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Greatest Abandoned Fairytale Castle In The World ~ Millions Left Behind!
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The Abandoned Fortuna Mansion is a hidden gem located in the USA! This eerie and spooky property is one you won't want to miss if you're looking for a creepy and adventurous adventure!
In this video, we'll take you on a tour of this abandoned mansion and show you why it's one of the most popular places to visit in the USA. We'll also tell you all the secrets to getting the most out of your visit, so be sure to watch the video to learn more!
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This time we will take you to the mysterious mansion of the former Fortuna family, which is located on top of a snow-covered mountain and is reached by an endless winding road.
Since the beginning of the 1900s the Fortuna family used to call this house their home, they were an extremely influential family in the American real estate business and held properties all over the continental USA.
Gladys was the only descendant of the Fortuna Family and naturally inherited the wondrous White Mountain Mansion and all the wealth his family accumulated over their successful past.
He met a fine lady named Sheila, and they fell in love at first sight and got married only a short time later, subsequently, she moved into the white mansion with Gladys, and sometime later they got their one and only child Olivia, Gladys was not very interested in real estate and decided to start a new company in the trade of Rare Objects together with his wife Sheila, they would do business all over the USA in the following decades and became experts in their field.
Gladys and Sheila seemed like the perfect couple. They were loved by their neighborhood and did everything they could to help society. But unfortunately, they didn't get to enjoy their old days. Gladys died in her early 70s, and Sheila died of Breast Cancer a few years later, in the year 2000.
Olivia having inherited their massive fortune and having been set up for a life of luxury seemingly disappeared from planet earth, nobody knows her whereabouts and nothing has been done with the mansion ever since her passing.
Let us try today to uncover the mysteries that surround the mansion and give you one last glimpse of its glory!
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The Sudia Family called this their home for almost an entire century, these people were not just ordinary people, around the neighborhood they had the nickname “The Happy House”, this was mainly contributed by the look of their house, almost every room was decorated in blue, blue seemed to be the main color in the place.
The family consisted of 5 people, John and Michael, who were 2 brothers, Jean his wife Sean, and their 2 children. Jean and Michael never left their parent's house because they took over their father's company decades ago. They lived together as brothers and never left each other's side. The company they ran was comically called "Blue Repairs" and was an electrical repairs company.
The last person to live in the house was Michael, his belongings are still exactly the same as they were when he passed away.
Since January 2009 it is abandoned, and like many houses we have seen, the children just forget about it and left it as is…
Ever since that day, life has gone forward, but the house is still standing, we will make the time tick for one last time.
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A man can hope, dream even, and sometimes his dreams come true
From a rather young age Mister Antonio was already exposed to eccentric places, his parents loved to travel around historical Europe and took him every chance they got. This led to Antonio his early interest in history but especially in castles and palaces. He prolonged to live in such a building so much that he devoted a lifetime of earnings and craftsmanship to it.
Antonio studied hard and got a decent job in a well-regarded Portuguese city, every single moment of free time he got he would devote to the construction of his master plan, a self-build castle. During this period he also met his wife Céu, who was surprising in his project and even helped him with construction and decorations. Céu and Antonio got married, and also had 2 boys and a girl. At a certain point, they even became a bit famous for their efforts in building such a place, and with this, they also started giving tours of their masterpiece.
It was never really finished, until the last days they lived here they were still changing things and reconstructing sections of the castle.
After Antonio and Céu passed away, the children tried to sell the property but was nobody interested in buying it, so it was left to witter with time.
Let us take you today inside the walls of this self-made castle and show you their dream!
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This is a story of love, no matter what happens in life, they would always stick together.
Many decades ago Mike and Stella fell in love during their time in high school and decided that they wanted to spend their whole lives together. They settled down in a rural town somewhere in the state of Connecticut, where they remodeled a typical American house into their dream home. After the work on the house was done Mike was called to fight in the ongoing war in Vietnam, this didn’t go well for him and he got severely injured and traumatized but came home alive. After his return, he was unable to work, but Stella never let their love fade away, they went on to have a few children of their own, and while Stella went out to work, Mike cared for the children. They lived here all their lives until Stella passed away around the 1990s and this left mike to fend for his own in the last decade of his life, he stopped using the upstairs and only lived in a few rooms downstairs until he left planet earth behind in the early 2000s
Today we will have a look into the life of this loving couple, and bring you their story for one last time.
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For most, this is an old abandoned home, but through their eyes, it was a place they have always known.
Down in the south of the United States, we found an inconspicuous farm, that once flourished with life, now abandoned for almost 2 decades. The freshly married couple Sarah and Herman received this piece of land as a wedding gift from Sarah’s parents, on this secluded piece of land they build the house of their dreams. Over the course of four decades, they raised a beautiful family with no less than 7 children, ran a successful business, and made wonderful memories throughout their lives. Eventually, all the children moved out, and unfortunately, Sarah aged quickly causing him to pass away early when she was only 74 years old, this left Herman devastated.
But he kept working on their dream and lived at the farm until 2007 when he was in his late 90s. During this period he was not left alone, his 7 children and 13 grandchildren would visit regularly and their memories from this time can still be seen inside. The question remains, why did the children never show interest in their parent's life… Now we can only see a neat reflection of what it must have been like, everything is still in the exact same place as Herman left it behind almost 2 decades ago.
With the greatest respect, we will document their forgotten home, and bring their memories back to life for one last time.
