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lots of people doing dead mall vids but yours are by far the best. informative, steady camera, and a willingness to poke substances with sticks. perfection.
+Lex Parsimoniae After binge watching all of Dan Bells videos i find a lot of the other ones unbearable to watch. They're filmed all shaky, they don't really explain anything. They don't have the cool muzak edited in either. The shxtty filming mostly gets me after a while. Kids can't hold a camera still. LOL!
Because of gangs and people were getting robbed in the Parking lot I co owned the FTM. so Arby's got 2 new restaurants and When Wards closed I was so pissed off then the Mall was going under then I decided to took the mall over it had a small comeback new stores were going to come but the deal was done so we told everyone to leave by April 13th we were going to get an old Navy and a Bloomingdales and a Lord & Taylor and a Spencer Gifts and a new John Giles Candy Store I was going to have a couple places called Ian's Diner and Alexander's Department Store that's why the place was remodeled in the first place. The guy who owned the Mall before me was a dick and the place was coming back then I gave the Mall to DLC who wanted a Walmart then I made my 2 videos to stop Walmart from doing that and they didn't want it and now belongs to my formal Doctors has the Mall now.
(sniff) When I was a kid I had birthday parties at Pappy's Pizza there, saw Star Wars in 1977, played games at Time Out, bought records at Waxie Maxies. My brother worked at Long John Silver's. Memories!
I see the footage and I always feel sad for a mall like this and try imagining it full of life and lights shining. I'll bet you do feel sad since you were there when it had life. 😢😢
@@alexandergrube6437 you sure? I still go to Ollie's sometimes and I thought I saw heavy machinery and just boscoves was there. I gotta go back and see!
I remember as a child my grandmother would take me here. It's so sad what has happened to it, this mall use to be so beautiful in the early 2000's. Boscov's Is still open and connected to this mall, I was there today.
Fun fact: One of the directors of The Blair Witch Project wanted to film a zombie movie at the ruins of the Frederick Towne Mall. He almost got to do it, in fact, but whoever owns the property flaked out at the last minute. And this is why fans can't have nice things. :(
Abandoned lives and lost times...the excitement of a young first date , the disastrous family Christmas shopping excursions... the pointless wandering around looking for friends to group up with...all gone and forgotten. Like so many tears in the rain.
Really fascinating videos - someone should give you a TV series on this subject - it would be so much better than most of those so-called "reality" shows on there now!
I live in Wappingers, it's still open. Maybe it's not run by the same people? Hoyts idk xD But there is still a theater there. They have a $2 Tuesday but I never go because the movies that they show are like 6 months old and I'd rather go to the regal that's literally 2 min away from me in the same plaza.
Well, I've just spent the last 24 hours binge watching these dead mall video's. I never realized before starting to watch your channel that this was a thing, and it really makes me take a step back and think about the 3 malls that we have in my town, and only 1 of them is doing any good. The other 2 look quite similar to the dead malls you've profiled here. I also played a game called, "Spot the Bath and Body Works" lol. I will be on a You Tube hunt for more dead mall video's but I have a horrible suspicion that none of them will even come close to your videos, you've set the bar pretty high, I expect editing and creepy mall music in the background now. Great videos!
I lived less then a mile from there for the better part of my Childhood i still see that mall and remember being a child in there. its insane that its just a memory now =/ My Wife went to school with one of the guys who broke in. thank you for documenting Dan. I used to get my hair cut in there @ Gentleman's choice, shopped at K-B Toys, My sisters Dance studio had a show there at one time. Ive seen Countless movies at that Hoyts. GOD the memories are just flooding back to me.
The reason these malls are empty ( lots more to follow) is due to greedy landlords. The rent that the smaller stores had to pay were any where between $7-$15k per month. The small selling kiosks had to dish out $3-$8k per month. Ridiculous asking prices.
Also for anyone who is wondering why there are still items in some stores, this is when they were still in the process of getting rid of everything and that's why he was able to get in through boscovs. After all that stuff was gone they boarded up the entrance from there
It's so surreal to watch a video of a place I went to quite a bit to as a kid just sitting there abandoned and neglected. So many fond memories of going there with my family on weekends and holidays.
I just found out about this series. this was the first mall that came to mind when i saw that you were doing this. its fascinating since i had a front row seat to watch this place die.
