TST Urban Exploration thread

[Vr-4-Life]

All,

The idea for this thread just kind of came to me. I really like exploring abandoned buildings and odd places with a camera and a flashlight. This is an occasional hobby that other people share on a forum called http://www.uer.ca/. Other urban explorers will post locations, photos, and stories.

I figured I'd see if there is any other like-minded people on TST. If you're into exploring old bandoned asylums, power plants, houses, or just weird places in general then POST UP! Of course, lets all obide by the law and avoid destruction and vandalism. Also please know the penilties, some towns have rather large fines for trespassing. If you cant resist the urge to explore, then do so with caution.

Well with that being said... Who knows some funky old places to check out? I know a few around the Trenton NJ area that are worth the trip.

Rich

[Sublime1304]

I love doing these kind of things. Let's get a list of places. I'd love to explore new places. Maybe see some strange things lol

[Sublime1304]

How about lambertville high school (I think it's a high school)? My friends used to go there and see strange things

[Vr-4-Life]

Thats school is nothing... I used to go there years ago and there are problems.

For one... the roof caved in so you can only explore like one room, and for two, the nehibors call the cops...


There is a really good abandoned naval testing center in ewing nj... Its HUGE, and it has lot of cool equipment to look at..

[RedBowTies88]

isnt lambertville the one where the supposed fobtball player died?

[jpalamar]

Centrilia isn't as much an abandoned building but would be a cool place to check out. I somehow have never been yet.

[DC2.2GSR]

great thread idea. i'm really into this stuff, but i haven't gotten out to as many places as i'd like. my brother used to go to some forum and check out all kinds of places and then just tell me about them and we'd go. i'm down for any trip pretty much any time, but I won't be going to jersey. as long as it's in PA i'm in.

btw VR4, your link goes to some russian looking site.

[Vr-4-Life]

Fixed the link... sorry about that... Hopefully, you didnt contract conficker.....


Anyhow.... They shot an episode of House at greystone asylum in morristown NJ. This place was creepy, huge, and it had catacombs under the ground that connected the buildings together. the only bad thing is that its across from a police station. It was also hard o get into... I have no idea what its like now because I havent been there in over a year.

UER definately has a lot of good places. I also have the wierd NJ ap on my phone and that lists a few. I'd really like to get a group together if we find a place worth exploring.

[Higu]

The old Essex County Hospital (Overbrook) grounds were like that too. Only that place is ****ing huge. Like 350 acres or something. A lot of the buildings are torn down now, there's over 50, and it used to be really fun to explore them and whatnot, but cops roam alot now, so if you do go, you have to be careful. Oh, and only go in the catacombs if you have a map or a good sense of direction. You will get lost, and it's scary as hell there

[Big_Jim]

Man, before Byberry Mental Hospital was town down, that place was the jam to explore.

[Elliott18t]

ive wanted to do this but everytime i looked up somewhere relatively close to here on there it was either really well gaurded (im not going to go for that..) or demolished..





or boring.

[DriftCrash]

Wow here I thought no one else really knew or was into urban exploration lol

The paulinskill viaduct is a pretty cool place to explore.

There are alotta places I wanna see but some of them I haven't been able to find exact locations, one place is the Marlboro slaughterhouse

I would be down for a UE meet, but it would have to be a small group, more ppl normally causes more problems

[Got Insulin?]

Originally Posted by Big_Jim

Man, before Byberry Mental Hospital was town down, that place was the jam to explore.

How is it possible that we've never run into each other in person? I used to spend almost entire summers there, haha.

My friends and I used to just look up stuff on the internet and go seek it out, but our main stomping grounds were in Byberry and this other spot in Haverford. I used to have carry bolt cutters in my car just in case we found a new spot at the last moment.

There's a school on Girard Ave I used to sneak into, there's a killer view from the roof, gargoyles and all. It was awesome because it was as if everyone just up and left: textbooks, desks, computer monitors, stagehand supplies; it was nuts. If you ever see a moniker that says "The WaWa Kid" that was one of my crew running rampant back in the day, and my buddy's Tag. I've met Goddog, dRama, and a bunch of the others that are pretty big in the PA scene, too.

Others were an abandoned hopsital in Doylestown, and a few subway tunnels that my friends and I managed to get into before the SEPTA guys got smart and sealed them off. I've alse briefly been inside that monstorous abandoned hotel off of Broad Street, but never had the balls to go too deep into it after that kid got murked there in the early 2000s.

The name of the place escapes me, but they just made this other abandoned mental facility into a haunted house that I've been inside a few times, too.

I'll throw some pics up when I can get back on my PC.

[djb5118]

^pennhurst

[Vr-4-Life]

OK we really need to have an UE meet now. I'd say if we get 5 people or so interested then we do it! we need a good place with minimal risks.

Essex sounds good.. I'd like to check that out... Any old place with cool random ass technology is interesting to me. The old naval center that I mentioned before had GIANT chambers where they would fire jet engines.

[Elliott18t]

im down as long as its not during class/work hours.

[Sublime1304]

Let's make the first post in this thread have all possible options and locations. And I'd prefer to do any in PA (depends where in NJ). Definitely count me in

[dnasty2g]

hmm.. I go to school in morristown, might have to check out greystone asylum.

[xarchiex]

ya back when i was younger i used to do it all the time.ive been over to pennhurst couple of times before was turned into a haunted house.also there was ancora in south jersey it was like a little abandoned town thing for old vets that were unstabke and needed mental help but thats gone now.

[JDMTyler3326]

Originally Posted by vr-4-life

ok we really need to have an ue meet now. I'd say if we get 5 people or so interested then we do it! We need a good place with minimal risks.

Essex sounds good.. I'd like to check that out... Any old place with cool random ass technology is interesting to me. The old naval center that i mentioned before had giant chambers where they would fire jet engines.

i would so be down