@@LedZeppelinHK i want to make a cerrear defending abandoned buildings from scrappers and vandals by scaring them out by stalking them, making noises, chasing, and just being creepy
I absolutely hate people who think that they can vandalize anything, and it won't matter. that house would have been way more gorgeous if they had just respected it like normal people. it doesn't matter if it is abandoned or not, it deserves respect. how would they feel if they had spent years building and raising a family, allowing your kids to be trained and have the experience to grow into responsible people, in such a gorgeous work of art, only for some idiots to come and trash it? it doesn't matter who lived there or how long nobody had, people spent part of their lives there. that's the type of thing people remember is the memories they had in their homes. I wonder what the reaction would be if the family that originally lived there saw it. I would just feel shocked, upset, angry, and extremely disrespected. they built that house from the ground up with possibly their own hands, and people feel the need to go and paint all over it. if you wanna paint on something go get a canvas. and penises are not appropriate to paint anywhere. to degrade a place of comfort and love like that is just disgusting. people need to grow up and learn some manners. quit taking something that valuable and beautiful and just destroying it. let it rest in peace. we need these things in our lives to remind us that no matter how battered and broken these places are, they are a moment frozen in time. they remind us that even for a time, everything was once beautiful.
I agree, it's so sad to see how people just go in and disrespect it. Children had memories there not to mention it was a gorgeous house architecturally. People are assholes. One thing about UrbEx is you don't mess with the place. Thank you to the people in the video for respecting it. I wish everyone would. Seeing that graffiti all over that house broke my heart. :(
I live in the town next to it, and used to explore it in high school. The building was seriously amazing, built over a hundred years ago. Sadly, they tore it down this summer to make way for two one family houses. Truly a shame.
Barry Lambert I agree! It’s on the national register of historic places. The people who designed the interior woodworking and mantles and such also did work for the White House back in the day. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Winship_House it’s got interesting history! Hopefully I’ll get to live there some day, it’s literally a dream house under all that vandalism
@@colinmurphy2214 : love the history, but is this the same house? The pictures don't match the outside. The outside looks more rounded and smaller in the beginning of the video and the the picture of it's history is more square, longer and bigger. The inside does match. Just confused of the outside.
Mary Garcia I’ve been there personally, I can guarantee you it’s the same house. The main area has a symmetrical floor plan (with the office on the left side) and the kitchen is part of the extension off of the side. If you look at the way the rooms branch off from the foyer you can tell it’s a s symmetrical lay out in the main area. The thumbnail is not the house btw.
I live on this street and I have been inside this mansion before it went to shit when the last owners still lived there. It was really beautiful and she was a really sweet woman. The murals on the wall were beautiful, they were landscapes paintings of the land surrounding the mansion before the rest of the west side became developed. Unfortunately the youth has had no respect for this home and they have destroyed the place, it is truly so frustrating. In the 70's and 80's the neighborhood consisted of Italian mafia. It is a neighborhood with a lot of interesting history, I have lived here for over 10 years now, I even witnessed the fire that happened in the winship mansion years ago. There used to be a bowling alley in the basement, and they also had a horse in the backyard when I first moved in. You could see the horse from the Nazareth academy side of the property. NAZ has since been knocked down and turned into a new development. The neighborhood has really changed since I was 8 years old running wild.
Rachael Anne Sophia that is a great piece of information. Thank you. Everytime I watched this kind of video, I just wish that they tell the viewers who were the first owners...
Ive been obsessed with this house for years now. I dreamt of living there just last night actually! I’m from Boston but now live in Chicago. I hope to return to Boston and live in that house, I know all the ins and outs and just pray to god it doesn’t get torn down! Any more information you could share would absolutely make my day, so please share more.
Its not youth that destroys it. Most youth are sweet and kind, even rule following.. some just ruin the reputation of the age group and ruin it for all. A lot of the good ones are sensitive... they get sad because people say this about them rather than the specific people that do it...
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Be first. That's all I can say, really ^^ I hate that too, especially if it's literally just smearing bullshi7 on the wall and kicking in stuff. That's why I love the booby trap case over on LegalEagle, it's justice well served ;)
@@Blahblahblah-v3z wow they really fixed it up didn't they !!! It looked like it wasn't abandoned, just that it was left awhile and got ransacked. Lovely home ❣️
The 2.5 story mansion (for which the road is named) was built between 1901 and 1906 for Charles Winship, proprietor (along with Elizabeth Boit) of the Harvard Knitting Mills, a major business presence in Wakefield from the 1880s to the 1940s. Due to the 2008 bankruptcy and departure of Theresa Whitaker, the house's final resident and owner, and subsequent foreclosure of the property in 2010, it currently sits abandoned in a moderate state of disrepair. Long story short: The mansion was built between 1901 and 1906, it wasn't abandoned at that time already. This happened in 2010.
Ruxa wow thank you for explaining. I love this guys videos but would love it even more if he gave some detailed back story in his descriptions. Would you know why all their belongings and pictures were just left behind?
Yeah first off I knew that white door was newer.. They didn't have those doors back in 1901, and then the looney Toons painting yep give away... as for many other things. Sad state of affairs though.
When someone leaves a house behind with all the stuff in, there is always something wrong with house or something terrible happened there. Mortgage is often just a convenient explanation. Otherwise bank could sell a house like that easily back in time. But they didn't for a reason. Obviously later some people moved in (i believe illegailly) and also just ran from the house.
My guess if we actually had the family name to research is they died in an accident or something as I don't believe so much stuff would have been left behind like that if they were alive.
well.. if they were rich enough, they may have had multiple homes in, potentially multiple countries , during the golden age of their family. And perhaps when the money started to run dry, they had long since lived elsewhere and this house just got siezed and forgotten. Worth remembering that many millionaires overextend their wealth in property and items.. there is alot of places like this around the world where the house was sized and technically all items within, and noone ever came to pick the personal crap up.
***** locations? for what? this is not some hidden fact, there are hundreds of millionaires made every year through various means. many of these do not know how to handle finance and overextend their economy, leaving in their bancrupt wake alot of abandoned shit. :)
Because they are immature assholes whose parents obviously didn’t teach them not to destroy property!! Not exactly sure what they taught them? My parents taught me not to do that and I never have. I don’t even know why people have children if they are too lazy to teach them right from wrong?
+Exploring With Josh I know your'e in germany now, dont' know if you till are. But I came across this on facebook. It's a picture of an abandoned ride in Berlin Germany. facebook.com/creepythings1/photos/a.503068789767281.1073741828.503060296434797/1028672783873543/?type=3&theater It looks so cool!
Josh, I love ya, kid but look more at that gorgeous architecture!!! That house, with all its woodwork, with about 15 fireplaces: forget the junk left behind... go for that beautifulness of the house. That was craftsmanship u sure don’t see in today’s home. And the junk left behind? U can go to any junk shop or antique mall and see that. I sure wish the people with their paint cans respected that house a lot more. It was class at its finest!!! Now it’s just been abused and trashed!
Catherine Boehle I so agree with you!!! The woodwork is stunning!! It makes me sick to see such a beautiful place with so much love put into it being destroyed. To be super rich and to be young!!
Catherine Boehle IKR I was constantly saying slow down for the love of God slow down and show us more which is why I had to check the comments to see if it wasn’t just me lol
I did my research...this mansion was in fact built in 1901 for Charles Winship. The house was eventually sold in 1947 to a few Sisters/Nuns. The house was passed down to a few other owners until someone by the name Theresa Whitaker purchased the house in 1998. Her whole family lived there until she filed for bankruptcy in 2008. In 2010, the mortgage was foreclosed and no one has lived there since then. So there were many other families who owned that mansion..
The woodwork was amazing. You need to slow down and appreciate it. Love that you don't deface anything, and your enthusiasm about your finds. Thankyou.
the original owner of the house of whom it was built for was charles winship some yrs after he died his wife sold the house. and it was resold to two or three more people up until the last owner who purchased it in the yr 1998. she filed for bankruptcy in 2008 and the house was forclosed on in 2010 and has not been legally occupied since. So these items were not those of the original owner of whom the house was built for, and mostly all the last owners items were removed. the items in which u are seeing were either left by squatters or left and destroyed from when the real estate agency attempted to sell it. (m&A realty)
People who think it is funny or cool to destroy a place by marking it up with graffiti and writing blah blah blah was here or get out or something like that is disrespectful to the house and to other people who want to explore the property, No one cares for your "artwork" These people need to serve jail time for this.
That grand piano could have probably gotten sooooo much money if you sold it. But now it has graffiti that will be impossible!!! That was such an old piano
there was a issue where only half my viewers last night was able to see this video so i had to fix it! so everyone on the phones and stuff can watch it
+Exploring With Josh Josh do you ever examine books that you find? Or just show them? Whenever I'm exploring abandoned places I always love to see what books people had; can usually find out an estimate as to when the building was abandoned.
JDM Lexus thanks for sharing this link. Heartbreaking how this spectacular historical home has been destroyed. The wood inside is breathtaking. Seeing spray paint and mold on it hurts my soul.
