Urban Exploration Megathread

[Cybersix]

i'd like to grow a third arm/leg/eye/snake too !
In all seriousness I'd absolutely love to go as well.

You have two snakees?

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[Destroyer]

I've been to so six or seven abandoned mental hospitals in the past few years, they have a special meaning to me because if I had lived a mere sixty years ago, I would be in one. They're grotesquely beautiful things, a symbol of generations long gone and the horrors imposed by their people upon the "sick" for the sake of "treatment"

I have one very close to me that I want to get into someday. I just need to plan everything. They seem so fascinating from what I've heard from others. Have any pictures?

Next time you guys go on your adventures, bring a video camera along and take video.

I've taken one video when I explored an abandoned house.

[John Freeman]

You have two snakees?

Hey you took my joke :C

Have you been there before?

[Alyx Vance]

I don't have a single good building truly worth exploring around here :c

[Jacob 123456789]

There's quite a few cut timbers on back a ways my property and I'm beginning to wonder if there used to be something there. Problem is, if there was, it's probably swallowed up by the marshyness of Washington by now :(

However, when I go over to Idaho to visit relatives I often go exploring to old places with them.

[Alyx Vance]

At one house I lived at there was the remains of an old sawmill next to the house, just the machines (some of them) and some planks, no building :c

[duckman1229]

I want to do this but downtown Utah is super clean central. :C

[Jacob 123456789]

I remember going to Idaho last year (it was my dad's "old guys reunion"), and about half of our group went to the middle of the field we were camping at and there was this ooold shack in this grove of age-old apple trees. We got in there and found several cream seperators and other various electric powered things from the early days of electricity. But then after the searching had gotten underway we had found a huge wooden crate, so we carefully hauled it out of the shack (it was in the basement, it was actually really heavy).

Turns out that the thing was jam-packed full of dynamite.

[Trifax]

You have two snakees?

I have one very close to me that I want to get into someday. I just need to plan everything. They seem so fascinating from what I've heard from others. Have any pictures?

lol'd

[Destroyer]

I decided to post a real life example of my warning posted in the OP about exploring drains during a rain storm. In the field behind my house where I ride my ATV their is a small storm drain. A large rain storm just hit and when it slowed down I decided to take a walk back to see just how flooded it was. Of course I had no intention of walking through the drain. It turns out the drain had about 1 1/2 feet of fast flowing water running through it. I stood at the edge and pulled out my phone to take a quick video. During the video I turned backwards to look for a rock or something to throw in the water displaying how far it was moving. As I turned back I ended up slipping on the wet cement and almost sliding into the water.

I would have been swept away down the 10 foot drop into a flooded reservoir. This could potentially knock a person out and drown them. I decided to post the video to give people an idea just what could happen if they mess around with storm drains.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdNapOIzafs&feature=youtu.be

[Destroyer]

Bump.

[Alyx Vance]

I need new places to check out but my partner at this is to afraid to check out an old barn in a field.
I might go alone one day

[Trifax]

I"m meeting with some dudes to form a team on friday on mercer island. If any Seattle area people want to meet up with us, let me know. We're just going to discuss possible locations and whatnot.

So far I've got a few guys from my school, and a couple guys in the seattle area from reddit.

[Destroyer]

For any of you interested, I stumbled upon a Youtube video of an Urban Explorer who posts videos of what he explores.

Check it out:
http://www.youtube.com/user/TheUnknownCameraman?feature=watch

[duke 838]

For any of you interested, I stumbled upon a Youtube video of an Urban Explorer who posts videos of what he explores.

Check it out:
http://www.youtube.com/user/TheUnknownCameraman?feature=watch

awesome!
I like how he posts pacts about the building throughout the videos.