Exploring a Massive Abandoned Research Laboratory
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In this episode we explore an abandoned laboratory complex that was used for developing agricultural chemicals. Once used to help humans shape nature to their will, it has now been reclaimed by nature itself.
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Showed this video to my father, he used to work there for 30 years. Recognized most of what you guys went to but you didn't go to the area he specifically worked. Though he did work in the livestock area and greenhouse area.
The 'shower' machine was for spraying plants with insecticides. The animals they had over there weren't experimented on according to him. The campus you explored was bought out by BASF who then fired all the employees. The "W" wing you were in (west) was added near the end of the company, I think the spiral staircases as well.
Did they slaughter animals? That conveyor belt looked like one out of a slaughterhouse
This comment deserves to be at the top.
I love hearing from people who are familiar with the places they explore, it adds so much more interest and humanizes these apocalyptic looking places.
Imagine to work for 30 years there and seeing a video like this. To me this must cause such weird feelings.
Does he know what they did use the cattle for?
Worked there for 17 years - 1981 - 1998 - so sad to see the state that the buildings are in now.... my Father worked there too and gave his retirement speech to a packed house in that cafeteria.
Where is this??? I’m adding it to my road trip bucket list. It’s sooo amazing to look at
I liked his joke about a Mexican, a Jew, and an Arab all walk into this topless bar... it brought the house down.
@@RandomFandom1 west windsor
stateradio115 Ontario???
SAMURAI 武士 windsor Ontario Canada I think... unless there is a Windsor in usa
I did some research on the robot thing at 17:33 and I found a news article from 1991 describing the exact installation at this facility. It turns out that it is something called a "zymate" which would conduct tests on samples and send data to a computer without human intervention. They used it because the samples were volatile and had to be handled extremely carefully.
Did it come in a little glass vial?
@@niccilefevre A little glass vial?
@@jsmith6599 a little glass vial.
At least the sky wasn't red or yellow I guess.
To my opinion as a chemist these robot might more have been used, because pesticide research means a lot of analysis: Many parameters, many sample-preparation steps (complex matrix) and with human hands it is often not possible to do highly precise liquid handling. So with a robot you can handle smaller amounts of each sample. In a manual workflow you e.g. might need at least 0,1 mL to get precise results, where the robot might still handle 2 mikroliters with high precision. So less sample is needed. And also less consumables like extraction chemicals. That lowers the costs.
And also robots are not sleeping at night. So you can do more experiments in the same time.
"combinatorial chemistry": This means in basic words "bruteforce trial and error" 😂
Update from January 2022. One of my customers is just down the road and over the tracks from here, pass by this place all the time. Was shocked to see it currently in the advanced stages of demolition. Glad you guys were able to capture this one when you did!
yep, as of September 2022 it's completely gone, just an empty field
Yea
What was the research company called that used this site
Wow! All gone baby.
I count my age in places I can never go again... And not cause I was kicked out :S
I worked there from 1977 until 2002 when the site shut down. Unfortunately this video doesn’t capture the great employees and state of the art research that happened at this very site. 😢
@voitdive Ah yes, the best part about chemical research. By the time cancers or other diseases start showing up in the population, you're still years from proving what did it and then a decade or two later the company pays out a relatively meager sum after a class action lawsuit. And the machine continues lumbering on.
Lily R ... and there it is. Sooner or later an sjw type has to troll a completely helpful comment from a former employee.
Gief Replays
The entire point of them researching chemicals in laboratories is to find out if they will hurt people or the environments to see if it’s safe enough to use effectively. Most fuel sources and old products we use were developed many many years ago and didn’t have to go through the rigorous procedures that most products have gone through 1980 and up. You do not know what went on inside this laboratory, what they experimented with, don’t shit on people and their careers of scientific discovery just to feed delusions.
Where is it located?
Brian K. Hahn Do you even know what a SJW is?! This has nothing to do with hysterical leftists, this is a fact: Unknown chemicals have unknown side effects, that’s why they get researched. You’re insulting all those scientists who got sick doing what they loved, often because governments lied to them, as with nuclear bombs
If Resident Evil has taught me anything there's a giant lab still making bioweapons under that place.
outlast too!