I went to this mall as a kid in the late 90’s - early 00’s. It’s pretty surreal to get on RUclips and stumble upon a video featuring my hometown mall now abandoned.
there’s a mall near me that is becoming dead, I live in NC too. I’m thinking that once self-isolation isn’t necessary anymore, maybe my partner and I can go on some weekend road trips to film some of these malls.
When I watch these videos, I keep thinking someone needs to rescue the plants! And there's not much sadder than an abandoned cinema... I discovered one of the cinemas from my youth closed when I visited an old mall a few years back. I got in as far as I could, and there were rows and rows of seats just haphazardly tossed into the main hallway, so carelessly...
+notsoseriousmoonlight Speaking of that, there's an old theater of my youth I sometimes wonder what has happened to it, since it closed for good(as an independent theater, and not as a Loews theater before that) something like 7 years ago. From unofficial reports I've heard, it's gotten a lot of water damage inside, which doesn't surprise me. Wish it hadn't had been allowed to fall into ruin, but it doesn't surprise me when newer theaters were built within a few miles, and eventually siphoned away all its former customers.
Damn, used to come here all the time with my dad and catch movies or go to the arcade. Even then the mall was super sparse with people and clinging to life. Looks just how I remember only even more run down. Hope you enjoyed my hometown!
The "grease" on the toilets @6:20 is from wax ring, a little flange-like thing that keeps it from leaking and sewer gasses from seeping out, where the toilet meets the floor. Wonder if someone tore those out thinking they could be salvaged.
Malls aren't what they used to be. I had been to Fredericktowne Mall several times, having lived in the area my entire life. I had read they're planning on tearing the mall down and putting a Super Walmart there in the next few years. Only mall we have now in Frederick is the FSK Mall. But this is really sad. I can remember going to this mall maybe 15 years ago at Christmas and it was bustling and full of people. My late best friend and I used to eat at the Ground Round (located in the mall). Sad to see it in the shape that is in now.
The last I heard, they were supposed to start demolition sometime this winter. But who knows? It's changed about a million times, so it could change again.
+IntelligentT82 I saw that! To be honest; I don't know! It appears to go faster than the average human! Was that by chance a ghost?! It gives me the creeps every time I look at it!
+IntelligentT82 Well this is a first... a haunted shopping mall. How many chances do you come across that at a mall? The only other possible haunted mall that I know of is Rolling Acres.
this was my childhood mall, movies on Saturday nights and long john silvers afterward, maybe a hop over to the pocket change too, and maybe just nice cop from bon ton if i was lucky. Ahhh...now i just go to fsk mall.
At the 4:47 mark in the glass of the storefront furthest to the left of the screen something big whizzes by. You can see that it is a reflection of something. Do you know what it was?
He recorded the footage from the outside, meaning he was peering in through the glass doors. The image was a reflection on the glass of somebody walking by him.
I've been binge-watching abandoned places all night but for some reason the saddest ones for me or the dead malls because that's why I childhood literally of the eighties and nineties. I'm guilty of mostly shopping on the internet for everything except groceries and incidentals that you can get at the grocery store as well even the bra and wearing right now is off Amazon. it's just so devastating and encouraging I need to start going to my mom's again at least say that I'm trying to make a difference to bring back business.
I watched this place die with my own eyes and I don't live far from this Mall. Gangs destoyed this Mall in 2006 and the roof problems was from a snow storm.
Thought you may like an update on this mall. There is actually a high end movie theater set to open up in the mall and talks that there will be "entertainment" type businesses opening up inside. I have heard possibly go karts and things like that.
Hey Dan! First off I enjoy watching your dead mall tour vids. Second, the gooey sticky substance on the ground in the parking lot looks a lot like carpet glue. Its used mainly in commercial applications. I know because I get it on me quite often because its one of the materials we use as flooring guys lol And the stuff that was smeared on the toilets was wax from the ring that is used on the bottom part of the toilet. Odds are whoever carried them out there got it on his hand so he just scraped it off on to the tank. So no worries as far as hazardous material is concerned haha I will add this little bit of info. Any of the places you decide to venture through, especially the older buildings...be careful not to step on or unintentionally kick flooring tile that is loose or ceiling tile that has fallen onto the floor as they may contain asbestos. Asbestos floor tile is usually 1/8 inch thick and 9X9 inches wide and ceiling tiles can vary. Mastic adhesive can also contain asbestos, its usually black so steer clear of that too. If you get it on your shoes you could carry it into your home etc etc. It can only cause harm when it becomes airborne. Just thought I'd throw that out there. Keep posting man, great stuff!
