DEAD MALL SERIES : Abandoned Frederick Towne Mall

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[@coinman4469]

Hi dan

[@sweetchocolatesecret]

I love how he ads the music in and when he enters a store or something it starts to fade as if it's actually coming from the speakers and he's walking away from the sound. Such amazing effects! create such a immersive atmosphere.

[@AspenDreamzzz]

sweetchocolatesecret I’ve seen people comment thinking it’s the actual music playing in the mall 😫

[@Sarah_270]

@@AspenDreamzzz It is very realistic and I wondered why they were still piping music to an empty space, the "echoey" quality is brilliant

[@AspenDreamzzz]

Sarah K I agree! It’s awesome ... as a sound engineer I genuinely had my second guesses but knew the realistic truth once certain aspects came in to play

[@Sarah_270]

@@AspenDreamzzz A sound engineer sounds amazing! Good job. This is certainly very evocative and adds to the loneliness of the places All the best to you!

[@AspenDreamzzz]

Sarah K u too!

[@bewilderbeastie8899]

I feel like these are the liminal spaces between our world and something else.

[@Sarah_270]

Eloquently put.

[@alixmeek8478]

'The backrooms'

[@deendrew36]

Alix Meek reminiscent of a Stephen King novel.

[@annikapavlona1304]

The transit zones for souls of that era.

[@UltimateShadow10]

Purgatory

[@StillDoinItUpTho]

Holy Hell. This is the Frederick Towne Mall in Frederick MD. I managed the Footlocker in this mall till its final days. Boscovs and Home Depot remain. Walmart has since purchased this and doing what the claim to do best. This makes the 3rd Walmart within a 20 mile radius. Awesome video!

[@ThisisDanBell]

Brian Kelley Thanks, Brian!

[@DriftBandit96]

Brian Kelley wait its that mall wtfffff ive been there before wtf

[@StillDoinItUpTho]

DriftBandit 96 yup!

[@StillDoinItUpTho]

I wanna say We closed the footlocker in 07? I can't really remember... The mall never really closed... Everyone just kinda closed up and left.

[@knightace2002]

Brian Kelley If they up and left then........why's all the stuff gone? It couldn't be looters 'cus it takes a while to get everything (about several years timed) and it's still closely watched. The places I've seen where people just up and left the stuff is still there and they've been abandoned for decades, some for centuries.

[@howiesworld9056]

This video is like some representation of a man at his wits-end. The lack of speech, eerie music, strange items in strange positions. Like I get the context of the video just its so unusual looking. Absolutely stellar work Dan.

[@kelly3014]

Wow! I can't believe the doors were unlocked. I freaked out when I heard that door close/open. Great video!!! 😊

[@Hippyboo]

2010 me: I'm probably gonna be a responsible adult in 10 years 2020 me: * eating spaghetti at 4am, high af and watching this*

[@22lilacsky]

😂👍

[@FirstNameLastName000]

2010 me: in 10 years, I'll finally go to bed early, get up and exercise before work, and really live my life --- 2020 me: * watches this intensely at midnight, after a completely wasted day*

[@jinny82]

I gave up the being high thing, but i feel you

[@BennyLlama39]

Desiree, ain't nothin' wrong with that. And I can't preach about getting high, because I practically chug Jager now and then. 😀 (And coffee *all the time.)*

[@thekingofalldoom]

Same thing except saltines. Also its 6am soooo

[@FhtagnCthulhu]

I used to shop here as a kid before moving away at age 8. This is profoundly sad. Many of these stores bring back memories I had long lost, just to see the place in horrid disrepair now.

[@heliumhunterr]

J. Ndhm That was unnecessarily disrespectful.

[@LadyMeggo]

Mr.Aptronym i felt this. I use to go to this mall with my grandmother and mom and it was dying but it was fun and quiet. That was only a few years before this video. I’m so sad to see what has happened

[@myboyz9391]

It makes me cry. Lived near it for years.

