Florida Roadside Attractions & Abandoned Places - Forgotten & Dangerous Abandoned Factory Explored 

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I live off U.S. 27 and just about every town off of or near the Highway has a small train based museum. What we saw here shows how much things have changed in 1/12 centuries of Florida's History!

Great video! Whenever my buddies and I would go urban exploring or into the woods we'd strap a camera pointed behind one of us to try and catch if anything (whether it was a person, animal, or paranormal) was following us or just in the background unnoticed. You should try it! You might capture something you never realized was out there with ya!! 😬📹

OMG, you are brave, I would be shaking in my boots. I have a fear of heights. They are the Evils not Elvis I believe.

(#1) Tampa Jay, you're amazing doing this again!!! 😊❤

it is always good to know your surroundings while your out and about, very good find. that place looked very sound and intact for something going back to probably 1983.

Captivating footage! I’m glad you told several people where you were! Maybe get one of those smart watches that can detect if you need assistance. You’re extremely awesome at what you do , and we care about you and just want you to be safe. That being said , it’s fascinating to see these locations and what you find there. The locomotive was cool. 🚂Nice job and looking forward to your next adventure 👍

Very cool Jay! Glad to see a successful infiltration; my experience there was short lived... Thanks for sharing; gotta love that decaying industrial! 👍😁

Mornin Jay!! Love these videos!!

Wow, man, amazing videos from my home State , places that I had never seen before, keep doing videos like those. Thanks for those amazing videos that make me travel with you.

Holly molly!That was SOOOO COOL!!!

Awesome vlog Jay! I do enjoy these roadside attraction vlogs.

It reminds me of those shows like MacGyver where the bad guys were always hiding out in an abandoned factory and MacGyver would have to go through all the bad guys to save someone lol. Cool stuff!

Love this 💩. And I love when you guys just video, and leave it like you found it. Being FL, I'm surprised it isn't more overgrown. Imagine at one time someone, or a dozen people knew how to use all of that.

Great video. Loved it!

Hey Jay!Another outstanding video!!! Hope everything's fine!!!

brings back memories seeing that place, i have not been there in ages!

That's a scary looking place to go inside alone! Its Interesting seeing an abandoned industrial that size and with that strange-looking pipe coming out the top.

I know right where you’re at! I used to live in Plant City for 15 years. I’ve been by that old plant going into Mulberry many times. That was well over 20 years ago!

Cool stuff! These abandoned places have great stories great job!

👋👋Heck yeah, Jay! Venturing into the “abandoned” content. Great video, but be careful!! 😬

Very cool Jay. Kinda scary, gotta admit. I’m sure Cris was beyond worried about you! Lol

Thank you for sharing this video Tampa Jay i loved it. I lived in Mulberry Fl back in 1978 and Willow Oaks in 1981 till 84 Thxs again TY.. ☮️

Awesome video!! Love this stuff!

I watched it through twice…didn’t focus the first time cleaning my closet so rewatched it ❤

Such a cool place to explore. Enjoyed it TJ

Awesome and creepy! 👻 Watch out for snakes 🐍 Thank you for sharing, my friend! Hugs and God bless 🤗🙌

Been there 5 years ago...was very interesting back then & remember a lot of those areas. ✌🏻

Adventurous video! Like the music in the background too!

Been by this many times super cool. There’s a rang by this place

I have done work at that facility years ago it was a nightmare to keep running i have worked at every phosphate plant in Florida (retired electrician)

When you go into old abandon industrial building you should wear some kind of safety shoes you could step on anything that could come the bottom of you shoe and might cause issues like infections, etc.just a thought.

Awesome video as always Jay. Love the Snake Plisken/escape from NY shirt

Thanks awesome place I enjoyed watching

Man this is sick! Only 40 minutes from me. Will have to visit for a eerie photo shoot

both you and Adam the Woo have such dulcet voices, making everything more interesting

That factory was a little freaky to be walking around in there! Glad to see you took Snake Pliskin along with you for protection! You two make a real dynamic duo!

