Exploring The Abandoned Bowmanville Zoo

[Music] okay what is up guys here we go again another awesome adventure I'm photography and right now where am i I'm in an abandoned Zoo first time for me I've never been in an abandoned Zoo before been into a few real zoos but never being been inside an abandoned Zoo I'm a little bit on edge cuz I've never never been here before I got no info on the place there's a there's an active place next door where people live there's a truck parked over there I don't know where the dude is that owns that truck with I'm on edge I don't know what's gonna happen but we're going to explore this place first thing - my music Hugh my interludes okay guys first things first the reason why I came here is because of this playground right here there is an amazing playground with a carousel and some little boats and little kid rides and it's very much overgrown and I love it so let's turn the camera around there you go right there there's a carousel got some sunshine on right there got those little boats that spin around in a circle then you got those littles like it's almost like a little tilt-a-whirl thing over there where you can control how much it spins and how much it tilts Pharos bends around how fat so I'm not gonna ride these rides cuz that would just be stupid and but this is it this is what I came here for I really wanted to get some pictures of this carousel and this little playground and now I'm gonna move on and see what else they got there's all kinds of animal looks their employers here so let's uh let's keep it going and move on this now abandoned Zoo was founded in 1919 and was once the oldest private zoo in North America another interesting fact is that this Zoo was also a large supplier of animals to the US film industry attendance at this now abandoned Ontario Zoo was around 100,000 people every year this figure dropped by more than two-thirds in its final year and the zoo officially closed late in 2016 in 2016 this zoo was consumed by controversy when the owner was filmed abusing animals this footage was secretly recorded by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals and released to the media which caused a fury of bad press and bad coverage which ultimately led to the closure of the zoo just short of its 100th year of service to the community ok guys so here we got a fish pond here and there's still some fish in there there's a goldfish but one thing I can see I don't know if you guys can see it but there's some it's definitely one little fishy living in there I finally stopped raining it was pouring rain earlier when I got here all I see is a bunch of leafs and really dirty water yeah and there's some where there's a gold star for sure okay guys here we got the birds he's a bird section here this thing here is called the bird building so I guess they must have kept lots of birds in there so we're gonna keep walking around here at the front entrance right now you got a kids playground alright moving on from the playground here is what I'm thinking was a monkey enclosure so yeah here's the what I think was a monkey enclosure and the reason why I think that this is cuz it's got stuff for them to climb over okay over here to this enclosure so see how this probably uh lemurs or some kind of little monkeys or something like that you so I'm gonna go ahead and take a guess that the rest of the zoo is gonna be just like this and over here for this and then she's just big empty enclosures because the only thing I saw of any real inch oh you know what there's also an auditorium an amphitheater where they had Tiger shows and stuff like that so hopefully we'll find that so okay another enclosure no animals no monkeys no lions that's a good thing let's keep going here's a much larger enclosure with some really tall trees something there for feeding on anybody who knows this place don't come don't say what the place is or where it is but maybe you can comment if you guys have been inside here you know what goes where maybe I can find a map before I leave and I'll be able to tell you guys what was weird looks like that's where the elephant escaped guys right there elephants escaped in here through this this wooden fence you know like we got to get out of here guys hey guys okay we're still here still at the zoo over there you got another enclosure you got a walkway and then we're gonna turn around and then we got a big bridge here we're gonna walk across this bridge and we're gonna see what's on the other side bridge is really slippery the water on both sides obviously with the bridge you got water now funny thing about this is on their way in I saw a bunch of salmon trying to swim upstream guys examine trying to swim upstream here there's a dead salmon right there and then there's a whole bunch of them trying to swim upstream that's crazy cool holy there's like five that's amazing hope they make it and down this way it has a dead one who didn't make it looks like a dead salmon I don't know if you guys can't see him down there there's a rock right here in the bottom right-hand corner and just above him there's a big old dead salmon it looks like he was trying to swim himself upstream and he got stuck poor guy but there's no salmon right now so that's too bad cuz that would have been pretty cool to show you guys alright all right moving on to the next side of the zoo another enclosure over here and that's all I have to say about that and oh yeah you know what I got to give a shout out to my boys have forgotten productions that's what the cult forgotten productions Canada there are a couple of guys who explore maybe one guy but they posted the video from here then we were chatting and I've been here a few times just scouting it out and seeing if I could get in but when we first came here there was somebody living in the building up front and there was a car parked here so we weren't quite sure if we should try so we didn't but then yesterday I saw a video and a picture from forgotten productions and we were chatting so a huge shout out to them huge