Exploring a Massive Abandoned Research Laboratory

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  • @nohmekop
    @nohmekop 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6777

    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.

    • @maizie9454
      @maizie9454 4 ปีที่แล้ว +144

      Did they slaughter animals? That conveyor belt looked like one out of a slaughterhouse

    • @Noah-gv6zj
      @Noah-gv6zj 4 ปีที่แล้ว +162

      This comment deserves to be at the top.

    • @jazzaroobabu1101
      @jazzaroobabu1101 4 ปีที่แล้ว +420

      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.

    • @HL2Striker
      @HL2Striker 4 ปีที่แล้ว +358

      Imagine to work for 30 years there and seeing a video like this. To me this must cause such weird feelings.

    • @kittikat4124
      @kittikat4124 4 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      Does he know what they did use the cattle for?

  • @kjplatt4511
    @kjplatt4511 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1956

    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.

    • @RandomsFandom
      @RandomsFandom 4 ปีที่แล้ว +42

      Where is this??? I’m adding it to my road trip bucket list. It’s sooo amazing to look at

    • @BeachsideHank
      @BeachsideHank 4 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      I liked his joke about a Mexican, a Jew, and an Arab all walk into this topless bar... it brought the house down.

    • @stateradio115
      @stateradio115 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@RandomsFandom west windsor

    • @RandomsFandom
      @RandomsFandom 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      stateradio115 Ontario???

    • @RandomsFandom
      @RandomsFandom 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      SAMURAI 武士 windsor Ontario Canada I think... unless there is a Windsor in usa

  • @jenniferleonard6302
    @jenniferleonard6302 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4712

    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. 😢

    • @GiefReplays
      @GiefReplays 4 ปีที่แล้ว +263

      @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.

    • @BrianKHahn
      @BrianKHahn 4 ปีที่แล้ว +423

      Lily R ... and there it is. Sooner or later an sjw type has to troll a completely helpful comment from a former employee.

    • @juuloveh
      @juuloveh 4 ปีที่แล้ว +401

      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.

    • @Sinister_Reaper
      @Sinister_Reaper 4 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      Where is it located?

    • @tsfbaf303
      @tsfbaf303 4 ปีที่แล้ว +130

      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

  • @markdaywaltjr.5707
    @markdaywaltjr.5707 2 ปีที่แล้ว +473

    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!

    • @PrincessOfPi
      @PrincessOfPi 2 ปีที่แล้ว +58

      yep, as of September 2022 it's completely gone, just an empty field

    • @Andrei12325
      @Andrei12325 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Yea

    • @jake_dev1046
      @jake_dev1046 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      What was the research company called that used this site

    • @topdog5252
      @topdog5252 ปีที่แล้ว

      Wow! All gone baby.

    • @michaelperrone3867
      @michaelperrone3867 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I count my age in places I can never go again... And not cause I was kicked out :S

  • @morn1415
    @morn1415 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2468

    Black Mesa certainly has changed a lot...

    • @log_by_bolb
      @log_by_bolb 4 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      Genious

    • @723kiro
      @723kiro 4 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      This comment deserves more recognition

    • @codymullins9387
      @codymullins9387 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      I love you

    • @fritzedelwei3133
      @fritzedelwei3133 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Christopher Davila its litterally the top comment

    • @Lance3015
      @Lance3015 4 ปีที่แล้ว +50

      looks more like aperture science

  • @sueholzmer7415
    @sueholzmer7415 4 ปีที่แล้ว +773

    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.

    • @rheclyfe7261
      @rheclyfe7261 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Sue Holzmer where is it located I’m interested to see it on google earth

    • @sueholzmer7415
      @sueholzmer7415 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      @@rheclyfe7261 The coordinates and location is in many of the comments here! I'd rather not say. You can find it if you look.

    • @Peter421
      @Peter421 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      When did this place close?

    • @SHolzmer
      @SHolzmer 4 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      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.

    • @TheWTZ1983
      @TheWTZ1983 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @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 ✌️😄

  • @Fear_Of_Music
    @Fear_Of_Music ปีที่แล้ว +231

    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.

    • @niccilefevre
      @niccilefevre ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Did it come in a little glass vial?

    • @jsmith6599
      @jsmith6599 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@niccilefevre A little glass vial?

    • @niccilefevre
      @niccilefevre ปีที่แล้ว

      @@jsmith6599 a little glass vial.

    • @jwalster9412
      @jwalster9412 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      At least the sky wasn't red or yellow I guess.

    • @ChristianBeringer
      @ChristianBeringer 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      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" 😂

  • @dawndeather9553
    @dawndeather9553 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1179

    If Resident Evil has taught me anything there's a giant lab still making bioweapons under that place.