[@crazzyblueeyes1983]

Same

[@Tomsonic41]

Kinda glad the music was added on afterwards... the abandoned mall would be even creepier knowing that the background music system was just running on its own, playing to nobody - like after some nuclear disaster!

[@chaosinmybreath]

Tomsonic41 in 911, the plaza underneath the twin Towers had music still playing. While the towers burned and people were dying above. There's a video here on KZbin, definitely creepy.

[@yoshikinglovesyou]

chaosinmybreath I watched that video and got way more than I bargained for. I heard bodies smack on impact with the ground, I SAW bodies smash against the ground. It’s not worth watching.

[@chaosinmybreath]

Wind Waker Link the one I watched didn't have any of that what the hell? That sound horrible.

[@deevad1212]

chaosinmybreath Can you link the video for me? I want to see. Hope that doesn't sound twisted.

[@nutlet1]

I believe it is this one - kzbin.info/www/bejne/h6aYhn55aaaGms0 - around 3:00 minutes in

[@LordClydeofOMAR]

This reminds me of this time when I was a kid and my mom took me and my brother to the Methuen Mall. We didn't know it had closed, but the doors were left unlocked. We walked around for a few minutes rather confused.

[@Lovebirdd]

Why are we ignoring the door opening at 4:27? Dan even turned the camera light off. That's ridiculously creepy. In the middle of the mall, there's not wind flow to blame that on.

[@BronxWolf]

This is the second video of his that I saw the doors open by themselves. the spirits may still be working there?

[@inboxnews]

Bronx Wolf A/C kicked on.

[@momokoblue8032]

The door is already open, just the sound of a door opening occurs, which could have been added post production. I'm more concerned with the shadow man in the last second before the credits.lol \

[@vaimantobe3034]

momokoblue where do you see a shadow man? You mean his hand XD

[@punchline43]

+inboxnews The A/C? In a building that's been closed and abandoned for two years? Not likely.

[@premiumblend100]

Man I love this. Had my first date in that Hoyts, ate at the subway anytime I was there. I love that you all did this. I spent alot of time in my teenage years Between this mall and FSK, more so FSK as I was on the Adamstown side of the area.. thanks for posting this!

[@thelittlestgiant]

"The malls are the soon to be ghost towns. so long, farewell, good-bye" -Modest Mouse

[@jbloun911]

good riddance

[@jbloun911]

@young machines I didn't say it was... lol

[@NikoBoss32]

Imagine if all the time one weird guy has been watching you, hiding in the dark, avoiding you! Wow, this is the creepiest part to visit this places. Keep it up Dan! You do the best videos... sorry for my english, i'm from México

[@iReadFiction]

3:53 It breaks my heart to see Rockets Arcade shut down like that. I remembered one day I was playing the pinball machine and lost when the coin machine combusted and spit out at least $10 of quarters. I didn't even say anything, I grabbed them all, and played more games. Always craved this arcade whenever we were done with movies. Very very sad.

[@ExploringWithJacobOfficial]

it's so sad how people come in and vandalize...

[@katharinajana4596]

+Exploring with Jacob me too...

[@nicholasmohr3353]

+ Exploring with Jacob me too.

[@thomascampbell350]

Like what are you getting out of vandalizing an ABANDONED place?

[@austingarner2341]

+Madyson Reed they probably do it because no ones there to get them into the trouble they deserve

[@cosmicbinary1982]

looks better vandalized to be honest

[@MegaGinia]

I kept waiting for the zombies to appear at the windows or the doors . . . Really creepy mall, indeed!

[@tdk7388ify]

I live near this mall...trust me the zombies are hiding for now...but don't worry they are there

[@Luubelaar]

Especially in the abandoned movie theatre. Super creepy.

