Love your videos. Your pace, your mic style, the sounds and sights you capture. Lots of tubers try to fill every second with information or talking. You seem to know how to let the nature or scene have its say. Look forward to every adventure you take us on. Thank you.

@NickP

4 жыл бұрын

Admin Visser hear, hear

@Jen-zk9se

4 жыл бұрын

Admin Visser - Well said 👏

@user-lm8fx6kc1b

4 жыл бұрын

I agree

@VintageMdrummer

4 жыл бұрын

I agree! Great video... not overly narrated. There is beauty in “space”

@NickP

4 жыл бұрын

Admin Visser No offense to some people.. but some people act as if it’s a privilege to hear them speak lol. They don’t come up for air and take way too long to get to the purpose of the video. They also tend to post way too many videos. I think it comes from overall compulsion... Anyhow, that’s not the case with this awesome channel.

I love that you were able to find photos and footage of many of the things you found, presenting a wonderful “then and now” picture. Thanks for the video.

@jamey48

4 жыл бұрын

There was quite a few videos on this place on KZread. I looked them up. My father use to work there as a teenager. I was there once myself, don't remember much. It was still open. But not a lot left to it by then. That would have been sometime in the 70's.

@thomas-rs1vb

4 жыл бұрын

Wow it's just so hard to do a Google search I am fighting the footage online. Give me a f****** break probably took the guy less than 5 minutes. Go and do a Google search for this for this area and you will find all the same pictures and more.

@thomas-rs1vb

3 жыл бұрын

@assblood this coming from someone who calls their Channel ass blood. I'm sorry if I made fun of your little Hobby that's remind you of your childhood when you used to hide something and then make a treasure map for your friends to find LOL.. you're telling me to get a life when you're interested and put somebody down who is simply giving their opinion. Yeah it's just so exciting to waste a bunch of gas money driving to certain coordinates. Get out of the car walk not more then at the most a mile. Most of them are not very even far off the road. Then go find these spots where you really see nothing more then a ledger or something and maybe some bottles of water and some snacks. You sign your name saying that you've been there and what time. Maybe leave some snacks of your own or a little something and then off to the next. This is just so f****** fun if you were a little kid. Cuz my son got interested in this until we went on a road trip to find these. After about finding three pretty close together in Washington State. In western Washington. My son was completely bored with it and we turn the road trip into something completely different. In the 90s my band used to tour all around the United States and other countries. One of my bandmates used to subscribe to this magazine. In this magazine it told us of many spots throughout the u.s. that had these Geo casting coordinates. Same thing happened. We stopped at two or three of them saw how f****** lame they were and discontinued going to any more. I tried to tell my son when he has asked to do this later. That it was completely stupid and basically a waste of time. That my seven-year-old son likes finding things. So of course being the cool father that I am and knowing this was completely a waste of time. We took off to go find these only for him who is 7 years old. To realize himself that this was completely boring and a waste of time. By this time we were near the ocean in Westport in Washington State. So we just chartered a fishing boat and went fishing instead and had so much more fun. What it cost to go on that fishing boat I would have paid twice as much going to all the spots that my son wanted to go to in Washington and Oregon to find these stupid Geo casting sites. So I'm sorry that I put down your stupid little Hobby. It probably is fun and interesting for the brain dead like you. It must be so exciting for you to go to these spots & your name to The Ledger. Oh but you're saying my life is shity. I do things like hang glide and skydive. We ride motorcycles and jet skis and snowmobiles in the winter time. I dive for the local sheriff's department and now have taught my son. like this summer me and my son went to the Caribbean and we Scuba dived looking at ships that sunk hundreds of years ago. so you have fun with your life driving to these stupid places barely off the road. only to find this Geo casting spot simply to basically sign your name saying you've been there. wow that sounds so much more funner and so much more of a life then hang gliding or skydiving or scuba diving to a sunken pirate ship that's hundreds of years old. so you continue with your awesome Adventures Geo casting. and I will stick with my shity boring life LOL

@thomas-rs1vb

3 жыл бұрын

@assblood you know you read every word. Also I'm really sorry you have such a small mind that you don't realize that there's something like talk-to-text feature. And also maybe someone like you who is as slow as you are using one finger it might take you 30 minutes to type all that. But someone like me on a computer that would take no more than a few minutes maybe 5 minutes tops using my phone. But I hate to disappoint you. But just like when I wrote this comment and just like I wrote the last comment I was simply using a talk-to-text feature that most Samsung or Apple phones have. And again you know you read every damn word just like you're going to read every word of this. If you didn't bother to read everything you wouldn't have bothered to reply. That's because you know my comment got to you. And I'm sure this won't be the end of it I bet you'll come back with some other moronic statement

@thomas-rs1vb

3 жыл бұрын

@assblood and also you said that I'm beneath you intellectually, socially, and economically.. then you don't even use punctuation correctly and you run on your sentences. But you're such an intellect aren't you. Then why you just saying that really everybody else who reads this how much a moron you really are.