    • @kaiyotee2475
      @kaiyotee2475 3 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      outlast too!

    • @matilda56563
      @matilda56563 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Was thinking that too 😉

    • @robertlyman9789
      @robertlyman9789 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Wuhan labs?

    • @chunguss180
      @chunguss180 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Cloning or virus making

    • @markgribov445
      @markgribov445 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Same as Chernobyl, they also have a broken down lab under a factory

  • @Chrishdog
    @Chrishdog 4 ปีที่แล้ว +823

    This whole place screamed abandoned Jurassic Park facility to me.

    • @lightbenderleia
      @lightbenderleia 4 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      SAME 😂 i was waiting for a velociraptor to appear

    • @l.a.i2571
      @l.a.i2571 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      ​@@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

    • @aredub1847
      @aredub1847 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      yup the lost world book

    • @MorgulDemonVegeta
      @MorgulDemonVegeta 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      I was ready to write this EXACT thing :D cheers.. good old 90's Jurassic Park movies

    • @MaxRamos8
      @MaxRamos8 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Be great for practical effects and movie shoot

  • @bee968
    @bee968 2 ปีที่แล้ว +54

    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.

    • @diadema333
      @diadema333 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      oh how fascinating! I've actually been in this headquarters in Wayne I think after a quick search! it was purchased and then sold by toys r us after American Cyanamid. The whole campus is absolutely beautiful, we were there filming and it was crazy to see such a massive place so barren yet so serene.

  • @Windows71246
    @Windows71246 3 ปีที่แล้ว +67

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  • @KevinArcade87
    @KevinArcade87 4 ปีที่แล้ว +751

    Looks like a good filming location for a Jurassic Park movie or anything post apocalyptic

    • @kgpspyguy
      @kgpspyguy 4 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      Me- scrolling TH-cam.
      TH-cam- Massive abandoned research facility.
      Me- That is my exact fetish...

    • @clarissabirkeland2111
      @clarissabirkeland2111 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Agree. It would be cool if the next Jurrassic World film would be filmed here.

    • @Sapphires1985
      @Sapphires1985 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Totally

    • @_EllieLOL_
      @_EllieLOL_ 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      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.

    • @dominicaeli7042
      @dominicaeli7042 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      this reminds me of the part from jurassic world where you can see the old „base“ from jurassic park

  • @mcitaly07
    @mcitaly07 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1877

    You guys need respirators dude. Concentration of mold in here can cause major breathing problems in weeks.

    • @htfkid2000
      @htfkid2000 3 ปีที่แล้ว +87

      They weren't able to because everyone bought the entire supply of em due to COVID

    • @spdzodzo
      @spdzodzo 3 ปีที่แล้ว +82

      @@htfkid2000 and they don't even protect against covid haha

    • @nevids2086
      @nevids2086 3 ปีที่แล้ว +229

      @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.

    • @boka1111
      @boka1111 3 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      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!

    • @QUALITYTIX
      @QUALITYTIX 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      N95s are made for shit like this plus they have mini gas mask respirators too

  • @chrisdooley6468
    @chrisdooley6468 4 ปีที่แล้ว +783

    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

    • @peter-shauntyrell5613
      @peter-shauntyrell5613 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Obvious question but what does a cancer cluster mean exactly?

    • @stevem815
      @stevem815 3 ปีที่แล้ว +135

      @@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.

    • @peter-shauntyrell5613
      @peter-shauntyrell5613 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @@stevem815 thank you very much

    • @HappyQuailsLC
      @HappyQuailsLC 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      What was he referring to, "de_"??? Do you know??

    • @cccycling5835
      @cccycling5835 3 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      @@HappyQuailsLC lol it’s a Counter-Strike reference

  • @drn6741
    @drn6741 3 ปีที่แล้ว +413

    As a scientist working in a modern lab, it was crazy to see the autoclave and robot! They were quite advanced!

    • @SoloDea1907
      @SoloDea1907 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      that robot had me hyped af

    • @namedrop721
      @namedrop721 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      The 90s were only 20 years ago, not 200 😂😂😂

    • @owen.simpson52
      @owen.simpson52 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      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!

    • @davidreid447
      @davidreid447 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      have a time stamp for that?

    • @jwalster9412
      @jwalster9412 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      When was this abandoned? Some time in the early 2000s?

  • @nedglitch6137
    @nedglitch6137 4 ปีที่แล้ว +135

    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!

  • @Aethgeir
    @Aethgeir 4 ปีที่แล้ว +240

    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.

  • @Electragirl5
    @Electragirl5 4 ปีที่แล้ว +514

    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.