[@itsalan3773]

Same lmfao

[@rrjt1011]

I always thought how the mall in its current state would make a great shelter during a zombie apocalypse

[@DrawTangleswithDawn]

of all the dead mall vids I have watched so far this one is the creepiest

[@Wolfie783]

i love the effect of the thunder rumble by way of a thunderstorm outside at 12:39 that really added to the creepiness along with the ominous music

[@NewAgeServerAlarm]

This looks like the kind of thing you'd see in a Fallout game. Huge abandoned, wrecked, empty building, but the power (and lights) are still on. Holy fuck.

[@julosx]

This could be a cool place for some Doom mod also.

[@Mr9Guns]

The fact that there is power is eerie. makes it seem like the day after.

[@SLCclimber]

This is great! The mall of my childhood (Cottonwood Mall, Salt Lake City) was torn down in 2008. It was the second indoor mall in the country and I would've loved to have a video of what it looked like on the inside, if only for nostalgia's sake.

[@LakeHowellDigitalVideo]

15:15 Better than a horror film, "That Car" is sitting right there! It's a thrilling suspense ride! 2 Thumbs Up!

[@Thegirlwithducks]

DUDE why did u pass up those arcade tokens!!?? u coulda been rolling in ticketss

[@zeyprestige5110]

Playing in an arcade at a dead mall? No thanks. Thinking about it makes me depressed. 😂

[@michaeltongue]

Take only pictures, leave only foot prints !

[@dirtwizard6611]

@@michaeltongue you can take things if they're going to end up in rubble, that saying only applies to nature, where it's actually beneficial to leave everything alone

[@rrjt1011]

Makes me wish I went in the mall. Those Pocket Change tokens are pieces of Frederick history

[@295g295]

> 5:00 < arcade token-coins

[@AutumnButterfly]

Thank you so much for posting this tour. I have a lot of wonderful memories of that place; lemonade and pretzels at Hot Sam, trips to the movie theater and video games while waiting for showtime. My son and I used to go to the Pocket Change all the time in the late 90s and early 2000s. There was a small shop that had incredible Pasta Alfredo as well. Good times. :o)

[@jarrod02modgling]

why is there just a random bike smashed by a security gate loL

[@Zaysav]

it's been there since 2009

[@thomascampbell350]

Ikr lol

[@AA-bs3iy]

Why not

[@aortaplatinum]

Yeah weird, right? I had no clue those gates were heavy enough to do that...

[@declawedIRL]

This video just gave me nostalgia. Moto RAZR black! My first phone.

[@NostalgiaUnicorn]

God I wish I could do this but my disabilities would never let me. I would love to go into the closed places from my youth and just be there one last time. Just to sit in the places where I felt so much happiness as a kid. I love the #deadmalls series and am fascinated with malls since I'm a 70's baby, this is just icing on the cake for my Urbex fascination to cross paths with it. LOVE your videos. Please never stop exploring!

[@CosmicStargoat]

This video is a great testimony to the genius of making movies like *Dawn of the Dead* at shopping mall settings.

[@arcajour]

I'm surprised you didn't encounter gangs or drug addicts hiding in there. Very dangerous thing to do! But so haunting. America in decay.

[@catspawgardner3213]

Gangs & juvenile delinquents are some of the reasons why malls are shutting down. At least it was where I lived the weekends was where they really started some shit.

[@DanaTheInsane]

I live near the Mall of America, its thriving but holy shit is it full of police.

[@NotoriusBenjamin]

Crystal Fae k

[@vangchip]

Tak Wolf the mall of America is so big it's got its own district of police force. I have a buddy and his brother works for the police force there. He showed me their armory and holy fuck you would not believe some of the weapons they have for when shtf! Anyways the MOA is badass and I always liked going there especially when you can take the metro rail and get there in a jiffy!

[@flamingturnip]

Its not really a bad area, just suburbs really. Its not the 'wealthy' part of town, but its still fairly tame.

[@dumcrapcat]

the type of music that was playing added to the horror aspect

[@dantevelez8752]

Yeah like the movie the shining. When jack Nicholson walking around the ball room and that type of music is going on.

