Scary

<p>Exploring abandoned buildings might seem like a fun pasttime for the more adventurous souls among us. But it can go very, very badly. As these brave urban explorers learned the hard way.</p><p>In a popular Reddit thread, someone <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kk4ph0/people_who_like_to_explore_abandoned_buildings/" target="_blank">asked</a> people who like to explore abandoned buildings: &quot;what was the biggest &#39;f**k this, I&#39;m out&#39; moment you had while exploring?&quot;</p><h2>These 21 people share their horror stories of when they realized they&#39;d made a big mistake by venturing into an abandoned building:</h2><p>1.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/mike-4510/">mike-4510</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>A group of us went into an old abandoned care home. (We got in legally). It was pitch black and I mean the type of darkness where you cannot see you hand in front of your face even when you let your eyes adjust. Fortunately we had a few light sources with us. After walking around and finding copious amounts of evidence that there was squatters staying there (not at the time of our arrival thank god). We found ourselves standing in a room filled with graffiti but not graffiti from a paint can. This was spelled in dried blood and excrement. The stench was horrendous. We got out of there so quick and have never been back since.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>2.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/mtblanche14/">mtblanche14</a>:<button></button></p><blockquote> <p>Broke into an abandoned house in the village I grew up in in England back when I was a teenager, maybe 15 year ago now.</p> <p>Was with a couple friends but broke off by myself and ventured upstairs, when I turned at the top of the stairs I saw a figure standing in the darkness just staring at me.</p> <p>I bolted out of the building as quickly as I could and my friends heard me and panicked, they weren&#39;t far behind. Went back there a couple of weeks later with a bigger group to &quot;prove my story&quot; and to my embarrasment.. it was a tall mirror at the top of the stairs, the figure I saw was me. Not my proudest moment.</p> </blockquote><p>3.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/OreoCrustedSausage/">OreoCrustedSausage</a>:</p><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>Well, a homeless guy with a knife said I shouldn&rsquo;t be here, I agreed.</p> </blockquote><p>4.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Cream314Bakery/">Cream314Bakery</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>I used to walk around an abandoned building near a forest which was initially a child hospital in the 70s, a refugee housing in the 90s and a language school for Chinese students till 2007. Since then it&#39;s abandoned. The students left quite suddenly, so I found diaries, certificates and even food. It was interesting since the place was not vandalized at that time. Once I was inside the building again when I realized someone else was walking upstairs. I never left this place so fast, jumped over the gate and headed to my car. When I reached there, a policecar stopped in front of the building and the two officers jumped over the fence to enter the building. No idea what was there, but sometimes I wonder if I avoided more than just a report for trespassing.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>5.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/xxTurd/">xxTurd</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>Late to the party but used to work for a guy renovating houses. He&#39;d buy dumps for like 5 to 10 thousand that had been abandoned for years, we&#39;d fix them up, and he&#39;d rent the houses out. His daughter would go to houses to take pictures after he bought them since he&#39;d buy a lot of them site unseen because they were so cheap.</p> <p>One house she went to take pictures at and she was kinda creeped out by the basement and did not want to go in. She just opened the door, leaned in, reached her arm out and took a picture. When her dad reviewed the pictures he saw a man standing in the basement about 5 feet from the camera staring directly into it.</p> </blockquote><p>6.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Alert_Discipline_213/">Alert_Discipline_213</a>:</p><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>Found a bottle of some liquid in an abandoned drive in theater building. Knocked it over and the concrete starting smoking and we got nosebleeds instantly. Still no clue what it was but we got the f**k out</p> </blockquote><p>7.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/ericshmurda/">ericshmurda</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>Found a dead deer on top of an old grain mill. All of the stairs were removed so people couldn&rsquo;t climb them. Getting up there is hard enough without carrying a deer carcass on your shoulders. I think about it all the time lol</p> </blockquote><p>8.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/clex_ace/">clex_ace</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>Several years ago, a man was murdered in the city I was working in and parts of his body were turning up at various locations. I think his hand and foot had been found and a week had passed. I&#39;m an architectural designer and I was surveying an abandoned chapel that was slated to be renovated into condos. It was apparent that homeless people had been squatting in the chapel but I wasn&#39;t sure how recently they had been there. When I went into the basement though, it was clear someone was either there or had just left based on the smell. There were no lights due to the power being cut and I didn&#39;t stick around long enough to see if anyone was currently occupying the space.