What?? am I seeing this right? No. Oh no! The
brush and those... Les, is on the camera. Les... In 1995, Simon took his final breath
in his picturesque farmhouse nestled in the French countryside. With his wife
already departed, he spent his remaining days in serene solitude. They both used
to be very humble and simple people, living off the land and what
they could produce and trade. Fast forward to the present day, and we find
ourselves stumbling upon this very farmhouse, now abandoned and overrun by the
force of nature. But surprisingly, everything still remains exactly like in 1995.
Pictures adorn the walls of this quaint house, transporting us back to the time
when the Salonish family still lived. [Music] Here, each and every photograph in this
house holds a narrative of the weight of life that these people once had. [Music]
The reason behind this abandoned house remains a mystery to us. After researching,
we discovered that the previous owners had children. It's perplexing why they never returned
to retrieve their parents' belongings. However, that was not the only thing the house
had. One more surprise in store for us, something we had never encountered before.
Don't get close, Les. Les. Les. Let's back. Go back! They're behind the glass. Okay... but
there's a complete beehive inside of this window. Join us on this exciting journey as we uncover
the secrets of this French time capsule. [Music] Hey there, everybody! Welcome back to the
Bros of Decay. I am Leslie, and like usual, behind the camera, we've got Mr. Danny. Hello,
hello, everyone! My friend, where are we today? Today, we are in France. "La France", the country
of France, again, and we've got a beautiful place to show you today, a farmhouse from 1837. This
place is ancient and has also been left behind for decades now, and I think it's absolutely
fascinating. You're going to love it. The outside, for me, this resembles more of a manor.
Danny, you have seen a manor before, right? It's really, yeah, and this is really
small, doesn't resemble a manor. It's small. Yeah, but I mean, with the shutters and with
the style and stuff like that, but that's every French house, as this, so that's very true. It's
a common thing. And you can already see that this place has been left behind for ages because the
whole front door has been growing up with thorns, and right above there, we can see 1837, the
building date of this place. And you were explaining earlier to me that those Ss mean Farm.
French is just something. It's like a symbol that resembles a farm, I think. I think so. I think
I'm also not 100% sure, though. I'm not French, so I'm not 100% sure, but I think it is. Yeah,
if anybody knows what those symbols mean, definitely let us know in the comment section.
Super curious about that. Yeah, because we have been seeing them throughout France. Yeah, very
interesting. Over here, we've got some sort of a barn section of the place. I don't know if
they had a big farm, though. It seems rather small to me, but maybe they had a lot of fields.
Probably. Let's see what we have here. Oh yeah, this is completely collapsing. Look at that.
There's some old grinding machine over there, and let me turn on the light, yeah, so that we can
properly see. I think that's for grinding grains, and over here, too. No, that's to separate like,
um, the stems from the dirt, from food, and from corn and stuff. Over here, I think... I'm not 100%
sure what animals... Animal most CH or something, but this place is already completely collapsing.
Wow. Yeah, let's close this up. This is probably as old as the building itself. Oh my God,
that was a wire in the middle. Be careful, lot of bees flying around here. Yeah, I can see
a lot of bees flying around the house. Yeah, oh my God, oh it's too bright, yeah. Okay,
you ready, bro, to go inside of this place and showcase this beautiful mansion? Yeah, yeah.
Mansion. What I'm saying. Farmhouse. Okay. Thank you. Okay, there's a lot of agility
there, yeah. I'm agile. Wow, it's like we just took a step back into time. It feels
like we stepped into a time capsule right now, D. Yeah, really feels... yeah, it's like
so traditional. Yeah, traditionally French, and I think you can see that it's really old
because everything is small. Yeah, exactly. But one thing that immediately caught my attention and
I'm so surprised by it is that picture over there. I wanted to talk about it. Look at it. Those
are the former people that lived in this place, and you can see on the background, this is
the house. You think this is the house? Yeah, but the farm is not there yet. Yeah,
but the windows around don't look... Oh, it's a little bit different, yeah. So maybe this
might have been another house or from another angle because the house is, again, completely
overgrown. This is definitely, though, the picture in front of the barn. Look at that. These are the
shutters that we just opened and looked inside of, and those might have been the former inhabitants.
