Do you know of its general area location at all? Id love more history on this place 😍 id like to contact local estate agencies of the area to find out if its for sale
you make so much sense in your shortest sentence!! appreciate your thoughtfulness!! What r u by the way? coz normals can't think in this horizon..!! there r so many ways to get rid of negative energy.. atleast a 15 ppl can live in here. 😏
And a large part of the problem with this idea is it is mired down by government. There was a time when churches and civic organizations ran homeless shelters and such. But now the government is involved and there are so many non-sense restrictions. There are so many places that could be used as a place for the homeless, there is a jail in Oregon, that was built and NEVER used. It has space with minor changes needed to house many homeless. It has room for counseling services onsite....all the things needed. The person that purchased it after it was determined that it would not be used to house inmates, has suggested it could be used for a homeless facility. One problem it is located a bit remotely. A little difficult to get to. Would you not think that with such a great idea, that the state government could help with transportation issues and that something could be worked out. ? So much promise.
This house is full of black mold and numerous other things that are dangerous to a person’s health. It would take a lot of money to fix this place up AFTER you purchased it from whoever currently owns it. Who’s going to maintain the property? Not a great investment, but when has that ever stopped the government from wasting our tax dollars?
@@SJM6791 He's talking about how our egoistic human view of life make us live worse than we could just being a little more empatic, even in the individual perspective we would benefit from the progress made in the future created by being "altruistic"!
I feel a bit sad. Thinking of whoever lived there. All of their life's treasures from world travel.... Someone had a full life here! Sad to see it all forgotten. Life is so short!
Don’t be sad. The things in the house clearly don’t belong to the original owners. They are the sort of thing you can buy by the yard at any local (to this area) auction for almost nothing. They’ve clearly been bought to tart the place up to run as an hotel.
SO VERY MUCH of this could be salvaged and saved. The iron stove and ovens, the painted wood doors and furniture could be stripped and saved, the light fixtures, glass door handles, all the glass and such , the dinnerware, dear Lord it's mind numbing to even watch this sit here and go to total ruin.
I think this not abandon, considering the food stuff are still fresh to look at..something fishy here. It might be something happened to the owner of the mansion.
Force Ten Great observation! 👍🏼👍🏼. I wish more ppl would proof what they post. Once it goes live, or preferabley before they push the send button. ppl embarrass themselves and don’t have a clue.
I have to admit I usually watch all the way through,but this time I wentfor the comments,it's crazy isn't it ,i mean it's almost like you can walk in hang your coat sit down your 👛 and live, what happened to the family that occupied this home,why did they not take or come back to claim these beautiful things that belongs to them,as you can see from the deteration of that area of the roof,if not claimed or saved soon it will be lost,so sad.
What angers me is that these places once were magnificent, it blows my mind that so many valuable furnishings, items were left behind, if people simply don't want to bother moving all that stuff, request for volunteers to come empty it, everything is free OR better yet, have someone come in, sell what they can (on commission of course) and donate the money to shelters or to the homeless, single parent homes, etc.,....so many people are struggling, esp the aged, and children, why not help them any way they can be helped....instead everything that is left behind is vandalized, once homes are destroyed, windows broken, the insides are exposed to the elements...once moisture gets in, it attacks everything on the inside, ie., walls, clothing, books, pictures, appliances, carpeting, etc., etc.,.....shame really when it can all be donated or sold for the needy! People these days are so fucking full of greed
You can not know why the property was abandoned. Their owners may have died without heirs, or the property may be interdicted for some legal matter ... so there may be reasons why those assets have not been touched.
Wish someone would come back from wherever they have gone & get the roof repaired. If its not done soon this place will quickly decay till its too rotten to save.
Who else saw a red light in the closet when I first went into the first room upstairs. It was a tiny red light. 7:20 look to the right! Something of power must be on. It’s not a reflection
That's someone that left in a rush. The only thing missing was the family photo from above the fireplace. Maybe a bad divorce or death in the family caused someone to have a breakdown. It's like a family just disappeared.
