Just discovered your channel, and ya know, over my 60 years of life, I've seen literally thousands of horror and suspense movies and TV shows, I subscribe to Shudder ,Alter and CryptTV. I've been through dozens and dozens of haunted houses. Halloween is still my favorite holiday. But nothing has creeped me out as much as your videos.. Well done, sir!
At 22:20 if you turn up your brightness all the way, you can see a shadow moving all the way down at the end of the room by the exit door, it moves from right to left.
This has always been one of my favorite Dead Mall videos. It's equally nostalgic, eerie, and sad at the same time. Great sound editing too. Great to see a remaster!
Easily my favorite dead mall video from all creators. The editing, the sound track and audio effects, the limited narration, all of it together showcases this crazy dead mall at night, with the lights on.
This is one of your best videos I think. The use of the echoed K-Mart tapes in certain places just makes everything so ghostly and creepy. As much as I love the vaporwave artists on here (and I love them) I think the K-Mart muzak tapes add something to it that those artists couldn't, simply because it came directly from the same era as these malls.
I'm back here for a re-watch after Dan mentioned the remastered version on his live stream at the weekend. This is classic DB genius. Good to have you back Dan! 💜
Thanks for remastering these so they can be fully appreciated. I love the dichotomy in this video between the shots through the main halls with the music, and the creepy storefronts with just the buzz of fluorescent lights.
This explore is tied with the Bristol Mall trip for being my favorite. Seeing it again remastered is really awesome. There is so much neon inside of this mall that is lost to the world. There are not many times where someone can explore a place like this, but you definitely took advantage and brought us with you.
This was really quite an amazing find and at 6:38 defently hits pretty hard with that neon lighting brings about that Vaporwave feeling 😄 though its a shame they no longer use neon lighting now in malls today always did thought that was a really cool design
By the way I just saw Thor Love & Thunder today at the new Warehouse Cinema in the theater where the old Hoyt’s cinema was at the in Fredrick Town Mall. While we were waiting for our movie we watched your old Fredrick Town Mall videos and amazed at how they renovated the cinema portion. They placed a fake wall where the old entrance to the mall was. The movie theater is actually doing very well. I would love to see you come to the theater and do before and after shot of from 2015 to now. I Grew up going to Fredrick Town Mall and remember seeing it slowly die as time went by. The reason for Fredrick Town Mall’s demise was I repeated in your last Fredrick Town Mall videos. 1. Demographic shifts, around the area of the mall, 2. Increase in crime as a result of said demographic and economic shifts within the Fredrick Town Mall area, 3. Competition from Fredrick Scot Key Mall which is located off Buckeystown Pike near the exits to I-70 East bound to Baltimore or I-270 South bound to Washington DC, and still has a fully functioning Sears that has not closed yet and most people in Fredrick MD Commute to work ever to Baltimore or Washington DC, making it the perfect shopping 🛍 location, and 4. The obvious Online Shopping 🛍
I think it's a good thing many of these malls are fading away. Overdaturation decreases and increases other malls foot traffic subsequently making them destinations once again.
You have a very talented way of editing together ghostly announcements from department stores with these videos. You should make a horror movie where you take the long drive to an old abandoned department store and make a home in it somewhere and after a few weeks, you start to see people from the mall's past such as two girls wearing blue dresses who say "Hello Danny. Come and play with us."
Seems the vandals were a bit kinder to this one, very enjoyable to see things more or less intact. I really hope the neons survived, they were beautiful.
Ending is goddamn terrifying. I kept think while watching that there's probably a couple people just trying to stay out of the rain living there, but. Say hi dammit. No need to do a conjuring impression. I'd love to do what you do, but that scenario would have my my blood running like ice water, frozen in place. I'd want way higher light output in those areas than you were carrying. Hats off, Dan. I could do it, but I don't think many can make it look as easy as you do.
Fascinating but sad at the same time to see the sad remains of a era that we so enjoyed in our younger years I’m so glad I lived the mall era today’s young people will never understand the great times we had then we didn’t have the internet the cell phones or social media but we had the mall and we had freedom something that just doesn’t exist today good times great memories
I've been watching Dan Bell's Dead Mall videos and one thing puzzles me. Like the Frederick Town Mall that appears 100% disused, why are the lights, on wasting electricity ? Also why is this mall open to let vandals in ac use even more destruction ?
Dan Bell did a breakdown of the filming of this video. He, in fact wasn't alone, but it was because he filmed it with a friend and actually found a stranger by the end of the video, in the abandoned cinema.