Look at him casually smoking a cigarette there. I wonder what it must have been back then
when they said, "Let's take a picture," and then they took this picture. You were a photo
expert. How old do you think this photo is? I don't know because this... this
is printed on new paper. It's not on old paper. But I wouldn't say that it's
that old. I would say it's from the '40s, '50s, something like that. Yeah,
something... mm-hmm, very interesting. You just talked about the furniture being very,
very low and small, also. Exactly, so me as a Dutch person, I have to really crouch to see
what's inside of here. There's a lot of junk inside of here, as you can see. This furniture is
insanely low. Wow, there are a bunch of things in there. Wow, over here we got some sort of... oh,
you even shotgun shells, yeah, wow. Over here in the corner, we got some sort of a corner piece.
I don't know how to explain it properly, has a mirror on top of it with a couple of artifacts
left and some lovely drawers, a little magazine about a bicycle, wow. You can already see in the
corner there that this place is falling apart, pieces are chipping off, and it's just old.
I think I can see the wall bending a little bit. Yeah, lovely fireplace over here. I love that
they always have, like, a curtain in front of the fireplaces, but they tried to cover it up. This
was to cover, it was covered up in the time, see, but it fell down. Why did they shut the fireplace
because I don't see other heating sources inside of the house, though, like, the fireplace would
be the only heating source. Weird. Lovely clock above there. Is that marble? Yeah, it looks like
marble. Oh, I think you just ripped it apart. No, yeah, it was already broken. Not sure if it's
marble, though. Yeah, missing hands. Yeah, then a wonderful mirror above there as well
that actually matches the wallpaper. Yeah, behind it. Beautiful wallpaper. Wow, I'm
hearing... yeah, lot a lot of bees inside of here, inside and outside. You have to be careful.
I don't want to get stung, same. Lovely chair where the owner of the house might have sat down
after a long day of work. Looks very useful, yeah, exactly. Look at this seat rest. Oh, it's very
comfy. And then back there, we got a beautiful picture or painting of a landscape. Oh, this one
looks still very pristine, look at that. Oh, wow, yeah, open that one. Look at all these small
liquor bottles in here. I love this one, man, wow, I've never seen those before. That's amazing.
If you want to have a small drink, yeah, lovely cabinet, beautiful. And then in the middle of the
room, we have a dining table for four people. I don't think this was a very big family. I think
this was a rather small family that lived inside of this place. I'm not entirely sure. There's not
much history of these people that you can relate to, more tools, yeah, tools everywhere. Okay, wow,
beautiful first room in this house, yeah, you look gigantic next to everything here, look at me. No,
literally, I'm not even joking, you look gigantic. In the... I'm actually not that tall. I'm like 5'
10" or 178 for the non-imperial people. So yeah, over here we got the hallway of the place with
the front door that hasn't been opened in forever, look at that amount of spiderwebs, damn, there's
also a little bee stuck up there trying to escape this house, and it looks like maybe the heirs of
this building have come in here to do some things and stacked some stuff up here. So this clearly
looks newer than three decades abandoned, yeah, here are a couple of things the former owners,
I think, though. Wow, that typical French hat, yeah, we already saw it in a couple of locations
now, some rain jackets. You also want to look underneath the staircase there, yeah, looks
like a very small throughway, wow, jeez, everything is so small in this place. Scary.
Oh, some old artifacts left in here, look at the boots and everything back there, interesting.
Okay. Oh, where do we come now, a very small door. Oh my God, just film me next to this door, Danny.
I'm like a monster coming through. Yeah, oh yeah, this is the other barn of the place, and you can
see back there, there would be hay in there so that would definitely be animals inside of here at
some point, yeah, interesting. Oh, have a look at this mower, Danny, how old it looks, yeah, jeez,
I've never seen a mower like that before. Wow, okay, but nothing much to see here in this
morning. I think 1837 people are so small, let's go back. I think it's now time to venture
into that room over there and have a look. Oh wow, Danny, this is the dining... the house. Is there
power on? I don't know, I hear a small zooming sound. No, there's no power. No, this doesn't
function anymore. That hasn't been in use for ages. I mean, the calendar says 1995. 1995 again,
that's older than us. That's literally older than us. Wow, you're in the corner of the room, we got
a beautiful grandfather's clock, wonderful piece, unfortunately the insides are not there anymore,
we see this a lot that the insides of these clocks are out, are gone, I think these are very
valuable, and that's why maybe people come to steal them, even the shoes are still standing
next to it. Isn't that incredible? What am I seeing? Is this right? No. Oh no! Oh no, that's
why there are so many bees in this place. Oh no, don't get close, Les. Les, Les, let's go back. Go
back! They're behind the glass. Okay, but there's a complete beehive inside of this window. No way!