@@Blahblahblah-v3z I checked it out and in the beginning it was listed for $2,900,00 and as time went on the value greatly decreased and as of May 31st 2019 it was listed for $409,000. Sadly there is no price seeing as this beautiful structure was destroyed. I totally would have wanted to renovate it but keep the charm.
I feel like they maybe left in the early to mid 2000's because a lot of the appliances in the kitchen and some furniture look like they're from the 2000's. Hence why a lot of the older 80's and 90's looking stuff was left behind. Some people commenting have been saying that they left everything behind, but considering they were filthy rich that's probably only they're old stuff.
+Krytern UK mm I don't think so. I think the reason why it fell apart is because of the vandals who went in and trashed the place and spray painted everywhere. Also, the Windows were smashed which allowed the elements to come into the house (rain, snow, excessive heat) which I'm sure didn't help :/
That house was full of beauitful wood and other notable things- why destroy it? What is wrong with our society that people have no respect for other people's property.
To hard to watch this, you move to fast and only concentrate on the belongings that are unimportant, I want to see the woodwork, the bannisters, rails.. artwork, windows.. the love that went into the building of these places.
Brandy Qualls same exact feeling watching this, it takes a lot for me to feel sick from just a camera moving but this video did it. I literally almost clicked off a few times.
"The marble bathrooms...the marble floors..." Josh, please, the camera pans so quickly that even at 1080p resolution, I hardly can get a sense of the rooms! A little slower would help the creep factor, too. :)
+Wanda Heard No one has to curb their language to suit your view of what is acceptable. If you don't enjoy cussing, don't watch the video. Also - without*
Jada Berry It's hard though sweetie....I haven't worked since May and I am afraid I will lose my place to live...I have lived here for 13 years...I just told my kids I need to sell my belongings...I'm so sick..I cry all the time...if ya believe in prayer please pray for me....
With that sort of thinking eventually the sun will explode and our planet will be gone. All you see will go back into cosmo dust and eventually that dust will collect and form a new star. So with that in mind we live for nothing because from the dust we came to the dust we shall return.
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This was fun to watch but it also made me laugh. You guys go through houses and malls. Amateur explorers would do digs in places like Egypt and find the tomb of King Tut. Have some perspective.
That house is still in pretty decent shape and could be renovated and brought back to life. It has a lot of its original wood work and architectural features in tact and I would love to see it redone. Pity.
It has that 'creep factor' right now thanks to its deterioration, but once you fixed it up you'd think differently. I'm just one guy so that's too much house for one person. They don't build them like that anymore and I cant stand track homes. Its funny, when someone these days lives in a 2500 square foot house we are impressed by the size but that's still a normal house size. Back a century ago, only rich men lived in homes that size! With built in plumbing, electricity, etc. A mansion today has like 10,000 square feet or larger and yeah... Times have changed.
It would take lots of lacquer thinner to clean the graffiti off of all that stained wood. You'd spend lots of money repairing the varnish or polyurethane finish after that.
The couch you found is called a fainting couch. In the 1800's and early 1900's these couches were used for women who would become faint front their corsets so they would lay on theme to help clear the dizziness
Mostly called chaise lounges these days, which developed from the fainting couches, the name then devolved when corsets/ girdles were finally eradicated. Daybeds usually have railings or supports on three sides and are consigned to one side of any room.
Hon3yBunny You're exactly right about it being called a fainting couch. It was a furniture item unique to the Victorian era. I think it might have been designed to help women relax when they started to feel like they might faint because of the weight of all of the clothes they wore.
The corset was a torture device women wore to appear slim in the waist which restricted their breathing thus bringing on dizziness and swooning. Also, many Victorian women would fast to stay slim and go days without eating causing them to faint on the fainting couch.
I don't know but if that house had no spray paint it would be so much nicer I still would live there or remove some of the wood and put it in a different house
The tagging done in this beautiful unique place shows the lack of respect for anything by those who do not know the value of what is not theirs and they have yet to do a days work to afford such things. Sickens me and is showing America is a cesspool of ingrates that think everything is disposable to their whims, like they do to places such as this. Embarrassed by the youth, immaturity and total lack of respect for anything including others.
I so agree with everything you v said what a stunning place there is no respect from arseholes who tag places and year them apart I hate those morons!!!
Dave Potter , Unfortunately American doesn’t appreciate nice things , Antiq , Wood work , stairway and the Mansion. If this house was in France , Government take over it . And clean it , fix it . Then make a Museum from it .
That's probably the exact mindset that the last owners of the house had. Buy a mansion in deteriorating condition and live there while repairing and restoring it. Unfortunately, it takes a ton of money, time, and experience to repair this type of building and when they realized they were in over their heads they bailed and let the house go back to the bank. Now it sits in limbo, because the bank will never get the money they need for it but can't sell it at a loss. It's a sad and extremely common story. I'm not saying you're wrong for believing it can be fixed...just because they got overwhelmed and quit doesn't mean you would. It would be a really great project for the right person.
what a beautiful house. It's so sad to see it in such bad shape. I remember that the house we used to live in came up for sale many years ago. It was pretty much a shell when we moved in, and my dad worked hard to repair it and make it a beautiful home. It had a massive hole in the floor too, that he had to repair. When we looked round it for fun all those years after moving out, it was much like this. in ruin. It was very sad
Unfortunately it will cost a lot of money to fix the mansion and it's probably not worth it. But I agree it would be nice to see it in its original shape.
I've been to this mansion several times before and planning to go there again soon, I don't live too far from it. I wish it looked this nice when I went. You think this video makes it look bad, it unfortunately looks even worse now, so sad. None of the stuff is there anymore either :(
Just came across your videos. I love that you respect the abandoned places you go, and DON’T take anything from them!!! Thank you for making amazing respectful videos ❤️❤️
Aside from the motion sickness from being spun around so quickly I really enjoyed the video. Would be nice sometimes if you could do the research to find out what did happen & explain it at the end of the video. I always wonder if the families ever see these videos. I also always wonder if tragedy like a car accident took their lives so they couldn't return. It's amazing how important items are to someone when they purchase them but in hard times what they chose to leave behind TELLS another story...
Bankruptcy. I feel exactly as you do, so I read all the comments, figured out where the house was, Googled it and found an article that named the final owner, then found her bankruptcy filing online. Looks like the she had gotten divorced, and then she lost the place in 2010. And it looks as if one of her sons died unexpectedly (according to the obituary) last year. He was only 35. The obit describes him as the son of the owner and of her ex-husband and his new wife. Which is odd. Maybe a really ugly split-up.
I did see a video, not Josh's, that was in Europe somewhere that the family parents and children were all completely wiped out by a car accident. The house was completely in-tact as though they just walked out and would be returning soon. Was really eerie.
Andee P & Company I get goosebumps watching videos like this. it is amazing to see abandoned houses where everything is left behind. I worked for a foreclosure company that when in and cleaned out everything that was left behind and often mowed the lawns as well. everything from mansions to apartments. it was such an amazing and weird feeling going into each house. I had to take pictures of every room. it was an eery feeling walking into an abandoned house with everything still in place, because they couldn't take anything with them. some of the houses would and could have been on the hoarders show. some houses we needed shovels to get in the front door, because there was so much crap. I would love to do what he is doing just on my own adventure. I know what he is feeling walking through these places, and it is indescribable and puts you in awe, just thinking about the people who have been there and each individual story of how the house came to be.
Adam Carbo Wow! That must've been awesome! I meant sad because of the fact of how we all seem to fill our lives with things and more things...but for reasons like evictions, foreclosures, or death...everything we surrounded ourselves with is gone! We take nothing with us when we die, that's sad too! Just proves that having all these belongings mean nothing in the grand scheme of things. It's also sad looking at those children in the family portrait wondering how they felt the day they had to leave their childhood home for the last and final time. 😞
I find it incredibly sad that such a beautiful home first of all, for whatever reason was abandoned and personal items left and second, that there is no regard for personal space. Why do people get such a thrill out of destroying what is not theirs!! It rips at my heart every time I see it. Thank you Josh for the look into someone else’s life!!! 💕
There was a DVD player in one of the rooms, so it couldn't have been abandoned for too long, early 00s. But it's such a shame to abandon a beautiful building like that.
Joel Lueders I was guessing about 10 years, possibly even less than that. checking expiry date on food and newspapers are the best indication of when they left.
God the woodwork in that house is beautiful! But of course some assclowns have to ruin what they can't have. However when a bank takes your house and gives a 3 day notice to vacate, many family's have to grab what they can and dash. That's what most likely happened and the sad part is the bank would rather let it rot than rent or sell to a lower price bracket. However you would have to make about 200k a year or more to just be able to do the yearly maintenance on a house that size.
"Never seen a mansion with this much stuff before... Welp, Cya later!" *turns camera off* "...Alright boys, back up the truck and lets start loadin up. Chris and Mike you guys are on the grand piano, Jason you got all the ski equipment, Ryan grab all the computer gear... and me, im taking this DOOM cd"
+Lilsnackcakez it's very frowned upon amongst urbex circles. Also taking anything turns simple tresspassing into theft, making it way worse for you if you get caught.