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It has been a quarter of a century since the last person Josephine spends her last moments inside the house, now the place lays desolate and forgotten waiting for its inevitable demolishment.
Together with her husband Patrick, she started living here in the 1930s and over the course of six decades, they raised two beautiful children, got married, and lived a long life with beautiful memories. At the start of their relationship, Patrick was a truck driver and worked countless hours away from home, this led Josephine to find something of her own and she decided to put her passion for flowers into a business. Josephine started a flower shop in town, and it was a great success from the very beginning. At a certain point, Patrick decided to give up his job to help Josephine in the business.
They both lived inside the house until the very end, Patrick passed first and Josephine lived out her last days alone until she passed away in 1997.
She turned to the age of 96 years old, and at that age, she was still taking full care of herself, while living inside the house.
After her passing the children and grandchildren did not show much interest in the house, after the filming of this video we talked to one of the relatives and asked him why it was left like this, he said he just didn’t care too much about it. This left us clueless as to why…
Today we will show you the remains of what once was there everything!
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In this video, we're going to explore an abandoned mansion in Portugal. This mansion was once the home of a Portuguese videographer, but his life was unlucky...
This is the story of Carlos Pinto, he was someone who had seemingly everything, his life was literally carved out for him. Carlos graduated from university as a cinematographer and worked for years in the United States on numerous well-regarded movies. During that time, he also met his wife Linda, and they made the decision to move back to his home country of Portugal. They moved into the extravagant mansion that Carlos inherited from his parents, this was also the place where their 2 beautiful children, Jori and Helga were born. Although everything appeared perfect for them, his wife was growing increasingly unhappy with their life in Portugal, and this led her to decide to move back to the United States.
Their son Jori had respiratory problems, so they made the decision that it would be better for him to stay in Portugal with Carlos, and Helga moved back to the USA with her mother. Over the years, Jori’s health grew ever more fragile, and he passed away at a very young age.
All of this had a big hit on Carlos his mental and physical health. Over the years this only grew worse, and he only lived until the age of 57, when he left planet earth behind forever…
Upon entering this peculiar house we got the feeling that somebody was still living there, even though the place had been abandoned for more than 15 years, it felt strange, just like somebody could come walking inside right at that moment.
Let us take you on a tour of what has been left behind, and tell you the story of their lives.
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Our journey brings us to a rather peculiar place, in the heart of Chicago's suburbs we found a completely intact bank that has been abandoned since the year 2008. Karl Vitzthum, the architect, decided to give the building a Classical Revival-style design to convey a sense of security and permanence. Many newspapers called the bank "Chicago's most elegant bank" when it was finished in 1926. The five-story building cost about $650,000, which is about 11 million dollars today. For many years, it served the local community in this Chicago neighborhood. Families would come here to do all kinds of banking activities, but most of the stories you still hear are about going to the grand vault in the basement to check on a deposit box. In the mid-1990s, the bank was rebranded as Banco Popular, which was a natural occurrence because the Puerto Rican population of this particular neighborhood grew exponentially. For two more decades, this was the communities centerpiece, but the expenditures of keeping up such a building grew out of hand, and the management decided to leave this property behind and move the bank across the street to a smaller and cheaper facility. Although it has been 14 years since the last customer walked through its doors, the property hasn't let out its last breath yet. Just a couple of months after the filming of this documentary, renovation works on the property started, and the end goal is to turn it into a cultural hub and social housing for the community.
Let us show you what was once the most elegant bank in Chicago.
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This is the story of the Otto family, originally they were from The Netherlands, but with the advent of the Second World War tensions grew in Europe and they decided to move to the USA to start a new life. Here they would build a dream house in the state of Connecticut in 1940 and conceived their last child, Spencer, with a caring father a loving mother, and 3 beautiful boys the family was complete. After living in the house for many decades the older brothers both moved out, but the youngest child Spencer never left, he became attached to the house, unfortunately, he became too old to keep up the house, which led to its early decay when he was still living inside of it, Spencer was forced to move out and live in a care home where he still resides to this day. The home has stayed abandoned ever since he left it behind, Every now and then Spenser will revisit the house and relive his former memories.
Today we will take you inside and tell you the story of their lives.
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Let us immerse ourselves in the intriguing story of Mister Marcel, he was a businessman, a father of three, and a loving husband! His life began in the bustling city center of Zurich, where he grew up and later took over the family business. The family business was a plaster shop for many generations. Marcel completely transformed it and turned it into a specialized plaster manufacturing company, and became prosperous in the process. But Marcel had a bigger dream. At the age of 50, he was ready to fulfill it. He sold his business and moved away from the bustling city center of Zurich to the peaceful French countryside. His dream was to convert a French manor into his dream estate. He found the property he was looking for, and he transformed it into a masterpiece using all the skills and knowledge he had accumulated over the years. Their children slowly moved out to the big cities seeking opportunities, while Marcel and his wife remained inside the manor until the final years of their lives. His beloved wife passed first, and he lived on the estate alone until in 2013 his dream was left behind forever. Unfortunately, his children are unable to reach an agreement on how to divide the massive property and its contents. They have been in a lawsuit for years and are thus not allowed to enter the Manor.
Allow us to take you inside the walls of this unique property and show you what has been left inside.
