Abandoned Biomedical Laboratory - They Left Everything Behind!
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In this episode we're exploring an abandoned biomedical research institute that's over a century old. For years, the laboratories and equipment inside have sat unused and undisturbed.
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I commend you for not disclosing the location of this lab. It deserves to stay in such fantastic condition
Yeah its so untouched and no one has come along and smashed it (like normal)
They don’t reveal the location of anywhere they go accept for maybe the state/country lol
@Repent and believe in Jesus Christ Spooky language.
If they disclose the location of where they explore then it'll get trashed and ruin it for the next explorers. It's an unwritten rule, you never giveaway your locations when you explore abandoned places.
@90 Second Mycology A real explorer always exposes where they're at like me for example. They're not real explorers
This is insane. If repaired, this would be an incredible museum.
I was thinking the exact same! If this was a museum I’d so fly there just to see it.
@@Dept_Of_Ducks Yeah. This definitely has the potential of being an amazing tourist attraction.
was thinking the same, what a museum for kids to visit and learn how things were done in the past !
for suuuure 🔥🔥🔥
You'd love Calke Abbey then. When the previous owner walked out and was taken over by a trust, they didn't restore it, just preserve. It's an absolute treat of a time-capsule.
This looks like genuinely one of the best urbex videos I have ever seen. Building looks like it was abandon in the 70s but no vandalism just natural decay and not that much considering. No bull shit tagging and amazing items left behind. Unreal somewhere like this has not been trashed by scumbag scrappers vandals or taggers. Truly amazing.
Go to Portugal and you'll see why. It's like they're 40 years in the past. Very nice and kind people, but also very provincian. Not a lot of tags, even in the cities.
It looks like it was abandoned a long time ago but the poster at 7:38 in the back of the toilet was used sometime between 2009 and 2015 (I can't find an accurate date because here in Portugal we still didn't have good internet infrastructure and presence back then and the few archives and news sources that existed either disappeared or migrated to newer services without properly archiving the older data, so most archives of pre-2016 data are physical), in particular this one was about the H1N1 flu and some of the care that people should take, like washing hands regularly and so on.... What happens a lot here, especially with government funded thinks like healthcare and education is that a building is used without much attention to it's physical state and without updating it at all and then after many years of the people that actually work and frequent said buildings complaining they just build a new one because it is simpler than to analyze the state of disrepair and actually fix the old one, it is sad to see some really great pieces of architecture and history crumpling down but it is just what our government has been doing for decades now.
Was just going to comment - I've seen Resident Evil...if the door is locked and says Do Not Enter, there's a reason!!!
Amazing no enterprising fellow hasn't pinched the huge number of microscopes and sold them at 300 a pop on ebay. I don't buy all this Portugal is in the past idea, as when ebay switched to money back for items with no tracking, Portugal was home to a lot of ebay thievery
There you go....let all that anger out. That's nice.
I think this is one of the most ‘Resident Evil’ feeling buildings you guys have explored
The typewriters were the save points and safe rooms
I agree, I loved Resident Evil.
non woke Resident Evil
I just mentioned resident evil and I never even saw your post
I liked the big plant research video , that one reminded me of it.
How on earth has this place managed to be such a perfect time capsule?! No graffiti, no vandalism, no damage, and not a thing changed since the day that the place was abandoned... 🤯
Simple answer it's not in America where sadly we have jack asses who feel they need to destroy anything that doesn't belong to them.
Probably too scared. Developing vaccines is icky business. The locals must know what work was done there. No one wants to kick something over and kill the neighborhood. I'm sure that isn't possible but it would scare people off.
Its well protected But maybe not for long with all this trafic there this summer
Probably because people fear lingering disease. People don't want to go near the idea of threatening Lurgy, just like they don't want to go near Asbestos.
It’s not in North America. We destroy everything!
