Exploring an Abandoned War Veteran's 1940's Home filled with antiques and belongings
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- čas přidán 30. 10. 2022
- A house dating back to the 1940s is found in a now overgrown farmland. Inside the home you can find televisions from the 40s and some clues of an old family that lived here prior. Remnants of a war veteran and many years of family pictures scatter the home. A reminder that our existence is temporary and in this case, a family has been forgotten. Eventually we find an enormous collection of vintage postcards that were my favorite find of this vintage home.
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Abandoned photographs are probably the saddest representation of someone's past. I work at a recycling centre and am constantly surprised at the number of random photographs I see coming through among the items to be sorted. Photographs that have simply been tossed out for whatever reason.
I tossed out boxes of photos after I had them digitized and copied to dvds.
@@chrisstuart6651 That was dumb. What if you computer software messed up? I would of kept the old photos.
@@jaysmith179 Redundant backups.
@@jaysmith179 I prefer to do both, but I never throw photos away. That's ridiculous. Looking through Photo albums is a treasure. Lost all my grandparents last one in 2000 and lost my father over 2 years ago. Wouldn't be the same just photos on PC. The photo albums go back many many years. And the decor on them is priceless 🙂 Memory Lane throughout 🤣
I lost all my youth photographs in a basement flood. None are left.
so sad to see someone's life just left behind, abandoned, and forgotten like that
its not forgotten. we’re literally looking at it
This is sad. The veteran had a beautiful house. Love the vintage stuff. The house could be saved & reused. Great explore. ❤🏠🏚😊👍
a life's story being told and not lost , but still sad to see and this video will make it not forgotten
Sad our country cares more about illegals and trans folks then our veterans
Watching this video hit me a different way today. All of those family photos rotting away and thrown around like trash.
I lost all of my family photos and memorabilia (I’m 30) due to an ex boyfriend who threw them all in the trash while I was away. I don’t have much of anything to look back on when growing up. And those photos and items once meant so much to someone.
I love your videos and thank you for keeping these places alive. ❤️🙏🏻
That is a sickening thing for someone to do to another person. Idc how mad you are, you don't throw away someone's life memories like that!
I agree. I had a roommate that did that to me when I was out of town she didn't pay her half of rent and when I returned everything was thrown out gone I literally lost everything. Veterans are sad. My family is full of Veterans. So this hits me differently. I luv ya videos and how ya respect the people. Passed or not. ❤ I used to explore but my hips won't let me no more its so lovely to watch someone else do it, and capture it the way you would Thank you! 😊
How many family photos there are in this house. It's sad. In all these abandoned houses, I will never understand how the family does not come to get the photos, at least. All deceased owners can't be horrible assholes despised by the survivors, no ??! Photos are the most precious memories of all...
I agree, pictures are priceless, they capture an irreplaceable moment of time & loved ones from long ago. **Peace**
These houses just break my heart. They obviously had younger family members who could've at least come in and removed items of centimental value. And the antiques alone. Houses around me like that I do a county property search to see if it was deeded to someone else. Most times they are and family does nothing at all. So terribly sad.
My thoughts too. Why would you not, at the bare minimum, retrieve the family mementos? Those family portraits just abandoned like that really breaks my heart.
Maybe he wasn't nice to them. Maybe they have no means to come get them. We just never know the whole real story.
@@monamcnatt2860 You are right. We don't have the whole story. We can only speculate. It's still sad.
Yeah you never know the whole story as to why the family did not come.
Hell - my parents passed in 2020 and 2021 only 4 months apart and had no life insurance or burial policies.
A lot goes on behind the scenes in each of our lives.
@@Adrian-zd4cs I'm sorry for your loss
People today have virtually zero interest in preserving anything! Houses are no longer passed down generations, no one wants “grandma’s china,” no time to sit and actually go through family photos, no interest in family history. It breaks my heart--I’m getting up there and my child (now in his 40’s) doesn’t want anything! When gone, it will likely all be junked. I even have photos of my great grandparents, the day after their wedding, sitting on the seat of a covered wagon ready to leave Nebraska and journey to Oregon first and, after passing a winter, they continued to as far as one can go to the NW! I even have her handwritten account of the journey!
So sad to see everything slowly rotting away!
Thank you for recording it, my friend! Stay safe and be well.
To be abandoned and thrown away is the inevitable fate of everyone. Haunting and bittersweet. There's nothing more important than right now.
The postcards you’re looking at is what’s called First Day Covers . It usually when a new postage stamp is released and the enevelope has the topic based on the stamp and usually the postmark is at the place of the topic of the stamp.