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>Two days later someone reported that they found the torso and head of the murdered man in a building attached to the chapel. I had been too freaked out by the smell in the basement to continue on to the attached building. But I&#39;m almost certain I would have been the one to find the body.<button></button></p> </blockquote><p>9.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/BumBustingGreek/">BumBustingGreek</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>found what looked like the remains of a pig and it was wearing lingerie.</p> </blockquote><p>10.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/stopfelnolm/">stopfelnolm</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>Exploring an abandoned prison part of the ceiling collapsed. It didn&#39;t hit me but it was close enough to knock me over. I guess junkies used it as a place to shoot up because I fell on an old needle. I got tested to make sure I didn&#39;t get anything from it but it scared me enough to stay away from abandoned buildings to this day.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>11.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Dahns/">Dahns</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>Got busted by a soldier who told me, rather calmy, that the spot was used for training with real bullets and that I&#39;d better get out of here before he drags my ass to the cop</p> <p>The guy was really nice, took the time to explain why it was dangerous, and send me on my way. I didn&#39;t insist</p> <p>Weirdest part is we explored for one or two hours before getting busted and met no one. We weren&#39;t hiding or anything<button></button></p> </blockquote><p>12.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/8bitPete/">8bitPete</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>As kids we would walk this 1/4 mile railway tunnel near where i grew up, there were no tracks but it was next to two live tunnels so there was a slight element of danger. That and the fact it was trespassing i guess and railway workmen or transport police could catch us at any moment. So as you can imagine it was dark, REAL dark in the middle, but towards the end there was enough light to barely see.</p> <p>One day we took an old school pal down there and after walking the length, almost at the end of the tunnel just as it was beginning to get light he stopped to look down a large uncovered square 3ft by 3ft manhole....</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>No he didn&#39;t fall in, but after a flash of brief confusion he took in a deep breath and screamed, then immediately started sprinting for daylight.</p> <p>&quot;Oh shit, F**kn RRUUINNNNNN!!!&quot; he screams. Naturally without question we ran, having a hard time catching him up. At the mouth of the tunnel we stopped.</p> <p>All out of breath &quot;WTF !! What&#39;s wrong? What did you see?&quot; We asked. His face was pure white, and shakeing barely able to speak he said &quot; there was someone down there, looking up at me!&quot;</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>Now this buddy was and still is a good friend of mine, but back then he wasn known for not being the sharpest tool in the drawer... instantly we had an idea what just happened, but slowly we returned to open manhole.</p> <p>Then as the four of us stood around this hole looking down, sure enough..... Reflected in the still water about 5ft down this feckn hole was our four faces looking back up at us.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>13.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/pierremanslappy/">pierremanslappy</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>My friends and I went into the Gibraltar Mansion in Wilmington, DE. It was cool until we came across a room with and older man squatting in it. He was terrified of us and we felt pretty horrible, so we left after apologizing.</p> </blockquote><p>14.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/JohnSingapore/">JohnSingapore</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>There was a coffin, a real coffin. We were in a abandoned factory that some rich family had owned, and there was this one room with a bunch of personal stuff, letters from the fifties, furniture, old photographs, clothes, even booze, like someone&rsquo;s home had been put in there. In the middle of it all a coffin. I swear. The room was gloomy, it was a late summer afternoon, no power and we didn&rsquo;t have flashlights. My friend was like &ldquo;we gotta open this coffin, we can&rsquo;t leave unless we do, we gotta&rdquo; and straight up lifted the lid. A sweet smell came from the darkness. When my grandmother died I was the one to find the corpse and I remember that one quite well. So my heart skipped a couple of beats. The coffin was full of candles. They had a sweet smell.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>15.