    • @TheJames1842
      @TheJames1842 4 ปีที่แล้ว +54

      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 !

    • @momentomori83
      @momentomori83 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      My uncle was a biologist who did animal studies

    • @sandracarson-price7808
      @sandracarson-price7808 4 ปีที่แล้ว +39

      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.....

    • @ThorusDGI
      @ThorusDGI 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@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 ?

    • @sandracarson-price7808
      @sandracarson-price7808 4 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      @@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.

  • @Veldore
    @Veldore 3 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    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

  • @GenerallyChaotic6839
    @GenerallyChaotic6839 4 ปีที่แล้ว +165

    I won't lie, its absolutely crazy how many abandoned things exist in this world

    • @Pow3llMorgan
      @Pow3llMorgan ปีที่แล้ว +27

      It's crazy that corporations are basically allowed to litter the land with defunct facilities.

    • @2dheethbar
      @2dheethbar ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Detroit, Michigan and Louisville, Kentucky would agree.

    • @DennisFreitas-bn7nh
      @DennisFreitas-bn7nh 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Hiden clues the macabres experimentals 💀

  • @Tugela60
    @Tugela60 4 ปีที่แล้ว +58

    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.

  • @AaronShenghao
    @AaronShenghao ปีที่แล้ว +17

    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.

  • @grayanarchy8816
    @grayanarchy8816 4 ปีที่แล้ว +484

    If The Last Of Us was a movie. This would be one of the scene locations.

    • @ZTK3506
      @ZTK3506 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      They'd have a movie set , bud

    • @grayanarchy8816
      @grayanarchy8816 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Zako The Klown Yea might be true. Still. It would be cool to see places like this being used in movies.

    • @life.ismeaningless3857
      @life.ismeaningless3857 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      They are making an HBO series...

    • @najaciuser5445
      @najaciuser5445 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Litrealy

    • @troyevitt2437
      @troyevitt2437 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Resident fuckin' Evil, maybe develop an Air Soft/paintball L.A.R.P.

  • @coshlemp8425
    @coshlemp8425 4 ปีที่แล้ว +84

    i love seeing the stories in the comments of these more recently abandoned places from people who worked there. its so interesting

    • @GoFigure1
      @GoFigure1 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      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!

  • @zzthejimzz
    @zzthejimzz 4 ปีที่แล้ว +561

    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.

    • @natas74d7
      @natas74d7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      XD

    • @hito-sama
      @hito-sama ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Lmao 😂
      I feel saver watching this video since he was not so stupid exploring that ruin alone

    • @willi1978
      @willi1978 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      every youtuber gives a youtube tutorial. there's these buttons and you need to click them

  • @SakuraSeed8
    @SakuraSeed8 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    i love how respectful they are when exploring places

  • @CryptoxicWoW
    @CryptoxicWoW 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1972

    "The amount of mold is crazy"
    *proceeds to breathe the entire building in*

    • @bsouth7042
      @bsouth7042 4 ปีที่แล้ว +43

      Mold is prolific in the natural environment. We breathe mold spores just being outside. Don’t believe everything you hear on lawyer commercials

    • @rzk_audio
      @rzk_audio 4 ปีที่แล้ว +236

      @@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.

    • @michellefernandez3155
      @michellefernandez3155 4 ปีที่แล้ว +97

      They were pretty dumb for not wear a mask there.

    • @getenlightened
      @getenlightened 4 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      @@bsouth7042 Wind and expansive space is also in abundance when outside.

    • @getenlightened
      @getenlightened 4 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      No respirator = foolish.

  • @tekvax01
    @tekvax01 4 ปีที่แล้ว +60

    (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

    • @gram.
      @gram. 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      I know, the guys are clueless, was annoying to hear them confidently talk so much shit the whole time

    • @tekvax01
      @tekvax01 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@gram. be nice sir...

  • @Kendo_Rai
    @Kendo_Rai 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    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.

  • @mynamehappy
    @mynamehappy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    This is easily one of y'alls best explorations. It really is like a Valve game gone wromg.

  • @jesses4347
    @jesses4347 4 ปีที่แล้ว +551

    When you go through places like this you should really wear a respirator..

    • @Jigsaw407
      @Jigsaw407 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Yeah, all these mold spores in the air can't be good. Not to mention asbestos and other nice stuff.

    • @tomassmutny5937
      @tomassmutny5937 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Yeah like you dont know what gases are there like poison

  • @theofficialmici
    @theofficialmici 4 ปีที่แล้ว +43

    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.

  • @zzthumper72
    @zzthumper72 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1067

    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.

    • @PlutoniumSlums
      @PlutoniumSlums 4 ปีที่แล้ว +221

      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..

