urbex amusement park! Plus a cop being that chill about it is astounding.
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Bishop X
 
Location: Florida
Gender: Male
Flurbex O.G.
| | Re: What's your story?
<Reply # 4 on 7/31/2013 2:45 AM >
| | | | great thread!
in 2005 me and my best friend used to go out and drive all over Central Florida all night checking out stuff we found interesting while everyone else slept. We would check out old 17th century ruins at the beach, a grave from the 1800's that a neighborhood was built around, and odd stuff of that sort. While looking for cool semi local stuff to go check out we came across Urban Exploring and found out it wasn't a far cry from what we were doing, so we dug our claws into the hobby. We went and did the local whore (Splendid China), which was a pretty good spot in 2006 (not yet wrecked), than we made friends with a few local explorers, got some info to do a power plant, and we were hooked after that. I've pretty much stopped exploring in recent years, due to having a family, and being busy all the time, but I still maintain a fondness for it.
[last edit 7/31/2013 2:46 AM by Bishop X - edited 1 times]
RIP GRIM |
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Astro
   
Usually naked
Location: The Delta Quadrant
Gender: Male
Resistance is Futile
| | Re: What's your story?
<Reply # 5 on 7/31/2013 2:46 AM >
| | | | Posted by mhester
Not much of a story been doing it since I was a kid. Back then we just called it (Hey lets just check out the creepy abandoned house), and I just never grew out of it.
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This is pretty much how it has always been for me too.
Though, I found UER because I have a huge obsession with roller coasters and I was tracking roller coaster migrations and stumbled upon a bunch of photos of everyone's favorite abandoned amusement park. Alas, here I am.
[02:33:56] <Valkyre> Astro your whole life is ruled by the sentence ' life is better without clothes on'
[22:16:00] <DSomms> it was normal until astro got here
Astro: Patron Saint of Drains |
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TCUP
Location: Alexandria, KY
Gender: Male
"I wonder what's in here?" -- my last words.
| | | Re: What's your story?
<Reply # 6 on 7/31/2013 4:06 AM >
| | | | Pretty much the same story for me as everyone else... I grew up next to a large amount of woods with a smattering of abandoned barns and farmhouses, and a decent-sized overgrown trash dump, and a couple friends who liked to explore as much as I did. I wish I had owned a camera back then; those woods are now strip malls and subdivisions. I didn't get into it hardcore, though, until I was in my early twenties and moved next to a mostly-abandoned train yard while unemployed (read: too much time on my hands).
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Ricky_from_TV
Location: Peterborough, Ontario
Gender: Male
I'm going to try and refuckulate it
| | Re: What's your story?
<Reply # 7 on 7/31/2013 5:48 AM >
| | | | I have cool parents.
Was allowed to go outside and actually be independent. I have tons, of 35mm images that i took when i was in like grade 4-5ish I lurked uer for 2-3 years before signing up. Found it while doing some reading.
So yeah. Natural curiosity.
When Caught Always, Always Use the Jim trick. |
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Samurai
 
