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 urbexkeith
   
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 |  |  | How did you find out about urban exploration
< on 9/26/2009 3:42 AM >
|  | | | i found out about urbex the fucking weirdest ways. i saw the pink floyd album cover ANIMALS. the album cover was a picture of the pig flying over battersea powerstation in england, i looked up the buildign found out that people haD urbexed it. urbex= exploring shit
With the bashy bashy
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AnAppleSnail
  
Location: Charlotte, NC
Gender: Male
ALL the flashlights!
| |  | | Re: How did you find out about urban exploration
<Reply # 1 on 9/26/2009 3:45 AM >
| | | | I walked into a storm drain one day.
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Intrinsic
  
Location: Collingwood
Gender: Male
| | Re: How did you find out about urban exploration
<Reply # 2 on 9/26/2009 4:04 AM >
| | | | About 12 years ago I went looking for an old prison that I'd heard about. Found out it had been torn down so I thought, "What else is out there that might be abandoned?"
Went out and bought some books on ghost towns and began visiting them. I put up a website to showcase these forgotten places mainly because I wanted people to know about them. I've always felt a little sentimental when it came to old graveyards and towns that fell off the map - wanting to give some recognition to these forgotten people and places.
UER wasn't around at the time and it was only some years after that I stumbled upon it and realized that there is a whole society who share the same interest as myself.
It began as ghost towns but there is a lot of carryover into abandoned places and vise versa.
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snap228
Location: New Paltz, NY
Gender: Female
"A man who holds the cat by the tail learns something he can learn no other way."
| | Re: How did you find out about urban exploration
<Reply # 3 on 9/26/2009 4:22 AM >
| | | | Google.
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battlebran
Location: Toronto
Gender: Male
"I'm too drunk... to taste this chicken." - Col. Sanders.
| | Re: How did you find out about urban exploration
<Reply # 4 on 9/26/2009 4:37 AM >
| | | | I first started out when I was 10. Mostly exploring stuff around my area like an abandoned slaughter house, old age home, factory, ect. I didn't actually start to photograph theses places until I got into photography about 4 years ago and I eventually got onto UER when my friend, Logtec, let me know about it about 2 or 3 years ago. Since then my life has been a non-stop swashbuckling adventure to put Pirates of the Caribbean to shame. For true.
Robots like bass. They don't like treble. |
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Oryx
Location: Who knows
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| | Re: How did you find out about urban exploration
<Reply # 5 on 9/26/2009 2:11 PM >
| | | | Just always have. From the time I was born I always had the curiosity to find out what was behind that closed door.
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splumer
Location: Cleveland, Ohio
Gender: Male
| | Re: How did you find out about urban exploration
<Reply # 6 on 9/26/2009 2:18 PM >
| | | | 1980-ish, I lived on a small lake that had a drain running into it. A friend and I took my 10' rowboat into it maybe a mile or so, using candles and flares for light. Later, in college, in the middle of Appalachia, there were so many abandoned houses and other buildings, checking them out was just a way to pass time on weekends. Plus, the Athens Asylum was looming over campus. I didn't realize it was called "Urban Exploration" until 2000-ish. We always called it "stealthing."
“We are not going to have the kind of cooperation we need if everyone insists on their own narrow version of reality. … the great divide in the world today … is between people who have the courage to listen and those who are convinced that they already know it all.”
-Madeline Albright |
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CagedPsycho
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
Gender: Male
G.H.U.L.S.
| | | Re: How did you find out about urban exploration
<Reply # 7 on 9/26/2009 2:36 PM >
| | | | I would always drive past this abandoned house on my way home from class. I only looked around the outside. When I finally decided to venture inside, it got torn down. Just evolved from there. Didn't know he term till a few months ago
The caged being inside of you must break free from his shackles, for our partial sanity or pseudo-sanity, if so applies, cannot contain it forever without repercussion of mental breakdown. |
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makman
Location: Rochester, NY
Gender: Male
I live alone with a criminal
| | Re: How did you find out about urban exploration
<Reply # 8 on 9/26/2009 4:01 PM >
| | | | Chapter 1:
A couple years ago at a party, a guy I met* told me it was possible to get on the roof of the engineering building here at RIT. It took me half a dozen tries to make it all the way, but it was awesome. The combination of the challenge, the forbidden-ness, and the view got me hooked on to whatever that activity was (at the time I had no idea that people called it UE).
I took a couple people up there, and told a few more. I was always surprised that they weren't as fascinated by this as I was. Clearly they were the insane ones. At that point, though, I didn't think much about exploring beyond my immediate surroundings (campus roofs).
*It might have been a wise old man smoking a pipe who disappeared when I turned back to thank him, I'm not sure.
Chapter 2:
Over the summer, I co-oped in the shadow of a 17 story psych ward. By the spring, I realized that I could extend my exploring to more interesting places than a college campus. I went the psych ward a couple times (even getting trapped inside at one point), then happened upon this site while researching a power plant I was planning to try next.
Epilogue:
Then I tried lots of new places, had fun in drains, met lots of insane people, and wrote this post.
Fin.
Be careful, not safe.
"Urbex- so much fun that it should be illegal." |
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strangePlaces