    • @LakeNipissing
      @LakeNipissing 4 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      19:14 . . . Was this the insecticide sprayer you speak of, or something else, like a "sanitizer", as they are guessing ?

    • @SymeonPhronema
      @SymeonPhronema 4 ปีที่แล้ว +73

      It's a real shame they aren't in there with some kind of PPE.

    • @Electragirl5
      @Electragirl5 4 ปีที่แล้ว +168

      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....

    • @Peachu_n_Goma_Home
      @Peachu_n_Goma_Home 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      @@Electragirl5 agree about wearing gloves

  • @dgoldblatt633
    @dgoldblatt633 4 ปีที่แล้ว +100

    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.

    • @dr.haroldweinstein5157
      @dr.haroldweinstein5157 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      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

    • @michu6777
      @michu6777 4 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      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.

    • @FPSNecromancerBob
      @FPSNecromancerBob 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      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

    • @marksmadhousemetaphysicalm2938
      @marksmadhousemetaphysicalm2938 4 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      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...

    • @underdude9818
      @underdude9818 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      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.

  • @ezekial7028
    @ezekial7028 3 ปีที่แล้ว +326

    *Explores an abandoned Research Labrotory*
    "There's so many Labs here"

    • @halley8105
      @halley8105 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Ikr like what did they expect a fight arena????

    • @shawnkelly1241
      @shawnkelly1241 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@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..

    • @anubis4791
      @anubis4791 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      It’s all most like there in a laboratory.... oh wait....

    • @asiantom4935
      @asiantom4935 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      let me guess, the floor is made out of floor?

  • @cscook69
    @cscook69 4 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    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.

  • @MrHack4never
    @MrHack4never 4 ปีที่แล้ว +151

    This feels like a mix between an "old aperture" map mixed with a CS everyone versus everyone map, with random scenes sprinkled in

    • @FranTusajigwe
      @FranTusajigwe 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      It does

    • @GiffysChannel
      @GiffysChannel 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      6:26

    • @KanaalMTS
      @KanaalMTS 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Especially the rail at 21:48 reminded me of Aperture with Wheatley hanging from the rail.

    • @eggshellgoesgaming
      @eggshellgoesgaming 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Kept expecting them to turn a corner and run into a sentry or companion cube.

    • @Ash-re1tv
      @Ash-re1tv 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Was waiting on a Cave Johnson announcement or PotatOS lol

  • @ChadAmI80
    @ChadAmI80 4 ปีที่แล้ว +79

    The shear amount of money that was spent to build this lab complex is insane. Just lab, after lab, after lab.

    • @ribeets
      @ribeets ปีที่แล้ว +1

      And only state of the art equipment / thoughtful floor plan

  • @sanzoparty1066
    @sanzoparty1066 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    The atrium walkway looks very nice and must have had a really beautiful view.

  • @kevinmoyson
    @kevinmoyson 4 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    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

  • @jasonyoung5923
    @jasonyoung5923 4 ปีที่แล้ว +137

    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.

  • @ninja1antelope
    @ninja1antelope 4 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    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.

    • @michaeltheoret3842
      @michaeltheoret3842 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      What was done THERE ?! Sounds kinda sketchy .

  • @Delta132
    @Delta132 3 ปีที่แล้ว +651

    "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

    • @chrisgould101
      @chrisgould101 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      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 .

    • @2b2tisafactionsserver72
      @2b2tisafactionsserver72 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@chrisgould101 Take your meds.

    • @vain_abundalakaka
      @vain_abundalakaka 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@chrisgould101 what??

    • @chrisgould101
      @chrisgould101 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@2b2tisafactionsserver72 I did as a kid.
      and will kick your Dam ass . Shut that trap

    • @2b2tisafactionsserver72
      @2b2tisafactionsserver72 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      ​@@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.

  • @testcomplete608
    @testcomplete608 4 ปีที่แล้ว +132

    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.

    • @LathropLdST
      @LathropLdST 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      All for a handful thousand views and patrons, why are you surprised? Typical youtuber fare.

    • @matthewzeits8909
      @matthewzeits8909 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      You want a zombie apocalypse? Cuz this is how a zombie apocalypse starts....

    • @exodus1055
      @exodus1055 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Big pp

    • @faitdetreseul9767
      @faitdetreseul9767 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      until he wakes up and has 6 balls

  • @Muonium1
    @Muonium1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +173

    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.

    • @Floridamermaid
      @Floridamermaid 4 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      So many big words...

    • @rootsnootthnute8598
      @rootsnootthnute8598 4 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      I never thought I'd see a Resonance Cascade, let alone create one...