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This journey will take us deep into the state of Illinois, where we discovered the forgotten house of the family Smith. Around six decades ago, Glen and Dorothy immigrated from their home country Germany to the United States, where they started a completely new life as traditional honey farmers. Glen was the director of a large bank in Berlin, and this new world was far from where he was original. It remains entirely unclear to us why they made this life-changing decision. Since they moved from Germany, they lived all their lives in this house, accompanied by their loving daughter Glenda. Unfortunately, she chose not to follow in their footsteps and pursue a career in nursing. This proved helpful later in life because Glen passed away early and Dorothy resided in bad health for the last years of her life. The hospital was far away from their remote house, but luckily, Glenda was able to take care of her and made her last years more enjoyable. After her mother passed away Glenda continued living inside the house, she never had a husband or children and passed away in relative loneliness in the year 2005 leaving the house abandoned forever. Since the passing of Glenda, the house has remained abandoned and acts as a time capsule into their past lives, with every single item still remaining inside its forgotten walls.
Today, we will take you on a tour around what has been left behind, and we will tell you the story of their lives.
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Michigan Detroit, it used to be the city of dreams, a place with culture and diversity, but since the 1960s it fell into a downfall, there was a great exodus of the city and this left a path of abandonment on its way.
Today we will show you the aftermath of these events and take you to some of Detroit's many abandoned churches, we will take a fascinating tour through an abandoned Gothic Revival Church, afterward a 1960s Body of Christ Church and as the cherry on the cake, we will end this documentary with a Vietnamese Church.
Let’s start this off with the Woodward Presbyterian Church, a magnificent building that was constructed in 1911 in Gothic Revival style by the architect Sidney Badgley. At its height, there were more than 2200 church members and it even got the title of being the most beautiful church in the greater Detroit area.
Unfortunately, after the exodus of Detroit started, its members started to dwindle, at the turn of the century the church had only 200 active members left, its funds started to diminish and the building started to fall into disrepair, this lasted until the year 2005 when the pastor passed away and as a result, the church was closed indefinitely.
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The abandoned house of the German Focht Family is a place that redefined our definition of what an abandoned home can be, it has been a decade since the last inhabitant Misses Ada passed away and she left all her belongings in doing so. Now 10 years later, everything still remains inside the house and the strangest of all is that the electricity still turns on. Together with her husband Wallace she started living here in the 1930s and over the course of six decades, they raised four beautiful children, got married, and lived a long life with countless memories. Unfortunately, her husband passed away in the 1990’s leaving her to fend for her own. She lived here in relatively good health until the year she turned 102, at this point, she was called to leave planet earth and her beloved house.
Today we will show you the remains of what once was their everything!
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This journey will be straight out of the "fairy tale", something like you have never seen before! In the distance on an Immaculate meadow emerges a glooming French castle, its appearance is straight out of a movie! Build in the year 1726 by the influential and powerful Neveu family, a family that yielded their influence over this region of France and in the process became extremely wealthy. Their castle makes a statement and shows the strength of this family over generations, the last owner of this place used to be the aristocratic Joan, he continued on the path of his ancestors and lived a life of glamour and wealth. Mister Joan had 6 children and a loving wife, for many decades, the family lived together inside this castle and in the process created countless memories that are still there to this day! Besides being a great businessman, he also loved to hunt and collect rare and classic cars, this tragically also caused his death, because on the 23t of September in 2013 Mister Joan was involved in a car accident and was killed instantly. His children had moved out by now and abandoned the castle causing it to slowly deteriorate over the years until the state it is in right now, almost unsavable…
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Michigan Detroit, the birthplace of the American automobile, was a city of dreams at once, but slowly everything fell in decline.
People left in search of opportunities elsewhere and in the process left a fallen city behind. In our quest to document the forgotten and abandoned world we went to Detroit to show you the aftermath of what has happened to this once great city!
In this episode, we take you inside one of the many abandoned high schools in Detroit, built in the year 1928 for it's his ever-expanding population, at the peak of this school more than 5000 students would study here at once.
After the decline of Detroit started between 1950 and 1980, they lost almost half of student admissions and this number dropped even further over the following decades. In its last years of operation, the school had less than 1000 enrolments and they decided to close it forever.
Once a place of happiness and prosperity, now forever in decline, let us take you inside and show you what is left behind!
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Let us take you today deep into the tundra of Canada, Among its icy fields in the middle of winter, we made a rather odd but interesting discovery. It was barely visible at first, but slowly a massive graveyard littered with classic American cars revealed itself, thousands upon thousands of cars were left here at some point in time. The former owner of this property was believed to be involved in Illegal activities and at a certain point, the Canadian law enforcement found out and confiscated all his processions… Many years later, nothing has changed to his collection, and all his beloved cars are still left. Mother Nature has already started her reclamation and most of the cars have become unsavable.
Today we will show you the aftermath, and take you on a tour of his life's work!
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Elkins Manor, A remnant of the American gilded age, it astonished many over the last century but has now been lost in time.
The Construction of this prominent building started in 1898, only a year after the neighboring building, Lynnewood hall! The design and construction of this renowned masterpiece were ordered by William L Elkins and carried out by the architect Horace Trumbauer. Elkins Manor Boasts 45 rooms that have been inspired by and built in the style of the Italian High Renaissance, Every single corner in this place has been thought about and designed into perfection. After the Elkins lived here for 3 decades the place was sold off and bought by The Dominican Sisters who converted it into a women's religious retreat, Thousands of Women visited and lived inside the Estate over the course of 75 years, and the remains of that time period are still to be seen throughout the mansion. The Dominican sisters took exceptional care of the estate and up kept every single piece of historical value in detail, but unfortunately, over time the needs and economics of the Dominican sisters changed, They could not keep up the mortgage payments on this massive property and filed for bankruptcy. In the year 2013, The Dominican sisters vacated the property. Almost a decade later renovations of this masterpiece have started, we got an exclusive chance to take a look at its magnificent insides and show you the remnants of this former beauty!
