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I worked as an Activities Director in an assisted living & you both are correct. Either 1 individual, or a couple lived here until they went into a nursing home, hospital or passed away. Sometimes families don't want to be bothered with dealing with (or are unable to) their loved ones belongings after and so it's left.
We flew to the UK to help my great aunt clean up her home after our great uncle passed away, and this house is exactly like this minus the walls and ceiling falling apart. This was just a couple of months after he passed, but that's how it looked it. They all first started grabbing things they wanted to keep, imp documents, mementos, EVERYTHING. But that meant turning the place upside down, so there were just mountains of clothes on all the beds, just random shit lying on the floor. This kinda makes me sad.
Agreed. All those kiddie pools catching leaks?! That would suggest long-term lack of care for the roof. The last owners might not have been able to afford it. Still, what an absolute shame to see such a cool home rot like this. Wonder why they never took out a loan against the value of the place to cover the roof? At least preserve it till they could sell it on to someone who COULD afford to maintain it.
vena thunderbird I just wonder have you thought about leaving your house to a local charity or similar? Its just an idea. If your son can't or won't do anything with it. It would be a wonderful act of kindness to help the homeless perhaps. I hope you don't mind my suggestion.
Abandon houses make a get a weird feeling. It's like the family was going about their day laughing, cooking, sleeping, etc. Then all the sudden they all dropped everything and ran out the door and never returned. So sad and weird
Does anyone else kinda wonder if maybe one day some old person will watch one of these videos and realize they're exploring their childhood home? It makes me so sad for some reason :(
Don't worry about what the guy below you said, he suffers due to deeply rooted issues with his mother which give him the inability to be around or talk to women.
Abandoned places are SO MUCH COOLER when vandals don't destroy everything. This was amazing to see. Wish every abandoned place could stay this untouched.
Sad that it was probably abandoned after the owners died. Grandparents who bought toys for grandkids who stopped by once in awhile and the the kids moved away and forgot about them..... very sad.
The single most important thing to maintain on a house is the roof. Once the roof starts leaking it's the beginning of the end for the house and everything in it.
If there was any family why wouldn't they have sorted all of there affairs out including the house, i suppose some people deal with grief in different ways
These type of videos really get to me. I'm a very nostalgic person and vintage belongings and old houses are so interesting to me but always make me depressed for some reason. To see a place frozen in time gives me this weird but kinda comforting feeling, as if I had stepped in a time capsule and went back 30-40 years ago, and it's just I imagined it - peaceful.
Sizzlin Moe Szyslak I mean yes but without "stuff" life becomes boring. I'm not saying you need all the newest iPhones and newest tv or whatever, but "stuff" also helps you keep up and enjoy lives of those who you aren't able to see anymore whether it be distance or passing on. If we didn't have "stuff", then we would basically work, sit at home doing nothing and sleep. Then repeat.
@@johnmcjohnson4265 When I watched and saw photos, knick knacks, lamps, clocks etc I knew that at one time they all were "valuable" and meant something to someone or someones. That is the part that gives me the nostalgic feelings that tinge with a touch of sadness. I think of my parents they also had many things that meant allot. I have a few things of theirs but not many. The same will become of what I and my wife deem to be "valuable" to us and our family.
Oh I was just being sarcastic, there's a tabloid STAR newspaper, headline sais "Spicy New Soap Opera breaks TV Sex Barrier" . .oohhh.. secrets..., ;)~ thought that was funny. Although, that does say something about their reading level and ... intellect maybe? .. .
The history of a house where people lived, dreamed, laughed and loved Soo sad to see, thanks guys for being respectful to both the house the owners and the contents
This, so far, was the most touching abandoned place! The house preserved a spirit inside, that no movie can recreate! I loved it! Brought tears to my eyes!
Makes me curious about the history of the house. If I were involved in walking abandoned houses I would want to go to the library & research the property. Seeing all the signs of an elderly person living in that HUGE house -brings tears to my eyes! That last person must have been alone since no family returned to collect the family belongings...😢
Kitchens at the back of old homes is not that uncommon. The bedroom you walked through to get to the kitchen was probably not originally a bedroom. It could've been a formal dining room or a parlor.
That’s what I was thinking I was thinking they made that into a bedroom because of the elder person needed taken care of because of the special bed they showed and I’m guessing the elder passed away and they couldn’t live there knowing he passed there or something or maybe it was their house and the children or wife/husband couldn’t pay the bills who knows just so sad all that was left behind
Whenever I find a place that was abandoned around the early 2000s I get slightly disappointed, because I was a kid during that time, but then I remember we're almost 2 decades into the 2000s and I realize the place has been abandoned for a while, then I feel old lol.
It's funny, age is such a relative thing, but the one common thread is that we all feel old on some level, at least when you look at certain things and then measure your own timeline against them. I laughed when I read that you were a kid during the 2000's (I was a kid in the early 80's), but that thing with time, and age, it's universal...not to disappoint you, but what the old folks say is true, it really does speed up as you get older. The last 20 years have flown by for me, the first 20 went by so slowly relative these last few. Don't waste a day if you can avoid it...
I feel like I’m prying into someone’s life... as fascinating as it is, I feel guilty for watching... we are seeing someone’s entire life... the place where they felt the most safe... such a strange feeling lol
It is very rare and rewarding to find an abandoned place that is not looted or graffitied. I liked your adventure, full of details and ideal for use the imagination. Happy Holidays guys.
It feels dirty going through someone else's home. Even if it's abandoned. Feels wrong to me. I won't want strangers taking videos of my deceased Grandmothers house D:
saddest part is the medical bed and buckets and wading pools all over the place as the dying owner attempted to save the house from a massively leaking roof that they could no longer afford to repair. Nice area if nobody broke in and stole their stuff in all those years.
I feel like a grandparent parent had been living there alone a long time and then suddenly passed away so the kids did there best to save the house but couldn't bare the pain of the memories there and left it.
Probably more they didn't want to spend the 50k to repair all of the damage that happened from neglecting the roof. Could have been an 8k repair but multiplied quickly.
Ok, this is pretty scary. Many of the items in that house I recognize as my parent's had them in their home. It seems most items are circa 50's through 70's here. My guess is that (judging by the clothing) the house was lived in by a older woman, and she passed. Perhaps the family might have been estranged or perhaps not lived nearby and the house was simply forgotten about. But it is certainly an interesting time capsule and like I said, I found it scary because one after another, I recognized stuff that was in my parents home. For example at 8:57, the star shaped glass candle holder. My parent's had those and when they passed, I took them, so they are still within my possession. Also all the Elvis pictures. My mother was a big fan of Elvis and some of the pictures she had as well. The double arced headboards was popular in the 70's and even though my parent's bed didn't have one, many of their friends and my aunt and uncle had that style headboard in the 70's. Given the buckets there to catch the water from the leaking ceiling, it did seem like (initially) the place was looked after. It could be that the family just figured it would be too much work to clear out, fix up the house and sell it, so they just left it behind. It is a shame as the house has an amazing looking main staircase and has nice moldings around the doors. On the second floor that colonial couch in the hall at 12:03 (to the right, not the one in the back)...yep, my parents had a similar style one in their living room. Wow! At the end, those dormers on the outside of the house. It is really a shame that it was left to rot. Sadly, the only future I see for that place is that it will be razed with everything inside of it.
This is what happens to your life after you are dead. This is what happens to old peoples houses when they get too sick to do anything. All the stuff you think is so important ends up as just garbage. This person got sick, was taken away, then past away and there was no one in there life who even cared to clean it up and sell it. These should be a lesson that personal relationships and family are more important then stuff.
Or...they cared too much. I had an Aunt who refused to go through the home of her twin. She wouldn't/couldn't as her loss was too painful. She left the house as it was and would not allow us to clear it.
After my mom died, my father locked their bedroom and kept it exactly as it was that morning, for 10 years. After a couple years, I snuck in and made a lot of the dirty laundry disappear. I knew he had finally stopped grieving when he unlocked the room and started using it again.
Pat Stokes you have a point but a lot of the owners were pre baby boomer . Growing up with nothing , living through the depression , some unable to go to school or were pulled out so they could work to help their family. And many had large families with all those mouths to feed . Then World War 1. and world war 2 ......just a way different era than what the late 50’s and forward experienced .
My heaart slightly broke when I saw the pictures and the envelope that said "I love you, Eve." I don't know why but things like that, especially when it has the name of someone with it.
I have a little background on this house, although I don't know how accurate it is.The historic property was built by a wealthy businessman and farmer in 1876 and sold to his wife in 1911 for $5,300. She sold the home following the Wall Street Crash in 1929 for $6,500, however the new owner couldn’t keep up the repayments on the loan and it was foreclosed in 1937. In 1943 it was sold again and remains in the same family, but has been abandoned since the 1980's. For awhile it operated as a boarding school and hair salon (don't know when sorry). The home is not registered as a historic place as of November of this year.