I like this mall a lot, mainly because of the cinema, which looks very spooky. It's just in a good enough shape to think it hasn't been closed a long time, yet it's abonded, it's perfect for a horror movie
Wow, once upon a time, I as a little kid had walked through this very mall and thought to myself "What a ghost town". It was dead even back then and to see it like this now not only brings back those few memories but also shows what happened to it after I had moved from the area. It really is kind of cool to see what really happened to it though since I haven't been in the area in probably 5-6 years. Very cool video and you should check out the Chambersburg Mall in PA since the only thing it has left to hang onto is the movie theater there.
One of the former anchor stores was Bon-Ton, which closed in 2011. Hoyt's closed in 2010. Hallmark was the last store left in the mall. Bath & Body works didn't make it until the end but almost.
I remember going to this mall up until I was 10 or 11 when there was still two or three shops open. They definitely had a rat infestation. Anyway, the Girl Scouts might still have their cookie wearhouse in the old cvs in January if you're willing to go back and look around. There's only a chain link gate so you have a pretty good view.
I know this has been asked before but I haven't seen Dan reply so here I go again! Due to the curiosity in me, I am wondering if the music is a video add on? Or ......
+Isiah Folio (Asdfguy86) What? The Pittsburgh Mills is nothing like that... it never had an Apple store, and about 75% of the stores are open, including the multiplex. Sure you don't mean Cincinnati Mills?
Isiah Folio Yeah, I'm not sure what that could've been. Doesn't fit the description of any mall around here (unless Century III had an Apple store, but I don't think they did).
We used to have a mall like this. It was sandwiched inbetween a Home Depot and a Kmart. We went often as kids to the arcade and movies. Once it was deserted it fell into disrepair like this and they carefully tore the mall down from the two connecting stores. Never felt the same. Was really depressing.
i live in frederick md they were going to turn it in to the new walmart but thet did not happen then eli roth thr directer of hostel was going to do a movie in there but could bot do it
Hey, There's an abandoned mall in Morgantown, PA that shut down a few years ago. In it's hey day it was a strip mall, but it got converted to a furniture store before being shut down and abandoned. If you're ever in town, It's right off the PA turnpike!
It's amazing to me how many of these malls that have been closed for years still have plants inside them that are alive, despite no one being there to maintain them.
theres a mall here in CT called Glen Lochen mall and its an old mall but small, it looks nice inside but sadly its pretty much defunct now all the stores that were in it moved to a new plaza and it went under when Buckland Hills mall in manchester ct opened
I believe it was not too long after you posted this someone else uploaded a video of them flying a drone through the mall. Broken glass everywhere inside. Deeper into the mall, and in front of the home depot side where your camera wasn't able to capture. It sucks. I remember coming here in 2011. 95% of the stores were closed. The mall was already a deadzone years before that. The only thing left was FYE, Radio Shack, and Hallmark. Because they had contracts. But once it was up they cleared the hell out. They even had new merchandize in the stores, as if people still shopped there. But walking through there then was just really disappointing and depressing. I remember when it was always busy.
Robert Warf I went a few times before it closed and it was unbelievable. I’ve never seen a place that had been kicked down so hard. They weren’t even trying the last year. I remember that tree in the middle of the mall with leaves all over the floor everywhere. It was amazing. If only I had the equipment that exists today to film the place when it was still open. Such a shame.
This is Dan Bell. Yeah it's crazy man. I love this series. It's creepy to see these almost, if not fully, abandoned buildings still in place. Why bother? Just tear it down. I joined a FB group back in 2009 called "Every time I enter the Frederick Towne Mall a little part of me dies." Haha. It's depressing just driving past it
love this series of videos. I stumbled onto your videos by looking up abondond things in Maryland. And seen your video of the Hilltop Hotel in Harpers Ferry, and the ironic thing is that video took me back abfew years I use to deliver Pepsi Cola to that place and actuality took a ride on my Harley this summer and rode up to the hotel although i didn't go inside. So as my youtube was on auto play it took me to your Dead mall videos and I love your work and narration. So as you said in one of your videos I have 2 malls you may was to investigate, (Martinsburg mall) now called Foxcroft Towne Center at Martinsburg, Martinsburg, wv closed Nov,1 2016 however 3 of 4 of it's anchor stores are still open Bon-Ton, JCPenny, and Walmart. Sears closed and that wing was tore down... also a mall that is still open but I feel is on borrowed time is Chambersburg Mall , Chambersburg, Pa. I hope this helps you and you have the opertunity to investigate and make a video.