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Many decades ago a family from the old world decided to take a chance of a lifetime, they packed up all their belongings and made the retros journey from their home country Croatia Towards the new world. After some time they found their dream place to live, which ended up being in the far north of Canada, where they build themselves a lovely little house that they later converted into a cozy B&B that could host only a guest at a time. Their whole life they lived inside the house, and they even got 2 daughters who grew up there. After visiting their home country numerous times, the daughters both decided that they wanted to move back to their heritage, they left their lives behind in Canada, and both started new lives in Croatia. The parents still lived out their lives in Canada, but unfortunately got sick and both passed shortly after each other, the father passed away last in the year 2005. Ever since that day, nobody visited the house again, the daughters seemingly don’t have any interest in what is left behind inside.
For the first time in 2 decades, we will reopen its doors and give you a glimpse of the inside.
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This time we are going to showcase an abandoned place, unlike anything you have seen before. On our journey towards this abandoned mansion we suddenly stopped in our tracks, from a distance it looked like people still lived inside it, but we knew it was abandoned for more than a decade and carefully made our way inside. Upon entering we were in total shock and awe, the whole house was falling into ruins and covered in a thick layer of ice and snow, but for some weird reason, everything side still functioned… Not much is known about the family that once lived here, but all their possessions are left behind, what happened to these people and why is this house left?
Let us take you inside this mysterious place and let’s try to solve this strange mystery.
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This journey is going to lead us deep into the frozen wastelands of Canada, the temperature during this exploration reached well below the freezing point. In this barren landscape far away from civilization the ward family used to live, it was a family of 3, Mister Ross, his wife Petra, and their loving daughter Diana. Mister Ross had a lifelong passion for clock making and the remains of his business are still present inside the house, he was a true craftsman and made numerous masterpieces from start to finish. Petra on the other hand was a housewife and cared for her family all her life. They were a postcard family, and it is to be seen throughout the house! It has been a long time since the house has been lived in, Diana her parents passed away around the turn of the millennium, and this left Diana alone who used to always live with her parents, after living here alone for around a decade her physical conditions was not well enough anymore to live in such a cold and remote part of Canada. At this point in time, she resides in a care home far away from the house and is unable to ever visit it again.
All their memories are locked inside, acting like a portal that will give us a glips into their former lives.
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Lynnewood hall is one of the biggest gilded-age mansions in the United States.
Around a century ago Mister Peter AB Widener ordered the architect Horace Trumbauer to design and build the mansion. Over the course of three years, this masterpiece was built and became one of the biggest mansions in the continental United States. The construction cost was 8 million dollars, calculating inflation that would be around 260 million today. With 110 rooms, 55 bedrooms, 20 Bathrooms, 5 art galleries, and many more common rooms that serve very specific purposes, Lynnewood Hall was a dream come true for Peter, it was unlike any gilded age mansion built before its time. Later on, the Mansion fell into the hands of Peter his son Joseph, who was fascinated by everything French and let the mansion be redesigned into a French country estate. Lynnewood hall is almost 2 times bigger than the White House, having a total of roughly 100K Square feet, inside the mansion, we also find the longest residential enfilade in the United States and the finest French gardens found in America, comparable to the gardens of the castle of Versailles… Being the largest mansion in Pennsylvania, we can see that the Widener family was no ordinary family, they left an everlasting footprint on this area, to give a more in-depth story of the family Edward is going to dissect their family tree and also the famed link with the RMS Titanic.
0:00 - Intro Lynnewood Hall
1:25 - History of Lynnewood Hall estate
3:45 - History of Widener Family
10:15 - Start of the tour
11:25 - The Great Hall
15:00 - Reception Room
20:00 - Ball Room
25:40 - Conservatory/Loggia & Enfilade
26:30 - Ball Room & Parties
29:00 - The Raphael Gallery
31:55 - Servants Quarters & Kitchen & Volt
34:30 - Smoking Room
36:35 - Dining Room
37:30 - Breakfast Room
38:50 - Basement of Lynnewood Hall
44:00 - Tunnels of Lynnewood
46:15 - Men's Lounge
47:25 - The Great Hall Galleries
49:20 - Layout of Lynnewood Hall Bedrooms
52:20 - Eleanor Pancoast Bedroom
53:00 - Peter A. B. Widener Bedroom
55:45 - Joseph Widener Bedroom
58:25 - Peter & George Widener's Bedroom
1:00:10 - Tutors Bedroom
1:00:55 - Eleanor Dixon Bedroom
1:02:05 - Eleanor Elkins Widener Bedroom
1:05:25 - Art Galleries in Lynnewood Hall
1:07:30 - Tea Room
1:09:15 - The Rembrandt Gallery
1:10:10 - The Bellini/Cellini Room
1:11:35 - The Organ Room
1:12:10 - The Van Dyck Gallery
1:16:35 - The Servants Quarters
1:19:00 - Skylights
1:20:15 - Pool & SPA
1:24:30 - Exterior of Lynnewood Hall
1:30:25 - Conservatory
1:32:05 - Lynnewood Hall Preservation Foundation
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A Palace is just a home like any other, countless memories are made inside, love is created, and fights are fought. This was nonetheless true for the extravagant palace of the Italian Giogino Family.
