Abandoned Disney's Haunted Mansion Look-alike (Chateau Lumiere) 

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I hate people who make grafitti on the walls or take away stuff from these beautiful mysterious places.

That is incredible!! I'm surprised a they haven't used it for a movie set. It seems like it would be perfect for that

Just imagine if the walls could speak and tales they could tell! Wish I had a couple of million spare to restore beautiful old buildings like this!

There’s something that I’ve noticed about Josh. *He care about the little things. He pays attention to them. He captures them. He preserves them.*

Just a little more history about the owner. He was an anti-nazi person during the war and the wealth came from the huge tabacco industry he was running. He has been arrest during WW2 because of sharing his anti-Nazi ideas..

Damn I hate mindless vandals, those people who fixed up the place really have passion

Nice to hear how many people want to preserve it

I CANT STAND SPRAY PAINTING VANDELS

Hello. I'm from Germany and I've taken up the task of translating the paper Josh found in the basement. It seemed to be some kind of political pamphlet advising the country’s citizens to not vote for “Jospeh Stoeckel”; a man I've never heard of before. If anyone is interested in the content of the letter; here comes the translation: Voters Of Wittisheim “Reminisce” was written on the blue page pamphlet of Mister Joseph Stoeckel. To “reminisce” means regression and anxiety of facing the future. But to him it meant something along the lines of thinking of oneself. Starvelings and scrimpers are known to be totally opposed to societal progress. They would rather bungle and work incoherently than to witness the success of other individuals. We do not want to be associated with men fitting said description. They would be the cause of the retrogression of the society of our country. That must not be. Considering that we expect every reasonable citizen to refrain from electing Joseph Stoeckel.

I’ve always wanted to go explore abandoned places. But i have nobody to go with

This would make a hell out of a movie set! 😍👍🏻

It makes me feel sick when I see places this big and expensive and beautiful just left to rotting because it's owned by some fat rich old banker with no remorse for anything.

Okay, so a lot of people are asking about the first song in the video. *The track is called "Limetown"* , by me. Thanks for your support! 😁

Who wants to go half & renovate this place!!!

The sad thing is, some of these vandalism people are actually really good at art... I wish they would put they're art to good use and not vandalize stuff...

I’m always crossing my fingers that the building isn’t littered with graffiti

I hate mindless vandalism!! Great video Josh!! :)

Four floors and a basement!! Wow!! It's amazing but I wouldn't want to be the housekeeper

It would make a beautiful wedding reception slash hotel rooms.

Such a waste of a beautiful building.

This place is so freakin gorgeous. Would probably live there with no problem haha. Awesome video

Such a beautiful place. I'd totally buy out that property and remodel it if I wasn't poor and under 18.

Just seeing all the graffiti and vandalism in this mansion just pisses me of cause those people have no respect fo these kinds of buildings it makes me want to cry these buildings should really be preserved

This place is so gorgeous. I would buy it and restore its beauty.

Hey Josh, This is Carrie again, your art history professor. Please get more history on these fantastic chateaus you are exploring before you go so you can let us know it while you are filming. The architecture is phenomenal. Just an FYI - servants quarters where always on the top floor (not in the attic) in the less adorned rooms (the ones you pointed out) with communal baths. Knowing the full history of the chateau would tell what those shower stalls are in the basement. They look much newer than the original house. As always love your explorations.

How do you have the balls to go in this places teach me the ways

The real name of this mansion is Château Burrus. It was built by Maurice Burrus, a tobacco tycoon. He hated the Germans and refused to sell them tobacco. Because of this, he was imprisoned for 8 months, and his mansion, Château Burrus was seized and sold. The mansion is a historical landmark, and I would guess is owned by the city or state. Here is the wiki link about the actual mansion: fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C3%A2teau_Burrus and here is a wiki link to the man himself: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Burrus

Those top floors were often servants rooms--hence the narrow staircases and the "hidden" look--meant to be discreet. There were usually secondary staircases to all floors in such homes--servants not allowed on the main staircases except when cleaning or on specific errands for the family like bringing breakfast to someone.

Cant stop thinkin of the billion man-hrs it took to make all that amazing woodwork

I consider myself lucky that I live in Belgium, or Europe in general. We have alot of houses, mansions and buildings in this style and I'm loving it. Especially the ones like this, surrounded by trees and bushes, totally isolated from it's surrounding area. It has a very mystique feeling to it. Like it could be on a busy street but you'd never know... Thanks for showing this Josh!

