Step into the enigmatic embrace of this ancient
French chateau, shrouded in mysteries that weave through the tapestries of time, tracing
its origins to the 15th or 16th century. Within its walls, valuable family history has
remained in its chambers. Delving into its rooms reveals the life of Mr. Alexis Bego,
who once presided over this grand edifice. At a mere age of 20 years old, Alexis
embarked on global odysseys in state service, braving the Crimean War and defying odds even
after losing both of his legs. His seafaring prowess earned him the title of sea captain
and accolades as Knight of the Legion of Honor. Remarkably, he graced this world for
104 years, until 1928, when he passed away. Upon his passing, his eleven
children inherited the chateau, yet evidence suggests it lay largely untouched,
preserving its vivid past. An ancient letter, dated 1821, predates Alexis's birth,
entwining deeper the castle's enigma. Throughout, vestiges of a German
connection linger, whether borne of familial ties or the scars of conflict.
Join us as we tread the halls of this historical haven, uncovering every
hidden tale and forgotten corner. (♫ Explomo Official Opener Title) When we filmed this place, we used new microphones
for the first time using the wrong settings. Due to this, the audio turned out to be corrupted.
Given this place is now alarmed, it is impossible to revisit this place.
Yet, we still wanted to share this place with you. We provided the video with captions
to enhance the viewer’s experience. Our apologies for the inconvenience.
Today we have a beautiful place in France again to show you.
And first instance we think it actually belonged to a German family, right?
- Yeah, yeah, we can see many, many German artifacts here so definitely,
definitely belonged to Germans. And we are not alone we're also accompanied by our
friend Desmond from Dutch Urbex Explorations who's accompanying us today on this exploration.
So make sure to check his channel out too. And yeah before it's really dark today
let's explore this place right now. - Yeah.
We don't know a lot yet but we're going to find out more probably
after our exploration. Right now it's just time to explore and dig into the beautiful history inside
this abandoned manor. - Yeah, let's go, man. Let's go.
So we're gonna start this exploration in the main hallway where
the people once used to come inside every day. - Yep and as you can see there's
so much stuff left over here. It's like dumped all over the place.
All over the place from tools, to a walking cane, an umbrella, and
even a lot of clothes are on the ground. - Yep and over there’s a
Grundig radio, a very big one. Oh yeah.
- Damn. You know there is so much to point out.
A painting of a castle I’m wondering, it's probably nearby somewhere.
- All these tools Looks like they were working here and
eventually they just left it like this. - Yep.
Oh, what are those? Oh, those are all encyclopedias.
You can tell it's written in German, Enzyklopädie.
- So yeah definitely German relatives that used to live here.
And look on top of it, this kind of Gondola. - Damn.
Even still a bicycle over here right next to the front door.
- And what is this? It's a bicycle from Peugeot.
- Really? I never knew they made bicycles.
- Oh and this is a sun protector? This is sunscreen.
- Sunscreen, right? For in the garden.
- Oh but look. A mask over here.
Oh yeah. That's quite eerie.
- I can definitely tell that there used to be a family.
It’s from Michael Meyers, right? - Yeah from Michael Meyers.
I can tell there was a family living here once. So, actually, we're exploring a chateau right now
because there is also a tower and you can already see the architecture over here.
It's like a spiral. We're gonna explore the upstairs later.
I'm curious how that's gonna be. - Yeah.
For now, let's just explore the first floor because there is a
lot to see over here. An old ornament over here. - Well, there’s a lot to pan out, man.
But over here there’s just mainly, I to say, equipment, like—
Yeah. They’ve dumped a lot over here.
Again a lot of tools, in these drawers. - Yeah it’s just mainly tools, man.
So, it's quite hard to have an overview. Maybe there’s something in the cabinet over here. Or is it a closet?
Well, it’s actually a closet and there are some body warmers.
I think they were used for hunting. Oh yeah.