Have you ever seen something like that before? No, and they're all still
active, producing honey. Yeah, there's honey there. There's a small honey
smell inside of this house, also. Wow. What! I think we should leave them. But why? The
sound! The sound comes from here. Oh yeah, it's like... can you make a second of silence? That's
loud. One of the coolest things I've seen! It's crazy! Let's please go away from it. I don't want
to be stung by it. No, no, okay, doesn't... wow, that's crazy. I'm... I'm so shocked for a second.
That's so cool! And everything is literally still like the people left it behind. I love this
artifact over here. It's... it's a blowhorn, I think. It's for hunting, maybe. I can try it.
Even the liquors and everything are still left here. Wow, it's amazing. The cabinets, all the
doors fell off with all the cups and everything, and the food is still neatly stacked in there.
Just give an overview this wonderful cabinet, Denny. Wow, all the things in here are 30 years
old. Some corn or some beans from the store, wow! And over here to this side, that's
sort of their wine section with all the wine bottles that are in use. See,
all the corks are like half on them, so they were drinking all of these wines.
The pots and pans still hanging up there, the utensils next to it. Wow, that looks so
crazy! And then here in the middle of the room, we have an enormous fireplace, and I don't
understand that. We have seen now a couple of times that in France they have curtains at their
fireplace. That seems rather dangerous to me. Yeah, here it's... here it's normal, yeah. But
here it's dangerous because like if you have an open fire over here and then you have like
these curtains here, wouldn't they catch fire or something? No idea. Look at these massive tools
that they had to work everything in the fireplace. I think it's to scoop something, but I'm not
sure. Wow! Oh, and underneath the rubble here, there's a bellows, beautiful bellows left behind.
You can even see all the ashes and everything still inside the fireplace, wow! And have a
look above here as well, Denny. This is so, so wonderful. This is a picture of the people that
used to live here. And then if you look over here, this is the exact spot where they were
sitting, with the fireplace in the back there, the water reservoir over there, and the table here
in the middle. Wow, show it one more time, that's so incredible! In the corner of the room here, we
have another couple of shelves, some wine bottles stacked on top of there, then a pot. See, oh, this
is so heavy, it's completely made out of copper. Wow, you know what this is, Danny? Just a sink,
I think. Yeah, it's a makeshift SN or something, like you put water in the top of here on top, and
then maybe with a little faucet down here, you could open it up and wash your hands or something,
yeah, most likely. Wow, then the dinner table here in the middle where the family used to come and
have dinner together. What's that? Isn't it a bee? Oh, that looks like a bee hat, right? It's made in
Hanoi, Vietnam. Oh, so this is... oh, so this is a military hat. Not a... looks like a military head.
I have no idea about the difference. Looks like a really cool hat, though, yeah. And there on the
wall, we have a couple more of those beautiful... what is it, like 3D painting or something? No,
just a print, like a 3D print with some lovely French town. Beautiful. I hear them going around.
Yeah, let the bees be there. I hope they don't let us go further throughout this place. Oh, we come
into a side kitchen over here, and the whole thing has literally collapsed. Oh, the bee's following
you. Yeah, there's the bee. Yeah, there's the... yeah, there's a literal bee on my back. Oh, not
even going to get close. Be careful in here. You can see the whole ceiling has collapsed on
top of the fire, the ceiling, the chimney. This is literally the chimney that fell, yeah,
a whole chimney fell down, jeez. And next up, there's going to be this whole section. This is
going to collapse, yeah. I think this was... you have this in Portugal as well, like where you have
the main kitchen and then the side kitchen, right, for other side types of preparations. I feel like
the only thing that is holding up that ceiling is literally the... this cabinet. The cabinet?