Often times they can be quite valuable to collectors. Obviously, whomever ransacked the place didn't realise what they were looking at.
YOUR VERY RIGHT , WORTH SOME MONEY , SPACE CARDS AND ABE LINCON...THANKS...
Two points that may help this already terrific video. The Dumont people made TV's from 1942 until 1956. In the 40's the screens were tiny and the cabinets huge. The TV in this house has a larger screen, so it is definitely 50's. Judging by the calendar in the kitchen, people left sometime in January 2014. Since the calendar is also has a mark in January 8th, that's why the Christmas tree was not put away yet.......THANK YOU for this video, it is obvious you put a lot of work into it !
If you look it up they actually had TVs in the 20's.
The Japanese have a term for the indescribable feeling of nostalgia tinged with a lonely mystery that overcomes us when we are reminded that our existence is temporary in an imperfect world. They call it "wabi sabi". It holds great beauty for the soul.
The forest just outside this house sure wants to move in. ASAP
As always you guys did a wonderful job exploring this place. Thank you.
Thanks for their service 🪖🇺🇸
How sad ones belongings so trashed and a reminder that you cannot take anything with you when it is your time.
@AmericaIsWorthIt
Unless there’s a place prepared in heaven. That’s an everlasting treasure.
I used to be an urban explorer myself and I would often ask myself all the time how people could leave behind their elderly relative's belongings/home. But my family is now going through this ourselves. Last June we lost my grandma, our matriarch, who was 95. Her parents bought a house when she was 9 years old. And then she lived there, for the rest of her life. They left it to her after they passed away, and my mom and all her siblings grew up there. Grandma passed away there at the age of 95. Because she had 4 kids, she didn't leave the house in a trust, and instead chose to leave it as an estate situation. The way the estate process works after an elderly homeowner passes away is so tedious, with a lot of government red tape. I had absolutely no idea that there is so much official business that goes into closing an estate. My aunt had just a few weeks to clean everything out that she wanted to keep for the family before the estate lawyers took over the property. Sometimes estate situations fall through, and the house sits abandoned when it isn't decided what to do with the property. And if too much is wrong with it, and it can't be fixed, then it never goes up for sale and it sits abandoned. My aunt has had to pay a lot of money out of her own pocket to fix up Grandma's house because it's in such old, outdated condition that it didn't pass home inspection. Just to save it from becoming an abandoned house, she has chosen to fix up the property so the estate managers can put it up for sale. It's not up for sale yet becuase it's still getting repaired. I wish I could buy the house but I would have to pay full price for it because Grandma didn't leave it in a trust. Not even anyone in the family is allowed to buy the house and now that the time limit to clean out her house is up, the estate managers have told the family that we literally are not allowed to take anything else out of the house.
So, that's just one explanation for why everything was left behind. Another common reason is because the family couldn't agree on what to do with it so a civil court had to step in and decide for them. And usually that decision ends up being to sell the house and divide the money. But if the house never gets sold, because it's in bad shape or whatever, the family just chooses to walk.
That blue case is a suitcase very common in the 1960s.
That was extremely sad. All those photos (reminds me of me-I have around 30 albums plus everything on my phone) My bachelor uncle was a WW2 vet & when he passed, we cleaned out his house & found countless amazing things from all over the world. We all took what we wanted & sold his home. Everything else was given to Good Will. Those postcards & stamps were really a great find. I would have read them all. All the celebrations of America. I can just imagine the stamps are also worth something. Such a shame. May he RIP.
As i was listening to your most eloquent opening introductory speech, at the beginning of this video, i remember hearing you saying, that this house was built, somewhere around the 1960s. Personally, i believe that this house is probably way much more older than that. In fact, just by looking at the interior, as well as the fixtures, this house was probably built around the early 1930s instead, but that's just a wild guess. Lol! Anyhow! Thank! you so much, for this wonderful presentation, on the CZcams channel. Johnny, Montreal, Canada.
it's obvious that many trespassers have come in and out that place and trashed it, that's why those pictures were scattered and even an axe was placed. It's sad it's now all waste it was once a family home.
I love this one, the flag on the bed is rememberance of Military funeral.
Sad our country cares more about illegals and trans folks then our veterans
Beautiful video, so respectful and you clearly know your history and old stuff. Well done! 😀💪🏻
Thank you very much!
I know the urbex ethos is 'leave everything where you found it', and although that's respectful to the former owners of the house, if you find neat collector's items it seems a shame to just let them rot in a decaying house.
that duMont tv could easily be worth a couple hundred or more, it looks good
Those post cards too.. so new
I don't understand why their loved ones would just leave everything there. So sad.