- With the green color. And over here’s a plate and it
says, thank you in French, merci. And it's dating from 1988.
You can also see all the mold over here already on the wallpaper.
- Yeah, loads of white mold. And look this is actually a hat from Quebec
in Canada, the French part of Canada. So we have a name over here.
- Binesteau, hmm… Binesteau, that doesn't sound quite German.
Hmm, yeah, I think he was a French-German. Okay, so, going from the main entrance
hall to the main living quarters. And over here comes the interesting part.
Wow. Look at this room.
- It's so beautiful. And for a small place like this, well—
Small? Yeah, it is a chateau.
If you see it from the outside, the exterior has towers and everything.
- Yeah, it does, it does. We have this record player.
The crystal glasses over here. All the crystalware is still inside.
- Look on top. Oh, yeah, on top we also have things from Austria.
And look at that person, an old lady indeed. And all the walls are actually wood.
Look at the woodwork, how intricate it is. But also, how mold is just
taking over, the white mold. All those tiny artifacts.
- All is just porcelain. What is this?
It's beautiful, this little plate. - I thought it was made from copper but—
What is written on the other side? - Alfonso Fusco Amalfi Decamanco.
Probably the man who made it. Look at this ashtray.
Vintage, cool. A small napkin, also German.
Yeah, there are so many German, like, signs over here, I would say.
And have a look at this massive fireplace, like, massive fireplace.
Wow. That is truly beautiful.
- It's unbelievable, right? It’s a massive one like you say.
What’s the emblem over there? Maybe even a family coat of arms.
- Look, look. Middle of the table we have another sign
of evidence that they were definitely Germans, a German flag. We also
have old portraits over here. Look at that.
Oh wow. The family definitely has a lot of history
in all those different family generations that went back. Probably this was a pretty
noble class family that once lived here. - Yeah, definitely.
Wow. So, what is this again?
Oh, this was actually, I believe a bed-warming pan because you see how long it is? So they put hot
coals inside of here in this pan or pot and they could actually put it right down under the bed.
- Have you seen this? Yeah, the emblem is the eagle, right?
From Germany. There’s chinaware over there.
- I really like this vase, the details. It’s pretty modern actually.
Yeah, some modern art. A sconce over here.
- Do you think this was the man that used to live here?
Maybe it was the great-grandfather of the family. What do we have on the desk over here?
It’s a VHS player. A little stamp over here.
- Yep. A card from a supermarket
Well, there are actually many cards over here. There's even a pipe.
- Oh yeah. I didn't even notice it because of the tape.
Why would they put tape on it? Well, then maybe first head
down to the kitchen I think? Yeah.
Let's first go to the kitchen because the kitchen is over here on the left-hand
side. It’s a very messy kitchen as you can tell. - And I think over here, we need
to be a little bit more quiet. Yeah, we were already very quiet, I think.
Just stealth mode. A lot of stuff.
Look at the things on top as well. - Yeah.
The jugs. "Le chausseur Francais".
That means "the hunter, the French hunter". - The French hunter, yeah.
"Die Schwarzwald Klinik". Everything in this kitchen is left and
I especially like the tiles over there. - Yeah.
They have a very German-ish style, don’t you think so?
Yeah well I find, I don't know if it's really German.
The woodwork makes me look like this is a German-style castle, you know?
- The tiles could also be very Dutch. Yeah, Dutch.
- Alright, well, pan through, man. It's a pretty narrow space.
Wow. Looking at the drawers, everything is left behind. Cutlery
Also, all the other kitchen amenities are still there.
All the pots right over here. And look over here, they would do spices and
everything inside. Look how moldy that is. It's actually couscous.
My gosh. Yeah, woodworm has definitely done
its job over here in this cabinet. There is also definitely food rotting
because there are a lot of flies over here inside. - Yeah, yeah.
And then from the living room, we continue our way to another part.
And it's beautiful because it’s been made with curtains and everything.
