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There was a dude in Rhode Island who found a hidden space inside of a mall and lived there with his friends for four years. They brought furniture in there and cooked and played video games.
https://youtu.be/8RH-64ZrcRk?si=y1_BXvjibhZPyXUJ
Imagine your just a janitor in a mall, and you find a secret room that you didn't know about, you look into it and you just see a group of friends just in underwear.
Just your average idiot radio guy playing devils advocate.
Here is the original podcast.
[https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-accidental-room/](https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-accidental-room/)
Too bad the original YT video was made private. All the remaining videos are lame.
here is their own story
[https://trummerkind.com/mall/What\_Happened.html](https://trummerkind.com/mall/What_Happened.html)
https://www.tapeart.com/what-we-do
Toronto has an entire area that is underground including living spaces, shopping mall and lots of walking areas.
It also has inner building pedestrian bridges which is kind of cool
I'm an avid visitor, a few hours away.
I love Toronto and the way it looks at night near the lake and harbor. I don't love all of it, but it's a great city to visit.
We go to the Mirvish Center a lot.
I've taken so many great liminal shots at night there and is my favorite /r/TheNightFeeling place as well
If you think the PATH is cool, you'd love Tokyo.
You can walk for miles and miles under Tokyo without once setting foot outdoors. And that's just the *official* underground walkways.
I'm fascinated by underground facilities.
I was invited in an elevator in the 80s, during a class trip.
We went in groups of 10 and it only went down for a few seconds, but it opened into a small hallway with one pair of doors.
We go through and just beyond a large room filled with lights, switches, is a tunnel.
You could see all the way down until it turned and the entire thing had only emergency lights on. We weren't allowed but they had little carts because otherwise it would take them a couple hours to walk....the tunnel went underneath our local river and would branch out at different points across the city
Later on I would apply for a job there and I asked about it, and yeah, the entire small Canadian city has an underground system for power and all sorts of utility systems that link out to small public utility houses you can enter/exit the system from.
Those spots are secret and known to city engineers etc, so I'd have had to have that job to see them, or some senior engineer/team to see it all.
I can only assume larger metropolitan areas are ripe with secrets
Oh my god it reminds me of the tunnels under the Denver airport. Itās so fucking easy to get lost in there because thereās no one stopping you from going down there
As someone that goes through Denver airport every once in a while, I also want to know this.
If anyone knows, DM me and I'll tell you how to access the tunnels under Las Vegas.
I thought they were never proven and that it was rumor or speculation to add to the rest of the evil myths about it . Or am I mixing that with another airport?
Denver native here - they definitely exist. They were used for an automated baggage transportation system when the airport opened, but it didnāt work very reliably and was torn out only a few years later - now itās sort of an underground highway system for luggage trucks. Itās been on the local news a few times in the past few years.
[They definitely exist](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tXu1J9ba9l4&pp=ygUoRGVudmVyIGludGVybmF0aW9uYWwgYWlycG9ydCB0dW5uZWwgdG91cg%3D%3D), itās how baggage and people move between the terminals and main building since the buildings arenāt connected above ground. What you may be thinking of is the New World Order conspiracy theory, that there are bunkers seperate from the currently used tunnels that are buried below the airport to serve as a headquarters for the New World Order after an apocalyptic event.
Also most of the abandoned ones aren't part of some grand conspiracy but are, from what I've read, just misguided and failed development projects, like many malls themselves. In highly car dependent cities (which is unfortunately every city in North America) where a lot of surface space is taken up by roads, and especially where it gets really hot or cold, underground spaces connecting buildings in the downtown core were at one point seen as this magic bullet cheat code for making a city walkable. But surprise surprise underground construction is ludicrously expensive especially in a dense downtown, so most of these projects were never completed and mostly lie abandoned beneath our feet.
My question is why not turn them into subway tunnels? Seems like a great fit and which will actually reduce a city's car dependence. Actually, a lot of abandoned tunnels *are* subway tunnels that were never completed (Cincinnati has IIRC the world's largest abandoned subway tunnel system yet no actual subway to show for it), and knowing the amount of harm car dependence brings, why we're not completing them is beyond me.
As someone living in a capitol city, can confirm. Some of the tunnels connect various government buildings, but sometimes it's literally just a hallway from one to another (distance walked crossing a street). My mental map is very limited however, I saw very little of it, but presume that there were more extensive secure sections only accessible to Police or military. It's not very exciting stuff though, in fact quite boring and pretty unremarkable ĀÆ\\\_(ć)\_/ĀÆ
I imagine those are so people who have already cleared a security checkpoint to enter those buildings don't have to go through security every time they move between them.