Keep in mind that children can move away. They might have passed themselves or live on different continents. This house appeared abandoned in the 1970’s already. That’s 50 years ago. Kids born in the 1950’s are 70 today. Time flies.
@@westerlywinds5684 The house was abandoned in 2014 as stated on the calendar, not the 70's. And as for the stuff being left there, it's called a lazy fvcking generation of invalids who have no respect for even there own belongings. We live in a lazy, if it's not my computer, cellphone, laptop, tablet ETC than I don't want nothing to do with it generation. It's sad and pathetic.
@@westerlywinds5684 it was last lived in 2014, not the 70s. Pay attention
Thank you for saying "if you like the video leave a thumbs up" instead of being like some channels who say at the beginning "be sure to leave a thumbs up" that part always annoys me. It should be how you just said it IF you like the video. That earns a like from me.
As someone from outside the US, it beggars belief that this person's life was just left to moulder away like this and the house left to collapse in on itself. In my country, if there was no family etc, the local council would send in a team to empty out the house, dispose of anything valuable and then sell the house. If there was a family, it would be their duty by law to clean it up and properly dispose of the house or face a fine.
in America, we forget yesterday's people and things.......... left to waste unfortunately and we leave the elderly to abandoned for most..... it's very very sad........
So sad the families don’t save things. Oh well. Great explore!! 🥰🥰🥰
Maybe there’s just no one left to save them?
@@GasPipeJimmy I seen lots of younger kids in the photos. Where are they now?
@@jaysmith179
They probably are 70 themselves by now. If they were born around 1950.
Great find! So sad that the family didn't take those postcards. What a find! 😢
i'm impressed of this guys going to these abandoned houses in shorts, without respiratory protection, exposing themselves to Mold and asbestos, i saw many comments of people begging this guys to wear protection but it seems that visits and suscribers are more important than health........no hate at all i really enjoy these kind of videos and appreciate the respect for the items found in these houses, just take the advice and protect yourselves for the sake of your health.
people expose themselves to mold and asbestos everyday and they are perfectly fine, everyone acts like its so deadly but when people live with it without knowing its different. It's not as bad as it seems and he isnt there for that long so it cant have any affects on his health or his lungs
So much history in this house .. god bless the people that lived there ❤❤ We will always be history one day !!!😢😢
From the content itself to the narration and incidental music, you've built a brilliant channel.
Those zipper sounds, sound like your friend Chris is loading up his backpack.
And those postcards have a great collection of stamps on them.
Exactly - hope he doesn't steal while exploring....
Remember when Dev got attacked by bees at the abandoned racetrack…then jumped right back into the explore like nothing happened. This is why we love Dev and Urbex 😊
What an amazing place, and so sad to see all these memories left behind. I thought it was cool that downstairs beside a framed photo of a little girl with glasses, was the exact pair of glasses she was wearing. Makes you wonder what the story is behind that. Thank you for sharing this exploration!
I love these videos of explorations of old abandoned homes. What caught my eye was in the beginning of the video and at about 6:15. There were those old yearbooks and encyclopedias. Those were very nostalgic. They are Funk and Wagnalls encyclopedias. When I was growing up, my parents had a set of those. They were very useful for gathering information back in the day.
very expensive too
It looks as if they had children due to the large photo collection. It’s possible however that ether they were estranged from their kids and as such no one wanted to return for anything left in the estate. Or.. what’s the most likely scenario is that the parents when creating the will, had problems with how their will’s were ironed out when meeting with an executor and as such everything was tied up in some kind of litigation which legally prevented their children and their families from inheriting from the estate.
I love looking at these old homes and wondering what their lives were like. It's sad to see this happen right after the holidays and hopefully he spent his last Christmas with loved ones.
Old radio is great. Will never understand how families let this stuff rot. I’ve become the “family archivist” as my parents have passed - I have multiple bins of old family photographs going back to the 30s. I keep telling myself I’m going to scan them.
Do it, it's rare what you have, almost 100 years old
why bins? keep them somewhere special where they cant be damaged
Beautiful explore. I really love your openings and closings. Very atmospheric with great choice of music. It looks like it might have been a bit of a hoarding situation. Some other explorers were there first and staged some things like the living room and the upstairs bedroom. Why else would one have a nineteen fifties tv in a living room of a house abandoned in twenty fourteen? One correction though it’s Apollo Eleven. First manned space flight to the moon. I wish I could reach out and grab every one of those envelopes. What a waste. Sad that family never came by and took all those personal items but it made for a great explore.