I can tell you, it was a decorator they brought into the place, i have some ideas of my own, these places can be of use to others, who doesn't wish a place like this, what couldn't I do if not me some bodys else's family. Oh what great minds that rule the world.
Why though I wander what happened to these people that they leave all their personal belongings behind I'm bewildered by that it's terribly sad to see this! Thanks for your videos amazing!
Loreanna York Your romantic desire to see lovely things has lead you, I think, to see things that weren’t there! For example, just because it’s a four-poster it doesn’t automatically mean its valuable. It all looked to me like a random assemblage of inexpensive to mid-priced stuff, the kind of thing you can buy at any auction, bought to try to create the impression of an old country house in what was clearly an hotel that went bust, maybe because of the acres of sheer cheap tat filling the place trying to make it look up market.
What a great explore in a fine old home. I watch a lot of these videos and this was one of the best. I was quite affected and felt as if I knew this place. A stucco and iron entry to a square three story building with a turret! Walls reminiscent of a castle. Generations of a family must have lived here. So many things collected, things for life like tools for cooking and cleaning. Tools for fixing things, trinkets to remind us of what we have done in our lives. Things we think are valuable on shelves for us to look at and things we think are of little value in the basement corner. And when the last one of us is gone, all these things are left together, in a crumbling home for people who don’t know to look at and wonder.
@@vikasbist1609 Well I could be wrong of course. Its possible they just wanted to make the place look old. But you can respect my words anyway & I send you respects too. All the best.
@@mavisiu1387 You can’t judge a building’s age by appliances, because even castles which are centuries old now have modern appliances. You can only say roughly how old the appliances are.
This house is so chopped up. It’s hard to get the lay out in my head. Everything in there will eventually be ruined. So sad, no one can remove the furniture, pictures, and dishes to auction. Those stoves in the kitchen were amazing. The money made could repair the roof.
Hey all! I'm from the USA. Just discovered you guys on RU-vid yesterday, n I'm so hooked. This was my fav so far. The stairs are crazy, beautiful! Be well, stay safe✌ Love the accents BTW! 🙂
I agree. It seems that someone could do some sleuthing and find out about the owneers. Such lovely items waiting for the elements to ruin. Wish there had been some talking. I could almost hear the sound of my borrdom.
If it's salvageable, I'd love to have a home like this. I'd buy this over new any day if I had the funds to fix it. I just wouldn't be hopeful with that amount of mold. Imagine how much is in the walls, under floors, ceilings. Unfortunately there've been a lot of really wonderful homes that had to be condemned because it was just not possible to make it safe again. I lived in one for awhile. It wasn't really livable, but it was cheap. Had the mold like this in areas. Lovely bones. Stained glass bay windows in my room, but it was falling apart. They condemned it and tore it down not long after my father moved us out (kept getting sick SHOCK). My grandmother lived in a historical home for the longest time. It was an antebellum home in the US. Back when the union army burned down the whole area, it was one of the houses that survived. They didn't take adequate care of it, and it also had to be condemned. Breaks my heart.
Wow guys I loved that....good job! Looks like it may have been a wee guest house at the end, what a find and not been trashed by vandals....excellent work. Subscribed!
HappyQuails Indeed! When our insurance company was dilatory about settling a claim for a smashed shower door (clumsy me) we suffered extensive water damage to our bathroom floor. Another couple of months and it might have looked the same as in the film. It doesn’t take long, or a lot of water, to reduce a timber floor to something like wet cardboard.
That place is amazing!! I love the colors and architecture. There are some seriously valuable things in there. What are the laws over there about squatters? It’s a good thing I don’t live in Scotland!!
This is what I often think the scenario could be with these abandoned houses. Like, the whole family died in a car accident or something and they had no extended family. I guess no one would know unless the tax man after awhile or maybe the mailman if they got mail at the house.