- Yep, well, pan through it first because it’s very beautiful.
Look at that. The lamp over there.
It’s matching the color of the curtains. Over here, this was definitely the liquor cabinet.
Look what's written over here. Der Botschafter der Bundesrepublik Deutschland.
They were very patriotic about their country. - Yeah.
That's one thing for sure. - They really loved their German relatives.
They're German origin, their roots. - A purse.
What is this thing over here? It's more interesting to me.
Part of a clock, I think, right? - Yeah.
Grow old along with me. The best is yet to be.
- It’s from a clock. I like this quote.
Grow old along with me. The best is yet to be.
- Yeah. Well, I honestly, think besides this beautiful
desk over here, we will go find something very interesting. Over here’s a newspaper from 1990.
- 1990. Damn.
Look over here, Mo. Oh, we have again, a picture of the man.
And look at that. Alexis Bego.
He was a captain, died on the 24th of July,
1928, on his 104th anniversary. Oh my gosh.
What is written over here? Well, this is a national
order of a medal of honor. And it's for Alexis.
And I think this person over here in the frame is Alexis, the
great-grandfather who has fought during a war. What war is it actually, 1928?
- Yeah, it's 1925. Maybe a civil war?
- Civil War or the First World War? Or the First World War.
- Could be, could be, man. I think it's the first world war.
Wow look at this fireplace as well, the stonework and everything.
We have some Portuguese "vino tinto" over here. - It’s beautiful, man.
Yeah. All the artwork inside this place and all the
items that are just left behind and no one seems to be looking after them.
- No absolutely not. Well, what's inside there?
- Well, I’m quite curious because it says, Recht u geld.
Over here it says, A.F. Radio’s Klinik. - I think it’s all their artifacts.
No those are X-rays. It's from radiology.
That’s why it’s saying radio’s clinic. I should give the light to you actually.
I think it's the spinal cord that we see together with the pelvis.
But the people cannot really see it right now. Look at that.
It's indeed the spinal cord with the pelvis. I'm not sure if I can see where the
problem is actually coming from but, no, not really. I believe over here
is the last room on this floor, right? - Yeah, this is the last room on this floor.
Oh by the way have you seen the clock over here? It's actually also open.
There are some things lying in it. It's a typical French clock, right?
- Yeah, it's true. But just a wooden ceiling,
that's German, German-ish. So, what's actually in this room?
- Yeah, I was already looking at it but, what is this?
I think they're used to lay something inside, some decoration or something. I don’t know.
- An axe over here A light
A very big light and it's pretty narrow over here so have a look, Mo.
Oh, this is like a storage room, yeah, a lot of books.
Look at this. We’ve got a camcorder, fresh in its package. What is this device over here?
- It's a TV player. So, you could really just
plug things in over here. So, like a portable TV or something?
- Yeah, yeah. Okay, a very little screen.
- Well, they were happy with anything back then, right?
Yeah, I bet, I bet. What's this, like a flag, right?
- That’s German. Oh, with the eagle indeed.
It comes back everywhere. - "Der Deutsche Adler",
As you can tell, this, everything’s written in German.
"Pierre". "Wagen".
- "Versandhäuser". "Michel".
"Cora", "Leica". It's also crazy to see how the nature
over there is just growing inside. - Yeah, yeah, yeah, this place is
definitely being taken over by nature. And well, some more German artifacts.
Well, Mo, honestly, I think it’s just storage over here, man.
Yeah. Then let's go to the next floor.
- Yep, let's go upstairs to the last floor. And then it's time to go to the
staircase and see where we can go. I believe we cannot only go upstairs
but we can also go downstairs. We have some stuff for cleaning over here.
Some boots are still here. Yeah, this is going to basement.
- Well, let’s head down. Flies are like everywhere.
Oh, there’s an entire workshop over here. Look at that.
Wow, so many tools. The person that lived here, the German family
definitely had a handyman in the family. - Oh, yeah.