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lots of people doing dead mall vids but yours are by far the best. informative, steady camera, and a willingness to poke substances with sticks. perfection.
Lex Parsimoniae Haha. Thank you!
+Lex Parsimoniae After binge watching all of Dan Bells videos i find a lot of the other ones unbearable to watch. They're filmed all shaky, they don't really explain anything. They don't have the cool muzak edited in either. The shxtty filming mostly gets me after a while. Kids can't hold a camera still. LOL!
+This is Dan Bell. nvmd haha you already did Fredrick
How come Frederick Towne Mall closed?
Because of gangs and people were getting robbed in the Parking lot I co owned the FTM. so Arby's got 2 new restaurants and When Wards closed I was so pissed off then the Mall was going under then I decided to took the mall over it had a small comeback new stores were going to come but the deal was done so we told everyone to leave by April 13th we were going to get an old Navy and a Bloomingdales and a Lord & Taylor and a Spencer Gifts and a new John Giles Candy Store I was going to have a couple places called Ian's Diner and Alexander's Department Store that's why the place was remodeled in the first place. The guy who owned the Mall before me was a dick and the place was coming back then I gave the Mall to DLC who wanted a Walmart then I made my 2 videos to stop Walmart from doing that and they didn't want it and now belongs to my formal Doctors has the Mall now.
Can we take a moment to show appreciation for the music and editing in all the dead mall videos? Well done
(sniff) When I was a kid I had birthday parties at Pappy's Pizza there, saw Star Wars in 1977, played games at Time Out, bought records at Waxie Maxies. My brother worked at Long John Silver's. Memories!
Cool, bet you really miss the mall.
I was born in '78. The 80's were great. May have been the best time in history. Wish I could go back.
I was always a Francis Scott Key mall kid. Fun Factory!
I see the footage and I always feel sad for a mall like this and try imagining it full of life and lights shining. I'll bet you do feel sad since you were there when it had life. 😢😢
@@Yyyyyy5me too 😢
I was banned for life from this mall for skateboarding. Glad to see I outlived it.
Well, have you grinded there yet?
@@maverickjohnson1399 pretty sure they ripped it down
@@0popkm0 nope, it's still there but they sealed it off to people
@@alexandergrube6437 you sure? I still go to Ollie's sometimes and I thought I saw heavy machinery and just boscoves was there. I gotta go back and see!
@@alexandergrube6437 you're right I looked it up the new owner is trying to re lease it lol
im weirded out that the Hoyts Cinemas lights are still on...
The entire mall still has electricity to it to power the Boscov's and Home Depot
I remember as a child my grandmother would take me here. It's so sad what has happened to it, this mall use to be so beautiful in the early 2000's. Boscov's Is still open and connected to this mall, I was there today.
Fun fact: One of the directors of The Blair Witch Project wanted to film a zombie movie at the ruins of the Frederick Towne Mall. He almost got to do it, in fact, but whoever owns the property flaked out at the last minute. And this is why fans can't have nice things. :(
I told you no and please ride your bikes on the streets not the Sidewalks.
The cool Neon Sign was Camelot Music and there was so much there if you look up the mall site it will list what was in the Mall in 1972.
That trash was there since the mall started.
@@ianchristopheralexander1985what are you on about? you sound like a nutty role player.
Abandoned lives and lost times...the excitement of a young first date , the disastrous family Christmas shopping excursions... the pointless wandering around looking for friends to group up with...all gone and forgotten. Like so many tears in the rain.
Really fascinating videos - someone should give you a TV series on this subject - it would be so much better than most of those so-called "reality" shows on there now!
Excellent idea, but like all things televised. It would be ruined, or at least lose the fervor of flavor.
You know that mall has been closed for a while because the Hoyts Cinema price was $7.50..... lolol
I used to go to that theater all the time. And yeah, they folded long before 3D and IMAX came around, so we still thought $7.50 was expensive. >_>
Hoyt's actually didn't close until 2008
Dan R
+Slo Shady ...Yes?