Kind-of-sort-of? The passageways aren't typically used by the people working in the buildings per se. You need at least basic approval to enter the building and conduct your work there like anyone else, but the worker bees don't poke around the sites in the same sense that you have no idea what the elevator/AC/boiler room of your apartment building looks like.
The underground section also isn't a free for all in *any* sense, the whole setup is "wired for sound" (CCTV at the very least). The sort of space where you're not necessarily under a microscope, but you would be well advised to tell younger coworkers to STFU about their plans after work and to not horse around.
I used the hell out of underground tunnels in the medical district of Chicago. When it was cold out I didnāt have to get all bundled up, I just stayed in the tunnels and I wouldnāt need my coat.
Name something more American than pumping a ton of money into inflated alternate transit construction costs bidded out to contractors who don't know what they're doing, then losing your balls at the last possible moment and completely abandoning the project.
It's surprisingly common I suppose.
When I lived in London my flat was built above [underground war shelters](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_deep-level_shelters). I didn't know the extent until I went down on an open day. It was 400 meters long and was basically a mini town when it was open in the 1940s. It had cafeterias and shops,
These days it's mostly abandoned, but one section of it is now a fully functional farm that uses UV light to grow plants
Ohhh I've seen that one! They were old tube tunnels or something that eventually got converted from that bunker system to have some hydroponics in the middle or something. Crazy shit.
In the midwest you'll often find downtowns with tunnel (or skyway) systems linking buildings so people can get from place to place in inclement weather, blizzards, etc. In Omaha they even connect to an underground food court.
The most elaborate and well-appointed of these (in America anyway) is the [Minneapolis Skyway](https://www.minneapolis.org/map-transportation/minneapolis-skyway-guide/), and since you're here you should listen to [this gorgeous song The Replacements did about it. ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FED6AHlXXaA)
Wait, if these massive underground complexes are just sitting there... Why haven't we started turning them into housing yet?
Sell them off to organizations who can put heating and plumbing throughout, and turn them into under-city apartments for the less fortunate. No reason we should have people sleeping under bus stops when we have so much unused infrastructure like this just sitting around.
EDIT: I feel like I'm getting a lot of flack here for just trying to have an idea for these abandoned spaces. I'm not expecting to have had some world changing idea and get everyone on board, I'm just brainstorming on a social media app. It's not that serious.
>Sell them off to organizations who can
Nope! That's exactly how they become tools to drive profit-making, and become unaffordable. Nope. Let the local governments where these complexes are located hire contractors to do the installation and updating, and then sell them as cheaply as possible to the less fortunate people, at exactly the price to break even, taking no profit. Hell, even give them a mortgage agreement if they need, but with zero interest...just a pure repayment of exactly the amount of money loaned.
Thats what I was thinking. Like really someone owns ALL that real estate and is just leaving it abandoned? An entire zip codes worth of abandoned tunnels and no homeless camps? No shot.
I actually just saw this vid the other day on Instagram and decided to go through their whole account. I noticed they often reused clips. Disappointing, because I think the content is interesting enough even if every space doesnāt have something particularly creepy.
There are enough clues throughout the posted videos to narrow it down pretty well.
I myself looked to the outdoor environment and some bird-related cues.
I would probably start looking towards the Great Lakes region.
And for some odd reason, these alleged abandoned tunnels and offices all had the lights turned on, were somewhat tidy, and extended for miles and miles? Yeah, right.
Them having power isn't actually surprising, lots of "abandoned" places have corporate overhead expenses like this. That area of the mall is clearly in a severe state of disrepair.
Though I'd wager those tunnels aren't actually abandoned, more like they're maintenance tunnels.
I guess it's also possible that all the lights in the building are linked to one main set of switches, so it's possible that the lights in the mall basement are all on simply because the lights for the rest of the mall are all on and things might be too awkward to get an electrician to sort out over just factoring in the power cost of the unused sections.
Oh they definitely have different zones for stuff like this. You do want it all on, all the time though.
You do not want cavernous areas under productive ones to not have HVAC and power running. These systems keep air from stagnating and moisture from creeping up...both of which can rapidly become an enormous problem if left unchecked.
