Untouched Abandoned French Mansion - Owners fled country!
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- Vacated over 15 years ago lies a mansion on a rocky hillside that has been stagnant ever since the last residents fled the country. What's inside is the only reminder of this families existence in this small layer of land. We go inside and see what remains of this gorgeous relic of the past.
Most people see the abandoned house on the block as an eyesore or depressing, I find curiosity and adventure in these same places you pass every day. My job is keep the memories of the past ALIVE. Walking into old buildings and simply walking back in time, simultaneously! If you enjoy the video, leave a thumbs up and of course subscribe if you really like it !
anywho , I hope everyone enjoys and embraces the day.
- Your friend,
Devin.
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The secret stairs leading to powder bath. Originally homes built in late 1800’s people got around by horse & carriage. Off the main entry you had small room for drivers to wait while horse was tied up to curbside tie ring. Then when wealthy visitors were done drivers would come out of small room. Later these small rooms were used for indoor plumbing. Also secondary kitchen is where servants prepared most meals. And help usually hung out there cooking so is not to be seen. Tiny rooms upstairs usually were a sleeping porch with outside ventilation. This was very popular in large mansions to prevent tuberculosis which ran rampant in 1800’s.
Sounds like you know this place ......
smario503 Fascinating! Thank you for sharing
ur big brain
I grew up in a historic home. I agree. Also the back kitchen and stairs was the original maids quarters. This home is utterly stunning
How come there is still power? Someone still paying the bill? Lol 😂
When I was younger, I wished with all of my heart to live in a house like this. Now I'm content in my tiny cottage. For some reason, larger houses seem sadder to me now, but I hope someone cherishes it into renewal and fills it with a family some day!
Bigger houses just seem a lot harder to clean lmao, I prefer smaller minimalist houses just so I can keep it clean
@@ArcadianWizard Same! Tho, this house is really pretty...if it was smaller but still this pretty I wouldn't mind give it life again!
@@ArcadianWizard If you have this kind of house money, you have maid money too lol.
ClickReportTo SilenceFreeSpeech I don’t like strangers in my house lol
I am not jealous of a rich person who could fix this up and pass it on to history. I am seeing this today with classic old cars. I salute anybody who can maintain history and pass it on. Once history is gone you aren’t going to get it back.
How sad that these houses are just left to rot. What’s even worse is the people who ransack them.
claire Phillips what’s worst is thinking that there’s lots of people living in the streets
UrCelestial Buddy exactly,my thoughts
@@ValeriaFlores-qg2lg It never fails there's always someone who has to bring up the homeless. Homeless will destroy this place quicker than looters will, trust me. And the reason they are left to rot is because banks create money out of thin air to loan to people. That's how the federal reserve works. It's funny money. So the bank owns the property but doesn't care because they got it for free.
ClickReportTo SilenceFreeSpeech chances are the person who built this mansion made their money on the backs of the poor.
Why would it matter if people take the stuff? If no one takes it the stuff will just rot and decay. As long as they don’t vandalize there’s nothing wrong with taking something no one will come back for
As someone who has studied interior design i very much appreciate the detail in this home, the door at the end of the hall in the front entry was a medieval style door, the ceiling had groin vaults, the small kitchen was actually a butlers pantry and there is a ton of french regency/victorian filigree/ornate details throughout
That house has some beautiful woodwork in it, and a lot of possibilities when you look past all the crap clutter. It's a shame to let it go to rot. Hopefully somebody will restore it. I'm not usually into big houses like that but I think it could be worth the expense.
I’m a graphic design major and I’ve taken a lot of art history classes and learned a lot about European architecture. Thanks for reminding me that the vaults are called groin vaults 😂 It was on the top of my tongue but I nearly forgot what they were called.
Mimi Valley I want to study interior design soon. Do you work as a designer or are you just studying it?
What's a groin vault?
@@bagelbitee3756 What's the difference between an ordinary vault n a groin one besides the ceiling? What is it?