I live in Wappingers, it's still open. Maybe it's not run by the same people? Hoyts idk xD But there is still a theater there. They have a $2 Tuesday but I never go because the movies that they show are like 6 months old and I'd rather go to the regal that's literally 2 min away from me in the same plaza.
wow! I remember going to this mall back in the 90's, now its almost unrecognizable.
That stretch of US 40 used to be called "The Golden Mile." Thanks for the shots. I walked through it before it closed. Far cry from 15 years ago.
Well, I've just spent the last 24 hours binge watching these dead mall video's. I never realized before starting to watch your channel that this was a thing, and it really makes me take a step back and think about the 3 malls that we have in my town, and only 1 of them is doing any good. The other 2 look quite similar to the dead malls you've profiled here. I also played a game called, "Spot the Bath and Body Works" lol. I will be on a You Tube hunt for more dead mall video's but I have a horrible suspicion that none of them will even come close to your videos, you've set the bar pretty high, I expect editing and creepy mall music in the background now. Great videos!
Aces Adventures does some decent dead mall vid's I like Dan's best but Ace is good
Watch Adam the Woo dead mall videos on RUclips. They are very interesting.
you get me every time with the elevator music...I'm watching and say to myself...WTF they still have the music running. haha
I lived less then a mile from there for the better part of my Childhood i still see that mall and remember being a child in there. its insane that its just a memory now =/ My Wife went to school with one of the guys who broke in. thank you for documenting Dan. I used to get my hair cut in there @ Gentleman's choice, shopped at K-B Toys, My sisters Dance studio had a show there at one time. Ive seen Countless movies at that Hoyts. GOD the memories are just flooding back to me.
Is Frederick in VA. or West Va?
Time for my fourth watch through of this series, beginning to end. 🧡 It'll never get old!
I used to live near this mall and I really miss it from my childhood.. thanks for the video and memories!
gosh...that music is scary, creepy and inviting at the same time!
The reason these malls are empty ( lots more to follow) is due to greedy landlords. The rent that the smaller stores had to pay were any where between $7-$15k per month.
The small selling kiosks had to dish out $3-$8k per month.
Ridiculous asking prices.
Also for anyone who is wondering why there are still items in some stores, this is when they were still in the process of getting rid of everything and that's why he was able to get in through boscovs. After all that stuff was gone they boarded up the entrance from there
It's so surreal to watch a video of a place I went to quite a bit to as a kid just sitting there abandoned and neglected. So many fond memories of going there with my family on weekends and holidays.
I just found out about this series. this was the first mall that came to mind when i saw that you were doing this. its fascinating since i had a front row seat to watch this place die.
the internet has been our best friend, but at the same time it's been a businesses' worst enemy.
wow your right in many ways like Amazon takes business from a lot of stores so does ebay sometimes
U got that right. Online shopping closed the malls down.
I don't really know if it's been our best friend either.
I went to this mall as a kid in the late 90’s - early 00’s. It’s pretty surreal to get on RUclips and stumble upon a video featuring my hometown mall now abandoned.
Go to wheatfeild New York and visit the summit park mall it's abandoned and I live near it and I miss it so much and it closed in2008
***** I’ll check it out when I get up there.
Kk
maybe you can try to get aloud in
+JDrakeG3ming you didn't even say thank you?
+iOzznialt did chance his name in the meanwhile but all good
Fredrick Towne Mall, two working anchors, still closes down.
It's sad that most of all the malls are becoming Dead Malls 😢 our city mall is also becoming a dead mall. I live in Gastonia, NC.
there’s a mall near me that is becoming dead, I live in NC too. I’m thinking that once self-isolation isn’t necessary anymore, maybe my partner and I can go on some weekend road trips to film some of these malls.
I completely expected to see a Bath & Body Works still open inside the dead part of the mall! 😂
Great job Dan. Nice footage. Excellent narratives. Thanks for this contribution.
so many memories at that mall, I grew up in Middletown about 10 miles away
These videos make me a die a little inside but the music revives me.
When I watch these videos, I keep thinking someone needs to rescue the plants! And there's not much sadder than an abandoned cinema... I discovered one of the cinemas from my youth closed when I visited an old mall a few years back. I got in as far as I could, and there were rows and rows of seats just haphazardly tossed into the main hallway, so carelessly...