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/mercuriaretrograda/">mercuriaretrograda</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>Exploring an abandoned manor with some friends. The ground floor entrances were covered with bricks so we had to enter through the first floor (~8 ft height) using an improvised ladder made of old trash and wood pieces. It was quite unstable and hard to climb and we were 5 or 6 people. Being the only way out, and knowing how slow it was, I was on edge the whole time. We were exploring the floor, cool glass ceiling, lots of debris, but suddenly we find a room filled with plastic containers with pink and brown liquids...</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>Some friends decide to explore the ground floor, which was pitch black and involved going down a broken staircase missing several steps. They heard someone coughing in the dark and feel several people <em>moving</em> in the darkness as their eyes get used to it... At this point I was hearing someone slowly walking in a room on the first floor, carefully stepping over the broken glass on the floor (to not make noise) which was really creepy. We got the f**k away and on our way out we saw a roughed up man with bloodshot eyes leaving a shack outside the house and staring at us. I still shiver when I remember his look. Probably just some junkies living there but it was scary as f**k</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>16.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/gmc_lex/">gmc_lex</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>As 12 year old kids, we were exploring the woods as kids do. The forest parted to an open field and in the distance was an abandoned farm. Naturally we crept inside and in one of the horse stalls were all discarded hypodermic needles and old food. Our parents were quite mad when we told them what we found</p> </blockquote><p>17.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/MrFunktasticc/">MrFunktasticc</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>When I was in middle school we went upstate in the summer. There was an abandoned house in the woods we explored. Top floor was pretty pristine - the beds were made and drawers/closets shut with stuff neatly arranged inside. There were bats.</p> <p>The lower you went the more disordered. The basement/garage was in complete disarray. Books and random crap thrown around. Beer cans and used condoms. We went to the far end of the house where the wall partially collapsed and that&rsquo;s when we saw the bear. Foolishly ran with all our might. Thankfully the house between us and bear&rsquo;s lack of interest is why I&rsquo;m typing this.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>18.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/malinamint/">malinamint</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>There&#39;s a big abandoned factory near the center of our city that teens regularly visit. My friend was telling me a story about how she and a group of friends were walking around the ground floor (almost pitch black in places) when they saw a lone chair in the middle of a big room. They started joking about how it looked like the type of place a kidnapper would tie a victim up, when in the distance they heard glass being smashed. They all took one look at each other, turned around and got the hell out of dodge, scared it was someone trying to escape.</p> </blockquote><p>19.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/JARlaah/">JARlaah</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>Used to break into this old abandoned childrens hospital with some friends when we were teens.</p> <p>One time (I think perhaps the last time) there was a fresh hand print in the dust on a wall, and what seemed like blood droplets/spray nearby.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>20.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/solasgood/">solasgood</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>I had crept an abandoned house in Seattle in the 90s. The guy had recently died, but not before hoarding three stories worth of groceries, unopened QVC orders and tons of ephemera. The power and water had been shut off, and he was shitting and pissing in buckets. I opened a couple of these, which would have been revolting on it&#39;s own but for some reason, he was putting wigs and toupees in with the waste. There were stacks of wigs that had yet to be put in the buckets. I did get three big bags of Liberty Dimes before I fled in disgust</p> </blockquote><p>21.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/tornato7/">tornato7</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>My friends and I were exploring an abandoned military housing complex at night. It was in pretty bad shape but there were lots of interesting things to see. We almost pissed ourselves a couple times because of mannequins behind doors and stuff. There was also a neat art installation with records hanging from the ceiling. Anyway, we climbed up some stairs to the tallest part of the building. We saw some faint light coming from under a door.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>Somehow the door had been boobietrapped, and as soon as my friend opened it there was a crash - and a cinderblock on a rope that came swinging out the open door and just missed us. I got a split second look inside where I saw a small fire, a mattress on the ground, and then A MAN moving quickly toward us. He was silhouetted by the light so I couldn&#39;t make out what he looked like or what exactly he was holding, but I wasn&#39;t about to stick around to find out. I yelled &quot;RUN!&quot; and we bolted out of there as fast as our legs could carry us.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

21 people share the scariest thing that happened to them while exploring an abandoned building.

