Excitement!

[Fishticky]

So today I just came back from an adolescent adventure under the ground of our university. My friends and i found an opened grate that let us into the immense network of maintenance tunnels, and we explored for a while, until we began to hear voices and walking. We like waited for a while, until we decided that the voice was getting nearer, and when it was pretty close to our tunnel, we began to hurridly rush away (we thought it was probably a security guard or something). Well we were chased, and after getting hopelessly lost in the tunnels, we found an incredibly dark tunnel and laid down on the sides of it. Our pursuers followed us into it, and passed us, upon which we began to slowly follow them. When they reached a lighter tunnel, we realized, they were people we knew who had also heard of the rumor of an opened tunnel, and were exploring the network.
Anyway, we found an exit that popped us in the middle of the local hospital, and we snuck out and went back to our dorms.

So, any exciting tales about anything you guys have done?

[Figglyduff]

Oh wow, that sounds so fun! I like exploring things like that! :( I'll have to think about whether anything interesting has ever actually happened to me...

[tackledspoon]

That sounds awesome. I've done various things like that, but we've never had so much excitement. I'd like to explore the abandoned asylum near my house, but there are a lot of leftover mental patients still living in the building and friends who have gone in reported being scared shitless and pursued and the like.
I always used to hang out at an abandoned highway overpass when I was in high school. That was fun to explore. Living in New Jersey, WEIRD NJ magazine always provided us with plenty of creepy shit to explore.

[Fwching]

Ah, the fair state of New Jersey. A friend of a friend (which might make him my friend) owns a tree farm near Bernardsville in an especially rural area, and this place is huge, essentially an estate, and while on the edge of his land, on an obscured path near the road, some guy in a car stopped by and asked why this group of kids (us) was loitering around here, and he informed him that it was his own land. Apparently, there used to be a convent nearby, and something or the other creepy related to nuns or priests or something. I don't remember the story (which gives me no reason to post in this thread), but... dunno, I guess it was cool to know someone whose property was actually featured in Weird NJ.

[tackledspoon]

^ I actually live very nearby to your friend (probably about 20 minutes) and what he was talking about was probably the tomb of the blue nun. There was a very charitable nun in Morristown, NJ and when she died, a wax sculpture was taken of her body and put on display in a roadside hut, behind glass along the side of a rural road out by Bernardsville. The peculiar thing was that the hands on the wax sculpture were not fake, but taken from the body of the dead nun. Creepy.

[mattdq99]

me and my friends were able to climb into our school's belltower. pretty nice view of central phoenix. we would go up there every morning before school, however just last week we got caught. we only got two hours of detention since our dean was able to relate, saying when he was a student at the school he went up there too. also because my school is very lax on discipline.

[i.am.superman]

when i was in my early 20s, my friend and i snuck onto the campus of our old high school after hours and smoked cigarettes. it was a very strict all-girls catholic high school, so this was pretty bold of us. i have no idea really why we did it.

[tackledspoon]

Originally posted by spiritualdishwasher
One of my friends' dad used to work for Weird NJ. What is the name of this abandoned asylum of which you speak? I think I know what you're talking about.
It's Greystone Park assylum in Morristown, NJ. It's actually one of the largest buildings ever constructed in terms of the size of the footpring. You used to live in Summit, right?

I just thought about the time this summer that my ex and I went up to the roof of my high school to chat and skywatch and the police ended up showing up in the middle of a hookup session... we had to sprint down to the back of the school and drop a pretty good distance so as not to get arrested.
I went up two weeks later to put a lawn gnome up there, peering into one of the skylights. Apparently it was still there on the first day of school, which I think was pretty cool.

[DrinkTeaEatBooks]

When we were kids, there used to be this old abandoned cement works in my otherwise picturesque little village, with a whole ton of abandoned machinery, and empty buildings. The place was basically an industrial wasteland - we used to play in the vast expanses of the old chalk quarries, sneak inside the empty warehouses, climb about on the machinery, explore the office buildings. In the winter, we used to go sledging on the quarry sides. Of course, there was a security guard. The game was to provoke him enough to chase you, without getting caught. I realise now just how dangerous all this was, but when you're a kid, I suppose you're just not afraid. Or just stupid. Since then, they've torn the place down and built a depressed looking housing estate. Sad.

