Mr. P.'s Tales from the Road

Hey all! Welcome to another episode of Mr. P.'s Tales from the Road! In this edition, we take a look at the history, times and demise of one of Detroit, Michigan’s largest abandoned schools; Charles Kettering High School. Once a gem in the crown of the Detroit Public Schools, Kettering went from a bright and airy educational bastion to a ruined, shredded and forlorn ruin, now on the chopping block...

Hey all! Welcome to another episode of Mr. P.'s Tales from the Road! In this edition, we travel back to the Magic City of Gary, Indiana, to wander through two of the former industrial powerhouse’s two remaining large, rusting and relatively-intact factories. Places that have become canvases for graffiti artists, dumping spots for trash and worse, and places where we find our photographical gol...

Hey all! Welcome to another episode of Mr. P.'s Tales from the Road! In this edition, we chat about a few random issues going on in the urban exploration community, I have a very brief moment of semi-fame in connection with old buildings and a TV show called Mystery Science Theater 3000, and we roll back to Detroit, Michigan to check out an abandoned and sadly recently demolished “secret” 90-y...

Hey all! Welcome to another episode of Mr. P.'s Tales from the Road! In this edition, we venture back to the Steel City, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to dive into the vast and echoing halls of what once was one of the largest shopping malls in America; the sadly abandoned and now demolished Century III Mall. What once was a burgeoning temple to consumerism, rendered into an empty shell by the unre...

Hey all! Welcome to another episode of Mr. P.'s Tales from the Road! In this edition, we head back to Youngstown, Ohio to tell the tale of “Black Monday,” the beginning of the downfall of America’s industrial might, and the abandoned community of company homes that were built by the Youngstown Sheet and Tube, home to the thousands of workers that once worked steel there. Known as IRON SOUP, th...

Hey all! Welcome to another episode of Mr. P.'s Tales from the Road! In this edition, we again go back to the questions asked by listeners over the last few weeks and drop some answers and stories in return! Q and A has become one of my favorite types of episodes as your questions always jog loose stories and memories that I’ve completely forgotten about! In this episode we cover a tense encou...

Hey all! Welcome to another episode of Mr. P.'s Tales from the Road! In this edition, we take the long trip out to Long Island, New York to tour one the country’s largest abandoned psychiatric hospitals, the infamous Kings Park Psychiatric Hospital. Once home to thousands of mentally ill patients who saw and experienced unknowable hells at the hand of Twentieth Century mental health treatments...

Hey all! Welcome to another episode of Mr. P.'s Tales from the Road! In this edition, I talk about five lessons about life that I’ve learned from this crazy hobby  of urban exploration that I got into six years ago. On top of that, a story related to one of those lessons; the death of a Tudor-style mansion that went from beautiful and pristine to a shattered and wrecked disaster in a few short...

Hey all! Welcome to another episode of Mr. P.'s Tales from the Road! In this edition, we head out to central Pennsylvania to dive into one of the biggest pieces of American highway history and tell the tale of the abandoned Pennsylvania Turnpike. Thirteen miles of crumbling asphalt, still-intact bridges, two very dark tunnels and rusting, hidden maintenance areas await the intrepid explorer, s...

Hey all! Welcome to another episode of Mr. P.'s Tales from the Road! In this edition, we look back on summer adventures in the Windy City and go rummaging through two massive industrial gems in Chicago, Illinois; one, a power plant that helped build America’s arsenal in the fight against fascism, and then off to wander through a vast factory that once built mining trains for large scale digs....

Hey all! Welcome to another episode of Mr. P.'s Tales from the Road! In this edition, we head to the East Coast near the Big Apple to take a look at an amazing collection or rusting and forgotten tugboats, sinking slowly into the tidal mud between the shores of New Jersey and Staten Island, as well as take a peek at a massive and interactive work of architectural art built atop what used to be...

Hey all! Welcome to another episode of Mr. P.'s Tales from the Road! In this edition, we travel to Western New York, to within miles of the thundering awesome spectacle that is Niagara Falls, to a neighborhood that was once a thriving example of suburban bliss. A neighborhood that, despite its idyllic streets and family cookouts and kids playing in the backyards, was harboring a hidden and nig...

Hey all! Welcome to another episode of Mr. P.'s Tales from the Road! A short, short episode this week, as your’s truly has a raging sinus infection going on, but a little something for y’all, nonetheless! A quick tale about an interesting and rather unique freight depot on the banks of the Mississippi River in St. Louis, Missouri, and a quick message about the perils of burnout. Not what I had...