Exploring abandoned buildings might seem like a fun pasttime for the more adventurous souls among us. But it can go very, very badly. As these brave urban explorers learned the hard way.In a popular Reddit thread, someone asked people who like to explore abandoned buildings: &quot;what was the biggest &#39;f**k this, I&#39;m out&#39; moment you had while exploring?&quot;These 21 people share their horror stories of when they realized they&#39;d made a big mistake by venturing into an abandoned building:1.) From mike-4510: A group of us went into an old abandoned care home. (We got in legally). It was pitch black and I mean the type of darkness where you cannot see you hand in front of your face even when you let your eyes adjust. Fortunately we had a few light sources with us. After walking around and finding copious amounts of evidence that there was squatters staying there (not at the time of our arrival thank god). We found ourselves standing in a room filled with graffiti but not graffiti from a paint can. This was spelled in dried blood and excrement. The stench was horrendous. We got out of there so quick and have never been back since. 2.) From mtblanche14: Broke into an abandoned house in the village I grew up in in England back when I was a teenager, maybe 15 year ago now. Was with a couple friends but broke off by myself and ventured upstairs, when I turned at the top of the stairs I saw a figure standing in the darkness just staring at me. I bolted out of the building as quickly as I could and my friends heard me and panicked, they weren&#39;t far behind. Went back there a couple of weeks later with a bigger group to &quot;prove my story&quot; and to my embarrasment.. it was a tall mirror at the top of the stairs, the figure I saw was me. Not my proudest moment. 3.) From OreoCrustedSausage: Well, a homeless guy with a knife said I shouldn&rsquo;t be here, I agreed. 4.) From Cream314Bakery: I used to walk around an abandoned building near a forest which was initially a child hospital in the 70s, a refugee housing in the 90s and a language school for Chinese students till 2007. Since then it&#39;s abandoned. The students left quite suddenly, so I found diaries, certificates and even food. It was interesting since the place was not vandalized at that time. Once I was inside the building again when I realized someone else was walking upstairs. I never left this place so fast, jumped over the gate and headed to my car. When I reached there, a policecar stopped in front of the building and the two officers jumped over the fence to enter the building. No idea what was there, but sometimes I wonder if I avoided more than just a report for trespassing. 5.) From xxTurd: Late to the party but used to work for a guy renovating houses. He&#39;d buy dumps for like 5 to 10 thousand that had been abandoned for years, we&#39;d fix them up, and he&#39;d rent the houses out. His daughter would go to houses to take pictures after he bought them since he&#39;d buy a lot of them site unseen because they were so cheap. One house she went to take pictures at and she was kinda creeped out by the basement and did not want to go in. She just opened the door, leaned in, reached her arm out and took a picture. When her dad reviewed the pictures he saw a man standing in the basement about 5 feet from the camera staring directly into it. 6.) From Alert_Discipline_213: Found a bottle of some liquid in an abandoned drive in theater building. Knocked it over and the concrete starting smoking and we got nosebleeds instantly. Still no clue what it was but we got the f**k out 7.) From ericshmurda: Found a dead deer on top of an old grain mill. All of the stairs were removed so people couldn&rsquo;t climb them. Getting up there is hard enough without carrying a deer carcass on your shoulders. I think about it all the time lol 8.) From clex_ace: Several years ago, a man was murdered in the city I was working in and parts of his body were turning up at various locations. I think his hand and foot had been found and a week had passed. I&#39;m an architectural designer and I was surveying an abandoned chapel that was slated to be renovated into condos. It was apparent that homeless people had been squatting in the chapel but I wasn&#39;t sure how recently they had been there. When I went into the basement though, it was clear someone was either there or had just left based on the smell. There were no lights due to the power being cut and I didn&#39;t stick around long enough to see if anyone was currently occupying the space.  