Andrew Denson I grew up in MS. The state is a treasure trove of abandonment. It's mainly because it's so poor and rural, plus people just tend to leave things alone.
Colorado Cowboy and for the love of satan himself learn how to use the right your you stupid fuck i take it the better school in the better country has failed you. What a piece of shit.
This house is insanely beautiful. It’s got so much character. So sad to see it left behind like that. Looks to me like an elderly women lived there for a while by herself. Looks similar to my grandmothers before she passed with the photos, decor, etc.
Yes.. I wondered myself how they got there. Likely by the homeowner themselves, or by a family member who went back trying to salvage some personal belongings, just to minimise the damage, but they never returned. Very sad.
My same thoughts Laura. I've "cleaned out" after my grandmother passed, and then my uncle several years later. We got what was important to us, and sold the rest, including the houses.
"This Gothic Revival-style home was built in 1876. The original owner was a prominent merchant and farmer in the area from 1869 to the early 20th century. After purchasing half a city block, the merchant contracted a local construction company and paid them $4,000 to build his 5,000 square foot residence on one of the lots. In 1911, the merchant sold the home to his wife for $5,300. He died six years later and the widow never remarried. She sold the home for $6,500 in 1929 following the crash of the stock market. In 1937, in the depths of the Depression, Home Owners’ Loan Corporation (HOLC) foreclosed on the new owner. HOLC sold the property in 1943 and it has remained in the same family ever since. During the 1950s, the downstairs rooms were used as a boarding house. The homeowner had a home beauty parlour on the right-side downstairs which was her main source of income. Over the years, the home was passed through family members but ultimately became abandoned in the late 1980s. The current homeowner was a well-known lounge singer in the area during the 1960s and 1970s. She had four siblings, including one brother who began writing graphic crime novels while living in the home with her. In 1965, after 21 crime novels and several short stories under his belt, he decided to quit and move to Atlanta to open a printing business and start a family. To his credit, one of his novels became the influence for an Academy-Award winning movie."
Bev Barstad That’s way too much stuff to store. Having dealt with these situations a couple of times now, it’s very hard to pick the handful of items you can actually keep as there’s typically way too much there. Often it’s too hard for family members. Going through all that can be hard, and if the kids moved far away, almost impossible. Either nobody cared or more likely they cared too much and couldn’t bear to donate/dispose of the items leaving this as the result. This, plus you add in the condition of the home, and whatever the property market is there, hurting the financial incentive of selling and this is the result. I really don’t know that it’s any worse then disposing of the stuff and selling the property. Either way the previous life is gone. At least this way others get to experience and appreciate it.
@@Alexlfm Maybe, but both of my parents have died (they were dead by the time I reached early 30s) and I never could have left their personal things behind. It's true, a lot of the bulk "junk" (not that it's really junk, it was important to someone) would be impossible to store and take, but the photos and the personal items, can't fathom how anyone says "oh well, just leave it". So strange. Unless you hated the person maybe...
God Bless America isn’t there any family that wants anything in there? Why would they just leave it all? There’s nothing of your aunt’s in there that would be sentimental to you? I’m trying not to judge I just don’t understand why nobody wants anything. That’s like my dream home I wish I could buy it and fix it up and as I was watching I was saying omg I love that especially the pink washer in the downstairs bathroom and some of the vintage clothing, I’m not even family and I would love to have some of that stuff!
It is a lot of stuff. The clutter reminds me of my great aunt's house. Every time we'd visit we'd have to move stuff to sit down. When she passed away most of the stuff got thrown out. I have done off the family furniture that were handed down and my aunts and cousin have a few things, but a majority was thrown away
What a Grand house. Spacious, High ceilings, magnificent crown molding, Old Hollywood glamour Lamps, beautiful staircase, several fireplaces. Maybe someone will buy it & restore it.
I agree with you. Especially on the lamps. Those two either side of the couch at 7:20 are my absolute favorites. Are there any lamps in there that particularly caught your eye?
@@zim8236 It's in Georgia a link above shows the exact house it's called the Little House in Louisville, GA...I'll be glad to work for you if you do purchase it ! I love rehabbing
so sad, seems like an Elders home and when they past, maybe in a Hospital or Hospice Care, no one in the Family wanted to deal with the remains in the house not to mention how the house was falling apart. It's like no one wanted to deal with it after the Elder's death and left it be.
I live in the Midwest, the prairie, farm country. This happens a lot when people have grown old on their farms. For some reason- illness, weather, they move into town for the winter always thinking they will go back, and never do. Mainly husband or wife will get ill, the other stays in town , and they eventually die there. The farms are left untouched because no family, or the kids are living in a big modern city and don't care about that old stuff. It's so sad. Our governor had all the abandoned farms torn down because he thought they were an eyesore. I know it's not right, but I say take it. Take it all, preserve it, appreciate it. It's insane and shameful not to preserve that history. Shame shame.
These homes deserve to be renovated & loved. They could be used for so much more, even if they aren’t used as a family Home again. Turn them into working farms (this is coming from someone who grew up on one for 19yrs), give people jobs; people are crying out for them & from experience there’s always something to do on a farm. Bed & board for the farm hands, or cottages to families (tied accommodation). It works in other countries & so many people love being in the outdoors. You also have seasonal workers who just come by for the summer, needing a place to lay their head. The majority of these people are honest, hard working individuals. It’s just such a crying shame to see the builds get pulled down like that, & although some are admittedly behind repair, some really aren’t & it would be far more cost effective to repair than to build elsewhere from the foundations up. And I agree.. I’d be like these guys, I wouldn’t want to take anything either, but I can see the temptation sometimes in some videos with wanting to preserve history. Just to save it & give it to a museum, not for my personal gain. Breaks my heart to see things disintegrate :(
You know, I grew up in the midwest too and I always thought it would be nice that if the people who inherited these farms didnt want to work them put an ad out I bet someone would move into the house and preserve it, farm it, and send back a % of the profit until a rent to own was established.
After reading the comments about the history of the house and that it is being fixed up, I don't feel as sad as I did immediately after watching the video. You posted this in 2016, I'm writing this in April, 2020. It looked to me the residents were hoarders. Seeing the portable toilets in the bedroom they were old and unable to care for the house properly. The funny thing was, there was not much dust on most everything, as though they had not been gone that long. Most of the glassware I could see and other decorations was mostly cheap garage sale finds, not worth very much and not very old massed produced, even if old, not worth much of anything. I've been watching your vids one after the other and am enjoying them very much while "quarantined" during the COVID-19 outbreak! Thanks so much for such interesting videos!
Francis K. As an explorer myself you'd be surprised how many buildings are pristine in the middle of communities and even cities; hiding in plain site..
Definitely reminds me of my great grandparent's house. They had a decent sized home with 6 bedrooms. But for a good 40 years it was just the two of them continuously living there. He died back in 06, and she followed in 09. They lived in that home since they were in their 20s. And both were late 80s when they passed. I have pictures of the place from when we began clearing out everything. Honestly was amazed at some of the things we found. Anything from pictures to a WW2 uniform buried in a old trunk. It was honestly amazing how many things they had collected in that home over their life span. Kinda makes you think for a bit. You're seeing a huge part of someone's life just by going through their belongings. Some things tell stories you never heard, others remind you of something you and they did. Just mesmorizing. Anyways, not sure where I was going with this. I guess just seeing you guess explore a house filled with items spanning generations brought back some memories. Happy holidays everyone. And keep up the excellent work TPP.
There's a Farm Property like this about an hour from me, 2 houses and a barn. Left just like someone was coming home tomorrow, the owner left for work in 1988 and got killed in an accident from what I understand, his wife was already gone, and his children were grown up and moved away and never bothered to go back to the house. It's in bad shape now the main house is almost totally collapsed, but I did manage to see the inside before that happened last year, and very few people know about it so it wasn't heavily vandalised. It was crazy to see, still food in the fridge, folded laundry on the couch, utility bills on the table, bed not made up, clothes in the dressers, still a half bottle of Ralph Lauren Polo cologne on sink. Like you guys I wouldn't disrespect the place by looting it, but on a return visit the cologne was gone, some vintage whiskey gone, even the clothes and such gone, in hindsight, I should of taken it if I had of known someone else was going to just a few weeks after I had been there.
For some reason the fact that you guys are whispering, or keeping your voice down warms my heart. It's like you're still showing respect for the people who lived there, although the house is totally abandoned.
Probably the grandparents died (one of them was living downstairs as she was too old to go up the stairs anymore), and their children live in other cities across the country with families & jobs of their own. With nobody willing to move back & live on the property, it was left to decay. They probably couldn't sell it either.
This house breaks my heart. I hate seeing all of someone's life left behind. You would think the family would come and retrieve this stuff. I'm sure in it's day it was beautiful.