I am an amateur microscopist and scientist here - fantastic video! The first lab shown in the video was previously staged by someone - liquid in vials capped with corks would evaporate quite quickly. The light transmission microscopes throughout the video look awesome and could easily be brought back in working condition with some cleaning. Standard and non Leica or Zeiss branded microscopes - even old ones - go for affordable prices - likely the reason why they are still around there. I believe the bigger grey one best seen at 20:02 is actually an old Zeiss microscope due to its unique shape. Cool that the original wooden cases for the microscopes shown at 18:07 on the wall are also still intact. Love that the original microscope lenses (objectives) are still in their original metal containers at 22:07! The bug in 22:42 is a mosquito head. The shelve in 12:35 also looks staged previously - the material in the Petri dishes is used as drying agent in desiccators - not in Petri dishes as shown. The old microscope slides in 13:55 look very cool and intact (only the resin deteriorated throughout the decades in summer heat making it brownish looking). The two empty cabinets at 17:15 might have been used to store sensitive milligram balances - they are valuable and likely for this reason no longer there.
thanks for your insight! very interesting!
This is super cool
A very detailed and informative explanation - THANKS.
I myself am a chemist (not "bio", but hey, close enough ;-) so I am pretty familiar with all the stuff shown here. Also, optical microscopes "like that" were standard items "back in my times" (and we did some "microscopy classes" on biology in primary school as a part of curriculum) - still, very informative explanation that'll help "others" to understand the whole picture.
@@forever-and-a-day2043 PS: About that stuff on Petri dishes - well, I'm not an expert here but it doesn't look much like any desiccant for me - back then they probably used calcium chloride, CaCl2 (I think it's still used for "regular" drying), as it is really cheap and "fast-drying" (absorbing moisture very quickly). Silica gel is much latter invention.
CaCl2 is not very "thorough" (it leaves quite some moisture in the air - phosphor pentoxide, P2O5 dries stuff extremely well, but it's the slowest of them all) - still, it's cheap, and dries stuff fast. Methinks, "good enough & best" for bio lab.
But when it absorbs water it liquefies itself, and at any rate when dry it just doesn't look much like that stuff there. It looks to me more like diatomaceous earth, but then again, it's just my "educated guess".
I was thinking the same on the first lab - you can also see large spots devoid of dust indicating things had been fairly recently moved around/out of the room, it also looked a little too organized compared to the rest of the building.
Here's what the list inside the metal stove like thing at 20:38 means.
1 - Larvae
2 - Mosquitos
3 - Lice
4 - Fleas
5 - Spirochaetes (a kind of bacteria)
6 - Trypanosoma (a parasite)
7 - Diphtheria (a seriously toxic bateria)
8 and 16 - Gonococos (the bacteria that causes gonorrhoeae)
9 - Meningococcus (bactria that can cause meningitis)
...
14 - PLAGUE
... and so on.
Probably some sort of incubator to grow samples on petri dishes.
Also some serious shit. I don't know how long these things could survive on an environment like that but, I wouldn't go into an abandoned lab touching everything without disposable gloves.
AMAZING episode regardless.
The photography looks awesome as always.
It's a cabinet for mounted samples like the mosquito slides they found in the box later and 'scoped out.
@@mfree80286 CABINET is the word I was looking for. Thank you!
@@mfree80286 and a cabinet for mounted samples makes much more sense than what I thought it could be. Thanks again.
I went through the list, too..lol.
@@alivetocurebq I was trying to read it without pausing and got to diphtheria 😳
24:22 did anyone else hear that sound ? My friend and I both heard it we stopped the video and rewound it multiple times and we hear what sounds like someone in distress. We were also both surprised neither of you heard it because you guys are usually on point when hearing foreign sounds ! ? !
Yeah that was super creepy
I noticed it too. Makes me wonder if we’ll ever find out what it was.
So fucking freaky. I know the likeliest scenario is either they had someone(s) else with them who wasn’t featured in the video or just a strange audio distortion of a creak or the building settling or a door moving from the wind but holy shit does it give off paranormal/ghost vibes 🤔
That microscope you were peering through is exactly the same as we used in our biology labs back in 1963. And they were old then! The typewriters date back to the 1930s. This place is a snapshot in time, so glad to see it succumbing only to natural rot and decay and not defaced by vandals. Great video.