3:17 I can’t be the only one that nearly had a heart attack.
hybridEP3 my cup of tea didn’t make it!
i saw your message, so kinda expected it :-D
🤣🤣🤣
hybridEP3 i almosttttt dieeeed wtf !!?!?!?
thank god I wasn't the only one ahaha
It’s cool you guys are really respectful of the places you go in!
They were the ones that destroyed it🤣
Myrescuecats how do you know
How do you know they arent taking the things they find when the camera is off?
His friends look like druggys, of course they loot the place and sell it for better equipment
These old piles are a thing of the past when servants lived in and worked for peanuts most that are left in uk get taken on by national trust if there listed buildings but a lot are just abandoned and left to rot till someone buys the land and sticks 50 shoe box houses on the site
It is architecturally an important home. I'd say it was built in the 1920-1940 style. It has a servant stairway, quarters and pantry. There are significant leaded glass windows. The design also includes lots of light features. The built-in shelves and woodwork are high quality. It seems historic, so it is sad that it has gone to waste. Thanks for the look inside. Amazing.
dude never stop making these videos!! I love to watch them in the middle of the night with some food, to me it's like watching a movie.
Thanks so much for the kind words. I will never stop!! Haha
@@DarkExploration good! I support you watching the ads
Got that right, same here, cheers from Colombia.
fer lala SAME
Agreed awesome
this book collection makes me wanna get on a plane right now just to steal those... history of art... damn
My copy of Anne Frank, the edges of mine are all curly, that one is perfect.
My copy of Anne Frank, the edges of mine are all curly, that one is perfect.
Bro stealing is against the law
@@Ryu_Kage. if respectful people dont, looters will, and theyll choose to make a profit off of them. either that, or itll be ruined by weather eventually.
@@mariahlynn7715 well stealing is still bad regardless
I really want to clean this house, lmao
Can you clean mine?
K M me too haha 😃
You can come and clean my house if your bored.🤣
bro come to my house i'm always lazy to clean my house
Omg I was literally thinking this and read your comment. Me too. I love cleaning
This was beautiful ceilings and archways, I could only imagine how it looked new!
The age of the house doesn't match the appliances or active
electrical serge protection boxes. This means there's been owners and renovations since.
смиренный also no antiques
Same thing I thought. It wasn’t long that they left.
смиренный they left at least in 2006
He found some photos dated 2006 so yeah
Right.owners are still living, just in a diffrent country. Thats why the power is still on, they are still probably paying property taxes and utilities
What I like is the way you narrate as we go along. No sad-sack muzak, no over-emotional outbursts, no walking through pointing at everything and naming it. Even the volume of your voice. We watch a lot of these and we say Proper People watch out! - it"s like we are there and you are just talking to us, and such respect for the place and its remains. Well done all the way around.
Hi Devin, just FYI...the slides you are seeing, as well as others you found in a recent explore of the hospital, where construction workers crashed the party--- are not necessarily samples of "blood". Tissues of all types (not only blood) are stained with a variety of colors to enable microscopic visualization of the structures within the sample. Most often the stain will be of a reddish to purplish color depending on the specific dye. antibody, etc., and staining technique used. As a scientist I have employed staining technique for many years....but just so you know, these slides are likely a variety of different tissue, cell or organic/inorganic material which may or may not come from the human body---- not only or specifically blood: muscle, brain, skin, swab samples from inside the mouth, excrement, maybe even bacterial samples, you name it! Look for labels on the slides or slide box denoting identity of the sample. Hope you keep doing what you do, I enjoy it much! Stay safe and well!
Anyone know why a person would have them in their home?
I couldn't believe my eyes, this makes my heart cry to see something so beautiful left behind. 🌹I wish I could live in a mansion like this. Thank you Devin for another awesome video, keep up the good work 👍
You wouldn’t once you get the heating bills
Thats not been untouched. Mess everywhere, the chandeliers are missing and it generally looks ransacked.
It's absolutely beautiful! It's so sad these beautiful homes aren't purchased and returned to their glory. YOU are absolutely amazing for not only bringing them to us, but respecting them enough to protect their locations. Major thumbs up for you.
Oh my if the walls could talk, that is a beautiful home. Sad about the history.