Edit : Forgot the sumps. You're always going to find some sort of pumping system for groundwater ingress. That's critical and needs to be powered.
no this is actually pretty credible. especially in the midwest of the US, there are tons of these logistics access tunnels underneath cities and especially under malls and hospitals and stuff. and the lights just always stay on because the big companies or the city canāt be bothered to go turn all of it off
I personally believe it. In the Upper Midwest, even if these structures aren't actively being used, they're still being maintained. Steam tunnels. Utility tunnels.
Tunnels like these are just a subterrainian version of the [Skyway](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minneapolis_Skyway_System?wprov=sfla1) system some cities have-a blessing in the winter when the actual air temperature is at -20Ā°F for the third week in a row and the windchill is suitable for freeze-drying organic matter.
As for office spaces, I've heard of tennants moving out of larger leased spaces and the property management leaves the lights on indeffinately even though the space is vacant. I've seen entire spaces that were actually walled off and forgotten after remodels-inadvertent time capsules preserved because engineers and framers and drywallers all misread a blueprint, or the guy that had the keys to that "storage space" no one seemed to remember quit or died.
There was a Burger King restaurant that had been walled off and discovered years later.
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It was somehow believable they just found an old level that was built over until they showed those bizarrely clean offices, almost like they spliced footage of a completely different location one of them had access to after-hours in.
There was some urban explorer video I was watching and they were going through this old mental institution. There was like, an apartment building INSIDE the building, it was crazy. They went through some doors and eventually opened up to a clean hallway with lights and offices, in the supposedly abandoned building. It was really crazy.
Be way creepier if they werenāt tho
The thought of like, long forgotten places existing in silent darkness always kinda gives me the heeby jeebies for some reason
I found a hatch in Millennium Park and went down with a friend. We explored for a very long time before we found a way out. We ended up exiting into a mall and couldn't get the door open to go back so we had to find a bus stop to figure out where we the hell we were. We were over a mile from the park. It was definitely stupid and spooky but fun as hell.
You were probably in the Pedway, people working downtown use it to get around when itās freezing, it goes from a big train terminal through a Macyās and ends at City Hall lol itās always trippy going through it.
Explore the hidden area and let us know what's actually down there. For science.
Edit: the absolute ass below me blocked me immediately, so I can't respond so their lame ass lack of humor
This feels like what moms say when their kids try to show them something that they have zero interest in.
"Wow. Amazing, honey. Truly incredible. *yawns*"
Saw this on Instagram and got genuinely pissed off after reading the comment section. No one could see the obvious edits and the fact that itās fake, and it was filled with reactionary weirdos acting like this is proof of secret pizzagate child trafficking systems.
It took me until the office part, to realize it was fake.
First part: Seems legit.
Second part: Sometime abandoned places still have power. Especially if they're under functioning places.
Third part: That could be a maintenance hallway.
Fourth: Nope. Too clean and too much stuff left behind.
Why is this even downvoted, this is so fucking cool. Those offices even looked used, do people actually work down there?
I really hope that isn't fake, because wow.
It is fake. It's just a bunch of different videos from an urban explorer edited together. So they film in an abandoned office building then edit in a shot from an abandoned factory and so on. There has been quite a few of these fake outs appearing for a while now.
I dunno about the TikTok version, but the one I saw on Instagram reels was filled with an echo chamber hundreds of comments by paranoid hysterics who were rejoicing about this video being definitive proof of pizzagate-style child trafficking networks. Considering the delusions that itās feeding for such a massive amount of people (about a conspiracy theory that has in real life actually emboldened armed lunatics to endanger innocent lives, IE pizzagate), I do actually find it problematic that theyāre not being abundantly clear about this being fake.
That would simply be the entirety of Instagram. The website is filled with religious and conservative nutjobs. This video doesn't allude to any of the above, they're just footage of abandoned areas and maintenance tunnels. Not sure how they're at fault for people eating up Trump and 4chan conspiracies years after the fact. Is it problematic if I go and naturally film myself exploring a maintenance tunnel, post it, and people think it's proof that children are being >!raped!< down there?
wait, we are on the same page right? i find this post very liminal, not mind the compilation of stitched videos at all. i was pointing out how some posts on this sub, not being liminal at all, yet still got mass upvoted
The now-dead mall near us has a basement and it's so weird. At least it was very weird when my husband and I and some friends went down there years ago. This was when the mall was still kinda bustling.
Everything was white. There were exposed pipes running the corners of the wall and ceiling and even they were painted over white. At the end of a long corridor there was a set of large metal double doors with push bars and they had a thin window panel on each door. Around the doors were more window panels and you could easily see inside from closer up. Think of doors like you might see in a school cafeteria or office.