Was thinking that too 😉
Wuhan labs?
Cloning or virus making
Same as Chernobyl, they also have a broken down lab under a factory
As a scientist working in a modern lab, it was crazy to see the autoclave and robot! They were quite advanced!
that robot had me hyped af
The 90s were only 20 years ago, not 200 😂😂😂
good sir name drop. the insane speed at which science advances makes it so anything new today, could be viewed as quite advanced through the looking glass of yesterday!
have a time stamp for that?
When was this abandoned? Some time in the early 2000s?
*Explores an abandoned Research Labrotory*
"There's so many Labs here"
Ikr like what did they expect a fight arena????
@@halley8105 lol probably more labs then ive seen in one place in my life lol. Well yup it was a labratory so one may assume there may be a few labs. I just dont know about not wearing a mask or something. Im sure it goes beyond just mold in there. Test the air and soil first then explore with proper mask and foot wear..
It’s all most like there in a laboratory.... oh wait....
let me guess, the floor is made out of floor?
“What is this sterilizing thing?” Idk man this is a lab and labs use dead pigs for testing
Black Mesa certainly has changed a lot...
Genious
This comment deserves more recognition
I love you
Christopher Davila its litterally the top comment
looks more like aperture science
This whole place screamed abandoned Jurassic Park facility to me.
SAME 😂 i was waiting for a velociraptor to appear
@@lightbenderleia or a T Rex... and then everybody would be like "Holly Shit!! Run!!"
"No! We need to record this! The world needs to know!"
"To hell with this! It gonna kill us!" and then... ... ... ... Ok... I got carried away. U.U
yup the lost world book
I was ready to write this EXACT thing :D cheers.. good old 90's Jurassic Park movies
Be great for practical effects and movie shoot
My Dad worked here from 1969-1984. American Cyanamid was in the RCA building in Rockerfeller Center in NYC and he worked there in the 1950’s then moved to Oakland NJ when they opened their headquarters in Wayne NJ. We have home movies of the building being built. My dad worked in Accounting in this location which is in West Windsor NJ. Seeing the reception area brought back such bittersweet memories of sitting in the car with my mother picking him up in the early 1970’s when we were a one car family.
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"The amount of mold is crazy"
*proceeds to breathe the entire building in*
Mold is prolific in the natural environment. We breathe mold spores just being outside. Don’t believe everything you hear on lawyer commercials
@@bsouth7042 True, but this is a largely enclosed environment with excellent conditions for mould to thrive in. This causes a really high concentration in that area a)because of the sheer amount of mould and b)because the spores don't disperse like they would outside. Pretty reckless to continue without some protection.
They were pretty dumb for not wear a mask there.
@@bsouth7042 Wind and expansive space is also in abundance when outside.
No respirator = foolish.
I worked here for 20 years. It was a wonderful place to work! I will always miss it. This trip was both sad and fascinating for me. We called the glass hallway between the West wing and the R&D wing "The Habitrail". It was like 150 degrees in there on some days. :)
You were right about most of the things you identified in these shots. Wish you could have gone into all the buildings! There are so many I want to see.
Those greenhouses were built at huge expense, and only used for a year or two before the facility was closed. I think some of them were never used.
Sue Holzmer where is it located I’m interested to see it on google earth
@@rheclyfe7261 The coordinates and location is in many of the comments here! I'd rather not say. You can find it if you look.
When did this place close?
Peter421 I think we had completely vacated by 2004. It’s gray because there were two separate companies occupying the space in the last years-BASF and Fort Dodge Animal Health. BASF (crop protection) completely moved out before FDAH. FDAH moved most personnel up route 1 near Raymond Rd. Around 2003, and kept the animal barns operating for a year or so afterwards before completely closing the door.
@Sue do you know by any chance why there was sign in Polish in the laboratory area? I'm from Poland and this got me kind of intrigued, unfortunately I'm watching this on my mobile and only thing I was able to read was _"uwaga"_ which means _"warning"_ so I don't know if they were right the information in Polish was for cleaning workers.
