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Location: La Sud-Est du cité majeur du North-Holland (Bijlmer), .NL
Gender: Male
Back in Urbex!
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<Reply # 40 on 10/9/2009 2:16 PM >
|  | | | I was allways interested in railways, and one day I asked one "diggelfjoer" who had a website with abandoned railways to come visit a local abandoned railway close by. That became this expedition (Oct 26, 2002) - I'm in the yellow coat. The last two pages are connected to abandonements, and that started the other.
However, long before that, I was allready interested in technical failures - I have a book on that that also contains some urbexable things (the plan inclinee de Ronquieres, Charleroi Subway etc)
Tijmen
Posted by MapMan | 18/9/2005 19:25 | Hedy Lamarr made porn?
Posted by turbozutek | 20/9/2005 2:29 | Dude, educate us! |
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telefontubbie
 
Location: Latvia, Riga
Gender: Female
"No Trespassing" - It's an invitation!
| | Re: How did you find out about urban exploration
<Reply # 41 on 10/9/2009 5:10 PM >
| | | | It is incredible that i discovered what urban exploration means in...COSMOPOLITAN.  Thread was about few sentences long but it roused interest into me. Yeah, i know that it is silly/dumb/omg-put-it-in-thrashcan-now magazine. Funny accident, i guess.
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leefypk
Location: Detroit Metro
Gender: Female
J. Valerian
| | | Re: How did you find out about urban exploration
<Reply # 42 on 10/10/2009 2:11 AM >
| | | | My dad used to live by an abandoned hospital, and one day I just decided to go in and have a look around. Afterward, I looked online to find out info, and I stumbled across UE.
"Purity does not lie in separation from but in deeper penetration into the universe." - Teilhard de Chardin |
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MaxPower101
Location: Sydney, Australia
Gender: Male
| | Re: How did you find out about urban exploration
<Reply # 43 on 10/11/2009 10:00 PM >
| | | | Like many of you, i started hanging out in drains and empty buildings when trying to avoid teachers whilst skipping school...
At the time I remember thinking how much I wished my mates just had a adult free house we could hang out in, but a seed must have been planted during that time and I developed a real appreciation for what is rarely seen by the public eye..
I started to read articles on Sydney's 'Cave Clan' that were occasionally published in Australian newspapers and from their I started searching on the net and found that my interest was not something weird or only shared by a few, but something that is appreciated by thousands across the globe...
From their I realised that what I first thought was a bland suburban landscape was actually full of possibilities for adventure..
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rainman8889
Location: H.T.S.F.C. Time to gain and a time to lose.
Bye for now.
| | Re: How did you find out about urban exploration
<Reply # 44 on 10/12/2009 2:28 PM >
| | | | Doing research on the Whitby Psych and found this site. As for the actual hobby, I got interested in it via construction sites my Dad worked at and then started checking out old buildings (both active and abandoned).
[last edit 10/12/2009 2:28 PM by rainman8889 - edited 1 times]
Gone for a while. Be back when I'm back. |
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parrot
Location: Austin
Gender: Male
| | Re: How did you find out about urban exploration
<Reply # 45 on 10/12/2009 3:16 PM >
| | | | On the farm where I grew up there was an abandoned house full of personal items and a number of buildings and sheds that had been temporary housing for migrant workers in the days before mechanized harvesting full of farm implements, personal items and unidentifiable items. There was also a grainery full of wheat and cottonseed. I was fascinated by them as a kid. What hooked me was knowing that I was the first person inside in over twenty years.
Don't worry... nothing is gonna be alright. |
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Madigrind
Location: Elizabethton, TN
Gender: Female
| | Re: How did you find out about urban exploration
<Reply # 46 on 10/12/2009 9:28 PM >
| | | | Used to explore an abandoned hospital in Elizabethton when I was in middle/high school. Years later I met the infamous Coley. The rest is history!
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Jonsered
Location: Back in New Mexico where I belong
Gender: Male
Dressed for a scarecrow ball.........
| |  |  | Re: How did you find out about urban exploration
<Reply # 47 on 10/12/2009 9:39 PM >
| | | | Been a ghost towner and mine hunter my whole life. Was searching the net one day looking for like minded individuals, and ran into UER.
And here we are.........
I have changed my personal exploring ethics code. From now on it will be: "Take only aimed shots, leave only hobo corpses." Copper scrappers, meth heads and homeless beware. The Jonsered cometh among you, bringing fear and dread.
