Why the Victorian mansion is a horror icon 

We promise there are no jump scares in THIS video!

Isn't this video a little late?

@@Vox I can't trust you anymore 7n7

you got the timeline wrong btw Victorian was big in the 1870s, the era you describe in the video was afterwards in the American Renaissance,

Hi, I watched your video of 2017 relatedly you provided a link for.. And.. You kno what..?..: Humanity is lagging behind its potentials.. we are to build space stations much like these buildings but not tanks or have not officially state that houses have to library rooms.. _just like it is stated that they have to have toilets, bathrooms.. appropriate kitchen infrastructure or even due to some locations and their intended characterization with manners buildings have to have.. regulations of having a minimum of having sunlight at least.._ .. Why are moon-lander countries so rich? Why is Africa and middle east are announced as iode lacking geographies that.. people there are made believe that they have to add iode to their salt for any kind of *Victory* meant to be had/achieved via this adding initial? .. I personally think that as long as those countries are well lagging behind sociablities that initiate reasonable persisting against these types of social and human engineering experimentations on themselves.. they will not see the tanks as big as a football stadium releasing lots of robocops and terminators on their lands.. lest.. nature is synergetic as deniers of existance of spirits and a divine spirit are not encountering or expecting. Nobody invented 40.000 a death a year in U.S. that any or not a ISIL or Al Kaidah could ever execute.. or as in the same way.. of Russia.. population decrease showing a whole lotta collapse so soon.. ... ..at the end.. the day that they feel they're right about the such invasion prospect so very instatntly ready-with.. nature will weirdly explode and diminish those moon-landing Victorynne rich entities.. A'Spirin of a Spirit get-by.. .. Covertly or insidiously by human will diminished nations for and under experimentations is a real good subject for Vox I consider. Africans, Turks, Argentinians, Brasilians, Chinese, Indians.. Americans.. real.. so too real.. as much crispy and in deed psycopathological as what is hinted in this video.. so too real and magesticly so too great in fact(s) and their coverage hugeness. Huge is Higg's Hide Out Bozon.. We all need to feel ConCerne'd I think. .. Good bye.

Absolutely

Especially with all of these mediocre houses of the 70s-2000s.

totally agree! with all the negative imposed on victorian houses, for me i love victorian house.

@no. I paused it at 1:20. I didn't see anything.

@@dongysakura418 I would say the 1940"s -- 2000's. The art deco style of the 1920"s and 1930"s was the last great design movement. It was all downhill after that. A lot of people have complained about these drab mediocre buildings they've built for the past several decades but they keep building them.

Same 😂😢

SAME

3am and about to sleep. Was drifting off and actually possibly asleep. Not anymore lol

Literally same. It’s 2am and I’m in my bed in the dark. They didn’t have to do me like that

Totally the same!

Yup. Its 11:40 at night and i was just looking to learn about old architecture. So long sleep

Fr

I hate jump scare. I hate it so much! 😢

Thanks for the warning.

I flipped my poor screen right after that scene, that was uncalled for. Glad I watched this in daylight..

in this economy?

i agree! i might beocme an arcetect one day and build homes in this stlye as best i can!

The gothic style is technically a revival. Gothic style first started with churches around the 1400s and these Victorian homes were made to mimic the ornate details of churches

Asbestos and lead paint to name a few 😳🤣

@@ninosanvithian8116and arsenic wallpaper

I think kids are imaginative enough to make anything haunted. My parents and I moved into a brand new house in 1983 and one room, which we never really used, always freaked me out. Fast forward to 2010 and I move back in after losing my parents. It was a terrible time for selling a house, so I kept it a couple of years. I used that room and it was just a normal room, nothing scary at all.

WOAH!!!