Oh my goodness how beautiful all the lost memories you can tell this place was really a good home for whoever did get to live there. How sad. Maybe somebody will buy it and repair everything. It's a fixer upper forsure
Especially when he showed a "family portrait" and they were all dressed in Victorian clothing like lmao they're long dead, the real family are probably still alive
I would be so quick to buy, clean & fix it. I bet it's worth every penny. AND ANTIQUE. Unless someone already went back and did it. Because THAT is a huge waste.
That has to be one of the most beautiful houses I have ever seen!!!! All of that wood and the ornamental wood work is unbelievable!!!! To have the money to buy it and fix it back up...... thank you so much for sharing this!!!! We had the fortunate opportunity to rent an old farm house in Kansas. It also had a narrow staircase that went up to the 4 bedrooms. Then you had the grand staircase that brought you to the entrance. Every since then I have been in love with those old houses. Thank you again!!!! ♥️♥️😍😍
It's so sad people go in and destroy them bc it would be so interesting to see it literally as it was left like a photograph of a moment in time , a snapshot into the moment they left
Just a little Info for you . This house was probably not abandoned. This family was most likely Evicted due to Foreclosure. The Courts send the sheriff to lock said house and you are unable to get your belongings , If you enter the house they will arrest you. Welcome to life.the Hard way. pay your bills
Actually that's not true. You get 2 hours to take the main things you need then that week you phone agents and your allowed to get the rest of your belongings but they have to be with you while you get the rest because the locks get changed
they need to get some of those home renovator people and flip this house... I've seen the shit these guys pull off, I bet this place would be worth so much if it was cleaned out and renovated. It'd take a large investment to do that, though.
Yeah I wish they could do that, if someone out there had the money. The sculpting and stuff on those pillars was beautiful. But the house is so massive it would be tough lol
these houses arent meant to be lived in anymore because the walls are damaged so it leaves asbestos and other nasty stuff hanging around. That shit is deadly, no one really wants to risk it living in such an old house no matter how much renovation gets put into it. :)
I am sure it was in much better condition before all the graffiti. It could still be lived in just take alot more remodeling which no one would like to take on.
looking back, this is the first video i watched from you and i met the whole crew a few months later when you came to florida. i miss 2016, it was a simpler time. i’m really proud of how far you’ve come Josh, please never stop loving urban exploration.
Yeah, toxic fumes. I get abandoning a home is sometimes necessary; one may have a catastrophe financially or domestically and one can no longer remain responsible. But I wish people would at least clean out those refrigerators. That would seem like the least gesture of responsibility one could make.
See?! Look at the loss you suffered~probably cut into the bottom line so much you didn't get a raise that year. People, clean out those fridges! It sickens me to think of all the loss to the planet, too, when people discard an ``old'' fridge just because the underneath became so clogged with dirt it wouldn't run. These are part of what are causing the gyres in the ocean. (Wow, spellcheck doesn't recognize ``gyre.'' There are five, huge islands of garbage in the Pacific, called gyres.)
that was a beautiful old house.. what a shame for it to be let go into rack and ruin..somebody obviously loved it at some point. makes you wonder what made the people leave it so sudden.. and why could it not be sold either by the folks who owned it or the bank.. why ??.
Wow thanks Kelly! Have you been inside it? Has anyone purchased the house? The kitchen appliances are very recent so I take it this family left probably around the housing collapse 2008.
Lafayette the Frenciest Fry The owner filed for bankruptcy and couldn't keep up the mortgage in the Great Recession of 2008 it has only been foreclosed on for 7 years. I have to say it is my dream house. It is on the national registry of historical places so you could apply for a grant to restore the house. It wouldn't even begin to cover the cost. I hope one day to be successful and to own that house
Why the hell bank does not sell it to new owner, if previous owner can not keep up with mortgage? Even for low price, still better than leave the house like this?
Lukas N. Banks are just hopeless with houses. I have a friend who purchased a foreclosed on house and so she called the bank and told them she would like to speak with someone about buying the house. A week passes and so she calls them back and the man on the phone said he just didn't know who he was supposed put her in touch with. They didn't have anyone who handled people who wanted to purchase homes from them. The banks are just not equipped to sell houses. They have to pay real estate companies to sell the houses and after a while they just give up. I'd like to call the bank and ask what they plan on doing with the house. But I'm sure they'd just be annoyed thar they lost so much money on the house
Am I the only person who doesn't get why people want to attack buildings with spray paint? It would be so much better if these people had left it alone. It was an interesting video, but please take a deep breath, slow down in your speech, and go round the rooms slowly with you camera. At times it felt neurotic as some really interesting pictures flashed past like a stroboscope.
Josh, that piano in that condition is maybe worth $5,000. Restored maybe $40,000. hard to believe they left it along with all not the other items! One suggestion. Please show a shot of the front of the house before you go in. Helps me see in my mind what exactly you are walking in. Thanks, love the videos!
After watching this video and seeing the state of decay and the odd array of objects some still valuable along with the usual household goods it really does seem that something darker was behind the reasoning that this house is in the condition it is. Even someone forced to move in a hurry takes family pictures and would grab their laptop along with other things shown in the video. It's odd to see how much it's been vandalized because you know that even more things of value were there previous to the exploration. In a lot of abandoned homes newer and older you see that appliances and things of that nature are usually missing, for there to be so many electronics and gym equipment still there it really raises suspicions of why the vandals and homeless people hadn't destroyed it further, even so far as to have coats hanging in the closets and curtains still hung with portraits over the fire place.. It's just all so unusual, it really does seem like a very interesting and bizarre story.
If this house was vacated in 2008 and the couple that owned it has 3+ children don't you think that the kids upon reaching maturity would have traveled home to try and retrieve any momentos, if IF these people were forced out because of financial issues then their property would have been liquidated and the home put on the market immediately for some relief to their debt. These people that were obviously very fit or lived a "fitness" lifestyle seemed like they enjoyed traveling as well, you wouldn't ski in California. I wonder if they all died in some tragic accident abroad.. Even then wouldn't relatives have seized the opportunity to move in and if nothing else strip it of all living essentials and have it ready to sell, this really couldn't be explained easily in my opinion, I'd love to hear any new info or updates if anyone knows anything. I respect the fact if they'd rather keep the family nameless but the reasoning behind this must be quite harsh and riveting.
Luke Byrd The explanation is simple...and actually touched upon a few times in the video...if only by accident. Black mold. Remember...there was a biohazard on the ground. And definitely a lot of black mold in certain spots. It is close to impossible to get rid of that kind of deadly mold. So this explains why so many personal belongings are still in here.
Not, at all, impossible to get rid of black mold. There are so many bank owned homes, they are just let go due to cost of maintenance. Many people leave A LOT of stuff just out of laziness.
because most squatters are crack or meth addicts. It's not theirs so they fuck it up. When they are high demons play with their mind and they write all their retarded thoughts on the walls. They overturn furniture and ruin clothes looking for more shrooms and acid.
if it was built in 1901 for a business owner... how the hell would he have lived long enough to see items such as a fax machine? either multiple families lived here, or the daughters took it over after the parents died
+koolkitty12184 to further proof that more than 1 family lived there. even if he was young, maybe even age of 23 for example, there is no way he could have had kids, that stilled played Doom (the game, was released in 1993) while he was at the age of 116... hell even kids born in 1920 for example would not know what that was, the dish washer, oven etc were all much to dated for only 1 family to have lived in this house. maybe 3 or 4, or it was passed down the family over years
I was going to explain to someone who replied that a word processor is something in the line of a computerized typewriter, but then I realized they probably won't know what a typewriter is then either... :)
imagine cleaning and fixing a lot off the stuff in there and making it your own. I known it would be... right to say the least. but it would he so cool to see it how it was before.
+Hatethehaters At all I just can't understand how this even can happen. Did they wake up their children in the middle of the night saying "Get your things together, you have 10 mins until we leave" and then run away? Otherwise I can't understand how no one knows about the house being not used and ofc all the stuff that is left there.
This is quite an interesting story, mansion was built in 1901, there is no way the original owners were the only people to live there. True crime streets of LA was released in 2003 Doom was released in 1993 Disney didnt own Pinocchio till 1940 i feel like there is a lot of missing story from the history of that mansion
Ya my grandpa had an old cabin that my family would go visit all the time and the bank took it after he passed away and people went in and took everything and trashed it.
+John Lennon No, not really. I don't prefer attention, but rather I would do it for the art of the photo. It really upsets me that people go so far to start arguments, but if one has been started I am now leaving it.
Yea, I wish he would explore in more detail, show what kind of items are left there, not just a quick glance.. Also the views out the window and everything. It just seems like he rushed it
you wound think, if your gonna abandon a place, they would take all their stuff with them, even if you couldn't live their any more, why not take your stuff, the only reason you would expect stuff to be left is if they died in a accident, or in the house and no one came to clam the items
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When I was a kid I never would have dreamed of doing that kind of damage to an abandoned property. Sad. What's wrong with people?
its actually livable. im surprised theres no drug addicts , alcholic or homeless people occupied the house
@@LedZeppelinHK i want to make a cerrear defending abandoned buildings from scrappers and vandals by scaring them out by stalking them, making noises, chasing, and just being creepy
Owned by the banks in the end.