Anyway, thanks in advance for a reply and have a nice day/evening ✌️😄
This is insane because Im a lab technician for an engineering company and run soil proctors on Am Cyan contaminated soil samples every few days. Its amazing their blunders are still trying to be corrected today. so long after their Fall
The shear amount of money that was spent to build this lab complex is insane. Just lab, after lab, after lab.
And only state of the art equipment / thoughtful floor plan
I work at a firm in NJ and we have been doing testing for the last 30 years to assist with environmental cleanups of American Cyanamid/American Home Products/Wyeth sites. Stay OUT of the Bound Brook and Bridgewater locations!!!! The industrial dye pits are horrendous. They are locking the chemicals up there by adding bentonite and cement to the wastewater lagoons to lock it in place and then surrounding the areas with bentonite & soil cement cut-off walls that go down over 40 feet to keep the stuff from going into the streams. The guy we worked for who was stationed onsite died of a rare blood disease. I would not go anywhere near these places, especially without air purifying respirators. You have no idea how well they cleaned stuff up before they left. Like walking through the insecticide sprayer...there is a better than average chance you will come to regret this one day. FYI - if you smell anything that seems like shoe polish, that is most likely benzene.
I don’t understand why they don’t wear masks tbh it’s really unsafe to smell anything like asbestos and other chemicals over the years..
19:14 . . . Was this the insecticide sprayer you speak of, or something else, like a "sanitizer", as they are guessing ?
It's a real shame they aren't in there with some kind of PPE.
I agree its so bizarre that their fandom in specific are always telling them to wear PPE but they NEVER DO. And I mean they never even wear gloves for god sakes. The dudes are cocky for sure and they'll 100% feel it sooner rather than later....
@@Electragirl5 agree about wearing gloves
Looks like a good filming location for a Jurassic Park movie or anything post apocalyptic
Me- scrolling TH-cam.
TH-cam- Massive abandoned research facility.
Me- That is my exact fetish...
Agree. It would be cool if the next Jurrassic World film would be filmed here.
Totally
Day 12: This is Dr. Byrnham, day 12. I was right. Experiment 1352 has wiped out civilization. Every modern government has fallen. The military cannot stop them. To all the researchers who were in there when 1352 broke containment, I’m sorry. But I’m glad that you don’t have to live in this hellscape of a world.
this reminds me of the part from jurassic world where you can see the old „base“ from jurassic park
Whoever wrote your intro is quite good at that kind of thing. That's a talent that not everyone has but I love how you used your word choices in that intro... "While at one time this facility was used by humans to shape nature to their will, now nature is having it's way." LOVED this line!
i love how respectful they are when exploring places
Imagine working here, thousands of employees, everyone with different skills and jobs ranging from hardcore dangerous chemical stuff, to plant or animal specifics to just being a cafeteria employee to law or HR. Someone was taking care of the livestock scooping their poop while others were top chemists working on dangerous chemicals. Crazy.
Out of all the comments this is the one that was pin pointed to exactly what amazes me about this place. So many lives were active here as well changed from leaving. Would love to have seen this place live in action !
My uncle was a biologist who did animal studies
I actually did work there in the 90's. At it's height there were about 1200 people employed at that site. There was a whole room with nothing but spiders.....
@@sandracarson-price7808 that's very cool. when i see such videos, i always wonder : " when was the last day actual employees worked there ? how did it look like when the place was active ? What do the people who worked there nowadays..." how is it for you to see this ?
@@ThorusDGI it's a bit jarring to see the way it is now and remember how it was. Towards the end, when they are entering the greenhouses there are whiteboards with the names of the supervising researchers. I recognize those names. It's pretty surreal.
You guys need respirators dude. Concentration of mold in here can cause major breathing problems in weeks.
They weren't able to because everyone bought the entire supply of em due to COVID
@@htfkid2000 and they don't even protect against covid haha
@spdzodzo first of all, n95 masks and surgical masks are made for protecting others. Secondly, they have been scientifically proven time and time again, for MULTIPLE different purposes. I can tell you’re the type that believes wack jobs and conspiracy theorists in TH-cam comments sections. I hope you know that science doesn’t matter to a political ideology or race or demographic, science is science.