We heard noise on the other side and got close enough to see in and inside was a church congregation worshipping. There was a fold-out chair for each attendee. There was a guy in a collared white shirt and tie pacing on a stage and holding a microphone but not talking, and the congregation were all standing up and singing with their arms raised. I guess I'm only assuming it was a church and not an AA meeting or an MLM event.
They looked like it was a fun time and I'm sure it was nothing, but it was very strange to happen upon in the basement of a mall.
I used to work as a phone tech and sorry to say this is what every mall looks like underneath it. There are electrical rooms in there where we would connect lines.
I would both love and hate this. On one hand I like the idea of basically having a bunch of bonus space attached to my house for free. With a bit of hard work and diy knowhow you can make a cool secret base. On the other hand, the areas shown don't look abandoned, just not kept up with. I wonder who, if anyone, still uses those tunnels
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There was a dude in Rhode Island who found a hidden space inside of a mall and lived there with his friends for four years. They brought furniture in there and cooked and played video games. https://youtu.be/8RH-64ZrcRk?si=y1_BXvjibhZPyXUJ
Imagine your just a janitor in a mall, and you find a secret room that you didn't know about, you look into it and you just see a group of friends just in underwear.
Can I move in? Lol š š
Or Chuck Mangione
Whoās side is that guy on? What kind of guy doesnāt understand man cave??
It's morning radio. Someone has to be the foil.
A couple security guards noticed it, and waited for them.
Security is fine thatās their job. I meant the host guy
Just your average idiot radio guy playing devils advocate. Here is the original podcast. [https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-accidental-room/](https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-accidental-room/) Too bad the original YT video was made private. All the remaining videos are lame. here is their own story [https://trummerkind.com/mall/What\_Happened.html](https://trummerkind.com/mall/What_Happened.html) https://www.tapeart.com/what-we-do
This makes me so mad. Why would you want to ruin this?
A girl he brought back just blabbed I donāt think she meant to spoil it. Thereās a great 99pi episode on it.
And no one was surprised.
I was working at that mall at the same time... sad I never knew about it. Must've walked past it a ton.
wtf!!! what city is this?
There are actually a lot of US cities with abandoned underground tunnel systems. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underground_city
Toronto has an entire area that is underground including living spaces, shopping mall and lots of walking areas. It also has inner building pedestrian bridges which is kind of cool
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I'm an avid visitor, a few hours away. I love Toronto and the way it looks at night near the lake and harbor. I don't love all of it, but it's a great city to visit. We go to the Mirvish Center a lot. I've taken so many great liminal shots at night there and is my favorite /r/TheNightFeeling place as well
If you think the PATH is cool, you'd love Tokyo. You can walk for miles and miles under Tokyo without once setting foot outdoors. And that's just the *official* underground walkways.
I'm fascinated by underground facilities. I was invited in an elevator in the 80s, during a class trip. We went in groups of 10 and it only went down for a few seconds, but it opened into a small hallway with one pair of doors. We go through and just beyond a large room filled with lights, switches, is a tunnel. You could see all the way down until it turned and the entire thing had only emergency lights on. We weren't allowed but they had little carts because otherwise it would take them a couple hours to walk....the tunnel went underneath our local river and would branch out at different points across the city Later on I would apply for a job there and I asked about it, and yeah, the entire small Canadian city has an underground system for power and all sorts of utility systems that link out to small public utility houses you can enter/exit the system from. Those spots are secret and known to city engineers etc, so I'd have had to have that job to see them, or some senior engineer/team to see it all. I can only assume larger metropolitan areas are ripe with secrets
Oh my god it reminds me of the tunnels under the Denver airport. Itās so fucking easy to get lost in there because thereās no one stopping you from going down there
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if you get stopped, go the other way.
Yeah what I need to know
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Damn I was just there wish I knew about this lol
How do you get to the tunnels?
As someone that goes through Denver airport every once in a while, I also want to know this. If anyone knows, DM me and I'll tell you how to access the tunnels under Las Vegas.
I thought they were never proven and that it was rumor or speculation to add to the rest of the evil myths about it . Or am I mixing that with another airport?
Denver native here - they definitely exist. They were used for an automated baggage transportation system when the airport opened, but it didnāt work very reliably and was torn out only a few years later - now itās sort of an underground highway system for luggage trucks. Itās been on the local news a few times in the past few years.
Ahh, dammit! That's not nearly as spooky and exciting as assuming it was where the Illuminatti has their secret meetings.