@@ladybug4408 I feel it can be rhe only explanation becauae maybe of bankrupt they take at leaat their prescious items.I think off on vacation never to return perhaps RTA all are.dead 😟
Liz Graham Quite right. But there are no precious items to be seen here, unless for some reason someone had a strong sentimental attachment to a cheap print in a gaudy gold frame. Unlikely, though. There was nothing of any real value in the place. It was just full of old tat, that looked like it had been - and probably was - bought as a job lot at a provincial auction in a vain attempt to make the place look up market. The whole place looked like whoever had bought it last overstretched themselves and lacked sufficient finances to furnish it properly as the up-market hotel they hoped it would be. (It’s obviously intended to be an hotel, not a private house, given the T.V.s and kettles, etc. in the rooms) Instead there was just a plethora of inexpensive stuff everywhere making the place actually look rather down market instead. It’s a handsome building that deserves better. Maybe the owners knew they were insulting it with such junk, or maybe they didn’t. But any up-market clientele they hoped to attract would certainly know the difference and not be impressed or inclined to stay. Maybe that’s the real story. A sad story of some people either without the necessary discernment or maybe the money to create a genuinely up-market hotel who’ve lost everything in the attempt.
Just loved the furniture and glassware. I really like the men's reading, drinking room with the red ceiling, and the blue roon. I'm so glad you did not go into that bathroom.. You may have fallen through and really gotten very injured. Please wear masks and gloves. You need to protect yourselves from mold and Lord knows what in old homes. Wish there was some conversation instead of the silence. Thanks for the video.
They probably got mold sick and had to leave everything behind and some easily might not have survived. It happens to me 3x from buildings that had flooded really bad. Sci-fi nightmare of an illness that’s beyond what your imagination could ever dream up. It’s all toxic and dangerous.
How in heck did they get all the large bedroom furnishings up to those rooms with such narrow stairwells. Must have been tiny slender ppl living there. I am amazed by these places. Who just abandons everything? For the life of me I don’t get it.
I think that’s most unlikely. A nice idea, but improbable. Most of the stuff is the kind of thing dealers are only too glad to get rid of, selling it off literally by the boxful at auction. There is little of real value in the house. Most of it looks like it was indeed bought in several of that kind of mixed boxful at auction in the vain hope of making the place look up market when it was (obviously) turned into an hotel. The larger items of furniture might be worth a few hundred, all told, but that’s all.
A great location again. I get the feeling that there is a sad background to this. Some people’s past lives are here. Sad vibes going on from here. Keep the great vids going Alec
That must have been a beautiful mansion once, it’s still possible to see. Some of the rooms and bathrooms was surprisingly clean and tidy. It’s so sad to see houses and mansions abandoned to rot and fall apart, it brakes my heart. I’m my book it’s a crime to let that happen
It is not a crime, is a beauty! Money, money, the lack of money, how much would it cost you to pay taxes if you were the unlucky person who inheres it.
First time seeing one of your videos and it was so worth it!! I lost count of how many bedrooms this place has. I would move in tomorrow and have first dibs on a four poster bed! The antiques alone are worth millions. Great job and I am now a new subscriber! Keep up the great work and stay safe! :)
What an unbelievable house! Room after room after room. The decor was something else...loved the bright colors and decor even if it was a bit jarring in some room. combinations I would never have put together, but they were awesome. Lots of interesting things, beautiful things, left behind. Would be wonderful to know the story behind the place. Thank you for sharing.
I get so angry watching abandoned home videos because always my first thought is “why?!?! What a shame!” Ugh this place is beautiful and what lovely living room with those windows and you can pull closed the shutters for privacy, even though not needed there! Also was that a mirror covered by the black tapestry behind the tv? Interesting if so.