Heya, I'm from Portugal, and I wouldn't be surprised if they were using these typewriters well into the 2000's, just this year a lot of 90's computers were being used on our local medical units (I managed to snatch one for myself just after it was decommissioned :) ), I posted on another comment that the poster you can see at 7:38 was in use sometime between 2009 and 2015 so at least some parts of the building were still in use by then, for the longest time our country seemed to be stuck in time technology wise, at least the public sector like healthcare and education, only in recent years we started to see a huge shift towards modern computerized system and the use of the internet, so again it wouldn't surprise me if they were using typewriters in the 2000's because until very recently over 90% of reports and documentation were always made and stored in paper even if it was already made with a computer it would be printed out multiple times just to be archived.
Amazing!
Robert Koch is one of the faces in the stained glass. Today he is thought of as the pioneer of micro biology. Amazing video!
Is he the gentleman mentioned in the Netflix series Charity?
@@DistressedxGeranium I’m not familiar with the show but I just looked it up. It appears that he is portrayed in the show along with another very famous physician Paul Ehrlich! Maybe I should watch it lol
Faces in the stained glass window include the German Robert Koch ? .....Maybe...hard to tell. Much more likely one of their own famous Portugese scientists such as Froilano de Mello. He was a 20th century microbiologist and medical scientist who discovered thousands of protozoa, parasites and microbes.
Portugal doesn't need to borrow scientific heroes from other countries. They have their own long and rich history of world class scientific discovery and exploration, including the very famous 16th century Explorer Ferdinand Magellan.
Labs are always next level awesome, but there’s so few of them abandoned
I think most Labs get destroyed or at least have really big clean up procedures. I'm amazed by how much of the stuff was left. Sure most of the bad things were taken out, but you could use the equipment at one point possibly to make something "bad" with it. At least at one time.
Oh yeah, they're so awesome. Just look at the last 2 years. Labs are awesome.
Kinda wish they'd worn some gloves when picking up random slides. Just in case, ya know.
@@shottingham never hurts accidents do exists. They should most of the time period honestly from the places they visit.
The slide label "Tania solium" is a Tape worm, I worked in a microbiology lab for over 40 years and recognised many of the items in here that i used in my career. The white stuf in the petri dish is an desicant.
Those anhydric incubators would've been used for storing samples or bacterial cultures while they develop away from moisture so the scientists would know the humidity wasn't affecting them.
This place was a hell of a find!
What's the cages for? To hold moisture absorbing material?
all of the items left behind are so beautifully made. i wish our modern world wasn’t made entirely of plastic
Seriously. Those tables and cabinets are works of art.
The budget was higher than my friends in highschool.
If you want to pay for items made of wood, or marble, granite, glass etc. You certainly still can. They're expensive because they're in high demand. And, now there are not only more people on the planet, there are also more advanced countries, creating an even bigger demand for, well everything. So, a lot of things have to made with the most plentiful and ready to use material.
If I was in that building, I'd spend hours in each room trying to memorize every detail. this place is just stunning! perfect level of decay too. crazy how beautiful a lab from the 20's/30's (guessing from the typewriters) can be
It's way past 30s... From the fixtures, floor, and typewriters I'd say it was shut down in the late 60s maybe early 70s.
@@vaprex oh, maybe I should have clarified, I was more meaning the lab would have been in its prime around the 20's/30's. Some of the companies on the furniture they had weren't super active til the 50's, so they were definitely still operational enough to afford new furniture. Thanks for pointing that out for me, I should have been more specific. 🙂
Are you sure the place is abandoned? It looks like the analysts and lab technicians can return from their lunch break anytime. Very nice and interesting location.
as a biologist in training, this is SO cool. something like this deserves to be shared but the unfortunate truth is the fact if the location was disclosed it would be destroyed. such a shame some people love to ruin beautiful things.
That place has to be Diamond standard for abandoned places.
I am geeking out so hard as a laboratory technologist... the taenia tape worm slides
that glassware tho!! I was drooling.
I am geeking out as a biomedical engineer, I love old medical devices and instruments, the old gear is so beautifully made and I dearly hope none of that equipment gets destroyed!
If playing video games has taught me anything it's that the key that was in that door will open the safe that was in that room.