    • @Kiz834
      @Kiz834 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      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.

    • @Kiz834
      @Kiz834 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      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.

    • @Muonium1
      @Muonium1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@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.

  • @ChakatNightspark
    @ChakatNightspark 4 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    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.

    • @lilyrpeace
      @lilyrpeace 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Based

    • @lilyrpeace
      @lilyrpeace 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You are a legend

    • @ChakatNightspark
      @ChakatNightspark 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@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.

    • @BotondKisKovacs
      @BotondKisKovacs 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The whole time I was thinking some of those places could be cleaned up real nice and repurposed.

    • @entertainme7523
      @entertainme7523 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      you worked for free?

  • @southerngirlsociety
    @southerngirlsociety 3 ปีที่แล้ว +51

    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!

  • @Jack-ul8nn
    @Jack-ul8nn 4 ปีที่แล้ว +189

    As a scientist an eye watering amount of money went into that place

    • @lilyrpeace
      @lilyrpeace 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      It sure looks like it

    • @BonannoCM
      @BonannoCM 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      They probably moved their new lab into an extinct volcano somewhere. That's where most mad scientists do their best work in comic books. :)

    • @jeffreyt991
      @jeffreyt991 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      BASF likely took what they wanted then put everything else up for auction. I have no doubt that this was an amazing facility.

    • @richhagenchicago
      @richhagenchicago 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      I kept thinking what a waste to just let the facility rot into the forest.

    • @Salabasama
      @Salabasama 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Looks like the kind of place where we'd get jobs in a version of reality where there were jobs.

  • @ohm_sweet_ohm
    @ohm_sweet_ohm 4 ปีที่แล้ว +107

    The Diet Coke logo on the soda machine was used from 1987 to 1994, so your estimation was pretty close!

    • @bendocherty9429
      @bendocherty9429 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      This is why u watch these because pretty spot on always. Agricultural shit is gonna have a certain scent!

  • @comradedyatlov6718
    @comradedyatlov6718 4 ปีที่แล้ว +225

    This looks like Aperture Laboratories under Wheatley’s control

    • @troyevitt2437
      @troyevitt2437 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Or Umbrella Corporation under Albert Wesker's control.

    • @tobywheatley7657
      @tobywheatley7657 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I heard my name, Comrade?

    • @BrookieMacc
      @BrookieMacc 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      I’ve been looking for a Portal comment haha

    • @troyevitt2437
      @troyevitt2437 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@BrookieMacc Some of these locations these guys document would be GREAT for L.A.R.P.ing or even low-budget indie filmmaking.

    • @BrookieMacc
      @BrookieMacc 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@troyevitt2437 fuck yEs👏👏 although they’d have to do something to protect against the mold n stuff haha

  • @adamarzo559
    @adamarzo559 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I dunno why but it's so awesome to see names on a white board like at 30:52 and be able to find those people. Also was able to find Gus (Zimmerman), the guy you had to contact before spraying pesticide on certain plants. Just something satisfying, it adds more depth to the fascinating aspect of this or something.

  • @hiddensalami4334
    @hiddensalami4334 4 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    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.

    • @Noah-gv6zj
      @Noah-gv6zj 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You have the best username I’ve seen in months

    • @hiddensalami4334
      @hiddensalami4334 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Noah-gv6zj thanks!

  • @Andy_Dines
    @Andy_Dines 4 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    Another very professionally produced video, thank you! You guys do such a great job and it only gets better as time goes by. I had the hardest time explaining to my parents in their 70's that you guys shoot and edit all your own material. They were blown away that they weren't watching a big network production. Cheers!

  • @chrisd.5652
    @chrisd.5652 4 ปีที่แล้ว +239

    "Insecticide synthesis, here. So, I guess they were making insecticide." I think you missed your calling as a private investigator.

  • @Platypi007
    @Platypi007 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    As someone who works at a company that researches and manufactures biotech products it is really interesting seeing the old company names and logos that have carried on in different forms 20+ years later through different mergers.

  • @DB-47
    @DB-47 4 ปีที่แล้ว +67

    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

    • @happyeddy317
      @happyeddy317 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      That sound so unnerving

    • @Camaro.737
      @Camaro.737 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@happyeddy317 ikr like why after 5pm they can’t clean

  • @Th3bAc0nBiTs27
    @Th3bAc0nBiTs27 4 ปีที่แล้ว +60

    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.

    • @AdmiralSym
      @AdmiralSym 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      That's awesome

    • @ShakuraKazuki
      @ShakuraKazuki 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      I started to create a map just a few days ago because I got inspired by one of their videos!

    • @underdude9818
      @underdude9818 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      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.