Agreed! Watched the tunnel video & thought immediately of the asbestos & mold & they need rebreathers or filter-mask or something. I know you want to talk while exploring, yet you two should DEFINETELY have some sort of filter mask on. A small rebreather perhaps!
N95s are made for shit like this plus they have mini gas mask respirators too
This is easily one of y'alls best explorations. It really is like a Valve game gone wromg.
I worked with a HVAC company in China to set up a similar laboratory, much smaller. It quite difficult to get pressure just right for those clean rooms (to ensure the lab is in lower pressure, preventing contamination to outside). This is also why there is "Caution open door slowly" signs.
I would’ve stayed far away from there being an ex Ag Research facility. I worked for a chemical company that did ag research and the amount of contamination that seeped into the building and ground was scary. We had multiple cancer clusters in those buildings and even today the buildings can never be completely sold or knocked down because of the massive EPA cleanup fines. I’m glad you didn’t stay long in there. You guys got big bollocks I’ll give you that
Obvious question but what does a cancer cluster mean exactly?
@@peter-shauntyrell5613 It means that lots of people who live or work in the same place start getting cancer at a much higher rate than the surrounding population.
@@stevem815 thank you very much
What was he referring to, "de_"??? Do you know??
@@HappyQuailsLC lol it’s a Counter-Strike reference
I love how these are actual exploration and documentary type videos and not some "TH-camr" talking into the camera telling you to smash that like button.
XD
Lmao 😂
I feel saver watching this video since he was not so stupid exploring that ruin alone
every youtuber gives a youtube tutorial. there's these buttons and you need to click them
"While at one time this facility was used by humans to shape nature to their will, now nature is having it's way."
Damn that's kinda deep
And will do after idiot , evil humans tried to dehumanize earth with a cOvid scam . Trued to turn mem into girls. Nature is going to kick the b.s. ass and its only a matter of time .
@@chrisgould101 Take your meds.
@@chrisgould101 what??
@@2b2tisafactionsserver72 I did as a kid.
and will kick your Dam ass . Shut that trap
@@chrisgould101 Clearly you shouldn't have stopped taking them. Oh no, tough guy on the internets said he was gonna beat me up. Shiver me timbers.
I'm always amazed at the $100k+ of kitchen equipment that gets left behind
Honestly, as someone who loves both sci-fi, and post-apocalyptic worlds, this really gives off the the vibe that something terrible had happened here. The lack of people and the lack of proper electricity really oozes that "something is always looking at you" factor. Thanks for posting this!
I won't lie, its absolutely crazy how many abandoned things exist in this world
It's crazy that corporations are basically allowed to litter the land with defunct facilities.
Detroit, Michigan and Louisville, Kentucky would agree.
Hiden clues the macabres experimentals 💀
It's so sad to see this stuff. People spent ages building all of that, years working there, and then it's just all left to rot. For no reason.
such a naive thing to say
That glass walkway is one of the coolest things I've seen on this channel, and that's saying something!
I'm also really enjoying all the testimonials from people who worked here in the comments.
If The Last Of Us was a movie. This would be one of the scene locations.
They'd have a movie set , bud
Zako The Klown Yea might be true. Still. It would be cool to see places like this being used in movies.
They are making an HBO series...
Litrealy
Resident fuckin' Evil, maybe develop an Air Soft/paintball L.A.R.P.
The atrium walkway looks very nice and must have had a really beautiful view.
This looks like it must have been an incredible facility to work in while it was operating. A way nicer lab than anything I've ever been in.
When you go through places like this you should really wear a respirator..
Yeah, all these mold spores in the air can't be good. Not to mention asbestos and other nice stuff.
Yeah like you dont know what gases are there like poison
What worries me is the lack of PPE going through a place like that. Mold and no respirators, loose ceiling tiles and no hard hats, touching stuff without gloves.
All for a handful thousand views and patrons, why are you surprised? Typical youtuber fare.
You want a zombie apocalypse? Cuz this is how a zombie apocalypse starts....