[@dumcrapcat]

Happy music for a messed up situation lol

[@PwngeBdaman]

+Alpine that was music playing in the mall. not his own

[@dumcrapcat]

PwngeBdaman I know....

[@PwngeBdaman]

Alpine ok wasnt quite sure a lot of people wer confused

[@lucindasanchez3803]

abandoned places are places to find neat antiques and other things :) Love your series. Keep up the good work.

[@ThisisDanBell]

Carmine Thomas Thanks, Carmine!

[@abandonedsc4261]

Totally Amazing. Very eerie! Great video!

[@thed165]

My husband and I came here on so many dates before we were married… almost Twenty years ago. This made us both sad when we saw this video the other day….a bittersweet moment.

[@JonasClark]

Just amazing. I could spend all day in there, just seeing and photographing everything. I'd be tempted to find buckets, collect all those tokens, and haul them away, then leave a few in every place I explore. 16:42 I wonder what a "squiggl" and a "hawk pad" were.

[@Chillmax]

I bet the people who own this don't know they've still got a big electrical bill coming ;-)

[@awesome9481]

Thats the SCARIEST part about all of THIS :0

[@ricinsauce]

they are probably dead

[@billeybop]

Food Stamps. :)

[@casperguylkn]

Taxpayers might be footing the bill. Losses are socialized, and the profits are privatized.

[@ianchristopheralexander1985]

Boscov's pays the Bills.

[@calebginsberg5224]

I'm surprised to see the bath and body works closed

[@zuicyde7277]

which is?

[@calebginsberg5224]

Lavinia Battisti It’s been 3 years, and you ask me questions regarding my comment?

[@zuicyde7277]

@@calebginsberg5224 Sorry i read this comment yesterday. I won't hurt you with my question. In my country, we don't have Bath and body works, so i was curious. But i find it, don't worry.

[@calebginsberg5224]

Lavinia Battisti I was making a funny, I hadn’t realized you were asking a legitimate question. Sorry

[@LiamS94]

That place is one huge fire hazard

[@charlesdarwin9131]

True, but if they turn power off guaranteed all the copper starts getting stripped out by tweakers

[@EatmySmellyFeet]

Well there was a fire truck parked outside.

[@nyki7fykxtjxyi]

The owner probably hopes it burns down at this point

[@LittleMissSunshine721]

The music is literally still playing. That makes it all the more eerier.

[@LittleMissSunshine721]

Waiting for ES6 Ohhhhhhhhh! Thanks for clearing that up!

[@LethaWolf30]

So I heard a story about the Hallmark store at 10:27 apparently even after the mall closed the guy who ran the store would still sell his inventory from the back service door of the store and did that till everything was gone.

[@derekcastaneda4697]

I feel like he could go behind any counter in there and find "Pre-War" Money.. The mall music makes it.

[@karlnemo8658]

So sad to see it so run down; that was _the_ place to go when I was a kid. It was a big to-do when it opened, as it had the first escalator in Frederick County (yeah, the Frederick News-Post actually did an article on it). Used to eat at Long John Silver's a lot. When the other malls opened up, the businesses began to die off.

[@EctoCorvis13]

Love the 'Dawn of the Dead' music playing.

[@bigdaddycoldcuts]

Walking around White Flint before it shut down was so eerie, i don't know how you guys do this. Literally the only thing there at that point was the Dave and Buster's and the Move Theater. the entire ground floor was deserted, I'm pretty sure I took a nap on one of the sofas because that's how quiet it was.

[@ryanporter1819]

This mall has obviously been abandoned for a while, hence the payphone stands and floor designs. The fact that there are lights in some areas, add even more of a creepy vibe.

[@Britti_Kitti]

I went to this mall when I was really young! There was a puppet show in the center of the mall and the whole stage collapsed, showing the dazed and confused puppeteers. Best day of my life lol It’s scary to see somewhere you went to not long ago get abandoned like that.

[@user-yr8ko3ki5d]

Are those quarters?! *Zooms closer* Fuck...