A friend of mine visited this place with his family in 1965, when he was 12. He’s very nostalgic about this and all the fun he had.

@larryambrose2660

2 ай бұрын

It was a great place. The dance hall building was a beautiful old building that should still be standing and used today. It was a great place.

Love the footage of it in operation to compare to how it sits now!

Amazing how fast nature takes over if left alone

@MrHans818

4 жыл бұрын

Nature will overtake anything man has built if not not maintained.

@99ramairgt

4 жыл бұрын

It’s been 40 years, but looks like it’s been untouched for 100. Nature is amazing

@jeremyrouth557

4 жыл бұрын

But what’s more amazing is he said parts of it had been cleared 20 years ago when the property was bought.

@toughmanrandysavage3077

4 жыл бұрын

@@99ramairgt they actually cleared all the trees in this property back in 2013 this is only 6 years of growth.

@toughmanrandysavage3077

4 жыл бұрын

@@jeremyrouth557 not 20 more like 6 years.

Went there many times in the 1950's. Lived in Olmsted Falls and was allways excited when our family went there.

@larryambrose2660

2 ай бұрын

When I was a kid I lived in Berea and my Aunt and Uncle lived in Chippewa. I've had thoughts of buying a place there.

Chippewa Lake was acquired by Continental Business Enterprises in 1969, and the company developed plans to transform the park into more of a summer resort; these plans, however, drew very little public interest and funding and most of the plans were scrapped. The park would later close in 1978 - which was the park's centennial season - under the company's ownership, owing to factors like competition from nearby Cedar Point and the now defunct Geauga Lake amusement parks, as well as the decline of steel and rubber production in the surrounding areas. It was largely unknown to the public that the park's 100th season would be its last; the park closed rather secretly without any big media coverage or massive public outcry. When the park shut down, former owner Parker Beach made a request to his family that he be buried there when he died, to which his family agreed.[citation needed] The site where Beach's body is buried in the park is unknown. In the 2007 documentary, "Welcome Back Riders", at the very end, it said Be respectful if you try to find Parker Beach's Grave. Let him enjoy his park in peace. ...It's by the roller coaster.

@dianecree825

4 жыл бұрын

RayinPa U.S.A. Thank you for citing the documentary, I was unaware. Tremendously enjoyed watching it.

@stevenr6797

4 жыл бұрын

I'm taking a shovel, will let you know what is by the rollercoaster...just kidding

@philz7462

4 жыл бұрын

@Fuzzy Butkus this is Chippewa lake get a grip

@philz7462

4 жыл бұрын

@@NoirAngel921 he's there

@yolandathorpe5855

3 жыл бұрын

@Fuzzy Butkus its been closed since the late 80's /early 90's

Random fact: there actually used to be a railway that ran from Cleveland to this park that is also defunct. And also the son of the second owner Parker Beach was rumored to be buried somewhere on the site at his request to his family. Interesting place. Been on the lake many times and it's creepy as hell to see the rusty ferris wheel over the tree tops. Edit: the random fact is the railway. It was called the inter-urban. The part about Parker is a rumor. Does anyone remember reading???!

@shaunclifton5281

4 жыл бұрын

Wow. So, he is supposedly still buried out there ?

@bradenmyers151

4 жыл бұрын

@@shaunclifton5281 no he got up and left a couple weeks ago. Needed a new scene.

@shaunclifton5281

4 жыл бұрын

@@bradenmyers151 Familes DO change grave locations if there are any descendants left.

@bradenmyers151

4 жыл бұрын

@@shaunclifton5281 I know man, I was just messing around with you. If I upset you, I apologize.

@hockeyteeth

4 жыл бұрын

@@bradenmyers151 Dude, you just made me laugh so hard. 😂👏👏👏

The vintage films you show really add to the experience too, keep up the great work!!

I SUBSCRIBED because of your way of describing the findings. You are down to earth and very likable, thank you.