No, it's empty, yeah, it's completely empty, interesting. Behind you, there is still a lot of
food, wow. Let's see in this room over here. Which room? This room? Oh, there's a door there. Yeah.
Oh my God, this section of the house hasn't been used in forever, that's a lot of DK, my friend.
Yep, everything is open, way. There's literally plants growing inside of here. Let's not go into
that room. That doesn't seem like a very smart idea, safe to me. Okay, let's close this back up.
And there's one more room. Oh, Den is struggling to walk around here. There's one more room behind
here that we haven't checked out yet. Oh, it goes into some sort of a basement. Oh my God, I see
some... be careful because you're pushing... oh, I'm pushing some sort of a be ceing, oh yeah,
this is definitely some sort of a wine C. Look at all those bottles over there, that's amazing.
Some of them even still have a cork on them, wow. Oh, and there's this complete crate of
unused wine here, Denny. Look at that, that's still... that's still perfect, yeah, they're
still full, my God, how incredible is that? Oh, sorry. And then over there, we got all the
barrels and even one big bowl in a corner over there, and I think this leads to the barn behind
us, to the... oh yeah, to the place that had the lawnmowers. Yeah, this is a wonderful cabinet,
the curtain. No, there's nothing in there anymore, unfortunately. Let's get out of here before it
completely collapses, yeah, okay, okay. This section of the house is already very interesting,
but now it's time to look at the authentic upstairs of this house. I'm so excited to see
it. Look at this beautiful stairway, Danny, wow, I love the woodwork. It's probably as old as the
house. And here, you can see also the handrailing, how small the handrailing is, yeah, I haven't
even looked at it yet, but normally you have, like, handrailing up here, but now it's down
here, yeah, wow, very small people. Yeah, there's even a picture up here, oh, looks
amazing, one of the former owners of this place, and you can see these black dots on it, I have no
clue what they are, they're probably from a photo album. I think this is a photo from a photo, you
see a stamp over here as well, see it? Yeah, yeah, wow. These walls, they've seen better days, long,
long, they see it's bending, the wall over here, yeah, maybe because of the chimney or something,
I have no clue, or just how the house was built, I don't know. Okay, let's go up this very tiny
stairway, another grandfather's clock here in the corner, and again, the inner parts are missing,
that's such a big clue for me, like, I want to find out why they are missing, okay, ready to
go in the bedroom? Yeah. Oh my God, that's so authentic, wow, this screams 1800s France, so
lovely to see, and this is just like a time warp, this is how these people lived back in the time,
and they never changed anything, as you can see, the bed is still made, the covers are still on
top of it. Wow, you are making noise, the wardrobe wants to be opened, what is it hiding from us?
Oh, some linens, bed linens, and a bedpan over there in the corner, nothing super interesting,
oh, there's a couple of writings in here, Lenny, look at that, to toilet these service tea, so
everything that they had in here, they would write on the back of the wall, interesting, weird and
weird at the same time, yeah, okay, lovely piece of furniture over here, I don't know how you would
open this upper part though, I think... oh, about that, oh, it slides out, oh my God, that's such
a cool, one of the craziest vanities I've seen, so cool, and it reveals an ancient picture of a
man and a woman, wow, that was cool, I want to see that again, so the hinges retract this piece
of marble over here, it makes a lot of noise, oh, doesn't properly close anymore, it's just that
old, wow, that was something, a lovely picture of a woman up here, beautiful, and then we can have
a look at the back, behind you, there's a door, oh really? Oh, there's one of those French
hidden doors, I see, see a little ledge here, see how small the ledge is? Yeah, it's just for
you not to see there's a door, can I open? Yeah, does open, I think the closet, it's a wardrobe
closet, completely empty, yeah, I love the wallpaper as well in this room, it's very unique
and it matches with everything, it gives this room like a distinct vibe, yeah, very simple chandelier
above here, chandelier light fixture, just a piece of clock lot attached to it, wow, they placed
the bed in front of the fireplace over there, as you can see, yeah, so they didn't use these
fireplaces anymore, no, yeah, the fireplace is covered, this is like connected to the fireplace
