Exploring Abandoned Prison in Brisbane (Wacol)

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@bigtrev761 4 күн бұрын

🇦🇺😎👍My father was a prison guard for 28 years. He served a short stint at Woodford, a few years at Boggo road and finally served the rest of his time at Wacol where he retired at during the early 90s. My father retired as a Chief. When he went to work he looked after the criminals. When he came home he looked after the prisoners. Not an easy life as a child , quite life changing actually. . In 2023 he passed away at age 78. . Years later I met a few young guys who went to jail for a few years . Both of them told me his name was Mr. Cruel. They both served at seperate times…All these years later I know very little of what he did or what happened in his job but after reading some of his diaries from the 1970s I realise he had to deal with a lot of stuff most people will never have to encounter….His name was Jeffery Walter Collins

@CHECKHIMOUT Жыл бұрын

friend of mine was in the Police Special Operations Group, they were always training with explosive shape charges to breach these types of old facilities, I went through the closed Fairlea womens prison in Melbourne in the 90’s. i found many walls breached and all kinds of stun grenades and blank cartridges everywhere.

@urbexgecko Жыл бұрын

You're spot on! Found out after this was filmed it was used for training drills, imagine they'd be pretty fun.

@MatthewPrimavera-jg9cg 9 ай бұрын

I was in there in 1997 was fuckin awsome haha we seen some hectic stuff could still buy ciggys the 2 halls for eating is cause boneyard was on the other side of the wall and all us main stream were all on the big side in the vid my celly drew the castle on the wall in 1989 but yeh hectic as so good to see the old place again so many good times and yeh you could buy grog once a fortnight and ya had a limit of 12 tallys on the buyup for your cell so you could get 6 and ya celly could get 6 or if he didnt drink you were aloud 12 but yeh wasnt to bad a day out here and there and we used to all sleep with female officers all the time or get them to bring drugs and stuff in quite alot before it got closed down and we all got moved to other prisons and it was only due to the condition of the cells and the fact it was all falling apart then but and they had made new facilities this is the low sec and medium side tho where ya can basically roam within the fence and ya only had to be back for count and lunch dinner and lock away was 9Pm

@urbexgecko 9 ай бұрын

Man, thank-you so much for sharing all of this....answered so many questions. Makes sense about the boneyard. Love that the castle was still there for you to see. That's absolutely wild that you could buy booze in there, and the officers got down like that. Doesn't sound like too bad a time at all haha. Not sure if you heard but it was demolished recently.

@MatthewPrimavera-jg9cg 9 ай бұрын

@@urbexgecko yeh knew it was Gunna get demolished was meant to get demolished back in early 2000 but they decided to use it as a training ground for a while and yeh prison was way different back in the day when U were aloud to smoke and drink and all the officers were actually half decent and was not much rules or anything was just a giant day care centre for crims haha obviously heaps of bad shit aswell but majority of the time it was good

@acitizen.5276 5 ай бұрын

@@MatthewPrimavera-jg9cg so the female officers just lay with ya ? I call bullshit on thatone mate...!

@D-Rizzle653 5 ай бұрын

I remember seeing this prison when it was operational, in like 2007, when I lived in Kallangur, crazy to see its abandoned now tho, wow, cool that this is a Brisbane burned channel, you know I had to Sub

@SteveMack Ай бұрын

I used to work in that 'bad' area of wacol, over 20 years ago - I'm struggling to grasp where on the vast landscape, the old prison was?

@mick00023 2 жыл бұрын

That’s awesome mate

@moneyupgangtv3msmusic848 2 жыл бұрын

🔥🔥🔥 video bro

@NightWalkUrbex Жыл бұрын

If there is one thing what I would like to explore, is an abandoned prison... Unfortunately there is none in Hungary where I am from. If you think about that people spend time in those cells, many hopes, dreams, regrets are still left in those cells.

@urbexgecko Жыл бұрын

They don't come up too often in Australia either. Very true, you can feel that lingering energy in the cells.

@nigelbloor7660 Жыл бұрын

Double fair exploration 👍

@lucky-lukedj9226 12 күн бұрын

Nice video :) Where is this prison ? 😊

@RayDuguay-nl4bl 5 ай бұрын

Great explore. I had no idea this existed.

@outofbounds2022 2 жыл бұрын

I hope the 13/31 is a reference to the offspring song...

@urbexgecko 2 жыл бұрын

Ahhhhh,that makes more sense now. I hope so too haha.

@superluminal89 2 жыл бұрын

Listen to the song, "pretty fly for a white guy" and you'll understand.