I love the rather monochromatic feel of this place. Only the wood and few pieces of equipment add any color. The camera work is excellent and you guys make the tour truly special. Thank you for slowing down and not over editing your shows!
Such a pristine time capsule... my goodness.
Incredible tour- thanks for sharing this with us.♥
4:15 I think that was a classroom where they could teach students, each student had his own station to do lab work. That's why all the gear is identical at each station.
These videos are incredible but also incredibly depressing. It depresses me to know all this stuff will continue rotting away unless it's entirely useless. So much of it could be cleaned and repurposed and would easily last another century. This stuff is from the days before products were made as cheap and as mass-produceable as possible. Absolutely high quality furniture and equipment.
Breaks my heart that someone, somewhere, owns all of this and couldn't care less about it. Letting it decay without a second thought.
I have the same sadness. Like seeing all the enormous buildings that the state governments let fall into decay...but then they go telling us that we have a "housing crisis". It's no crisis. It's chronic mismanagement and neglect. We'd have more than enough if we were mindful about excess and waste.
@@echofoxtrot2.051 Imagine how easy it would be to turn abandoned malls into OTHER businesses that can use the space or make these malls into apartments or condos! Even nursing homes! Why why why do humans waste so much in the name of money?
My son is now watching these with me. He always asks if you’ve posted a new one and where you went. I was so fascinated with this one as my dad was part of the medical field. Beautiful building.
The number and condition of those microscopes is amazing!
I wonder what the institute is saving the building and contents for?
Absolutely blown away at how undisturbed that building is. No graffiti or vandalism. Amazing the inventory is still there too.
Hey, guys! Fantastic job, as usual :)
Just wanted to give a heads up: as a chemistry researcher, I’d avise not to step in those “smelly rooms”, unless some ventilation has been allowed previously. Breathing those chemicals might not be the best idea. And also, taking a couple gloves with you to touch everthing would be cool :)
On the one hand, abandoned places like this have a certain beauty to them, on the other, letting them rot away when they could be utilized for something is really sad. Thank you for such an amazing video, keep up the great work!
I am amazed at how much stuff is there and more-so, how almost none of it is broken! I also love how respectful you guys are and the care you take to only document everything, never breaking things for the "fun of it".
I’ve never understood how places like this can be left like a literal time capsule, to me it seems impossible that any business would just leave hundreds of thousands of dollars in equipment behind. You would think even if they weren’t relocating they would liquidate it all to get some money back, or towards the new facilities and equipment! One of the best parts of watching your guy’s videos is imagining the places back in time with people still using everything and how it was once a busy and bustling place, that now sits empty of human life aside from you guys, and some equipment that sits there as if people just went home at the end of a work day and never came back. Wild. It’s especially so when I watch your abandoned school episodes, imagining the students that once learned there, cause I can feel the things those students felt inside school, and how they’re now empty giving it a really nostalgic feeling. Would be cool to see some more schools done on your guy’s channel! Keep it up guys. Favorite urbex channel out there!
This is such a beautiful site, it's unbelievable how much is still there. I loved how you included all the videos of those close-up details in that really full room
Reminds me of an old laboratory building at a hospital where I use to work as a biomedical engineer, I enjoyed working in that place and it had a store room containing lots of old equipment and reagent chemicals. Bomb disposal team was once summoned to take away a large bottle of Picric acid that had dried out and crystalized thus becoming unstable and possibly blowing up. There were also many jars containing interesting anatomical specimens of organs and body parts. Anyway the building was found to contain asbestos and condemned, all the old scientific devices and artifacts were dumped and building torn down, such a waste.
You both missed the science class. Incubators are not for rats, they are for cultures.
Boy George & the Culture Club!
@@JeffMiletich lol.
You mean rats aren’t hatched from eggs and are live birth go figure
A truly remarkable exploration! No tags, just microscopes and gentle decay. Congratulations guys on a fantastic discovery! Thanks for sharing this with us. 🥃🥃
I’m new to your channel and am loving it! I’m very appreciative of the respect you show to the abandoned places you visit. You guys are so interesting to listen to. Keep up the good work!!👍👍
I'll never understand why buildings close and everything inside gets left. Computers, equipment, books, furniture, etc. Even if it wasn't needed, it could be sold or given away.