[@zzzzzzzzzzzz-11]

I was thinking the same thing.

[@wht-rabt-obj]

That door opening in the pizzeria was CREEPY!!

[@sammywerbenjagermanjesen4460]

Even though I am at home due to the virus, this just makes me imagine a time full of wonder and beauty this mall once had and now it is all distorted from the lack of people. This just shows development of future society and how we humans shape the world the way we like depending on if we want something or not.

[@Hollywood1127]

Having family in Frederick; I've been to this mall tones of times in the past. It's amazing to see it on KZbin. lol

[@MyEnime]

The power is on because it is it is attached to a place that is still open 10:54 That Boscors (whatever that is) im just suprised that Boscors didnt completely seal up those window. Seeing as that people are going in and out of the abandoned part of the mall. They could break into that place at night.

[@stevenkreiss2113]

The store is Boscovs.

[@heresjohnny6598]

Dan, I recently watched some vids of other guys attempting to do what you do but there is no comparison you are by far the best at your game. keep up the great work

[@MattSlocumSQL]

The lower portion of the mannequin @ 8:12 is really creepy!

[@StephenBurrus4444]

Definitely one of the creepier videos in your series. Mysterious sounds...the aisle lights in the theatre still working was especially surreal.

[@ACGreyhound04]

The cheerful music playing over the speakers just completes the haunting creepiness of this place. I totally expected some zombies to jump out of the shadows!!

[@douglasware1115]

Surround a mall mall with low income housing and here's what happens. The mall opened in 1972 on U.S. Route 40 along the "Golden Mile".[1] The third tenant was Gentleman's Choice. The mall had anchor stores JCPenney, Eyerly's, Woolworth's and Montgomery Ward. It also had a Hoyts cinema. As time went on, the area surrounding the mall became home to more low income housing, and after a series of events that earned its reputation for crime, violent crime surrounding the area of the mall and frequent fights began to break out in the mall itself, those events became well publicized in the media and locals began relocating their dollars to a safer retail district across town, near Francis Scott Key Mall.

[@ianchristopheralexander1985]

It was McCrory BonTon JC Penny and Montgomery Wards. Woolworths was at Francis Scott Key Mall and on West 7th Street.

[@SneakerHeadInTheBay]

That music though...

[@ThisisDanBell]

SneakerHeadInTheBay Yup.

[@i94south34]

This is Dan Bell. I think that music was added by you. but it makes the video better by giving it that creepiness.

[@shauns957]

SneakerHeadInTheBay Same as the music from the mall in Dawn of The Dead

[@i94south34]

that what it says in the end credits

[@shauns957]

Yeah I wrote the comment before I saw the end credits

[@unjust2u]

Dan (The Dead Mall Man) Bell. - One man, One mission. To get the hell out alive!

[@MASSCAL01]

Absolutely incredible footage. Always find these abandoned videos interesting as it shows a small glimpse of society before everyone left.. Pay phones, old fonts, cheap movie ticket prices, CDs.. I also grew up going to this place and it was going downwards in 2005 when I moved. Fast forward to 2022 and they have an incredible new theater with Warehouse, hope that stays going for along time

[@yoyobeerman1289]

Every time I watch these dead mall videos I think of an old Canadian animated sitcom that debuted in 04/05 in Canada and America respectively, called 6teen. It fills me with existential dread, as it doesn't feel like it was more than a decade ago -_-.

[@CartoonArtisan]

What I don't understand is why it looks like some left in a hurry...like leaving the tokens on the ground and other stuff? Like wouldn't they move everything and clean up and lock up? I don't get it.

[@CartoonArtisan]

***** Oh. :( Too bad. The economy is so bad, now especially, but malls have been suffering for years and years. I hate malls, because the stores are usually very expensive. If prices were decent, more people would shop at malls.

[@CartoonArtisan]

+WakeUpNow You are so right. When I was a teen, my friends and I walked a few miles to get to the mall. It was fun for us. I never really liked malls, but all my friends did and we went often.