This guy is so calm if something paranormal happened right in front of him he would probably ignore it and continue his exploring lol.. It makes me want to take him home and make him dinner lol

Am I the only one who laughed when he said (you could make some good brownies In here I love brownies)😂😂

a 360° camera would be an awesome investment for you and your fans, btw I love brownies too! thank you for exploring

Those are NOT urbexers, writing on walls; no real urbexer would ever do that. Those are trash tourists. Just going somewhere and making a video doesn't make you an urbexer. Don't reveal town names when you post videos; it isn't even necessary to name the country. Don't take any outside/distance shots that might be clues to locations - including looking out of windows to the town below. No distance shots of the building itself. Don't reveal family names or anything else that might help vandals find a location. Don't expect to be taken seriously by urbexers. Never show how you entered a building. Do know that you are helping vandals and arsonists if you don't follow urbex rules. That place was absolutely pristine not that many years ago; this is what happens when people reveal locations. So much destruction and vandalism over the last ten-fifteen years; places even burnt down to the ground. Assholes/websites online even posting GPS coords to these places...unbelievable. This is why none of the real urbexers will even post anymore, except in secret forums where they know each other; at least we can try to protect the locations that aren't yet all over RU-vid and the internet. Sorry, kids, the internet has ruined urbexing and far too many locations. You're 20 years too late.

Ok I found the song. Music by Marc Jungermann - Post-Apocalyptic Piano Music | Limetown

Lumiere? As in the candle lumiere? BE MY GUEST BE MY GUEST PUT OUR SERVICE TO THE TEST

The basement showers and stuff its probably for servants, the people who cook, or do the cleaning , the people who fix the things in the house or do the gardening and other stuff. We are talking 1700 1800 1900. It was a common thing at the time.

The showers in the basement were probably for the servants. They might have had rooms down there. I'd guess it would have been for groundskeepers, scullery maids and such. The third or fourth floor probably housed the house servants. Maids, butlers, cooks, etc.

Damn, that place is gorgeous, even in its current state. Who the hell abandons a mansion?

The random showers were confusing and creepy to me. I expected a pool to be around the next corner or something

The showers in the basement are because the workers in the house like butlers gardeners maids ect. would sleep down there and that would be where they lived

You should find the creepiest abandoned place possible and stay the night. Would make for a great video

Mystery: The wealthy tobacco man bought the house in 1900’s, he died in the 1950’s, leaving the house and his items alone. He most likely used the wagons showed in the video out of the other seven families who bought it thus using it for farming and tobacco growing reasons. (If the man died from disease or illness, I highly doubt that the other families would use it considering that they wouldn’t want to get the disease or illness either. Seems normal until you reach 14:56 when you see a reflector on a wagon in the basement. Now keep in mind that the man died in the 1950’s and safety reflectors weren’t invented till the 1960’s by a farmer by the name of Arvi Lehti. Lehti invented the reflectors because he wanted to protect his carriages and horse carts. Did the man live longer than just the 1950’s? Please let me know by replying to my comment. Have fun trying to solve it!

This place is phenomenal!! The trimming and detail is amazing , a lot of work went into this place and it was beloved , nice one Josh

Wow this guy is really into his job

i would clean it up. Rent some of the rooms as apartments or turn it into a hotel. Ever found out who owns that place?

"To be honest, I never thought I'd be exploring in Europe. I've always wanted to but I just kept putting it aside because it's like nah, it's never gonna happen. I don't think I'm ever gonna go there and here I am." I felt really inspired by this. Just because you can't see yourself doing something, doesn't mean it can never happen. Try and you could find yourself where you want to be.

This made my heart hurt that house was the most beautiful thing I've ever seen and seeing all that vandal over something so beautiful is frustrating! ☹️

What makes me angry is the people who own pieces of History like this and allow it to Decay and fall apart and get vandalized. It's messed up and really honestly fills me with real anger. One of the only Pony Express stations still standing in the United States is in my hometown and the Historical Society has done nothing to protect it. it's in this guy's field and he literally lets his cows wander in and s**t all over it and put holes in the floor and it deeply angers me. They don't deserve to have this property if they can't take care of it. Just like those countries in the Middle East that destroy ancient history that belongs to the world because they feel like it's "idolatry" to keep them standing. Like Palmyra and how it was destroyed by ISIS and we don't even know what we've lost because it wasn't cataloged or documented yet. Countries that allow that to happen have proven that they cannot take care of World Treasures and so do not deserve to have them. Period. End of story. You don't deserve it if you won't take care of it.

That house has a weird feel to it, something isn’t right. You can just tell

Josh needs his own tv show already

"Can make some good brownies in here. I love brownies!" Hahhaha how cant we all love Josh with enthusiasm like his. LIKE IF YOU AGREE

At 0:50 one of the lights on the top floor turned on and u where walking towards it I freaked out I'm like OMG and I showed it to my sis she go the goose bumps lol

young man this is a classy european art-nouveau manor, with an elegant neoclassical touch. a masterpiece. nothing to do with Disney please.