Two days later someone reported that they found the torso and head of the murdered man in a building attached to the chapel. I had been too freaked out by the smell in the basement to continue on to the attached building. But I&#39;m almost certain I would have been the one to find the body. 9.) From BumBustingGreek: found what looked like the remains of a pig and it was wearing lingerie. 10.) From stopfelnolm: Exploring an abandoned prison part of the ceiling collapsed. It didn&#39;t hit me but it was close enough to knock me over. I guess junkies used it as a place to shoot up because I fell on an old needle. I got tested to make sure I didn&#39;t get anything from it but it scared me enough to stay away from abandoned buildings to this day. 11.) From Dahns: Got busted by a soldier who told me, rather calmy, that the spot was used for training with real bullets and that I&#39;d better get out of here before he drags my ass to the cop The guy was really nice, took the time to explain why it was dangerous, and send me on my way. I didn&#39;t insist Weirdest part is we explored for one or two hours before getting busted and met no one. We weren&#39;t hiding or anything 12.) From 8bitPete: As kids we would walk this 1/4 mile railway tunnel near where i grew up, there were no tracks but it was next to two live tunnels so there was a slight element of danger. That and the fact it was trespassing i guess and railway workmen or transport police could catch us at any moment. So as you can imagine it was dark, REAL dark in the middle, but towards the end there was enough light to barely see. One day we took an old school pal down there and after walking the length, almost at the end of the tunnel just as it was beginning to get light he stopped to look down a large uncovered square 3ft by 3ft manhole....  No he didn&#39;t fall in, but after a flash of brief confusion he took in a deep breath and screamed, then immediately started sprinting for daylight. &quot;Oh shit, F**kn RRUUINNNNNN!!!&quot; he screams. Naturally without question we ran, having a hard time catching him up. At the mouth of the tunnel we stopped. All out of breath &quot;WTF !! What&#39;s wrong? What did you see?&quot; We asked. His face was pure white, and shakeing barely able to speak he said &quot; there was someone down there, looking up at me!&quot;  Now this buddy was and still is a good friend of mine, but back then he wasn known for not being the sharpest tool in the drawer... instantly we had an idea what just happened, but slowly we returned to open manhole. Then as the four of us stood around this hole looking down, sure enough..... Reflected in the still water about 5ft down this feckn hole was our four faces looking back up at us. 13.) From pierremanslappy: My friends and I went into the Gibraltar Mansion in Wilmington, DE. It was cool until we came across a room with and older man squatting in it. He was terrified of us and we felt pretty horrible, so we left after apologizing. 14.) From JohnSingapore: There was a coffin, a real coffin. We were in a abandoned factory that some rich family had owned, and there was this one room with a bunch of personal stuff, letters from the fifties, furniture, old photographs, clothes, even booze, like someone&rsquo;s home had been put in there. In the middle of it all a coffin. I swear. The room was gloomy, it was a late summer afternoon, no power and we didn&rsquo;t have flashlights. My friend was like &ldquo;we gotta open this coffin, we can&rsquo;t leave unless we do, we gotta&rdquo; and straight up lifted the lid. A sweet smell came from the darkness. When my grandmother died I was the one to find the corpse and I remember that one quite well. So my heart skipped a couple of beats. The coffin was full of candles. They had a sweet smell. 15.) From mercuriaretrograda: Exploring an abandoned manor with some friends. The ground floor entrances were covered with bricks so we had to enter through the first floor (~8 ft height) using an improvised ladder made of old trash and wood pieces. It was quite unstable and hard to climb and we were 5 or 6 people. Being the only way out, and knowing how slow it was, I was on edge the whole time. We were exploring the floor, cool glass ceiling, lots of debris, but suddenly we find a room filled with plastic containers with pink and brown liquids...  