[@EphemeralProductions]

+Cartoon Artisan Either the mall is haunted, or maybe something where the place was bought out and told everyone to pay up bigtime GTFO?

[@emonchan]

It's so strange to me too. Doesn't make sense when the pizza boxes and tokens are all over the place. When the stores closed did they not take everything with them? Maybe I'm cheap lol but I see useful items all over the place like that broom and duster and all those light fixtures. isn't there some money in repurposing them?

[@CartoonArtisan]

tall32guy emonchan Yeah exactly. It must have been that they had to leave in a hurry.

[@hotdogs1026]

I got a real Bioshock-esque vibe from this video. 👍

[@hotdogs1026]

Also...5:44 - 5:45 was that a reflection or...

[@hawaiianprestigecars8493]

Hot Dogs music

[@nica711]

Just Waiting for him to run into a splicer lmfao

[@giodc8599]

Great channel, Dan. Your videos are well put together and the commentary is nice. Keep it up!

[@ericdravenX00X]

This is by far the Most eerie Dead Mall u have been to out of this series. Out of all the others in my opinion...

[@forestine_]

I think I've watched enough of these for one day. Shortly after that creepy door opened, somebody knocked on my front door.

[@patticharles2905]

um... they never said y that door opened or closed on its own he just turned the light off n said b quiet

[@trapswish52]

lmao

[@patticharles2905]

Lou Pole lol I guess that's true crack me up man drama

[@KaelinTate]

Yeah and why are all the lights on and music playing?

[@JessReneex3]

+Kaelin Tate he edits in the vintage mall music, but many places will be left abandoned with the lights on because there are still stores attached using the same electricity.

[@KaelinTate]

thank you

[@ewolter0]

For those wondering about the music he added, it was the music that played in the mall in the original "Dawn of the Dead" movie.

[@kittyzombieecx3243]

This reminds me so much of the mall in The Last Of Us.

[@nancyhicksgribble9799]

Only Dan can make "theres nobody in this effing place" sound soothing...

[@Kolya_Smirnov]

I lived in Frederick, MD during this malls better days. I used to get my hair cut there and go shopping once in awhile. It was a smallish mall. Part of me wishes I hadn't seen this video, but even then (1980s) it didn't seem like it had much life left in it.

[@katy_looo]

Love the "Dawn of the Dead" mall music!!!!

[@danidearest9999]

I love it when you curse. It makes me giggle for some reason.

[@williamzabel2080]

Not only did the Internet send these large malls into bankruptcy, but many of them were overbuilt to begin with. Experts predicted that the shopping mall would be replaced by small strip malls and it happened. of course back then the experts did not know about the internet. Here in Colorado we had the Cinderella Shopping Mall which if I remember correctly was three stories deep into the ground. They never did lease out most of it. It never got over fifty percent leased. They finally tore it down in the early 90's. Yep! The shopping mall is from a by gone era, but they sure were fun.

[@ReganMisfitGamer]

1:14 The ambient audio sounds.... it is just so damn surreal and perfect in every video!

[@mickeystar12]

The overall scenery/shop setup at 7:15 reminds me so much of Left 4 Dead 2 lol. Love these creepy explorations!

[@zeyprestige5110]

I'm getting a Silent Hill or a Resident Evil vibe here. 😊

[@princedkness8577]

Zey Prestige yes like central square shopping center in silent hill 3 creepy and unsettling

[@johnhoyle1647]

Wow forgot about the old subway wallpaper

[@kellter70]

saw a person walk by @ 5:44 while you were filming into the purple light room

[@isaacbashaw955]

That is extremely creepy. And can someone please change the music?! It's so eerie

[@TrashBandit097]

I think its Dan Bell & his friends reflection BUT off to the left, there is 3rd person. Look carefully and you will see Dans friend pass behind him & then a shadow off to the left. His friend couldn't make the distance in that little amount of time

[@Luubelaar]

It's Dan's friend who went with him. You see Dan and his friend just to the right of centre screen, then as his friend moves away, his reflection is re-reflected in the mirrors in the shop's interior and so can be seen moving at left of screen.