They used to do everything by themselves. All the crafty work and jobs
Look how many tools there are. All just completely rusty but
they were pretty organized. Everything over there in those compartments.
- It's quite narrow, actually. Oh, look there is even still a washer over here.
It looks very, like a factory washer or something. - It's very old-fashioned.
What’s this? That's also for tools.
Oh, is this like a vault? - No, it's a stove, man.
Sorry? - It’s a stove.
Or is it a vault? No, it's a vault.
- Damn. It's safe.
There are also three buttons and a keyhole.
- That's freaking crazy. See those beds over here?
For a game. This even looks like a part of a furnace, right?
- Yep, it does. You can see that the ceiling is rotting,
moldy, and coming down. We haven't checked the electricity but, that’s not running.
- No. A pretty large basement
- Yeah, it is, right? There are so many wooden parts like they
were working on something with wood. What is written over here?
Christoffe. Maybe a name of a family or
a company that they owned. - And well—
These are all jars, like, to close up jars. What the fuck, look.
Oh, man. Whoa, can you grab those out?
Those are leg prosthesis. - Yep.
What the heck. And there was another one too.
- Well, there are four actually. My gosh. Look how moldy they are.
That's crazy. Good eye for detail.
I hadn't even spotted them between all those chairs.
- So that means that there’s like a legless man living here.
I was like, Why is Remon cursing? But yeah, that's a pretty shocking find.
- Sorry. Alright.
I think there is only one room left in the basement on the left side. Let's see.
Yep, right over here. Oh, they also have a little wine cellar
over there with some wines. - Alright, well, I think over here also the pots
and the pans and the canned products. Canned food should be here.
And so many shoes as well. - Yeah.
A shoe basement. Oh, look.
Those are balls for a game of Jeu de Boules, a French game.
- It’s a typical French game. Well, the wine over here came down.
Yeah, it has fallen down from a plank, right? - Yeah, yeah.
This actually used to stand here in the air. We also still have some food
products over there in the corner. Just a typical basement like any other.
- Yeah. And pretty big
- Nothing pretty specific to point out, I need to say.
Alright, let's head back upstairs cause we still have one floor to go.
That's the upstairs level. Let's go.
- Let's head upstairs to the last floor.
Well, at least we think it’s the last floor. Wow.
Damn, Mo. You need to see it.
Oh my gosh. We haven't even seen this
floor yet and it's amazing. Look at that.
Wow. - It's a crazy collection.
All those books over here. Wow.
That's a very big collection, right? And everything turns out to be
from, have been from German people. They were doing horse
competitions as well, I believe. Oh, a photo of the couple.
Maybe the man or the woman was German and the other person was
French and that's how they got there. And look at this old letter.
- Looks like, with the stamp on it. Isn't there a year written on the top?
No way. - 1821.
Damn. This is a letter from 1821.
- That's history, man. That's honestly real history.
Wow. It's like a testament that they wrote down. I already saw it and I thought:
this is something special. And over here we have the
name again of the family. "Binesteau".
- Binesteau, okay alright, alright, yeah, that's, that's German, French-ish.
Yeah, more French. More books inside here.
They also loved listening to classical music, apparently.
- Yeah. What else can we find?
What are these paintings? Looks like it's due to decay but
I think it's the original design. Yeah, yeah, that's just a map
for something to put it inside. Just more books over here.
- I know this room, man. Oh, wow.
There are even more legs over there. We already found the prosthesis in
the basement but there is way more and look at this. It’s a bedroom.
And there are so many details. I think this was actually the room of a child.
- Yeah, it looks like, but do you think the child had no legs?
No, but I think they just placed it here. Who knows?
Maybe a photographer or anybody. Look at that.
Old frames over here. It’s so crazy, man.
Binoculars. - Broken
Also, an ink blotter to erase the ink. And the legs on the ground over here.
- Yeah. That's crazy.
And what is this? Wow.
