My father worked at the NL lead plant associated with this research facility. Within the area there were cancer clusters. IRRC three children in my kindergarden died of brain cancers before third grade. I often visited this research building with my father. It was more accessible than the main plant. Often times we would boat up the river from my hometown and see the waste barges filling up. They would go outside the 3 mile limit, dump the residue and come back for more. It would all wash back into the bay and river. This is one of the most toxic parts of NJ. So glad to be gone from there. I remember barges loaded with sulphur dioxide, blazing yellow in the sun. In later years I learned that when this was dumped into the sea, it converted huge amts. of seawater into dilute sulphuric acid. I enjoy your videos. I've explored a great many of the NJ locations you've filmed and was surprised to see them online. I think I've seen some in far better shape than you found them, but that was a long time ago. Thanks!
Quite a few of your videos are of places I explored prior to '73. I appreciate what digital photography as brought to our contemporary explorers. Keep up the good work and stay safe.
You used to be able to access the tunnels that ran underground the Concord Mental Institution in NH. We used to go there during school for "extra curricular" studies, and would sometimes wander their lengths a bit. They were lit up and went on for miles it seemed. Some who had gone deeper told of huge rooms that opened up and other hidden entrances.
12:57 ... That basement was amazing! And almost untouched! Too bad your battery was on the way out, that looked like an incredible place to spend some time to explore. Nice when some areas aren't totally demolished by vandals.
Re: paulj0557 "That Variac at 19:23 would be a great thing to save! As a guitar player we put them on our tube amps to lower the voltage slightly. Eddie Van Halen uses one. It probably still works." You don't want a 50-amp (it can also handle 220V at 20 amps) W50HM VariAC because it weighs a *lot* more than your amplifier. Unless you *like* having lower back surgery, that is.
This looks amazing. I am scouting out more places like this. We've mostly just been going into houses, but I'm ready to go big or go home and start hitting up some abandoned factories and asylums and such! We went to Lambertville School the other day, that was an amazing day.
It's so interesting to see what happens to what we create after we are gone. Most of your videos look like something that would be seen on "Life After People"
Wow, that place looks so crazy, where I live I would have to drive hundreds of miles to see abandoned stuff like that. All the buildings here either get re-purposed or torn down within months or even days of vacancy. Can you imagine what it would have looked like inside in it's first few years of abandonment? Judging by the amount of decay, it had to have been unmaintained for at least 25,- 30 years. I can't believe NL hasn't torn that place down decades ago, that is so irresponsible of them to just leave it there like that. That is so crazy! Thanks for the video!
Incredible. Buildings that seem have used more chemicals/radiation/etc always look more 'overgrown' and 'taken back' by nature than their non-chemical/radiation equivalent buildings. I find that quite fascinating.
That Variac at 19:23 would be a great thing to save! As a guitar player we put them on our tube amps to lower the voltage slightly. Eddie Van Halen uses one. It probably still works.
I just subscribed to your channel....I have only seen two of your videos so far, and I'm loving what you do......I would love to visit some of these places!
"Bird... Dumb ass bird..wish I got that on tape". I had to rewind that at least five times because I wasn't sure if I was missing anything you said after from laughing so hard. Don't know why it struck me so funny, but it did!
Okay, after seeing a few of these I'm beginning to realize the sorting through drawers and such comes after the cameras are off. If not you have more restraint than I have.
was there last month, in the building that's all intact by the 2 warehouses in the back, got upstairs and sounded like someone moved and knock something over, I booked it out of there.
haven't read all the comments yet, but i hope you guys used an organic vapor filter and pre-filter for solid debris to protect your lungs!!! love the vids.
Asbestos bonus at 12:00! Those shoes were probably left there since the were clothing that didn't get laundered with the uniforms. Shoes would contain lead contaminant which you wouldn't want to take home for the kids to chew on.
I subscribed. Tho i didn't recognize anythin in this one but a few toilets ...it fascinated me. You are equally good with camera a n historic info. Kudos!
I agree, it would be nice to have some questions answered. Like at 19:18 ( ironic it's the thumbnail, but I watched from beginning) the date on that bottle looks like 2-8-85, but there is another bottle with 13-85 so it sort of rules out 1985. Not to mention that much decay after 28 years looks way too severe. That's why this is so intriguing! How long does it take for buildings to get this bad off? The town of Kitsault,BC still looks decent after 30 years, but it's clean air...lived in LA,yuk!
come up to letchworth, and ill show you the best abandoned finds youll ever see, old powerplant included , i would love to tag along with you, i have alot of knowledge on hazardous settings, love the vids btw!!
Sure thing :-) Ya know that's also a consideration for you guys too. I work in dirt and dust all day and see what visible junk I drag home in my truck. You just need a disposable Tyvek suites with booties, and maybe even a disposable car.
I always imagine a scene like the finale of Mary Tyler Moore.. Of everyone leaving work one day.. turning out the lights and taking one last look back.
@jettenjetta You got to remember that Russia has colder temperatures, which means that their buildings will decay slower, or if cold enough, not at all.
Enjoy your videos ..... I would love to explore some abandoned places we don't have anything too much around here ..... :( Have you ever been chased out of a building before?
It would probably be worth investing in high quality protective gear before exploring most of these sites. There are many different reasons abandonment of buildings occur, and it isn't always economics.
Good day Buddy is correct. The operations would have ceased very very close to that date. I would say for sure, by Valentines day 1985, those workers would have been handing out resumes! Each pigment batch lot would have been sampled, & I would say they produced at least a batch per week..a few tons of pigment per batch. That place is a giant "Brownfields" now, & one hell of a toxic cleanup job eh. It will cost 50X more at least, to do the cleanup now in 2012/13 than back in '85!
My family thinks im crazy because i am obsessed with Pripyat and anything to do with Chernobyl lol, but what about the oil heater next to the greenish chair with the scrolls on it (its ok to think elder scrolls :P )? im not calling this a fake or anything (not at all), it just looks like a more modern chair with rolled paper or scrolls on it.I LOVE THIS CHANNEL!! i am not a hater, just an info junkie like yourselves, keep up the great videos i love this channel, i skipped sleeping tonight to watch and i gotta work in 3 hours LOL take care and be careful!!
Nathan P of course modern day trash dumping is a frenzy these days , so i should probably shut my mouth lol . no hate here just my nonstop brain lol hope to see some more vids!!
...scary, on a second look the bottles at 19:18 are all from 85', that one is ?-13-85...it gives me the creeps knowing this place was operational when I was 19. I'm 47, man I'm getting old BUT I REFUSE TO BELIEVE IT! lol
I find it odd that just about every structure is severely damaged, yet, the room in video 20:49 still has curtains and wood paneling walls in tact. BTW, who is the student ID of and why is the ID there? If he was exploring it wasn't smart leaving ID.
This place reminds me of the laboratory where poison ivy was created in that batman movie lol. It looks a lot older than it is with everything being rusty.
