Who Else is Fascinated by Abandoned Buildings?

"Jcarr" (jcarr) 04/20/2016 at 11:13 • Filed to: None

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I love watching videos like this one of !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! in Illinois. Any of you Oppos actually explore abandoned buildings?

zeontestpilot > Jcarr 04/20/2016 at 11:17

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I love this kind of stuff, but because I’m a strict rule keeper, I’d never enter private property. But by golly would I love to. It’s fascinating seeing older buildings being reclaimed by nature.

I also love stuff underwater that aren't supposed to be; cars, planes, ships, buildings. :)

cletus44 aka Clayton Seams > Jcarr 04/20/2016 at 11:19

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All the time. Fascinates me. I used to live in Spokane and had a large selection of broken down buildings to poke around in. One time, in the bowels of a long-dead warehouse I found a little plastic chair with a bunch of cut up duct tape around it like someone had been taped there. There were helium balloons tied to the chair as well. Strange things go on in those places.

jimz > zeontestpilot 04/20/2016 at 11:20

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check out the old Packard plant in Detroit. If you do, though, watch your ass.

Milky > Jcarr 04/20/2016 at 11:22

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I live in Detroit. Yes.

First place I explored in the D 6 years ago, an abandoned zoo.

Jcarr > jimz 04/20/2016 at 11:22

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I love the Packard Plant. Last I knew, thought, it was finally being redeveloped.

zeontestpilot > jimz 04/20/2016 at 11:25

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I’ve driven by it before, it’s mostly blocked off and currently owned by someone now, so ‘private property’. Plus the neighborhood is quite shady looking, didn’t want to spend too much time there.

I also visited the old train station in Detroit, that was amazing. It's huge!

NinetyQ > Jcarr 04/20/2016 at 11:25

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I went to an autocross a couple years ago at Chanute AFB. Drove right past the front of White Hall to get there. But didn’t do any exploring. :/

yitznewton > Jcarr 04/20/2016 at 11:26

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http://www.infiltration.org

smobgirl > Jcarr 04/20/2016 at 11:27

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Sometimes I get paid to - favorite part of my job. One of my favorites was an old brewery in Baltimore (like, 1850s or so at the oldest) that's probably lofts now, but it still had tons of old brewing equipment and all of the old boiler room was intact.

jimz > Jcarr 04/20/2016 at 11:27

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if it is, they ain’t in no hurry to do it.

Jonathan Harper > Jcarr 04/20/2016 at 11:28

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Very much so. Also, old walls.

There are so many old stone walls and old foundations in the woods of the Hudson Valley, I love exploring that stuff.

smobgirl > cletus44 aka Clayton Seams 04/20/2016 at 11:29

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I've inspected the old Ridpath hotel a couple times. Spokane is a cool place.

Azrek > Jcarr 04/20/2016 at 11:30

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Urban Explorers. I am a huge fan of seeing how stuff falls apart like this.

We had old apartments/barracks on a underused base in Saudi Arabia. They were like 15 stories tall, they were decommissioned and fenced off. You’d jog/walk past them at night and it felt like Terminator 2 as it was just the end of the world and no one was around in giant creepy buildings.

But then...on the 8th floor...a light would turn on. We’d have to call the MPs and then storm the building. Sometimes we’d find a kid who snuck onto the base or....nothing.

Also, I was one of the first into Afghanistan in ‘01. We reopened the US Embassy. It was like opening an Egyptian tomb. Everything was a decade or so old. Photos of Regan. Old VHS tapes. Paperback books from authors you’d never heard of. The plumbing was also clogged with ancient poo too.

Mr. Giraffe > Jcarr 04/20/2016 at 11:31

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https://www.youtube.com/user/TheProper…

I discovered these guys a few months ago they have some good stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/user/theartofr…

Then there is also this guy, but he can get kind of annoying at points.

EL_ULY > Jcarr 04/20/2016 at 11:31

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Meeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!! My wife as well. Specifically, wild west abandoned stuff and neighborhoods

McMike > Jcarr 04/20/2016 at 11:33

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I think abandoned buildings are pretty neat.