I live in a house built in the early 1400’s, in a well preserved medieval village in England. I can honestly say I’ve never once had a bad feeling; to me it’s “charming” as opposed to “ominous”. I’m not sure why older American homes are so often “haunted” - perhaps due to perception? As I’ve always viewed Victorian homes here to be rather modern, yet in the US (I’m guessing) they are seen as relatively old and therefore ghost-ridden! I must say however that even though the houses featured in this video are pretty, they are also somehow “spooky”. So I’m sure if you lived there it probably wouldn’t be hard to find them a bit haunted. The same could be said for mine (due to its crooked half-timbered appearance), but instead feels welcoming.

@@tamaracarter1836 omg I've always wanted to live in one of those pretty well preserved villages in England. Now you made me wonder... Will I feel like I'm living in a fairytale or will I feel like the old place is haunted?

Yeah I think it depends, but you’ll probably know the moment you walk through the door - as some houses can give off a bad vibe/ spooky atmosphere straight away. I really love old houses though!

🤣same

You saved me dude... I was watching at night ._.

Thank you !!! You saved me 🖤

Sameee

I didn’t really get scared by the jump scares for some reason

OOps should have read down to see if anyone else got it right before I commented

But, vox is my source for unbiased and highly self aware factually based information that is not at all more horrific and anachronistic in its nature than the historicity it botches with a nose in the air and an incredulous... nasally, hairy armed spectacle.

Ps. Too many signifiers that signify not a lexical or relative denotation, but an easy to dismiss erudite connotation: you think your parapet is smarter than all and sundry? Listen, Etruscan doesn’t exist, and let’s extrapolate the nuances of columns and remember that whether dawning a poets bow and a frock four inches above the knee, or a regency tailcoat, or trousers or any sort... or even a tunic, if you go to a backyard party, you’re a pirate no matter what... unless you’re the product of a limited frame of reference that is beyond imagining.

Shaun Koreshowell/Bunds Sorry buddy, you came to the wrong place for that.

Francesca Taphophilia , you are perhaps the most brilliant person I’ve ever had the pleasure of encountering on RU-vid. Sincerely I thank you for sharing such an intellectual and well worded comment that others should be aware of.

Weaseling rentler i agree with you so much .

Yeah, me too. I don't care how decadent people think it is, they are gorgeous!

i’ve always wanted to live in one, because there are so many beautiful victorian houses in my area. i never got the vibe that they were unnerving, creepy, or desolate. i just love the architecture lol

Same!

Same!

I think they were designed to hide stuff.

Crepuscular Night Or maybe you are just looking too deeply into things?

​@@connorpusey5912, um this is just what makes it creepy to me. If you think these 3 things are deep well... okay.

Crepuscular Night I didn’t say that the things you mentioned are deep. I said that you are thinking too deeply. In other words you are overthinking it. I honestly think it’s just because people have been so influenced by 20th century horror culture.

​@@connorpusey5912, again its just what makes it creepy for me without watching movies. 3 things, they're: mysterious, intimidating, and they are familiar (close to our time/common) but still seem strange to me.

Also consider that if you want a movie set, the design goals of the Victorian help. The very gloominess of the house adds darkness, which can become sinister because they help create ambiguous shadows and shapes. Even outside of it, all the details create a complex silhouette. Humans associate ambiguity with uncertainty and thus give place to fear. One of the keys to horror is creating ambiguity, am I seeing a monster in the corner or just a statue? Plus, old Victorian mansions were probably on cheap to rent. Perhaps also roomy enough to house a film crew while inside.

András Bónitz That’s very true!

I like horror movie so much l’ve always had this fantasy of buying an old huge Victorian house to live in and hiring actors to “haunt” it. I like to keep my current place dark for the same reason-since you can’t rely on Hollywood anymore to make its mind up about what horror even is anymore. But once in a while a ‘Haunting of Hill House’ comes along to set it all right again.

I think a lot of us horror fans would love to have one. But I think even if I was wealthy enough to have one, itd be better to have a new one built. I don't think there are that many of them out there so even if you find one you'd have to hope you actually want to live in that area lol.

