Exploring abandoned places has always held a fascination for many, offering a glimpse into the past and often stirring a sense of adventure. From forgotten factories to deserted hospitals, each abandoned site tells a story waiting to be discovered. However, venturing into these spaces requires more than just curiosity; it demands careful planning, respect for […]
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In late September of 2023 I was contacted by a journalist with the National Post, a leading newspaper coering stories from across Canada and the world. The journalist mentioned that his editor had send him some of my photos and to see if I would be interested in an artickle about my adventures, I said
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About Big Pink in Saugerties New York Big Pink, located in Saugerties, New York, holds significant historical importance in the world of music. It was the home where Bob Dylan and The Band gathered in the late 1960s to create and record music together. The residence, situated at 56 Parnassus Lane, formerly known as 2188
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The Niagara Power Station is a relatively new attraction in Niagara Falls Ontario inside, what used to be a derelict and “abandoned” power plant. Many years back I explored the plant from top to bottom, and then, last year Victoria and I went and did the tour. I was very surprised at how much of
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Last week Canadas Most Photographed Abandoned House | The Abandoned Guyitt House Ontario in Chatham Ontario was making headlines all over Ontario and Canadian news media sites. I was contacted by a reporter from the New York Times to get my opinion on this new development. It surprised me that this story of a small
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I just got word today from retired explorer Phrenzee that the Abandoned Halton Country Golf Club caught fire last night. “The Milton Fire Department received a call at approximately 4:30 a.m. Firefighters arrived to find a building on the property of Halton Country Golf fully engulfed in flames. The building was collapsing on itself. Milton Fire used
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Abandoned Photography 101: What is Abandoned Photography? Abandoned photography, also known as urban exploring photography, is a type of photography that captures the beauty, decay, and history of abandoned places. This genre of photography has gained popularity in recent years, as more people become interested in exploring and documenting abandoned buildings, houses, and mansions. Urban
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About This Blog In January of 2023 I posted a short one minute video with footage of “9 Incredible Discoveries in Abandoned Places. It was meant as a simple YouTube Short, Instagram/Facebook Reel and TikTiok video. The editors at Petapixel saw the video and asked if I would be interested in doing a small piece
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Short Visial Tour of Secrets Cap Cana SECRETS CAP CANA – Resort Tour and Travel Review https://youtu.be/QWq5gqBCzdg Are you looking for a luxurious all-inclusive resort to enjoy the Dominican Republic? Look no further than Secrets Cap Cana! This luxurious resort offers top-notch all-inclusive accommodation and tours, giving you the perfect opportunity to explore the beautiful
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For my final 2022 year end recap post, we’re going to start with ME!! Let’s talk about my explores, my travels, my highlights, lowlights and some of my accomplishments For starters, let’s talk about why we’re here – the exploring! In 2022 it looks like I got 117 locations visited over 50 total days of
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All over the province of Ontario you can find interesting derelict and abandoned places to photograph. Here are 10 Abandoned Places in Ontario That You Can Visit
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Exploring the Niagara Falls Power Station Tunnel Attraction – Before it was an Attraction Starting July 1st you can finally get down to visit the tailrace tunnels at the Niagara Falls Power Station – formerly known as the Rankine Generating Station or Canadian Niagara Power. This station shut down in 2006 after 25 hertz
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In my time doing this hobby I’ve made some great friends and met some awesome people. I may not tell them that often enough, I probably should! One of my favourite people in this hobby is Urban Downfall, he’s (in my opinion) as good as they come and his dedication to the hobby is unmatched. Years ago
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Kilometers Driven in 2021 17,440 Locations Explored in 2021 104 Most Viewed Page on Website Peter Grant Mansion – 31,333 Views Most Viewed YouTube Video FOUND GUNS and MONEY – 501,527 Views A few stats to get us started In 2021 I explored 104 different places. That is down from 129 in 2020, but I
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It’s no secret that what I do can ruffle feathers, cause controversy and make some people mad. Some of my locations, well they don’t LOOK abandoned. Some of my locations contain valuable items and antiques that, while I may leave them behind, others can’t imagine someone NOT stealing. There are any number of things within
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Join Canadian Urban Explorer Dave of Freaktography & Canadian Wilderness Explorer Adam Shoalts as they discuss The Whisper on the Night Wind
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This is a tale of 5 urban explorers and an eventful night. I write this story here because I want to remember this night and I want to have somewhere to go to relive this experience if ever I need a laugh!
