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1 2   UER Forum > Archived UE Main > Oops! Sorry... (Viewed 880 times) IcarusBurns  Location: MD Gender: Male  |  Oops! Sorry... < on 4/1/2009 1:31 AM >   Has anyone accidentally gone to a site, thinking it is abandoned, and entered to find out that it actually isn't? This happened to me a little while ago at a very old house. It is right down the street from my school and I had never seen any cars parked outside before. Scouting around, I looked inside the windows where I saw a kitchen area with nothing in it, and a living room type area with junk strewn around. The back deck was in a very bad state as well. All signs pointed to the building being long abandoned. I propped open a window, crawled inside and started to explore. Everything looked fine, as if no one had been inside in years, until I went upstairs. I found several very nice bedrooms, a fully stocked bathroom with a shower that still had small spots of water on the bottom of it (indicating recent use) and to top it all off, after leaving the bathroom a telephone in the bedroom started to ring! Needless to say I felt kind of bad and left immediately. Has anyone else had any experiences like this? I know sometimes we find hobos living in sites we explore, but never actual home owners! robk700  Location: Los Angeles / D.C. Gender: Male  |  Re: Oops! Sorry... <Reply # 1 on 4/1/2009 1:38 AM >   Oh man. That must have been a hell of an awkward feeling. Especially when you though about bumping into the owners. SirJinx  Location: Los Angeles Area Gender: Male  |  Re: Oops! Sorry... <Reply # 2 on 4/1/2009 1:39 AM >   Lucky you didn't get blasted in the chest with a shotgun. =) Crazy story though. I've run into people before, but normally just squatters. People are weird. femaledragonx  Location: Detroit & Everywhere Else I can dream up to go to The singularity is near  |  Re: Oops! Sorry... <Reply # 3 on 4/1/2009 1:43 AM >   ask nanguz to tell you the story about the kittens "Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd." -Bertrand Russell "How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives." ~Annie Dillard metawaffle  King of Puns Location: Brisbane! Gender: Male Purveyor of Fine Lampshades  |  |  Re: Oops! Sorry... <Reply # 4 on 4/1/2009 1:53 AM >   I haven't quite done that, but a few weeks ago, I was waiting to catch a vehicle ferry, and decided to wander around the port. I discovered there was easy access to the stairs on the back of the 'control tower'. I climbed to the top, and discovered the door wasn't closed properly! Ooh! Pulling the door open, I found myself face to face with three operations personnel, who politely asked if they could help me. Oops. Edit: I should add that the people working in the tower were actually quite accommodating, and let me out onto the external balcony to take some pics. [last edit 4/1/2009 1:54 AM by metawaffle - edited 1 times] http://www.longexposure.net Steed  Location: Edmonton/Seoul Gender: Male Your Friendly Neighbourhood Race Traitor  |  |  Re: Oops! Sorry... <Reply # 5 on 4/1/2009 1:57 AM >   Quite a few times. Once I walked in on a security guard giving himself a shower (although I guess technically he wasn't a resident). I also made friends with an old man who refused to move out of an abandoned neighbourhood and he made me take pictures of his dogs. BlenHeim  Location: my name is where i am at Gender: Female is anyone home?  |  Re: Oops! Sorry... <Reply # 6 on 4/1/2009 2:04 AM >   it's funny cause i was walking around Chatham today and i was thinking some of these houses look condemned yet you could see sings of recent life. Thought about a contest of posting pics of houses to see if anyone could guess if abandoned (truly) or currently occupied by paying residents. i would have crapped my pants if i had found someone which is probably why i have yet to venture into anything with glass on the windows still. trent  I'm Trent! Get Bent! Location: Drainwhale hunting Gender: Male Not on UER anymore.  |  |  Re: Oops! Sorry... <Reply # 7 on 4/1/2009 12:08 PM >   Posted by femaledragonx ask nanguz to tell you the story about the kittens And ask SuicidePactPhoto to tell you the story about the TV guy... He who rules the underground, rules the city above. briansbrains  Location: valbona Gender: Male ////////////  |  |  Re: Oops! Sorry... <Reply # 8 on 4/2/2009 12:58 PM >   I fixed the window and didn't steal anything... www.time-zero.net levacas  Location: Hamilton and KW Gender: Female Exploring the hidden, secret and forgotten nooks and crannies of society.  |  Re: Oops! Sorry... <Reply # 9 on 4/2/2009 1:16 PM >   BeaverBanker and I were looking for a radar facility, when we pulled over to the side of the road to consult the map. I noticed we'd parked right in front of a clearly abandoned house. The windows were boarded up. back door swinging in the breeze. Upon walking in the door we noticed right away that there were so many new things around, and a fully furnished house that smelled of mothballs. We concluded this was someones summer home (it was currently December) SO we proceeded to leave. But not before leaving a note on the fridge saying, You should make sure the door is locked, thieves could come an steal things. -A photographer. I always wondered what their reaction to that would have been.... A Steel town girl is not afraid to get dirty shellyl  Location: Lenoir NC Gender: Female I have learned not sweat the petty things and not to pet the sweaty things.  |  Re: Oops! Sorry... <Reply # 10 on 4/2/2009 1:25 PM >   Nan and SuicidePactPhoto are good for finding houses like these . I have been with both of them when they pointed out houses in my area. If I did not know who the people were and the circumstances I would have thought no one had lived there in forever either. A mirage is not an optical illusion. It is a real phenomenon, and one can take photographs of it. The interpretation of the image, however, is up to the fantasy of the human mind. Waypoint15  Location: Terlingua Gender: Male  |  Re: Oops! Sorry... <Reply # 11 on 4/2/2009 4:00 PM >   Not long ago, I was in Terlingua Ghost Town, and thought that I was entering an abandoned adobe shack to find someone sleeping on the floor of an old miners shack. I am not sure who was more shocked, the individual on the floor or me. A day or two later, I learned that many residents of Terlingua lived in "abandoned" shacks. WP15 D'void  Location: The Wild Mid-West Gender: Male Give me your $oul  |  |  Re: Oops! Sorry... <Reply # 12 on 4/2/2009 4:53 PM >   A couple summer ago a friend and I were exploring a huge "abandoned" factory near the Packard Plant in Detroit. The ceiling was caving in and vines and plants were growing out of the walls and cement floor so we figured it had been long abandoned. The place was massive and was very easy to enter. After walking around for a half hour we came upon a large, long room full of trailers, like the one that schools use for extra classrooms. It was 5pm on a Tuesday and we could see cars parked at the front of the trailers at the far end of the room, like an indoor parking garage. I suppose that's why it looked like no one was there. I walked up to one of the trailers that had small rectangular windows and saw people in Hazmat suites testing shit in what looked to be a bunch of mini medical labs. I was completely freaked out and left right then. I came back last year to peek in and the place was a fucking ghost town, nothing left, not a trace. I think I may have accidentally stumbled upon either; A ) some sort of mobile government lab or B ) the most sophisticated meth lab in the states [last edit 4/2/2009 11:59 PM by D'void - edited 1 times] onlynDetroit.com RenegadeOfFunk  Location: Boston, MA Gender: Male  |  |  Re: Oops! Sorry... <Reply # 13 on 4/2/2009 5:10 PM >   On one of my breaks from school I noticed a giant abandoned warehouse in my hometown. I figured that it was recently abandoned since a few months ago it was in use. I decided to go back at night, hop the fence and wander all around and up onto the roof. Later that night a got a friend and we went back and went in through an open door on the back of the building. It was completely empty inside including all of the offices and windows were open. The next night I take another friend over, hop the fence, and go to try the door. Locked, walk around and all the windows are now locked. I look around and I see a light in the corner of property so we just decided to leave. Three weeks later I come back and it is completely lit up, semi-trucks coming in and out, and a person at the security gate. I guess it was good timing to go inside because the place only appeared to be shut down for a period of no longer than a month. jtcolfax  This member has been banned. See the banlist for more information. Location: northeast usa Gender: Male  |  |  Re: Oops! Sorry... <Reply # 14 on 4/3/2009 1:06 AM >   Interesting thread: This story is more like POST exploring...but still: Three of us had been exploring in the Scranton area,..we were now done and back in the downtown area where we had met. We were having some cocktails and we kept going down an alley to pee, and, finally we just MOVED there. Next thing I knew from a distraction, the others are on a roof...so I go up. The other two have known each other for quite some time. I start walking around the roof and looking in windows. I see a kitchen scene with a piece of pizza on a plate. There is a screen in the window but the window is open and the HEAT is just blazing out of the