Hey Devin-great job here! As always, I clicked the “Like” before the video started! Never once have you done/not done anything to make me regret “pre-view clicking!”
The toilet on the first floor was likely hidden away like that because, decades ago, bathrooms were “hush, hush.” It wasn’t acknowledged, in proper homes, that humans used those. They were located upstairs. Likely they felt the need for a place on the first floor to “read the paper” so their solution was a hidden room containing the necessary equipment.
The stairs off the kitchen would’ve been for servants’ use. Aside from mealtimes, they were to remain strictly out of sight.
You should know by now, my friend, deep breath, hold it, open the fridge, close it up and move out of “smell-sight!”
Oh my word!! I would KILL for that claw foot! That one looks large enough for two. And there’s TWO!! THREE!!
What do you think it is that drives people to enter someone else’s home just to destroy everything they can? Your opinion, Devin, please. You’re a young man-any insights?
I wish you’d given that mattress a bounce with a hand. It looked like it is of VERY good quality.
This home was so very beautiful once! It breaks my heart to see it the way it was left.
If the rich folks in this country got together, many of these abandoned houses could be converted into homes for homeless or poor folks or both. They’re just rotting away, being destroyed by people who should’ve been taught by their parents that you DO NOT go into a strangers’ home for ANY reason!
Beautiful job... No matter how beautiful or large a home is, how much money they have, how smart they are , people can have unhappy lives. Their homes can be snap shots into their lives at that time. Well done!😊
Better to cry in a Mercedes instead of on a bike
What I'd love to see is someone go in and tidy it up put new life back into it then take a video and show the before and after... give it some love...
There are some people who do that. You can search channels or videos. I've discovered a couple of days ago one that did that and is doing that to a chateau in France. Really interesting stuff
You see the episode of Hoarders where a gay couple bought this old mansion at an auction or something like that , and the lady inside who it no longer belonged to wouldn’t leave because she had the whole place destroyed with her hoarding? They eventually got her out and cleaned it up. They felt really bad though because she didn’t want to leave and had nowhere to go or to take her billions of things. But I would recommend watching that if you wanna see a destroyed old mansion fixed. You can find the video/pictures of it now
I was thinking the same thing. It would be great to go in there and clean up a couple of the rooms and just bring the house somewhat back to its original state.
@@hunybeeee if I was there I'd love to do it myself however i am in a totally different country. I just think it's a shame that in these videos they only go and look through and dont do anything to tidy it up at least. That would make for some great videos.
Well you can do mine if you like.A before and aftet🤣
So sad to see. The time & energy that went in to building this house and it's being left to rot.
I think when you gave the date of 2006 as the last or most recent time frame when someone was living there is pretty accurate. I will tell you why. The pile of books that were on top of that coffee table in one of the ground floor rooms had a copy of the Cheese Premier book which came out in the early 2000. I know this because I worked as a manager at a Borders Book Store during that time period and that book was heavily featured in our promotional area and later in our discounted section. So 2006 definitely fits that time period when someone was still living in this house/mansion. It’s crazy to think that it’s been 15 to 18 years since then. But as you know, time flies!
I was so intrigued by this video that it was over before I knew it. Amazing job. Thank you for ensuring the privacy of the people who lived there. That is special. Love your work!
Interesting, I really appreciate the respect you showed while walking around.
Correct, I hate it when people break things or spray paint. It's so rude!!
The other “kitchen” was a butlers pantry.
My home has a butlers pantry.
@@andreww9791 aren't you a nasty one
Andrew Wheeler rude to Maggie 👎 I’ve been in a ton of old homes not even mansions and yes they have a Butlers Pantry . Not uncommon at all. I lived in one place that had one in my apartment years ago . So ya don’t have to be rich to have a Butlers Pantry 😉
At about 4:20, that appears to be a fifth edition of Janson's History of Art, published in 1995. There fore, the abandonment date would be post '95.
It was most likely abandoned somewhere between 2006 and 2010. Plus the photos. I had some of those exact books in high school. I'm making a guess the husband was older maybe by 10 years or so. Based on the fact you had 90s editions of certain items lying around.