@suntzuwarsword1964 5 ай бұрын

Excellent..thanks for sharing

@thalastian_thundercleese Ай бұрын

Interesting to see the place from the inside - thinking you must have taken quite a roundabout path to get in there, given there's operating facilities right next door!

@urbexgecko Ай бұрын

You're not wrong haha

@thalastian_thundercleese Ай бұрын

@@urbexgecko It's a shame the old John Oxley Memorial Hospital has been completely demolished, that would have been fascinating to explore.

@angusmilne9827 5 ай бұрын

"I asked for a 13 but they drew a 31." is from a song by Th Offspring from their 1998 album Americana. from 2:05 into the song Pretty Fly (for a White Guy). Just saying.

@angusmilne9827 5 ай бұрын

Sorry for answering my own comment but I think it

@angusmilne9827 5 ай бұрын

It is possible that the person who got Room 31 was an Offspring fan. Sorry I hit the Enter button half way through.

@angusmilne9827 5 ай бұрын

Thank you for the like to my reply. My grandmother worked as a psychologist at wacol in the 1980s. She's no longer with us. All that knowledge, experience and connections with the past went with her. She was an awesome person.

@tomdagan6361 4 ай бұрын

Most of the blasts through walls & broken bars are from police & other agencies training for various reasons state & federal

@afistfulofpimples1745 4 ай бұрын

@@tomdagan6361 No shit, he said that

@ShaneSpencer-zt7un 4 ай бұрын

Can u still visit this place ?

@imy.olivia 4 ай бұрын

Yea same here I’m so wanting to visit 😭

@imy.olivia 4 ай бұрын

Ahhh just found out it was demolished

@FogartyAvenue 2 жыл бұрын

magnificent.

@user-lf7er8dm1d 5 ай бұрын

8:51 I remember as a kid they had these in the Mcdonalds playground, so id take a guess and say thats where its from, who knows how it got there

@imy.olivia 4 ай бұрын

Is there a way I can find where this place is to go to see it?

@sallyjohnson5985 6 ай бұрын

Isn’t it signed “No Entry”? Is it private or public land now?

@urbexgecko 6 ай бұрын

Funnily enough the side you would access it from had no signs, plenty closer to the active prison though. It's government land, unsure what they will do with it now. Can't see anything commercial going there, possibly upgrade and extend the existing police K9 facility as they used to use this site for training anyway.

@antonybentley3505 2 ай бұрын

Not sledge hammers. breach charges training.

@FogartyAvenue Жыл бұрын

Hey sir is it advisable for me to egg-splore this place at during daylight hours? Also is it red hot now? Thx sir.

@urbexgecko Жыл бұрын

Yeah mate, best bet is on the weekend though as the police train there though the week. From what I've read about it on FB lately, it sounds like nothing has changed security wise. It's tricky to get to when you haven't been before, If you need a map and more info just reach out on FB or IG. I was going to take you there last time you were in the area, but you didn't reply to my message haha.

@afistfulofpimples1745 4 ай бұрын

You spelled egg splore wrong.

@fencejumpers Ай бұрын

is it possible to still get in mate

@urbexgecko Ай бұрын

I've had people telling me for months they went there and it's all gone, but someone recently said the main building is still there. I dunno what to believe as I'm not in a position to check for myself.

@petermartin4807 3 ай бұрын

Did my first lag here in 96

@peter360adventures9 5 ай бұрын

Awesome.

@weirey69 4 ай бұрын

This still standing? Might go sus it out

@agoogleuser6892 Ай бұрын

Everyone in the yard

@SamanthaFrewSammy 8 ай бұрын

Did anyone see you there?

@urbexgecko 8 ай бұрын

Nah, went there plenty of times without any issues. Has since been demolished.

@mj_22gz 8 ай бұрын

@@urbexgecko wait when did it get demolished???

@urbexgecko 8 ай бұрын

Few months ago.

@CraigAlexander-m9l 6 ай бұрын

What was this Jail’s name?

@jeffreyflynn2805 4 ай бұрын

@@CraigAlexander-m9l Moreton A and Moreton B at wacol

@AnnasBurningCuriosity 2 жыл бұрын

Thats a nice prison

@urbexgecko 2 жыл бұрын

Really unique,not what you imagine when you hear the word prison.

@madworldexplorer 6 ай бұрын

nice stuff! I wanna do wacol too

@urbexgecko 6 ай бұрын

Has since been demoed.

@madworldexplorer 6 ай бұрын

@@urbexgecko huh really? Did you have to dodge any security cars??

@urbexgecko 6 ай бұрын

Yeah unfortunately. Heard rumours around the start of the year, then a mate went and checked to confirm. Nah, I went like 7 weekends in a row with no issues.