My grandparents have one, Perched on top of a hill at the end of a rural street, sealed off basement and leaky roof included, it’s not that over the top with the Victorian styling, pretty much a big L shape with bay windows, a big roof with dormers and tall chimneys. someone apparently hung them selves in it before my grandparents moved in, it’s a bit spooky but not that bad. the lake on the far end of the house grounds is far more spooky. Always feels like someone is watching me when I’m down by the lake on my own.

Same

Same. I also wanted to have a Victorian house.

All good points. -Coleman

Thank you!! I thought the same thing and commented then I saw you put it best.

Not to mention that in the early 20th century, during the introduction of visual media like film, television and comic books, the remaining Victorians were inhabited by reclusive pensioners. Even today many people regard the elderly as a bit ghastly--imagine what it was like when we didn't understand dementia and isolation as well.

The Victorians also just liked darker interiors. A darker house is just spookier on the inside. Victorian homes almost always had dark, natural woodwork that trap rather than reflect light. The earlier neo-classical styles mostly had painted woodwork in lighter colors. Victorians also brought back Gothic styling, which has lots of sharp, pointy details that can resemble thorns or a knifepoint. Classical architecture doesn't really have sharp, abrupt angles.

Yeah, It's curious how architectural preferences change over time, nowadays a more minimalist and modern style is sought that makes connection with nature, Victorian architecture is strongly influenced by spiritualism and search for extramaterial conford, architecture is always rooted in human visual taste and evolves through time, just as Victorian architecture influenced the Gregorian and the steamline moderne boom which attracted attention of the consumers with its innovative aesthetics.

What is your country? It's still 10:40 here in the Philippines

Still 21:40 in Indonesia

Thanks for the warning!!

If only I read the comments first. But it’s only 2 am for me

Thanks. I turned down the volume, but the image still got me 😂

I agree 👍

Modernist architecture will likely stop soon

Agree. this and the traditional filipino houses (Ancestral House) are my favourite types of house.

My brother always did say that if he ever won the lottery he would build the Addams Family house and I agree with him.

I agree

The goal, lol.

cause same

It cant be that bad.

Smae

I was expecting one of the 3 comments above me to write, "My face all the time".

Riiiiight! Ugh 😒not cool

High key mad

Josh Mode dope profile pic though

Right? I’m watching this at the library and nearly screamed :(

Josh Mode Disliked just for that

Same thought

Were they? I thought the house of Usher was more of an ancient castle/manor. Medieval rather than Victorian.

yes

👌"nice" 👌

Insert *am I joke to you meme*

*Owner slaps roof of mansion* Owner: It could fit so many ghösts *Mansion snaps the neck of owner*

THAT is the nature of subjectivity. I grew up in what everyone thought was the local haunted house. I'd like to die in a beige condo somewhere eventually, but for the time being I'm the shadowy figure you can see on nights... just like this.

@@AnindyaDasAdhikary bad house!! bad house! -House's owner ghost.

Harry Goodwin gotta read dem comments

@@seandafny I TRUSTED HIM!!!

To some people, horror does that tough.

I could have been lured by bill denbrough 😂😂 but thank goodness I checked the comments first.

Thank you so much. You just saved me.

It's not even scary

this was so unnecessary and honestly kind of ruins the mood of the video

@@monkieri2 no it's not, it's really considerate actually

This is Barris! Or cave people ghosts. When did the whole ghost thing kick in because it seems around 1500

It's actually quite interesting, ghost sightings and stories became much more common place directly after the civil war. It's worth noting that one in four who went to the war died, a quarter of a generation wiped out in the blink of an eye. Everyone knew someone who died and where there is grief there are people looking to turn that grief into money. There was an explosion of seances' where con men and hacks claimed you could reunite with lost love ones.

Soon: Millenial Ghosts with phones. Just like that game Dreadout

At first I am always like I don't believe in ghosts or supernatural, hears a creek on second thought covers my self with blankets. Cause for some reason I believe that a blanket could save me from getting killed.

I don't believe in ghosts but maybe they have lifespan too. All ones from before 1700 faded out, recent ones only starting to gain strength or go to ghost school or something.

Thank you so much!