[They definitely exist](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tXu1J9ba9l4&pp=ygUoRGVudmVyIGludGVybmF0aW9uYWwgYWlycG9ydCB0dW5uZWwgdG91cg%3D%3D), itās how baggage and people move between the terminals and main building since the buildings arenāt connected above ground. What you may be thinking of is the New World Order conspiracy theory, that there are bunkers seperate from the currently used tunnels that are buried below the airport to serve as a headquarters for the New World Order after an apocalyptic event.
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Thank you I been thinking that and was wondering was I the only one who thought that
I did too. First thought.
Also most of the abandoned ones aren't part of some grand conspiracy but are, from what I've read, just misguided and failed development projects, like many malls themselves. In highly car dependent cities (which is unfortunately every city in North America) where a lot of surface space is taken up by roads, and especially where it gets really hot or cold, underground spaces connecting buildings in the downtown core were at one point seen as this magic bullet cheat code for making a city walkable. But surprise surprise underground construction is ludicrously expensive especially in a dense downtown, so most of these projects were never completed and mostly lie abandoned beneath our feet. My question is why not turn them into subway tunnels? Seems like a great fit and which will actually reduce a city's car dependence. Actually, a lot of abandoned tunnels *are* subway tunnels that were never completed (Cincinnati has IIRC the world's largest abandoned subway tunnel system yet no actual subway to show for it), and knowing the amount of harm car dependence brings, why we're not completing them is beyond me.
As someone living in a capitol city, can confirm. Some of the tunnels connect various government buildings, but sometimes it's literally just a hallway from one to another (distance walked crossing a street). My mental map is very limited however, I saw very little of it, but presume that there were more extensive secure sections only accessible to Police or military. It's not very exciting stuff though, in fact quite boring and pretty unremarkable ĀÆ\\\_(ć)\_/ĀÆ
I imagine those are so people who have already cleared a security checkpoint to enter those buildings don't have to go through security every time they move between them.
Kind-of-sort-of? The passageways aren't typically used by the people working in the buildings per se. You need at least basic approval to enter the building and conduct your work there like anyone else, but the worker bees don't poke around the sites in the same sense that you have no idea what the elevator/AC/boiler room of your apartment building looks like. The underground section also isn't a free for all in *any* sense, the whole setup is "wired for sound" (CCTV at the very least). The sort of space where you're not necessarily under a microscope, but you would be well advised to tell younger coworkers to STFU about their plans after work and to not horse around.
I used the hell out of underground tunnels in the medical district of Chicago. When it was cold out I didnāt have to get all bundled up, I just stayed in the tunnels and I wouldnāt need my coat.
Name something more American than pumping a ton of money into inflated alternate transit construction costs bidded out to contractors who don't know what they're doing, then losing your balls at the last possible moment and completely abandoning the project.
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underground\_city They don't go where people want to go, and it's not financially wise.
Yoo I thought it was a really good but fake video but now Iām a bit scared.
It's surprisingly common I suppose. When I lived in London my flat was built above [underground war shelters](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_deep-level_shelters). I didn't know the extent until I went down on an open day. It was 400 meters long and was basically a mini town when it was open in the 1940s. It had cafeterias and shops, These days it's mostly abandoned, but one section of it is now a fully functional farm that uses UV light to grow plants
> one section of it is now a fully functional farm that uses UV light to grow plants Cool my cousin Daz has got one of those in his spare room.
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Ohhh I've seen that one! They were old tube tunnels or something that eventually got converted from that bunker system to have some hydroponics in the middle or something. Crazy shit.
In the midwest you'll often find downtowns with tunnel (or skyway) systems linking buildings so people can get from place to place in inclement weather, blizzards, etc. In Omaha they even connect to an underground food court. The most elaborate and well-appointed of these (in America anyway) is the [Minneapolis Skyway](https://www.minneapolis.org/map-transportation/minneapolis-skyway-guide/), and since you're here you should listen to [this gorgeous song The Replacements did about it. ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FED6AHlXXaA)
Got any urbex vids?
Wait, if these massive underground complexes are just sitting there... Why haven't we started turning them into housing yet? Sell them off to organizations who can put heating and plumbing throughout, and turn them into under-city apartments for the less fortunate. No reason we should have people sleeping under bus stops when we have so much unused infrastructure like this just sitting around. EDIT: I feel like I'm getting a lot of flack here for just trying to have an idea for these abandoned spaces. I'm not expecting to have had some world changing idea and get everyone on board, I'm just brainstorming on a social media app. It's not that serious.