MsMichelle31573 ......This probably happens when one’s son’s all move away and they have no interest in going back when the parents die. So it becomes abandoned.....and reverts to the state. The state doesn’t want to mess with it.....so it just sits there until a developer wants to buy the land and bulldoze it for a hotel, etc.
Grace Be I think you’ll find that doesn’t happen in the U.K. If anyone dies without leaving a will their estate (i.e. everything anyone owns at their death) goes to their nearest relative by a series of strict rules as to who is legally next of kin. It can only go to the Crown (not literally the Queen, but the government) if no next of kin can be found. It is, of course, possible that this hotel - because the T.V.s, kettles etc. in the rooms means it must be an hotel - that this hotel may have formed part of someone’s estate and gone to a relative who is unable or unwilling to deal with it. However I think it much more likely that it was a failing business - all those unconvincing ‘antiques’ everywhere suggest a failed attempt to look up market - that has been forfeited because the owners have gone bust and declared bankruptcy. It looks to me like it could be owned by a bank which is looking but has been unable to find a buyer and failed to maintain the place in the meantime.
What a glorious home! Really makes your mind wander down so many paths and ponder so many scenarios as to what could've happened to the person/family that once lived here...in obvious grandeur! Thanks for sharing yet another fantastic explore 🙂
I’m going with B&B here - along with others. So many bedrooms and private baths. The kitchen was amazing. Main dining area upstairs. Small dining room down stairs. It seemed to go on forever. With lots of cubbyholes along the way. Very sad to see it setting alone and decaying. Thanks for sharing. Stay safe. SE Kansas, USA
I love that style of architecture I've never seen anything like how the house was laid out with all the little hallways and staircases. Although woulda been a bitch for privacy it seemed you had to go through one room to reach another. Must be pretty rich that not even relatives came to bother to take nothing. Some of those items looked like they might be worth alotttt of money
There was an oxygen tank sitting on the floor upstairs. Perhaps the owner was ill for a time and passed away. There may not be family close by who are interested in caring for the place. It's sad, but happens far too often. A building open to the elements will decay fast.
Can you imagine being on oxygen and trying to navigate those stairs. Or for that matter even after a few drinks. Both stairwells were like that. I actually think that was very low quality architecture. Just large and what a rabbit warren. I agree it's sad. That was somebody's life, abandoned and no one cares.
Hi Alec and friends! I really enjoyed this video, this being the third one of yours that I've watched. I've always been fascinated by abandoned and decaying buildings, finding a certain beauty in the way that Mother Nature takes over and reclaims the space that was once hers. It's fun to live vicariously through your adventures, and I'm sure that many of your fans share this sentiment. You have documented some properties, like this grand house, that may not be around much longer, places that I never would have seen without your brave team sharing them with us. I was also glad to see you in front of the camera at the end of this video, allowing me to put a face to the voice. You all are brave to explore these properties, and the possibility of being caught adds a bit of excitement and drama for your viewers. I also love your Scottish accent and had no idea that you all say "ay" instead of "yes" or "yeah." Cheers!
Maybe you should, at least try to inform a local museum about the mansion content. I have no idea about legal status of the properity, but black mold is no excuse for all that art and antiques have been wasted. I guess, they need just some conservation treatment. At least part of it. Black mold is not a radiation.
Such a beautiful house ; the rooms went on forever ; I saw quite a few things that would be worth a lot of money ; such a shame everything will be left to the elements of the weather and decaying house ; But very nice video I love how it wasn't vandalized
@@ShortStuffMegs21 I can guarantee that it would have been looted long ago if it were in the US. I was amazed to see all the antiques an valuables that are still there.
