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Urban Explorers

2006-May-3 by Laughcalvin

Remember when you were a kid wondering around strange places in the city at night? Or last Saturday night when you were plastered? Indiewire reports on a cool doc currently in production:

"Urban Explorers: Into The Darkness"

Melody Gilbert's ("A Life Without Pain") latest documentary highlights a group of thrill seekers known as Urban Explorers who survey abandoned buildings, storm drains and anything else derelict for the sudden rush of being somewhere they shouldn't be.

Gilbert first learned about the group three years ago when a few were mistaken for terrorists in her hometown of St. Paul, MN. "They were walking down the street wearing black, had night vision goggles and cameras and all kinds of equipment," she recalls. "It turns out they were these guys called Urban Explorers; I was like, 'What's an Urban Explorer?'"

Managing to gain the trust of one, Gilbert learned Minnesota is a popular spot for urban exploring. "We have a lot of people who come here [and explore] drains and sewers because we have incredible networks of pipes that leads to all these crazy places." Other Urban Explorer must-sees are the northeast for their abandoned mental institutions and the west for mines and abandoned train stations. Overseas, Europe and Australia are also popular."

Try it out this weekend in your neck of the grid.













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