- Well, first pan out the frame right here. Yeah, that's what I was doing.
Over here are probably keys inside. Look at that.
Even a marriage picture over there. - Yeah, right over here.
But honestly, I was amazed about this thing because I never saw
something like this. What is this? I don't know.
It also says something with the Eiffel Tower over there?
- Electrotherapy. I think it's what it says.
It does something with those patches over here, probably.
I don't know I think it was a therapeutical device or something that they used.
- It's very strange, man. Very primitive.
- Yeah. Well, the jacket also.
You can see that it’s destroyed. Then inside of there they actually
have a sink and a lot of stuff for grooming and also cleaning, it seems.
- Yeah, it's just the typical bathroom. Well of course only to wash
yourself and not a bathtub. And also there, look.
Yeah, there was definitely a disabled person living in here.
Yep. That's one thing for sure.
Somebody probably without legs.
- Yep. It's a crazy fact, man.
Damn. And they are very old-fashioned too.
- Yeah, they are. You won't see them like that anymore nowadays.
Nowadays you even have modern blades and everything.
Alright and then we continue. So, let's make our way to this room and
it's another bedroom that's completely frozen in time. Look at that.
Everything is left behind. The sunlight is beautifully
falling through the windows. This little porcelain figurine over here and still
some perfume on the nightstand. - I think this was a girl’s bedroom, don’t you think, so?
Yeah, maybe, or from a woman. - What’s this?
I don't know. It has to do something with air.
- These are very old. Maybe it would’ve pumped or something.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think the air was inside this part
and then you could pump something. Over here's something written in German.
The memory from luck remains as beautiful as, I don't know the last word, Gegenwart.
- I don’t know either, I'm sorry. Our German is good but not that good.
And also look at the ceiling. - Crazy, right?
Everything’s made out of wood. - Then the fake flowers over here.
We have this little medallion over here. Rosenheim is written on it.
Maybe a family name or something, I don't know. A little bathroom over here.
- But the stuff's like all over the place.
Yeah. - Unbelievable.
At the same time, everything is just eerily left behind.
- Yeah. This is actually a beautiful bed.
Everything is embroidered on it. - Also on top.
Yeah. - Look at the design.
Of the headboard. Some fake sunflowers over there as well.
- It's pretty color-ish in here. Well, yeah.
I think that was a toy. - Yeah.
A sex toy - Definitely, a woman’s room.
That's not working anymore. Here, Christian Dior.
Crazy. And then over here you had another door
and it used to be a walk-in closet. - This is also handmade and embroidered.
Yep, also embroidered art. It's crazy to see that the room looks so
pristine but over there you can see black mold just on the walls.
- Coming through, man. The black mold is winning the battle.
Well, from nothing but black mold, we’re continuing to the next room then.
Okay so we’re continuing our way to another bedroom but again—
Again, we have leg prostheses over here on the ground.
Now I'm starting to think, were they really from the people that lived here or did they maybe
manufacture those things given there are so many? - I honestly don't know but there are so many.
Maybe they had to change them every few years or something.
- Could be the case. But why did they never get rid of
them and collect them in that way? Over here we have a lot of films and movies,
and they were mostly about Second World War in 1945.
- Damn. Over there it says, "Weihnacht".
That means Christmas. Probably Christmas movies or maybe even Christmas
memories from the family are still on there. - Again, some black mold on top.
You can tell. And yeah, this was definitely the man's room.
I think maybe even a master bedroom, we can say. - Yeah.
What's inside of here? Nothing.
- What is this? What?
It's a brick with a note on it. A lot of clothes, still inside the wardrobe.
- And again, legs, man, on the side. There, just one, I think.
Yeah. Oh, yeah.
Even more legs. Why are there so many leg
prostheses inside this home? It's fairly strange.
- Yeah it is. It is very strange, man.
But it definitely tells something about the person who lived here.
So many clothes are also still hanging up here.
