Its Sunday, its 8:00 PM EST GMT - 4:00, and the first page is leaving something to be desired. So, how about a general urban exploring/evasion/dickery thread?
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Industrial parks are nice places. I am thinking of buying some property nearby me to make into a wareHOUSE. Might be cool, $6.00/sq. ft and full living accommodations in the offices. There are no neighbors, no police intervention in the local vicinity, and the complex is pretty large.
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Been playing STALKER all day, this thread interests me:>be 2:15AM >Wed night, kids in bed because of school, police arent suspicious on week days. >Sneak past pennDOT building, down powerline maintenance path >3 miles through woods, pitch black >Come up to blocked, abandoned road parallel to Dangerous Patients ward >police cruiser rolls by, get in bushes, one friend backs out immediately cause is giant pussy >breath in air cause cold, cop shines cruiser light at us >sees breath like smoke from fire, gets out
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no that illegal im a gun owner a law abiding citizen
The Salesman 2.0 !!6bag1sWZ4fb
Also, every town has a seedy part to it that is inhabited by all manners of filth. Usually, the property value is low and large lots can be bought up for small amounts of money. Essentially, you could start using this property as a man trap and clean up around your place. Imagine building that vault room you've always wanted for your guns at $0.14 a sq. ft.
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I explored an abandoned mental hospital that had been shut down for a few years before I got there. Google "northville regional psychiatric hospital". So many stories, dear god where to begin.
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>>11248011 I could probably do this in the city.
The only problem is....it's the city of Chicago.
The Salesman 2.0 !!6bag1sWZ4fb
>>11248005 Asylums are always going to have a creepy air about them, it is just the thought that very disturbed people were housed and died there...
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I've been thinking about exploring one of the relatively abandoned insane asylums near my college. Look up central State hospital, it's creepy as shit. It's in milledgeville, Georgia there is only like 1/10 buildings being used. It was the largest asylum in GA but had pretty spotty records.
Legatus Fancius !!o+hMc04ZB0d
I would only Urban Explore if I could bring my rifle.
Anonymous
Centralia is also pretty cool for offroading, most of the buildings are gone, but this highway with the steam rising through it is cool to see.
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>>11248012 Sounds promising, go on.
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i've always wanted to buy some old shitty property, like an old ward, clean up and make my navigate able, and let /kids/ come and explore. Hell if it was a big enough place i could turn it into a tourist trap, get some tour guards, and some shitty little 9mm handguns with blanks and create /the stalker experience/
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>>11248012 I do know that feeling that comes with the chair experience. When I went into Milacron (horrendously large and unstable machining factory in the process of demolition) the last time, I went in the front door. The first noticeable thing out of place was the door had been broken recently, as the glass was still crinkling and cracking but there were no foot prints leading into the lobby. After I entered, I could hear noises in the offices above me. When I got to the manufacturing floor, something fell upstairs and it must have been extremely heavy because the floor shook. After that, nothing happened.
A few nights prior, very strange things happened as well.
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Well fuck I wasn't planning on sleeping for a while. Let's get this shit going, yeah?
The Salesman 2.0 !!6bag1sWZ4fb
>>11248057 How long has that been burning now, 70 years?
>>11248049 I've thought of it, but armed trespassing was never a charge that I wanted to receive.
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>>11248062 The tallest and largest building was 13 stories tall, which is the tallest I've ever been on. We climbed the stairs all the way to the top (and brought several tossing items with) including 3 functional fire extinguishers, old persons walkers, tools, and a glass window. All of it but the extinguishers made sweet shattering sounds when they landed. The building itself had so many wings, rooms, offices and hallways we could not explore in one day (we came back several times). My favorite part was a completely dark room full of fucking walkers like people had been using them and suddenly stopped. I picked a few up and threw them as far as I could, pretty fun.
Scary shit again? Bowling alley. Yes. There was one in the basement, and again no lights. So we all had shitty led lights, fumbling around and someone somehow tripped the power switch to the alley instead of the lights. The fuckers fire up, pins start getting put into place and bowling balls retrieving.. Pretty fucking loud and startling.