Wow you weren't kidding when you said you filmed a lot of abandoned places. I can see why it's taken you so long to get through editing these. But we appreciate it. =] Hope you had a good break and never stop exploring Josh!

I think the basement was the servants quarters, the original owner must have had servants to maintain such a huge house. That explains the showers. And that big glass bottle at 15:30 is for wine production.

Hi Josh, Wow omg what a stunning place, I think it's awesome that other urban explorers helped in repairing the chateau after some ingrate idiots thought it was great to destroy something so beautiful. A brilliant explore, well done. xx

You’re honestly one of the bravest people ever going in there

I am absolutely mind blown!! This is so incredibly beautiful and well perserved, I feel speechless holy shit

I think the third floor was for the staff that worked and tended for the house/family and the basement showers etc were probably also intended for them!

It's sad to see something beautifully built go to waste. Considering the insane amount of homeless 😏 Shame on the people writing graffiti all over stuff 😡

why nobody take over the house and clean it and go life inside it

So sad something so beautiful is so lost to the elements. I hope this mansion will be loved again.

Literally one of my favorites to see, thanks choir posting Josh!

did you find the sleeping beauty? this place is awesome

the car and the front of the house reminded me of olofs house from a series of unfortunate events

for some reason this mansion looks like the mansion of The Sound Of Music..

OMG someone should fix that place up it's absolutely amazing I would love to live there it must be amazing to see places like that

This video come out epic 😍🙌🏽💯 hope you're enjoying your break at home Josh :)

Recently, we bought 2 abandoned houses to tear down and build on the land. The houses were in such terrible condition that they couldn't be saved. I went inside of one of them and it was amazing. The stairs were beautiful, every room had a fireplace, and there was lots of things from the early 1900s.

These old mansions are my all time favorites and how I learned of urbex. It was via Chateau Miranda in Belgium-RIP, as she was exquisite and just demolished in the last many weeks.

Wow, I absolutely love this place. Especially the name!!

I visited in June 2019. I was super excited beforehand as I come all the way from South Africa. I took the back way through the forest, got over the fence that was trampled down and entered the grounds. To my disappointment, all entrances where barricaded. There was also security cameras. One door was slightly open, although barricaded, and I could see the the huge lounge with light pouring in from the upper window. Although greatly disappointed, I felt honored to have visited this great urbex site.

Josh I've been a sub for 4 yrs keep up the exploring abandoned places and come back down to New Orleans

Exploring With crew: *catches demonic, satanic stuff right away* ° ° Ghost Adventures: *hears wind, leaves crunch and calls it ghost and catches ghost and demonic stuff during end of show*

Josh i think you should come to Malaysia visit Mona Fandey's house which is so many mystery there 😎😎

6:10 clock in the background sounds creepily cool!

i am in love with the house it has a beautiful aura about it!

14:51 greetings from germany 👋🏼

That place could be a good B&B. If you agree plz like this.

I like the way you said, “it’s covered by nature”

Its awesome that you're able to live one of your dreams! (getting there) Its also very nice that you let thousands share it with you!

This intro background soundtrack is so dramatic. I love it. Could share who is the artist or musician please? Thanks.

Did anyone else see a flashing light at the top at 0:49

Yassss Amazing work keeps it up 😜🤘

This mansion is stunning. I can't believe it was allowed to decay. What a shame...

This place is so breath-takingly beautiful I almost cried. Maybe one day, when I’m rich....

Beautiful place. So so so beautiful.

80k views in 10 mins

I wish I had the money to go to all these places if i did I would never come home lol

So awesome! Thanks for vid. BTW side entrances to house such as one you saw are called "porte-cochere". Serves as easy way to exit vehicle or carriage and enter house while staying safe from the weather.

Spectacular! I wish they could keep it as an architectural gem.

It really doesn’t look like any of the Haunted Mansions.

If you ever find you way up to Washington state you should check out a old concrete mill in the town of concrete.. I went there a couple years back and it was amazing.. Beautiful views of Mt Rainier and the lake. And there's alot to explore.

Such a beautiful mansion i wouldn't be surprised if it is was or were an old Victorian mansion

OMFG! I'm from Brazil. I really in love for this local. It's incredible! But what bothers me is the fact of vandalizing this place. They should preserve, if they makes to a museum or something that people might present. This place is full of stories. I so charmed by the place. I will not deny, that would yield great photos.

This was really beautiful. 💛

That is amazing!!! All the history in a place like that

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