Big pp
until he wakes up and has 6 balls
God, I want 12:03 on my living room wall. Edit: 13:49 as well. I love that you guys take such beautiful shots, and that I can just pause the video for a bit and get.... super lost in there. It's not quite the same as being there, but you guys capture the essence of these places; not to mention how you two work together... I've noticed this, one of you sees what the other doesn't and you both draw each other to see things you may otherwise not have. And your deep appreciation for the art of it is no understatement. Been binging these for hours. Cheers, guys.
Whoa I remember going here as a kid in the late 90’s and 00’s right after it closed it look untouched but now nature sure is having its way with this corrupt facility my aunt and uncle worked at.
Would you please tell me rhe location? I photograph abandoned places. I don’t want to do any destruction. You can check out my Instagram if you’d like 0possum_tx
Corrupt?
@@Recordspin well as of 2020: “German chemical company BASF SE on Thursday agreed to pay $72.5 million to settle a class action fraud lawsuit over allegations its talc contained asbestos and caused lung injuries and cancer, court documents showed.”
It never ceases to amaze me how often there is perfectly good commercial, industrial, or medical equipment just left abandoned. You would think a company would try to liquidate what equipment it can to recoup some of the money. The equipment might be obsolete but it still has useful life left in it.
They probably kept it there so they can use it as a perk to resell the place or the intended on going back but other things happened that prevented them from going back. 100% should be legal to take the stuff now tho
I think a lot of specialized equipment has a higher depreciated book value than actual market value so companies just use it as a tax write off instead of wasting the effort to sell it for little gain.
It's absolutely shameful how much lab equipment has been wasted here. Definitely some of the built in equipment has been removed but a lot remains. Some of the equipment and facilitates look in good shape still after being abandoned and left to the elements for years. That means when initially abandoned they could have been 100% sold off or reused. Industrial users wouldn't want second hand but SOMEONE would. That's all before we get onto ho how insane a waste it is that the building isn't being used
As a nurse, I can tell you, if not maintained continuously...medical equipment breaks or becomes obsolete very fast...it may look new...but its seriously out of date and wouldn't work without serious refurbishment...
Idk man it seems that alot of research equipment needs to be immaculate and free of any imperfections in order to be used effectively. After being exposed to the elements for even a few days I'd throw them out too.
Last use was 2004.
"The site was first developed when American Cyanamid built its agricultural research facility on the property in 1950. Cyanamid continued there until 1994, when the company merged with American Home Products, a conglomerate that manufactured food, healthcare, and household products. It was one of the largest companies in the United States at the time.
In 2000 AHP sold the Cyanamid agricultural division was to BASF, a German chemical company, but AHP retained ownership of the tract. Two years later AHP changed its name to Wyeth after founder Frank Wyeth. The company leased the property to BASF until 2004."
2004 doesn't seem like that long ago, but the video makes it look like it's been half a century.
@@delphicdescant I mean maybe due to weather conditions and lack of previous maintenance caused the accelerated decay. They had lots of employee issues in the 90's. So if they struggled with that, then much more with maintenance. But it's 90% clean of graffiti
it actually really looks clean and in really good shape for it being abandoned for so long. Had seen beautifully buildings that had being abandoned for less than a year and are looking worst than this facility.
Wyeth? The company manufacturing formula milk for infants and toddlers?
My uncle worked there and used to get chef boyardee for mt bro and I. Got them as samples
This is amazing. I wish there was a former worker with you to describe the functions of each area.
This building inspired a map for a roblox zombie survival game called Those Who Remain. Not all of the original building was remade and it was only recently abandoned in the game but I can see the parts they did take such as the glass corridors the canteen some of the labs etc
This feels like a mix between an "old aperture" map mixed with a CS everyone versus everyone map, with random scenes sprinkled in
It does
6:26
Especially the rail at 21:48 reminded me of Aperture with Wheatley hanging from the rail.
Kept expecting them to turn a corner and run into a sentry or companion cube.
Was waiting on a Cave Johnson announcement or PotatOS lol
i love seeing the stories in the comments of these more recently abandoned places from people who worked there. its so interesting
That's why they should have given us some background prior to the exploration, it would've made it so much more interesting. We should encourage them to do so!
Wow, I love that place....it has that retro look and the outside looks amazing. It must have been spectacular in its prime.