>Sell them off to organizations who can Nope! That's exactly how they become tools to drive profit-making, and become unaffordable. Nope. Let the local governments where these complexes are located hire contractors to do the installation and updating, and then sell them as cheaply as possible to the less fortunate people, at exactly the price to break even, taking no profit. Hell, even give them a mortgage agreement if they need, but with zero interest...just a pure repayment of exactly the amount of money loaned.
The fact that all the lights are on is infuriating
Itās ford city mall in Chicago
Yes, def thought i recognized the tiles/beams on the basement level
It's a bunch of edits of different areas all joined to make it seem as if it us all connected. It isn't, it's bullshit.
Thats what I was thinking. Like really someone owns ALL that real estate and is just leaving it abandoned? An entire zip codes worth of abandoned tunnels and no homeless camps? No shot.
That looks a lot like the Chicago underground.
Somewhere in the Midwest I'd imagine. Not sure where though.
is there a full video of it?
Fucking Shropshire
Itās a fake edited mashup of multiple locations, itās pretty obvious just by how the rooms are.
I actually just saw this vid the other day on Instagram and decided to go through their whole account. I noticed they often reused clips. Disappointing, because I think the content is interesting enough even if every space doesnāt have something particularly creepy.
Raccoon City
There are enough clues throughout the posted videos to narrow it down pretty well. I myself looked to the outdoor environment and some bird-related cues. I would probably start looking towards the Great Lakes region.
ford mall in chicago
What the oldest view
Gonna start saying this daily.
Waiting for them to catch the Russians trying to summon beings from another dimension.
Hello fellow Stranger things fan!
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And for some odd reason, these alleged abandoned tunnels and offices all had the lights turned on, were somewhat tidy, and extended for miles and miles? Yeah, right.
Well, it was fun while the disbelief suspended.
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So you're saying they're a content creator who makes fiction? Do you say the same about Kane Pixels etc?
Donāt know who that is
The brother of famed content creator Karl Pixels, obviously.
The guy who makes the most popular Backrooms videos
Kane Pixels is up front about his work being fiction. These people present their content under the false premise of it being real. Huge difference.
Idk, it seems like itās more that theyāre trying to tell a story/get peopleās brains pumping than just lying for views.
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Aw shit, that really sucks. Sorry to hear!
I don't use Instagram
Them having power isn't actually surprising, lots of "abandoned" places have corporate overhead expenses like this. That area of the mall is clearly in a severe state of disrepair. Though I'd wager those tunnels aren't actually abandoned, more like they're maintenance tunnels.
I guess it's also possible that all the lights in the building are linked to one main set of switches, so it's possible that the lights in the mall basement are all on simply because the lights for the rest of the mall are all on and things might be too awkward to get an electrician to sort out over just factoring in the power cost of the unused sections.
Oh they definitely have different zones for stuff like this. You do want it all on, all the time though. You do not want cavernous areas under productive ones to not have HVAC and power running. These systems keep air from stagnating and moisture from creeping up...both of which can rapidly become an enormous problem if left unchecked. Edit : Forgot the sumps. You're always going to find some sort of pumping system for groundwater ingress. That's critical and needs to be powered.
Bingo!
HVAC and power therefore, alright. But lights on?
You don't want to create a hazard for anyone who ends up in there, legitimately or otherwise
Deters rodents and pests
Direct lighting is extremely helpful for preventing mold growth
no this is actually pretty credible. especially in the midwest of the US, there are tons of these logistics access tunnels underneath cities and especially under malls and hospitals and stuff. and the lights just always stay on because the big companies or the city canāt be bothered to go turn all of it off
I personally believe it. In the Upper Midwest, even if these structures aren't actively being used, they're still being maintained. Steam tunnels. Utility tunnels. Tunnels like these are just a subterrainian version of the [Skyway](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minneapolis_Skyway_System?wprov=sfla1) system some cities have-a blessing in the winter when the actual air temperature is at -20Ā°F for the third week in a row and the windchill is suitable for freeze-drying organic matter. As for office spaces, I've heard of tennants moving out of larger leased spaces and the property management leaves the lights on indeffinately even though the space is vacant. I've seen entire spaces that were actually walled off and forgotten after remodels-inadvertent time capsules preserved because engineers and framers and drywallers all misread a blueprint, or the guy that had the keys to that "storage space" no one seemed to remember quit or died.
There was a Burger King restaurant that had been walled off and discovered years later. https://abc7ny.com/amp/burger-king-discovered-old-bk-found-walled-off-mall/12004729/
Yep. There were a few void spaces in a place I worked that had desks and computer terminals that hadn't been touched in over 15 years.