Thanks for telling me

Thank you! Lesson learned, always scroll down!

I see u in every video I watch thanks for the heads up

bless you

which means u r super-rich. So me too.

huang liuying That doesn’t mean you’re rich

It'll be so hard to clean the house since it's so big and so many ornaments there, it's just a matter of time until the things there covered in dust

and you'll be glad to have no sleep every night

@@risuhijirikawa5901 if you have the money to buy the house, you have the money to pay for someone to clean it

Tip: Get historic preservation put on it so you can get tax credits from your city for working on it ☺️

So you want to live in SF lol

I don't see the first one. Good catch on the others though.

Well done. -Coleman

You have a spooky ability.

Dwight K. Schrute let it play for a split second. It’s not the image the time stamp lands on

I don’t see anyone in a left window at 4:36 There’s someone in the *center* window at 4:37, though.

@jane lam Hey I thought NA was one of JA best works, yes it's parody but it's brilliantly done parody.

Thank you for pointing this out! I was expecting the video to at least briefly mention the Gothic literature/Gothic novels from the late 1700s, but instead it just focused on recent American history and pop culture...

Don't forget Castle of Otranto. The first gothic novel.

Actually Jane Austen wasn't poking fun at Brontes, simply because Charlotte, the oldest Bronte sister, was born in 1815, while Austen died in 1816 - so there was no Brontes books to make fun of by Austen. In fact Jane Austen was big fan of gothic romances, especially of Anne Radcliffe, and yes, she was making fun of some aspects of these novels (i.e. Perfect, innocent, naive heroines), but overall she was quite a fan of this genre. Some of novels her characters are talking about in NA are now known because of her - for many years critics were sure Austen just made up some titles and threw them in her book, but these novels existed in real life and we know about their existence mostly because of her.

Reading all these comments makes me realize how uneducated I am.

marxist? where did that come from

Vincent R It’s not about socialism or communism or anything like that, it’s a terminology for formal analysis of class differences and relations. Examining something with a marxist lens means you’re looking at how different economic classes are portrayed or how they interact together in a piece of literature, a cultural phenomenon, etc.

Moon Fish thank you for the clarification

Cracking up

Idk man, I mean the Roman Villas were places of horror.

Villas just turn me on

But why though

Yeah, kinda hard to create a feeling of dread in something that light and cheerful looking

"Fairly soon ago"??? Wtf?

you mean fairly recently / not long ago lmao

@@maxonite Sorry I'm not a native English speaker

@@somberstricken4424 Sorry English isn't my first language so I'm not perfect. At least you understood the message I was trying to convey.

Also it's very nice of you to use wtf and lmao

I hate you

I saw this comment just before it played and shielded myself just in time. Merci, Ami!

@@johnnybadboy3475 You're welcome I just accomplished with my duty

Thankyou.

Gosh I was having a dinner

Exactly, Vox failed to mention this.

grow up

Haze Draco diverse? I think you have a poor opinion of what’s diverse

CottonBalls I’m actually laughing, well put, well put.

I wish they did more things that didn't tie in some how to America

@@liamdavis2387 its an AMERICAN based company, after all...

is all socialist propaganda with a couple random articles here and there to pretend they are moderate. They even dedicated this video to take a jab at rich people. This video would not have been made without that anti capitalist, anti wealthy people argument. Theres only really one topic in all Vox videos and is bullshit

Hahahahhahq

What's a coulrophobe?

@• Love you • oh okay thanks

Welcome to the opulence of the selfishly rich.

This mindset still shines in the field of super-cars. Many of them are among the most unreliable vehicles ever on the market while being the most expensive simply because it was unnecessary to make them reliable, most are only owned by the original buyer for a short time despite the exorbitant price tag. They're sold at a huge loss before the new, equally unreliable, model is bought.

@@Nirawen planned obsolescence, but for the ones who can afford it Nice

It's the same reason we see McMansions today: having a lot of money isn't the same thing as being responsible. Also, I'd assume that the same kind of construction companies that currently throw together crappy McMansions that "look like affluence" but are environmental and financial disasters were around back then.