I think the sad thing about living in Britain is that it's so cramped that there isn't any room for anything to be abandoned any more. Is it true that there are whole empty ghost towns out in the American Midwest?

[Edited on 8-2-2006 by DrinkTeaEatBooks]

[lou2ser]

Do a google search for "steam tunnel." Most colleges have them.


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[Figglyduff]

Oh wow, that looks really fun!

I just remembered a time when I went into an empty house to have a look around, it was really fun but some people got shown round while we were in this big shed thing round the back so we had to hide under some counters till they had gone, it was pretty good.

Also, there's an abandoned railway that goes through my village. Its all sealed off now because its private property, but the old owners let people walk down it and there were a few odd buildings and tunnels and things which were pretty fun. Whats a real shame is that since the current owners don't let anyone through its entirely overgrown and one of the bridges has rotted away, what a waste. Not quite as exciting as everyone else's stories but I just felt like typing something :D

[Fwching]

Originally posted by tackledspoon
Originally posted by spiritualdishwasher
One of my friends' dad used to work for Weird NJ. What is the name of this abandoned asylum of which you speak? I think I know what you're talking about.
It's Greystone Park assylum in Morristown, NJ. It's actually one of the largest buildings ever constructed in terms of the size of the footpring. You used to live in Summit, right?

I just thought about the time this summer that my ex and I went up to the roof of my high school to chat and skywatch and the police ended up showing up in the middle of a hookup session... we had to sprint down to the back of the school and drop a pretty good distance so as not to get arrested.
I went up two weeks later to put a lawn gnome up there, peering into one of the skylights. Apparently it was still there on the first day of school, which I think was pretty cool.

Duuude Greystone I live next to Morristown. Of course we know this place. We occasionally roam around the fields close by, I basically live off of the main road that goes straight to the place.

Also, my friend lives in Peapack. Haven't confirmed the "blue nun" thing yet.

[lou2ser]

If anyone is interested in this kind of stuff I suggest www.uer.ca

[tackledspoon]

Originally posted by Fwching
Originally posted by tackledspoon
Originally posted by spiritualdishwasher
One of my friends' dad used to work for Weird NJ. What is the name of this abandoned asylum of which you speak? I think I know what you're talking about.
It's Greystone Park assylum in Morristown, NJ. It's actually one of the largest buildings ever constructed in terms of the size of the footpring. You used to live in Summit, right?

I just thought about the time this summer that my ex and I went up to the roof of my high school to chat and skywatch and the police ended up showing up in the middle of a hookup session... we had to sprint down to the back of the school and drop a pretty good distance so as not to get arrested.
I went up two weeks later to put a lawn gnome up there, peering into one of the skylights. Apparently it was still there on the first day of school, which I think was pretty cool.

Duuude Greystone I live next to Morristown. Of course we know this place. We occasionally roam around the fields close by, I basically live off of the main road that goes straight to the place.

Also, my friend lives in Peapack. Haven't confirmed the "blue nun" thing yet.

Which insanely rich, white suburb are you from? I'm a Chathamite, myself. The Blue Nun is confirmed by my friend's parents who were both raised in Morristown. It's gone now, though.

[Fwching]

Not all rich or white (though it's the majority), but I'm from Randolph.

[Edited on 2-10-2006 by Fwching]

[Fishticky]

Yup, lou2ser, that is pretty much exactly what the tunnels looked like. However, probably the most interesting part was where we entered the health sciences section of the tunnels, because there were a lot of weird consoles and machinery. Or the door that said cancer primate sector, which for some reason my buddies and I decided not to explore into...

And, Weird NJ seems like a great magazine, too bad here in washington we never had a magazine like that, it would have been great to have places to explore during the boring high school weekends...