Cool shit? Blueprints of the whole fucking place in the admin building. Offices from the 70's that somehow looked untouched in decades. Graffiti everywhere. Imagine hundreds of 8x8 sized windows and being able to break as many as you want. YES, I did break the law. YES it was stupid. But life is about the memories.
Anyone want to hear about the time we broke into the boiler/industrial room that hadn't been opened since it shut down? Asbestos warning.
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>>11248101 Yea about that long, it's expected to burn for an other 100-150 years depending on where the coal veins lie.
My other favorite, which is right around me, caleld Armorcast.
They built Shermans in WWII, its amazing to see the size and complexity of machinery that old. Its literally a few hundred yards from the center of town and yet you would never know its there.
Its crazy walking around inside, anything valuable is gone. Its being demolished, unfortunately.
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>>11248130 Asbestos is always fun.
Anonymous
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>>11248147 It seems that of the masters of industry past are being torn down to simply throw cheaply made replacements on sight.
Terribly sad.
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>>11248186 Tasty, tasty asbestos.
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>>11248149 me and my friend wanted to run around a complex around us but were worried about shit like that, would a simple gasmask from a gun show help with abestos and shit? We can get them for $15-$20 around here (were planning on getting them for stalker outfits for Halloween anyway)
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>>11248130 How did you not fall through a floor?
And what do you advise for an asbestos mask?
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>>11248149 The industrial/boiler building had been sealed off. The side doors were all chained up and whatnot. We bought a big set of bolt cutters, and found our way in. CAUTION ASBESTOS tape everywhere. There was thick, ceiling insulation type dust looking shit everywhere. HUGE fucking boiler type machinery, almost looked like chemical processing plants. Climbed a few stories to the top, and spray painted my name + my gfs name on the door up there (2 years ago, still together!). Locked it back up with chains and barred it shut. Then, we went into the only office room in the building, which was in a huge wing that had what looked like an empty pool that was about 20ft deep, 100ft long by 200ft wide. It was FILLED with paperwork. Every inch on the floor, atleast 2 feet deep with old bills, papers, phone books, technical books, user guides for machinery. Just astounding. I was ransacking the office, and my 2 friends were in the neck building over still walking around. I SWEAR, I fucking saw a dark figure run across the pool thing that was full of paper. I grabbed a stack of bills, employee records, and a really old sealed bottle of aspirin that I had on the desk and sprinted back into the other section of the building that was covered in asbestos. We found about 12 axes (the ones firemen use), safety helmets, goggles, facial/eye cleanser incase of chemical exposure. All of it was neatly organized, untouched. Some parts of the building looked like it was still new, others looked like it had been burned ransacked.
I still have stories about the gym, the auditorium, the basketball court, and a few other randoms. And shower rooms (just fucking shivered, creepy ass shit).
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There's an old brewery here that some friends and I have been wanting to explore for a while now, but part of is being used to store train cars or some shit, idk
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>>11248201 The funny thing is that a few gas mask filters were actually made with blue asbestos. But, you can use a paper mask and be perfectly fine. The only real time you should be worried about extreme asbestos exposure is when a building is in the process of demolition, since it stirs up the particulate into the air.
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>>11248215 I remember when they still brewed here, it smelled like hops all the time
Anonymous
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>>11248205 Don't fuck around with asbestos wearing an old-as-shit mask with dubious filters. Go get a new-manufacture mask with unexpired filters rated for asbestos (P100 will do, I believe). You can get them for $25-30 at Home Depot.
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>>11248223 We'll go someday
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>>11248205 From what I've heard, asbestos is really only a worry when you are constantly exposed for years. A simple painters gas mask is good enough. Not sure though
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>>11248207 Continue.
I'm fascinated.
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>>11248231 Also, there's a Coca Cola office building across the street with all the windows boarded up, been like that for a couples of years. We snooped around one night and they still have working electricity and supposedly an alarm system, so someone might be using it, but idk
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Basic equipment list?