At the end of the 19th century, the family left their home country Italy behind to pursue business and politics in their neighboring country Switzerland, in doing so they build a grand palace in Swiss Italian style and brought their whole family over. At one point over 40 family members lived inside its walls, one can only imagine the atmosphere that used to transpire inside this place!
The family stayed very influential over the course of the century, but eventually, its numbers started to dwindle, times changed, and the younger generation moved out and started living on their own. This continued until the early 2000s, when the last inhabitant, mister Marco, passed away and left everything behind to crumble apart.
It has been 16 years now since the Giogino family stepped foot inside their palace, today we are at its doorstep to take a look inside its forgotten walls.
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Let us take you today on another journey to wonderful Switzerland, we will give you a glimpse of how life used to be like more than a century ago in this unique and historically rich country. In 1824 a rather typical Swiss farming family decided to build a charming house somewhere in along their fields in the middle of the country, they did this with great pride and the end product is a piece of eye candy. Over many generations, beautiful memories were made inside the walls of this house, from father upon son the owners stayed traditional Swiss farmers and lived simple but happy lives.
But unfortunately not lasts forever, at a certain point around 2005 the last generation broke tradition, times had changed and they choose to live their lives in the nearby cities. The farmhouse got forgotten with all the once buildup memories still left inside.
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This documentary will be unlike anything you have seen before, today we will dive deep into 2 mysterious lives that are contemplated far away from civilization in the dark forests of Switzerland.
Both places have been left behind and lost for multiple decades, they are surrounded by mystery and nobody really knows the real story behind them. Many roomers are spread around town, from mysterious observations to the owners being serial killers, but most likely none of them are true…
The only thing we can say for sure is that the former owners had a heart for nature and didn’t want to live close to civilization.
We will take you today on an exhilarating tour through Switzerland and will take you on a tour of these 2 Wonderfull abandoned time capsules, get ready for an adventure of a lifetime…
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The house got abandoned around 2 decades ago. Edward used to live here together with his wife and children. For the first time ever we take you to the country of Switzerland, a country that is landlocked in the middle of Europe, countless stories reside within its borders, and over the next coming weeks, we are going to document a small fraction of them. We start off with the story of Mister Edward and his family, they started living inside this house just after the Second World War ended in Europe. Edward and his wife were madly in love and decided to raise a family and make countless memories inside the walls of the house. Life went by seemingly quickly, the children grew up, went to study, and move out, this left Edward and his wife alone again to enjoy their well-deserved retirement,
But unfortunately for Edward things turned south, his wife got sick and passed away early, this left him in deep grief and he had to live out the last years of his life on his own.
Today we will tell the story of Edward and take you on a tour throughout his Wonderfull mansion, get ready for an intriguing adventure.
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If you can dream it, you can do it!
That was the life motto of Mister Stalon Ferrari, the former owner of a wonderful 19th-century mansion, that is nestled straight in the middle of a picturesque Italian Mountain Town. Stalon was a descendant of the Italian Ferrari family, he even had rather close roots to the world-famous founder of Ferrari, Enzo Ferrari. He was a true jack of all trades, Stalon Graduated as an Accountant and worked in the field for many years, but after some time his father was stepping down as mayor and Stalon decided to jump on the opportunity and run for Mayor, and surprisingly enough he won the elections. After being mayor for many years, Mister Stalon wanted to change his career again, he went back to school and became a dentist. He finally found his lifelong passion and practiced it until the day he left planet earth. Mister Stalon didn’t live alone in his grand mansion, he also had a loving wife who took care of the many children they had together. In the year 1987, in the early morning mister Stalon passed away, he lived until the beautiful age of 90 years old. This seems to be also the time when the Mansion got abandoned, what happened to his wife and why the children don’t claim the house is a mystery that we will try to solve throughout this documentary.
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This prominent performance house has been a place of greatness since its inception in the latter part of the 19th century, the theater is located in a fairly small town in the northern part of the country. Considering the size of the town, and its remoteness, it still had some great impact on the surrounding area and numerous famous musicians and orchestras performed here over its lifetime, one of the most influential and famous ones was Giacomo Puccini. The Art Nouveau building acted as a centerpiece of the town, it was an impressive masterpiece in its hay-day plastered in Gold moldings, crafted artworks, and beautiful upholstery. But sadly its importance dwindled over the years, bigger theaters in more populous cities took over its role, and after having changed hand’s between multiple owners it was bought again by the townships who made plans for a renovation in the early 1970s. These plans were completely drafted, but sadly, the execution of these plans never came to fruition. 50 years have passed, the building is slowly withering with time and pieces are falling apart, the plans for renovation were scrapped a long time ago and are probably locked away in some governmental archive…
Today we will take you inside this once marvelous place and give you a glimpse behind its closed-off walls.
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Siblings-the definition that comprises love, strife, competition, and forever friends.