- The jackets Everything’s left over here.
Where does it lead to over here? - Another bathroom
Look yourself. Oh, yeah, this is definitely the biggest one so I
think this was definitely the master bedroom where we just came from.
- Yeah. It's a big property, actually.
Everything is still standing here. Everything that they used for washing.
Currently, the bathtub is very dirty, full of debris.
- Wow. I'm not gonna show that.
- Yeah, definitely don’t. So, what else can we show now?
Is there anything, is there anything else on this floor?
- I don't know if there is another room. Let's have a look.
Oh, yeah. Well, alright.
Is there anything else around the corner? - Yeah.
Well, first of all, over here's another, it's just some storage.
It's nothing worth looking but it's just some storage.
And I think over here— Also some storage?
- Yeah, but we’ll have to be careful with the light.
We have enough light in here. Yeah, this is just another storage room.
Like dumped and dumped with everything they once owned.
There are still calendars over here from 1968 and everything.
And look at that. A poster with dogs so they definitely love dogs.
- What is that? No clue.
- It's a— Oh, you could actually collect
those stickers with those French chateaux and everything, yeah.
- Maybe they once all visited them. Don’t you think so?
Yeah, maybe. A puzzle over here
- Damn, it’s unbelievable. A data recorder?
It’s just a simple record player, I think. Well, over there on the
poster, you can see the Alps. Or Austria, yeah.
You can tell the way the man was dressed on the right side is a typical German style. And
over here is a poster with a harmony performing. - Well, I think overall it’s
just books and toys, honestly. Yeah.
Let's see if we, I believe we could even go one more level up, right?
- Yeah. Over here is another bathroom.
It's a pink one. There are pretty many bathrooms in this place.
- We already found three, right? Yeah.
This one is dirty. It's full of dead flies and everything.
- Yeah. You can tell that this place is like, neglected.
It's in a very bad state, honestly. It's a— A tripod?
- No, no, no, like to, you know— Oh, it's like a projector screen.
- Yeah like a projector screen, exactly, exactly. Alright.
- So maybe the man was a teacher. Who knows?
Yeah, maybe. We did find something downstairs
that the person actually reached an age of 104 years old before passing away.
- So maybe with these projector screens, we saw movies of 1945.
He has movies of, like, his battle and he was the one that lost
his legs during war. Yeah, who knows? - Who knows?
A lot of different things are possible. I'm really curious where those stairs over
there are leading to, and what we’re gonna find there. Firstly, what’s this?
You see? This is from somebody else and I
believe somebody that fought in the war. Died in 1949 at the age of 75 years old.
It's the same plate as we found downstairs from somebody else.
- Yep, exactly. So, people that lived here
were probably involved in war. Where is this leading to?
Can we even open it? I believe it's closed but you can try it.
- Nah, it's stuck. It's freaking stuck.
In that case, I think we got to end the video right over here, man.
We thought we could still enter this floor but, apparently, there is no way.
You can also not lift it up? - Something is like pushing back.
You see? Strange.
Well, then we explored this other wonderful chateau in French lands.
- Yeah, in its whole, I need to say, it's a very cool place.
Honestly, with all these legs. I never found something like that.
Yeah, I only found it one time but that were only two, like one pair of legs but we found
like five to six to seven pairs of leg prosthesis, It makes you wonder why they owned so many.
- And I think I think, the thing to conclude about this place is that the man definitely
lost his legs during war, both of his legs. So many respect to him, honestly.
Yeah absolutely. - Due to him we are still
enjoying life in a normal way. Not as the people back then.
They had to fight for their lives. A life of peace.
- A life of peace, man. And then to see your place just end neglected
after all those years of duty and war. Life is unfair sometimes, honestly.
Yeah, that's true. But anyway, we were very thankful that we could
see and explore his mansion today. And yeah, we hope you enjoyed it too.
- Yeah, man. And if you did, Remon will tell you what the drill is.
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