+notsoseriousmoonlight Speaking of that, there's an old theater of my youth I sometimes wonder what has happened to it, since it closed for good(as an independent theater, and not as a Loews theater before that) something like 7 years ago. From unofficial reports I've heard, it's gotten a lot of water damage inside, which doesn't surprise me. Wish it hadn't had been allowed to fall into ruin, but it doesn't surprise me when newer theaters were built within a few miles, and eventually siphoned away all its former customers.
Damn, used to come here all the time with my dad and catch movies or go to the arcade. Even then the mall was super sparse with people and clinging to life. Looks just how I remember only even more run down. Hope you enjoyed my hometown!
By far Dan an Sal has the best dead mall vlogs.great job sharing
If all the malls are closing, where are we going to go during a zombie apocalypse?
Boo Radley Amazon distribution center.
Loki Shepherd warehouses are 99% doors
not a good plan of action
One World Trade Center tower possibly?
+Boo Radley well shit
+Boo Radley the tallest one in the world
The overdubbed music makes the mall more eerie!
The "grease" on the toilets @6:20 is from wax ring, a little flange-like thing that keeps it from leaking and sewer gasses from seeping out, where the toilet meets the floor. Wonder if someone tore those out thinking they could be salvaged.
Malls aren't what they used to be. I had been to Fredericktowne Mall several times, having lived in the area my entire life. I had read they're planning on tearing the mall down and putting a Super Walmart there in the next few years. Only mall we have now in Frederick is the FSK Mall. But this is really sad. I can remember going to this mall maybe 15 years ago at Christmas and it was bustling and full of people. My late best friend and I used to eat at the Ground Round (located in the mall). Sad to see it in the shape that is in now.
The last I heard, they were supposed to start demolition sometime this winter. But who knows? It's changed about a million times, so it could change again.
What is that at 4:47 that raced past that mirror on that storefront?
+IntelligentT82 I saw that! To be honest; I don't know! It appears to go faster than the average human! Was that by chance a ghost?! It gives me the creeps every time I look at it!
+IntelligentT82 Well this is a first... a haunted shopping mall. How many chances do you come across that at a mall? The only other possible haunted mall that I know of is Rolling Acres.
Oh Wow, I seen it too. Had to rewind a few times, gives me the chills😯
It could be a fast-moving reflection due to how the glass in the window is bent or warped.
It was a reflection as he rotates ya goofy twat. I suppose you heard a farting noise at such and such time in the video too? Your one of those...
Used to go there all the time. Sad
this was my childhood mall, movies on Saturday nights and long john silvers afterward, maybe a hop over to the pocket change too, and maybe just nice cop from bon ton if i was lucky. Ahhh...now i just go to fsk mall.
FSK sucks now too.
I miss that Long John Silver's I wish I can turn back the clock and eat there again and shop there again.
Thank you for doing these videos buddy! By far my favorite youtube series!
The "Gooey grease" Looks like remnants of the wax ring used to seal toilets to the waste line.
bought a bed at the boscov's there..sad to see it all go..
Really would love to see some more dead mall videos added to this playlist!
At the 4:47 mark in the glass of the storefront furthest to the left of the screen something big whizzes by. You can see that it is a reflection of something. Do you know what it was?
TheBigfoot425 that looked creepy
He recorded the footage from the outside, meaning he was peering in through the glass doors. The image was a reflection on the glass of somebody walking by him.
NameGoesWhere0 That quickly?
HeliumGames - The Constipation Nation or small car
Yes I saw it too. Very strange indeed.
I've been binge-watching abandoned places all night but for some reason the saddest ones for me or the dead malls because that's why I childhood literally of the eighties and nineties. I'm guilty of mostly shopping on the internet for everything except groceries and incidentals that you can get at the grocery store as well even the bra and wearing right now is off Amazon. it's just so devastating and encouraging I need to start going to my mom's again at least say that I'm trying to make a difference to bring back business.
I watched this place die with my own eyes and I don't live far from this Mall. Gangs destoyed this Mall in 2006 and the roof problems was from a snow storm.
This is a typical location for a Halloween Superstore..one that opens up from labor day til middle of November
Song @ 1:40? Is that Herb Alpert? DJ, track list please!
Thought you may like an update on this mall. There is actually a high end movie theater set to open up in the mall and talks that there will be "entertainment" type businesses opening up inside. I have heard possibly go karts and things like that.