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DrainMunkey
Location: South St Paul
Gender: Male
i'd rather be exploring...
| | Re: How did you find out about urban exploration
<Reply # 48 on 10/27/2009 7:07 AM >
| | | | well...it may sound really lame but its because of a girl...so there used to be a really cool toll bridge around my area (for my write-up see http://www.uer.ca/...d=1&threadid=73629 )...and after re-finding it one day...i brought a girl that i really like there...she instantly fell in love with the place and i said that i knew of other cool places around town (had no idea of anything except the lilydale caves at the time)...so i raped the internet desperately for information and landed on the legendary actionsquad website...and the rest is history 
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IIVQ
Location: La Sud-Est du cité majeur du North-Holland (Bijlmer), .NL
Gender: Male
Back in Urbex!
| | | | | Re: How did you find out about urban exploration
<Reply # 49 on 10/27/2009 11:34 AM >
| | | | Posted by DrainMunkey
well...it may sound really lame but its because of a girl...so there used to be a really cool toll bridge around my area (for my write-up see http://www.uer.ca/...d=1&threadid=73629 )...and after re-finding it one day...i brought a girl that i really like there...she instantly fell in love with the place and i said that i knew of other cool places around town (had no idea of anything except the lilydale caves at the time)...so i raped the internet desperately for information and landed on the legendary actionsquad website...and the rest is history
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Awww that's so cute! Are you two still together?
Now on to here and here for you!
Posted by MapMan | 18/9/2005 19:25 | Hedy Lamarr made porn?
Posted by turbozutek | 20/9/2005 2:29 | Dude, educate us! |
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ErkzO
Location: Canberra, Australia
Gender: Male
Australian
| | Re: How did you find out about urban exploration
<Reply # 50 on 10/27/2009 12:45 PM >
| | | | I got into it a while after looking up secret areas around my area. Well, does draining count as urban ex?
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Loki
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Gender: Male
| | Re: How did you find out about urban exploration
<Reply # 51 on 10/27/2009 12:51 PM >
| | | | Posted by ErkzO
Well, does draining count as urban ex?
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Yes, except in Canberra.
Wank | Wank | Wank | Wank | Wank | Wank |
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ErkzO
Location: Canberra, Australia
Gender: Male
Australian
| | Re: How did you find out about urban exploration
<Reply # 52 on 10/27/2009 12:53 PM >
| | | | Posted by ExplorerLoki
Yes, except in Canberra.
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Why do you say that?
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WarBird69
Location: Eastern TN
Gender: Male
Atomic Bird of War
| | Re: How did you find out about urban exploration
<Reply # 53 on 10/27/2009 1:09 PM >
| | | | I've always been a curious guy. I wonder what is behind that closed door, where the water goes once it enters that drain, etc.
I did a few "explores" as a kid, but didn't really think much of it.
Found UER while surfing the web one day. I spent hours looking through the database at all the cool pictures.
When twilight draws near, when you are pushed to the very limits of your soul, when it seems that all you have left are the dead remnants of the fabric of your life:
-- BELIEVE |
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Samurai
 
Vehicular Lord Rick
Location: northeastern New York
No matter where you go, there you are...
| | Re: How did you find out about urban exploration
<Reply # 54 on 10/27/2009 2:08 PM >
| | | | grew up in a town that had ruins everywhere from a mining past. One night, while at work trying to stay awake in my office, I happened upon the UEM site out of Montreal and the rest is history.\
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TuxThePenguin
Location: De Pere, WI
Gender: Male
| | Re: How did you find out about urban exploration
<Reply # 55 on 10/27/2009 10:43 PM >
| | | | Being only seventeen, I can't say I've been doing this very long. I started when I realized how fun it was to go past the 'employees only', 'no trespassing', and 'authorized personnel only' signs about two or so years ago. Still at it today, and only recently discovered my hobby had a term and that this website existed. I never really took pictures of the places I went, that's definitely something that I will get into.
Also, despite what you may think, I'm not the stereotypical seventeen year old troublemaker, vandal, or thief.
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Loki
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Gender: Male
| | Re: How did you find out about urban exploration
<Reply # 56 on 10/27/2009 11:25 PM >
| | | | Posted by ErkzO
Why do you say that?
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Sorry, I shouldn't poke fun, Canberra drains are indeed cool.
Wank | Wank | Wank | Wank | Wank | Wank |
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ErkzO
Location: Canberra, Australia
Gender: Male
Australian
| | Re: How did you find out about urban exploration
<Reply # 57 on 10/29/2009 12:21 PM >
| | | | Posted by ExplorerLoki
Sorry, I shouldn't poke fun, Canberra drains are indeed cool.
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They are. Good stuff in Melbourne I bet.
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silentbuildings (SB-445)
| | Re: How did you find out about urban exploration
<Reply # 58 on 10/30/2009 3:53 PM >
| | | | While walking past the Don Valley Brickworks with some friends. Later in Detroit with the Packard Plant and Michigan Central Station.
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Durden
Location: Toronto
Gender: Female
No fear. No distractions. The ability to let that which does not matter truly slide.
| | Re: How did you find out about urban exploration
<Reply # 59 on 10/30/2009 11:18 PM >
| | | | SKOLD!
“Our real discoveries come from chaos, from going to the place that looks wrong and stupid and foolish.” |
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