12:05 love that shot
This looks like Aperture Laboratories under Wheatley’s control
Or Umbrella Corporation under Albert Wesker's control.
I heard my name, Comrade?
I’ve been looking for a Portal comment haha
@@BrookieMacc Some of these locations these guys document would be GREAT for L.A.R.P.ing or even low-budget indie filmmaking.
@@troyevitt2437 fuck yEs👏👏 although they’d have to do something to protect against the mold n stuff haha
The room with the warning about strong magnetic fields held a NMR spectrometer, which is an important tool used by chemists to characterize the compounds they synthesize. It is not really dangerous at all, they are common in all major research centers, such as universities.
30:00 It's funny you guys say that, it's actually worse when the greenhouses are in operation! Normally the lights are on, adding to the heat, and the humidity is ramped up high for the plant's benefit, and you're wearing disposable paper labcoats and other PPE items. You get hot and sweaty quickly, and to add insult to injury you are not meant to bring any kind of food or water into a greenhouse of that safety/contamination level. If you're working alone you've usually got to wear a little piece of kit that'll inform building security if you stop moving, in case you've collapsed!
This place is beautiful and honestly looks like a nice place to have worked and looks so post-apocalyptic now but in the most pleasing way
"Hey man, what map do you want to play?"
"Not sure, we could just do de_chemlab again."
"Okay."
Is that Lain in your profile pic?
@@wallacewalter577 Yessir'.
@Spartains Man, it has been so long since I saw a fellow SEL fan here in TH-cam. Let’s all love lain, and let’s make sure she is never forgotten.
@@wallacewalter577 Glad to meet a fellow Lain fan as well! We'll never forget Lain, because we're all connected. Let's love Lain, indeed B)
7:19 That polish paper
Attention!
For all cleaners working after 17:00 (5 pm)
Please, do not enter this room
Please, do not clean this room
That sound so unnerving
@@happyeddy317 ikr like why after 5pm they can’t clean
27:54 I've seen this exact same room in my dreams before and it's genuinely scaring me
I think I recognize your profile picture. Is is from a Charon RPG?
@@kimmaunswagster-yoloson-ma7712 Yes! She is Mikoto from Mikoto Nikki! :D
@@PnfrlEnm I love that game. My favorite one has always been MenheRafflesia though. I'm assuming you like yanderes as much as me?
Great videos guys. You can really feel the haunting vibes some of these places have.
The entirety of this video.
“Ooh this looks dangerous”
“Let’s touch it”
*proceeds to touch everything that could possibly be harmful*
*Smells mold and other crap leftover”
*Inhales deeply*
“Smells weird in here, I don’t know what it is though.”
*proceeds to do this multiple times*
JP 43 Doesnt sound like they have any filtermasks on either
@Ana Xotwod People like you are sooooo paranoid about everything...
LoLz
@@NerdyNEET I live a town away from this place. The nearest hospital from there is like 3 miles away calm yourself
The Diet Coke logo on the soda machine was used from 1987 to 1994, so your estimation was pretty close!
This is why u watch these because pretty spot on always. Agricultural shit is gonna have a certain scent!
I really don't know why I searched for this, but I love it.
This places remembers me the "Old Aperture" Laboratories with the nature getting in
Really cool to see all the glass still intact!
The "strong magnetic field" room was for the nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometer used for elucidating the molecular structure of novel synthetic organic compounds. You can see a large diameter flexible grey exhaust duct hanging from the ceiling, which was likely used in the event that the NMR's superconducting niobium titanium electromagnet experienced an unexpected "quench" of the wire, thus converting the stored circulating current to heat and rapidly boiling off all the liquid helium cryogen it's immersed in into a large volume of helium gas, which obviously had to be conveyed out of doors, lest it otherwise present a risk of asphyxiation to the personnel presently in the room.
So many big words...
I never thought I'd see a Resonance Cascade, let alone create one...
Have mass specs largely replaced NMRs? I used MS quite a bit back in the day but I wasn't a chemist just borrowed their cool stuff.
Cause I know some ppl found a way to use ozone to figure out the orientation of molecules which I imagine would be the benefit of NMR over MS.