As always, you have done a fantastic job locating the unusual! Thanks for sharing!!!

Yes Chippewa Lake that’s the I was down there very very small like about five or 10 years old but I remember it and I’m 55 years old now so yes I do remember that Chippewa Lake amusement park.

I grew up in Chippewa Lake, what a great place to have a childhood. The ferris wheel was advertised as the fastest in Ohio. The view of the lake was spectacular from the top. Too many memories to post here. Such a sad ending for a truly wonderful park. Thanks for sharing your adventure.

@sherriianiro747

4 жыл бұрын

We used to go there too but why was it abandoned like that and blighted? When Geauga Lake closed they sold practically everything but did not leave the rest to rust away. I heard Chippewa Lake was sold to a developer & new homes were built there but obviously that was wrong information. Too bad they didn't make it a wildlife preserve or park.

@Julzy20032000

3 жыл бұрын

Cbus here. What was this place called??

@halapino5473

3 жыл бұрын

@@Julzy20032000 The park in the video was Chippewa Lake Park

@Julzy20032000

3 жыл бұрын

@@halapino5473 was it close to the old Geaga Lake Waterpark?

@halapino5473

3 жыл бұрын

Chippewa Lake was probably 40 or 50 miles southwest of Geauga Lake

"Urine luck!" Wrong! Just wrong Chris! 🤣

Memories of happiness,haunted by time. Love the vintage footage editing. Great video.

All the metal looks like art especially with nature growing on it! Beautiful thank you!

I love the urinals just in the middle of the woods exposed. The aesthetics of abandoned places is so interesting to me. Between your channel and the Proper People I've learned and seen so many things and I appreciate you for that. I have started seeking out abandoned places for photography in large part due to your channel and I thank you for turning me on to this hobby!

Absolutely AWESOME video. I love how you incorporated some original footage of the place when it was open.

I was lucky enough to explore this place with my dad, mother and cousin back in 2001. The swinging cages were still there and they were my dad’s favorite ride back in the 60’s and he was actually able to get them to function as much as the overgrowth would allow. It’s too bad you didn’t make it there prior to that idiot kid setting that beautiful ballroom on fire. It was treacherous walking around in there but it was beautiful nonetheless. They tore the wooden coaster down in 2009 but I have videos taken by my mother of me climbing the lift hill. I went back numerous times over the years, the most recent with my stepson. The only selfie I have ever taken was me and him standing below the Ferris wheel. Interesting fact about that Ferris Wheel, it was the fastest in the state in it’s day. That tumble bug is one of only THREE left in existence and the damn thing has been rotting away for 41 years.

@vegashdrider

2 жыл бұрын

The best thing in this comment is that you’ve only taken one selfie, bless you!!

@maulressurected4405

2 жыл бұрын

It was fun to explore as a kid, it was really fun before the ballroom fire, did you explore the old Beach house?

So interesting to see how nature takes over these long forgotten places you find. Thanks for sharing this and the Observatory last week..fun to google these places you take us to and find out what they were like in their prime. Enjoy your holiday weekend!

I love when you find old pictures or video to show what it used to look like. Really gives you a sense of age. I would be afraid to walk through all that brush. Not sure what poison sumac or ivy looks like.

Now, that was a great explore! Loved the fact that it was really old and had many of the old rides I had ridden on in my youth. Thanks for the memories and for keeping places like this alive!

Great job editing, love the old footage inserts. Thank you

Makes a huge plus with your cuts to actual park footage film. Thanks the the exploration 👍🏻

The flash back to the old footage really paints a complete story. Thank you for sharing!

AND, I love that you find the old photos of the place you're exploring back in its heyday.

You do a really good job presenting your videos. the old footage on this one is pretty amazing!! Thanks for sharing it!

The Discovery Channel did a series called “Life After Humans” about what happens to civilization after it is abandoned. 40 years of abandonment and this amusement park is covered by woods, nature reclaiming what man had built. Bottom line of every episode of “Life After Humans”: After 10,000 years there will be virtually no trace that man was ever here. Even concrete and steel will disintegrate and everything will be covered by dirt and overgrown with vegetation.

@suebennett9347

4 жыл бұрын

Yes....and the earth will be healed!

@tev5040

4 жыл бұрын

SUE BENNETT Well, except for the near permanent pollution. But eventually that will go away too.