"Memoirs of a Geisha", first published in 1997.
That C programming language book in the video i have the same exact book!
extraordinary find....sad to see looters have just trashed the place like that. I'm sure a few people have crashed there over the years. Odd to see there was power to the stove / fridge after all that time.
Beautiful. Such a shame. The saddest thing? The Christmas lights wrapped around the bannisters.
Not strange to have no handles on a kitchen door...there were push plates...need both hands to carry dishes to and from the table.
Yes, I was thinking some parts of the house looked like where the serpents worked
@@sarahsweeney7311 how would a serpent hold something? Seems like a funny thing to see.
Michael MacDonald Hahahaha
Michael MacDonald ..well they probably had serpents quarters and four of those would make a whole in which they could bury all the broken plates they couldn’t hold, so no one fired them cos they didn’t know plates were getting smashed. Geckos would have been better...sticky feet!
I’m here all week....
Not blood. Those are histology slides. It's tissue sliced really thin and stained red to differentiate cells and their nuclei
Its an illuminati satanists house and the prints are from sacrificed children and you need to wake up to whats going on in our planet!!
@@lisaboone369 Conspiracy-theory much? LOL
@@lisaboone369 Haha, one of the boxes of slides said "Laboratory of Human Nutrition." Similar to that one Twilight Zone episode To Serve Man? Like, meaning they're going to SERVE and EAT man? LOL. Maybe Human Nutrition means the nutritional information of humans.
@@lisaboone369 you nee to wake up lsial the illuminati dont exist any mroe they died 225 years ago they can nto exis any mreo your oen them foosl who thinkt trangle mean illumtnait they dont if they steel goni to exist in fturue god wodo said so in bible to lookf or them god know all dude
Still way weird to have tissue-sample slides lying about a house.
I'm no expert, but I know that a lot of the local "old time" homes here, had "secret" out-of-the-way staircases and such for the "servents" and maid staff. Perhaps that is why? Definitely worth researching! Fascinating! And definitely a gorgeous place!
I feel like as I grow older I appreciate these things more and more.
Your door with no handles was a butler pantry very common for that type of era and house this house is beyond amazing and still in relatively great shape makes me so sad it’s just left abandoned so gorgeous
i lived in a historic neighborhood my entire childhood and my parents still live there and it looks almost exactly like my house in a lot of ways structurally. Instead of being victorian ours is french chateau country style. it was built in 1936, so maybe that was around the time it was built? - great videos guys thanks for this content !!
I'm amazed they don't run into squatters. Are there any videos of that happening???
They are the squatters
@Micaela Jones the power was already on at least in parts of the house if you looked at the flashing stove clock in the big kitchen, I would go there with trash bags disinfectant and a few vacuums!!!
OMG. I honestly love the wood work in this home. It sad that it sits abandoned. It breaks my heart 💔
Yes, the woodwork like the baseboards, walls and matching doors, all the same wood...that wood is worth good money.
I don't understand why anyone would want to leave a beautiful home like this... Still very interesting just a shame you didn't know all the story what happened to the lady who went after her daughter.. I really want to know now I've seen this.
What a tragic history in so beatiful house. This mansion is magical in every detail.
Looks early 20th century, and Art Nouveau in design. I’d say 1900-1910. It’s a beautiful home, and has had many additions over the years. It’s a shame to see it in this condition. It looks restorable, but will take a considerable amount of money though. I wonder if it’s on a historic registry.
That doesn't mean anything. I have seen homes n business in good condition, that were on a Historical list. N still bulldoze to the ground. One whole block in my City, all the old building were on a historical list. Had been for years. All in good condition ( stores n apts still in them, yes needed some work). Company brought them, brides were had. All torn down. To be replaced with new building pretending to look old. I refuse to shop or live in any of them.
Sweet.. I can't wait to find something like this to explore.. Nice work as usual.. So many antiques..
Strange that the power was left on after all that time. Of course the other possibility is that some squatters lived there for a time, and illegally spliced into the nearby power lines.
