This is @Danaidhbee posting to you from @Scotland with my second post in the #urbex #community.

Hello!

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So my previous post was about the "Abandoned Old Orphanage/Mental Asylum" in Dundee, (Scotland) which I had explored extensively during the first lockdown and it was amazing! Just insane... But, Unfortunately at that time I didn't have a camera with me, or my password for @Hive, so it's in the bank for another day to explore again (Without my dog next time!). You can check out my post here if you haven't already seen it: https://hive.blog/hive-104387/@danaidhbee/victorian-orphanage-urban-exploration-forebank-mansion-scotland Thanks.

Anyway... This week Fellow 'Urbexians' (If that's a thing?? 😂 can we make it a thing??.... Nah?? Okay, Cool Haha!!

Anyway... this week I diligently planned to stumble across a good Urbex opportunity... yes, stumble, because I couldn't think off the top of my head where the hell I could go. So that day I packed a few snacks, got the dog on the lead, and off out I went like a young school boy during the summer holidays going off on an adventure for whole the day, all packed up like "Rupert the Bear" or something. You know that feeling???, 'opportunistic' and 'auspicious'!

It was a great day for it too, the sun shining like down a massive yellow mofo, all the elements were calm except the earth element that day: which hosts 'The Worst Scottish Invader' in all History!! ""Ladies and Gentlemen, It is "The (Fucking Stupid) Bramble"
Although, No @Urbex here in @Scotland is complete without being totally savaged to death slowly by all the shredding spikey brambles on the way in... and on the way out!... It's the small price we pay for such opportunities like these even if there is no predictable outcome or reward. So right now this community I hope, will appreciate this best.

Everyone here in Scotland can't be arsed doing Urbex anymore because they'll either complain about 'getting their shoes muddy', or "eughh the brambles, I'm Not going in there man! No way!"... or "Nah, I don't wanna get caught doing that!"... which is laughable, because it's totally cool here in Scotland, if you're not causing bother there are very minimal consequences, as long as you're a "Good C%&T") = chap) and... can handle the Brambles etc...

"I was lucky the other day as I managed to talk my way out of the suspicions from the landowner whose property I was exploring that was waiting for me to leave and catch me on the way out". "They must have thought I was some junkie with a camera away to take smack and video myself shagging my dog or something??". But obviously, that's not the case for me", but... It definitely was for this guy here.. Check This Out... Eugh... - https://www.ksat.com/news/local/2023/01/27/man-charged-with-bestiality-after-instagram-videos-show-him-abusing-animals-court-records-show/ Psycho-Sicko.

I was scared I would find some sort of creature (like this guy above) here and my dog was next... but she was fine, no creatures there, and I think the brambles got me and Shirley worse than he could get us hahaha, He's in jail!
Apparently, this is "129 Broughty Ferry Road, Docks, Dundee, Scotland"

I really struggled to find ANY information, history, or decent pictures of this house online, a bit disappointing, but I think it has been recently abandoned, it doesn't even have a number outside and when I look on google maps for an older photo there is a CopyrightGoogle.com mark/sticker on top of the number outside on the wall like its been hidden... spooky... Why can't I find any info?? What's going on here..

And with that spooky concept, he thought to himself "Hmmm it's boarded off, but quite easily accessible, I could be the first to document this place! "little Rupert Bear thought".

This gate and stair set, well previous gate, lies behind one of the busiest roads in Dundee, it was fenced over to stop Urbex and 'little clouts' setting fires! But, all I had to do was walk along 10 meters from the fence and just waltzed right in the side driveway 'as easy as pie', or "peh" as some folk call it in Scotland (Stay away from these folk! haha), then just a small shin-high wall and I've outsmarted the council again, Boom! I'm in...

Looking promising so far, Shirley seems to think so already too.

Honestly, these brambles don't look bad, but you really have to be careful here, you definitely can't avoid a scrape or two, it's inevitable that you will get cut multiple times.

Oh! An intact front door? Hmmm That's odd, usually, there is 'No Door', 'A Hanging Off Door', or 'A Door with Teenage-Size punch holes and crappy tag graffiti that all looks the same'.

Something's not right here... I tried the handle and it was stiffly locked, tried to shoulder barge it, then, I suddenly felt really bad vibes like I was being watched profusely...

So what happens next??... of course the 'Michael Jackson' song - "Somebodys watching me" Pops into my head and then stops, as I hear the building echoing inside, thinking "Am I about to get crushed under a crumbling building that I have just tried barge in?? Shit...

Ahah!!! Yes I thought so... Look at the top right of this picture circled in red, (It's a 'Neverland Secret Camera and Big MJ's ghost is inside the building watching me, or even better - he's up in the skies watching me on his 'Celeb Heaven Cam' LOL).

You may not have seen it otherwise unless you are an experienced 'Urbexian'... (Has that caught on yet??? No.... Okay, thought so...) hahaha.

Anyway, moving on.

"I didn't see the little sneaky camera until I got home and uploaded the photos. although I still had the feeling I was being watched and didn't like it. I continued on with my Urbex, as you do..."

That's more like it, let's try this one..
Nope... Locked stiff and with no handle, the brambles were really hard to get past here and jumbled up all at my feet in big balls with heaps and heaps and mounds of another 'Notorious Scottish Urbex Invader/Enemy' The toxic AF "Giant Hogweed". Sprouting up like big green feisty armies of toxic rancid acid-smelling gremlins and goblins!