Vehicular Lord Rick
Location: northeastern New York
No matter where you go, there you are...
| | Re: What's your story?
<Reply # 8 on 7/31/2013 5:56 AM >
| | | | this question used to come up a lot... lately not so much.
In my case, I grew up in a small town in northeastern NY (Where I still live actually) which had depended on mining for over 100 years. In 1972, the mines were closed and we were left with ruins to explore. This carried on through my teenage years and into adulthood. Unfortunately, I have been slacking in my expeditions over the past five years.
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VanBrewton
Location: Atlanta
Gender: Male
| | Re: What's your story?
<Reply # 9 on 7/31/2013 3:38 PM >
| | | | I've always loved buildings, walking around new ones being built, driving past the ones that are shut down...I got tired of being the person that explored the new and forgot the old.
I just signed up last week, and am hoping to be at a few meetups in the next few weeks to get to know more about the awesome history in GA and the buildings it's forgotten.
Plus i'm hoping to drag my best friend along, he's the cameraman, i'm the gear guy. We're destined to explore.
I Fix Things |
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corvettejoe
Location: Central FL
Gender: Male
| | | Re: What's your story?
<Reply # 10 on 7/31/2013 3:52 PM >
| | | | I've been interested in it for many many years.
It wasn't until I was getting into photography and drove past this one abandoned house that I though... Why not? I'm going to stop! It looks cool!
After that, I was REALLY hooked on it and started exploring and photographing a LOT.
It only took one...
www.abandonedtravels.com
www.facebook.com/abandonedtravels |
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Radical_Ed
Location: Philadelphia, PA, USA
Gender: Male
"You work your life away and what do they give? You're only killing yourself to live!"
| | Re: What's your story?
<Reply # 11 on 7/31/2013 3:56 PM >
| | | | Byberry (Philadelphia State Hospital) was located in the same neighborhood I grew up in. Back in 1981, when I was 14 and a freshman in high school, I discovered half of it was abandoned while bicycling with friends. Being a long-haired Metalhead even back then, I was intrigued. Never looked back.
"Are you happy now with all the choices you've made?" "Are there times in life when you know you should've stayed?"
"Will you compromise and then realize the price is too much to pay?" "Winners and losers... which one will you be today?"
***Social Distortion*** |
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Sands
Location: Hartford, Connecticut
Gender: Male
| | Re: What's your story?
<Reply # 12 on 7/31/2013 4:11 PM >
| | | | Living in the city there used to be an abandoned house literally next door to me. It used to be a small bed and breakfast type of thing, my friends and I used to go in and check it out. I was 10 or 11 at the time and since then I was always interested in the old factories and buildings that were remnants of when the city was prospering. When I got into photography I wanted to shoot something different and put "go to an abandoned buildings" as a challenge. I finally went to an old mill and wanted to see how time and decay had effected other buildings. Wish I started earlier.
Find yourself in the unknown. |
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Turd Furgusen
Location: Charleston, WV
Gender: Male
I think marijuana is just nature's way of saying high!
| |  | | Re: What's your story?
<Reply # 13 on 7/31/2013 6:54 PM >
| | | | Grandmother lived in Weston, WV where the Weston State Hospital was/is located. For the first 1/3 of my life it was open and active. I spent a good deal of the second 1/3 of my life trying to and succeeding getting into the place! That and as far back as I can remember I could never resist the urge to explore anything that was abandoned or supposed to be "off limits".
Everyone has a dark side, mines just a little more illuminated. |
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kenfagerdotcom
Location: Madison, WI
Gender: Male
American Urbex... yeah. That was me.
| | | Re: What's your story?
<Reply # 14 on 7/31/2013 7:02 PM >
| | | | Got my start and the Hassia Landmaschinenfabrik in Butzbach, Germany. I missed my train back to Marburg and there was an abandoned factory across the station. I didn't have any real agenda for the day so I decided to walk around in it. It was massive and clicked something in my brain.
Fortunately I took a lot of pictures of the experience.
http://www.flickr....09/with/693366603/
Flickr: http://www.flickr....os/kenfagerdotcom/ |
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fiftyone_eggs
Location: jerzey
Gender: Male
| | | Re: What's your story?
<Reply # 15 on 7/31/2013 7:38 PM >
| | | | At first, I was just looking for places to stash my dead prostitutes. That's how my passion for exploring was born!
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lostfox
Location: If I went to Hell I'd need a sweater, Arizona, US
Gender: Male
| | Re: What's your story?
<Reply # 16 on 7/31/2013 10:46 PM >
| | | | Growing up, I lived on farmland and always had old barns and abandoned places around. It was a natural step from playing "hide and seek," I guess.
We don't always get what we want, but we always get what we deserve. |
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amy atomic
Location: Baltimore
Gender: Female
top banana of the baltimore bunch.
| | | Re: What's your story?
<Reply # 17 on 7/31/2013 11:07 PM >
| | | | I grew up on the New Hampshire seacoast, in a town right next to the abandoned Portsmouth Naval Prison and the Wentworth by the Sea Hotel that was abandoned for quite some time. I was always fascinated by both buildings as a child and dreamed about what they looked like inside. It wasn't until I discovered the existence of Danvers State Hospital and pored over photos of it online that I decided I actually wanted to start exploring abandoned buildings myself.
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StateProperty
Location: Connecticut
Gender: Female
| | | Re: What's your story?
<Reply # 18 on 8/1/2013 1:18 AM >
| | | | I grew up in a neighborhood very close to an abandoned day camp. Some of my earliest childhood memories are of me riding my bike there with my dad and my sister. My entire family used to go down there and walk around. We never went inside any of the buildings but I did love looking at the abandoned meat slicer through the window (I was a weird kid...) I was so enamored with this place that I wrote a story about it when I was in 2nd grade.
My dad also worked in town with a semi-abandoned state hospital in it. He used to drive me by it all the time when I asked. He would tell me all sorts of stories about it and the people he knew who worked there. It is one of my greatest regrets that I never explored the main building before it burned down.
But I never really knew what urban exploring was until I was a little older. I got sick when I was 14 and to spent time with me, my dad and I would just get into the car and drive. We usually just headed west on i-84 into NY and drove around the CT/NY boarder. There we discovered a huge hospital complex by accident. Both of us were fascinated! I came home that night and googled the name and discovered urban exploring as a hobby and spent my entire night looking at photos.
And I've been hooked ever since. Thankfully my photography has improved since I started exploring. I wish I could share some of my older explores but my photos are too embarrassing to even post!
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Colossus
Location: The Nether
Gender: Male
| | Re: What's your story?
<Reply # 19 on 8/1/2013 8:01 AM >
| | | | So, there I was, all by myself, living day to day after losing my precious. Then, out of nowhere, these fuckers come abduct me and start asking questions, torturing me. They were looking for my precious. My body couldn’t take it anymore, so my mind cracked. I told them everything. Where that thief was from, who his name is, everything.
So, they let me go on my merry way. Instead of returning to the hole I came from, I decided to follow the ones who had the precious, my new master and his fat friend. Oh the shenanigans we’ve had. We explored the swamps, caves, climbed mountains, checked out ruin buildings… However, all good things must come to an end. Master threw me in a volcano.
Everyone, chill the fuck out! I got this. |
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