Seeing these dead malls hurts my soul. Pembroke Mall in Virginia Beach closed this year and I had the "honor" of eating the last meal in the mall at the Chinese place. I didn't plan on that, but it's how it went. I even got on the local news for it. I remember when it was full of music and colors and happy people. So many good times as a teen in the 80's. I guess I am blessed to be old enough now to have been young then.
You described how I feel too about the malls. My mall here has been drastically cut down to one corridor and surrounded by strip malls and ugly apartments. I remember in the 80s too when it was a really big fashion mall that I loved to shop and hang out in. The last anchor shut down, Macy's, and I'm afraid its days are numbered. So sad the before and after. I hardly go there anymore more because it's so depressing 😞 😕 thank you for your post. ❤
0:47 - Dan, how did you turn on the lights? I thought the light switches have to be flipped from a panel in a locked control room so morons don't prank people by playing with them.
My favorite part of any of your videos was the alien pods/homeless maniquen that was prepared for winter with his black gloves. I actually laughed out loud.
11:56 "Padre Nuestro Puma" lmao... Pumas is a very well known soccer team here in Mexico. I didn't expect to see something like that. By the way they are playing tomorrow against New England Revolution. I think we're going to win.
10:42 - Now, you just know that there's gotta be urban explorerers who, had they been there instead of Dan, would've done something nasty with that doll. I'm just glad it wasn't the Proper People.
That's crazy to think we still have that Motorola razr today in 2024. It came a long way from looking like that to being a smartphone model that it is today. Just think shoppers back then at that mall were shopping for the Motorola razr and shoppers today at your local mall right now 2024 can still shop for that same Motorola razr smartphone edition 4:10
This is the citizen fucking Kane of TH-cam. Primordial Vaporwave. Dan, this is the first video of yours I saw and I'm a lifer. How did you get in here with electricity and all?
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Those announcements over the loudspeaker are creepy as hell.
It's dubbed in from an old Kmart tape
Just discovered your channel, and ya know, over my 60 years of life, I've seen literally thousands of horror and suspense movies and TV shows, I subscribe to Shudder ,Alter and CryptTV. I've been through dozens and dozens of haunted houses. Halloween is still my favorite holiday. But nothing has creeped me out as much as your videos..
Well done, sir!
so, idk why i find danbell videos relaxing. i must be a freak 😅
Yeah man I still keep thinking he's going to enter the Back Rooms shortly, like in that game.
@@VOIDMAKERRme too! 😅
At 22:20 if you turn up your brightness all the way, you can see a shadow moving all the way down at the end of the room by the exit door, it moves from right to left.
what the hell was that 🥲 help
Wtf was that. Looked like someone walking
squatters
I thought I was the only one that noticed! I realized Dan was standing still, so it couldn't have been his reflection... creepy as hell.
This has always been one of my favorite Dead Mall videos. It's equally nostalgic, eerie, and sad at the same time. Great sound editing too. Great to see a remaster!
Agree on all points! The sound is amazing
Imagine not being able to die, and being stuck here for eternity.
With a unlimited credit.
I'm okay with that
It's been great fun re watching all these old dead mall series! Thanks Dan!
Easily my favorite dead mall video from all creators. The editing, the sound track and audio effects, the limited narration, all of it together showcases this crazy dead mall at night, with the lights on.
This is one of your best videos I think. The use of the echoed K-Mart tapes in certain places just makes everything so ghostly and creepy. As much as I love the vaporwave artists on here (and I love them) I think the K-Mart muzak tapes add something to it that those artists couldn't, simply because it came directly from the same era as these malls.
15:57 One thing I don't miss is Long John Silver's: where the fish tastes like chicken, and the chicken tastes like fish. 🤢
18:43 OMG I remember the old Subway wallpaper and yellow wood booth things!
I'm back here for a re-watch after Dan mentioned the remastered version on his live stream at the weekend. This is classic DB genius. Good to have you back Dan! 💜
Thanks for remastering these so they can be fully appreciated. I love the dichotomy in this video between the shots through the main halls with the music, and the creepy storefronts with just the buzz of fluorescent lights.
“Surreal” is such an accurate way to describe this video. Wild 🤩
That ceiling neon squiggle is the BEST!! 😊😊😊🎉🎉🎉
Love the night ones ✨
This is a fantastic late night watch, just need a warm blanket and a bowl of popcorn for this one.
Hard to imagine this mall used to be packed with people and open stores! I MISS THE 1980s
Loving your remastered vids SO much. Good job and to all that had a hand in this :D
This explore is tied with the Bristol Mall trip for being my favorite. Seeing it again remastered is really awesome. There is so much neon inside of this mall that is lost to the world. There are not many times where someone can explore a place like this, but you definitely took advantage and brought us with you.