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>>11248207 Would you care to share some more stories? I find this stuff fascinating.
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>>11248256 Ahhhh the gym. Well, we all know retards need to play basketball and run around right? So, this place. It had already been broken into, all the main entrances were destroyed (doors off hinges, glass everywhere). We just walked in. The first room i went into had 3 refridgerators, that looked new but dear god smelled like DEATH. So no salvaging there. Bottles of cleaner, that looked used were everywhere in that room too. Nothing exciting, moving on.
There was a gymnasium FULL of basketballs. Atleast 30. I grabbed a few, went into the bleachers and threw them with all my force at the hoops (none made it) and saw spraypaint that said KILL REDGUARDS (not that specifically) and it looked familiar. I know some of my other friends had been in this place so I assumed it was them. Me and my 2 friends went to the top of the bleachers, and were on the roof/upper level of the gym. Breaking glass, throwing rocks, in general just fucking it up. Then we heard a few loud booms. I run back into the gym from the roof and see that both entrances into the gym were closed shut. And barred from the other side (we tried to open/break them, large metal pushbar doors). The only other exits were through the locker rooms.
So, I popped my head into the mens locker room. Bad idea. Fucking towels, rotten and nasty looking, and mens underwear that look liked shitstained all over the floors. So besides the smell, creep factor, and lack of light/pathway, we decided to just crawl around the roof into finding another building. Which leads to the auditorium.
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>>11248264 Get in there and find some nuka-cola quantum!
Be careful of the nukalurks though.
Anonymous
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>>11248294 Thanks for typing this up - they're great stories.
The Salesman 2.0 !!6bag1sWZ4fb
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>>11248279 Boots, pants, shirt, flashlight, camera, good knife (M7 bayonet for me), tripod, cigarettes, lighter, gloves, and possibly a respirator.
To get in is usually as simple as opening the front door, however sometimes the use of a nearby brick to open a window or a door is necessary.
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I found this old food building, checked around the back and found used pizza boxes, clothes on the ground ect.
The Salesman 2.0 !!6bag1sWZ4fb
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>>11248323 Offer them something they can use, like cigarettes. If they try to rob or harm you, simply kill them.
Anonymous
Ha, just out crazy them, or act like the police.
Anonymous
The Salesman 2.0 !!6bag1sWZ4fb
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>>11248349 >act like the police You're a fucking retarded child. That's a good way to get your self cracked in the face walking around a corner with a 2x4.
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>>11248389 >toilet of the average anon The Salesman 2.0 !!6bag1sWZ4fb
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>>11248323 tell them you're looking for your little sister who ran away from home and is living on the streets. street people are not monsters.
or just tell them the fucking truth like an adult you little beta, say 'scuse me, do a 540 and moonwalk outta there
The Salesman 2.0 !!6bag1sWZ4fb
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Sometimes abandoned things get destroyed for no good reason.
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>>11248264 Longview TX!!! I wanted to go in there for a while too. The old brewery still has people going in and out of it quite often. The coca cola place is all broken up but it looks explore able..
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I want to have new content to post, I really do. But I just don't have the time for far-flung ventures anymore.
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Oh and this is a former Soviet military base in Borne Sulinowo. /k/ interested? Posted it on more than one occasion but it's still eye candy.
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The Salesman 2.0 !!6bag1sWZ4fb
>>11248529 I do still wish the rest of the world had a post-communistic approach to property, it would be so wonderful for people like us.
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>>11248549 It seems fine when you look at it from the distance.
In fact, what you are seeing is wasted opportunity 20 years leater. Rapid privatization led to the abandonment of a lot of good things which now are in demand. A waste, basically.
It did provide us with an immesurable supply of cool STALKER-esque shit laying around, however.
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Anonymous
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good stuff /k/omrade
The Ward !!svlV9h12anw
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And as to the ease of exploration... Well, whole CITIES, whole military complexes were abandoned i between 1989 and 1992, and the whole country's dotted with them. It's not like you *can* keep people off that shit.