  • @ForgottenBuildings
    @ForgottenBuildings 4 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    This is truly one of those near surreal locations, looks so isolated that it probably would feel like you're in a completely different world. Really enjoyed it!

    • @nickerrico3195
      @nickerrico3195 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      It’s really not that isolated, it’s right of two major highways and right next to a mall

  • @Kudlaty771
    @Kudlaty771 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    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.

  • @kiyosenl.3889
    @kiyosenl.3889 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    So many useful expensive things there, like the T slotted aluminum extrusions under one of the work benches, hundreds of dollars worth of it, easy disassembly

  • @TonyJenningsJr
    @TonyJenningsJr 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    When you were standing outside the greenhouses that you said felt like they were 120 degrees where swamp coolers to control the temperature. Thats why the brown crumpled looking paper stuff had drains below. Now the company Porta-cool used the same thing in the industrial swamp coolers they sell to businesses that are portable.

  • @RichieRouge206
    @RichieRouge206 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    What a great place - the offices were so 80s and love the skylights and spiral stairs. Can’t believe how big the place is! Really reminded me of the Motorola building explore in Texas. Please take care with chemicals and dust!

  • @whackamolechamp
    @whackamolechamp 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    This is amazing. I wish there was a former worker with you to describe the functions of each area.

  • @JP11155
    @JP11155 4 ปีที่แล้ว +277

    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*

    • @Hoshino_Channel
      @Hoshino_Channel 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      JP 43 Doesnt sound like they have any filtermasks on either

    • @MonstertruckBadass
      @MonstertruckBadass 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @Ana Xotwod People like you are sooooo paranoid about everything...

    • @AutomationDnD
      @AutomationDnD 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      LoLz

    • @mango_46
      @mango_46 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@NerdyNEET I live a town away from this place. The nearest hospital from there is like 3 miles away calm yourself

  • @sailingspark9748
    @sailingspark9748 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    You guys need to come down to Atlantic City and see if you can get into the tunnel that runs under the city. It starts under Boardwalk hall and used to connect all the old hotels.

    • @lilyrpeace
      @lilyrpeace 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Whattttttt?! I’ve never heard of that!!!!!!

  • @johnknoefler
    @johnknoefler 4 ปีที่แล้ว +129

    Glass blocks are NEVER out of style. They run about $15 bucks each so, that's pure cash sitting there. Many of the kitchen appliances run above $1000.00, that's cash. The handrails are valuable just as is. Welded construction is expensive and they are already precoated or aluminum. Repurpose rather than scrap. Lots of stuff there to salvage or repurpose in place. The greenhouses have the most potential for small farming.

    • @Willyama
      @Willyama 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      johnknoefler I love glass bricks if they’re done right

    • @BotondKisKovacs
      @BotondKisKovacs 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Just the old equipment must be worth millions. If not repurposed even all the stainless steel is a fortune. One could make a state of the art modern farm in those greenhouses. The lab furniture is nice as well.

    • @parsifalK
      @parsifalK 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      they have multiple $50k vent hoods in every lab

    • @randomcomputer7248
      @randomcomputer7248 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      yep, I thought that too. Alot of $ in there, some of Lab stuff probably worth something too

    • @3mate1
      @3mate1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      That would be stealing. That site was purchased for 40 million by Atlantic Realty last year. They can come in and scrap it out at any time.

  • @matthewfulghum1438
    @matthewfulghum1438 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    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.

  • @pathuff9511
    @pathuff9511 4 ปีที่แล้ว +64

    What saddens me is the waste. All that was, is no more and it’s going to waste.

    • @Seventeen_Syllables
      @Seventeen_Syllables 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Imagine what the company that owned it kept.

    • @gureno19
      @gureno19 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Its called an operating deduction. Everything in that building paid for itself.

    • @mediumstudio
      @mediumstudio 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      agreed - that facility could have been repurposed - still can be ...

  • @MichiruEll
    @MichiruEll 4 ปีที่แล้ว +37

    I think this one of my favourite places you went to. I'm a scientist, so I like labs. And the glass and jungle were gorgeous.

  • @charliebush04
    @charliebush04 4 ปีที่แล้ว +46

    You know its gonna be a good day when the proper people upload

  • @panostsak
    @panostsak 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Wow, I love that place....it has that retro look and the outside looks amazing. It must have been spectacular in its prime.

  • @jenniferbaldini3527
    @jenniferbaldini3527 4 ปีที่แล้ว +186

    Guys, you absolutely need to research Zak Bagans of 'Ghost Adventures' fame. He SERIOUSLY damaged his lungs due to the lack of PPE during early 'Ghost Adventures' shoots. That is a very scarey, and very real possibility in what you do. Stop jeopardizing your health. PPE.