I absolutely hate people who think that they can vandalize anything, and it won't matter. that house would have been way more gorgeous if they had just respected it like normal people. it doesn't matter if it is abandoned or not, it deserves respect. how would they feel if they had spent years building and raising a family, allowing your kids to be trained and have the experience to grow into responsible people, in such a gorgeous work of art, only for some idiots to come and trash it? it doesn't matter who lived there or how long nobody had, people spent part of their lives there. that's the type of thing people remember is the memories they had in their homes. I wonder what the reaction would be if the family that originally lived there saw it. I would just feel shocked, upset, angry, and extremely disrespected. they built that house from the ground up with possibly their own hands, and people feel the need to go and paint all over it. if you wanna paint on something go get a canvas. and penises are not appropriate to paint anywhere. to degrade a place of comfort and love like that is just disgusting. people need to grow up and learn some manners. quit taking something that valuable and beautiful and just destroying it. let it rest in peace. we need these things in our lives to remind us that no matter how battered and broken these places are, they are a moment frozen in time. they remind us that even for a time, everything was once beautiful.
I am referring to the ones who just graffitied everything and trashed it. not the people in the video
+Azelyn V it doesn't really matter if the house looks Gorgeous anymore, no one's gonna be able to see it.
+Eric Tong it's still disrespectful whether people see it or not
I agree, it's so sad to see how people just go in and disrespect it. Children had memories there not to mention it was a gorgeous house architecturally. People are assholes. One thing about UrbEx is you don't mess with the place. Thank you to the people in the video for respecting it. I wish everyone would. Seeing that graffiti all over that house broke my heart. :(
+Katie Rest same. it's not fair to anyone that they did that. they did it for attention and not to try to get any gain off of it
I don't understand what people get from ruining such a beautiful place. It's just sad honestly.
I was thinking the same thing. Animals.
Humans destroy shit, it's what we do. Havent u seen the world
*shrug* Maybe they hate rich people.
I agree
+hank hanklin lol
I would buy a place like this just to restore it and make it beautiful once again.
I live in the town next to it, and used to explore it in high school. The building was seriously amazing, built over a hundred years ago. Sadly, they tore it down this summer to make way for two one family houses. Truly a shame.
@@colbert38 so this house is not there anymore?
@@wg6431 Sadly, no.
The architecture is beautiful
Hello
I studied architecture and design. This was someones masterpiece a lot of love went into this beautiful home
Barry Lambert I agree! It’s on the national register of historic places. The people who designed the interior woodworking and mantles and such also did work for the White House back in the day. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Winship_House it’s got interesting history! Hopefully I’ll get to live there some day, it’s literally a dream house under all that vandalism
@@colinmurphy2214 : love the history, but is this the same house? The pictures don't match the outside. The outside looks more rounded and smaller in the beginning of the video and the the picture of it's history is more square, longer and bigger. The inside does match. Just confused of the outside.
Mary Garcia I’ve been there personally, I can guarantee you it’s the same house. The main area has a symmetrical floor plan (with the office on the left side) and the kitchen is part of the extension off of the side. If you look at the way the rooms branch off from the foyer you can tell it’s a s symmetrical lay out in the main area. The thumbnail is not the house btw.
It's incredible!!
Beautiful!!
I live on this street and I have been inside this mansion before it went to shit when the last owners still lived there. It was really beautiful and she was a really sweet woman. The murals on the wall were beautiful, they were landscapes paintings of the land surrounding the mansion before the rest of the west side became developed. Unfortunately the youth has had no respect for this home and they have destroyed the place, it is truly so frustrating. In the 70's and 80's the neighborhood consisted of Italian mafia. It is a neighborhood with a lot of interesting history, I have lived here for over 10 years now, I even witnessed the fire that happened in the winship mansion years ago. There used to be a bowling alley in the basement, and they also had a horse in the backyard when I first moved in. You could see the horse from the Nazareth academy side of the property. NAZ has since been knocked down and turned into a new development. The neighborhood has really changed since I was 8 years old running wild.
Rachael Anne Sophia your comment should be at the top of the section
Rachael Anne Sophia that is a great piece of information. Thank you. Everytime I watched this kind of video, I just wish that they tell the viewers who were the first owners...
Ive been obsessed with this house for years now. I dreamt of living there just last night actually! I’m from Boston but now live in Chicago. I hope to return to Boston and live in that house, I know all the ins and outs and just pray to god it doesn’t get torn down! Any more information you could share would absolutely make my day, so please share more.
Its not youth that destroys it. Most youth are sweet and kind, even rule following.. some just ruin the reputation of the age group and ruin it for all. A lot of the good ones are sensitive... they get sad because people say this about them rather than the specific people that do it...
Rachael Anne Sophia
Do you know why they all of a sudden left?
Really, really hate seeing beautiful, historic homes and buildings waste away and get trashed.
It's really upsetting
Look at Isis what they did to a ancient city in Iraq and Syria. Then come and comment about an old house going to waste
+Joseph Stalingrad That's terrible too. Anything historic being destroyed is awful.
I know, me too, it's heartbreaking and such a crying shame.
+Joseph Stalingrad I'm a Kurdish man and I'm in the Peshmerga (Kurdish Army) and were fighting ISIS and we found out ISIS means Israel Secret intelligent service
It would be so nice to see these beautiful houses NOT vandalized. Geez
Be first. That's all I can say, really ^^
I hate that too, especially if it's literally just smearing bullshi7 on the wall and kicking in stuff. That's why I love the booby trap case over on LegalEagle, it's justice well served ;)
@@Blahblahblah-v3z wow they really fixed it up didn't they !!! It looked like it wasn't abandoned, just that it was left awhile and got ransacked. Lovely home ❣️
Dona Herndon blame the stupid bank that owns it!!
The 2.5 story mansion (for which the road is named) was built between 1901 and 1906 for Charles Winship, proprietor (along with Elizabeth Boit) of the Harvard Knitting Mills, a major business presence in Wakefield from the 1880s to the 1940s. Due to the 2008 bankruptcy and departure of Theresa Whitaker, the house's final resident and owner, and subsequent foreclosure of the property in 2010, it currently sits abandoned in a moderate state of disrepair. Long story short: The mansion was built between 1901 and 1906, it wasn't abandoned at that time already. This happened in 2010.
Ruxa wow thank you for explaining. I love this guys videos but would love it even more if he gave some detailed back story in his descriptions. Would you know why all their belongings and pictures were just left behind?
Thanks for setting the record straight. I was about to post that plastic grocery bags didn't exist until the mid 1980s.
Ruxa Do you know the address or location?
Coordinates can be found on Wikipedia, it is in Wakefield Massachusetts. Search for the "Charles Winship House".
Yeah first off I knew that white door was newer.. They didn't have those doors back in 1901, and then the looney Toons painting yep give away... as for many other things. Sad state of affairs though.
When someone leaves a house behind with all the stuff in, there is always something wrong with house or something terrible happened there. Mortgage is often just a convenient explanation. Otherwise bank could sell a house like that easily back in time. But they didn't for a reason. Obviously later some people moved in (i believe illegailly) and also just ran from the house.
SA13 your comment scared the shit outta me
My guess if we actually had the family name to research is they died in an accident or something as I don't believe so much stuff would have been left behind like that if they were alive.
well.. if they were rich enough, they may have had multiple homes in, potentially multiple countries , during the golden age of their family. And perhaps when the money started to run dry, they had long since lived elsewhere and this house just got siezed and forgotten. Worth remembering that many millionaires overextend their wealth in property and items.. there is alot of places like this around the world where the house was sized and technically all items within, and noone ever came to pick the personal crap up.
***** locations? for what? this is not some hidden fact, there are hundreds of millionaires made every year through various means. many of these do not know how to handle finance and overextend their economy, leaving in their bancrupt wake alot of abandoned shit. :)
I would wager guess there were multiple murders involved here. Perhaps a murder of a whole family by another family member.
see guys even the millionaires have the bag drawer
Alexis Soria 😂😂
Alexis Soria everyone does hahaha
Alexis Soria I have a bag box with shit bags for my dog
Lady Lyn ikr
Well they get a bag drawer I just have one bag filled with other bags lol
It's not enough they had to spray graffiti on the walls, but on the piano, too?
WHY?!
And on the wooden wall panels.
Why do they feel the need to do this?
The piano could have easily been restored and used again!
Druggies
*Those people these days are dumb and stupid😖😏*
Because they are immature assholes whose parents obviously didn’t teach them not to destroy property!! Not exactly sure what they taught them? My parents taught me not to do that and I never have. I don’t even know why people have children if they are too lazy to teach them right from wrong?
Can't people just not wreck things..disrespectful. All that gorgeous woodwork and fireplaces.
Nicolette Braun guys are the ones that do it. Complete idiots.