I agree. This was somebody's grandparent's house. I'm assuming that the roof of the house sprang several leaks and they just couldn't afford to repair it. There are catch buckets for water everywhere. Eventually, water damage made the house uninhabitable. This was an unplanned eviction. All that personal stuff there means that whoever lived there was in denial about how serious the damage was until they were finally forced to leave.
Yes, those are really old diamond shingles, probably installed around the 1940's or 50's if I had to guess. You also saw the rear porch roof collapsed, so you see the roof was long overdue for replacement.
This was a hoarder's house. There is way too much stuff piled everywhere, leaving pathways only in several rooms. My take on the video is that the owner passed away, and the place was left to rot as the family either didn't care to, or had the time to clean up the place. I'll be dealing with a similar issue once my Father passes. I'm not looking forward to it.
@@wolfman9999999 Or maybe the owner died and no family was located. its a common thing in the country houses like this on properties where the owners die and they have no one to take over the property thus its left to rot until the country finally takes it
I feel like there's a bit more tragedy to this story. Old woman living here alone, family comes to visit on occasion... son or son-in-law sets up a few things to catch dripping water... old woman dies, nobody ever comes back to the house except to gather a few important things, house gets completely forgotten.
I was so intrigued by this house and was sad to learn that the house actually burned down after people purchase it for restorations. A truly tragic end.
To the young man about the kitchen being in the back; A lot of older homes were built that way. You came into the kitchen from the back that led to the dining room. The concept of kitchens being of the living room in the front came about later. All my grandparents homes were built like that, back in the day...
This is absolutely unreal. This is one of my all time favorite videos from you guys. Definitely a great Xmas present. Thank you for taking the time with this place. I always respect your values to keep everything in its place, and I'm glad that this place was still like this. This is sad, but beautiful at the same time. Truly, this is a gem of an exploration.
I cried looking at this because I know that the person that lived in that house pass a way and its so much memory left behind and it's sad for some reason I got emotional looking at this video... I started tearing up more when I saw that I love you eva card
my great grandmother had a house with similar layout .. she kinda stopped updating anything fashion or decorating wise.. so her house that was built in the 1920s (had skeleton keys for everything lol) and the decorating style stopped in the 70s.. makes me miss her very much seeing this video... : )
This reminds me so much of my great grandmother's house. When she passed away unfortunately we had to empty it and sell it but this video is bringing back memories of being a kid exploring that house. Dang.
This is the second, abandoned house I've seen where all of the belongings were just left behind. So sad. One can almost feel the memories of the place in the video here. Having read the comments, it is sadder still that the place was struck by lightning and burned to the ground after there were plans to restore the home.
2:31 pink 1950's dryer, 2:47 "flower power" 1960's decals in the tub, 3:47 1950's kitchen cabinets, 4:01 the living room furnishings from the 1960's era where the old kitchen use to be (see the door off of the room). A bedroom off the kitchen was primarily used for the nanny or a servant, 6:11 (clutter room with dolls) use to be the dining room area. 7:25 formal dining room for the family, 7:54 large narrow windows indicative of a fine Southern mansion. 9:56 the formal parlor where guests are received. 10:56 a low drop ceiling hides the original ceiling... a bedroom. Central fireplace in every bedroom as well as other rooms dates the mansion to around 1850 or so. During the Depression the second level 15:33 was turned into a rental area. Total count of bedrooms including the converted kitchen on the second level .... eight bedrooms and two bathrooms. Note: hoarders suffer from isolation and lack of companionship where the items become their sense of companionship and security.
Elderly hoarder, had a great uncle that lived like this and it was almost an impossible task to clean out his house once he passed, in a way it's sad knowing someone lived in those conditions but at the end of the day they were happy surrounded by their belongings.
Richard Timms,F Miller was a vet& OCD. People addicts destroyed his home.Sad.While Furman MILLER was dying of cancer.Talking about 3 kitchens& 3 New baths put in.
Homes like these are all over the US. In areas that are run down or just plane old. The last person living dies or a tragic accident takes the whole family in one event. Judging by the child's room and the fact I saw a lot of things suggesting elderly people they may of been grandparents. A lot of beds so maybe a assisted living place that failed? There was a house that caught fire back in 1992 in New Jersey off Green Pond Road in Rockaway. It was my grandparents neighbors and the fire was caused by a child playing with matches. The child died along with everyone in the house from smoke inhalation. The fire only damaged the boys room but all the rooms were up stairs. Nobody else in the family tree wanted to deal with it so the place was just left there. I explored the place back in 2013, yeah, still there, everything was still there. Even the food in the fridge and cloths in the dryer. Toys out side, everything. The fire put it self out but nobody knew about it until police came by to check on the kid who has not been to school in a week. .
Cheryl hutchinson I agree! I watched it twice, and I just felt so sad and disheartened by it all. I can't believe some things like that doll that look so perfect still.
I love old houses since I was young man, finding old abandoned farm houses we use to love going into them just to look and take it all in cool times. and just thinking of the stories they could tell, the dreams that were made. The joy, the sadness. Yup one of my favorite videos from you guys. More like this one please!
The fact that you had to walk through a bedroom in order to get to the kitchen is a big clue as to what happened there. Most likely a surviving widow who at one point was no longer able to navigate the stairs, and moved the bedroom downstairs. Then he or she either passed away or moved to a nursing home.
I guess major people had soo much respect for this house because of how all the furniture and items still remining there for many years. I'm sure there are valuables in there as well, but surprisingly it hasn't been stolen which is what I would expect if a house were to be abandoned this way...
Lovely old home with great architectural salvage. The fireplace mantels, trim, and especially the staircase. It fell into decay because they didn't have the money to repair the roof. You can tell they were living there, during the roof leaking, due to the buckets, tubs, old swimming pool etc.How horrible!
We shouldn’t be sad that all this stuff was just left to waste. All of this stuff meant something to the owners during their lifetimes. They kept it and cared about it for their entire married lives. It didn’t hold meaning or interest to their heirs, and this is not uncommon. For example, I collect vintage hats, purses and salt and pepper shakers. I have 11 nieces and nephews, and their children, to leave these things to. None of them have any interest in any of them. I enjoyed them while on this earth. What happens to them when I am gone does not affect me in any way. I may hope they go to someone who will love them as I did, but I have no control over their disposition. I could hire someone to sell them online or I can let my heirs do whatever they want with them. Thanks for the tour guys!
Please list them on eBay someday. I definitely enjoy vintage items and always had a love for vintage things . The history of the item is what really gets me. Looking at the pieces in this home intrigue me and hope that the company that purchases house didn't just throw it away the trash but instead donated to Goodwill or thrift store that we can be passed down from generation to generation.
@Bill Williams List on eBay :) there are many people that would love to purchase vintage items .I can walk at any antique shop and walk the aisles for hours just looking at the Vintage items and have purchase plenty on my own due to the fact my grandmother before passing away lived in a nursing home and all her belongings were in a closet I never went back it was too difficult and emotional. Not sure if my mom ever went back to collect any belongings or anything from her room at the home. I'm sure it wasn't much left but either way I wish I was stronger then since I realized now I missed out on my family's history. I hope someone finds your precious treasures worth passing down .
@Bill Williams Sweet! That stool should be passed down. If you ever have anything you are simply considering in donating or selling let me know. I love vintage items and the history behind it. Eve had many things indeed. Eve had two houses across each other. John Cain little was the original owner and bought many lands around the neighborhood and created a home in each land. I couldn't sleep so I went online and found Eve. She went by the last name Perdue. I even got to see a picture of her 😍 she lived in the other house across the street not the little house. The note that says I love you xoxo Eve should be framed and remember. I took it has her last goodbye. She has sons, daughters, niece and nephews still alived and with families of their own. It baffled me to see that NO ONE took the initiative to keep the "little house" in good condition and even the "Willie's" house they let go of. A family member ended you buying the Willie's house in 2017 and restored it.
This is so sad :( The full closet in the bedroom got me the most, because who knows what's buried in there that the woman living there probably hid. I think everyone has something meaningful or valuable hidden in a closet. The groups of belongings look like someone was trying to organize it all, but gave up. And it was probably the same person who put the bins/pools around the house to catch water leaking. Someone was caring for that house and its contents after the residents left/died. I wonder why they quit.
With all the crap piled up everywhere, it looks like the owner died and the family started going thru everything but was so overwhelmed, they said screw it, too much to deal with and just left.
I absolutely love this house. It has a certain aura of nostalgia and feels like you're walking into a loved ones house. It slightly reminds me of my grandparents' place it had unique architectural features just as this house does, but theirs was a 3 story. Plus my grandparents had loads of cool antiques and toys. I sure miss them!!
My great grandmother was born in 1905, bought her house (a 7 bedroom victorian mansion) in the 40s with her husband, and lived alone in it from 1969 when he died until she died in 2005. Her house was just like this..i lived there for 3 years to take care of her during her final years and at least once a week a would get lost just looking thru all the old stuff and daydreaming. If my family hadnt cleaned it out and sold it, id imagine it would have looked just lile this. I miss it 😞 Btw Her house also had 2 kitchens!! Was also full of furniture just like this as she couldnt make it up the stairs. Was so old the bathrooms had to be retrofitted into closets! Your video brought back soooo many memories!