    • @savage_dankclaw5320
      @savage_dankclaw5320 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      These guys hardly ever use any kind of PPE, even if they started now, the damage is probably already done. They'll probably be lucky to see 40 at this rate of exposure.

    • @kyliebalding260
      @kyliebalding260 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      true! thats why they didn't record for a loooooooooooooooooong time

    • @ITI-xi5zx
      @ITI-xi5zx 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I hope they read thsi!

    • @mrnohax5436
      @mrnohax5436 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@kyliebalding260 *a demon made him go partly blind in one eye and that's why he wears the glasses*

    • @faithcobb2795
      @faithcobb2795 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@savage_dankclaw5320better now than never

  • @momkatmax
    @momkatmax 4 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    I have been in research for let's just say a LONG time, since the glaciers receded. The first set of labs you were in had furniture that looked 1990 from the style. It was popular in 1990 to make huge rooms and divide them up into semi private labs, like office cubicles. Very crappy idea since fume spilled over from your neighbor.

  • @JonathanPostins
    @JonathanPostins 4 ปีที่แล้ว +146

    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.

  • @olix8039
    @olix8039 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    That greenhouse is my dream post-apocalyspe wedding venue

  • @joefranks4235
    @joefranks4235 4 ปีที่แล้ว +38

    If I had a greenhouse like that I would have been growing a whole lot of different plants. I would be in my glory! I would be growing especially roses.

    • @dr.haroldweinstein5157
      @dr.haroldweinstein5157 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Is that the new code word for weed?

    • @niyarantuti5469
      @niyarantuti5469 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Include me too into that🌸

    • @Heyjonjohnson
      @Heyjonjohnson 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@dr.haroldweinstein5157 'rose' vendors on the street..

    • @joefranks4235
      @joefranks4235 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@dr.haroldweinstein5157 No really, roses. I love roses.

  • @JasonOlsen
    @JasonOlsen 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    This is amazing, beautiful and wonderfully cataloged. Thank you both for finding and preserving this corporate treasure. I felt at times like I'd been transported into the setting of something like "Resident Evil" so I can only imagine what walking those corridors felt like to you. This was haunting and wonderful, and while I envy you both these are the videos that keep me coming back again and again.
    Thank you for this!

  • @combustiblefrogjr.773
    @combustiblefrogjr.773 4 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    This entire facility is such a vibe

  • @HeroWillgame
    @HeroWillgame 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    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

  • @LoneWolf051
    @LoneWolf051 4 ปีที่แล้ว +170

    "Insecticide Synthesis"
    sounds like a death metal band

    • @xeronicus
      @xeronicus 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      That sounds more like ann EBM band

    • @nurdgurl7033
      @nurdgurl7033 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      As a person with a lisp this is even hard to read correctly, much less say out loud. LOL

    • @СветкаВолков
      @СветкаВолков 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Or an Animals As Leaders song title

    • @kdoris2001
      @kdoris2001 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      sounds like something off of a Spongebob episode

  • @austinhallett9497
    @austinhallett9497 4 ปีที่แล้ว +190

    goes to a laboratory. man there’s lots of laboratories

  • @yuprocrastinate7368
    @yuprocrastinate7368 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    This might be buried and most likely you don't know what I'm taking about, but his reminds of 'Cage of Eden'. The research, the testing, the isolation, and the fact that everything is decaying, this serious reminds me of 'Cage of Eden' (it's a really good manga).

  • @max_c3318
    @max_c3318 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    19:12 thats a cart washer, used to travel the country and install these in hospitals and bio facilities. It would clean anything surgical to sample trays pretty much

  • @cmansell7445
    @cmansell7445 4 ปีที่แล้ว +240

    People should seriously be wearing a respirator gloves and boots when they do these things

    • @ReganMarcelis
      @ReganMarcelis 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      tHEY ARE proper...

    • @pinkspoon7483
      @pinkspoon7483 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      The cancer gang

    • @ghostlightplays
      @ghostlightplays 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Not just for the mold and bacteria. It's an abandoned lab. They could encounter a lot of other substances. Poisonous, toxic or, given the abandoned equipment, radioactive substances.

    • @SissypheanCatboy
      @SissypheanCatboy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@ghostlightplays dude its an agricultural lab. They ain't gonna have radioactive shit lmao. also you're proper silly if you think they would leave all the valuable test samples of products sitting around.