Svend > Jcarr 04/20/2016 at 11:34

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Check some of these out. I’m on 28 Days Later site and Urban Explorer.

http://www.28dayslater.co.uk/

http://www.theurbanexplorer.co.uk/

http://www.ukurbex.co.uk/

And something automotive related. Longbridge underground tunnels to keep production going while they were being bombed from above.

http://www.28dayslater.co.uk/search/809575/?q=longbridge&o=date

Jcarr > McMike 04/20/2016 at 11:34

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What’s that bottom one? Mental facility?

kanadanmajava1 > Jcarr 04/20/2016 at 11:38

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I am but I don’t exactly know why. Maybe I just like things in forgotten condition.

In Finland investigating those isn’t completely legal but it’s not completely illegal either. Squatting in an abandoned building is illegal but just visiting isn’t. That is if you can gain access without damaging anything. In this country you are extremely unlikely to get shot (or even arrested) while investigating something that you shouldn’t.

We have so called “every man’s rights” that lets us go wandering in forests and pick berries or mushrooms. We can also go camping nearly everywhere. Wandering in field during growing season, cutting down fire wood or camping right in front of someone’s house are still forbidden. But outside viewing distance from a person’s house short time camping is ok.

I have visited couple of abandoned buildings but not anything lately.

McMike > Jcarr 04/20/2016 at 11:41

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_S…

Later in life it was a medium-security prison, but it started off as an asylum.

In its early days, the facility was a resort-style asylum. It had terraced gardens where patients could plant flowers and take walks, roof walks to provide mountain views, and many architectural details to create an atmosphere that would aid in the healing process. However, by the mid 19th Century, this utopian model of care had vanished, replaced by overcrowding in the facility and the warehousing of patients. Techniques such as “ankle and wrist restraints, physical coercion, and straitjackets” were used. After the passage of the Eugenical Sterilization Act of 1924 in Virginia, patients were forcibly sterilized at Western State until the law authorizing the practice was repealed in the 1970s. Later, electroshock therapy and lobotomies were practiced at the facility.Joseph DeJarnette, a noted eugenicist, was director of the hospital from 1905 to 1943.

Western State was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 25, 1969, but vacated the property in the 1970s when the hospital moved to its present site near Interstate 81. The original facility was then converted to the Staunton Correctional Center, a medium-security men’s penitentiary. The prison closed in 2003, and the site was left vacant for several years. In 2005, the state of Virginia gave the property to the Staunton Industrial Authority. The facility was converted again recently into condominiums called The Villages at Staunton.

We didn’t have access to any other buildings. After hearing about the shit they did to patients, I really wanted to see the infirmary.

Jcarr > McMike 04/20/2016 at 11:48

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Those old asylums are some of those most fascinating. The fact that so many were building using the Kirkbride Plan makes them even more interesting.

Jcarr > Jonathan Harper 04/20/2016 at 11:53

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Ever been to/seen Bannerman’s Island?

Jcarr > Mr. Giraffe 04/20/2016 at 11:54

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Love the Proper People. I’d recommend subscribing to the channel from my video above. Lots of cool locations.

Stapleface > Jcarr 04/20/2016 at 12:22

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I love abandoned buildings, but have sadly never visited any. There’s just something about a no-longer used property that is fascinating to me. I want to visit some myself, but I don't want to get caught trespassing

Mr. Giraffe > Jcarr 04/20/2016 at 12:28

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I actually already did lol

Jonathan Harper > Jcarr 04/20/2016 at 12:42

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Planning to canoe out and fly drone there later this summer

Jcarr > Jonathan Harper 04/20/2016 at 12:51

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Awesome, please post when you do!

Teflexing > Jcarr 04/20/2016 at 13:28

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They’re so weird and eerie but I love it.

JRapp: now as good as new again > Jcarr 04/20/2016 at 15:01

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I’ve been to a few abandoned Soviet Military based in Estonia. This (link in Estonian) is one here we used to visit all the time when I was younger. It was interesting exploring old bunkers and dorm buildings and all that. And no, I don’t have any picures right now, but I’m planning on going again this summer to see what all is left of it.

Stef Schrader > Jcarr 04/20/2016 at 23:31

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Man, this is one of many rabbit holes I often go down. “What happened to this building? OOH WHAT DOES IT LOOK LIKE INSIDE?”

Jcarr > Stef Schrader 04/21/2016 at 09:16

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It’s a fantastic way to waste time.