Denise Boldea in some instances the the electric company simply forgot to shut it off. It’s a possibility, I’ve read about it in cases where people died in their homes or apartments and nobody noticed.... once I read about was in NYC and it was almost 15 years
The owners are still alive and living in another country, I assume they are still paying property taxes and utilities
A trust could be paying for the power. What we are told isn't always what is.
Most French houses are incredible and have a lot of character and the basements are always of really cool old stuff
Why is it that 98% of abandoned buildings have a bike just like in the middle of a room...
Sharon Lancaster it’s obligatory lol. If you leave you have to put a bike in the living room
hahahaha, maybe squatters?
If you watch a lot of different urban explorers they usually end up doing this while setting up a nice photo and leave it where they did the shoot. Just like they set a creepy old doll or bear in a rocking chair in a completely cleaned out room for a nice photo op. So probably just a previous explorer found it and left it there or the previous owner kept it indoors as bikes use to be taken care of well maintained.
One of the books laying in the pile is "Memoirs of A Geisha". It is a fantastic book, and I was genuinely surprised to see it in the home owner's abandoned collection. To whomever, good reading taste for sure!
Logan Hammond yeah I noticed that too. This house must have been abandoned lat 90s or early 2000s based on that book alone.
1997 first publlshed.
I have to say that I love seeing stuff like that it's so nice to see wish I had money to buy place like that to restore it
So would I mike.
Same here. I love old stuff
Love the description and i agree 100%. Proper explorers save the history which would otherwise be forgotten and gone without any trace.
I know few explorers who would love to see that place.
Great explore .. no spray paint and minimal vandalism i guess .. all cups and glasses and such intact. Weird that it still has power on.
@ 12:30 love that lamp.
How do you just walk out of a mansion and never come back.These videos always amaze me hmmmmmmm
Shit happens Patrick ......
I lived in a house like this for a few years. I’m guessing the house to have been built early 1900s. Loved all the fireplaces and antique stove in the kitchen. In the days before the internet you read to learn about things you were curious about. TH-cam is a godsend so much information in the palm of our hands today. Any question you have can be answered in seconds. Why are we not all mansion owners with such knowledge? Love the videos. Thanks for putting on the line for us and filming. Cheers!
I think that the government imposed such huge taxes on these mansions that that could also be the reason so many are abandoned. The owners fled without letting anyone know, so they couldn’t be made to pay up before they left.
Emily Dill shit that’s smart
The antique furniture is absolutely gorgeous!!
I would love to clean that house and bring it back to it’s glory!!
Gorgeous home, I suspect a very wealthy family lived there, the 1st small kitchen was either staff kitchen or butlers pantry/kitchen..the adjoining pink bedrooms Could have been for nursery and nanny..sad that vandals come in and trash the place I noticed power is still on who's paying the bill?
Heidi Allen the power is still probably on due the grounds are still owned by the city, county and or state and for insurance reasons it has to be left on. In case of fire 🔥 and such.
I would move in..
Mike M I think leaving the power on is what would lead to accidental fires. It’s not like there was a sprinkler system installed here... and even if there was, like everything else, it’d be broken and in disrepair. It’s really strange to see a place like this not boarded up and secured.
The first kitchen is actually the butlers pantry. Most all mansions had them back in the day
That “secret” door that led to the bathroom was actually for the maid/butler. It’s like a broom closet where they’d also keep the mops, like you saw. Help were not allowed to us let the main bathrooms.
Absolutely beautiful and such rich history. ❤️ I love the originality of the home and the chairs 😍gorgeous gorgeous gorgeous.
I just wrote a comment below. Grew up in a Victorian house same exact or very close to the same staircase and yes there is door underneath the staircase however ours did not have a bathroom! It was just a place for us to play ( we made it that) it was a really cool hiding spot. I think that that was pretty common in Victorian homes. Back staircase too. That would of been for maids. It's devastating that house isn't in our family anymore...
It looks like that the owner was a doctor and love art, and the time stopped in 90's.
The travel map you picked up had a date right on it: 2000.
Absolutely Beautiful find! Thanks for sharing!!