This was a place where a lot of people lived at one time , but I've never seen any thing like this where you see not only the house in slow rot and decay but also everything they own 😭 Good job 😊
Happy to see it got bought and is being renovated. I hate seeing abandoned houses. You can feel a house's loneliness. Seems like what happened is what happened to my neighbor. She died, her family picked over what they wanted, left the rest. A battle between the deceased's mother (she was on the deed) and the deceased's estranged husband ensued with the mother basically digging her heals and refusing to budge. She let the mortgage default rather than let the husband get the house. The bank took over the property, but never cleaned it out. It sat like that for 4 years. I took pics through the windows. Stuff was just there, looking like it was waiting for someone to come back. Eventually, the bank sold the property via auction. The poor guy that bought it didn't know how bad or how long it had been sitting there. The hot water heater exploded the first week they were there. I felt sooo bad for them.
Interesting. Someone went through the trouble to place several kid's swimming pools and other bins in various rooms to catch water leaks. One could only imagine it would be someone who was still attempting to live in the house, and not explorers.
Amazingly beautiful old home. Looks like perhaps an elderly grandmother resided there alone at the end. Lots of flower pots, vases, photos and crochet blankets. Even though it's in bad disrepair is still worth saving just to bring dignity to the former residents and preserving such beauty. Thank you for posting this.
Abandoned houses like this make me so sad. You know that whoever lived there last, and lived amongst all that old stuff, is probably dead -- I saw a couple of 'adult potties' like those my own parents used in the last years of their lives, for those not ambulatory enough to get to the bathroom. It's so sad knowing that someone was taken from a house like this, filled with the detritus of their whole life, never to return, and there's no one left to claim any of it, so it sits moldering for years. Just so terribly sad. I saw that someone else mentioned that the "bedroom" you have to walk thru to get to the kitchen probably wasn't a bedroom originally -- I've seen this for myself, a school friend lived in a very old house whose rooms had all been re-purposed -- the room that was her mother's bedroom had originally been the front porch, but had been enclosed and made into a bedroom. Old houses often didn't have much in the way of hallways, but just one room leading to another to another to another, etc. In the first "child's room" upstairs, I saw a bedspread -- the red/blue checks -- exactly like one I had when I was a child! It came from Sears! I had the matching curtains too! The kitchen upstairs probably indicates that the upstairs had been rented out, for income to whoever lived below.
It does amaze me that these old abandoned buildings still have all there stuff. am I the only one that thinks theses' things should be used, not left to rot.
Older people think they will use this stuff someday and refuse to throw it away. If they had been through the depression, then they know that you don't throw stuff away, you may need it someday.
Imagine a movie about this. One probably already exists about this scenario, but imagine a movie where an explorer or two find an abandoned house and quite literally step back in time. Go back to the 50’s or some such decade. That would be really cool.
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Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays everyone! If you want to see more of this house, don't miss our cinematic video that we posted last week -> th-cam.com/video/ZSXc4uwHlKw/w-d-xo.html
We don't take anything from any of the places we visit
The Proper People is the place in the woods
Merry Christmas :)
Looks amazing
it's yule... good yule !
I worked as an Activities Director in an assisted living & you both are correct. Either 1 individual, or a couple lived here until they went into a nursing home, hospital or passed away. Sometimes families don't want to be bothered with dealing with (or are unable to) their loved ones belongings after and so it's left.
We flew to the UK to help my great aunt clean up her home after our great uncle passed away, and this house is exactly like this minus the walls and ceiling falling apart. This was just a couple of months after he passed, but that's how it looked it. They all first started grabbing things they wanted to keep, imp documents, mementos, EVERYTHING. But that meant turning the place upside down, so there were just mountains of clothes on all the beds, just random shit lying on the floor. This kinda makes me sad.
dragonzair ~ I can not imagine not only how much work that was, but while grieving too. I'm so sorry for your loss
Ellicott City Is so sad
Agreed. All those kiddie pools catching leaks?! That would suggest long-term lack of care for the roof. The last owners might not have been able to afford it. Still, what an absolute shame to see such a cool home rot like this. Wonder why they never took out a loan against the value of the place to cover the roof? At least preserve it till they could sell it on to someone who COULD afford to maintain it.
vena thunderbird I just wonder have you thought about leaving your house to a local charity or similar? Its just an idea. If your son can't or won't do anything with it. It would be a wonderful act of kindness to help the homeless perhaps. I hope you don't mind my suggestion.
I love how respectful these Explorers are... even how they whisper as though they will disturb someone there.
Riki H and
It's so they aren't caught trespassing, don't try and glamourise them.
toni castro
I highly doubt they'd steal anything.
Yeah they are just impartial observers, they are very professional.
they are only whispering so they don't get caught
When I saw the "I love you, Eve" note..man..😔 made me feel some type of way.
Suee
@poisonapples I found Eve and her family. I wish the note would have been saved it was like her last goodbye.
@@YourGlamorousLatina what happened to them?
@@jackkitchener4498 long story. Please read my post. It's somewhere in the comments. It's a beautiful story nothing creepy.
@poisonapples Love me
Abandon houses make a get a weird feeling. It's like the family was going about their day laughing, cooking, sleeping, etc. Then all the sudden they all dropped everything and ran out the door and never returned. So sad and weird
I had a stroke trying to read this.
I think that much of it is staged, that's all. They fluff it to make the video better./
I have a feeling that the whole family went out somewhere and all died in a car crash or something
shook as fuck finn Someone definitley passed away. Thats life... ;(
shook as fuck finn ighd
Does anyone else kinda wonder if maybe one day some old person will watch one of these videos and realize they're exploring their childhood home? It makes me so sad for some reason :(
Don't worry about what the guy below you said, he suffers due to deeply rooted issues with his mother which give him the inability to be around or talk to women.
Yeah like an old Person will know anything about TH-cam
My dad is in his 70s and he uses youtube. There are plenty of old people who are or learn to be computer literate and know how to use this stuff.
toni castro dude can you chill? like she was saying something nice and you're over here, acting like a little shit.
This was a woman's entire life and she died and no one cared. So sad.
Abandoned places are SO MUCH COOLER when vandals don't destroy everything. This was amazing to see. Wish every abandoned place could stay this untouched.
Sad that it was probably abandoned after the owners died. Grandparents who bought toys for grandkids who stopped by once in awhile and the the kids moved away and forgot about them..... very sad.
The single most important thing to maintain on a house is the roof. Once the roof starts leaking it's the beginning of the end for the house and everything in it.
Mr. Man Lol in Mexico we get leaky roofs all the time from when it rains and its normal to use buckets to catch xd
u said the key work mexico
the 'i love you' message really got to me
Zara Wilson me to ,it sorta took my breath away .
Imagine how it would have been put away and forgotten even by the owner.
thatpat1 I feel like that was supposed to say xox
No xox
Zara Wilson it says Eve
Would it be ironic that there could be one of the kids in the picture watching this video,and saying oh my god that’s me in the picture!
They have that's what baffles me! The family is well aware of this video.
Box man 134 yea dat would be bad snd very creepy
That is my Aunts old house and my cousin in photo. So yes they have seen.
God Bless America why did they abandon the house
If there was any family why wouldn't they have sorted all of there affairs out including the house, i suppose some people deal with grief in different ways
These type of videos really get to me. I'm a very nostalgic person and vintage belongings and old houses are so interesting to me but always make me depressed for some reason. To see a place frozen in time gives me this weird but kinda comforting feeling, as if I had stepped in a time capsule and went back 30-40 years ago, and it's just I imagined it - peaceful.
dude omg.. same
I, too, have a fascination, but always feel such a great despair nonetheless, when I see a home filled with lifetimes forgotten.
Sizzlin Moe Szyslak I mean yes but without "stuff" life becomes boring. I'm not saying you need all the newest iPhones and newest tv or whatever, but "stuff" also helps you keep up and enjoy lives of those who you aren't able to see anymore whether it be distance or passing on. If we didn't have "stuff", then we would basically work, sit at home doing nothing and sleep. Then repeat.
@@johnmcjohnson4265 When I watched and saw photos, knick knacks, lamps, clocks etc I knew that at one time they all were "valuable" and meant something to someone or someones. That is the part that gives me the nostalgic feelings that tinge with a touch of sadness. I think of my parents they also had many things that meant allot. I have a few things of theirs but not many. The same will become of what I and my wife deem to be "valuable" to us and our family.
I am the exact same way. I can feel the energy of the place. Its sad. Someone died with no one taking care of them. The person was abandoned.
Man, if the walls could talk, I wonder what stories they would have to tell.
thats so true agent 47.... but dont you have people to kill
Massive house secrets revealed at 11:08 !!