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>>11248581 Very true. It is just fascinating to see things like nuclear submarines, multi-million dollar military installations, and even entire cities just abandoned without so much as a protest. The property was done with it's serviceable life through the government, so they just took everything of value and said fuck it. Very interesting.
I hope one day soon I can gather up enough money to travel to the Aral Sea deserts and photograph the wrecks and biological weapons facilities. That would be very much worth it.
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"Work accordingly to the combat work instruction" or something along those lines.
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>>11248635 >they just took everything of value Thing is, they didn't. Pic related, it's a coastal defense gun some 4 km away from where I used to live (19. BAS, that is "19th Static Artillery Battalion"). It's just left there, because fuck everything. Along with the rangefinder, remnants of the radar, ammo storage/loading system etc.
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OK, back to Borne Sulinowo.
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Former warhead storage, now a stable.
The Salesman 2.0 !!6bag1sWZ4fb
>>11248684 Rephrasement, "most things of value". Poland seems like a very nice place the way you document it. I should very much like to travel there one day as well.
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Someone didn't really understand the concept of "towed rocket artillery".
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>>11248714 >Rephrasement, "most things of value" Eh, depends on what we define as valuable. Scrap matal can be valuable if in large enough quantities, and I've seen/heard of junkyarders steal bridges or steam locomotives. I shit you not. And most of the factory equipment, tools and whatnot, was left to rot/be stolen.
The military took whatever was of value to them, not whatever was of value in general.
>>11248714 >Poland seems like a very nice place the way you document it. I should very much like to travel there one day as well. If you're looking for fairly easily accessible places for urban exploration it's the way to go.
The Salesman 2.0 !!6bag1sWZ4fb
These tough motherfuckers were following me around a good portion of the time I was on these tracks, until they came upon the body of their other furry companion who was hit by a train probably hours earlier.
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The Salesman 2.0 !!6bag1sWZ4fb
>>11248751 Military value is much different from civilian value, due to the military have all the money they want at their fingertips. But yes, scrappers are ingenious people. Recently in a town nearby, the main hall was stripped of it's copper gutters and down spouts in the night. And 3 miles of chainlink fence just "disappeared" from a stretch of the expressway a month before.
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>>11248778 being poor with lots of time on your hands often leads to that
The Salesman 2.0 !!6bag1sWZ4fb
>>11248759 At least they aren't subtle about their business.
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>>11248778 >Military value is much different from civilian value, due to the military have all the money they want at their fingertips. It starts being problematic when you have a centralized aconomy which doesn't really distinguish between military/civillian property (or at least it doesn't in the ways most western people are used to) and the transition effort is being led by people who have little to no idea as to what they are doing.
But I digress.
Anonymous
>>11248446 Is that pripyat?
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>>11248796 >fuses Oh god you just reminded me of something. Back in the days one of my friends blew himself to shit when he tried to scavenge copper off a functioning electrical substations.
The Salesman 2.0 !!6bag1sWZ4fb
>>11248799 Economic problems are like deep fissures. Once you fall in, it takes quite some doing to escape.
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>>11248822 Is your friend absolutely clueless or just eager?
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>>11248823 >Economic problems are like deep fissures. Once you fall in, it takes quite some doing to escape. Aint it the truth.
Anonymous
Is there a guide for this? I am interested.
The Ward !!svlV9h12anw
>>11248840 >Is your friend absolutely clueless or just eager? Wirst of all, WAS, they had to scrape him off walls, and secondly, he was 12, no bored teenager behaves in a responsible manner, and that was before internet became widespread.
Anyways, I recon more 19. BAS pics are in order. Dat gun.
The Salesman 2.0 !!6bag1sWZ4fb
>>11248857 Urban Exploration is a simple hobby with a few simple rules.
1 - Avoid wooden structures
2 - Avoid chemical tanks or holding ponds
3 - Avoid flooded areas, especially in the dark
4 - Avoid structures that are in the process of falling down
It's that simple.