downstairs as well, so I'm wondering why that was, yeah, lovely picture above there as well, and
I would also show the top of the wallpaper, if you add it, it's quite unique, see if there's
anything still in the nightstand, a book, the last book they were reading is still in there,
okay, I want to see some clothing of these people, up up up, oh, that makes some noises, oh, it's
still clothing inside of here, that's so cool, leather jacket, you know how is, you know it's
authentic leather, I smell it, no, no, no, no, it's full of mold, oh, sorry, that's why you know
it's authentic, because it gets moldy, smell it, oh my God, and there's also sheep wool inside of
here, wow, some beautiful pieces of clothing, wow. Okay, oh, those sounds, that's... those sounds
are like authentic from abandoned places. I just want to point out, be careful, yeah, that I
already noticed, there's a lot of dead bees on the ground. Oh, oh yeah, there's a lot
of bees on the ground, they're everywhere, crawling around, yeah, you can hear them
next to this... trying to get out beehive, wow, there's so many bees inside of this
place, even one on top of the chair here. Danny, wow, lovely chair and neat as
well, beautiful piece, and as you can see, somebody else or multiple people would actually
sleep in the inside of this room, I think that was very common for these old farms, that people only
had two rooms and all needed to sleep together, they also didn't have a lot of money back in that
time period, I think, wow, also still made bed, absolutely lovely, it's to mimic wood, but it's
iron, no way, yeah, this one as well, this one seems... no, it's also iron, what, iron? I thought
they were wooden beds, yeah, and there you can see Jesus Christ with still, what... what's that
little twig above there, that's from, it's from an olive tree, oh really, that's something religious,
right, uh, yes, I don't know if it's Easter or something, I can't remember. You can also see here
that the light fixtures have been added on later, so back in the time, 1837, this house was built
without electricity, of course, France back in the time didn't have electricity, so this house had to
be remodeled. W, it's completely destroyed, yeah, completely fallen apart, do you see it inside the
window, then, yep, another one, massive beehive again, oh my God, crazy place, I'm glad that
they are between the shutter and the window and not inside, if this was inside the house, it was
unfilmable, like unable, these I wouldn't be here, look at this, another vanity here in the corner,
I always love to see these old bottles of whatever they are, perfume or whatever, that's from
Portugal, I don't know, wow, lovely. One want to see that other bedroom as well, of course,
while we're up here, okay, oh wait, what, oh wow, chat de Mar, it's from 1896, this picture, the 6th
of October 1896, this picture is 130 years old, crazy, okay, oh yeah, this is another very
authentic bedroom, wow, I think this one is even more beautiful than the other one, oh my God,
there's even more be on this room, like, floor is covered, yeah, oh, watch out, you're going to step
on one, watch out, he's crawling around, yeah, oh my God, they're flying around, yeah, there's
also a massive beehive in the window here, okay, oh yeah, crazy, oh, I don't want to be, oh my
God, there's so, so many, many bees on the ground, I don't know if you know this about bees, but when
it's dark, they completely fall to the ground, they, they cannot fly without light, oh really,
so I'm pointing the light and they probably going to start flying, okay, can see, go through
this room, let's show this, I can see over here the chair with all the clothes of the former
inhabitant are still left behind neatly stacked, and they also have some sort of a medal of honor
up here. Su, okay, Madame Simon it says over here, so that might have been the name of the former
resident, wow, okay, watch out, that bee is going crazy over there, I love this vanity that we have
underneath here, wow, it still looks so authentic, how the people left it behind, the brush and
those are on the camera, oh, I'm sorry guys for this abruptly cut, but we got attacked in... yeah,
we had Lally had to wait for 5 minutes before the bees to go out of the place, I already been stung
by B, it's not fun, so no, let's be careful, okay, okay, I think we were here at the vanity looking
at this one, super interesting with the brush and everything still lying there, I even love that
the washing glove is still here, look at that, wow, very authentic, yeah, you can see there's
also pretty big beehive inside of this window, huge one, oh my God, so looks so cool
though, so much hay they are producing, hay. Danny, watch out. there's a chair behind me.