Some friends decide to explore the ground floor, which was pitch black and involved going down a broken staircase missing several steps. They heard someone coughing in the dark and feel several people moving in the darkness as their eyes get used to it... At this point I was hearing someone slowly walking in a room on the first floor, carefully stepping over the broken glass on the floor (to not make noise) which was really creepy. We got the f**k away and on our way out we saw a roughed up man with bloodshot eyes leaving a shack outside the house and staring at us. I still shiver when I remember his look. Probably just some junkies living there but it was scary as f**k 16.) From gmc_lex: As 12 year old kids, we were exploring the woods as kids do. The forest parted to an open field and in the distance was an abandoned farm. Naturally we crept inside and in one of the horse stalls were all discarded hypodermic needles and old food. Our parents were quite mad when we told them what we found 17.) From MrFunktasticc: When I was in middle school we went upstate in the summer. There was an abandoned house in the woods we explored. Top floor was pretty pristine - the beds were made and drawers/closets shut with stuff neatly arranged inside. There were bats. The lower you went the more disordered. The basement/garage was in complete disarray. Books and random crap thrown around. Beer cans and used condoms. We went to the far end of the house where the wall partially collapsed and that&rsquo;s when we saw the bear. Foolishly ran with all our might. Thankfully the house between us and bear&rsquo;s lack of interest is why I&rsquo;m typing this. 18.) From malinamint: There&#39;s a big abandoned factory near the center of our city that teens regularly visit. My friend was telling me a story about how she and a group of friends were walking around the ground floor (almost pitch black in places) when they saw a lone chair in the middle of a big room. They started joking about how it looked like the type of place a kidnapper would tie a victim up, when in the distance they heard glass being smashed. They all took one look at each other, turned around and got the hell out of dodge, scared it was someone trying to escape. 19.) From JARlaah: Used to break into this old abandoned childrens hospital with some friends when we were teens. One time (I think perhaps the last time) there was a fresh hand print in the dust on a wall, and what seemed like blood droplets/spray nearby. 20.) From solasgood: I had crept an abandoned house in Seattle in the 90s. The guy had recently died, but not before hoarding three stories worth of groceries, unopened QVC orders and tons of ephemera. The power and water had been shut off, and he was shitting and pissing in buckets. I opened a couple of these, which would have been revolting on it&#39;s own but for some reason, he was putting wigs and toupees in with the waste. There were stacks of wigs that had yet to be put in the buckets. I did get three big bags of Liberty Dimes before I fled in disgust 21.) From tornato7: My friends and I were exploring an abandoned military housing complex at night. It was in pretty bad shape but there were lots of interesting things to see. We almost pissed ourselves a couple times because of mannequins behind doors and stuff. There was also a neat art installation with records hanging from the ceiling. Anyway, we climbed up some stairs to the tallest part of the building. We saw some faint light coming from under a door.  Somehow the door had been boobietrapped, and as soon as my friend opened it there was a crash - and a cinderblock on a rope that came swinging out the open door and just missed us. I got a split second look inside where I saw a small fire, a mattress on the ground, and then A MAN moving quickly toward us. He was silhouetted by the light so I couldn&#39;t make out what he looked like or what exactly he was holding, but I wasn&#39;t about to stick around to find out. I yelled &quot;RUN!&quot; and we bolted out of there as fast as our legs could carry us. 

Exploring abandoned buildings might seem like a fun pasttime for the more adventurous souls among us. But it can go very, very badly. As these brave urban explorers learned the hard way.  In a popular Reddit thread, someone asked people...