The Ward !!svlV9h12anw
>>11248857 A guide would be pretty... useless, I think. Apart of general equipment tips. It all depends on where you are exploring (the law, the locals and their resistance, the buildings themselves).
Best bet? Local urban exploration forums. Any area is bound to have at least one. They usually know their shit.
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Anonymous
Do you guys go alone or with one or more mates when exploring?
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>>11248863 Ah, I see. Everyone is a bit "off" when younger.
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>>11248892 Depends. But I usually go alone. Enhances the experience.
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The Salesman 2.0 !!6bag1sWZ4fb
>>11248892 Sometimes, but lots of the time I like to go alone. Friends have benefits such as being slower than you when running, they usually have cigarettes if you run out, and they offer a cut off of the creepy side of exploring. They also have downfalls, such as being in the way of photographs, losing them in the building, being too loud, and general stupidity.
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Main fire control point tower.
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>>11248926 >>11248909 Alright, thanks.
I would have thought that you took at least one other guy with you "just in case".
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Anonymous
>>11248929 >>11248919 >>11248888 >>11248880 >>11248863 >>11248684 >get a few friends with torches/tools and a big fucking truck of some kind >good day or two of hard work >coastal guns acquired >everyone on /k/ buttmad that you have the largest caliber weapon here >clean them up a bit >drive them to some less law-abiding country and sell them, even if its only to a museum >mad profit yo DO IT FAGGOT
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> investigating the homes of homeless and drug addicts
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>>11248964 The gun survived only because it's in close proximity to a: Naval military base, a functioning radar station and an Army ammo depot. Clandestine exploration doesn't earn you a lead-clad greeting, scavenging does.
Nah, If I wanted to die I'd pick a way that doesn't prevent me from getting an open casket funeral.
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Anonymous
I still don't get any of thie urban exploring bs
The Salesman 2.0 !!6bag1sWZ4fb
>>11248979 There hasn't been a violent encounter with a person yet for me. One person I met was very nice, and we actually talked for quite a bit over a pack of cigarettes. The next day, he was no longer in the vicinity and I haven't seen him yet.
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>>11249014 >it doesn't work in my area so it must be stupid Anyways, Międzyrzecki Rejon Umocniony (MRU) now.
Anonymous
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>>11248294 From what it sounds like, there were just some other people about the place who decided to fuck with you...
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>>11249043 fucking captcha ate my pic
Also MRU is one of the biggest underground fortification networks.
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>>11249014 For some of us, the danger is outweighed by the chance to see a world that departed from reality decades if not centuries before. Documentation of such things and the chance to share them with other like minded people is always going to be enjoyable to me due to my love of photography and the strange fascination I have with things that others call "undesirable architecture".
You just don't know util you try it.
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>>11249048 >dem extreme load bearing egg-ways Please continue, this is neat.
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>>11249090 I need to live in a place like this. I have been considering the industrial property as mentioned earlier, but something like one of these Polish Labyrinths of Hell would be much more suited to my tastes and needs.
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Look at how fucking huge this is.
Anonymous
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>>11249114 Yeah...
...Or a good example of lack of WWII damage, seeing how utterly fucked the resto of the country was this can be considered in pristine condition.
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Why are there so little pics of MRU underground floating around.
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Yep, those are rails there. This thing was so fucking big it required its own railroad network.
Anonymous
>>11248549 >wish the rest of the world had a post-communistic approach to property you're fucking retarded. in non-post-communistic countries they still have to provide rescue to faggots that hurt themselves crawling around in deserted buildings and the possibility of lawsuits
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>>11249167 >real life black mesa The Ward !!svlV9h12anw
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>>11249171 I really don't recall hearing about any lawsuits against the former Soviet Union / satellites about people being hurt in such installations, which are still technically government owned and off limits...
Anonymous
>>11248189 I have always wanted to buy a crane like this and just throw some trusses and metal sheeting over it so the crane is the main structure of a pole barn. Several went for much less than $5000 near me from a Bombardier plant near me (you take down). This was probably 1/4 scrap value or less.