Matter Fact what do you mean??
Oh I was just being sarcastic, there's a tabloid STAR newspaper, headline sais "Spicy New Soap Opera breaks TV Sex Barrier" . .oohhh.. secrets..., ;)~ thought that was funny. Although, that does say something about their reading level and ... intellect maybe? .. .
The weird thing is I actually made a story in 2014 about a abandon building that could talk
The history of a house where people lived, dreamed, laughed and loved Soo sad to see, thanks guys for being respectful to both the house the owners and the contents
I love how quiet and respectful you are!! That house must have been glorious in it's day. It's so sad and lonely now. What a find!
This, so far, was the most touching abandoned place! The house preserved a spirit inside, that no movie can recreate! I loved it! Brought tears to my eyes!
Anush The Blogger all the memories lost, truly sad
Anush The Blogger I agree, and they way they were so reverent the way they filmed and whispers ......thanks guys
why can,t they give stuff to people in need.......so much stuff
Makes me curious about the history of the house. If I were involved in walking abandoned houses I would want to go to the library & research the property. Seeing all the signs of an elderly person living in that HUGE house -brings tears to my eyes! That last person must have been alone since no family returned to collect the family belongings...😢
A spirit? The spirit of a Horder?
What makes my heart so sad is seeing all the memories through pictures that are just being left there to decay. 😔
Kitchens at the back of old homes is not that uncommon. The bedroom you walked through to get to the kitchen was probably not originally a bedroom. It could've been a formal dining room or a parlor.
Exactly what I was thinking.
Cookie Moll If a family member was ill and being nursed at home, often times a lower room in the house is converted into a bedroom.
That’s what I was thinking I was thinking they made that into a bedroom because of the elder person needed taken care of because of the special bed they showed and I’m guessing the elder passed away and they couldn’t live there knowing he passed there or something or maybe it was their house and the children or wife/husband couldn’t pay the bills who knows just so sad all that was left behind
@@dellahicks7231 if that's the case I would have had my bed/bedroom in the kitchen
Same logic I had. Servants were not meant to enter the home through the front, so the kitchens were generally located at the back.
Whenever I find a place that was abandoned around the early 2000s I get slightly disappointed, because I was a kid during that time, but then I remember we're almost 2 decades into the 2000s and I realize the place has been abandoned for a while, then I feel old lol.
ChaoticKaylee Yup, it is easy to lose track of time
ChaoticKaylee
im 33 i was born in the 1980s i graduated high school in 2003
Imagine how I feel. I was already in my 20's in the 2000's
@Bill Williams I didnt even own a computer at the time so it was funny seeing everyone freaking out over it haha
It's funny, age is such a relative thing, but the one common thread is that we all feel old on some level, at least when you look at certain things and then measure your own timeline against them. I laughed when I read that you were a kid during the 2000's (I was a kid in the early 80's), but that thing with time, and age, it's universal...not to disappoint you, but what the old folks say is true, it really does speed up as you get older. The last 20 years have flown by for me, the first 20 went by so slowly relative these last few. Don't waste a day if you can avoid it...
I feel like I’m prying into someone’s life... as fascinating as it is, I feel guilty for watching... we are seeing someone’s entire life... the place where they felt the most safe... such a strange feeling lol
Me too.
It is very rare and rewarding to find an abandoned place that is not looted or graffitied. I liked your adventure, full of details and ideal for use the imagination. Happy Holidays guys.
How horribly sad. If walls could talk, imagine the stories this house could tell.....Thanx so much for sharing.
I wonder who'll be going through my crap when I die.
I will hide the good stuff for me.
In my case probably waste disposal, to clear out for the next tenant leaving no trace I ever existed!!
It feels dirty going through someone else's home. Even if it's abandoned. Feels wrong to me. I won't want strangers taking videos of my deceased Grandmothers house D:
John Gibb good question
Me. I'm gonna touch all your shit and look at your pepperoni secrets.
saddest part is the medical bed and buckets and wading pools all over the place as the dying owner attempted to save the house from a massively leaking roof that they could no longer afford to repair. Nice area if nobody broke in and stole their stuff in all those years.
I came to the same conclusion when I kept seeing the containers filled with water.
I feel like a grandparent parent had been living there alone a long time and then suddenly passed away so the kids did there best to save the house but couldn't bare the pain of the memories there and left it.
Or, they simply may not have been in thae area making ot difficult to dp it.
Probably more they didn't want to spend the 50k to repair all of the damage that happened from neglecting the roof. Could have been an 8k repair but multiplied quickly.
Ok, this is pretty scary. Many of the items in that house I recognize as my parent's had them in their home. It seems most items are circa 50's through 70's here. My guess is that (judging by the clothing) the house was lived in by a older woman, and she passed. Perhaps the family might have been estranged or perhaps not lived nearby and the house was simply forgotten about. But it is certainly an interesting time capsule and like I said, I found it scary because one after another, I recognized stuff that was in my parents home. For example at 8:57, the star shaped glass candle holder. My parent's had those and when they passed, I took them, so they are still within my possession. Also all the Elvis pictures. My mother was a big fan of Elvis and some of the pictures she had as well. The double arced headboards was popular in the 70's and even though my parent's bed didn't have one, many of their friends and my aunt and uncle had that style headboard in the 70's. Given the buckets there to catch the water from the leaking ceiling, it did seem like (initially) the place was looked after. It could be that the family just figured it would be too much work to clear out, fix up the house and sell it, so they just left it behind. It is a shame as the house has an amazing looking main staircase and has nice moldings around the doors. On the second floor that colonial couch in the hall at 12:03 (to the right, not the one in the back)...yep, my parents had a similar style one in their living room. Wow! At the end, those dormers on the outside of the house. It is really a shame that it was left to rot. Sadly, the only future I see for that place is that it will be razed with everything inside of it.
This is what happens to your life after you are dead. This is what happens to old peoples houses when they get too sick to do anything. All the stuff you think is so important ends up as just garbage. This person got sick, was taken away, then past away and there was no one in there life who even cared to clean it up and sell it. These should be a lesson that personal relationships and family are more important then stuff.
Or...they cared too much. I had an Aunt who refused to go through the home of her twin. She wouldn't/couldn't as her loss was too painful. She left the house as it was and would not allow us to clear it.
After my mom died, my father locked their bedroom and kept it exactly as it was that morning, for 10 years. After a couple years, I snuck in and made a lot of the dirty laundry disappear. I knew he had finally stopped grieving when he unlocked the room and started using it again.
nothing lasts forever except god
thing is, one day that old person will become you and me
Pat Stokes you have a point but a lot of the owners were pre baby boomer . Growing up with nothing , living through the depression , some unable to go to school or were pulled out so they could work to help their family. And many had large families with all those mouths to feed . Then World War 1. and world war 2 ......just a way different era than what the late 50’s and forward experienced .
It's almost like someone left for the day but never came back that's such a chilling sentence
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My heaart slightly broke when I saw the pictures and the envelope that said "I love you, Eve." I don't know why but things like that, especially when it has the name of someone with it.
I have a little background on this house, although I don't know how accurate it is.The historic property was built by a wealthy businessman and farmer in 1876 and sold to his wife in 1911 for $5,300. She sold the home following the Wall Street Crash in 1929 for $6,500, however the new owner couldn’t keep up the repayments on the loan and it was foreclosed in 1937. In 1943 it was sold again and remains in the same family, but has been abandoned since the 1980's. For awhile it operated as a boarding school and hair salon (don't know when sorry). The home is not registered as a historic place as of November of this year.
Alexandria Greene where in Mississippi?
chevyfan029 Utica
makes more sense than francis k over there repeatedly saying "ITS STAGED! ITS STAGED!"
Alexandria Greene If you've ever been to Utica, you know this makes sense
Andrew Denson I grew up in MS. The state is a treasure trove of abandonment. It's mainly because it's so poor and rural, plus people just tend to leave things alone.
Should look at food expiration dates for a better idea of when the house was abandoned.
Victrola Fix the news paper said June 2003
well 1988 or later cos that my little pony adventure game my mom use to have when she was little :D
KimiCollie How old is your mum?! I’m 31!
Martin Hernandez You mad America will always be better than you’re country?
Colorado Cowboy and for the love of satan himself learn how to use the right your you stupid fuck i take it the better school in the better country has failed you. What a piece of shit.
This house is insanely beautiful. It’s got so much character. So sad to see it left behind like that. Looks to me like an elderly women lived there for a while by herself. Looks similar to my grandmothers before she passed with the photos, decor, etc.
All the buckets and kiddie pools make me think the house was leaking while someone was still living in it. It makes it even sadder, somehow.
Nathan Grosse or maybe someone else placed them
Yes.. I wondered myself how they got there. Likely by the homeowner themselves, or by a family member who went back trying to salvage some personal belongings, just to minimise the damage, but they never returned. Very sad.