there's also a small bed in here that looks for a child, oh, look at that, you stayed there, okay,
there just a bee that flew on top of the bed, wow, Le chair in inner Corner, beautiful red letter
chair, very modern, yeah, looks nice though, that's behind you, be careful, is there another
crazy bee coming toward ours, attack us, yeah, it flies straight to the spider web, oh
God, oh no, not again, not again, I'm out!! So again, it's a quick cut, but we were attacked
again by bees, yeah, we need to film this room fast, I'm sorry guys, but look at this wonderful
vanity over here, oh no, cabinet, closet, closet, closet, uh, yeah, closet, oh wow, it's still full,
even the boots and everything are still in here, look at those hats, they're really cool, they look
like Spanish hats, do they look like farmer hats, farmer hats, yeah, definitely, oh, a lot of
noise, there's even like a full dining table inside of this room for some reason, but it looks
again like a dining table for children because the chairs are so incredibly low, but the chairs
down there were also that small, yeah, exactly, everything is so small in this house, wow, this
room as well has these built-in cabinets here to the wall, wow, I hear the bee again, yeah, yeah,
it's going to the other light, okay, it's going to the other light, and this fireplace seems like it
might have still been in use, Danny, look at that, kind of, yeah, yeah, the other ones didn't were
in use but these ones are, wow, a lot of little papers on top of here, very old-looking papers,
look at that, this one is directed to M ser, okay, don't know that name, haven't seen that
before, a lot of handwritten letters as well, can I open this one up, wow, that's beautiful,
couple of religious things over here as well, and here at the end, there's even still some
bullets left behind, wow, let's get over to the bed now, beautiful bed, still made, and this one
is from W, Denny, the one, yeah, love that one, the pillows still at the end, wonderful
nightstand with a picture on top of it, beautiful, and even a chamber pot here, hope nothing is in
there, this one is empty, but look at this photo, wow, that's probably one of the former owners,
that's the man we saw on the photo in the stairs, oh yeah, that's exactly right, maybe that's
the owner of the house and was very proudly standing next to his newly acquired Citroën,
yeah, religious depiction above the bed, of course, come over here, Denny, before we
show the other picture in front of the bed, here there's also a praying chair, and you can
see this is a normal chair at first, it's again a convertible piece of furniture that converts
open and then you have a praying chair over here, there's a bee on top of it so we're not going
to sit on it today, but you know, these chairs, we saw one exactly the same in another French
house, you remember, oh yeah, we'll link it up there, they're, yeah, but these chairs have
a common thing, they were made in a vast unit, like multiple, yeah, and they were sold to people,
and they engraved the name of the person that owned the chair, AUST, so the person would take
this chair to the chapel or church next to it, and this would be their chair, oh really, no one
would sit, yeah, like my great grandmother had one with her name inside of the church, only her could
sit there, that's amazing, that's such a cool piece of information, Danny, wow, yeah, you see,
her name is engraved in here, or his or her name, Austine, SES, it says over there, yeah, you can
barely make it out but it's there, it's beautiful, here we have the hats still hanging on the side of
the bed like it always would have been, the shoes standing underneath there, oh yeah, there are some
bees flying around, yeah, I don't like it, yeah, I don't like it, shoes in the hat here still, wow,
and I also love this clock that we have here on the nightstand, could fold up and close down and
open it up again, one last thing in this room, look at this wonderful picture, that's the house,
yeah, the house and the barn next to it, wow, and the man, you see that, this is the man from
the Citroën, and then the child and another man standing it, and even the dog is there, Danny,
you see the dog, yeah, wow, okay, show them people one more time this room and then let's go
out of here because these bees are going insane. whoa Let's have a look at that shutter outside here
where all the bees are. Behind you, you can really see, yeah, if you look over here, the
bees going in and out of the house. Whoa, there are literally hundreds of them
flying in and out. Yeah, watch out, watch out. Let's go back slowly, let's go
back, bro. I really enjoyed this exploration, this was again something different, this
house was like a step back into time to the former times of France. If you liked this
video, definitely like, subscribe, and write a nice comment down there. Also, check out the man
behind the camera, his link is in the description, and we also have a link for Patreon there.
You can support the channel and help us out going around this beautiful world and filming
these beautiful places. With that all said, thank you very much and I'll see you next week
in another amazing episode. Bye-bye, love you. [Music]