They left "#DickSquad" on the piano on the inside of the lid thing. I wonder if the idiots actually posted what they did online
some of this house looks like it could be repaired an a good house again , what a shame
+dyllenger they could!
+Exploring With Josh I know your'e in germany now, dont' know if you till are. But I came across this on facebook. It's a picture of an abandoned ride in Berlin Germany. facebook.com/creepythings1/photos/a.503068789767281.1073741828.503060296434797/1028672783873543/?type=3&theater
It looks so cool!
+dyllenger i would so go in and start repairs if i knew where this place was.
+Ema Harrison fix and flip! lol.
not only a house it can even be repaired by the government and given to homeless people or for orphan kids
Whenever I watch homes that are abandoned I always wonder if the kids are watching one of these videos of their own old family home lol
tiffanybr00ks I think the same. they could be watching it or someone know who lived there etc..
Joshua Scales true! I wouldn't doubt it
Not funnnnnnny. Do go lol yourself.
tiffanybr00ks ikr i'd be like hey mum heres our old house with all of our stuff still in if
tiffanybr00ks shuts your trap
Josh, I love ya, kid but look more at that gorgeous architecture!!! That house, with all its woodwork, with about 15 fireplaces: forget the junk left behind... go for that beautifulness of the house. That was craftsmanship u sure don’t see in today’s home. And the junk left behind? U can go to any junk shop or antique mall and see that. I sure wish the people with their paint cans respected that house a lot more. It was class at its finest!!! Now it’s just been abused and trashed!
Catherine Boehle I so agree with you!!! The woodwork is stunning!! It makes me sick to see such a beautiful place with so much love put into it being destroyed. To be super rich and to be young!!
Catherine Boehle IKR I was constantly saying slow down for the love of God slow down and show us more which is why I had to check the comments to see if it wasn’t just me lol
We have the same name
Agree.. who cares.. we see the junk on the floor, repeating it 500 times is not needed.
This is new stuff. The family thatblived there last was not from 1901. He drives me nuts. A moment refrig in 1901. Newer sewing machine etc.
Why do people insist on spray painting everything?! It's not even good spray painting
+chaosdemonwolf1 😂
+chaosdemonwolf1 furry?
taco?
Life?
Liberty?
I did my research...this mansion was in fact built in 1901 for Charles Winship. The house was eventually sold in 1947 to a few Sisters/Nuns. The house was passed down to a few other owners until someone by the name Theresa Whitaker purchased the house in 1998. Her whole family lived there until she filed for bankruptcy in 2008. In 2010, the mortgage was foreclosed and no one has lived there since then. So there were many other families who owned that mansion..
That's really sad how people go in there and destroy stuff and draw stuff on the wall. Like just leave it how it is.
That's the world today, I mean it could be worse, you know. But I agree, some of these abandoned buildings can be torn down because of the graffiti.
Most kids go to abandoned places to vandalize or hang out. Can't really stop them..
Yeah
If they were caught, time in jail aint fun.
+Chris Martin that's good if the people who vandalized it were caught
The woodwork was amazing. You need to slow down and appreciate it. Love that you don't deface anything, and your enthusiasm about your finds. Thankyou.
the original owner of the house of whom it was built for was charles winship some yrs after he died his wife sold the house. and it was resold to two or three more people up until the last owner who purchased it in the yr 1998. she filed for bankruptcy in 2008 and the house was forclosed on in 2010 and has not been legally occupied since. So these items were not those of the original owner of whom the house was built for, and mostly all the last owners items were removed. the items in which u are seeing were either left by squatters or left and destroyed from when the real estate agency attempted to sell it. (m&A realty)
What's the house called?
you can just google charles winship mansion
no problem :)
+MommiesGirl22 thanks you helped me find out more
There was an Lord of the Rings VHS aswell :D Or was it allready a dvd? I think the first Movie came out 2001 on so
it honestly breaks my heart when stupid people come and ruin it with spray paint🤬
MADISON BISHOP me too
And break stuff...
Same
MADISON BISHOP me too.
yeah
People who think it is funny or cool to destroy a place by marking it up with graffiti and writing blah blah blah was here or get out or something like that is disrespectful to the house and to other people who want to explore the property, No one cares for your "artwork" These people need to serve jail time for this.
Valerian Proxima I don't think they care
No. They need to do community service and repaint what they vandalized. Not jail time...
That grand piano could have probably gotten sooooo much money if you sold it. But now it has graffiti that will be impossible!!! That was such an old piano
nicky pass *vandalizing property
Art?? really, you call that ART?
Can't pay the mortgage. Banks say: "Too bad." Then just let it rot. Makes no sense.
Lose lose lose situation, one of the reasons modern banking systems are dysfunctional.
They could have made a deal with him
there was a issue where only half my viewers last night was able to see this video so i had to fix it! so everyone on the phones and stuff can watch it
+Exploring With Josh HI josh love you!!
please never do a jumscare in youe videos
yeah,I had that issue.
+Exploring With Josh Josh do you ever examine books that you find? Or just show them? Whenever I'm exploring abandoned places I always love to see what books people had; can usually find out an estimate as to when the building was abandoned.
No paranormal activity in that mansion.
You’re right....I love this place. Great video, Josh!
Love your videos Dan!
love your videos too Dan
+psichodelia nut was that comeback supposed be hurtful?
you need to collab with these guys Dan!
Seeing all the graffiti makes me so mad
Me too! It's so disrespectful and trashy 😔 (so basically our generation in 2 words lol)
Yeah it's depressing...
jodie young same
jodie young sad that no respect for someone's property
The grefiti said bum🏷😰😰😰😰😰😰
You keep saying look at this, we would love to but you're moving way too fast!
IKR- I usually avoid watching his videos because he still films like its his first time- fast and shaky - only focuses on garbage.
JDM Lexus thanks for sharing this link. Heartbreaking how this spectacular historical home has been destroyed. The wood inside is breathtaking. Seeing spray paint and mold on it hurts my soul.
Yes way too fast i wanted to read the titles of the books
@@Blahblahblah-v3z I checked it out and in the beginning it was listed for $2,900,00 and as time went on the value greatly decreased and as of May 31st 2019 it was listed for $409,000. Sadly there is no price seeing as this beautiful structure was destroyed. I totally would have wanted to renovate it but keep the charm.
I feel like they maybe left in the early to mid 2000's because a lot of the appliances in the kitchen and some furniture look like they're from the 2000's. Hence why a lot of the older 80's and 90's looking stuff was left behind. Some people commenting have been saying that they left everything behind, but considering they were filthy rich that's probably only they're old stuff.
Damn Americans houses fall apart quickly.
+Krytern UK mm I don't think so. I think the reason why it fell apart is because of the vandals who went in and trashed the place and spray painted everywhere. Also, the Windows were smashed which allowed the elements to come into the house (rain, snow, excessive heat) which I'm sure didn't help :/
+Krytern UK if it had just been left alone it would have looked fine.
sydneyplatypus to r
Yeah there was a dell computer case
That house was full of beauitful wood and other notable things- why destroy it? What is wrong with our society that people have no respect for other people's property.
hell mend destroying an abandoned residence
They're edgy teenager that think that defiling property is a fun activity to pass time.
The robbers did it.
I know, but why? Why destroy such beauty?
Meth.
I would just be sitting in the office looking through the books... XD
Wiktoria Kania
same
Me
me too. Love the books. May be first additions of some in there.
I thought I was alone. Lol, I was sad when they left the library. lo
To hard to watch this, you move to fast and only concentrate on the belongings that are unimportant, I want to see the woodwork, the bannisters, rails.. artwork, windows.. the love that went into the building of these places.
Josh, I love your stuff, but for the love of God, PLEASE slow down and at least let us look around as well
Honestly, making me sick with his camera skills. Calm down there, Compadre.
I.was going to say the same thing. I want to see what they left behind! What their lives were like.
Brandy Qualls same exact feeling watching this, it takes a lot for me to feel sick from just a camera moving but this video did it. I literally almost clicked off a few times.
Brett Barnard yes please slow down your waving the camera around making us dizzy.
Cut out some of the potty mouth.🙊🙉🙈
minus the graffiti, that place is beautiful. I can't even begin to imagine how big it really would be.
Same
wonder were it is?
"The marble bathrooms...the marble floors..." Josh, please, the camera pans so quickly that even at 1080p resolution, I hardly can get a sense of the rooms! A little slower would help the creep factor, too. :)
My thoughts exactly. Josh is young and pressed, he needs to mature up a bit.
yeah, the video actually give me motion sickness...
Be nice to watch but can't stand all the foul language. I'm sure you can do a video with out all that🚽
+Wanda Heard
No one has to curb their language to suit your view of what is acceptable. If you don't enjoy cussing, don't watch the video.
Also - without*
Wanda Heard If ur mom said Don't swear say "He's a good TH-camr I won't repeat".
This is a reminder that you can't take things with you!! Don't live for material stuff.
Jada Berry It's hard though sweetie....I haven't worked since May and I am afraid I will lose my place to live...I have lived here for 13 years...I just told my kids I need to sell my belongings...I'm so sick..I cry all the time...if ya believe in prayer please pray for me....