@Brwneydgrl69

4 жыл бұрын

4/10/20 And after a few weeks of being told to stay at home... The air is clearer. The animals are alive and well. Humans ARE the problem on Mother Earth.

@DeathracerXD

3 жыл бұрын

well guess what WE AINT FUCKING LEAVIN

@Brwneydgrl69

3 жыл бұрын

@@supercoolyguy And you perhaps learn what personal responsibility is! 😂😂

As a youngster, growing up in the Cleveland area, we'd go to Chippewa Lake Amusement Park every summer. Good times! AND that was the single scariest (meaning REALLY FAST) Ferris Wheel of any amusement park of it's day. BUT still we'd go on it every single summer! This is a bittersweet video. Time, as they say, marches on. But those fun memories from over 50 years come back vividly! And they remain for us old-timers, a comfort!

I always wanted to go there when I lived in Akron, glad to see you covered it. Awesome video thanks for the history.

This gentleman who puts these videos together is absolutely fantastic in my eyes! He has incredible knowledge about what he shows video of and takes you there as if you are there! Some of these things I wasn't even aware of in history until I started watching this gentleman's videos and I'm grateful for it! I'm not saying I'm smarter for it but I am a little more well informed now! 😀😁

Great Vid Man! What a feeling it must of been filming this up close....I loved how U matched up the old footage with each ride found! Amazing

Love everything about your videos. You can tell you put a lot of work into them. Some people just show the ruins but you go a step further and show what it looked like before it fell into disrepair and I love the history.

Echoes of a simpler time still resounding through the years...

@larryambrose2660

2 ай бұрын

It was great to be a kid wasn't it?

This was an absolute treasure! Great job finding the old video of it as well!

That is sooooo cool on so many levels. Love that you showed what it looked like back in the day with people in line. Loved this tour! 👌🏻👍🏻👌🏻

We use to drive out there with our small children 20yrs ago just to look. I'm from Brady Lake Ohio, we had a Amusement Park at the lake as well. My grandparents built a summer home when it was 1st developed and my parents live there to this day. My father you to visit Chippewa as a child. In fact his band he's had since high school use to play at Chippewa lake. Many memories at that park. I grew up and worked at Geagua Lake Park. My kids grew up going as well. Are you familiar with Brady Lake Amusement Park or the Amusement park that was in Stow Ohio. Think it was called Silver Lake Park. Ohio had MANY Amusement parks in the Late 1800's, early 1900's I'm a 70's baby, my father and grandparents use to take us to the older parks when we were little. Conneaut Lake park on OH/PA border is probably the oldest park remaining that we still visit annually. I love ther history of the old parks!

@richardmorris7063

4 жыл бұрын

I went to conneaut lake Park in the late 60s.still in operation.

That was really cool. So beautiful to see. Thanks for sharing. The sound of nature you caught in the backround was so very clear.

The overgrowth looks much older than the early 2000s. I agree with the OP who said it closed it 1978.

Your videos are brilliant, but most of all it’s the respect you show to the places you go too, good work keep it up.

Hauntingly beautiful. I love that sounds of the birds. Thanks for sharing your adventures.

Awesome video! Something I hadn't ever heard of. Love abandoned amusement parks. You should go back in the winter!!

I love all the old places and how it looks now!!!😊🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉Thanks!!!

Your videos take me to a relaxing fun filled world of exploration. You are the Apex of all abandoned world videos. Your voice and narrations are a God given talent... Your video work as well. I like your face too.. so pleasant. Thank you for your great work.

@MobileInstinct

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Susan, much appreciated

@susaneirthug415

4 жыл бұрын

I'm so happy to tell ya!

Very well done. The viewer can feel the respect the person making this has. As others have said, no overblown narration, just enough words to convey what he was thinking. When he didn't know what something was, he said so rather than make something up. THIS is the way a KZread video should be put together. Well done sir.

I just love your work. The before and after makes it more meaningful. Thank you for what you do.

Beautifully done video..really enjoyed the old footage and comparison to then and now...well done.

Amazing! Thanks for sharing!

Love the sound of the bird in the background. Excellent cinematography.

Great find. Hauntingly eerie but so cool. You find the greatest places! Keep up the great adventures!

Yes, those objects that still moved looked like the counter weights for a ride that was like a caged swing that you stood inside and moved by swaying. You included some old film from days gone by! Great video, great adventure! Thanks for taking us along!

your videos are so easy to watch....thank you!

Love your videos man, keep up the good work!