My same thoughts Laura. I've "cleaned out" after my grandmother passed, and then my uncle several years later. We got what was important to us, and sold the rest, including the houses.
Nathan Grosse,Thought his grand kids were taken,while he( miller) cancer and altimer died.
"This Gothic Revival-style home was built in 1876. The original owner was a prominent merchant and farmer in the area from 1869 to the early 20th century. After purchasing half a city block, the merchant contracted a local construction company and paid them $4,000 to build his 5,000 square foot residence on one of the lots. In 1911, the merchant sold the home to his wife for $5,300. He died six years later and the widow never remarried. She sold the home for $6,500 in 1929 following the crash of the stock market. In 1937, in the depths of the Depression, Home Owners’ Loan Corporation (HOLC) foreclosed on the new owner. HOLC sold the property in 1943 and it has remained in the same family ever since. During the 1950s, the downstairs rooms were used as a boarding house. The homeowner had a home beauty parlour on the right-side downstairs which was her main source of income. Over the years, the home was passed through family members but ultimately became abandoned in the late 1980s. The current homeowner was a well-known lounge singer in the area during the 1960s and 1970s. She had four siblings, including one brother who began writing graphic crime novels while living in the home with her. In 1965, after 21 crime novels and several short stories under his belt, he decided to quit and move to Atlanta to open a printing business and start a family. To his credit, one of his novels became the influence for an Academy-Award winning movie."
so who bought it after the wife sold it? ...following the crash of the ...?
I'm not sure. I just copied a bunch of text I found related to the location (hence the quote marks).
Thanks Rusty. Your research is appreciated :-)
So sad, this is someone's life and what's the saddest part is that know one cared enough to pack it up and store it.
Bev Barstad That’s way too much stuff to store. Having dealt with these situations a couple of times now, it’s very hard to pick the handful of items you can actually keep as there’s typically way too much there. Often it’s too hard for family members. Going through all that can be hard, and if the kids moved far away, almost impossible. Either nobody cared or more likely they cared too much and couldn’t bear to donate/dispose of the items leaving this as the result. This, plus you add in the condition of the home, and whatever the property market is there, hurting the financial incentive of selling and this is the result. I really don’t know that it’s any worse then disposing of the stuff and selling the property. Either way the previous life is gone. At least this way others get to experience and appreciate it.
@@Alexlfm Maybe, but both of my parents have died (they were dead by the time I reached early 30s) and I never could have left their personal things behind. It's true, a lot of the bulk "junk" (not that it's really junk, it was important to someone) would be impossible to store and take, but the photos and the personal items, can't fathom how anyone says "oh well, just leave it". So strange. Unless you hated the person maybe...
My Aunt owned this house and the one across the street. It was not she didn’t care; more that her health interfered with her maintaining.
God Bless America isn’t there any family that wants anything in there? Why would they just leave it all? There’s nothing of your aunt’s in there that would be sentimental to you? I’m trying not to judge I just don’t understand why nobody wants anything. That’s like my dream home I wish I could buy it and fix it up and as I was watching I was saying omg I love that especially the pink washer in the downstairs bathroom and some of the vintage clothing, I’m not even family and I would love to have some of that stuff!
It is a lot of stuff. The clutter reminds me of my great aunt's house. Every time we'd visit we'd have to move stuff to sit down. When she passed away most of the stuff got thrown out. I have done off the family furniture that were handed down and my aunts and cousin have a few things, but a majority was thrown away
What a Grand house. Spacious, High ceilings, magnificent crown molding, Old Hollywood glamour Lamps, beautiful staircase, several fireplaces. Maybe someone will buy it & restore it.
I agree with you. Especially on the lamps. Those two either side of the couch at 7:20 are my absolute favorites. Are there any lamps in there that particularly caught your eye?
I wish I knew where it is so I could restore it...
@@zim8236 It's in Georgia a link above shows the exact house it's called the Little House in Louisville, GA...I'll be glad to work for you if you do purchase it ! I love rehabbing
sad, almost like the owners were gonna return but didn't.
Spartan 11777 Looks like the were also trying to save the place at one time. Almost all the rooms had a kid pool, or bucket to collect water.
kokonutfreaks sad to see this happen
Spartan 11777 for real, that's wild, when you put it that way! Erie, sad, bizarre all together
Spartan 11777 it is like a story from the Titanic, they want to return home to America from the UK but they didn't make it.
so sad, seems like an Elders home and when they past, maybe in a Hospital or Hospice Care, no one in the Family wanted to deal with the remains in the house not to mention how the house was falling apart. It's like no one wanted to deal with it after the Elder's death and left it be.
This was like peeking into a strangers soul.
I live in the Midwest, the prairie, farm country. This happens a lot when people have grown old on their farms. For some reason- illness, weather, they move into town for the winter always thinking they will go back, and never do. Mainly husband or wife will get ill, the other stays in town , and they eventually die there. The farms are left untouched because no family, or the kids are living in a big modern city and don't care about that old stuff. It's so sad. Our governor had all the abandoned farms torn down because he thought they were an eyesore. I know it's not right, but I say take it. Take it all, preserve it, appreciate it. It's insane and shameful not to preserve that history. Shame shame.
While I understand preserving history the cost of maintaining houses no one lives in is pretty nuts.
I think he is talking about the stuff inside, so it doesn't go to waste.
These homes deserve to be renovated & loved. They could be used for so much more, even if they aren’t used as a family Home again. Turn them into working farms (this is coming from someone who grew up on one for 19yrs), give people jobs; people are crying out for them & from experience there’s always something to do on a farm. Bed & board for the farm hands, or cottages to families (tied accommodation). It works in other countries & so many people love being in the outdoors. You also have seasonal workers who just come by for the summer, needing a place to lay their head. The majority of these people are honest, hard working individuals.
It’s just such a crying shame to see the builds get pulled down like that, & although some are admittedly behind repair, some really aren’t & it would be far more cost effective to repair than to build elsewhere from the foundations up.
And I agree.. I’d be like these guys, I wouldn’t want to take anything either, but I can see the temptation sometimes in some videos with wanting to preserve history. Just to save it & give it to a museum, not for my personal gain. Breaks my heart to see things disintegrate :(
figgy 709 I agree 100 percent very very true
You know, I grew up in the midwest too and I always thought it would be nice that if the people who inherited these farms didnt want to work them put an ad out I bet someone would move into the house and preserve it, farm it, and send back a % of the profit until a rent to own was established.
The non slip flowers in the bathtub took me back
After reading the comments about the history of the house and that it is being fixed up, I don't feel as sad as I did immediately after watching the video. You posted this in 2016, I'm writing this in April, 2020. It looked to me the residents were hoarders. Seeing the portable toilets in the bedroom they were old and unable to care for the house properly. The funny thing was, there was not much dust on most everything, as though they had not been gone that long. Most of the glassware I could see and other decorations was mostly cheap garage sale finds, not worth very much and not very old massed produced, even if old, not worth much of anything. I've been watching your vids one after the other and am enjoying them very much while "quarantined" during the COVID-19 outbreak! Thanks so much for such interesting videos!
Now its burned down. instagram.com/savingthebiglittlehouse/
Gary Russ the link dosnt work.
I got a sad vibe about this place
ABC 123 it was probably staged
ABC 123 It's probably the music proper put into it. They wanted to give the place a vibe and displayed it excellently
There's also a sound clip of kids playing... Are they in a neighborhood?!? And if they are why would that still be preserved
ABC 123 your not wrong
Francis K. As an explorer myself you'd be surprised how many buildings are pristine in the middle of communities and even cities; hiding in plain site..
Definitely reminds me of my great grandparent's house. They had a decent sized home with 6 bedrooms. But for a good 40 years it was just the two of them continuously living there. He died back in 06, and she followed in 09. They lived in that home since they were in their 20s. And both were late 80s when they passed. I have pictures of the place from when we began clearing out everything. Honestly was amazed at some of the things we found. Anything from pictures to a WW2 uniform buried in a old trunk. It was honestly amazing how many things they had collected in that home over their life span. Kinda makes you think for a bit. You're seeing a huge part of someone's life just by going through their belongings. Some things tell stories you never heard, others remind you of something you and they did. Just mesmorizing. Anyways, not sure where I was going with this. I guess just seeing you guess explore a house filled with items spanning generations brought back some memories. Happy holidays everyone. And keep up the excellent work TPP.
Say little prayer for this house's family. It looked like there was a lot of love left there.
Oh wow! I just watched someone else's video of this place earlier this morning. Glad you got to do it Properly.
I wasn't aware of any other videos here, do you have a link?
B Caldwell yeah you guys make much better videos than the other people that do them.
Lady Flu fact
Exploring with Rachel What's up Rachel!? Been a subscriber since day one. Nice work on your latest upload too. Emma says hi.
''Glad you got to do it Properly.'' - - because they are the Proper People.
There's a Farm Property like this about an hour from me, 2 houses and a barn. Left just like someone was coming home tomorrow, the owner left for work in 1988 and got killed in an accident from what I understand, his wife was already gone, and his children were grown up and moved away and never bothered to go back to the house.