@@Nirawen I don't really agree on the supercars interpretation. Usually supercars are defined by two specifications: Being race ready and implementing and praxis testing the latest shiny tech. Both can contribute both to be superior and to unreliability. But part of the unreliability myth stems from using them in the wrong context (everyday traffic) or neglect. Ironically little hurts a car more than just standing around unused.

An excellent point Maybe it wasn’t fair to liken them to McMansions. Since the hallmarks of McMansions is cheap materials and poor taste. I think he likened them to McMansions as a way of saying they’re basically the staples of the nouveau riche. People with newfound affluence who like to show off their abundant means. So they build stuff that’s insanely gaudy and insanely tacky.

Good meme 😂

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You grow up in a mansion?! Cool. Keep forgetting that Europe actually has mansions and castles etc

What country did you grow up in?

What city mate? German here I barely know any Victorian mansions, but that might be cuz it’s Germany.

The styles being mentioned in this video are *American* Victorian and *American* Second Empire. Are you sure you lived in a house like this?

Ima say troll because "Victorian mansions" did not exist in Europe. 19th century European styles were much more toned down and simpler, we built houses to last back then. These mansions on the other hand, as pointed out in the video, were the mcmansions of the era - expensive to maintain due to all the fluff and that's why they became ran down in only years of abandon. Can't imagine this happening to wooden buildings of Eastern Europe or say haussmannian buildings in France

lucky having a place like that.

My grandparents have one, Perched on top of a hill at the end of a rural street. The basement is sealed off as well, so who knows what’s down there. it’s not that over the top with the Victorian styling, pretty much a big L shape with bay windows, a big roof with dormers and tall chimneys. someone apparently hung them selves in it before my grandparents moved in, it’s a bit spooky but not that bad. the lake on the far end of the house grounds is far more spooky. Always feels like someone is watching me when I’m down by the lake on my own.

Where can you find a Victorian mansion to buy?

I didn't like that "gaudy and unbalanced" remark either. But, I love Victorians and I love big windows, but I like them covered with elegant drapes. I don't like the openness of the new houses today. They're cold and no privacy. I really don't like that.

Don't forget _"monstrosity"_

Not from their vantage point, at all.

Lucas Santos my impression has suggested while some thought that in the 1870s, e.g. the people who ordered these homes thought the variety was sophisticated, elegant, Stylish - asymmetrical was to them interesting., like a tree with asymmetrical Variety. Never studied it deeply, do you have a source on this? I’d like to learn more!

Modern houses:a big glass box with some pillars

All those house projects would keep you busy too

Britney Touchstone yeah. I mean who wouldn’t love to heat and cool rooms people rarely go in. I mean if you’ve worked hard for the money-makes perfect sense to waste it right!?!?(sarcasm)

Somehow Thirteen Ghosts pulled it off.

RustyIron 7 what’s the town?

You live on the outskirts of Atlanta, don't you? The city of atlanta is absolute garbage, but the surrounding area and towns is quite lovely.

Good comment. This video was the worst I've seen from Vox, and their comparison of the height of human achievement in architecture to the lowest of the low was particularly sickening!

USER seriously it was entirely over the top and clearly reflected a personal taste rather than a factual take on them.

Idk, they're built much better than newer houses. Would love to own one soon. They cost a bit more than other older styles, because unlike what the video is claiming, they are freaking gorgeous!

wlhol9 you just just had to go and make perfect sense, didn’t you.

Waaaaahhhhhh

You are correct. It was very cheap and honestly I will remember it next time I am tempted to even click on a Vox video.

Horror level : Asian 😂😂

Hehe funni

@@nazliuz 😂😂😂 If asian level, EVERY TEACHER IS A HOROR ICONS. The scariest of all are the tigers moms and dragons dads.

Should be: why old rundown school building a horror icon? I mean seriously, I had watched half a dozen horror movies from various countries which horror played out in schools, rundown or not