Hey all! Welcome to another episode of Mr. P.'s Tales from the Road! In this edition, we again go back to the questions asked by listeners over the last few weeks and drop some answers and stories in return! Q and A has become one of my favorite types of episodes as your questions always jog loose stories and memories that I’ve completely forgotten about! Camera talk, bridges, non-abandoned fa...

Hey all! Welcome to another episode of Mr. P.'s Tales from the Road! In this edition, we saunter up to the Lake Erie Islands of Northern Ohio to go swashbuckling through vines, prickers and thick, green vegetation to investigate the abandoned wineries of Kelleys Island. As always, tales and history abound, so grab a basket of fresh fried walleye and fries, imbibe a glass of cold, sweet wine, l...

Hey all! Welcome to another episode of Mr. P.'s Tales from the Road! In this edition, we head down the Gem City, the Rust Belt city of Dayton, Ohio to rummage around inside of an abandoned and rather disconcerting dry cleaners and then scale a time-warped twenty story skyscraper that has been abandoned for years. Sore legs, beautiful views and a rich hipster’s 1970’s crash pad await; as always...

Hey all! Welcome to another episode of Mr. P.'s Tales from the Road! In this edition, we head down to the hot, sweaty and humid climes of South Carolina to check out an abandoned musical theme park and sashay on down to one of the most peaceful places on the planet, a stone “castle” and home to an early 20th Century artistic power couple. Chill musings in the sultry heat, and as always, tales...

Hey all! Welcome to another episode of Mr. P.'s Tales from the Road! In this edition, I go back to a discussion I had with you all way back in my first season of this podcast, a reboot and retelling of what I called a “Love Letter to the City of Detroit, Michigan,” to explain just why I continue to go back to the Motor City over and over and over again. Naturally, tales and history abound, so...

Hey all! Welcome to another episode of Mr. P.'s Tales from the Road! In this edition, we head to Buffalo, New York to explore the dark underbelly of its urban landscapes, sliding into the shadowy tunnels, old brick passageways and underworld drains of the Queen City in an adventure a few years in the making. Cold, black water, miles of passageways and places long forgotten await, and as always...

Hey all! Welcome to another episode of Mr. P.'s Tales from the Road! In this edition, we hop into a Mr. Fusion-powered DeLorean and head back to the 1980’s to talk about movies that inspired a personal exploratory drive for yours truly; the 1980’s were THE GOLDEN AGE for cinematic adventures, and here, I’ll talk about three of my favorite flicks that really got me into the exploring business a...

Hey all! Welcome to another episode of Mr. P.'s Tales from the Road! In this edition, we head back to the City of Brotherly Love to find out about how the future once looked like to the eyes of those designing it in the 1970’s, via a controversial yet intriguing style of architecture called BRUTALISM. It’s not all dry history here; I promise the tale leads somewhere, as by the end, I’ll be tel...

Hey all! Welcome to another episode of Mr. P.'s Tales from the Road! In this edition, we again go back to the questions asked by listeners over the last few weeks and drop some answers and stories in return! Q and A has become one of my favorite types of episodes as your questions always jog loose stories and memories that I’ve completely forgotten about! Tales, answers and, of course, some hi...

Hey all! Welcome to another episode of Mr. P.'s Tales from the Road! In this edition, we head back to the City of Brotherly Love on a hastily planned, last minute whirlwind weekend in-n-out trip to attempt a bucket list location that had been closed down and sealed up for many years. A mammoth century old rust palace and epic monument to electrical generation on the shore of the Delaware River...

Hey all! Welcome to another episode of Mr. P.'s Tales from the Road! In this edition, we look at one of those subjects that tend to get overlooked in urban exploration circles and are often passed by when we visit major cities to do our adventuring; graveyards, cemeteries and mausoleums. Cities of the Dead. “Boneyards” in the more colloquial settings. So, get yourself ready for a dive into a d...

Hey all! Welcome to another episode of Mr. P.'s Tales from the Road! In this edition, we look at a very strange, out-there and rather controversial idea; the concept that an abandoned building holds to the energy of those who have inhabited it over the space of its life, creating a sort of “personality” unique to that building. A “spirit of place” as the ancient Romans would have thought of it...