OMG, I am so impressed with this video. Thank you for sharing such a forgotten place.

Such an awesome video!! It’s amazing how nature just reclaims what is left behind.

I love the thorough presentation of your locations enhanced by the archival footage. No dramatic music and especially no staging. I have unsubbed from other exploration channels for shameless staging. Keep up the good work.

Great video as usual. The old footage was an awesome touch!

You did a great job! I love the research you did. Bless you!😇🙏❤

😮 you are in my side yard! I would never have known about these amazing finds!

@maurice5402

4 жыл бұрын

Did you go and visit? I wish there was more abandoned stuff near my town, I'd be all over it lol

Love your videos and you really go above and beyond to do your vlogs, Abalutely amazing Chris.

it's cool the way nature reclaims everything.

I live in medina about 15 mins from there. I never knew that existed until now. Great video and thanks for the tour!

I especially liked the research you did and the pictures and footage from back when the amusement park was in operation, and showing us what everything looks like now.

Really enjoy your podcasts. I have always loved exploring creepy, abandoned places. Keep up the good work!

So cool you find and preserve these hidden gems digtially 👍

It’s certainly cool the comparison from then to now with that old footage . Your research skills are amazing considering your on the road . Awesome discover Chris 🤙🏻

What an amazing find! Thank you!

Great video as always, Thanks!

Amazing find! The way the trees grow through the tracks is beautiful

Why is it so sad to see abandoned amusement parks? 😢

@newmanoutdoors1564

4 жыл бұрын

For me its something that was a big part of my childhood and all the smaller ones are going away .

@edvaira6891

4 жыл бұрын

Because you realize that this place REALLY MEANT SOMETHING NICE FOR A LOT OF PEOPLE for a very long time...and that it just...slowly vanished...like all of us will one day

@jennamurphy4144

4 жыл бұрын

I think they're beautiful

@jodysanders1111

4 жыл бұрын

Memories of happiness.

@milojanis4901

4 жыл бұрын

Because your childhood is gone forevermore, and slowly, the places you had some of the best times of your life will disappear, too.

Beautiful beautiful shots there. Thanks for the adventure

Mobile Instinct. Brilliant as usual , can't wait to see where you will go next

Thanks for sharing. Enjoyed the history.

Very cool!! Love that you showed video of what it used to look like.

It's so cool to see how it looked when it was still operational. Love these hidden discovery videos

I remember going there as a child for my dad's shop picnic.my favorite ride was the space ships near the waters edge. Explored it back in the early 2000s. Looking at Google maps most of it is housing development. I hope they didn't disturb the grave.

Very cool! Thanks for sharing!

Wowies!!! Awesome vid, kiddo!!! I love these kinds of old school places. It's wild to think how occupied and open it once was, and now is just buried into the abyss of nature's camouflage. Fantastic find/vid!!!👍💖👍

Very cool. My mom worked there during the summer when she was in high school and college. She told me lots of stories from that time.

3:57 - "Leaves of three, let it be."

@johnswoboda9809

3 жыл бұрын

I was thinking the same thing. Absolutely horrible amount of poison ivy in there. "Hairy rope, don't be a dope".

You always show the coolest places!

My man ya never disappoint. Great job. Keep it up. Looking forward to ur next one.

Very well put together... Thanks Man

Thanks for taking us really cool places! :)

Great after and before photos well done thank you....

What a good video so many good memories probably made there by family's. I found it heart breaking that its like that now

That track is amazing and looks so cool going through the trees!

That was a nice find and it shows what happens when nature takes it back. Great video and great job Chris !

Amazing, I love how nature made it beautiful again. I'm not sure if beautiful is the right word . But truly architecture and nature beautiful.

Cool find. Thanks for sharing it.

Thank you for the video, I really enjoyed the way you presented it.

Nice tour. I love old amusement parks and it is great that you add the archived footage as well. I’d give that 👍👍

Always look forward to your videos,Mobile

Thank you for sharing your adventure.

WOW great find man...lv the videos!

It is truly amazing the power of nature. Awesome video!

I just recently found your channel and subscribed. I enjoy seeing old abandoned places/ points of interest - especially amusement parks. You do amazing narrations in your videos! Great video!!!

Excellent.. the old footage mixed in is unexpected and fascinating. You really spoil us man ! Time travel !

This is so cool!!!! I can imagine what it looked like back then!!!! Pat

Love that you find these places of yesteryear. You’re a modern day Huell Howser👍