Location: Toronto
Gender: Male
| |  | Re: How did you find out about urban exploration
<Reply # 9 on 9/27/2009 8:09 PM >
| | | | I always kind of took interest in dark underground rooms, pipes, lonely lightbulbs... As kid, me and my friends found a way into the super creepy and filthy cellar under my apt building. It was really big, with many rooms. I remember there were many animal skeletons there. It was long before i ended up in Canada.
Here in Canada, I walked into a drain and found it quite exciting. Since my friends werent really into that stuff, i googled about drain explor eventually finding way to uer.
heh, if there was some kind of obstacle in entering that drain, the chain of events that led to ueing probably wouldv never happened=)
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Air
Location: Canada
| | Re: How did you find out about urban exploration
<Reply # 10 on 9/27/2009 9:39 PM >
| | | | I came across some images of Whitby Psych in 2004 and afterwords I found Jono's images on I what I think was his blog, and Kendall Anderson's Invisible threads site. From there I made it around to other sites in the US and ended up going to the book launch of Ninj's book.
I never really though 'exploration' was a group activity, but did visit places like the distillery, some places in leaside and almost everything in Liberty Village years before because I always like industry anyways.
"The extraordinary beauty of things that fail." - Heinrich von Kleist |
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uLiveAndYouBurn
Location: Beyond
Anarchocommunist
| | Re: How did you find out about urban exploration
<Reply # 11 on 9/28/2009 1:52 PM >
| | | | I've been climbing things and getting on rooftops since I was a youngin. Two years ago I googled tower crane photos and this post on UER came up. That lead to the discovery of the subculture and inspired me to buy a camera and start taking it with me.
[last edit 9/28/2009 1:55 PM by uLiveAndYouBurn - edited 1 times]
"Aint nothin' to it but to do it"
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metawaffle
King of Puns
Location: Brisbane!
Gender: Male
Purveyor of Fine Lampshades
| | | Re: How did you find out about urban exploration
<Reply # 12 on 9/28/2009 3:13 PM >
| | | | Posted by uLiveAndYouBurn
I've been climbing things and getting on rooftops since I was a youngin. Two years ago I googled tower crane photos and this post on UER came up. That lead to the discovery of the subculture and inspired me to buy a camera and start taking it with me.
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I wonder how many of us ended up in cranes or drains via that man's photos?
http://www.longexposure.net |
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willskith
Location: Boston, MA
Gender: Male
| | | | Re: How did you find out about urban exploration
<Reply # 13 on 9/28/2009 3:19 PM >
| | | | I was pooping off of a building and my friend referred me to this forum.
grit your teeth in the face of fear. self repression is the true sign of a coward, toss your inhibitions to the wind. |
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AKBC
Location: Colorado
Gender: Female
| | | Re: How did you find out about urban exploration
<Reply # 14 on 9/28/2009 3:23 PM >
| | | | A few years back I watched a stupid horror movie where some explorers go into a building, and find a ghost or monster or something...I though "there's no way people are actually doing that?!?!" A little internet research later and I came to find out that, in fact, lots of people are going into abandonments/drains/tunnels/etc (minus the ghost/monster finding). Always intrigued afterwards.
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Novtell
Location: Saskatoon, SK
Gender: Male
If I weren't insane: I couldn't be so brilliant!
| | Re: How did you find out about urban exploration
<Reply # 15 on 9/28/2009 3:43 PM >
| | | | Me and a friend of mine were browsing the net at school and stumbled upon this site a few years back. Kinda started the adventures from there
Weiter, weiter ins Verderben!
Wir müssen leben bis wir sterben.
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McQd
Location: High As Possible
| | Re: How did you find out about urban exploration
<Reply # 16 on 9/28/2009 5:53 PM >
| | | | Been exploring since I was little and tagging along with my younger uncles and cousins. Didn't even think there were actual groups of people doing it until an acquaintance directed me to a photo on uer asking if I had seen the place last time I had been exploring in that area and if I could offer directions.
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hydrotherapy
Clever Girl
Location: Circle of Least Confusion
RPS is inside all of us
| | | Re: How did you find out about urban exploration
<Reply # 17 on 9/28/2009 5:57 PM >
| | | | I drunkenly stumbled across a ravine while meandering the woods at night and found a half-abandoned state school.
It seemed like a good idea at the time.
Get down, girl, go 'head, get down. |
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Kekumba
Location: Ottawa, Canada
Gender: Male
| | | | Re: How did you find out about urban exploration
<Reply # 18 on 9/28/2009 7:36 PM >
| | | | Stumbled upon this site sometime last year around Christmas. At first, I was just interested and read topics and what not, now I've gotten a little more involved (not really on the boards, but in real life). I never really explored a whole lot, but I certainly never considered this to be a hobby, etc. I've got a whole different take on it nowadays.
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Boffo
Moderator
Location: Smithers, BC
Gender: Male
HONK! HONK!
| | Re: How did you find out about urban exploration
<Reply # 19 on 9/28/2009 7:47 PM >
| | | | Like many people I did it without knowing what it was. We didn't know it had a name. We just walked around our town and discovered things. Then my friend Shiroi started going to Toronto 2600 meetings and met up with this guy Avatar-X, you might know him. A bit later Shiroi told me to google 'urban exploration' and I found Infiltration and I became obsessed.
And now I'm a mod.
Who'd a thunk it.
Here's a lockpick. It might be handy if you, the master of unlocking, take it with you. |
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