-life and culture

-trespasser's weekly   Get your weekly fill of trespassing in the news!

-art

Story and Photography by Kristyn Vinikour

"The therapist asked Gennie what she would do if she were released from the asylum."

...more art

-ues in the news

Into forbidden places with Ninjalicious
The Globe and Mail, Canada - 05 Oct 2002
By REBECCA CALDWELL. Blame the Ontario health-care system for urban exploration. Because it was while recovering from surgery at St. ...

Tunnels, abandoned buildings attract new kind of 'tourist'
http://www.herald.ns.ca/stories/2003/01/11/fTravel116.raw.html

Urban Explorers, Crawling and Climbing Into the Past
http://www.forgottenoh.com/Junk/washpost.html

Trespassing Results In Arrest, Release At NORAD
http://www.geocities.com/corrosionia/retire.html

Notes from the underground
http://www.seattleweekly.com/features/0010/tech-gunn.shtml

Unauthorized adventurers abound nationwide
http://www.thelowell.org/features/2000-01/feb22-explorers/

Forgive Me My Trespasses
http://www.stanfordalumni.org/news/magazine/2002/julaug/departments/beingthere.html

Modern Explorers Seek Out Abandoned, Forgotten Sites
http://www.ohioexploration.com/oesarticle1.htm

Ars Subterranea Media
http://www.creativepreservation.org/media/index.htm

-music
Matej Smolnik, a.k.a. Vain
"On September 19th 1998, Matej's body was found by his aunt.
He died in his bed, while sleeping. According to the coroner's report, he had a 'terrified expression on his face'..."
http://www.vaintribute.com
...more music

-books
-New York Underground: Anatomy of a City
(German)
by Julia Solis
Published by Christoph Links, 2002
A book on New York's subterranean infrastructure and history.
(English version to come soon!)
...more books

-movies
- C.H.U.D. (1984) Douglas Cheek
- Forty Feet Below (1992) (Documentary)
The Chicago Freight Tunnels
- American Experience - New York Underground (1999) (Documentary)
-The Relic (1997) Peter Hyams
- Eraserhead (1977) David Lynch
- Delicatessen (1991) Marc Caro, Jean-Pierre Jeunet
- Matrix (1999) Wachowski Brothers
- War Ganes (1983) John Badham
- The Score (2001) Frank Oz
- Dark Days (2000) Marc Singer (Documentary)
- Dark City (1998) Alex Proyas
- The Crow (1994) Alex Proyas
- Alphaville (1965) Jean-Luc Godard
- Fahrenheit 451 (1966) François Truffaut
- Hackers (1995) Iain Softley
- Blade Runner (1982) Ridley Scott
- The Conversation (1974) Francis Ford Coppola
- Planet of the Apes (1968) Franklin J. Schaffner
- Resident Evil (2002) Paul Anderson
- Tomb Raider (2001) Simon West
- Stations of the Elevated (1980) Manfred Kirchheimer (Documentary)
- Shock Corridor (1963) Samuel Fuller
mental hospital, atmospheric
- Session 9 (2001) Brad Anderson
Danvers State Mental Hospital
- Element of Crime (1985) Lars von Trier (The Kingdom)
tunnels, bridges, drains, cranes, dark rooms, nudity, violence and mystery
- Metropolis (1927) Fritz Lang
- La Femme Nikita (1990) Luc Besson
...more movies

-tv
-TBS - "Worst Case Scenerio"
"On this show, experts actually show you how to survive dozens of extreme situations, volunteers throw themselves in harm's way, survival instructors square off in challenges against each other and the forces of nature, and you learn just about everything you need to know about surviving life's sudden turns for the worse."

-MTV - "Fear"
Contestants try to survive their own fear of ghosts in spooky abandoned, haunted places. Actually a scripted show and many of the so called "abandoned" places visited have turned out to be museums or historic landmarks. Still worth watching if you like to see the types of places good for urban exploration.

-FOX/SCI-FI - "X Files"
Although the series is now over, you can see reruns on many of the FOX networks and now, SCI-FI.

-Discovery Channel
-The Learning Channel
...more tv

-games
-Resident Evil (series) - Capcom
-Tomb Raider (series) - EIDOS
-Contra:Shattered Soldier by Konami
-Final Fantasy (series) - Squaresoft
-Sanitarium - ASC (American Softworks-The company closed its doors for good in January 2000.)
-Legacy of Cain/Soul Reaver (series) - EIDOS
-Gabriel Knight (series) - Sierra
-Max Payne - Gathering of Developers
-Medal of Honor (series) - Electronic Arts
-Metroid Prime - Retro Studios
...more games

CUE CHATROOM

-suggested web site
http://www.abandonedasylum.com/
Do you like asylums, mental institutions, mental hospitals, nuthouses, homes for the feeble minded or the insane?  Want to get an idea of where there might be some abandoned ones in your area? Abandoned Asylums .com has easily risen to my personal number one position for best asylum web site. They have the best photographs, links and information on the web. Please, check them out.
...more web sites

 

Chicago information and resources for visiting urban explorers.

-ue codes of conduct- by Megan
*This is only a proposed idea for the International Society of Urban Explorers. This is not an official document, nor does an official society exist, yet.



-your exploration requests and ideas
Are you an "arm chair" urban explorer? Have you always wondered what was inside that old abandoned factory down the street? Do you know of a really cool place to explore?
Many of the places CUE has explored, have been suggestions from our viewers and readers. We love to hear your tales of old tunnel systems or large abandoned buildings and many times we do investigate them. Some times they are long gone and sometimes they are still there and ripe for exploration.
So if you know of a place, please tell us all about it!
Email:

-2002 first annual tresspassing sign contest entries
Contest Runs through end of May of Each Year

-you on cue
Got some crazy tales to tell or want to read some?
For those Urban Explorers and CUEs who are "doing their own thing" and would like to share their adventures on the net, but don't have a web site, please send your urban exploration adventures via email to
Please provide your name or nick, approximate location of exploration, date and specify what information you would like to have published. 1 JPEG or GIF (no greater than 400 x 400 dpi and no larger than 150KB) may also be published with your story.

-quotes

-join us

CUE is always interested in new members and visiting explorers. To find out more about us post to the forum or email us @

Also, please be sure to read our RULES page! If you feel that you can relate to the rules, join the CUE Forum and start posting! If you still don't find answers, then email the webmaster, or any one of our members for more information.

Be sure to check out our new page...

TRESPASSING LAWS