Thanks Dan. You’re my favorite TH-cam channel. I don’t miss any of your videos. ❤️❤️❤️
This was really quite an amazing find and at 6:38 defently hits pretty hard with that neon lighting brings about that Vaporwave feeling 😄 though its a shame they no longer use neon lighting now in malls today always did thought that was a really cool design
I'd forgotten how this series started out more ethereal and creepy. Nice to rewatch.
By the way I just saw Thor Love & Thunder today at the new Warehouse Cinema in the theater where the old Hoyt’s cinema was at the in Fredrick Town Mall. While we were waiting for our movie we watched your old Fredrick Town Mall videos and amazed at how they renovated the cinema portion. They placed a fake wall where the old entrance to the mall was. The movie theater is actually doing very well. I would love to see you come to the theater and do before and after shot of from 2015 to now. I Grew up going to Fredrick Town Mall and remember seeing it slowly die as time went by. The reason for Fredrick Town Mall’s demise was I repeated in your last Fredrick Town Mall videos. 1. Demographic shifts, around the area of the mall, 2. Increase in crime as a result of said demographic and economic shifts within the Fredrick Town Mall area, 3. Competition from Fredrick Scot Key Mall which is located off Buckeystown Pike near the exits to I-70 East bound to Baltimore or I-270 South bound to Washington DC, and still has a fully functioning Sears that has not closed yet and most people in Fredrick MD Commute to work ever to Baltimore or Washington DC, making it the perfect shopping 🛍 location, and 4. The obvious Online Shopping 🛍
I think it's a good thing many of these malls are fading away. Overdaturation decreases and increases other malls foot traffic subsequently making them destinations once again.
This makes me feel strange, but I quite like it. Liminal spaces are fascinating to me. Thank you for sharing!
10:42 adrenaline rush starts here
lolol im sorry byut this made me laugh
You have a very talented way of editing together ghostly announcements from department stores with these videos. You should make a horror movie where you take the long drive to an old abandoned department store and make a home in it somewhere and after a few weeks, you start to see people from the mall's past such as two girls wearing blue dresses who say "Hello Danny. Come and play with us."
Seems the vandals were a bit kinder to this one, very enjoyable to see things more or less intact. I really hope the neons survived, they were beautiful.
Ending is goddamn terrifying. I kept think while watching that there's probably a couple people just trying to stay out of the rain living there, but. Say hi dammit. No need to do a conjuring impression.
I'd love to do what you do, but that scenario would have my my blood running like ice water, frozen in place. I'd want way higher light output in those areas than you were carrying.
Hats off, Dan. I could do it, but I don't think many can make it look as easy as you do.
How do these places still have electricity. Power companies "abandoned mall. Leave it on. Struggling family of 4 in winter, shut em off.".
I will never not love this video, it’s iconic and simply amazing.
This is one of my favorite ones. I think I commented on it back in 2015 :P Good review of it again :)
Always fabulous work Dan, just fantastic. Proud to be a continuing Patreon supporter hon!! 😘♥️
Song at 6:33 : Corey Hart - Everything In My Heart
Fascinating but sad at the same time to see the sad remains of a era that we so enjoyed in our younger years I’m so glad I lived the mall era today’s young people will never understand the great times we had then we didn’t have the internet the cell phones or social media but we had the mall and we had freedom something that just doesn’t exist today good times great memories
Why do these places still have power if there are no stores open?
Love the vaporwave tunes used in this episode. Cheers 👊🏽☺️
I've been watching Dan Bell's Dead Mall videos and one thing puzzles me. Like the Frederick Town Mall that appears 100% disused, why are the lights, on wasting electricity ? Also why is this mall open to let vandals in ac use even more destruction ?
The atmosphere on this one is amazing!
Man I would have salvaged as much cool stuff as I could have like those FYE signs and the circuit city shopping cart
I WANT ALL THAT NEON ❤
Don't we all, man, don't we all
How are you not scared to do this at night? I would be terrified lol
Holy shit. Corey Hart at 2/3 speed is terrifying.
18:37: Ok, I just saw someone moving here through the door?
The fact that this is at like 2:30 am makes that even more creepy…theres also the same kind of movement at the very end of the vid
Not enough people are talking about this
Dan Bell did a breakdown of the filming of this video.
He, in fact wasn't alone, but it was because he filmed it with a friend and actually found a stranger by the end of the video, in the abandoned cinema.
Did you do those two bits? The one with the outside door and hte bit at the end with the shadow? Nice touches.
God is good… Thank you for Dan Bell! 🙏 🔔
9:47 you can hear a woman go "Who is it?"