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The date was September 9th, 2013, I was working for an Advertising Agency at Yonge and Bloor in Toronto, on my lunch hour I decided to head over to the Masonic Temple to see if there was maybe a chance to explore it. I arrived to find a side door ajar and some catering staff
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Flashback Friday – Vacant Children’s Mental Health Centre The province of Ontario has been serving people with developmental disabilities since the late 1800s. Starting with Huronia Regional Centre, Ontario’s first institution, it opened in 1876 and closed in 2009. After the opening of Huronia, a further 15+ additional institutions were opened all over
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Top 10 Tips for New Urban Explorers Urban exploration, or Urbex, is an emerging form of photography that focuses on abandoned areas of cities. The rapid expansion often leads to urban decay, closed industrial zones, and ruins in general. These are some of the main subjects for all urban explorers. As you might have guessed
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I Decorated an Abandoned Haunted House for Halloween and Lit it Up With Lume Cube Lights! Every year for Halloween I do something fun and silly, in the past I have done Freaktography the Ghost Hunter, I have done creepy photo shoots and other fun things with videos and photos This year I decided to
Freaktographys top ten most shocking discoveries in abandoned places. From Guns and Money to Human Remains and War Medals
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With so much time on my hands these days I’m spending a lot of time thinking of silly/creative ideas and things I can do! It all started with drone light painting and learning how to do that, followed by astrophotography and teaching myself that. My next idea was to buy myself a Remote Control Boat
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Forgotten War Medals Found in Abandoned House This is the Story of How I Found two Sets of Forgotten War Medals in an Abandoned House and what I decided to do with them So far, 2020 has been a tough year, May was a tough month and now the last week has just added to
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Well guys, it’s been a tough week and a tough weekend with the global Corona Virus Pandemic taking hold of every city, province, state and country. My wife and I, we decided to do our best to stay home and stay safe, except for a few short and quick trips out to make sure we
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Lizzo Truth Hurts Parody | TOOTH HURTS Parody Video by Freaktography Tooth Hurts Parody Lyrics (Crunching Sound) My Tooth Hurts, Now I got a Tooth Ache (Drill Sound) I just had an X Ray scan turns out 100% that wisdom tooth comin’ out Yeah, I got money problems, no insurance for me Anesthesia too much
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This is the roadside memorial for Chris Rolfsen in Niagara Falls, Ontario Chris Rolfsen drowned on August 9th, 2009 at the age of 27 while swimming in the Chippawa Creek in Niagara Falls, Ontario. Chris drowned in an area where I, as a kid swam many many times, jumping off of the Chippawa Bridge. Chris
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This is the Cole Howard Roadside Memorial on highway 69 just after Parry Sound on the way to Sudbury. The Cole Howard Roadside Memorial is one of the most unique in North America and is a beautiful tribute to a young man who was taken far too soon. When I started this Roadside Memorials project
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On This Day in Freaktography History – St Thomas Psychiatric Hospital April 4th 2014 On this day 5 years ago I set off on a road trip with St Thomas Psychiatric Hospital in my sights. Two weeks earlier I was able to enter one small maintenance outbuilding, but that was all. This time, accompanied by
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Top 10 List Strangest Things I’ve Found While Urban Exploring In recent weeks I have seen many people posting photos of strange things they have found while Urban Exploring in abandoned places. This is also one of the most asked questions I get when I meet people or when people message me. So, here is
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My First Concert Photography Gig Thursday April 6th, 2018 – The night I got to shoot my first concert, something I’d had no experience with, something I have always wanted to try and I finally got that opportunity. Bell Canada was launching a new high speed internet service and to announce this new product
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Toronto Squared, TimeLapse Video from Yonge & Dundas Toronto I recently spent 7 nights in a row filming time lapse footage at Yonge and Dundas Square in Toronto, Ontario. This video features the buzz at Yonge and Dundas during all hours of the night Yonge and Dundas Square in Toronto, Ontario. The heart of the
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The removal of the two Hard Rock Cafe signs at the now closed Yonge and Dundas Toronto Hard Rock Cafe.