props to those guys for getting in here I'm not sure if anybody else has been in here yet but those guys got in posted a video good job I'll link their video down below and their page you guys to follow himself shoutout to forgotten productions let's get it okay hope you guys get here okay it's pretty windy in here or out here I mean not only sure how big this place is just keep walking through so there's a small enclosure here it basically looks like it goes right here goes around in a little circle so this is probably where they would have either elephants or maybe llamas or camels or some like that and they would take the kids on little rides here so I'm guessing that's right there where they'd walk them through stand up on top of there get on top of the elephant take a little walk around kids cry screen get scared there is the auditorium I believe where they would have done shows so that's what we're gonna go now okay guys let's take a walk and check out the auditorium hopefully we can get in say animal enclosures on both sides of the auditorium so you can see now I believe they did tiger shows so I'm wondering if these were tiger in kilometers and I must theater and in my theater yeah main entrance to the theater I'll take a walk around and see if I can get inside okay guys this is crazy we are inside the amphitheater turn some lights on here we get a disco ball tiki torches [Music] okay guys so there's uh sections for things for the animals to jump on here's uh here's a holy guys I'm gonna know where to start oh so here's a cage where they keep something in here's one of those things where the I'm guessing like a tiger would walk inside and do circles giant toothbrush that's crazy all kinds of different harnesses leashes another cage yeah more tools and things for all the different animal stunts that they would do some crazy masks here weird masks that I guess the staff beware there's a Jason mask up there animal masks more harnesses there's your whips where they would whip the animal Wow for whipping the animals and then watching this guys turn around and look at this here we are in the app theater this is cool let it just go ball up there - pretend palm trees seeds lights and then here's your whole stage area elephants this is crazy guys all right I gotta take some pictures I'll be back I gotta turn my light on what's this Sheol barn inventory metal why crooks meat sticks leashes and one can of carnivore repellent wait look at that saber wild max bear attack deterrent so that's what you use when you want to be not attacked by a bear okay guys and then there's your whips there's all your whips bear attack hey guys we're still here don't like the zoo and I'm in the auditorium still going up to the top of the auditorium take a look around so there's the doors in right there here's your light control all your seats there's your main stage there so this is really cool guys super cool on this side here now so yeah there's your main control you control your sound and your lights and all you're doing keys and stuff and then you go there's your seats ladies your seats okay I'm gonna take some more pictures hope you guys do liking this one okay guys this is hilarious now knowing the history of this place that I won't quite say right now I'm gonna read you guys something so here's your your pre-show they probably this is what they read to the crowd welcome the crowd tell them no smoking turn off their cell phones and remain seated animals may venture out do not touch them exit the way you mentor sident exits are for emergency and wheelchair use only our animals are professionals feel free to take pictures and videos no flashing lights beat Tigers please please please enjoy the show this beat Tigers is clearly not in the same handwriting as the person who wrote I think that's pretty funny nice okay guys we're going for a walk down the catwalk here I shake my little tush on the catwalk who knows that reference so this is a obviously the upper area of the tiger sure so that's where the Tigers would hang out down there there's lots of tiger poop down there I bet if I was to walk down in there we got some electric electric fencing and stuff to keep them from escaping I almost said ex caping danger do not enter cat on exhibit okay like how do I call them cats freaky Tigers okay take your time be right back everybody let's walk through the overgrown overgrown cat walk cat exhibit this way a whole bunch of spider webs hate spiders I'll see when they're in my face face in the first catwalk I do my little dance on the catwalk there you go check it out guys call the tire little Tigers what a life what a life for a tiger like some sprinklers and hoses and stuff that just don't water all over the place that's where all the moms and dads would sit there and that's where all the kids would scream and freak out all right all these guys okay guys I think that vote does it for this one for the abandoned zoo it's been okay I spent way more time here than I thought I would but yep some cool stuff beside the amphitheater amphitheater we saw all the stuff back there we saw some animal enclosures we saw the rides the carousel pretty cool well if anybody's ever seen rocky first rocky and the Rockies trying to figure out what to do with Adrian who were to take her on their first date the Mafia guy he says take her to the zoo anyways so I'm at the zoo by myself though so hope you guys have liked it the only animals we saw were some squirrels that's the only animal that this is you guys a squirrel okay that's all we get we get to look at a squirrel eating a nut and some salmon swimming upstream okay watch this guys there's salmon trying to swim up screen can you see them but thanks for watching as always there's lots of cool adventures coming up in the future so keep it locked here on photography follow my boys urbex Carlo riddim rider don't forget to follow forgotten productions the guys who got me tipped off on this spot to get in here so thanks a lot guys keep it real I'll see you next time peace [Music] [Music] you