Today we tell the story of Carlo and Maria, brother and sister, who grew up in a remote village in the Alpine Mountains of Italy. They were best friends from the day they were born and decided to spend their whole life together. When their parents passed away they split the family home into 2, Carlo lived on the right side and Maria on the left. They both got married, had children, and lived happy and long lives in their remote Alpine mountain houses. From the day they were born they made countless memories inside these walls. But unfortunately, great things don’t last forever, after both their children moved out in search of better opportunities, Carlo and Maria lived out their last years. Both of them rose to heaven around a decade ago and their forever loving houses are left to crumble and decay.
Today we will give you a glimpse of their former lives and take you on a tour through their magical kingdom.
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Today we will explore a derelict castle that found its origins in the 17th century, a time when France was still ruled by kings and queens, that said this used to be a residence of the former king of France. He used it as a holiday home until the township got furious at him and invaded his place, after which he never returned to this imminent beauty. Decades went by without anyone stepping foot inside, this was until the Family La Roch decided to secure the place and save it from its forthcoming death, the castle had survived its first abandonment. The family lived here for centuries and left their fingerprints all over the place, countless precious antiques and artifacts, endless memories, and history to write books about being left behind. The last resident was the entitled Madeleine, she passed away around the year 1990 and there was no one left after her to protect this beauty from its second round of abandonment, the castle has deteriorated fast and is most likely not savable anymore, let us go inside and show you the remains of what used to be a place of greatness…
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Our modern world seems to be constantly on the move, but there are some places where time has permanently stopped and nobody seems to care about them anymore. This happened to the former house of the family Meus, after the last inhabitant Miss Susan passed away, there was nobody left to take care of the property and the time stopped forever. For the better part of 2 decades, Susan lived in this wonderful grand house all on her own. But there is something strange about this place, the lights still shimmer on the belongings that are left behind, in other words, the power is still working, this makes questions arise, who is still paying for it and why? Before it got abandoned this house used to be the home of a Luxembourgish family, they were the owners of a rather large convenience store in the center of town.
They even accommodated a deprived worker of the store to live in a special apartment inside their house. The family was well respected for it and received a lot of love from the citizens of the town.
Today we will try to answer the strange questions that arise around this home and solve its mystery.
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In this documentary we are going on a journey to much simpler times, we will give you a glimpse inside a traditional 19th-century farm house in the countryside of Spain. The house is located in the North of the country on a remote and secluded piece of land completely surrounded by endless wine fields. The owners built this house themselves at the beginning of the 1800s and lived here together with the entire family, they used to work on the wine fields that belonged to the noble Spanish counts, and all year round they would produce grapes for a nearly livable wage. Since the 2000s nobody has lived in the house anymore, but there are clear signs that somebody still came there until a few years ago. Nowadays the house lies abandoned and forgotten and it acts as a portal that is going to take us back to a former time period…
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Mister Joan Francois and Misses Madeleine, both born in 1918, they were best friends for their entire childhood and they fell in love during college, they where seemingly made for each other. After college, Joan Francois and Madeleine decided to get married and make their love eternal, as a wedding present Madeleine her parents gave them the wonderful manor we see today, only a couple of months after moving in Misses Madeleine was Pregnant from their first child. But unfortunately world war 2 was just around the corner and Jean Francois was at the right age to fight for the country, … With all pride, he fought for his country but sadly he passed away during one of the brutal battles. Misses Madeleine became a widow and lived in Greave for decades, she also had to take care of their child on her own, later on, in life, she met her second lover Maurice and she spend the remainder of her life with him. They continued living in the wonderful mansion she got as a present from her parents and even decided to get a child together at a later age. She ended up being the last one surviving and passed away at the beautiful age of 95 years old.
Their memories live on forever in their abandoned house, today we will take a peek inside and document their forgotten lives…
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Fire is power, full of rage that brings chaos and destruction.
Around 4 decades ago, on a peaceful morning in the meadows of the French countryside, disaster struck, a small electrical heater caught fire and one of the outer wings of this mesmerizing castle went up in flames. For the last inhabitant mister Roger, this was pure devastation. At the time of the fire, mister Roger was already 70 years and lived alone in the castle, he planned to live out the last years of his life in this beloved place but Mother Nature thought differently about it. The castle was severely damaged and there was not enough money left for him to attempt a restoration. Mister Roger moved to a nursing home where he lived out his life until he passed away in the year 2004 at the age of 94. The Castle was passed on to his children, but there is no money to restore the castle.
This 19th Century beauty will now rest forever and is eagerly waiting for us to explore its mysteries, are you ready?…
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Mister Jean-Louise…
A descendant from the Depont family that have been living in this picturesque French town since the beginning of the 16th century. The family Depont still resides in the town but Jean-Louis passed away around a decade ago, however, nobody seems to care about the belonging and memories that he left behind. Many people around town speculate that it is due to the chocking and dark display of taxidermy animals that can be seen throughout the house. Mister Jean-Louis started becoming obsessed with hunting after his wife passed away, and his children moved out, he was a very secluded person and could mostly be found inside his home or in the nearby Forrest. His house is a reflection of him and tells a much deeper story than we would have ever expected when we first walked inside.
Let’s go through what remains and let’s put the pieces of the puzzle back together.