A sad but great find. Thanks for sharing
I love watching your videos man. Way cool.
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sad so much was left behind, but great that you documented it.
Great explore! Sad to see everything left behind and the house left to rot. Happy Halloween 🎃
Thanks For The Video Man!!
With respect to the bed and the bed cover, the stains on it remind me of what happens when a body decomposes. I wonder if man died in his sleep and was discovered weeks/months later? Maybe, maybe not. Pretty sad to think about it.
Great video man thanks for sharing what a lovely place
A very nice find and a lot off nice things too see.
That's really a great place I ❤️ it! Thank you 😊
Another AMAZING video 😊
Great video. Thanks
Very interesting, thanks for showing!
It’s so sad seeing the photos 😢 these videos always transport me
This 14:40 is not about the postcards, it's about the stamps. First day of issue cards. Could be worth some money.
New subscriber, binge-watching your thoroughly intriguing videos.
Wow, talk about being frozen in time in that house. Great video!!
Just imagine the veterans family members watching this vedio and recall their past memories
Sadly, sometimes there is no one left to care for the family's pictures.
Would be neat to watch those Twighlight Zone DVD’s on the old DuMont tv!
That would be perfect, since the tv & 'Twilight Zone' were made in the same era. **Cue the Twilight Zone theme**
@@Mirriam02 I used to have a DuMont tv similar to the one shown. Watched the older version of The Thing on my tv from a laserdisc player-made the movie all the more creepy! Sadly the set got stolen-was in nice shape-found it on the side of a road-cleaned it up-worked perfect!
@@rexoliver7780 A laserdisc is the same concept as a DVD, the only difference is laserdiscs were 12 inch discs and of course DVD's are smaller. And of course VHS 📼 won out of all 3 choices which was betamax (smaller tapes), Laserdisc, and VHS. Everybody liked VHS the best out of those 3.
It’s a shame that a veteran that served our country probably fought in a war had to live like this. Our country doesn’t seem to care about it’s veterans much, even too this very day. They don’t get the respect and care they need. What a shame. I guess his family wasn’t any better. They don’t stop and think he fought for their freedom and rites which in todays times our very own government is trying to take away from all of us. People need to wake up before it’s too late. I guess his family just abandoned him and they are awful people for doing that.
Sad our country cares more about illegals and trans folks then our veterans.
Tv not from the 60s. It is a round screen tv. My Pawpaw had one more like 40s and early 50s. I like the Blue willow dishes 1940s era. I love watching these. I was born in 1960 so I recognize alot of stuff.
I'm a bit angry that whoever went through there after the owners passed didn't seem to give a flying crap about anything aside from rummaging through the place randomly looking for loot. I have seen this sort of thing happen before, where some rando is appointed executor of estate, and then they just trash through the house looking for money or jewels, then just ditch the rest. It happened to my best friend recently, his mom was not mentally well, and she was conned into making this one guy the executor and he and his corrupt lawyer fudged the will. When she passed away, this guy drained the bank account, and went into the house and trashed it, broke walls etc because for some reason he thought there was $100K hidden somewhere in the house. He didn't give a care about all the sentimental stuff left behind, and legally, my friend and his step-siblings couldn't do much about it. Not sure if this is the case for the house in this video, but it just seems odd.
Oh that's horrible! We had something similar in my family happen when my great aunt died several years ago. She died 1st, then her husband, but they didn't share any children together. My cousin was able to go in and get photos, her mom's China, sewing machine, you know her centimental stuff. But after my uncle died after my aunt the house went to his son. I drove down about 2 years ago and the house is crumbling. I was able to get some of my aunt's porch decor, bird feeders, welcome signs she had painted, stuff like that. I spent a lot of time there when I was little. Broke my heart seeing it like that. 🤪
The canon monitor is most likely an amber screen or hercules style monitor. Has a cga or monochrome style connector. It was used with word processor typewriters from the 1980s and 1990s. They even had a 1.44" floppy drive in the units. The monitors could be used on a pc as well but thats where that monitor came from. The word processor is most likely that typewriter thingie when you first saw the monitor on the table.
Those "letters" you saw are first day issuance postal stamps. They used to give them away if you went on the first issue day of a certain series of stamps.
Some one should call Goodwill. So much of this stuff could be saved.
This was a happy family in a happy home. I took photo copies of all my family pics with my phone so, maybe they did that too.
Thanks awesome video
Looking at the encyclopedias took me back when our mother had purchased for us to find out information we needed find ( no GOOGLE). Once again locking a someone's personal history. Appreciate your work.