Love the show

Very creepy and spooky!😮

Very cool! We have a Nichols Ny a small town

Cool video ❤

I worked for an environmental analytical laboratory and we collected water samples I can't remember the name of the company but that trip brought back my working days wow what an adventure please be careful and thank you for sharing so so cool ❤😎 Orlando Florida here🏝

Those two long tubes are kilns to dry wet phosphate

I sure miss old Florida

Be carful Tampa Jay

Long time Adam fan and I've enjoyed you on his channel. This was the first video of yours I have watched. Great video and content, I need to check out the rest of your videos. Those long tubes aren't turbines, they are tumble driers.

Thanks!

I would love to explore a place like this

Tampa Jay I surely do enjoy your roadside attractions and abandoned places series. I haven't watched your Jurassic Park tribute video yet. Reason is, my daughter and I will be at Universal the last week of June and I want to see it fresh before I watch your video. LOL. I'll watch it when I get back. Hopefully you and Cris can plan to come to Universal/Islands during that last week and hopefully we will see yall and say hello. I'll be videoing for my channel while there.

Hey Tampa Jay, just FYI. That graffiti said EVILS not Elvis. Easy mistake to make though.😉Love these videos.

Just wanna give you a heads-up, the name in blue wasn't Elvis. It said Evils. Don't know if anyone else had told you that and I'm too lazy to school through the comments LOL But either way, as always your videos are awesome and this one is included in that awesomeness!! 😁

Quite the exploration. Not sure what phosphate is used for but certainly heard of it. Glad you were cautious.

I’ve explored there in the past . You captured some interesting footage! I believe I can show you a few locations, going alone is always a bit more risky. Did you ever hit up the Jackson House in downtown Tampa? I have been there.

At 23:00 to answer your question, that shed you were at that was filled with water - you're correct that would go down about 30 or so feet and is where they'd unload phosphate rock railcars that would come from mine sites. the conveyor that leads up to the plant would then grind the phosphate (fancy dirt) and mix it with sulfuric acid, creating phosacid which would be supplied to a granular plant (where you noted turbines earlier, those were granulators/dryers) creating what we see as little pebble fertilizer that you'd commonly see in stores. the product produced at these plants would be sold to distributors where they'd dilute it with all other types of nutrients for what we know as fertilizer. Also, as i'm still watching to answer your next question to the cows 'what are you doing out here'. Mosaic still owns several thousand acres in this area, most commonly around the New Wales area. The 'unused' land that has been reclaimed in the past and environmentally restored, is now leased to anything from TECO for solar farms, beekeepers, and cattle farmers.

You didn't mention anything about the two jeep looking cars at the end of those long tunnels. They frightened me!

Sorry I'm posting a lot😂... But you're going to where I grew up I grew up on a farm right outside of Nichols down the road from that plant you're talking. That plant actually got shut down for different reasons that the government's trying to hide but when my family and I live there there was radiation that seeped into the the natural spring. Unfortunately while we had the farm we had like 100 acres of land and a farmhouse I'm hoping maybe you can see where I can show you or tell you how to get there and you can see it but as you notice the house is down the bottom of the like a little valley like a valley. I lost both my parents two sisters because of that plant leaking radiation into the water supply into the air. So for twenty years my family drink water polluted from the radiation from the uranium that they found that the government wanted back in the 50s. I have an article from The Wall Street journal that goes into more detail about what happened but basically everything we drank everything we ate when we went swimming anything we did caused that radiation. By doing so I've lost majority of my family I have breast cancer a my oldest brother he has cancer. Mine is in remission he's still getting radiation treatments. Anyway long boring story but just to give you a little background information on that plant and I also wanted to tell you how much I really enjoy you and Chris doing these videos. You guys truly are awesome and I'm so glad you found each other ❤️

Would love the controll panels out of that factory ❤

OMG! What a weird noise in 6:10 is that 👻? Be careful always idol jay..🤙

This reminds me of the beginning of the Woo back in the day! If those buildings were in Southern California they would be fenced off with No Trespassing signs, cause if not it would be filled with homeless & meth labs. It's Sunday & the Dodgers are at the Ray's Tropicana today hope you are able to enjoy some baseball while bringing us all along. Don't drink the water Jay 😂 water fountain looks a little iffy. Amazing that they buried that, makes you wonder why??? As always thx 4 taking us all along on your adventures

I live in Hudson just north of Tampa, need to get out and explore some of these old abandoned places and bring my metal detector along!

I am a retired truck driver... been to Nichols many times to pickup loads ( calcium oxide) at a terminal just past the abandoned plant

When you do these videos, I remind myself you edited it so you must have made it home safe!