What a gorgeous house, thank you for the slow panning, really enjoyed looking round 😘
Hi Devin!what an amazing find,I also find them interesting ,curiosity,& adventurous but sadly I can't go to these places because of my health so I have to sit back & watch others.as a child there was an abandoned house across from my grandfather's house.my mom grew up with the kids who lived there.anyway 1 day we decided to go in.my dad didn't want us going alone so he went with us.( my sister & brother).my grandfather was mad we went in.I was around 9 & so scared & as an adult I regret not going upstairs or anywhere other then the kitchen.there was a huge hole in the middle of the floor as u walked in u could see below.everything was left behind.pictures on the wall.the kitchen had dirty dishes in the sink & the table had a glass & a dish with a newspaper.I will never forget the headlines & I wanted to take that newspaper so badly but I don't take things from these places.the headline was : John Lennon assassinated! . What a part of history.I have always wondered what happened.it looked like they planned on coming back but didn't.yrs later because the house was on a side of the hill the city decided to demolish it.my grandfather took pics.so now im hooked & wonder what is the story.why did they leave. :-) ok now back to this video,1st what a sad story.next I love the inside .the architecture is beautiful.( I like to pause & write my thoughts then cont so I found it funny I restarted & u basically said the same thing :-) )at 2:06 that fireplace is amazing I love it.what an amazingly beautiful staircase.I love the hidden door that is such an old thing to find :-) that old bike is beautiful but weird its still here & inside.wow the books I just want to save them,especially Anne Frank.a lot of the stuff looks like the 1950s.especially the 1st kitchen but the 2nd looks like maybe 1980s or 1990s.at 8:01 I love the bookshelf window seat area.I just love everything about this place.I love the maze of rooms,some of it reminds me of the tv show Webster. ;-) ok im thinking because of the blood & the sign saying bath maybe at 1 point a Dr lived here & had an office here or something like a hospital.not sure but this was very interesting to find.I also think some homeless people found shelter here.at 12:44 what a beautiful view.I'm thinking that when this place was 1st built they had servants & the top floor used to be there living quarters.I can picture this place in the 1920s or 1930s.maybe the 40s.wow the parties & fun this beautiful place could tell some stories .its so sad to see it left to rot.thank u for sharing this place before it is demolished or rotted away. :-)
Amazing. But more amazing is how you find these places. I’d love to hear how you got started in this, and your experiences getting where you are today
Love the ceilings. And the dark wood..
Amazed that abandoned for over 15 years and still had the power turned on
Anybody else’s heart drop when he came out of the secret bathroom and that dude was standing there???
Yes lmaooo
Wonder who is paying that electric bill after all these years. That place is absolutely gorgeous! I mean the woodwork alone is fantastic! BTW, your filming and editing skills are really good. It seems like each new film gets better and better. Thanx for sharing this beautiful place.
Thank for keeping it clean my kids love watching these explorations too
Such a beautiful place. I've been waiting for your videos and it's lovely as always. Thanks for the tour sir!!
It's every little girls dream to live in a beautiful place one day , I never got that dream come true , my grandson told me once , that dreams only come true on TV , I really thought how right he was .
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Who's paying the electric bills for an "abandoned" house?
Michael Boyle It may be someone living there, or was living at some point and made a way to have power
Usually it's either still coming out of the owners bank account or its being paid for by the city or the bank to make sure the place is still in somewhat not terrible condition if they want to redo it or to make sure it doesn't damage the land its on for them to take it down and put a new house there
I would like to know the same thing all these mansions left behind some still have running water etc even expensive cars
If the electric bills are low which they would be it wouldn't necessarily be on their radar. It happens where people die or places are abandoned and the power continues to work for years as it can only be switched off publicly. Then they would have to instruct a person to go to that street and turn the house off by the mains. I don't think they can legally do that in case there are medical dependents.
I don't think it has power
WOW! I really love big old mansions! So beautiful at one time.
My daughter and I have been binge watching your videos on this cold, rainy Texas day. 😆 Glad my husband introduced me to your channel!