I agree. That is whats wrong with the world. Material stuff gets in the way of life really.
Dj Hillbloom
You never know if it’s an attention seeker but if you’re for real, I really wish and hope the best for you 👍🏽
With that sort of thinking eventually the sun will explode and our planet will be gone. All you see will go back into cosmo dust and eventually that dust will collect and form a new star. So with that in mind we live for nothing because from the dust we came to the dust we shall return.
@@mrhellotherehowareu1384 ikr
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This was fun to watch but it also made me laugh. You guys go through houses and malls. Amateur explorers would do digs in places like Egypt and find the tomb of King Tut. Have some perspective.
your vids are awsome and if youtube lost you it would take a giant hit keep making vids:-)
Gosh Josh you should of explored through their things more maybe you could of found info on what happened to them or who killed them if they died
+Yuki Johnston Yeah, it'll be awesome but...josh might get possessed because of touching the old old old stuff at the abandoned mansion for no reason
Hanis Hazim true true anything can happen in a abandoned building you never what could happen
That house is still in pretty decent shape and could be renovated and brought back to life. It has a lot of its original wood work and architectural features in tact and I would love to see it redone. Pity.
Wouldn't like to live there though, too creepy for me, I'd jump at every noise
It has that 'creep factor' right now thanks to its deterioration, but once you fixed it up you'd think differently. I'm just one guy so that's too much house for one person. They don't build them like that anymore and I cant stand track homes. Its funny, when someone these days lives in a 2500 square foot house we are impressed by the size but that's still a normal house size. Back a century ago, only rich men lived in homes that size! With built in plumbing, electricity, etc. A mansion today has like 10,000 square feet or larger and yeah... Times have changed.
its just a little disrespectful because the owners used alot of money to get it to look like that
It would take lots of lacquer thinner to clean the graffiti off of all that stained wood. You'd spend lots of money repairing the varnish or polyurethane finish after that.
we should all get together and create it something better!!
The couch you found is called a fainting couch. In the 1800's and early 1900's these couches were used for women who would become faint front their corsets so they would lay on theme to help clear the dizziness
A day bed.
Mostly called chaise lounges these days, which developed from the fainting couches, the name then devolved when corsets/ girdles were finally eradicated. Daybeds usually have railings or supports on three sides and are consigned to one side of any room.
Hon3yBunny You're exactly right about it being called a fainting couch. It was a furniture item unique to the Victorian era. I think it might have been designed to help women relax when they started to feel like they might faint because of the weight of all of the clothes they wore.
The corset was a torture device women wore to appear slim in the waist which restricted their breathing thus bringing on dizziness and swooning. Also, many Victorian women would fast to stay slim and go days without eating causing them to faint on the fainting couch.
Chaise longe. ( Long chair ).
SLOW DOWN DUDE, YOU ARE MAKING MY EYEBALL HURT...
Why do people have to ruin every fucking place with spray paint?
IKR! it ruins the whole feel of the place
I know! WTF
+Adam M F C I think alot of those might be like the first guys in the comment section
***** not always white lol but sure
I don't know but if that house had no spray paint it would be so much nicer I still would live there or remove some of the wood and put it in a different house
The tagging done in this beautiful unique place shows the lack of respect for anything by those who do not know the value of what is not theirs and they have yet to do a days work to afford such things. Sickens me and is showing America is a cesspool of ingrates that think everything is disposable to their whims, like they do to places such as this. Embarrassed by the youth, immaturity and total lack of respect for anything including others.
I so agree with everything you v said what a stunning place there is no respect from arseholes who tag places and year them apart I hate those morons!!!
The civility in America is dying rapidly. People are meaner to each other everyday.
Amen.
A White Girl Black Washed To Feel White Guilt ....nice username
Dave Potter , Unfortunately American doesn’t appreciate nice things , Antiq , Wood work , stairway and the Mansion. If this house was in France , Government take over it . And clean it , fix it . Then make a Museum from it .
The fact that they were forced to leave their home coupled with the fact that people have come in and destroyed it makes me sad :(
*and
+miya gisele Very sad .
Are they alive still
Jake Hunt the kids might be but they would be rlly old
I would take this place and restore it to it's beauty and live in it, damn I wish I lived in America.
I agree SLOW DOWN 😉 ❤💚💜💙 l was getting sea sick
I would love to clean these homes up and make them beautiful again a couple weeks of hard work and damn it could be wonderful
I was gonna say. If someone doesn't by the time it is rotten it would be such a waste.
Queen Compilation right there with you!
it would take a lot more than a few weeks but yea that would be awesome but I think that it would cost more to fix it than the house is worth...
That's probably the exact mindset that the last owners of the house had. Buy a mansion in deteriorating condition and live there while repairing and restoring it. Unfortunately, it takes a ton of money, time, and experience to repair this type of building and when they realized they were in over their heads they bailed and let the house go back to the bank. Now it sits in limbo, because the bank will never get the money they need for it but can't sell it at a loss. It's a sad and extremely common story.
I'm not saying you're wrong for believing it can be fixed...just because they got overwhelmed and quit doesn't mean you would. It would be a really great project for the right person.
Matthew Klumper
People well underestimate the work that goes into it. It looks, sounds and smells good, but wait until you start grinding.
what a beautiful house. It's so sad to see it in such bad shape. I remember that the house we used to live in came up for sale many years ago. It was pretty much a shell when we moved in, and my dad worked hard to repair it and make it a beautiful home. It had a massive hole in the floor too, that he had to repair. When we looked round it for fun all those years after moving out, it was much like this. in ruin. It was very sad
I did to
+pokemon king you did?
wow that's just... I hope someone buys it and fixes it up
Unfortunately it will cost a lot of money to fix the mansion and it's probably not worth it. But I agree it would be nice to see it in its original shape.
+queenofsugar thanks. me too. I have so many fond memories in that house, and my dad worked so hard on it. It was a beautiful house. So sad 😔😕
I've been to this mansion several times before and planning to go there again soon, I don't live too far from it. I wish it looked this nice when I went. You think this video makes it look bad, it unfortunately looks even worse now, so sad. None of the stuff is there anymore either :(
I wish there were other videos besides this one to view.
That was a word processor which was an intermediate step between a typewriter and a pc.
Fair play people need money
Where is this
Silence of the Abandoned where is mansion in case ever traveling can see it
Just came across your videos. I love that you respect the abandoned places you go, and DON’T take anything from them!!! Thank you for making amazing respectful videos ❤️❤️
Aside from the motion sickness from being spun around so quickly I really enjoyed the video. Would be nice sometimes if you could do the research to find out what did happen & explain it at the end of the video. I always wonder if the families ever see these videos. I also always wonder if tragedy like a car accident took their lives so they couldn't return. It's amazing how important items are to someone when they purchase them but in hard times what they chose to leave behind TELLS another story...
Bankruptcy. I feel exactly as you do, so I read all the comments, figured out where the house was, Googled it and found an article that named the final owner, then found her bankruptcy filing online. Looks like the she had gotten divorced, and then she lost the place in 2010. And it looks as if one of her sons died unexpectedly (according to the obituary) last year. He was only 35. The obit describes him as the son of the owner and of her ex-husband and his new wife. Which is odd. Maybe a really ugly split-up.
Beth Cody, great job researching. Thank you
@@codykimmel thank you
Beth Cody what did you search?
I did see a video, not Josh's, that was in Europe somewhere that the family parents and children were all completely wiped out by a car accident. The house was completely in-tact as though they just walked out and would be returning soon. Was really eerie.
Does anyone else get sad watching these?
Andee P & Company no
Matthias Vervaeke ok then, duly noted...
Andee P & Company I get goosebumps watching videos like this. it is amazing to see abandoned houses where everything is left behind. I worked for a foreclosure company that when in and cleaned out everything that was left behind and often mowed the lawns as well. everything from mansions to apartments. it was such an amazing and weird feeling going into each house. I had to take pictures of every room. it was an eery feeling walking into an abandoned house with everything still in place, because they couldn't take anything with them. some of the houses would and could have been on the hoarders show. some houses we needed shovels to get in the front door, because there was so much crap. I would love to do what he is doing just on my own adventure. I know what he is feeling walking through these places, and it is indescribable and puts you in awe, just thinking about the people who have been there and each individual story of how the house came to be.
Adam Carbo Wow! That must've been awesome! I meant sad because of the fact of how we all seem to fill our lives with things and more things...but for reasons like evictions, foreclosures, or death...everything we surrounded ourselves with is gone! We take nothing with us when we die, that's sad too! Just proves that having all these belongings mean nothing in the grand scheme of things. It's also sad looking at those children in the family portrait wondering how they felt the day they had to leave their childhood home for the last and final time. 😞
Adam Carbo no its not
I cant possibly be the only one that wants to restore some of these places Josh visits..?
Same
no me too !
+Untamed_Insanity Totally! Or at least tidy it up from all those vandalism, repaint the walls etc.