Hey Dan! First off I enjoy watching your dead mall tour vids. Second, the gooey sticky substance on the ground in the parking lot looks a lot like carpet glue. Its used mainly in commercial applications. I know because I get it on me quite often because its one of the materials we use as flooring guys lol And the stuff that was smeared on the toilets was wax from the ring that is used on the bottom part of the toilet. Odds are whoever carried them out there got it on his hand so he just scraped it off on to the tank. So no worries as far as hazardous material is concerned haha I will add this little bit of info. Any of the places you decide to venture through, especially the older buildings...be careful not to step on or unintentionally kick flooring tile that is loose or ceiling tile that has fallen onto the floor as they may contain asbestos. Asbestos floor tile is usually 1/8 inch thick and 9X9 inches wide and ceiling tiles can vary. Mastic adhesive can also contain asbestos, its usually black so steer clear of that too. If you get it on your shoes you could carry it into your home etc etc. It can only cause harm when it becomes airborne. Just thought I'd throw that out there. Keep posting man, great stuff!
This is one of my favorites. You almost expect a zombie from walking dead to show up any moment.
I like this mall a lot, mainly because of the cinema, which looks very spooky. It's just in a good enough shape to think it hasn't been closed a long time, yet it's abonded, it's perfect for a horror movie
Gah. Grease on toilets is a new one.
Shout out to you. I'm rewatching your videos for some moral pep in writing fiction and they help a lot.
When we firstly watched this thinking it was just another dead mall on America... Dan brings us more that what we can expect!
1:31 over there a wall with a yellow thing used to be Subway Restaurant
When i was little I always went there. It was a beautiful mall.😊
Hey just wondering if you could go to the arnot mall in Horseheads, NY. Its dieing due to anchor stores and would love if you would check it out!
Wow, once upon a time, I as a little kid had walked through this very mall and thought to myself "What a ghost town". It was dead even back then and to see it like this now not only brings back those few memories but also shows what happened to it after I had moved from the area. It really is kind of cool to see what really happened to it though since I haven't been in the area in probably 5-6 years. Very cool video and you should check out the Chambersburg Mall in PA since the only thing it has left to hang onto is the movie theater there.
Is the American Hoyts related to the Australian Hoyts? Wikipedia doesn't seem to offer any clues.
Go to NorthLand mall in Detroit Michigan it was closed a few years back
One of the former anchor stores was Bon-Ton, which closed in 2011. Hoyt's closed in 2010. Hallmark was the last store left in the mall. Bath & Body works didn't make it until the end but almost.
I remember going to this mall up until I was 10 or 11 when there was still two or three shops open. They definitely had a rat infestation. Anyway, the Girl Scouts might still have their cookie wearhouse in the old cvs in January if you're willing to go back and look around. There's only a chain link gate so you have a pretty good view.
This mall is in my closest city. I drive by it a lot. The Boscovs is still open, oddly enough. The rest of the mall was just bought.
love the mall music!
i've skated inside this mall lol my friends dad is the manager of it
Trey Howard I’m tryna get in to film a music video lmao any way u can help me with that
My dad is the operations manager of a mall also. It too is about dead.
I used to go to this mall when I was a kid. Sad to see it's dead.
im about to move behind this mall is it nice?
Quick, was that mall music from the mall itself or background music you added?
why would there be music in a dead abandoned mall fool.
This is VERY close to where I live. It's weird seeing it online!
Beautiful shots, love your videos
how scary it is inside on part 2 Fredrick town mall
@ 1:40 The two corner shops were a Subway and Long john silvers.. and past subway was a shoe store....
The Ground Round? I can't remember the last time I saw one.
I took a girl there once (no, literally, that exact location). It was... meh. Not bad, but not worth what they were charging.
Old Arby's and 2 old banks were there.
I saw the movie "Cursed" in that mall when I was 16. And I also took a girl on a date to a restaurant next to it and we walked around afterwards.
Anyone know the song 1:35 onward?
I know this has been asked before but I haven't seen Dan reply so here I go again! Due to the curiosity in me, I am wondering if the music is a video add on? Or ......
Alba M It's edited into the video, in all of his videos.
SwissCheeseOnaPlate ThankYou for replying.
I know a good dead mall to go to: Pittsburgh Mills. There is only 2 stores open, and there used to be an Apple store there that closed in 2012.
+Isiah Folio (Asdfguy86) What? The Pittsburgh Mills is nothing like that... it never had an Apple store, and about 75% of the stores are open, including the multiplex. Sure you don't mean Cincinnati Mills?