Used to ride the school bus through there in the early 70s.

Kool trip. But you made me nervous, no buddy on that trip and no snake gun ?

Great place to shoot the next Mad Max movie! 😎

my grandpa used to work at that plant in nichols.

I learned something new. I always thought a turbine was a jet engine, similar to the one(s) I worked on aboard the cutter I was stationed on in the USCG, or the ones on the underside of the planes that I worked along side of when I worked at JFK. Turns out it's nothing more than a pipe.

Not much out there now. That was my post office back in the 80s and 90s. Most mines were torn down too bad Conserve wasn't still there for you to explore.

If u go to these places, especially s Lakeland/mulberry area, bring a radiation detector. Radon is a serious issue around here in old phosphate mines. Gun shots were from JTAC Ranch. Was a members only shooting range/training area. Going to be missed, was closed down for a future neighborhood being built in adjacent property (might be the one you’re on). It’s just a little further down on the right, closed to public and members after 1/1/2024 though😢

Should of had a Geiger counter with you. The byproduct gypsum stacks from phosphate mining is radioactive ☢️ There used to be another abandoned phosphate plant right on the north side of sr60 right before you get to Barstow.

Do you know any in west palm beach or palm beach county ?

Hey Tampa Jay have you and Chris the girl ever visit our Bartow Courthouse? It's supposed to be haunted. Would love to see you guys visit and see..lol

i need to fly my drone there love old bandos

Did you see Freddy Kruger in that plant Tampa Jay??? Lol

the reason they stand without anything missing, Everything is Radioactive so not a good idea spending time there.....or taking anything.

First ( spooky ), 2nd there no snake boots, just sneakers crazy man. You get bit you'll never make it to help.

I've been to the old plant there

Creepy scream at 6:12 !👻😱

You were by a gun range lol and also there's a old abandoned cemetery with 1800s headstones off of hill grade like half mile from there

Not far from there as the crow flies there is a private gun range that is quite sizable, JTAC Ranch.

Be careful of the evils

All our small towns I live in Jersey look like that all the major manufacturing has moved away to greed

Schweet,You might should have taken a geiger counter with you,phosphate mining has residual land contamination and the waste usually has uranium,thorium,and radium,so I hope you washed down after your exploration?

31:44.. PRESS THE BUTTONS JAY!!!!!

👍🏻

That’s the thing about abandoned places you really are going at your own risk. Something that you’ve probably learned from your buddy Adam the Woo

What does phosphate do to your health.? Breathing it,etc Or swimming in old phosphate pits?

Have you been to the Shell Factory in Punta Gorda ? Did you know Punta Gorda was created from a pineapple farmer ? It was a huge pineapple farm in the early 1900s? It's been steadily built up. I hope it hasn't lost all of its charm. I haven't been back in over 15 yrs. But it was really nice and super rural and remote and quiet. We lived 8 miles (of swamp) from a prison- on 22 acres. It was a road of mailboxes. You couldn't see a single house. I have heard it's ridiculous and unrecognizable now. But we loved it's story, of how it came to be a city. There is nothing like a small Florida town. Floral city is still small. The people in charge aim to keep it that way. I love places that are against growth. "Growth" pushes out all the wildlife, which should be criminal ! But the animals have no rights.

Was this the Loncala mine?

my dad work there for 7 years then the R.R movie to tampa on the water

I’m thinking the nerves from being in such an enormous structure with massive yet decrepit and completely silent machinery made your brain read that graffiti as Elvis! Realizing it actually read “EVIL” while in a place that makes the Chainsaw Massacre film seem completely plausible would be too much for ANYONE’S mind to process!!!😂😂 Great job on the video! I would love to explore this place as well!

I'm almost expecting a Deathclaw to appear for a fraction of a second and then Cris The Girl cutting in to share with us the tragic news.

Looking to photograph abandoned stuff near Tampa, what are your recommendations?

12:37 looks more like EVILS than “Elvis”. Could be an urban artist who passed away or something.

Those big round pipes i think are kilns

OMG! Giant turbine batman!

What does phosphate do to your health.? Breathing it,etc

Did Sheriff Grady Judd find a way to get in your video? He loves video cameras.

Great video Tampa Jay. Enjoyed it! @ fire larry