[@ginnydare13]

I grew up in this mall. My pediatrician even opened a pretzel shop here! Last time I went over 10 years ago, there was a sign at the entrance advising all patrons that their pants must be worn around their WAIST, and no backpacks or weapons allowed. And no running 😆

[@shazaidi]

I grew up in the Frederick County area. This mall was known as the lesser mall compared to the Francis Scott Key mall. I left the area when I went off to college in 2000. As you walked thru the mall I was surprised how little it changed while I roamed around there in the mid 90's. Every detail looks similar to what you showed in the video, even the movie theater graphics etc looked the same.

[@moe47988]

I wonder if he hears the music in his head as he is making these..

[@freebrickproductions]

What's up with that door opening sound at 4:27?

[@trapswish52]

right!

[@sandraquinn8969]

That was really creepy

[@midos6767]

Since the internet launched a few decades ago.. people now shop online. The internet caused these old malls to become ghost towns. Used to back in the day, people did all their shopping these huge malls because they had Sears & Roebuck, Montegomery Ward and all the department stores, jewelry stores, clothing stores, shoe stores..movie theaters & etc. Nowadays most shopping can be done online, even Sears sells online. The old shopping malls are now a relic from the past.

[@julieerin115]

+midos67 I don't like shopping online because of those shipping fees.

[@aubreyannanicole4064]

+Julie Erin that and also it don't always come out as how u like it

[@julieerin115]

aubreyanna nicole That too!

[@venomoussoliloquy]

+midos67 Does really depend though. The mall near my house is almost constantly busy. Especially closer to the holidays. Can't see it becoming a 'ghost town' for quite some time. Then again, none of the anchor stores have budged even a little. So that may have something to do with it.

[@mcbowl58]

+Julie Erin not only that I like to try on things before I buy it

[@graywhit9710]

Man...that old Subway wallpaper. I remember getting lost in those illustrations as a kid. They always looked kinda like something out of a science fiction novel, especially the cutaway picture of the man in the top hat sitting in the subway cart that's completely circular. The lady on the platform peering over into the tunnel never looked quite right to me.

[@BleuSkiddew]

A little history: The mall closed down mostly due to the anchors going to the new Francis Scott Key (FSK) mall they built about 5 miles away. The only thing keeping it on life support was the movie theater. Eventually Frederick approved construction of the Westview Promenade about 7 miles away which included a beautiful state of the art theater which effectively closed that mid-tier theater and any stores that were left promptly moved out. Update on Frederick Towne Mall: The building is still standing. Boscov's is still on one end and Home Depot took the other end, but neither one have mall access. A doctor is now the owner of the property, but he seems way to busy to even come up with a plan. I can't imagine he would be crazy enough to keep the building standing much longer since the neighborhood surrounding the mall is pretty low income and not in the best shape so there's little hope of any businesses wanting to move in even if it gets completely overhauled.

[@ohheyimstrikep9685]

So when I was little I used to live there at that mall the mall was my favorite place I have some picture if anyone ever wants to see what it looked like when it was open way back in the day truth be told I miss it it’s was a lot of fun my old church is across the street from that mall but the mall used to be filled every weekend until it one day people just stopped showing up and sadly it closed down the only parts that are still open are the boscos and that’s about it you can still walk in but security is always there if you wanna sneak in the best day to sneak in is on a Sunday security is lacking make sure you go in through the back

[@mrfreudfah9201]

Id like to see some pictures of it

[@zuicyde7277]

i'd like to see too!

[@temptor7585]

wait, so if your in Boscovs and go to the back of the store, you'll see out the window into an abandoned mall? What a STRANGE set up to say the least...at least put put a wall there so you cant see into the decrepit abandoned mall...

