Just started UE-ing. Find out about cool mental hospital a few hours away. Decide to start small and just do houses first. Finally get comfortable enough to go to the hospital... And it's gone. I missed it by a few months.

This has happened a bunch of times, I'll see something cool online then plan to go see it. By the time I get there it's gone. :/ I need a car, a license and unlimited free gas...

A small funeral home in my neighborhood was in a boarded-up block, soon to be razed. A friend of mine once worked there, and he told me it had an entrance that most people wouldn't recognize or board up; a trap-door leading into a cellar. I scouted it and it was just like he'd described. It wasn't locked or boarded up. Ladder rungs led down a short shaft that opened at the bottom, under the building.

Early one morning my partner and I hopped in, pulled the lid shut after us and climbed down ... only to discover that the trap door up thru the floor of the building was blocked. We crawled all around the cellar looking for another way up, but nothing.

A week ago a work crew showed up with implements of destruction to start razing the block. They told me that they'd do the mortuary second. I hoped they'd make a hole in a wall and go home for the night. But yesterday I saw that it was rubble.

Byberry

Lived minutes away and never went.
probably my greatest UE related disappointment and regret.

outside of that, probably what AdventureDan has mentioned… busting your ass to get in someplace only to find a super easy POE once inside.
Also, having to walk away (sometimes after traveling) because the situation just isn't right.

I found uer while in Texas. Late one night, the GF and I were talking about ue stuff and I told her about a place less than 1 mile from the house I grew up in and I told her if I ever go back home that I was going to check it out. Well... it was demo'd 2 months before I had the chance to visit...

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A few years back I had a job interview almost a five hour drive north of where I lived. I took my exploring gear with me as there was an old asylum near that location I could check out on the way home.

Once I got the interview done I drove to the old hospital and found I had forgotten to bring my exploring boots with me. So I had no choice but to wear my best pair of shoes that I had worn for my interview which were, of course, freshly shined.

On the way into the place I bumped into another couple of explorers and went with them to find a way over the fence. We passed a homeless guy - possibly an ex-patient - who was living in a tent and who bummed a cigarette off us. Further on we found a place to climb over, but as soon as the first person hit the floor on the other side a security guard appeared who immediately got on his phone to the cops.

We retreated to a nearby hillside and watched the cops turn up and do a thorough search of the property with dogs. It was then I noticed a really foul smell. On the walk back to our cars the stench followed me and I realised what it was. That aforementioned grubby homeless dingus had taken a massive dump on the pathway round the fence line, and I had stepped right in it with my nice shoes. I stopped at a car wash as soon as I could and blasted my shoes around with a high pressure hose but that only helped a little, I had to get to work with bleach and stuff when I got home. I don't know what the hell that guy was eating but I've never known a turd from man or beast to stink that bad. So all in all a bit of a disappointing afternoon...

I did get the job though.

Probably when tried to get into a very old funeral home which I had been told by good sources had an Morgue for keeping and preparing bodies in the basement that had not been used since the 1970s. I spent like an hour sawing away wood in an ally in a affluent and busy section of the city, then had to climb into the little window area and work like a lunatic to pop off some more boards to get in...the building was complete empty garbage inside, and the damn place did not even have a basement.

Posted by ImmortalOwl ... I did get the job though.

What a good story! By the time I reached the end I'd forgotten the interview.

Going to a hockey game with my ex (I fucking hate sports), driving all the way to Boston to see said shitty sports game thing, staying at a hotel that was within walking distance of Danvers, and not being allowed to go.

To add insult to injury, her shitty sports team lost. And we had to drive a god damned Sunfire because she didn't trust my BMW because it was foreign.

The pizza at the place across the road from the arena was incredible, though.

Finding out that a resort that was built and never used had been sold the same week you were planning on going to explore it. Its is thoroughly sealed up now and renovations are starting soon.

Had a nearby location boarded up for years, when they finally decide to do some work on it. The leave the doors wide open, but I don't get the chance to go at the time. I hear later on it is being torn down.

Traveling over three and a half hours north to a beautiful synagogue only to pull up outside literally two minutes before a truck turns up laden with scaffolding gear and workers get out to make themselves busy.

Going on a day trip with a long list of places to check out in one city and failing all nine of them to various degrees within a few hours.

A few years ago failed to get into a massive old school because my mate set off an alarm outside and then on the way back we spotted an enormous very inviting looking derelict factory, a quick bit of googling confirmed what it was and it looked epic inside, all the foundry equipment etc still in situ so we found an access point and got in....and the whole place was an empty shell! Turned out almost every last piece of equipment had been ripped out a couple of years previous leaving just an enormous empty shell behind.

The local Asylum to me was always a mega tough one to crack with regular security patrols, CCTV dome cameras mounted on poles and numerous fences to overcome - I only ever got into it once, in the snow, just before Christmas 2009 and even then it was sheer dumb luck that got us inside as we found a wide open door - later we would almost stumble right into the contractors sealing bits up inside who left the door open - and despite all the security measures as far as a UK asylum went at the time it was a pretty rubbish one with not much of interest inside at all.