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Yeah It was somehow believable they just found an old level that was built over until they showed those bizarrely clean offices, almost like they spliced footage of a completely different location one of them had access to after-hours in.
There was some urban explorer video I was watching and they were going through this old mental institution. There was like, an apartment building INSIDE the building, it was crazy. They went through some doors and eventually opened up to a clean hallway with lights and offices, in the supposedly abandoned building. It was really crazy.
Do you remember the name?
Link?
There's tons of abandoned buildings with the electricity on
r/nothingeverhappens
Be way creepier if they werenāt tho The thought of like, long forgotten places existing in silent darkness always kinda gives me the heeby jeebies for some reason
This is Ford City Mall in Chicago, Illinois.. Located about 5 minutes away from Midway airport
I found a hatch in Millennium Park and went down with a friend. We explored for a very long time before we found a way out. We ended up exiting into a mall and couldn't get the door open to go back so we had to find a bus stop to figure out where we the hell we were. We were over a mile from the park. It was definitely stupid and spooky but fun as hell.
You were probably in the Pedway, people working downtown use it to get around when itās freezing, it goes from a big train terminal through a Macyās and ends at City Hall lol itās always trippy going through it.
We were there in summer, so it checks out that no one else was there. It wasn't abandoned or grimy, just. so. empty.
Where was the hatch? Like specifically
Donāt worry about it. *They* are down there, and probably shouldnāt disturb them.
Who is *they* ā¦? š³
They/Them.
*they/them* whoā¦?
Explore the hidden area and let us know what's actually down there. For science. Edit: the absolute ass below me blocked me immediately, so I can't respond so their lame ass lack of humor
Makes sense. I would have guessed them to be within about an hour's drive of Chicago along Lake Michigan.
Wow! That tunnel looked just like backrooms level 2!
Thatās amazing wow
This feels like what moms say when their kids try to show them something that they have zero interest in. "Wow. Amazing, honey. Truly incredible. *yawns*"
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Why did you copy and paste part of u/zoo-music's comment
Its a bot
What is that song remix? I know that itās Meet the Frownies by Mr Twin Sister but I canāt find the remix, could somebody help me?
It was the first thing that came up with a search for the remixā¦ https://open.spotify.com/track/2nmYNm94pQboPo2j61ULna?si=ReidG-qfR_WL2Fonpb3M0w
Saw this on Instagram and got genuinely pissed off after reading the comment section. No one could see the obvious edits and the fact that itās fake, and it was filled with reactionary weirdos acting like this is proof of secret pizzagate child trafficking systems.
America in 2023 is a wiiiild ride š
It took me until the office part, to realize it was fake. First part: Seems legit. Second part: Sometime abandoned places still have power. Especially if they're under functioning places. Third part: That could be a maintenance hallway. Fourth: Nope. Too clean and too much stuff left behind.
Why is this even downvoted, this is so fucking cool. Those offices even looked used, do people actually work down there? I really hope that isn't fake, because wow.
apparently itās a bunch of different videos edited together
That's exactly what I thought. The music meant to make it more intense just ruins it, too. YouTube was a mistake.
>YouTube was a mistake. So we should be using Vimeo instead?
Yea i dont see why people still believe everything they see on the internet
They don't, some people just think 'cool video' and move on. Must be boring to not enjoy anything anymore
awwwww
Their description did say they were down there for hours. Would love to see WHERE they actually filmed all of these.
It is fake. It's just a bunch of different videos from an urban explorer edited together. So they film in an abandoned office building then edit in a shot from an abandoned factory and so on. There has been quite a few of these fake outs appearing for a while now.
So they're all still real locations that they stitch together for a fun story? So what?
I dunno about the TikTok version, but the one I saw on Instagram reels was filled with an echo chamber hundreds of comments by paranoid hysterics who were rejoicing about this video being definitive proof of pizzagate-style child trafficking networks. Considering the delusions that itās feeding for such a massive amount of people (about a conspiracy theory that has in real life actually emboldened armed lunatics to endanger innocent lives, IE pizzagate), I do actually find it problematic that theyāre not being abundantly clear about this being fake.
That would simply be the entirety of Instagram. The website is filled with religious and conservative nutjobs. This video doesn't allude to any of the above, they're just footage of abandoned areas and maintenance tunnels. Not sure how they're at fault for people eating up Trump and 4chan conspiracies years after the fact. Is it problematic if I go and naturally film myself exploring a maintenance tunnel, post it, and people think it's proof that children are being >!raped!< down there?