Happy Halloween 🎃 ps I loved seeing all the stuff left behind st the house
ITS SAD THAT PEOPLE GOING THROUGH THIS HOME WILL STEAL THINGS,THINKING ITS OK. TOO BAD THERE ISNT FAMILY THAT CAN KEEP THE MEMORIES OF THIS VETERAN ALIVE
REMEMBER HE SERVED FOR U,SO SERVE HIM W.RESPECT
TRY TO FIND SOME OF HIS RELATIONS. GOD BLESS
Very poignant and sad. Thanks for posting
That radio so cool ! i never seen that one in Google search ! wow 😱
I know you never take anything but I really wish you would save that stamp collection
You missed a TI-99 computer in the Master bedroom. A whole lot of Videos from the 80s and 90s as the Twilight Zone series was transferred to DVD format in the 90s. I hope someone salvages some of those items, as they are collectables!
I just found your page and it is so interesting to see but makes me sad that no one took this stuff of memories in the family. What happens to all the stuff left behind in these houses? I am 69 and hope that when I pass that my stuff is not just left like trash.
Someone should try to contact the family and see where they are today to get the things that are good like the pictures and what else is good out
What a sad little home :o( And all of those old photos left behind. i don't understand why family members wouldn't pick them up but who knows what the story is behind this place. Very sad to see it but a great explore. Thanks and looking forward to the next one.
Props to the old school Jazz hat!!
Another sad house left behind for mother nature to take over all that old stuff that no one wants antiques Museum pieces and those postcards amazing fine I just don't understand why people collect stuff like those postcards and just leave them behind I guess to some people their Collections and the people have passed and to other people that are left to take care of all of it thinks nothing of it once again it's just so sad I seen a lot of videos with abandoned houses is so sad that there's a lot of homeless people that could use those homes thank you for bringing this video to us love from upstate New York
Great presentation. Surprised to what I saw no vandalism. Id have no problem since yr a nice respectful gentleman to take whatever u wanted. Eventually it'll just waste away. Final thought, very very sad!
So sad about the pictures they should be collected for future information on the family . I wonder if their is a place to take them.
This is just sad to see that maybe there was no one left to cherish the memories. So frickin sad😢
This is so sad! Someone’s whole life and legacy left to rot!
People put bars of soap in drawers sometimes because it makes it smell nice :)
Those are first day of issue stamped envelopes. Back when people collected stamps. They are worth some $. But, younger generations don't seem to care about anything old.
I always wonder these homes full of memories. What happened that they are just left discarded like this? That not a single family member came back it's so baffling!
12:14 Excellent taste in movies. Still the best one in the franchise. I highly recommend it! 🖖😎👍
Hahah that fridge moment had me smiling😊 its Can smell so bad! Nice content, greetings from Denmark💀
The Dumont Television company was in operation from 1938-1955. Mr. Dumont owned one TV station but had to sell it.
Nice video
what surprised me the most is all the stuff left like how come none of the family members took anything like the appliance could have been donated the books could have been given to a book store the pictures and memorabilia could have been saved
Those "post cards" are first day issue of stamps that commemorate something. First day issues are collector items and especially from that long ago. Some have already been bitten by an animal. They should not be left there but donated to a philately museum.
This postcard shouldn't be separated they should absolutely be in a museum. I really hope that someone reaches out to you to try and make that happen. It's such a waste to have them sit there! Ugh 😫 sucks!
From the photos, the couple had both been in the military. The bedroom with the US flag on the bed was the widow's room; sewing machine , crutches, other 'womanly' items, so maybe she was honouring her and her late husband's lives in the services - ?
Sad our country cares more about illegals and trans folks then our veterans
Magnificent.
What about that axe wedged between a family photo album 😬?
Those dead plants on top of the TV have been watered recently. The mason jar 1/5th full green water.
Above the TV there was a hole that water comes in from. Probably just run off
wonder why the house was never sold? even if it goes unclaimed, once property taxes are due, the county would sell it before it got in that condition
A site directed by Google lens says "circa 1932" on the exact same radio. 13:33
Remember Google lens if you don't know what it is but know it can also be wrong at times.
Thanks for the tour Devin!
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Sad it was all left such a shame
You need to go back and get those postcards. They have vintage stamps!!!
That would be stealing.
@@skidude8989 LOL So let the mice eat them or let them go in the land fill. I say take them and save them.
@@skidude8989 Not if it’s abandoned. It simply goes to the State. And that’s a shame.
That tv company went out of business in the 50s
Very nice video......did you save the postcards? thank you..........