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>>11249171 >they still have to provide rescue to faggots that hurt themselves crawling around in deserted buildings If that happens they're fined to shit anyways so what's the deal?
>the possibility of lawsuits Try winning a lawsuit in Poland, I dare you, I DOUBLE DARE YOU.
It doesn't work anything like what you have in the west. No, if you bring something like "I hurt myself when I was breaking the law" or "I spilled my coffee, it was too hot so I burnt myself, I demand a compensation" to court you're going to get utterly fucking destroyed.
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>>11248200 Don't disturb it, and there is no hazard.
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>>11249213 That would be pretty neat.
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>>11249205 They may be technically off limits but... Pretty much noone cares if you're just lurking around, once you try to scavenge you'll get attention.
>lurking around Rogowo airbase with a friend >the Poulees arrives >we go out and ask what's wrong >we got a report of suspicious activity here. We assume it was you. What are you doing here? >Nothing harmful, just taking pictures and stuff... >We show them the pics. >OK, carry on, just get out of sight, some tourists got nervous. And that was all. Even though we were technically tresspassing.
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Anonymous
>>11249265 I do a lot of wilderness exploration, would exploring in and around compounds be similar? I'm too pussy to go into buildings without a backup bro, so is walking around outside similar to walking around in the forest?
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>>11249308 Depends on the building... A far spread and nearly completely empty ruin would be pretty simmiliar I gues, so would be ruins located innawoods.
But anything more "urban" is just that, "urban".
>I'm too pussy to go into buildings without a backup bro Nothing wrong with that. I can afford to walk alone because I know the locals won't fuck with me, and if they do, I know how to talk my way out. If you're unsure of this, or anything other than this, of course it's best to have backup. Just remember to keep a low profile, which is kind of harder to do when you're not alone.
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You guys are awesome. Seeing pictures of places like this gives me hope that I'll be able to do some urban exploring without getting shot or arrested in some places.
Anonymous
>>11249342 By 'Low Profile' do you mean always stay hidden, or Low Profile as in not looking suspicious?
My friend and I both own a ton of camouflage, so hiding wouldn't be a problem, but if we are spotted it would look suspicious as fuck.
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So.. I'll post the few pics of Bagicz airbase I can post (fuck you, image size limit) then I'll need to go off for a while (need to find some anti-inflammation drugs since my recently acquired infection started getting out of hand again, and that's hard to do at 5 AM).
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>>11248646 Another perfectly serviceable gantry crane left behind.
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>>11249369 "Low profile" as in "not attracting enough attention for the police to come, and explainable enough not to be in deep shit when they do come".
Still, check your local urban exploration forums for tips. I'm from a country with a wholly different law system than the US, I have little to no idea as to how your police will react.
Anonymous
>>11248879 that fucking spider
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>>11249402 >hotel overlooking abandoned military traps and a bunker Such is life in Poland?
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>>11249425 Did the spider catch a damned dog or something?
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So I know it's just trespassing to go about these old abandoned bases
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Anyone know of any buildings like this in the St. Louis area? I'd love to go into one one of these days.....
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>>11249421 Marine Hotel. A five star hotel no less.
Better yet, two other hotels (both 5 star) exist next to it. Did I mention that there is also an A-class office building built nearby? I really sould mention that.
But the bunkers still stand. Oh well, such is the life in a country that experienced a communist-capitalist transition.
>>11249445 >>11249451 Australia has no shit on Poland.
Anonymous
>>11249421 >>11249402 Looks like a hell of a playground.
The Salesman 2.0 !!6bag1sWZ4fb
>>11249482 Wow, that's pretty neat. I learn new things everyday, and Poland is beginning to look even better.
Anonymous
>>11248823 Some kind of heat treat facility? I am amazed by how clean some of the abandoned buildings are.
Also, why do I picture someone standing out of frame holding that chain fall, waiting for the epic nut shot to present itself.
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>>11249514 Machining, manufacture, and general tooling. Raw steel came in, finished hardened tools came out.
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>>11249489 It's on a beach after all.