@@Kiz834 they're just very different tools. I wouldn't say any one has supplanted the other's use. In conjunction with gas or liquid chromatography and fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, NMR and MS are incredibly powerful tools for molecular structure identification and reaction yield efficiency quantification.
"Insecticide synthesis, here. So, I guess they were making insecticide." I think you missed your calling as a private investigator.
😂
I come back to this video periodically when I need some calm vibes, thinking of walking down that hallway with all the nature around and relaxing
The funny part is that, when the site was in use, that hallway sucked. It was unbelievably hot in the summer. We used to call it the "habitrail".
The lesson we should learn from this is, dont build flat roofs on your buildings. Standing water will always find a way in. When I see buildings like these. I wish I could lease a small section of the property and build a workshop.
As a scientist an eye watering amount of money went into that place
It sure looks like it
They probably moved their new lab into an extinct volcano somewhere. That's where most mad scientists do their best work in comic books. :)
BASF likely took what they wanted then put everything else up for auction. I have no doubt that this was an amazing facility.
I kept thinking what a waste to just let the facility rot into the forest.
Looks like the kind of place where we'd get jobs in a version of reality where there were jobs.
You know its gonna be a good day when the proper people upload
Got to love these guys x
❤
I find all the places you guys explore have a very post apocolyptic feel to them, like something bad has happened to the world and you guys are the only remaining survivors, scrounging for food and supplies and battling and neutrelizing any threats Fallout style. 14:53 reminds me of the bird cage scene in Jurrasic Park III.
That chair has seen a LOT of science.
that "experimental tree" is a Paulownia tomentosa, a tree with very beautiful, purple flowers during springtime, i imagine it would look very cool going there in spring
I’m not even past the sponsor part of the video and I’m already like “Bryan keep the long hair.” Haven’t even seen Michael yet.
I worked at Reshmann Chemicals for over a decade. Those long synthesis rooms were patient areas. They were all synthesize rooms, which have now been dismantled. The 'boiling' was originally an all medicine sector. At one point ,there was a farm attached to the hospital, and many of the chemists loved to work on it. And most of the chemists liked the outcome of such production. It was all you could produce specially used for the chemicals process. Reshmann Chemicals was like a city, at one point, it had a secret drug room. And yeah, it was really easy stumble upon laboratory tests. For the first month of working there, I needed a mask to avoid some experiments i didn't want to see. The chemists tapped into something abut the building. It was well built and well designed,. considering it was over a 20 years old. There is something about the construction and hardware that said they weren't cheap, or that they scrimped on the building. The building gives you a feeling of being chemically drugged, but protected. The chemists picked up that there's not a pall that hangs over the building, like most chemic establishments. It was cool seeing my old synthesis office, water gathering, and old farm, and drug vault..Seeing those things brought back fond memories of former staff and chemist.Unfortunately, it was a chemical laboratory, and these of laboratory don't always bring back happy memories.
This was amazing to watch! This is where my parents met, my aunt and uncle met, and was always a crazy part of my history that I've never been able to see through their stories. Thank you for sharing, I showed both of my parents and it was a wonderful walk down memory lane for them.
I used to work in facilities at a national laboratory . Those things that are sticking out are actually moveable fume hoods. We called them hogs. Basically, they could be placed right down next to something that a person was working on and would evacuate the fumes, versus putting the project into a standard fume hood.
"This place feels like a level from a Valve game"
Damn... I always have Black Mesa in mind because I'm so obsessed
We often see this kind of buildings in movies but seeing them in real life feels so weird, now imagine people who do urban exploration alone and at night.
Its more like a L4D map than a CS map.
BTW, I'm in a few Valve modding discords and your videos are posted every once and a while as inspiration for maps.
That's awesome
I started to create a map just a few days ago because I got inspired by one of their videos!
Abandoned building map makers gang rise up. My city is full of abandoned buildings so I often go explore alone and take pictures to recreate them in CSGO.
(17:55) DNA sequencing... (18:16) those are clean rooms, with a positive pressure to keep the dirt and dust out... (22:20) animal necropsy area
I know, the guys are clueless, was annoying to hear them confidently talk so much shit the whole time
@@gram. be nice sir...
