“It May Be The Single Worst Thing I’ve Ever Seen”: 50 Urban Explorers Share Their Creepiest Finds

Was exploring an abandoned canal boat tunnel, named Netherton Tunnel, now this this is long as hell and was used to transport canal boats from the early 1900's, anyway every time ive been there ive always felt the sense of being watched, even when going with different people and probably 7-8/10 times ive been ive seen eyes coming towards me from within the tunnel, now as i thought i was going crazy the first time i returned with different friends over many different occasions and have seen the exact same eyes in the darkness. Even friends who have had no idea about them made jokes saying it kinda looked like eyes.

Safe to say i probably wont go again.

There used to be an abandoned psychiatric hospital in Kalamazoo, Michigan that my friends and I would explore on the weekend nights in 2003. It was four floors plus a basement (which included a morgue) and we explored every nook & cranny of that place. Judging by the most recent magazines in the 4th floor waiting room, it seemed to have closed in 1990. The previous institution just up & left everything Chernobyl-style (furniture, equipment, patient files...even found some reports!). By 2003, the place was broken and trashed by vandals while the building itself decayed. It looked worse than the hospitals in the Silent Hill games.

That's not even the creepiest, most mysterious part.

I once entered a room and saw a mirror that wasn't broken. Everything in this entire building was destroyed, except this one pristine mirror still mounted on the wall. I've never seen anything more out-of-place and I get chills just thinking about it.

A hayloft full of angry bees and a very well-used mattress at an abandoned zoo.

Literally last night me and my friends were exploring a somewhat newly abandoned hospital (about a year, so there's no power or people but it's not run down or anything.) We picked a helluva spooky night to do it though, thunder, rain and it was pitch black.

We were trying to find a way in and we went down this open corridor, we're testing out all the doors and the last one is graffitied with "Come Find Me ;)"

Noooppee.

Eventually security showed up and we bolted.

In the 100% boarded up, pitch black, air tight basement of a 50s era abandoned mental hospital infirmary I came across thousands of X-rays spilling out of drawers, covering the floors. The main patient rooms all had very creepy restraint devices in them as well. Super creepy because for so long that was considered treatment.

I encountered the same type and colour of children's toy in multiple diverse and hard to reach locations. My guess is someone drops those on purpose on these spots to confuse others. But it is still kinda weird.

I once found a house in the middle of a lake that seemed to have been abandoned as-is years ago. There were plates and newspapers (dated 13 years ago) on the table, the bed was unmade, there were shoes and clothes on a chair. It was pretty small, must have been a couple's summer house or something, but it definitely gave you the creeps.

There's an abandoned elementary school I found, and during my exploration I came across a Father's Day card that a student wrote to their father, who was either absent or had passed away. Super depressing.

Hi. Small time youtuber with a mild interest in urbex.

Me & two friends went out to this abandoned neighborhood. Now, that in it of itself can be pretty spooky, but while we were there, there was one particular house that left a lasting impression on us. Midway into recording, I was trying to set up a shot of me & friends doing a humorous improv in the kitchen. As I tried to get them over, there were a few crunches of glass, and one of the others approached me asking if I heard the crunching of the glass. We went to go investigate, but couldn't find any immediate signs of people. At first, I presumed it was a small animal mucking about. Meanwhile, the other two were sold that it was ghostly activity and were afraid to step back inside.

This is where things got a bit strange for me. I went back in while they stayed out. I began calling out some crude questions. However, as I began to ask, I was cut off by what sounded like a sigh or whisper that was very different from my voice. I checked around, but as before, I was the only one anywhere near that particular area, and the nearby freeway noise would've drowned out any shouts they made from where they were.

I came back out to ask if they were anywhere near me, and they said no. They were ready to leave, but I wanted to stick around a little longer, seeing if I could provoke whatever entity rested within that house. Unfortunately, my attempts were unsuccessful. Regardless, that house sits as one of my creepiest explorations yet.

Since I'm a little new to urbex, this may be subject to change in the near/distant future.

I am from Germany but live in Shanghai, I went to explore one of the abandoned bunkers (many have been refurbished but some are just abandoned in the city) I did not see anything creepy per se but the moment I stepped in I had an intense feeling to just get out of there, like primal instinct to just run, I forced myself to explore for a bit and once I entered one of the last rooms I just automatically turned and sprinted out of there, no clue why, the whole place felt wrong but that room in particular made me just leave.

For those living in Shanghai and interested the address is Hunan Lu 2888.

It's a compound now but if you go in the section called the Forest should have a fake waterfall, the entrance is behind the waterfall if you go around you can't miss it, last time I checked it was flooded but they drain it in the winter, check it out of you want, I still don't know why my brain just said run.