But seriously, the reason as to why it isn't moved is because it makes a convenient shore reinforcement, and we need those so the shore won't erode.
Which reminds me. Kołobrzeg (the place where those pics were made) had no beach for like 9 months (before it was recreated) because the military were digging bombs out of it so much it (and the weather) claimed the whole fucking beach.
I could post news on it but they'd all be in Polish. Interesting story though, the whole beach was closed and the military was patrolling it. During summer. In a tourist town.
Anonymous
>>11249425 srsly what the fucking fuck is that ?
I know it can't be any spider thing.
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>>11249529 When I lived in Berlin, it was always pretty funny when someone was digging for a foundation and had to call about live artillery shells next to the school.
UXO makes modern life funny.
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>>11249500 Also an interesting side story. The oldest of the three big hotels I mentioned (Arka) which was originally 4 star was meant to be much bigger from the start (it has been expanded greatly in recent years). But the Soviets said no because the size of the building silhouette would be blocking their radar detection installations, so the designers had to settle for a smaller building.
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>>11249530 There's a hobo larva inside.
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>>11249570 Why? When I'm making pics I'm making them big.
I'd post more but, well, size limitations. Some of my pics are well beyond the limit.
Anonymous
>>11249020 Generator or big AC motor? You didn't happen to photograph the name plate did you?
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>>11249590 That monster in the other room? Its an Ingersoll Rand air compressor to blow the furnaces, one of 8 in the building.
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Clever people say that this thing here once housed the SCUD which is now in Kołobrzeg military museum.
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And that's it for now guys. I need to go for now. Keep the thread up.
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>>11249674 Take care, and thank you for the wonderful contribution.
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>>11249698 Looks like an interesting slumber party.
>oldfags always get the sweetest pussy Anonymous
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is urban exploration exciting?
Anonymous
>>11249616 Neat, thanks for explaining.
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I wandered into an abandoned noodle factory a couple years ago, but didn't go far because I only had a shitty flashlight.
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>>11249773 Here's another.
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>>11248294 Any more stories?
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urban exploration is awesome... BUT
Anonymous
I have a few but it's from NZ where there isn't a huge amount.
Anonymous
>>11251315 This is from a small town hospital that was abandoned and I believe is currently being either control demolished or renovated.
Here is an X-Ray machine
Anonymous
>>11251324 Here is a good shot of the exterior
Anonymous
>>11251339 Here is what looks like a transformer I believe, not too sure.
There was an office that was locked but we picked and I scored a wooden penis (i'm hoping for educational purposes) and a whole lot of old sprinklers that have red or yellow liquids in them.
Anonymous
>>11251349 Here is a whole lot of chemicals, I can't quite remember what they were but one was silver nitrate. Nothing too interesting
Anonymous
>>11251359 Me checking on the scones
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>>11251367 Some weird vault that was inaccessible - it was one story up and no way if getting to it without climbing a wooden stud. It shook when you touched it.
There was also a long chain tied around one of the concrete beams that was holding up an entire face of the building, when you pulled the chain the whole thing would wobble.
Was hard to just leave it.
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>>11249616 NOW THATS AN AIR COMPRESSOR!
Anonymous
georgia pacific, a paper factory in bellingham
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Great thread. Thank's a lot to the people that contributed.
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>>11251389 also this cool place down b ythe water
Anonymous
>>11251315 What area is that in? Can you recommend anything near Auckland?
Anonymous
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um this isnt urban....but i took this in an old lava tube in la-pine eastern WA. if i remember correctly
Anonymous
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>>11251400 Check out Urbex NZ,
This was in Dannevirke which is down by Palmerston North, I live in Wellington.
There seems to be quite a lot in the Auckland region.
Here is a wind farm by Dannevirke
Anonymous
>>11248037 Not to mention that the mentaly ill weren't cared for properly.
>that feel when your mentaly ill brother was forced to go to a shitty one because his insurence wanted medicade to pay for it. They let his mouth go septic and let him break his nose in a shower.
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>>11251434 That stinks man, sorry to hear.
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really amazing