Man In Magenta Wig Oh damn I'm thinking of another mall.
Isiah Folio
Yeah, I'm not sure what that could've been. Doesn't fit the description of any mall around here (unless Century III had an Apple store, but I don't think they did).
what was that at 4:47?
We used to have a mall like this. It was sandwiched inbetween a Home Depot and a Kmart. We went often as kids to the arcade and movies. Once it was deserted it fell into disrepair like this and they carefully tore the mall down from the two connecting stores. Never felt the same. Was really depressing.
I saw Scrooged there
Did you spoke to anyone that appeared to be there?
i live in frederick md they were going to turn it in to the new walmart but thet did not happen then eli roth thr directer of hostel was going to do a movie in there but could bot do it
such a shame. I used to shop there when I was stationed at near by Fort Detrick. when I left in 03, the mall was still a hopping place.
At 2:36 point #6 Dan send out a written permission to take vids?
Hey, There's an abandoned mall in Morgantown, PA that shut down a few years ago. In it's hey day it was a strip mall, but it got converted to a furniture store before being shut down and abandoned. If you're ever in town, It's right off the PA turnpike!
Dan - have you checked out Francis Scott Key Mall also in Frederick? Used to be jammed packed when I was a kid. Sad to see what it is now.
I wish you could do something like this for the Springdale mall in Mobile, AL
omfg I live in this town. so great to see you coming here
It's amazing to me how many of these malls that have been closed for years still have plants inside them that are alive, despite no one being there to maintain them.
its amazing to me that you never considered they could be fake plants.
Dawn of the Dead (1979) was the shopping mall one, not Day.
if you can you should check out the great mall of the great plains , just closed last month
There used to be another mall down the road next to KMart. There was a movie theater there also. Where I saw Star Wars.
that wasn't a real mall. That was just a movie theater under a strip mall.
theres a mall here in CT called Glen Lochen mall and its an old mall but small, it looks nice inside but sadly its pretty much defunct now all the stores that were in it moved to a new plaza and it went under when Buckland Hills mall in manchester ct opened
Hung out there a lot in 84,85,86 when I was stationed at Fort Detrick. Sad to see this.
The Ground Round. They had some good food, wish they were still there.
I believe it was not too long after you posted this someone else uploaded a video of them flying a drone through the mall. Broken glass everywhere inside. Deeper into the mall, and in front of the home depot side where your camera wasn't able to capture. It sucks.
I remember coming here in 2011. 95% of the stores were closed. The mall was already a deadzone years before that. The only thing left was FYE, Radio Shack, and Hallmark. Because they had contracts. But once it was up they cleared the hell out. They even had new merchandize in the stores, as if people still shopped there. But walking through there then was just really disappointing and depressing. I remember when it was always busy.
Robert Warf I went a few times before it closed and it was unbelievable. I’ve never seen a place that had been kicked down so hard. They weren’t even trying the last year. I remember that tree in the middle of the mall with leaves all over the floor everywhere. It was amazing. If only I had the equipment that exists today to film the place when it was still open. Such a shame.
This is Dan Bell. Yeah it's crazy man. I love this series. It's creepy to see these almost, if not fully, abandoned buildings still in place. Why bother? Just tear it down.
I joined a FB group back in 2009 called "Every time I enter the Frederick Towne Mall a little part of me dies." Haha. It's depressing just driving past it
Robert Warf Thanks, Robert. I saw the Frederick Towne Mall page you are talking about. It’s been a long time since anyone’s posted to it.
love this series of videos. I stumbled onto your videos by looking up abondond things in Maryland. And seen your video of the Hilltop Hotel in Harpers Ferry, and the ironic thing is that video took me back abfew years I use to deliver Pepsi Cola to that place and actuality took a ride on my Harley this summer and rode up to the hotel although i didn't go inside. So as my youtube was on auto play it took me to your Dead mall videos and I love your work and narration. So as you said in one of your videos I have 2 malls you may was to investigate, (Martinsburg mall) now called Foxcroft Towne Center at Martinsburg, Martinsburg, wv closed Nov,1 2016 however 3 of 4 of it's anchor stores are still open Bon-Ton, JCPenny, and Walmart. Sears closed and that wing was tore down... also a mall that is still open but I feel is on borrowed time is Chambersburg Mall , Chambersburg, Pa. I hope this helps you and you have the opertunity to investigate and make a video.
Cool it still has power