Exploring a Massive Abandoned Research Laboratory

Showed this video to my father, he used to work there for 30 years. Recognized most of what you guys went to but you didn't go to the area he specifically worked. Though he did work in the livestock area and greenhouse area. The 'shower' machine was for spraying plants with insecticides. The animals they had over there weren't experimented on according to him. The campus you explored was bought out by BASF who then fired all the employees. The "W" wing you were in (west) was added near the end of the company, I think the spiral staircases as well.

Worked there for 17 years - 1981 - 1998 - so sad to see the state that the buildings are in now.... my Father worked there too and gave his retirement speech to a packed house in that cafeteria.

Update from January 2022. One of my customers is just down the road and over the tracks from here, pass by this place all the time. Was shocked to see it currently in the advanced stages of demolition. Glad you guys were able to capture this one when you did!

I did some research on the robot thing at 17:33 and I found a news article from 1991 describing the exact installation at this facility. It turns out that it is something called a "zymate" which would conduct tests on samples and send data to a computer without human intervention. They used it because the samples were volatile and had to be handled extremely carefully.

I worked there from 1977 until 2002 when the site shut down. Unfortunately this video doesn’t capture the great employees and state of the art research that happened at this very site. 😢

This whole place screamed abandoned Jurassic Park facility to me.

As a scientist working in a modern lab, it was crazy to see the autoclave and robot! They were quite advanced!

My Dad worked here from 1969-1984. American Cyanamid was in the RCA building in Rockerfeller Center in NYC and he worked there in the 1950’s then moved to Oakland NJ when they opened their headquarters in Wayne NJ. We have home movies of the building being built. My dad worked in Accounting in this location which is in West Windsor NJ. Seeing the reception area brought back such bittersweet memories of sitting in the car with my mother picking him up in the early 1970’s when we were a one car family.

Black Mesa certainly has changed a lot...

If Resident Evil has taught me anything there's a giant lab still making bioweapons under that place.

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Explores an abandoned Research Labrotory "There's so many Labs here"

"The amount of mold is crazy" proceeds to breathe the entire building in

I worked here for 20 years. It was a wonderful place to work! I will always miss it. This trip was both sad and fascinating for me. We called the glass hallway between the West wing and the R&D wing "The Habitrail". It was like 150 degrees in there on some days. :) You were right about most of the things you identified in these shots. Wish you could have gone into all the buildings! There are so many I want to see. Those greenhouses were built at huge expense, and only used for a year or two before the facility was closed. I think some of them were never used.

This is insane because Im a lab technician for an engineering company and run soil proctors on Am Cyan contaminated soil samples every few days. Its amazing their blunders are still trying to be corrected today. so long after their Fall

"While at one time this facility was used by humans to shape nature to their will, now nature is having it's way." Damn that's kinda deep

You guys need respirators dude. Concentration of mold in here can cause major breathing problems in weeks.

I work at a firm in NJ and we have been doing testing for the last 30 years to assist with environmental cleanups of American Cyanamid/American Home Products/Wyeth sites. Stay OUT of the Bound Brook and Bridgewater locations!!!! The industrial dye pits are horrendous. They are locking the chemicals up there by adding bentonite and cement to the wastewater lagoons to lock it in place and then surrounding the areas with bentonite & soil cement cut-off walls that go down over 40 feet to keep the stuff from going into the streams. The guy we worked for who was stationed onsite died of a rare blood disease. I would not go anywhere near these places, especially without air purifying respirators. You have no idea how well they cleaned stuff up before they left. Like walking through the insecticide sprayer...there is a better than average chance you will come to regret this one day. FYI - if you smell anything that seems like shoe polish, that is most likely benzene.

This is easily one of y'alls best explorations. It really is like a Valve game gone wromg.

I worked with a HVAC company in China to set up a similar laboratory, much smaller. It quite difficult to get pressure just right for those clean rooms (to ensure the lab is in lower pressure, preventing contamination to outside). This is also why there is "Caution open door slowly" signs.