Good Lord the stuff in that house! Some of it looks really valuable. I swear there's an antique Welsh cabinet that would be worth a fair bit as well as some of the pictures and the... List goes on
Grow ByDoing I love that idea! People are slowly moving in, not out! (They still seem to own a tremendous load of old tat, though. The whole lot’s not worth the price of a second-hand Honda.)
very well edited, not a scrap of evidence to show where the house is located. It's one of those places you can hope to find, but there is a whole legal minefield to actually getting your hands on it. Hopefully, this video prompts the owner to go back and secure it properly
Someone lives in parts of the house. It's too clean in parts, with recent technology, toilet paper and even the plastic bag in the bathroom trashcan. You can tell. Wouldn've been interesting if they walked in during this ha. What it looks like was an inherited family home, with family heirlooms etc that eventually the family couldn't afford to maintain, and so maintained and moved into certain areas and let the rest go. Sadly that happened with a lot of manor houses as social hierarchies changed (think Downtown Abbey). Houses like this are insanely expensive to maintain. Either families sold their heritage homes or started living in increasingly smaller parts of it as time went by, funds can't maintain it then it falls into disrepair that is even more financially impossible to fix.
I agree ... some areas are to clean.. even for a. Abandoned house. Might be a squatter there, but at least they’re trying to maintain cleanliness as much as they can. The room with books, the books don’t have any dust on them, the f dg inning table looked like no dust and the organ was definitely dust free.. the blue looked vacuumed
Odd, some parts are unsafe and some parts look like they are still being used. Electric must be on seeing the red light glowing at 7:20 or so. Clean toilets and tubs, TP in the bathrooms look fresh. Beds are clean and made in some rooms. Even the fire extinguisher at 25:25 is new looking. As did the nice vacuum cleaner.
I think these were homes 'renovated' during the real estate boom prior to the crash. They also were quite likely done very poorly and that in conjunction with the hidden problems that nefarious flippers hide and the underwater mortgages after the crash made it a ridiculous investment no one could get out of so they abandoned it/them. This would also account for why they are falling apart.
This is really so sad to see. The house obviously was some kind of a bed and breakfast that obviously had structural damage and perhaps bad plumbing in the house as well. For the most part, it's very apparent that the house had a bad roof that has been severely neglected, allowing for the outdoor elements to come in and just chaotically ruin the structure on the inside, this is why you see such levels of mold, and the ceiling and plaster of the interior just falling apart and down onto the other floors as it's just eating through all of the flooring levels of the structure. Weather elements such as rain, humidity, cold and wind has just totally ran amok inside the house due to a bad roof. It would only take a matter of 1-2 years with a bad leaking roof, and the house to be unoccupied for it to deteriorate to this extent. Not to mention the very fact that this house could be infested with termites as well. A lot of people in the comment thread of this video are under the impression that the furniture left in this house has probably been left there due to "mold contamination", Although it appears to be that some of the furniture is damaged, nevertheless, there are furniture and glass wear left in this house that clearly is in impeccable shape. I don't know if Scotland values antique pieces, but in the USA those pieces can be auctioned off for money, and clearly there are some wonderful pieces that could've been salvaged, including the sinks, toilets, and a couple of those bath tubs. My main interest is in the structure itself. The structure looks like it could be dated back as far as 14-15th century, if not, even older perhaps. I would really love to know the history of this home and when the structure was actually built. With it obviously being turned into some kind of a B&B, more than likely, the structure was severely neglected throughout the years, and had not been updated properly that lead to it's more than overwhelming demise, and the owners were forced to close it down as it became severely uninhabitable to run a business out of. Or, maybe, the owners of the house owed a huge debt, or mortgage on the property and between not being able to pay it off, and making the proper repairs to the home, the home was destroyed for lack of funding to repair it, and they've just fled it just in order to evade the repairs and debt. Another thought is that, maybe at some point, the property could've been an inheritance, and the people that had inherited seen it as a way to turn a quick buck by renting rooms out as a B&B, but did not have any other means to correct the structure when needing to make the necessary repairs to the property. Could've also been that the owners collected a damage insurance policy on the property, and now the insurance company owns the house and all of it's content, and the house is just considered to be a complete loss due to the extent of the damage that had occurred. But one thing is certain, the owners clearly did not have the money to maintain the property properly Sadly, an insurance company, or a bank is not going to have much interest in salvaging the furniture from the house, it's just going to be left there to rot away until an insurance company, or a bank can figure out (if ever) what to do with the property. Either way, out of all of the more than likely scenarios given, the people that had the home in their procession, clearly did not have the money, and this is why this great home and its history has been completely destroyed. The house is just absolutely amazing, and it is so sad to see that this structure has just been left to decay due to the severe neglect of not being properly updated throughout the years.
