Crazy Access

[urbexrebel67]

Without giving away any specifics of sites, like locations and names, what have been your craziest, hardest, or funniest access points that you ever had to use to get inside a site? Also, has anyone ever had a close call when getting in any sites, like nearly being caught, etc. ? Curious to see what people have experienced.

 

[stranton]

using a tardis & teleportation technics

 

[Olkka]

Good question! A local empty skyscraper to me has a crevice that leads to its basement complex, but the crevice is kinda far from it relatively speaking, which I find quite cool. I've dabbled in sketchy climbing up and down stuff to reach a few naughty infrastructural sites, but no standout fantastical entry points come to mind... Close calls I actually very recently had a cracker - at a certain power station, two of us were around the outside perimeter of the turbine hall looking for an entry, when the secca van turned the corner about 30m away. We were behind a sort of palisade to where it was coming round said corner, and we turned round to see a sort of opaque building site fence panel next to the wall about 15m behind us. I run to hide behind this fence thing, me mate doesn't even make it, he just drops to the floor going prone, half a second later the security van comes into clear view and the adjacent palisade no longer provides us with a sliver of camouflage. And the van just keeps on driving. How it didn't see us I have no idea. Anyway we buggered off after that but it was all in good fun.

 

[mookster]

One of the American factories I explored a couple of years back had probably the most ridiculous access I've had to use to get into anywhere.

Basically you had to go up an embankment and onto a live railway bridge that ran between the target factory and a fully operational pet food factory. A short distance across the bridge you had to climb over the wobbly barbed wire topped railing and step down onto a third floor window ledge with a sheer drop into shallow water below. You then had to squeeze yourself into an air conditioning duct which had a quarter of the opening covered by a metal grate, then work your way down the duct that almost immediately turned 90 degrees and dropped vertically into a pair of sloped metal ducts before it turned another 90 degrees and spat you out into the boiler house. Plus to make matters more interesting the entire inside was covered in grease.

Getting back out again was a hell of a lot of fun....

Eventually the factory owner managed to figure out how people were getting inside and sealed it up.

 

[ckycky]

Mine isn't that "mad"

But at Waterworld in York (See report on my profile!), it was alarmed and all the ground floor entry points had no handles or were boarded up. So after some sleuthing a few days before, I noticed an upstairs floor had a smashed window.

So to get in, we needed a ladder of some kind (It was not high enough to reach, even with a leg-up)
As the site was surrounded by those slot-together construction fences, i had an idea - we jumped the construction fence, saw a big stack of these fences, carried it over to the wall, rotated 90 degrees and wedged it on a pile of rubble.

Used the fence as ladder rungs, reached up on my tip-toes, and managed to pull myself up and in. My accomplice also did the same, and we pulled the fence up into the window. The site was being patrolled so we didn't want it to be obvious on the outside.


Exit via firedoor. Was very satisfying, I wish I had a gopro on as it would have looked quite smooth and well-done haha

 

[natedog]

When i was a skint student in the 90s, i took a part time job with the local council as a security guard. i was posted to an abandoned victorian nut house. the main point of us being there was to stop the pikies pinching the lead from the roof and the weights from the clock tower. As this sort of thievery is generally a night time activity, during the day there was very little to do. As we were given keys to just about every door in the place, my weekend day shifts were spent exploring as much of the place as i could. As well as the main building with the wards and assorted treatment rooms, there was a canteen block, the residential area for the staff (which included a pub) and in the far corner of the site was the morgue, complete with the cabinets that the deceased were kept in. The only constraints they put on us exploring during the day was that the police would turn up early afternoon to exercise the police dogs and we had to be in the office out of the way.

Being pre-digital cameras, i didn't have the money for films and developing, so only have my memories of the place. Sadly it has now been almost completely demolished and replaced with a new housing estate. To my mind, it would have been far more sense to re-purpose the buildings that were there, as aside from the odd dodgy window it was mostly in a good state of repair.

 

[pigeonboy]

When i was a skint student in the 90s, i took a part time job with the local council as a security guard. i was posted to an abandoned victorian nut house.

Its always been a thought of mine to be a security guard, as you said you get free roam of the site, i imagine it can quickly get very boring very quickly though?

 

[Adders]

Firm favourite: https://www.28dayslater.co.uk/threa...a-tailrace-tunnel-of-niagara.5921/#post-85991

 

[Morning.Star]

Nothing crazy, but most unorthodox was spending half hour wading through water and undergrowth and climbing various walls to spend 10 minutes in a place felt bitter sweet.

I always choose the most discrete way in, but will happily jump and obvious and 'in-view' wall on a way out!

 

[natedog]

Its always been a thought of mine to be a security guard, as you said you get free roam of the site, i imagine it can quickly get very boring very quickly though?

As a student it was quite useful, as i was being paid to do very little so i had time to "study" although in practice this usually meant getting my books out, having lunch and then going for a wander it was a huge site, and i'm reasonably sure i visited every single room there, apart from the top of the clock tower as that's the one thing i didn't have a key for.

I think it would be quite difficult to become a security guard specialising entirely in abandoned sites, and yes i did find spending my time patroling round industrial estates (the other thing they occasionally put me on) rather boring. nothing to explore of any interest and nothing really to do. it paid the rent though