Samee!! I was already picturing myself cleaning the house, and cleaning the graffiti off the walls.😂😂
Sebastian michaelis : yes my Young mistress I will assist you till the very end of time
I find it incredibly sad that such a beautiful home first of all, for whatever reason was abandoned and personal items left and second, that there is no regard for personal space. Why do people get such a thrill out of destroying what is not theirs!! It rips at my heart every time I see it. Thank you Josh for the look into someone else’s life!!! 💕
There was a DVD player in one of the rooms, so it couldn't have been abandoned for too long, early 00s.
But it's such a shame to abandon a beautiful building like that.
+Larry Bundy Jr Also in the room with the punching bag was a 2004-2006 iMac box.
Joel Lueders
I was guessing about 10 years, possibly even less than that.
checking expiry date on food and newspapers are the best indication of when they left.
+Larry Bundy Jr yeah when he said 1901 i was like "okay" then i saw colored pictures wtf??? and all the stuff doesnt look 100 years old.
There was a synth😂 who would even leave a synth there
God the woodwork in that house is beautiful! But of course some assclowns have to ruin what they can't have. However when a bank takes your house and gives a 3 day notice to vacate, many family's have to grab what they can and dash. That's what most likely happened and the sad part is the bank would rather let it rot than rent or sell to a lower price bracket. However you would have to make about 200k a year or more to just be able to do the yearly maintenance on a house that size.
+Snazzy Dan they weigh almost a ton in some cases, probably why.
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imagine that house restored and how beautiful it would be. like when it was first built.
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there just jealous! hahahahahauahaauahauahauauauauahahzhzhahahahahahaha xD
"Never seen a mansion with this much stuff before... Welp, Cya later!"
*turns camera off*
"...Alright boys, back up the truck and lets start loadin up. Chris and Mike you guys are on the grand piano, Jason you got all the ski equipment, Ryan grab all the computer gear... and me, im taking this DOOM cd"
+juniorjarrod LOL this comment is funny ! but nope i dont take anything !
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yep let's do this lol
+Exploring With Josh Are you allowed to ? i see why you want to leave it for others to explore but not even small keepsakes ?
+Lilsnackcakez it's very frowned upon amongst urbex circles. Also taking anything turns simple tresspassing into theft, making it way worse for you if you get caught.
Oh my goodness how beautiful all the lost memories you can tell this place was really a good home for whoever did get to live there. How sad. Maybe somebody will buy it and repair everything. It's a fixer upper forsure
I have a lot of respect for a man who knows how to respect a piano
+Aurelio Casillas maybe...just maybe my friend...
same
It sounds like you think all the stuff you're looking at is from the 1800s. They didn't have paint ball guns and answering machines in the 1800s
Especially when he showed a "family portrait" and they were all dressed in Victorian clothing like lmao they're long dead, the real family are probably still alive
KlewieLewie I wanna see an abandoned mansion from the Victorian times so bad
+Ka0Zz that would be amazing!! But idk if everything would just be rotten and disgusting by now
KlewieLewie yea that's true
Dan Martin its not because theres rcent things that the house is not old.... maybe it was tha familly house for multiple generation.
Seeing that poor piano broke my heart!
M's Compositions same :(((
M's Compositions my musical heart broke....
M's Compositions the musical part of me died a little
I would be so quick to buy, clean & fix it. I bet it's worth every penny. AND ANTIQUE. Unless someone already went back and did it. Because THAT is a huge waste.
yep!
That has to be one of the most beautiful houses I have ever seen!!!! All of that wood and the ornamental wood work is unbelievable!!!! To have the money to buy it and fix it back up...... thank you so much for sharing this!!!! We had the fortunate opportunity to rent an old farm house in Kansas. It also had a narrow staircase that went up to the 4 bedrooms. Then you had the grand staircase that brought you to the entrance. Every since then I have been in love with those old houses. Thank you again!!!! ♥️♥️😍😍
this is sad. I bet it was once a beautiful place.
FallenGoddess yea i wish i had a place like that😥
Yeah, and the fact that vandals would go in there and destroy everything.
I would totally love to have live there
FallenGoddess ya :(
my eggs
It's so sad people go in and destroy them bc it would be so interesting to see it literally as it was left like a photograph of a moment in time , a snapshot into the moment they left
Just a little Info for you . This house was probably not abandoned. This family was most likely Evicted due to Foreclosure. The Courts send the sheriff to lock said house and you are unable to get your belongings , If you enter the house they will arrest you. Welcome to life.the Hard way. pay your bills
Bharley57 west Sad to hear that in life.. 😔
that's so sad and unfair. to not even allowed to get your pictures, bare essentials, clothing... what a world.
Actually that's not true. You get 2 hours to take the main things you need then that week you phone agents and your allowed to get the rest of your belongings but they have to be with you while you get the rest because the locks get changed
it looks more like the owners where running from something leaving everything behind..house looks pretty creepy
Yeah they were running from the bank!! The house was foreclosed!
Surprised they never find any homeless people in these buildings
that's what i think about every video! or like kids causing trouble :o
They did in one of the videos
+Patrick Bartin do you know which one??
+Patrick Bartin which one?
+PinkSky K Disney hotel
they need to get some of those home renovator people and flip this house...
I've seen the shit these guys pull off, I bet this place would be worth so much if it was cleaned out and renovated.
It'd take a large investment to do that, though.
Yeah I wish they could do that, if someone out there had the money. The sculpting and stuff on those pillars was beautiful. But the house is so massive it would be tough lol
I was thinking that too
these houses arent meant to be lived in anymore because the walls are damaged so it leaves asbestos and other nasty stuff hanging around. That shit is deadly, no one really wants to risk it living in such an old house no matter how much renovation gets put into it. :)
I am sure it was in much better condition before all the graffiti. It could still be lived in just take alot more remodeling which no one would like to take on.
I completely agree!! A renovation on this place would be incredible!
I can imagine how beautiful this must've looked before it was abandoned
looking back, this is the first video i watched from you and i met the whole crew a few months later when you came to florida. i miss 2016, it was a simpler time. i’m really proud of how far you’ve come Josh, please never stop loving urban exploration.
Never open abandoned refrigerator.
Yeah, toxic fumes. I get abandoning a home is sometimes necessary; one may have a catastrophe financially or domestically and one can no longer remain responsible. But I wish people would at least clean out those refrigerators. That would seem like the least gesture of responsibility one could make.
Yeah, watching his new ones 3 years later and he still does!! LOL
See?! Look at the loss you suffered~probably cut into the bottom line so much you didn't get a raise that year. People, clean out those fridges! It sickens me to think of all the loss to the planet, too, when people discard an ``old'' fridge just because the underneath became so clogged with dirt it wouldn't run. These are part of what are causing the gyres in the ocean. (Wow, spellcheck doesn't recognize ``gyre.'' There are five, huge islands of garbage in the Pacific, called gyres.)
Funny
LoL that would really stink
It looks like the American horror story mansion
IKR
That's exactly what i thought
thATS WHAT I SAID AKSKKS
I was thinking that!! But I think it's just the staircase.
😂😂😂😂
it's so sad to see a beautiful place like this being dretroyed and abandoned :(
What a beautiful house. I just wish ppl didn’t vandalize these abandoned places. Thank you Josh for showing us all these places forgotten in time!
Im surprised no one looted all that good stuff
A lot of stuff to take for saving or selling. 🤑🤑🤑🤑
+OldTownLad SELLING
+brlyder der I'm sure all the highest value stuff was already looted a long time ago.
Exactly what I was thinking aha
+Boo!!! Nobody would take their time to carry a piano out of the house. Lol.
that was a beautiful old house.. what a shame for it to be let go into rack and ruin..somebody obviously loved it at some point. makes you wonder what made the people leave it so sudden.. and why could it not be sold either by the folks who owned it or the bank.. why ??.
also where was this house josh??.
+John Mcevoy 13 Mansion Road Wakefield Massachussetts. Im slightly obssessed with the building and want more coverage
Wow thanks Kelly! Have you been inside it? Has anyone purchased the house? The kitchen appliances are very recent so I take it this family left probably around the housing collapse 2008.
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+Shellie M Hello. I live in New Zealand. I wish to walk through this place but I'll never get to:(
I want to fix it up so bad😕 it would be REALLY expensive though
I would too... gosh it will be TOO expensive...😢 why do people have to vandalise it makes everything horrible...I hate it
Lafayette the Frenciest Fry The owner filed for bankruptcy and couldn't keep up the mortgage in the Great Recession of 2008 it has only been foreclosed on for 7 years. I have to say it is my dream house. It is on the national registry of historical places so you could apply for a grant to restore the house. It wouldn't even begin to cover the cost. I hope one day to be successful and to own that house
Why the hell bank does not sell it to new owner, if previous owner can not keep up with mortgage? Even for low price, still better than leave the house like this?
Lukas N. Banks are just hopeless with houses. I have a friend who purchased a foreclosed on house and so she called the bank and told them she would like to speak with someone about buying the house. A week passes and so she calls them back and the man on the phone said he just didn't know who he was supposed put her in touch with. They didn't have anyone who handled people who wanted to purchase homes from them. The banks are just not equipped to sell houses. They have to pay real estate companies to sell the houses and after a while they just give up. I'd like to call the bank and ask what they plan on doing with the house. But I'm sure they'd just be annoyed thar they lost so much money on the house
I'd go in on it with you! I agree banks suck!