Finally!!! I love your videos. Don’t see them Much and I miss them.
I think I had that exact Walkman 😂. Bought them at Radio Shack.
Hey homie, i definitely dig your commentary, when u look at stuff and u give your opinions and or ideas of what things are, or what year things are, so for sure feel free to give your thoughts on objects, cause it makes me curious, to the point of investigating things myself. Lastly...i was bummed that this video didnt show the basement. But overall i dig it bro! Keep it goin and stay safe.
Jesus, always when I'm watching videos about abandoned houses, I feel like cleaning them
No problem! You can come and clean my house if you like!
I used to own rental properties so when you grabbed the handle to the fridge, I audibly exclaimed “oh God, No!”
after experiencing hurricane katrina, every video i see where they open old fridges makes me wanna scream. i wanna know what's inside too, but it's not worth risking your health over
Bianca Bianca why? What usually happens, rotten food?
@@rebeccamaddux3441 yeah…sometimes they open fridges or freezers that have been abandoned for years, full of food. Imagine the stench of years old food, in an air tight box. And then you open it! 😱
Would love a follow up video, giving additional info on the family. Did the mother ever get her daughter back? Was the father sent to prison? Were there no siblings, cousins, aunts or uncles who could have gotten the house?
Dude there's White Rain Body Shampoo lol
Yeah someone's squatted there...lol and they had a Dollar Tree not too far😜
Ayy
I will continue to say this, I want to renovate all the abandoned houses. So much history. AMAZING!!!!
Such a beautiful home to have such a heartbreaking backstory. You always go to the most interesting places, thanks for sharing.
I could see the French architecture in the place. I’ve never lived in a mansion but have lived in Paris and Germany and have seen mansions and I’m from Louisiana and do know how the French are. Thank you for respecting the ppls places and taking us along for the suspense. I see Beaty everywhere in this place 🙏🏽💎🤍💎🤍🙏🏽
I think squatters have been living there,judging by some of the stuff lying around,like the glitterball and the Christmas lights on the stairs.2006 was only 14 yrs ago so....
that fireplace with blue tile is insane , such a shame it just sits there its so stunning.
This is 1 of THE BEST abandoned finds !! 💯🔥
Why wasn’t this home sold or auctioned off a long time ago before it rotted away?
The owners fled the country, it is not like you can just take someone's property. It is also hopelessly out of date at this point even if it wasn't rotted. The rooms are tiny by mansion standards.
Novusod if they had a mortgage on it it should’ve been taken back by the lender with either a non judicial foreclosure to auction it off or a judicial foreclosure. If they didn’t have a mortgage and it was already paid for the title should’ve gone to family members, of if they didn’t have any the state would’ve taken it.
Novusod and as u said they fled the country meaning they abandoned it, when u abandon a property it giving up ur rights to it so yes someone can take it
Cat Maybe it is all paid up and they abandoned it without nobody knowing.
I don't think just abandoning a home would mean giving up your rights to it. It's still someone's, they have the property at their name. If payments were due then there's no need to take someone's property. The family might show up at some point to sell or do whatever they want cause it's theirs. It's not a case where the owners died, they just left.
It angers me when people assume that they can take a house just because the owner is not arround. That's illegal.
"Is this Dexter Morgan's house?!"...that cracked me up! 🤣😂
Great find! Sad to see someone trashed it. But still very interesting to see! Thank you mate!
Love those old homes😄Keep it up
maybe if u try to contact the daughter if shes still alive she'll tell you the story
It's not like the home was abandoned 50 years ago
@@Jen1112111 no maybe something happened to her we dont know
Jen1112111 10 Years Maybe he says in the description they fled 15 years ago based On the picture of the one printed out. But if they took pics together in 2006, I assume they broke up later. So she’s probably very well alive.
Yes the owner is alive and living in another country. The husband took the kid and went to a diffrent country. The mother found them and could not get her child back so she stayed in that country where she gets to see her child .
@@greenbeans5776 why not sell that house then?!. Must be nice to be that rich to just leave it abandoned!!