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Somewhere between the endless vineyard in the southern French countryside rests a peculiar property that has been abandoned for a quarter of a century. The family Moulin started living here before Napoleon even ruled the kingdom of France, over the years they build a successful business in grape cultivation and wine production. And the start of a beautiful story of Misses Annelies and Mister Michel end up to the birth of their daughter Caroline. Caroline was not a normal child, at first everything seemed normal but when she got to the age of puberty a change started to happen, out of the blue she went on a path of Self-neglect. She stopped grooming herself, didn’t brush her teeth anymore, and developed an alcohol addiction and her life went in a complete downward spiral. Rumors also have it that she would yell out of her window at passers-by and even threw books at them. Her parents tried everything in their power to heal their daughter but didn’t succeed in their quest. On a particular night, when she just turned 24 years old, she passed away in her sleep from alcohol poisoning. After these terrifying events happened, the parents packed their bags and never went back again to this house…
Let us roam through its content in search for answers to this bizarre story.
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Aime lived a very secluded life, a very contemplated life, and a very meditative one. This was his ideal life. In the year 1958 Mister Aime Gerblo divorced his former wife and wanted a new life. He decided that he wanted to live far away from civilization. He set out on a quest and build a tiny house on top of a mountain on the outskirts of a small picturesque French town. Mister Aime Gerblo lived here alone for over 5 decades, but he didn’t mind, he was happy with the way his life was and he enjoyed the time by himself a lot. He filled his days with creative work, he loved to paint, read and write. His life consisted of simplicity and self-sufficiency. After his passing in the year 2012, the house got abandoned for some time, it was too secluded for most people, but by surprise, after more than a year of abandonment, an Arabian Family bought it in the year 2014 and transformed it into their vacation home. There influence is to be seen all over the inside and outside of the house, But it didn’t last for long because only a year later they abandoned it already and never came back to this place. Perhaps the house will find a new lover, but most likely it will rest forever and commit to it’s marriage with Mother Nature.
Let’s explore this wonderful place today and relive the lives of the former occupants.
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Life is a constant battle to create order in a world of disorder, humans are continually at war with every might force we call Mother Nature. The manor we are going to explore today has lost this battle after its caretakers lost their interest and rose to heaven. Once inhabited by a wealthy French family, consisting of a loving couple with 3 children, the place has been in the family for over 2 centuries and has been transferred from father to son. The family had their roots deeply strangled in the politics of the local Municipality. Their influence was felt throughout the region and many stories circulated around the town that the family was involved in corruption and bribery. Stories are just stories until they are proven, today I will take you inside of their abandoned Mansion and we will try to uncover the events that led up to its abandonment.
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Today's exploration tells the story of the French family Albin, a traditional agricultural family who lived, loved, and laughed on the ground around the property which they build themselves around two centuries ago. The last inhabitants of this property were the loving couple Renee and Yvette, and unlike their forefathers who raised very big families, they had only one child. His name was Silvia and he meant the world to them! After a long and happy life Renee passed away in the year 2003 and he was unfortunately followed only a few years later by his son Silvia. Naturally, Yvette was devastated, but after a period of grief, she realized that life was short and spent her last years gathering experiences and traveling the world. After Yvette left earth for good, nobody was left to take over the farm and this once loved place got desolate and abandoned. Together we will relive their story and bring it into infinity.
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In 1960, the freshly married couple Maurice and Janette bought a charming dwelling in a picturesque French town. For them it was not just a house, this was their home, where their memories were shared, love was made, and happiness was created. This was the place where their son Juul was born, Juul was unlike other children, he was born with a mental illness, but his loving and determined parents brought him up in the most normal way, and give him all the love they got. Unfortunately for Juul when his parents passed away he was not able to care for himself and was placed in a mental asylum, he still owns the house to this day but is unable to care for it. Today we will explore their legacy and uncover the story of their lost home.
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An abandoned building is not a forgotten building, it just hasn’t found its new lover yet. This was once the residence of an 18th century noble and his beloved family. He was a general who was active in the French revolutionary wars and defended the country with great pride. Even after he had passed, his descendants continued to live and laugh within the walls of the castle. Inside these walls, many clues and artifacts tell the events that took place here. The number of historic artifacts that have been left behind over the centuries is unfathomable. Every single room and corner in this place holds precious memories from the former times. It has now been a long time since there was activity in this wonderful place. The descendants of the French general have moved on and relocated to the bigger cities in search of work, leaving the castle behind to slowly wither away. When you walk through this place you get the feeling of being time-warped into the past. Walking through the rooms of the castle gives you the feeling of being time-warped into the past. Even though it is empty of life the walls still tell tales of the people that once lived here. If the walls in this place could talk they would tell tails of the former occupation.
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This story will tell the tale of a very humble and kind Belgian man who lived the last year of his life in desperate loneliness until he passed away in 2006. After Ettiene passed nobody seemed to care anymore about the memories and items he left behind, everything in the house has remained the same from the day he passed. It is clear that he suffered from a severe medical condition at the end of his life and clearly, nobody was there anymore to help him out. Today we will tell his story and show you his wonderful house for one last time. Let peace be with you Ettiene
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Life is a strange correlation of events, the one time you are born and before you know it you grew old and it has all passed right before your eyes. During this period we make create a lot of memories that we share with our loved ones, most of these memories are made in a place we call home. This was no different for the Belgian family Steenackers, a family of four who loved, lived, and laughed in their wonderful historical home. But life is not endless and in the year 2004 mister Jan Steenackers passed away as the last inhabitant of the household, this turned the once-loved family home into a desolate time-capsule. The children that once lived here seem to have no interest in collecting the memories that were made here, they left everything behind from the moment Jan passed away.