Anyone else notice what’s on the window on the left at 15:12 😂
It’s art
That greenhouse is my dream post-apocalyspe wedding venue
This entire facility is such a vibe
bad vibe
25:52 The way that tree is growing is beautiful my favorite thing about videos like this is seeing how nature takes over again either in the way of mold,plants or animals taking over it’s fascinating and beautiful.
Instantly recognized this one. I live very close by, but never got the chance to check it out before demolition; glad to see you got the opportunity to explore such an amazing spot.
This is amazing! Thank you so much for sharing!!
"Insecticide Synthesis"
sounds like a death metal band
That sounds more like ann EBM band
As a person with a lisp this is even hard to read correctly, much less say out loud. LOL
Or an Animals As Leaders song title
sounds like something off of a Spongebob episode
The ability of humans to waste resources never fails to amaze me. There is so much in the building that could be repurposed and reusable.
Getting those resources into a useable state would be a waste of resources.
@@Nexuhss please explain.
@@andyaitken4243 labs like that are usually heavily contaminated by harmful chemicals. Because of this the cost would be huge, and that's if you want to knock it down.
The mold and likely structural damage would be another money hole aswell.
@@mr.potato5471 whilst I do agree to some of what you say glass is impermeable so for one, that could be recycled.
As for the rest of the structure, that’s what test kits are for.
Or don't repurpose this building and just let nature do it's thing and reclaim the area because nature was there first
In fact tear it down and give the unused land back to nature the way its supposed to be
i don't know how and why but i love this kinda of videos, like, urban explorations
Your cinematography is off the charts. Favorite part of your videos.
*goes to a lab full of mold and asbestos without a mask*.
Cancer cells: *Hold my beer*
What saddens me is the waste. All that was, is no more and it’s going to waste.
Imagine what the company that owned it kept.
Its called an operating deduction. Everything in that building paid for itself.
agreed - that facility could have been repurposed - still can be ...
Yeah serious Valve vibes here. The old soda machines remind me of Half-Life 1, the overgrowth reminds me of Portal 2, and the dark and wet hallways remind me of Half-Life Alyx.
I was super curious to see what it looked like via Google maps... But it looks like all the buildings are now gone
goes to a laboratory. man there’s lots of laboratories
Lmao
"Haven't seen so many laboratories in one place"
😂
And smells
Reminds me of Life After People, i miss that show. There's something eerily compelling about abandoned buildings, seeing places that wouldve once bustled with human activity now still and quiet.
You have the best username I’ve seen in months
@@Noah-gv6zj thanks!
2:50 Lmao at the camera following the cameraman instead of showing the area.
Already watched them all ages ago.. re watching random ones.. always love your work. Best urbex out there ❤
Hey, you should always wear a respiratory, when going into any place, especially like this one. You don't know. It'll save you from lung issues in the future.
I teach science and I light up when I see a Proper People video with the words “Research Lab”!!! Keep it up guys! (PS- I also die a little inside every time I see decaying science equipment I couldn’t afford if it was used)
It's so sad to see a place of knowledge just be forgotten about and neglected.
Idk why decay is always so pretty on human architecture
I remember going into a abandoned small warehouse. didnt have much in it. alot of dust and dirt. some carts and tools ladders and a push broom and window cleaner and old towels. I kindof spent about 6 hours in the place, sweeping the floor into one big pile, then used a ladder and ended up cleaning the windows. by the end of it. place looked like it wasnt even abandoned anymore.
Based
You are a legend
@@lilyrpeace I have gone in a few abandon places before in past. lot of the times, I actually will pickup stuff and at least clean up a little bit. but the warehouse, that was the most i have ever done in abandon place before.
The whole time I was thinking some of those places could be cleaned up real nice and repurposed.
you worked for free?
Glassed in box was for liquid automation.
The silver armed “things” with red ends and elbows -are neg flow exhaust - extractors of fumes.
After the glass hallway- office / labs-
The lab was a vivarium. The coiled line dangling from the wall was the water line to the animal racks.
Silver box you walked through was “cage wash” to clean - sterilize cages between use.
Silver table on floor was large animal surgery table.
What was done THERE ?! Sounds kinda sketchy .