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Tumblr new york urban explorer1/28/2024 ![]() When people ask me about, specifically, “I really want to do urban exploration, what tunnel should I go into or what should I climb?” I tell them I can’t really recommend that they do anything illegal, and that it wouldn’t be exploration if they had a guide. But when you do a bit of both, it can tell you a lot about places and it makes both a lot more exciting. And when you just run around exploring, a lot of times that can be fun but it doesn’t communicate any stories. I say research history and poke around, because history a lot of times is really boring by itself, unfortunately, when you don’t associate it with a part of the real world. What do you tell people who ask for advice on how to start urban exploring? I haven’t known it was dumb shit when I’ve done it it’s only afterwards that I realize there are these hazards there that I need to pay attention to. It’s always been like that - I’ve always thought, I need to be more careful and not do really dumb shit. What do you need to have in your bag to explore the underground in an urban environment? I did get into spelunking a little bit, but that was at the same time - I’m trying to remember now if I went into a natural cave or went into a train tunnel first. I picked up photography that way and fell in love with it. I got my first camera and took nothing worth saving for the first two years. I tried to drag along friends who took photography classes and had cameras and they were not enthused, or they didn’t get what I envisioned. Over the next few years, as I was poking around, that was the period that I just started doing the things I do now. Back when I first came, I thought of going to Times Square as a crazy exploration.Ībout midway through my time at college I took my first urban history class … and thought this is interesting stuff and I started seeing the physical traces of it in New York. I fell in love with New York right away and started off my urban exploration by doing all the touristy stuff. I came to New York to go to college at Columbia University. Some years later some strange explorer or treasure hunter stole those teeth.SD: Most of it just kind of happened along the way. So, I do what any good explorer would do and I removed them from the box and took photos of them. I enter an upstairs bedroom and find a great antique dresser, I open up a drawer and find a white box, I open that white box and find a perfect and used set of dentures inside! At the time, only a handful had been here and much had not yet been discovered. This one is quite simple, it’s March of 2014 and i am exploring an amazing abandoned house in the middle of a snowstorm. In one of the rooms there was a safe with a yellow envelope that read This home was a time warp right back to the 1960’s and 1970’s with very little done to the decor since that time period. One of these homes was simply titled “Somewhere House” by the person who discovered it, but in my circles and amongst my followers it has come to be known as the Mid Century Time Capsule House. I’ll be posting this video as my 100th YouTube video next week, see the teaser video at 4 – A Grenade in a SafeĢ015 was a great year for exploring, there were many solid locations all unique in their own way. Human Teeth left behind in an abandoned dentists office. ![]() The Tooth, The Whole Tooth and Nothing Buut the Tooth, So Help me God. I had explored this location a few days earlier and spotted this jar in a supply room/lab room and it was full of extracted human teeth in some kind of a green solution. Second was in November of 2017 and we were on our way to explore all weekend in Kingston Ontario but our first stop was an abandoned Dentists office in Scarborough, Ontario. They were labeled with things like “stomach contents”, “liver”, “fetal ….”, I couldn’t make out that last one. I opened the drawer and pulled out a medical bag full of specimen jars each containing different human specimens taken during autopsies that were to be sent to the lab. What we did not know was inside the autopsy room there was a small fridge that no one had yet looked inside. This one is a tie, two strange finds in two different locations.įirst, the Human Specimens: It was January 2016 and my first explore of the year, we had gone to explore an abandoned hospital that we knew had a great autopsy room and much more.
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