(I have a 'Childhood Story' about Giant Hogweed) - I dunno if you've ever smelled Hogweed, but it's disgusting, I know this too well because as a kid: Me and my friends about age 10/11 decided we were gonna be 'ninjas' so went out with balaclavas, gloves, bamboo canes and metal poles to a Giant Hogweed field nearby and started chopping that fucking thing down to the ground expecting little consequences... Later that night I had thee most uncomfortable sleep I have ever had at that age, I didn't know what was wrong, tossing and turning, I was itchy, sore and felt needle-like pains all over my body. (The Hogweed acid burns your skin and the vapours are intoxicating that can damage your throat and eyes.)
I woke up in the morning and realised I had big swollen mandarin-sized yellow sacs on my skin that were all jelly and podgy! (Freaky).. I freaked the fuck out, (luckily Mum was a nurse). The big huge citrus looking blisters stank of poisonous hogweed acid when we popped them. Eugh the smell!!!
We knew they were dangerous but not this dangerous! I had scars on my hands and arms for about 10 years! But now they're gone, thankfully.

So Shirley wouldn't sit down and wait for me whilst I wanted to go explore, she thought I was abandoning her or something, she had that look in her eyes all puppy dog, ears down low, with them big black eyes!. I was like " Shirley I ain't moving into this house? ffs, you think I'd leave you and never come back?? No! Now STAY There!" and Wait...! Good Girl... Stayyyyy...."

She didn't stay... she followed me right in there and got a few bramble spikes on her leggies I'm sure.
"Right Shirley, Fuck it, C'mon then dog"
This is the front of the house (South facing), really well boarded up. You can see the old '16-pane' window structure (nice) this was quite a fancy house at one point, but now almost impenetrable from the Brambles and Buddleia, and Hogweed, especially with the dog not listening to me as well. So I tried another window at the bottom, the one that's tarpaulined over.

When I made it through the thick barbed and toxic flora and fauna, ALL the bottom windows surrounding the house had double-layered chipboard that was absolutely excessively nailed into kingdom come with wonky nails and screws to keep me out and keep it in place on the structure (behind the tarpaulin).

Something good must be inside!?

So after 4 of my failed attempts to enter this mysterious house, I was drawn away from thoughts of leaving to go home and ignoring all the warning signs by this dark entrance and its creepy appeal. This was my 5th attempt to gain access.
Defo gonna be some bodies of sexually abused dogs down here... I can't let Shirley see this!...

But to my 'major let-down' there was a padlocked door and what looked like renovators had been in. Nothing interesting worth taking photos of, Honestly, Just cement blocks and bags and the empty packets.. Damn... No access here. (sorry it's a fuzzy picture, I took this in the dark, and my camera didn't like the darkness there, even with flash, I couldn't seem to get a decent shot, maybe it was scared of what it was going to see haha, or was there some interfering poltergeist activity!! camera went all funny and stopped working... oooohhhh!!??

So I had the urge to leave, I felt like I was intruding on someone's business here and didn't want to get in trouble, I am okay to be there legally, but some people may not care and call the police anyway, It has happened plenty times, trust me!

I left with my urge, got Shirley on the lead quickly, and passed all the Brambles and Hogweed only to see a 'concerned figure' in the distance gesturing something at me through the trees and bushes, that I couldn't make out. I approach further towards the figure and see it is an older Indian lady waving at me asking what are you doing here, and if I was okay?

Was I in a trippy poltergeist-induced dream, did the "sexually abused poltergeist dog" black me out into some sort of out-of-body experience where I was hallucinating?

No... it was the landowner seeing what the hell I was up to on her land.

She owned a HUGE big house right next door to this, really fancy and neat, a real proper good looking house y'know!

*I approached her and said, "Yes I am fine, thanks, Sorry to bother you, I'm not intruding here am I?"

She said, "No, No, not at all I was just concerned as I had seen you come in on the camera there", and pointed up to it.

I said "Apologies if I have disturbed you, I don't mean any harm, I am just doing some Urbex, I am an Urban Explorer, Y'know, Urban Exploring? Abandoned Buildings? I do a blog and post it and people see it and read it, it's pretty fun, people vote and vote me money for it". Do you own this property??

She perks up and said "Ah Okay! Yes, I do actually own this place. But it's no problem as long as you're not hurt. That's so cool you do that, I wouldn't have even thought about anyone doing that, I didn't know that was a thing? Very Good for you!"

As I was leaving I thought I'd say, "Thank you very much for letting me see your place, and again, I didn't mean to intrude or cause any inconvenience, Sorry."

I got home and thought, what if I go down again and asked her if I can document it from the inside?

Should I go back and ask her guys???? What do you think???

And that was that really... All in all, the total Urbex was about 45 minutes, So with some residual energy, my well-awaited uneaten snacks, and some good vibes 'n' high hopes, I went off to stumble across something else down the road!

This is some old waterworks right next to the train tracks, just about a mile down the road from the house we just saw. It has been heavily decorated by graffiti artists on the backside. (North facing)









Clearly this is a good spot for them to practice, I agree. As I hate seeing pointless graffiti everywhere, especially names or "mencheys" as they call it here (after "a mention") but this Disney character (you see above) with the axe is as probably as Urbex as Urbex Graffiti gets! Pretty Cool....

You can see what their whole life is... "Drinking Spraypaint and Painting with RedBull hahaha!


This is my favourite thing I have seen on my whole journey. I Love it. I wonder who wore the shoe and how old is this kid now? They'll never know, I'll never know we'll never know!

Pinmapple Code - [//]:# (!pinmapple 56.46787 lat -2.93961 long Abandoned Edwardian Style House d3scr)
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I hope you enjoyed this @Urbex post from @Scotland,
Many thanks,
from me,
@danaidhbee
(Danaidh B).