I think it's a "not my things"/ "not my problem" type of deal
I think in these cases no one plans to be the last person in charge. Maybe they thought they would come back but then get layed off or locked out etc.
On the other hand, if that were the case, we would probably not have people like the two of us there, because there would be nothing to explore but bare walls.
Viewer from Australia here. You guys have created something incredibly cool here. I highly.recc all your work, all the hard work you guys have put in over the years has massively paid off- easily.the most compelling, genuine, beautifully shot stuff that exists among unrbex videos. You guys have decent futures ahead of you and keep up the solid content x
Everything about this video is so high quality so detailed! Even the sound !! Love ❤️ you boys ,!
What a privilege to be able to explore such a fascinating place! That sure ticks all the boxes for my passion of old buildings, medical devices and equipment, to be able to explore an unmolested institution free of vandalism would be my idea of a great time! I hope somehow the place could be preserved or at least some of the scientific equipment saved from destruction. Thanks for such a great video and love how respectful and careful you guys are when exploring, excellent photography,
as a lab manager for many years now this video was SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO neat. I love the old lab stuff and the condition is crazy!!!!!
This one has to be one of my favorite explorations that you guys have posted! Absolutely stunning.
You guys find the "coolest" locations. The build quality of everything is really amazing. Love the fancy hand writing too. This place could easily be restored. Nice that kids have not got in there to damage things and empty their spray paint cans.
You guys always find really interesting aces to explore. This one was really cool. Keep up the great work!
Amazing! This is a true time capsule. It's amazing you guys found such place that isn't completely trashed and vandalized. A true gem🙏
One of my favorite episodes to date! You guys still have the best quality, content and music of any channel like this on CZcams. 👊🏻
Your best video yet guys! Great! I love the labs and hospitals! Everything is great! The lighting, slow panning, mysterious music, editing techniques, color and your commentary. Love it! Can't wait to see your next ones!
What an incredible, stunning location. I’m jealous that you get to experience these places firsthand, but I’m also grateful that I get to see them at all through your channel.
The "big glass sphere" at 9:20 is a demijohn. My parents had one that looks very similar sitting in the living room as my dad collected old glassware. They were used for transporting liquids, likely chemicals in this case. You mostly only see the glass one for small and home brewing operations now a days.
Not gonna lie at 24:23 I jumped when I heard whatever that sound was in the background 😂
Another good video!! I wait so patiently for you guys to release one and happen to stumble upon this one. So happy to see you guys still exploring. Keep up the good work you guys are doing but also keep in mind where you explore because of all the hazards. Be careful. Much love.
Amazing find, guys! Loved the mysterious music!
Thank you for the chilling chairs reference too! Your channel is certainly the best on CZcams!
This is one of your best explores/finds yet, you have really uncovered a real treasure here!! Excellent!!!
I've been working in a lab for 20 years, recently decided to change careers. But man, do I recognize everything here, even though we used modern stuff, a lot is still very similar. Including the layout. Such a shame many of the equipment is just left, I think they're worth quite a bit.
This channel makes me so happy! You guys are always amazing!
Wow! Brilliant video! Been watching your videos almost since you started. I have to say, the production values, and camera work never fail to impress. Absolutely fantastic. Thanks guys!
Please don’t ever stop making videos! Absolutely amazing footage and the content so well put together. ☺️
I get very excited when I see you uploaded a new video :D
What a beautiful lab. This has to be my second favorite place you two have discovered, next to the palace you posted a few months back.
I’ve seen every single video you guys have ever posted, and this has to be a Top 3 adventure, behind the Nuclear Power Plant (my favorite all-time) and that insane asylum with the huge tunnel network in the Northeast US. great find!
You guys have the best urbex videos! This one has got to be one of my favorites! Hope that place stays like it is and no vandals find it.
That video was super cool man! Keep up the good work!
This is incredibly Beautiful & haunting as it’s frozen in time. Thank you folks for another epic one!