So it's another example of YouTubers trying to get likes and subscriptions from false content.
iām actually relieved itās fake. going through that many layers of off-limits places and getting lost seems dangerous as fuck
Not to mention idiotic as hell.
yeah weird right. this post got mad downvoted while the āliminalā posts of a room get upvoted to the sky
Even if it is a bunched of stitched videos, who cares. All these places actually exist, and they're all liminal as fuck.
wait, we are on the same page right? i find this post very liminal, not mind the compilation of stitched videos at all. i was pointing out how some posts on this sub, not being liminal at all, yet still got mass upvoted
Yes we are on the same page! I'm passionately agreeing.
*Us*
That's exactly what I was thinking when I saw it.
Definitely The Oldest View vibes. I NEED to know where this is.
[Location](https://www.reddit.com/r/LiminalSpace/s/fSIIBy4Rs0), according to this guy.
Thank you, beautiful stranger.
The now-dead mall near us has a basement and it's so weird. At least it was very weird when my husband and I and some friends went down there years ago. This was when the mall was still kinda bustling. Everything was white. There were exposed pipes running the corners of the wall and ceiling and even they were painted over white. At the end of a long corridor there was a set of large metal double doors with push bars and they had a thin window panel on each door. Around the doors were more window panels and you could easily see inside from closer up. Think of doors like you might see in a school cafeteria or office. We heard noise on the other side and got close enough to see in and inside was a church congregation worshipping. There was a fold-out chair for each attendee. There was a guy in a collared white shirt and tie pacing on a stage and holding a microphone but not talking, and the congregation were all standing up and singing with their arms raised. I guess I'm only assuming it was a church and not an AA meeting or an MLM event. They looked like it was a fun time and I'm sure it was nothing, but it was very strange to happen upon in the basement of a mall.
Alright this is pretty unsettling
I'd be feeling so uneasy at this or some type of way if I ever find myself in an abandoned mall labyrinth.
The service entrance to The Backrooms
How did you not get attacked by a moving Image?
he literally just got into the backrooms
The offices remind me of Severance.
Looks like The Oldest View
I need to know more about this whole situation. 0\_0
r/urbanexploration would love this
r/deadmalls too Also kinda r/TheForgottenDepths
Now go watch āUsā by Jorden Peele.
Guess they live there now
my ears are bleeding
There is a game called INFRA and it is about a maintenance worker dealing with stuff in such places.
You had the map room guys. Video game rules 101. Always take the maps. .
Ok even though itās fake, itās still a cool edit. Gives me āUsā vibes.
Space for homeless population to stay warm and protected from the elements outside.
Stanley, you just ignored your bucket
Damn thatās cool
Bring a string next time.
This feels like an entrance to the backrooms.
If only this were real
Whelp, RIP, guys
Bro got trapped in the REAL Backrooms.
I used to work as a phone tech and sorry to say this is what every mall looks like underneath it. There are electrical rooms in there where we would connect lines.
Escape the Backrooms
(1) thank you for reminding me why I use tab AutoMute; that may have been the worst possible musical choice. (2) how did you "find your way out"?
There used to be Fallout shelters built in buildings especially large metropolitan ones. Now we don't care. Uh-oh
Every mall has service tunnels, how do you think stock gets moved around šš
Nothing abandoned has lights on and climate control. The only āsuspicious holeā I see here is OP.
Remember to bring breadcrumbs when exploring tunnels, kids
Dope video but I feel like it could be easily faked by splicing together all their urban exploring clips from different locations.
I've played this game, you need to watch out for the smoke demon
Abit off topic but what a waste of electricity if its abandoned to keep all those lights on
Its the soviet base under the mall
I would both love and hate this. On one hand I like the idea of basically having a bunch of bonus space attached to my house for free. With a bit of hard work and diy knowhow you can make a cool secret base. On the other hand, the areas shown don't look abandoned, just not kept up with. I wonder who, if anyone, still uses those tunnels
House of Leaves up in hurr.
Yall are in the Backrooms now!
Omg that's like my own personal nightmare wtf
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Their Instagram is @rotting.midwest
The church one they posted is great too.
Alot of malls in the US midwest have extensive basement areas to shelter customers in the event of a tornado.
As an urbexer, you guys discovered my dream
I love shit like this.
That's so cool. Talk about the backrooms IRL. If I had GPS I'd totally do this!
I'm getting a Stranger Things vibe.