Hey uh, Dan? What was that movement at the end of the hall at 22:18 to 22:23
I don't think he saw it but it was definitely there
whats allat movement back dea 👴🏿
Seeing these dead malls hurts my soul.
Pembroke Mall in Virginia Beach closed this year and I had the "honor" of eating the last meal in the mall at the Chinese place. I didn't plan on that, but it's how it went. I even got on the local news for it. I remember when it was full of music and colors and happy people. So many good times as a teen in the 80's. I guess I am blessed to be old enough now to have been young then.
You described how I feel too about the malls. My mall here has been drastically cut down to one corridor and surrounded by strip malls and ugly apartments. I remember in the 80s too when it was a really big fashion mall that I loved to shop and hang out in. The last anchor shut down, Macy's, and I'm afraid its days are numbered. So sad the before and after. I hardly go there anymore more because it's so depressing 😞 😕 thank you for your post. ❤
At 14:15 belongs to Art Nouveau style?
Wish this music was in a playlist or something
Beautiful mall beautiful ambience...
Oh wow thanks for reminding me i need a haircut. That buzzing jsnt going to leave my head anytime soon let me tell you.
That's some post apocalyptic sh!t right there. This is the next Fallout.
Sals dead mall videos are so much better!
“…Our associates would be glad to help you…anytime.”
The sound of that wet carpet and incessant buzzing of those florescent lights makes me think you've no clipped into the backrooms
This is an insane episode. This mall is literally destroyed. How has it not been torn down already?
That costs money. A LOT.
10:42 omg
I know right? Total jump scare
0:47 - Dan, how did you turn on the lights? I thought the light switches have to be flipped from a panel in a locked control room so morons don't prank people by playing with them.
Play pranks on who? The mall is abandoned.
I haven’t thought of rave in like 20 years.
This is of my favorite videos of yours. It doesn’t seem real…. Like it’s AI generated or something. Those tree branches are truly bizarre
this is so beautiful
I love this series..
Does anyone know what store the blue squiggly neon is from?
Are you playing the mall music or is that actually the mall music playing
That was funny ass hell at 10:43 🤣🤣🤣
My favorite part of any of your videos was the alien pods/homeless maniquen that was prepared for winter with his black gloves. I actually laughed out loud.
Why TF were they throwing the tree limbs into the mall? How bizarre.
this is liminal space enthusiast heaven!
11:56 "Padre Nuestro Puma" lmao... Pumas is a very well known soccer team here in Mexico. I didn't expect to see something like that. By the way they are playing tomorrow against New England Revolution. I think we're going to win.
This leaves s a lot to be described. So much to be described. OMG.
Uhhh...did you see the shadow on 22.22 ?? What is that ?
Those 2 old man dummies were creepy as hell. And all the tree branches were weird....
Broooo the Aiden and Silverstein posters!? I'd pay money to collect those 😭
so funny, ten minutes of utter silence and then, "it's like god damn alien pods".
Reminds me of Backroom videos.
Half expected something unearthly to start chasing you.
this is the coolest thing ever
Baskin rovins benn and jerrys
Did any one leave brochurws any mall padmini mall invitations from mall
do malls in USA have cinemas in it?
Thankyou
10:42 - Now, you just know that there's gotta be urban explorerers who, had they been there instead of Dan, would've done something nasty with that doll. I'm just glad it wasn't the Proper People.
@18:56 My old subway looked like that.
Good News: In Gaithersburg Maryland The Lakeforest Mall is Closing on March 31 2023
That's crazy to think we still have that Motorola razr today in 2024. It came a long way from looking like that to being a smartphone model that it is today. Just think shoppers back then at that mall were shopping for the Motorola razr and shoppers today at your local mall right now 2024 can still shop for that same Motorola razr smartphone edition 4:10
Cool, creepy video! Hard to believe that some of the stores are still playing music.
He edits that in bro…
you know this mall is vintage when you see cingular phone adds.
So surreal, I love this shit!
I must admit I've never enjoyed the MALL experience more than these kick as vids.
Did I miss why the lights were on? Was that special?
I love creepy mall videos
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My eyes are playing tricks on me, it looks like I can see something moving in the darkness.
1:41 I am deadly afraid of dolls like that , if I saw that thing I would sprint the door out no matter if Jason himself was guarding it
10:42 Thank you for giving him a good jab my fucking heart
This is the citizen fucking Kane of TH-cam. Primordial Vaporwave. Dan, this is the first video of yours I saw and I'm a lifer. How did you get in here with electricity and all?
Oh man this one really is the creepiest place ever
6:39 OK this is hands down my favorite shot in the episode! Fucking beautifuly creepy! 🥶😍❤
10:43 LOLz
There are some bizarre folk around xxx
So... who was that at the end?