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Photography and Framing Options for Your Home Décor Once you enter anyone’s house for the first time, maybe, what you notice first is not all of the family photos but probably the art, a beautiful landscape or still life photo. The interior décor in a house can be impressive and amazing, however, this is the
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8×10 Print Sale of My Most Purchased Photo – Foggy Laneway Photo sale will be active through the end of this week, all orders will be processed right away and received within two weeks of order. Quick and easy Paypal payment, you do not require a Paypal account to order. If I sell 10 of
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Freaktography 2016 Year End Review For me, 2016 was more productive than 2015 with more locations visited than any other year. No tickets, no arrests and no (serious) injuries. I started my year as always by exploring a drain, I made my annual visit to Detroit in May, did a day in Buffalo NY
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Happy Halloween 2016 from Freaktography! When you do what I do and hang out with the friends I have, every day is Halloween!!!! Here is a fun gallery of some of the fun we’ve had in costumes and gas masks over the years while exploring abandoned places. Featuring photos by Freaktography, RiddimRyder and Kronix.
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Freaktography The Ghost Hunter The weekend before Halloween I hit a number of abandoned places looking for answers to many of the questions I am often asked. “Do you ever see ghosts?” “Have you ever experienced anything unexplainable or paranormal?” “Where is all the dust?? “Do you believe in ghosts??” FACT – 1 About
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After the Fallout – The Story of a Father and Daughter Surviving a Post Apocalypse Life After a Nuclear Fallout. After the Fallout is the story of a father and daughter who after spending three years in a nuclear fallout shelter have begun a life in the post apocalypse world. “Is it safe to come
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A Dying Breed: Ontario’s Forgotten Abandoned Houses In the year 2001 the population in the small town of Milton, Ontario was just over 31,000 people — making this an ideal small town in the province to raise a family. Now, in 2016 the estimated population in Milton is well over 100,000 with projections of 228,000
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A photo gallery from an avid Tennis Players Abandoned House
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Building Your Social Media Photography Following With the rising popularity of digital technology social media has become a tempting platform for photographers to promote their talents online and building your social media photography following is more important now than ever. Disseminated by Facebook, Instagram on smart phones, tablets and home computers, photography today thrives online.
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Freaktogtraphy (possibly) has a ghost caught on camera in a Haunted House! In my 4 plus years of exploring and photographing abandoned places I have never caught anything paranormal or haunted, unexplainable nor have I ever had a ghost caught on camera. After a visit to this old abandoned house in Ontario, Canada I do
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Freaktography Featured in Reclaim Magazine Received a pretty exciting email today from Reclaim Magazine in the UK. They had contacted me in the Fall of last year asking if they can do a feature on me and my photos, they sent me some questions to answer and asked for some photos to accompany the piece.
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The Newspaper Room in the Abandoned Poorhouse- explained! One of my most popular locations on my website is a location known as the Abandoned Poorhouse also known as the Abandoned County Home. This morning I posted a photo from inside this great abandoned building in New York State, someone commented asking me what is the
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Freaktography Urban Exploring and Photography Year in Review – 2015 Every year at the end of and beginning of a year of Urban Exploring I look ahead and wonder what unknown locations will present themselves next and what were my highlights of the year that has passed. In 2014 my urban exploring highlights were an
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Merry Christmas from the Santapocalypse Freaktography and RiddimRyder Photography want to wish all of the followers of our pages and fellow explorers a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!
Fully Intact Abandoned House A Fully Intact Abandoned House found hidden deep in an Ontario small town. This is a temporary post until I have a complete gallery. Thanks for stopping by, you can see more of my abandoned photography on my website and also on my profile on Huffington Post Canada
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20 Photos of Creepy Abandoned Houses Last year, just in time for Halloween I posted a blog titled 13 Photos of Creepy Abandoned Places, where I showed photos of the many creepy things I have found inside old abandoned houses. Things like creepy photos and old dentures to beds still perfectly made to scary stairways
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Jamie Derek Moore – Niagara Music Awards Adult Contemporary Artist of the Year A while back one of my oldest friends, Jamie Derek Moore, a musician out of Niagara Falls, Ontario asked if he could use one of my photos for a CD cover so he can submit to the Niagara Music Awards, I gladly