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Great discoveries happen once in a while, our favorite thing to do while exploring is to search on Google Maps for abandoned places, and this time we got lucky and found another gem in the countryside of France. Not much is known about the abandonment of this grand estate and the disappearance of the Family Grie that lived inside it. Around 5 years ago they left their immaculate family home behind with everything still in there. Nature is slowly taking over the surrounding area around the mansion, and it has a very dystopian and mysterious feeling when you walk around its grounds. I am eager to discover the history behind this place and I am going to take you today with me on this fascinating adventure, are you ready?
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Around 2 centuries ago, the Italian Caleiro family started living and doing business in this area of the country. In the beginning, they were a simple farming family, eking out their existence on the land. This, however, changed over the years. As they ventured into other sectors of the farming business, their influence in the area grew, as did their wealth. In the year 1880, they decided to demolish their old small family home and build the grand estate we see today on the grounds with their own private church attached to it. They lived here in peace for over a century. The family was well-known around the area and, even though they remained farmers, they rubbed shoulders with the upperclassmen of the local society. But everything changed in 2015. By then, there were already only a few members of the family left behind, but for no apparent reason, the Caleiro mansion was completely abandoned. Nobody knows what happened to the family or why they left their grand estate behind. Today we are going to explore this mystery, relive the story of the Italian Caleiro family, and venture inside their forgotten mansion.
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Today we will take you again on a very special exploration, this exploration will lead us into the heart of one of the most historical countries on the Planet, France! France is renowned for its castles, there are approximately over 50.000 castles in the country and over the many centuries lot of them also got abandoned. The focus of this documentary will be one of the most historical abandoned castles out there. It has been built at the beginning of the 18th century for a noble French family. They had their roots deeply buried in the politics and trade of the local region. Over time the family tinned out until only one person was left this was Laurent Robert II. He had no interest in politics or trade but rather spent his time writing and making numerous books inside of the historic walls. Many of his once written novels are left behind, and we even managed to find some of his transcripts. Around 2 decades ago he passed away and there was nobody left that was willing to take over this place and breed new life into it. Today we will document the abandoned structure and breed new life into this dormant castle.
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In the picturesque rolling mountains along the French countryside, we found an abandoned hotel that has been left behind for almost three decades. Everything inside remains frozen in time, just like the last day customers came strolling through its doors and enjoyed the everlasting beauty and comfort it had to offer. When we came inside we were stunned by what was left behind, it seemed almost too unrealistic, this was by far the best-abandoned hotel we had even discovered. If the walls of this place could speak they would tell stories of adventurous mountaineers and wealthy city dwellers who came here for engulfment in comfort and luxury. The hotel opened in the year 1956, it was a dream come true for a wealthy French businessman, he had planned this project for years and this was his life's work. Over the next 4 decades, he ran this place like a charm and it was a well-regarded hotel and an iconic landmark and destination for the local town. But around 4 decades later everything came crashing down when he got involved in a scandal, this was around the year 1994, his dream got shattered and the place got sealed up forever. Today we will venture inside and show you what remains of this forgotten place.
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This particular castle has been sold to a new owner who is currently renovating the premises. If you by any chance know the location of the castle please don't try to enter it because this is punishable under French law with a fine of 15000 Euro and or one year of imprisonment. The castle is NOT abandoned anymore!
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Documenting historic abandoned treasures is not for the faint of heart, reaching this particular place took us on a journey through a dense forest in the south of France, a journey of multiple hours through difficult to navigate terrain, this combined with no way of telling in which part of the forest we found ourselves made it a very challenging endeavor.
Eventually, we made our way out of the forest and we were rewarded with the first glips of lost beauty, a fairytale-like castle build for a rich French family just post World War One.
The family had a long-lasting history in the noble sport of Horse racing and build this place in dedication to the sport. Many prestigious horse racing events have take place on the ground of the castle in the last century, but every great story has its ending, the family got into financial trouble and had to sell the castle. When the castle got sold it got a new life and was transformed into a reputable hotel.
This was however until the year 2003 when for no apparent reason everything got left behind and nobody seemed to care about this historic beauty anymore.
Now almost 2 decades later the castle still remains in its desolated state and is slowly withering away.
Our journey today will take us inside the walls of this once magical place and we will show you it’s forgotten remains.
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The name that goes around for this household is the immigrant family, but they have actually been in Portugal for a long time. around 1920 they moved to Portugal to pursue a better life and became wine farmers. Over almost a century they produced local Portuguese wine and had a flourishing lifestyle in the countryside of Portugal. But in 1997 business started to decline and they had no other option than to move back to their home country France and pursue something else in life. Ever since that time, their house in Portugal has been abandoned and nobody seems to care about the lost memories they are still inside.
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StressLess Discoteca, once a flourishing nightclub on the coast of Portugal, well known for its lavish foam parties, people from all over the country came to this place for a night of music and joy. The club opened in the year 1993 when Portugal experienced a nightclub boom, around this place many more nightclubs opened their doors for young party-goers. But most of them closed only a short while later when the hype was over. Unlike the others, Stressless Discoteca was really stressless and they managed to stay open until the year 2014, this was mostly contributed to their unique concept, own music production, and conservative management. But unfortunately also for them, the time had come to shut their doors. Now 7 years later, everything of their heyday is still left behind, brace yourself because this is going to be a unique exploration, we are going to take you inside and show you what is left behind.
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