It's in bad shape now the main house is almost totally collapsed, but I did manage to see the inside before that happened last year, and very few people know about it so it wasn't heavily vandalised. It was crazy to see, still food in the fridge, folded laundry on the couch, utility bills on the table, bed not made up, clothes in the dressers, still a half bottle of Ralph Lauren Polo cologne on sink.
Like you guys I wouldn't disrespect the place by looting it, but on a return visit the cologne was gone, some vintage whiskey gone, even the clothes and such gone, in hindsight, I should of taken it if I had of known someone else was going to just a few weeks after I had been there.
Maybe it was a homeless person who needed the stuff more.
Andrew, you did the right thing.
Sure Jewel, whiskey and cologne is needed to live...…...fuckin' liberal.
Jewelbluelbanez: no homeless person "needs calogne and whiskey you dumbass
What homeless people have y'all been around that DON'T want/need whiskey & cologne??? lol 🤔
For some reason the fact that you guys are whispering, or keeping your voice down warms my heart. It's like you're still showing respect for the people who lived there, although the house is totally abandoned.
Did the family die? Weird to leave so much..... great video guys. Terrific that you respect it....you are fine examples of honesty.
Probably the grandparents died (one of them was living downstairs as she was too old to go up the stairs anymore), and their children live in other cities across the country with families & jobs of their own. With nobody willing to move back & live on the property, it was left to decay. They probably couldn't sell it either.
I like how these guys are respectfully whispering. So cool.
This house breaks my heart. I hate seeing all of someone's life left behind. You would think the family would come and retrieve this stuff. I'm sure in it's day it was beautiful.
I agree. This was somebody's grandparent's house. I'm assuming that the roof of the house sprang several leaks and they just couldn't afford to repair it. There are catch buckets for water everywhere. Eventually, water damage made the house uninhabitable. This was an unplanned eviction. All that personal stuff there means that whoever lived there was in denial about how serious the damage was until they were finally forced to leave.
Yes, those are really old diamond shingles, probably installed around the 1940's or 50's if I had to guess. You also saw the rear porch roof collapsed, so you see the roof was long overdue for replacement.
This was a hoarder's house. There is way too much stuff piled everywhere, leaving pathways only in several rooms. My take on the video is that the owner passed away, and the place was left to rot as the family either didn't care to, or had the time to clean up the place. I'll be dealing with a similar issue once my Father passes. I'm not looking forward to it.
@@wolfman9999999 Or maybe the owner died and no family was located. its a common thing in the country houses like this on properties where the owners die and they have no one to take over the property thus its left to rot until the country finally takes it
I feel like there's a bit more tragedy to this story.
Old woman living here alone, family comes to visit on occasion... son or son-in-law sets up a few things to catch dripping water... old woman dies, nobody ever comes back to the house except to gather a few important things, house gets completely forgotten.
@@derbydriver This is what I think too.
My great grandparents house was left like this. They died and no one bothered cleaning it out or selling it.
Kat Cetera the so depressing
It was, but pretty cool when I was a kid. I'd go and hang out in it. I did eventually take everything of personal value out of it.
CRUEL AND SAD REALITY 😧😢
No one bothered to clean it even you and your family didn't ?
moesha pempengco They died before I was born. My family was too lazy and didn't need the money from selling it I guess.
I was so intrigued by this house and was sad to learn that the house actually burned down after people purchase it for restorations. A truly tragic end.
To the young man about the kitchen being in the back; A lot of older homes were built that way. You came into the kitchen from the back that led to the dining room. The concept of kitchens being of the living room in the front came about later. All my grandparents homes were built like that, back in the day...
This is absolutely unreal. This is one of my all time favorite videos from you guys. Definitely a great Xmas present. Thank you for taking the time with this place. I always respect your values to keep everything in its place, and I'm glad that this place was still like this. This is sad, but beautiful at the same time. Truly, this is a gem of an exploration.
Looks like time was just frozen , the house patiently awaiting their return, worthless junk yet priceless to the people it belonged to
Sad. Forgotten memories.
Wish someone could salvage some of that stuff instead of letting it go to waste.
I don't think it is a good idea, but then the antique electronics are fascinating.
Quick, someone call the American Pickers!!
Who are these American Pickers?
+Rink03 a tv reality show they buy old things and have an antique shop in Memphis ? I guess
www.mikewolfepicker.com
I cried looking at this because I know that the person that lived in that house pass a way and its so much memory left behind and it's sad for some reason I got emotional looking at this video... I started tearing up more when I saw that I love you eva card
I had to stop watching, I was to sad.
my great grandmother had a house with similar layout .. she kinda stopped updating anything fashion or decorating wise.. so her house that was built in the 1920s (had skeleton keys for everything lol) and the decorating style stopped in the 70s.. makes me miss her very much seeing this video... : )
Around 7:20 I glanced up and could have sworn that doll was a body. Phew, startled me
This reminds me so much of my great grandmother's house. When she passed away unfortunately we had to empty it and sell it but this video is bringing back memories of being a kid exploring that house. Dang.
This is the second, abandoned house I've seen where all of the belongings were just left behind. So sad. One can almost feel the memories of the place in the video here. Having read the comments, it is sadder still that the place was struck by lightning and burned to the ground after there were plans to restore the home.
i wonder what’s behind the stuck door upstairs...
yessss :o
That same thought crossed my mind. I'm thinking another bedroom though.
2:31 pink 1950's dryer, 2:47 "flower power" 1960's decals in the tub, 3:47 1950's kitchen cabinets, 4:01 the living room furnishings from the 1960's era where the old kitchen use to be (see the door off of the room). A bedroom off the kitchen was primarily used for the nanny or a servant, 6:11 (clutter room with dolls) use to be the dining room area. 7:25 formal dining room for the family, 7:54 large narrow windows indicative of a fine Southern mansion. 9:56 the formal parlor where guests are received. 10:56 a low drop ceiling hides the original ceiling... a bedroom. Central fireplace in every bedroom as well as other rooms dates the mansion to around 1850 or so. During the Depression the second level 15:33 was turned into a rental area. Total count of bedrooms including the converted kitchen on the second level .... eight bedrooms and two bathrooms. Note: hoarders suffer from isolation and lack of companionship where the items become their sense of companionship and security.
Thank you for this info. This video will never stop fascinating me
Elderly hoarder, had a great uncle that lived like this and it was almost an impossible task to clean out his house once he passed, in a way it's sad knowing someone lived in those conditions but at the end of the day they were happy surrounded by their belongings.
Richard Timms,F Miller was a vet& OCD. People addicts destroyed his home.Sad.While Furman MILLER was dying of cancer.Talking about 3 kitchens& 3 New baths put in.
Hoarders are just time traveling Vikings. 🙂
This house is beautiful someone needs to fix it up. It’s way too nice to get demolished
Łennox I know right❤️it would be a lot of money to fix it though but it would be worth it
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It was being restored but burned down last week. instagram.com/savingthebiglittlehouse/
Homes like these are all over the US. In areas that are run down or just plane old. The last person living dies or a tragic accident takes the whole family in one event. Judging by the child's room and the fact I saw a lot of things suggesting elderly people they may of been grandparents. A lot of beds so maybe a assisted living place that failed? There was a house that caught fire back in 1992 in New Jersey off Green Pond Road in Rockaway. It was my grandparents neighbors and the fire was caused by a child playing with matches. The child died along with everyone in the house from smoke inhalation. The fire only damaged the boys room but all the rooms were up stairs. Nobody else in the family tree wanted to deal with it so the place was just left there. I explored the place back in 2013, yeah, still there, everything was still there. Even the food in the fridge and cloths in the dryer. Toys out side, everything. The fire put it self out but nobody knew about it until police came by to check on the kid who has not been to school in a week. .
OMG i would love to live there. I would fix that up!
me too
Would take a tremendous amount of work but totally doable.
Mara's Musings At this point the house is so ruined you'd just demolish it.
Something tells me the cost of the materials plus labour cost will be more than rebuilding itself...
Mara's Musings look up selma mansion, it was in worse shape than this one and somebody is fixing it up
Something struck me watching this. I feel so sad and depressed seeing this video. Getting crazy vibes. Definitely heart breaking
One of the indications of how touched/untouched a place is is the condition of the windows. How many windows were broken total?
+Indycoone A few on the top floor but it looked like it was because a tree branch fell through in a storm and not because of vandalism
best abandoned house video ever
Cheryl hutchinson I agree! I watched it twice, and I just felt so sad and disheartened by it all. I can't believe some things like that doll that look so perfect still.
