In we go, then. I landed next to a pile of very long and thin nails. If this was a trap, it was quite badly executed. The funny thing about this room is, that it looks emptier than 11 years ago. There’s actually room to move around. A vintage tractor with pedals. I wished IContinue reading “Goodbye, Nightmares Part II”
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A Silent Court
Next destination: a former residential area built for the workers of a nearby copper factory. I had heard of the place from a fellow urbexer. I wasn’t really sure of its exact location, nor did I know what I could expect. Sounds like an adventure, right? Wooden houses from the early post war period, allContinue reading “A Silent Court”
Almost Choo-chooed On The Way
Several of the locations I chose to visit during my road trip were places, which I had never visited. I had spotted them in news about abandoned buildings, construction projects and future demolitions. But there were also several locations, which I had spotted during my extensive tour of Finland the previous summer. That time IContinue reading “Almost Choo-chooed On The Way”
The Most Disputed Lot In Town
My godson was turning six, so it was time for my yearly visit to my old home town in mid-November. As usual the weather was cold, windy and didn’t really encourage to outside activities. Yet we always went somewhere with the family. And this time it was to be a very disputed place right inContinue reading “The Most Disputed Lot In Town”
Mining Village Revisited
Several years had passed since I and my friends visited the village of Otanmäki near Kajaani. Although it is far from abandoned, it’s been in quite of a decline since the mine closed in the 1980’s. The location is remote and the houses are way too large for the area thus resulting in the cheapestContinue reading “Mining Village Revisited”
Evening Walks & Nosey Neighbours Part IV
The third floor had clearly just been office space. In fact the third floor only covered one end of the building. From the outside it looked like there was more than this, but we couldn’t find a way to access that part of the building. In fact the narrow ladder seen in one of theContinue reading “Evening Walks & Nosey Neighbours Part IV”
Evening Walks & Nosey Neighbours Part III
An attempt at a window shot. Not one of my best. Again the brick wall looks a bit too good to me. The bricks and the plaster between them look a bit too regular to be from the 1940’s. So I found the elevator. This one has definitely been modernized in the 1970’s, so that’sContinue reading “Evening Walks & Nosey Neighbours Part III”
Evening Walks & Nosey Neighbours Part II
A closer look at one of the drums. Chrome was used in making the skins better suited for leather products, and probably some substance containing it was led to the drums. This also meant that the soil under and around the factory was seriously contaminated. The contamination levels were such, that in fact the authoritiesContinue reading “Evening Walks & Nosey Neighbours Part II”
Evening Walks & Nosey Neighbours Part I
This golden haired beauty is yet another one of the baristas in the café I used to frequent back in the days. I had already been urbexing with two of them, she was the third one. Our location of the day was a former leather factory located next to a railroad. My background research hadContinue reading “Evening Walks & Nosey Neighbours Part I”
Nightmares Gone Sad
So here we are again. This is the place, which sparked my interest towards the abandoned almost 14 years ago. The place, which came to my nightmares every night, which I entered drunk 11 years ago and which became my first ever full exploration 10 years ago. Every now and then I’ve returned, gone in,Continue reading “Nightmares Gone Sad”