[@Greenwickpress]

Blazk0 Imagine working at Boscov's knowing your store was connected to this mall.

[@coydog7902]

I wonder what it would look like from the boscovs view

[@sweethartia]

CoyDog790 they blocked the window that faces the mall. So you can’t really see through it

[@LadyMeggo]

Johnny5 Tech honestly kinda cool tbh. I love checking it out when I’m there.

[@林半壁江山]

Dude what the hell happened at 4:28!?

[@NotTheCIA1961]

Ghost!

[@gonadbuster5025]

***** LOL.

[@jaffasholva7738]

A minute forward in the video you'll see there were lots of people there, so probably one of them. I would have soiled myself tho lol

[@csskiller9600]

+Jaffa Sholva a minute forward you see the filmer and his friend mirror reflection lol ..

[@jaffasholva7738]

+FearZ Cs Damn it, i really do need glasses. Saw movement left and right, but it's the same guy lmao

[@greatsource5405]

At what moment do people give up on something forever? For example 12:23 - someone was in the middle of mopping the floor of the Frederick Towne Mall, and then stopped, forever. Were they told to stop? Or did they just decide, that's enough, goodbye, leave the mop there, and walk away?

[@theCPU101]

THAT REFLECTION AT 5:43 SCARED THE SHIT OUT OF ME

[@SpiritBear12]

Check out the abandoned town of Centralia in Pennsylvania. Spooky

[@brandonmoretti5774]

that'd be amazing

[@LynneleWhite]

Yes!!!! Check out Centralia, PA! :D

[@MatthewThePrincess]

SpiritBear12 it'd be a cool video, but also boring. There's no buildings left. It'd have made for a very cool video maybe like 5 years ago.

[@SpiritBear12]

***** They flattened all the buildings and houses?

[@MatthewThePrincess]

SpiritBear12 I believe so. I think it's been just roads left for a few years now. I think all that's left is the church.

[@gmcenroe]

I saw someone walk by in distance around 5:40 from left to right

[@lorenzolopiccolo4302]

Glenn McEnroe That's a reflection from the mirrors on the walls

[@Rubacund]

This mall was always the secondary mall in Frederick, in the 1990s. I'm shocked to see it like this tho. Seems like Walmart, Costco and Amazon will be the only stores left in a few yrs.

[@zacharyvogel4331]

Bern wanting to explore the mall in Frederick, enjoy living vicariously through your videos, there are quite a few abandoned building in Hagerstown too if ur ever that far west

[@brennalarosa]

I didn't know about this place until my mom and I stopped here at the Boscov's, trying to find a food court to get cold drinks. I had never been to a mall like this, so it was so weird not being able to get into the mall and seeing all the empty shops.

[@Molly_A_Block]

That bicycle under the security gate...........why? How? WHY?? WEIRD!

[@lizerbe6067]

I think it would be a great idea when a mall or a store finally closes down entire mall they donate the usable materials to a non profit organization such as Habitat for Humanity. They operate stores that are kinda like goodwill but they resale used building materials. I think they even have crews of people who need to do community service come in and remove and load up materials. so it would be no cost to the mall management and they could use the donations as a tax write off win win for everyone.

[@88evileve88]

I was thinking the same thing.. The light fixtures and displays are not cheap! They could at least take the tax deduction.

[@martiansurgery]

Add a few Raiders and Fiends and youre in a Fallout Mall.. Its too bad some people just have to break glass, steal stuff, wreck walls for the hell of it. Sadly those are the same people youd have to put out of their misery during a real apocalypse

[@THEBaldEagle1]

Exceptional video tour Dan! Eerie and creepy and AMAZINGLY Accessible. Great job as always! Oh! And the DAWN OF THE DEAD soundtrack (aka: 'mall muzak music")...VERY COOL

[@gw3040]

something so eerie about empty malls. I guess it's because it makes you think about how it USED to be so busy and at one point in time the very floor tiles you're walking on, many people like you have walked on before too...