I love old houses since I was young man, finding old abandoned farm houses we use to love going into them just to look and take it all in cool times. and just thinking of the stories they could tell, the dreams that were made. The joy, the sadness. Yup one of my favorite videos from you guys. More like this one please!
probably my favorite video
Yung Barce it's mine for dayum sure
same
The fact that you had to walk through a bedroom in order to get to the kitchen is a big clue as to what happened there. Most likely a surviving widow who at one point was no longer able to navigate the stairs, and moved the bedroom downstairs. Then he or she either passed away or moved to a nursing home.
I guess major people had soo much respect for this house because of how all the furniture and items still remining there for many years. I'm sure there are valuables in there as well, but surprisingly it hasn't been stolen which is what I would expect if a house were to be abandoned this way...
Lovely old home with great architectural salvage. The fireplace mantels, trim, and especially the staircase. It fell into decay because they didn't have the money to repair the roof. You can tell they were living there, during the roof leaking, due to the buckets, tubs, old swimming pool etc.How horrible!
The best christmas present: a proper people video haha ! Keep it up Michael,Bryan.
it's yule.
We shouldn’t be sad that all this stuff was just left to waste. All of this stuff meant something to the owners during their lifetimes. They kept it and cared about it for their entire married lives. It didn’t hold meaning or interest to their heirs, and this is not uncommon. For example, I collect vintage hats, purses and salt and pepper shakers. I have 11 nieces and nephews, and their children, to leave these things to. None of them have any interest in any of them. I enjoyed them while on this earth. What happens to them when I am gone does not affect me in any way. I may hope they go to someone who will love them as I did, but I have no control over their disposition. I could hire someone to sell them online or I can let my heirs do whatever they want with them. Thanks for the tour guys!
You could have your furniture donated to the less fortunate. This way it can get a second life and help someone else in need.
Maybe donating them to a collector would be a good idea ? That would be a sure way to have these possessions cherished.
Please list them on eBay someday. I definitely enjoy vintage items and always had a love for vintage things . The history of the item is what really gets me. Looking at the pieces in this home intrigue me and hope that the company that purchases house didn't just throw it away the trash but instead donated to Goodwill or thrift store that we can be passed down from generation to generation.
@Bill Williams List on eBay :) there are many people that would love to purchase vintage items .I can walk at any antique shop and walk the aisles for hours just looking at the Vintage items and have purchase plenty on my own due to the fact my grandmother before passing away lived in a nursing home and all her belongings were in a closet I never went back it was too difficult and emotional. Not sure if my mom ever went back to collect any belongings or anything from her room at the home. I'm sure it wasn't much left but either way I wish I was stronger then since I realized now I missed out on my family's history. I hope someone finds your precious treasures worth passing down .
@Bill Williams Sweet! That stool should be passed down. If you ever have anything you are simply considering in donating or selling let me know. I love vintage items and the history behind it. Eve had many things indeed. Eve had two houses across each other. John Cain little was the original owner and bought many lands around the neighborhood and created a home in each land. I couldn't sleep so I went online and found Eve. She went by the last name Perdue. I even got to see a picture of her 😍 she lived in the other house across the street not the little house. The note that says I love you xoxo Eve should be framed and remember. I took it has her last goodbye. She has sons, daughters, niece and nephews still alived and with families of their own. It baffled me to see that NO ONE took the initiative to keep the "little house" in good condition and even the "Willie's" house they let go of. A family member ended you buying the Willie's house in 2017 and restored it.
This is so sad :( The full closet in the bedroom got me the most, because who knows what's buried in there that the woman living there probably hid. I think everyone has something meaningful or valuable hidden in a closet. The groups of belongings look like someone was trying to organize it all, but gave up. And it was probably the same person who put the bins/pools around the house to catch water leaking. Someone was caring for that house and its contents after the residents left/died. I wonder why they quit.
Amanda M saw a 👻
I swear i'm always turning up to that entrance music!
With all the crap piled up everywhere, it looks like the owner died and the family started going thru everything but was so overwhelmed, they said screw it, too much to deal with and just left.
Crap not such a good word. There actually a lot of vintage items in the house.
It's crazy to think that 2003 was 13 years ago, still feels like a few years ago
Love that pink washer. Upstairs must have been an apartment. It's tub was a claw foot with tile built around it. Must have been 20 coaches.
I absolutely love this house. It has a certain aura of nostalgia and feels like you're walking into a loved ones house. It slightly reminds me of my grandparents' place it had unique architectural features just as this house does, but theirs was a 3 story. Plus my grandparents had loads of cool antiques and toys. I sure miss them!!
Cherished memories, left to rot!
I guess our memories will be left to decay when we are gone too.
Margot yep think about that all the time when I get in hoarder mode
My great grandmother was born in 1905, bought her house (a 7 bedroom victorian mansion) in the 40s with her husband, and lived alone in it from 1969 when he died until she died in 2005. Her house was just like this..i lived there for 3 years to take care of her during her final years and at least once a week a would get lost just looking thru all the old stuff and daydreaming. If my family hadnt cleaned it out and sold it, id imagine it would have looked just lile this. I miss it 😞
Btw Her house also had 2 kitchens!! Was also full of furniture just like this as she couldnt make it up the stairs. Was so old the bathrooms had to be retrofitted into closets! Your video brought back soooo many memories!
Oh Darling I feel you.
This was a place where a lot of people lived at one time , but I've never seen any thing like this where you see not only the house in slow rot and decay but also everything they own 😭 Good job 😊
10:40 "Damn there's condoms everywhere".
Totally Didnt hear that the first time
StarsGalaxy1 I think he said cobwebs 😂
StarsGalaxy1 cobwebs*
I feel like a child or grandchild should have some of this stuff. Breaks my heart! And look at all the plastic pools and buckets of water.
Happy to see it got bought and is being renovated. I hate seeing abandoned houses. You can feel a house's loneliness. Seems like what happened is what happened to my neighbor. She died, her family picked over what they wanted, left the rest. A battle between the deceased's mother (she was on the deed) and the deceased's estranged husband ensued with the mother basically digging her heals and refusing to budge. She let the mortgage default rather than let the husband get the house. The bank took over the property, but never cleaned it out. It sat like that for 4 years. I took pics through the windows. Stuff was just there, looking like it was waiting for someone to come back. Eventually, the bank sold the property via auction. The poor guy that bought it didn't know how bad or how long it had been sitting there. The hot water heater exploded the first week they were there. I felt sooo bad for them.
This place was goooorgeous in its day! Loving all the woodwork and huge doors
Interesting. Someone went through the trouble to place several kid's swimming pools and other bins in various rooms to catch water leaks. One could only imagine it would be someone who was still attempting to live in the house, and not explorers.
Amazingly beautiful old home. Looks like perhaps an elderly grandmother resided there alone at the end. Lots of flower pots, vases, photos and crochet blankets. Even though it's in bad disrepair is still worth saving just to bring dignity to the former residents and preserving such beauty. Thank you for posting this.
Abandoned houses like this make me so sad. You know that whoever lived there last, and lived amongst all that old stuff, is probably dead -- I saw a couple of 'adult potties' like those my own parents used in the last years of their lives, for those not ambulatory enough to get to the bathroom. It's so sad knowing that someone was taken from a house like this, filled with the detritus of their whole life, never to return, and there's no one left to claim any of it, so it sits moldering for years. Just so terribly sad.
I saw that someone else mentioned that the "bedroom" you have to walk thru to get to the kitchen probably wasn't a bedroom originally -- I've seen this for myself, a school friend lived in a very old house whose rooms had all been re-purposed -- the room that was her mother's bedroom had originally been the front porch, but had been enclosed and made into a bedroom. Old houses often didn't have much in the way of hallways, but just one room leading to another to another to another, etc.
In the first "child's room" upstairs, I saw a bedspread -- the red/blue checks -- exactly like one I had when I was a child! It came from Sears! I had the matching curtains too!
The kitchen upstairs probably indicates that the upstairs had been rented out, for income to whoever lived below.
There's a lot of sadness in that house.
I'm shocked at the lack of dust. What a find!
It does amaze me that these old abandoned buildings still have all there stuff. am I the only one that thinks theses' things should be used, not left to rot.
Older people think they will use this stuff someday and refuse to throw it away. If they had been through the depression, then they know that you don't throw stuff away, you may need it someday.
Lots of abandoned stuff left to rot is a symptom of an affluent and wasteful society.
@@rclrd1 Or maybe the opposite?, the person who lived here obviously kept everything and wasted nothing, then she died.
That door is stuck, I'm not gonna force it.
Me: force it, force it, please force it 😆🙏
Seriously. I would've kicked that shit in
Imagine if it was holding the whole house up and they pushed it in
The melancholic mood is enhanced by the subtle narration and quiet background chimes - excellent video! 👌
It's really is sad just watching someones whole life be washed away like that and no one to take care if it - such a waste ;o ~.....
It's wild and sad. Just like someone's life just stopped and they disappeared!
Imagine a movie about this. One probably already exists about this scenario, but imagine a movie where an explorer or two find an abandoned house and quite literally step back in time. Go back to the 50’s or some such decade. That would be really cool.