You guys are a good team, thanks for years of entertainment
This was a wonderful explore,thank you guys
Once again. Awesome respectful examination of the past. You guys are the best. Keep up the great work!!
I literally watched you guys for years. This stuff is just fascinating to watch.
Love y'all's video.☺ almost watched all of them. Thank you so much for making and doing these video's y'all are the best at what y'all do.🤗 And please be safe. 🖤
What a amazing find , loved watching this . Just totally trapped in time , no graffiti , just natural decay.
Loved seeing the bugs through the microscopes. I hope some of the things there can be saved .
Great explore guys thanks 👍
These videos are so interesting. just to see abandoned places that we probably would never see if it wasn’t for y’all
Fantastic explore. Thank you, Bryan and Michael.
As always, love the content, love the videos, love your filming style, love the editing
Bio labs are one of my favorite exploration buildings you guys do, it's a completely different vibe. I enjoyed it.
This is definitely one of the more interesting places you guys found lately. Great video.
That place is insane. One of the best explores you guys have ever done.
You guys are awesome. Be safe out there.
This one was amazing! It’s looks like it was set up for your respectful exploring.
That gear is truly antique.....the brass microscopes could be from the 1800s. Others ranged up to the 50s. The case you opened that had a binocular microscope was more contemporary, possibly the 1960s. Amazing, really had that 1940s feel all around.
Those microscopes are an absolute treasure trove. I sincerely hope the owner comes back to sell this equipment off properly. The smell you smelled was likely rotten cellular media culture that bacteria found its way into. It even has a funky smell when freshly made. As for the incubator it was likely used as a cellular incubator to keep the cells at a particular humidity, temperature, and/or specific gas concentrations.
So amazing to see a place that has only decayed over time. Completely untouched by any vandals. Pretty mind blowing spot, so happy at the chance to see it and get a tour :)
Neat looking lab. You guys do such an amazing videos. Keep them coming. Your way better then a lot of the others that I have seen.
Absolutely amazing place, great video as always, thanks guys 😃👍
Man, that place is massive!! I'm surprised you managed to only get 26 minutes of footage unless there is a part 2.
Thank you for the tour guys. That little incubator would have been for samples, imo.
The small autopsy tables were most definitely for animal experimentation. It's a sad era of developing early medical knowledge that still continues to this day. The only way to test what compounds do to live tissue is to test it on live tissue. That means everything from mice to monkeys to fruit flies. Whether you agree with it or not almost all of your medicine cabinet has been tested this way.
been watching since the start of this channel, best video to date imo very cool
I currently work in Bio Vet Medicine and I truly appreciate this
Absolutely fantastic video. One of the best thus far!!!!!
Looking forward to this one as I do all of your videos; thanks!!!
This is such a cool vid keep doing what your doing your so close to 2 mil!
As an ex-lab tech - this has been my favourite of all your trips so far! thank you!
I haven’t watched a video of theirs in I think 2 months or so? So this was definitely a treat to see, it’s so cool how everything is still intact there
Thanks for your hard work, guys
Stay safe
What a beautiful place! I loved the room with the two tables in it. That window and the stuff in front of it looked straight out of a post apocalyptic movie or game...lol. I mean I know a lot of places you visit look similar but this one was like...perfect.
I hope it remains untouched and just decays naturally (or saved but I doubt anyone would save the place...would cost too much).
Phenomenal video guys! My jaw dropped when I saw all the microscopes… a hobby of mine, and I paid a small fortune for an old 19th century brass microscope in similar wood case. There were so many there, I could get lost for hours lol. Great work as always! A top quality job on the videos! Respect! 👍
Y'all don't get the number of views you deserve. Great shooting and editing and love the history you provide too. Keep going!
I've seen pictures of this dissection room on an old Urbex website years ago. I'm so glad that that spot didn't get looted and vandalized since then.
As always, Great Work! 👍👍👍
This was AMAZING. One of my favourite places you've visited. Those mosquito heads under the microscope were so cool!
Wow the most beautiful wooden cabinets and furniture - such elegance and style serving a vital purpose (imho) what a great place big thankyou both
Love your content guys keep it up