    • @catgaming2210
      @catgaming2210 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@SissypheanCatboy even its a agricultural lab, you don't wanna touch or breath in fertilizer and herbicide. very dangerous and can kill you years down the line. and city people don't know how to handle dangerous chemicals like fertilizer and herbicide. tho they are not gonna have radioactive shit in there

  • @spartains5493
    @spartains5493 4 ปีที่แล้ว +82

    "Hey man, what map do you want to play?"
    "Not sure, we could just do de_chemlab again."
    "Okay."

    • @wallacewalter577
      @wallacewalter577 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Is that Lain in your profile pic?

    • @spartains5493
      @spartains5493 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@wallacewalter577 Yessir'.

    • @wallacewalter577
      @wallacewalter577 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @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.

    • @spartains5493
      @spartains5493 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@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)

  • @Kden21
    @Kden21 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    This place makes me think about an abandoned Aperture Science outpost that was experimenting on chemicals to be used on plants and animals in a secluded forest before the company had filed for bankruptcy. The signs in Polish were put around for the janitors who were from Poland, because Cave Johnson insisted that "the Polish cleaned things better than most, for dirt cheap in fact". There are some parts of the video that I feel like a head crab will jump out as well, especially the dark kitchen.

  • @Koolaid-Girl
    @Koolaid-Girl 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    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

    • @sandracarson-price7808
      @sandracarson-price7808 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      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".

  • @DanielGBenesScienceShows
    @DanielGBenesScienceShows 4 ปีที่แล้ว +44

    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)

  • @xchriskii
    @xchriskii 4 ปีที่แล้ว +59

    Jesus... What I took away most from this is how uncomfortable it is to watch people go through mold and unsafe shit without mask/respirator... If this is your job, (or not!) be responsible!! Sheesh!

  • @nebraskajoenelson8987
    @nebraskajoenelson8987 4 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    It makes me feel so old and sad when they say the 90s are very dated

    • @Tugela60
      @Tugela60 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      When it comes to science, it is, lol. As far as science is concerned, the modern world only started around the mid 70s, everything before was basically the stone age.

  • @travissutherlund6015
    @travissutherlund6015 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    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

  • @qurqo
    @qurqo 4 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    I would love to see video of this facility, when it was in it's prime

  • @andyaitken4243
    @andyaitken4243 4 ปีที่แล้ว +79

    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.

    • @Nexuhss
      @Nexuhss 2 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      Getting those resources into a useable state would be a waste of resources.

    • @andyaitken4243
      @andyaitken4243 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Nexuhss please explain.

    • @mr.potato5471
      @mr.potato5471 2 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      @@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.

    • @andyaitken4243
      @andyaitken4243 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@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.

    • @bellaknightR597
      @bellaknightR597 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      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

  • @lavapix
    @lavapix 4 ปีที่แล้ว +118

    I can hear you guys if you were at a lava flow. "Holy cow its 1500 degrees and my skin is melting". The broken plate glass in the beginning at the cafeteria tells me the 50s, 60s, or 70s. That would have been tempered glass by the late 70s early 80s.

    • @picax8398
      @picax8398 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I thought so too

    • @devinward461
      @devinward461 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Still without any protective gear of course

  • @kuya_will_bowen
    @kuya_will_bowen 3 ปีที่แล้ว +80

    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.

    • @opossum632
      @opossum632 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      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

    • @Recordspin
      @Recordspin 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Corrupt?

    • @ShORTiiqOtGaM3
      @ShORTiiqOtGaM3 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@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.”

    • @Kkk-cc1iy
      @Kkk-cc1iy 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Hes likely a nature freak ​@@Recordspin

  • @TheLoxxxton
    @TheLoxxxton 4 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    This finished far too soon. I could have watched another 2 hours and still not got bored.

    • @Petertronic
      @Petertronic 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I'm like that after all their videos. Always leaving you wanting more :)

  • @michaelc5584
    @michaelc5584 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    Dude that first shot of the hallway w/ the angled skylights & spiral staircase made me immediately think of Nova Prospekt from HL2.

  • @xSHAD0WENx
    @xSHAD0WENx 4 ปีที่แล้ว +40

    0:35 i feel like i need a gun. a raptor might be at the end of that hallway. the place is giving me Jurrasic park vibes.

    • @bmstylee
      @bmstylee 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Make sure is a SPAS 12. It would only be appropriate.

    • @compmanio36
      @compmanio36 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@bmstylee Clever girl....

  • @himhim3344
    @himhim3344 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I'm always amazed at the $100k+ of kitchen equipment that gets left behind

  • @vivianaaa4152
    @vivianaaa4152 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    YESSSSS AT FIRST WHEN I SAW IT WAS LIKE IT GIVES ME “THE RAIN” VIBES THEN I SAW AND JT WAS THE EXACT LOCATION!!! My fav showwww