Am I the only person who doesn't get why people want to attack buildings with spray paint? It would be so much better if these people had left it alone.
It was an interesting video, but please take a deep breath, slow down in your speech, and go round the rooms slowly with you camera. At times it felt neurotic as some really interesting pictures flashed past like a stroboscope.
That’s true but the house was demolished so it really makes no difference now, does it?
@@nataliedeshow768 and I'm sure he's going to do another video so he could take this piece of information with him Nat!!
Does anybody else just wish they could go in and organize and clean this place?
Do you know how long that would take?
years...
+Charles Xavier with like 5-10 people it'd only take a few months
+Mckenzie Sutherland yeah, but other than that cleaning the things out wouldn't be difficult with a large group of people
omg yes! The O.C.D really gets on my nerves in these videos but I love them way too much
Why are you moving the camera so fast and chaotically? I do not have time to see anything. My eyes hurt.
Really! And stupid remarks.
Oh look! A shoe!????
@@jayharrison4442 you watching if you don't like it then go find some other video you can satisfied, wahahahahahahahaha99x stupid kids
Right this man has no talent. He has all the skill of a infant with a camera.
Josh, that piano in that condition is maybe worth $5,000. Restored maybe $40,000. hard to believe they left it along with all not the other items! One suggestion. Please show a shot of the front of the house before you go in. Helps me see in my mind what exactly you are walking in. Thanks, love the videos!
+marblesjar™ Yeah thats true
I would restore that place and make it in to a museum
Museum of classyness
After watching this video and seeing the state of decay and the odd array of objects some still valuable along with the usual household goods it really does seem that something darker was behind the reasoning that this house is in the condition it is. Even someone forced to move in a hurry takes family pictures and would grab their laptop along with other things shown in the video. It's odd to see how much it's been vandalized because you know that even more things of value were there previous to the exploration. In a lot of abandoned homes newer and older you see that appliances and things of that nature are usually missing, for there to be so many electronics and gym equipment still there it really raises suspicions of why the vandals and homeless people hadn't destroyed it further, even so far as to have coats hanging in the closets and curtains still hung with portraits over the fire place.. It's just all so unusual, it really does seem like a very interesting and bizarre story.
If this house was vacated in 2008 and the couple that owned it has 3+ children don't you think that the kids upon reaching maturity would have traveled home to try and retrieve any momentos, if IF these people were forced out because of financial issues then their property would have been liquidated and the home put on the market immediately for some relief to their debt. These people that were obviously very fit or lived a "fitness" lifestyle seemed like they enjoyed traveling as well, you wouldn't ski in California. I wonder if they all died in some tragic accident abroad.. Even then wouldn't relatives have seized the opportunity to move in and if nothing else strip it of all living essentials and have it ready to sell, this really couldn't be explained easily in my opinion, I'd love to hear any new info or updates if anyone knows anything. I respect the fact if they'd rather keep the family nameless but the reasoning behind this must be quite harsh and riveting.
+Luke Byrd I feel the same way as you do
Luke Byrd The explanation is simple...and actually touched upon a few times in the video...if only by accident. Black mold. Remember...there was a biohazard on the ground. And definitely a lot of black mold in certain spots. It is close to impossible to get rid of that kind of deadly mold. So this explains why so many personal belongings are still in here.
Not, at all, impossible to get rid of black mold. There are so many bank owned homes, they are just let go due to cost of maintenance. Many people leave A LOT of stuff just out of laziness.
You get rid of black mold with bleach. Works like a charm.
grafitti is an art i get it but i dont get why people also has to use it to destroy things
Anna Roed Hobolt u hot bea hit me up lol
Anna Roed Hobolt
I despise vandalism.
Anna Roed Hobolt That is not graffiti, Just because they use spray paint to fuck up the walls and that beautiful piano, it doesn't make it graffiti.
because most squatters are crack or meth addicts. It's not theirs so they fuck it up. When they are high demons play with their mind and they write all their retarded thoughts on the walls. They overturn furniture and ruin clothes looking for more shrooms and acid.
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I love how when they explore they don't spray paint anything
Or take anything
Yeah same, they are very respectful during everything. It's very nice to see
+Piper Crise True :)
.................on camera.
+Katy Whaley
I would take the doom disc ans Sega
it's atrocious that someone would vandalize this house.
Upsetting to see. Don't you feel the sadness?
Vandalism is soooooooooooo disrespectful.
+Sumi Clark 😪😢
+Sumi Clark people dont care
+Sumi Clark true
why be upset, don't buy a house you cannot afford.
if it was built in 1901 for a business owner... how the hell would he have lived long enough to see items such as a fax machine? either multiple families lived here, or the daughters took it over after the parents died
The business owner could've been young. But I get your point.
+koolkitty12184 to further proof that more than 1 family lived there. even if he was young, maybe even age of 23 for example, there is no way he could have had kids, that stilled played Doom (the game, was released in 1993) while he was at the age of 116... hell even kids born in 1920 for example would not know what that was, the dish washer, oven etc were all much to dated for only 1 family to have lived in this house. maybe 3 or 4, or it was passed down the family over years
+Nic_Nak_Nic Nicholas ...I said I get your point, fam.
+koolkitty12184 I know
+Nic_Nak_Nic Nicholas it was built for a business man in 1901. it was passed down.
This place would make a hell out of a movie set :o
That’s not a old computer lol. It’s a word processor. Had one in middle school back in ‘97. I forget how young kids are or how old I’m getting lol 😂
Mango Steel you mean like first generation of word app
I was going to explain to someone who replied that a word processor is something in the line of a computerized typewriter, but then I realized they probably won't know what a typewriter is then either... :)
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imagine cleaning and fixing a lot off the stuff in there and making it your own. I known it would be... right to say the least. but it would he so cool to see it how it was before.
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OMG finally someone who thinks and uses their brain like me
+Hatethehaters At all I just can't understand how this even can happen. Did they wake up their children in the middle of the night saying "Get your things together, you have 10 mins until we leave" and then run away? Otherwise I can't understand how no one knows about the house being not used and ofc all the stuff that is left there.
it honestly is not that bad just a lot of old stuff in there just clean the graftie and you are all set
It might be haunted tho
This is quite an interesting story, mansion was built in 1901, there is no way the original owners were the only people to live there.
True crime streets of LA was released in 2003
Doom was released in 1993
Disney didnt own Pinocchio till 1940
i feel like there is a lot of missing story from the history of that mansion
There was also a Kanye West album in there that came out in 2005
Clique Zion There are a lot of things from way in the future, I just listed a few that stood out to me
that's what I was thinking too hmmm.
Urwah
It's called the Charles Winship House and the owner went bankrupt in 2008.
The bank kicks them out because they can't pay their mortgage, and then just lets the house be trashed.
Exactly.. so dumb
Ya my grandpa had an old cabin that my family would go visit all the time and the bank took it after he passed away and people went in and took everything and trashed it.
+Grae-Marie Biggs u really cute
+Grae-Marie Biggs It looks like it was abandoned in the 90's
such a waste
I would love to see a vid of this mansion getting restored
Old antique wood, a lovely banister and many more antiquities. what a beautiful home, this house will be restored, I have a feeling that it will
Niklas Eng fingers and toes crossed!!!!!
What a shame.... this house looks beautiful, just imagine if it was cleaned up
It's, AWFULLY DISTURBING AND SICKENING, to see this beautiful home destroyed.
That would make a beautiful retirement home, hospice, or even museum. It's a shame. They don't make homes like that anymore. ❤
If I was there I would dress up like a doll and do an epic phototshoot! in the girls bedroom or on the couch
Wtf😂
+Hayley Jean I would like scare people or something! 😂
+Ashley Cremer so you could post it on fakebake and get all the attention.
I love the way you think! As a photographer you have some great ideas
+John Lennon No, not really. I don't prefer attention, but rather I would do it for the art of the photo. It really upsets me that people go so far to start arguments, but if one has been started I am now leaving it.
One of my favorite channels on youtube .
#ENVYUS
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COD is such a shit Esport once you become a real man you will move on to counter strike or dota
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Venom Clan its my families house my dad told me
to be honest the video could be tad bit longer showing how it look outside and head through the window to get to the roof but still great video 😀
Yea, I wish he would explore in more detail, show what kind of items are left there, not just a quick glance.. Also the views out the window and everything. It just seems like he rushed it
+Jalene Mendez I would liked a pause at the ornate furniture and less interest in the graffiti.
+Origami Cat there's more here th-cam.com/video/VOo5sctjc1g/w-d-xo.html
+HappyQuailsFarm That's not what he mainly focuses on, he focuses on the house and not on what some people did to it.
totally agree
you wound think, if your gonna abandon a place, they would take all their stuff with them, even if you couldn't live their any more, why not take your stuff, the only reason you would expect stuff to be left is if they died in a accident, or in the house and no one came to clam the items