The paintings on the walls must be worth a Fortune ! Such a Beautiful House with Beautiful Furniture and Expensive/Valuable Decorations, China etc...Something Drastic had to happen for someone to just up and leave everything behind...basically their whole live just suddenly stoped existing..😢 Sad
Move along, now. Nothing expensive here. Move along, nothing valuable left lying about here. Not even in Capital Letters. 😄😜 I saw things that others might, I suppose, consider beautiful - eye of the beholder and all that - but I saw nothing of the least value. Quite the reverse. Logical alone - no beholder’s eye required - suggests that no-one would leave anything of any real value where a stranger could wander in and start filming it. Not even in a war zone, and despite Brexit, the U.K. (to judge by the plug points) is not yet quite a war zone. Logic, people!
@@Sleepyscribbler1 Might you be willing to explain your expertise on this subject, I would be glad to be educated on how one can discern the difference. Is this by sheer experience or from a place of education and what place would that be.HMMMMM
I was an Antique Dealer in the states, it baffles me to see thousands of dollars worth of rare furniture and art simply left to deteriorate and not conserved or sold to someone that would preserve and appreciate it. Such a shame. Thanks for the ride.
It truly breaks my heart thar these properties are abandoned with valuable furnishings and artifacts still inside. Someone must own the property. They should clear out the homes, sell the furnishings and donate the proceeds to homeless shelters. What a shame!!!!!
A magnificent old house! Imagine the ghosts that must walk there. Explorers in interior spaces need to guard against mold and dust inhalation or lead contamination. Wear a mask and goggles. Be safe!
That property is by no means vandalized, it’s just succumbed to decay. Vandalism would show things strewn about, all the plates, jewelry and furniture would be torn up or stolen and there would be graffiti everywhere.
WOW! what an incredible and magnificent find.. the wall with the Knives and weapons were quite nice... Those four Poster beds were stunning, not sure which room I preferred, the green or the peach burnt orange. Who the heck were these people? Love their style of furnishings and old school patterns.. A lot of valuables items left behind, and by the looks of things, these folks needed to leave in a hurry. Maybe their lives were in danger, as well as their home, from the look of all that strange water damage. Their lives seem to be a great mystery and probaby had to be kept secret. Which explains the lack of family photographs of the occupants in this mansion. When it comes to the safety of your family, your precious valuables mean nothing, for those can be replaced. Your family are worth more.. they are PRICELESS in every way. I Hope they're alright and safely enjoying life, the way it should be. Alec, not sure how the heck I missed this video from 2 years ago, for this was truly a beauty of a find for you. Thank you.
Beautiful place, the stairways alone give me goosebumps! Wanted to add: SO glad you decided to take on the last set of steps, it would have driven me crazy if you didn't - bummed that you didn't take them all the way down though - fabulous video, sending to my cousin in Aberdour! Love from New Jersey USA!
I love the kitchen all the back splashes and the old stove .Id go in and just clean everything up and put everything back to being beautiful agian ..place is stunning and make sure all the windows and doors seal good .and a good roof .
You went all the way up those little teeny tiny twisty stairs to that turret but you let a rope stop you from going out and showing us that patio that rooftop garden. Please tell me I hope you're saving that for next time. Priceless !
It was just a flat roof with nothing to see but hills and houses, here is the return visit i done... ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-c3thKiBWRqQ.html