window. Sick horrid heat...noticeable...way hot.....but I move around the corner of this jut of the building and look in one window after the next. Nothing. Nothing. AND THEN: A brightly lit room with a huge red neck in skin head clothes. ENORMOUS Southern Flag on wall. Everywhere you look there is one piece of nazi or skinhead piece of glop. Knives in scabbards. The other two I am with are just Yammering on of yee old times. And here I am looking at this elder skinhead punching away on his computer. And by elder: I mean about 40 and TOUGH. Considering that ANYONE who lived there would have had the RIGHT to say "wtf" about us being so close to their windows, it was wayyyyy past time to go. We went. onamission   |  Re: Oops! Sorry... <Reply # 15 on 4/4/2009 12:40 AM >   In '83 I was living on Block Island ,RI and being armed w/a moped, I tried to explore as much as possible between working,eating and drinking. I took an unmarked road into some woods/scrub ( central SE of the I. ), and found a good sized house, seemingly deserted , looking like something between a Bread and Puppet sideshow and a little Sam Raime , neither who I'd heard of at that age...,months later I learn it was totally occupied,folks were off island. It was strange because it was just so lifeless...lots of signs,but from when? Hobo/vagrant sites are a suck-pill just for their random factor,especially if you don't sprechen la langue. Homeless on homeless murder isn't unknown here in the NE , I can't think that homeless on explorer is far behind. I'm sure it's already happened , just that no one has found the pieces in order to connect the dots. Jupiter  Moderator Location: Toronto Gender: Male Boffo's alright... for now.  |  |  Re: Oops! Sorry... <Reply # 16 on 4/4/2009 9:07 PM >   Boffo and I went to check out some factory in the middle of nowhere that seemed pretty abandoned. Even inside, a lot of it seemed unused, though there was power. Eventually we came across some documents in an office from within the last month. Figuring that maybe they just used the area for storage, we continued our exploration. Maybe about a half hour later, we came across a whiteboard, with dates scheduled on it... for the upcoming week. The only reason no one was there is that it was a holiday. Shortly after our discovery an alarm made our decision to leave the building a little easier to make. Abandoned Planet TCdrainer  Location: ur moms house Gender: Male  |  Re: Oops! Sorry... <Reply # 17 on 4/4/2009 10:00 PM >   Posted by SirJinx Lucky you didn't get blasted in the chest with a shotgun. =) Actually, that did happen somewhere around my parts. It was either Minnesota or Wisconsin. Can't remember. Anyways, some local teens went to explore an "abandoned" house and ended up bumping into some elderly man who lived there in an upstairs bedroom. The man pulled out his shotgun and shot at least one of them dead. He ended up getting off in court as he felt "endangered" at the time of the shooting. I'll see if I can't dig up that article. As for the OP's question. No, I have never gone to a location and discovered it was not so vacant. However, I have many times purposly gone to locations that I knew were active and explored. [last edit 4/4/2009 10:04 PM by TCdrainer - edited 1 times] "Reality is an illusion created by a lack of alcohol." levacas  Location: Hamilton and KW Gender: Female Exploring the hidden, secret and forgotten nooks and crannies of society.  |  Re: Oops! Sorry... <Reply # 18 on 4/4/2009 10:03 PM >   I just thought of when myself and another member discovered the Firestone building. A good chunk of this place was obviously abandoned so I was not expecting a fully operational recycling plant on the other side of a door that I had just innocently waltzed through. Thankfully I walked out before anyone I saw, saw me. A Steel town girl is not afraid to get dirty buckybear  Gender: Male  |  Re: Oops! Sorry... <Reply # 19 on 4/4/2009 10:13 PM >   When I was about 6 my mom and I stopped at what we thought was a rather large yard sale. The yard and drive way and garage were piled full of old crap. We were pawing through the boxes when a man came out of the house and asked us what the Fuck we were doing. Turns out it was just a really messy yard. He was pretty hostile about the whole thing too. UER Forum > Archived UE Main > Oops! Sorry... (Viewed 880 times) 1 2   All content and images copyright © 2002-2024 UER.CA and respective creators. Graphical Design by Crossfire. To contact webmaster, or click to email with problems or other questions about this site: UER CONTACT View Terms of Service | View Privacy Policy | Server colocation provided by Beanfield This page was generated for you in 171 milliseconds. Since June 23, 2002, a total of 740646979 pages have been generated.