Posted by Soldat Probably when tried to get into a very old funeral home which I had been told by good sources had an Morgue for keeping and preparing bodies in the basement that had not been used since the 1970s. I spent like an hour sawing away wood in an ally in a affluent and busy section of the city, then had to climb into the little window area and work like a lunatic to pop off some more boards to get in...the building was complete empty garbage inside, and the damn place did not even have a basement.

Hahahaha!!! Was that the one in Rittenhouse Square next to the Warwick Hotel/Apartments? The one with the coffee shop? You could see an open door on the roof from the roof of the Warwick and it was maybe a fifteen-foot leap (but a multi-story death drop) to the funeral home roof. I think Luke may have done it but he couldn't pop it from the inside for us.

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Scouted it in late September, but it went on the back burner for whatever reason. Drove by today and it's just an empty field now.

1. Finding out an abandoned movie theatre that had been in ownership purgatory for over a decade had only just been demolished as I was able to check it out.

2. Returning to an old hospital to find the entrance had been welded shut only a day before. Though at least with that one I'd gotten in before.

This door is a ways inside, the first interior area before it is accessible, but this door was the only way to access the majority of the building. I feel like they didn't close the first part just to troll.

Read all about this huge satellite near me, everything said it was still there, low security, pictures looked awesome; I was pumped. A friend and I made about hour and half drive out there to find ourselves in a residential community which already seemed pretty sketch. Walked back to the area where it should be but no huge satellite was in sight, at first we thought we got the wrong location but then stumbled across a control panel we had seen in picture online. Walked a little farther to only find a huge pile of rubble where the satellite should of been. Obviously demolished, my friend climbed to the top of the pile only on the other side to find a man decked out in full camo so we sprinted out of there. Not sure why it said absolutely nowhere online it was demolished but a waste of an exploration day.

Posted by gabri123 Read all about this huge satellite near me, everything said it was still there, low security, pictures looked awesome; I was pumped. A friend and I made about hour and half drive out there to find ourselves in a residential community which already seemed pretty sketch. Walked back to the area where it should be but no huge satellite was in sight, at first we thought we got the wrong location but then stumbled across a control panel we had seen in picture online. Walked a little farther to only find a huge pile of rubble where the satellite should of been. Obviously demolished, my friend climbed to the top of the pile only on the other side to find a man decked out in full camo so we sprinted out of there. Not sure why it said absolutely nowhere online it was demolished but a waste of an exploration day.

Oh right, that big dish in Maryland. I remember seeing that on here a while ago, shame it's gone now.

Most of these are cross boarder disappointments. Walking in to the still open Kutcher's Hotel about a week/two weeks before it was officially closed. We at least walked around a bit as we just couldn't find where the washrooms were ;). The same trip there were a few locations where having ON license plates would have made it very visible where we were so we either passed or had some switch offs with drivers. Being outside the old Buffalo Steel Admin building and having some idiot bicyclist eyeing us and then going to a security building pointing us out so we left (bldg now demoed). One of the biggest local disappointments is having a great local place open up and close up again instantly because someone just couldn't resist blabbing about it everywhere online.

I was very excited to check out some old military base housing. They had been left there about 5 years and since it was close to a trip that was already happening I thought I would check them out. Get there and see large machines levelling the whole area. Google images confirmed that they were all there about 3 months earlier.....

There were two huge, abandoned warehouse-type buildings in DC that I would walk by every day when going to the Metro. I had - and still have - no idea what they were. There were no signs on them, no info available online, and no one seemed to know anything about them. The area is densely-populated, heavily-trafficked, and "transitional," and there are always police nearby.

I cased the joint almost every day for a year - casual walk-bys every day and several more ambitious perimeter checks - observing the schedules of people who worked in the nearby buildings, police activity in the area, signs of anyone going in and out / living there, etc. I got to know the buildings quite well. They were sealed up pretty tight, and the only (realistic) POE I could ever identify was a window about 10 ft. off the ground that had boards with long, vertical nails on the sill to try to prevent people from climbing in.

I went so far as to purchase a $200 telescoping ladder to execute my entry plan. But as I was about to execute - after being patient for all this time - the buildings were purchased by a development corporation. And one day, the buildings were surrounded by (new) chain link fences, and guys in hardhats were going in and out all day every day, gutting them.

Within two weeks, one of the buildings had been demolished. That was during this past summer. The second building still hasn't been demolished yet, but all the windows have been taken out, and the whole thing is just a skeleton now. I guess I thought I had forever because they were right in my neighborhood; plus, I had cooler out-of-town exploring goals that prevented me from devoting time to knocking this one out. Now, I'm left with my dick in my hand as the bones of the remaining, now-pointless building taunt me every day on my walk to and from the Metro.