I love the way your style and editing are evolving. This was a beautiful property, and it breaks the heart to see it come to this state. Perhaps the best we can say is the vandals found it but not the graffiti brigade and thrashers. The small kitchen was the Butlers pantry, and food was served from there through a swinging door zzzlt was cooked in the large kitchen.🖤🇨🇦
Thanks for this great video! This gives me and people like me an opportunity to not only look at these beautiful mansions but also visit other countries 😊
So inspiring. Thank you for sharing what beauty is possible
2:40 I seen homes like this from the early 1900's in my area where they put a bathroom with a few steps down under the stairs on the 1st floor. They usually relocated the basement stairs or entrance to a different part of the house during a remodel at some time.
I'd say this mansion was built circa late 1880's based on the high arched ceilings. One of the kitchens were for butlers and servants. The other kitchen was probably where the servants cooked the family meals. And you may have discovered the servants passageways to carry serving trays of dishes out-of-sight of the family and guests back in the day. That first half bathroom you discovered behind the panel wall was probably a very early water closet (toilet and sink) when indoor plumbing was in its infancy. Indoor plumbing wasn't common to find in middle class and lower class homes of this particular time period. It's a very beautiful mansion, and for the person with unlimited income, could restore it to its former glory. Be safe when entering these old Victorian and Edwardian homes, they might still contain untouched dark green "Schnell's green" wallpaper, arsenic wallpaper which was all in vogue beginning in 1840 throughout the 1890's. Most European countries banned the poisonous wallpaper once deaths and chronic sickness was reported and traced back to the arsenic wallpaper.
I enjoyed your video. It's a shame squatters ruin (and trash) beautiful old places such as this. The original family that had this mansion built probably had a good servant staff judging by the secret room and passageway. And I can only imagine how grand, how lovely this mansion must have appeared all dimly glowing cheerfully with gas lights (pre- electricity) and kerosene lamps.
Excellent photography - I love how you capture all the little details I would want to gawk at. That looks like an OLD house with those narrow hallways and the many small rooms. Really good one.
Very well done! The woodwork and design ;just beautiful find , thanx
Thank you for sharing your exploration with us. If these walls could tell of the joys and sorrows this home has seen-including cheap “modern” updates, squatters and vagabonds. All those books on the floor break my heart. I could happily spend days organizing them. They probably all suffer from a mold infestation-mold is death to books-but I’d pull all the juvenile fiction and nonfiction, search for the earliest publication date and the latest. Could give us some time when children lived there. It would be fascinating to spend time to catalogue not just the books but the contents of the entire house. (I am such a nerd.)
✨😆✨ Had to laugh at the notion that the presence of a cassette player meant the house was really old. Cassette players came out when I was a teen, and I’m not THAT old! lol.
When there is no love in a house, it means nothing. I’ll never understand why the house can’t be repossessed and charitys take things and sell them. Such a waste of things that can be used again.
I know right they should fix the house up this is why there r so many homeless people this is sad they should fix abanded houseses so more ppl can have a better life that would be very nice your right the houses should be fixed up but what about the explorers who do this for there whole life thanks for inspiring me to make this comment
In France the Mairie (town council) have a legal dury to obtain property taxes on every dwelling (tax habitation, tax fonciere and ordures menager) and if it is not paid, the Mairie have the right to attempt to contact the owner/s and if there is no reply they can compulsorily aquire the propery and sell it on so as to be receiving the taxes that they would otherwise have been getting.
The trouble is, mairies are reluctant to do this as the procedure is complicated and they are worried that they could end up with a run down property on their hands. Also, the cost of renovation often exceeds the market value of the property, which puts people off.
One way to cut through this is to give a chunk of money to the Maire and ask him to donate it to the charity of his choice (himself) but then you come up against the cost of renovation. There are many internet sites that sell chateaux, manoirs and houses,such as www.leboncoin.fr so why bother with a property with legal problems?
Really awesome video guys! I like how respectful you are of the original owners, so interesting seeing these abandoned homes - it would have looked amazing new
Beautiful house, it’s a shame it’s empty but I’m glad that people haven’t completely trashed the inside