For years, this house was a place of love,
laughter, and cherished memories. Built by a USA Jewish family many decades ago, it stood
as a symbol of their success and prosperity. But in 2018, tragedy struck when a
devastating fire tore through the home, they were woken at night and saw their lives
work light up in flames in front of their eyes. As the smoke cleared and the family surveyed the damage, they realized that
they could never return to the house. The damage was too extensive, and the
structure was no longer safe to inhabit. And so, the house sat empty, a
haunting reminder of what once was. Until this day all the memories of the former
owners remain inside, a place that is unique beyond words, it will give us a glimpse into the
lives of these people before disaster struck. Today the family remains safe and sound,
they seemed to have moved on from their past lives and don’t show interest in
what is left behind beneath the rubble. From the charred remains of the fire to
the treasures left behind by the family, get ready to be transported to a world of
drama, intrigue, and heartbreak, as we delve into the history of this fascinating
abandoned house in upstate New York. So, welcome everybody to a new episode on the
Bros of Decay. I'm Lesley and today I have a very special place to show you for the first time
ever on the channel. I'm documenting a mansion of a Jewish family, an acidic Jewish family.
I'm here standing in the middle of the forest, making my way to this abandoned mansion, and I'm
actually joined by a fairly big group today. So, of course, we got Maureno in the house like
always. We also got Exploring with Josh today. How are you doing, man? First Time on our channels together,
absolutely, man. It's gonna be cool. Hey, man, dude, what's your name on YouTube, man? Seth Borden. Nice to meet you, man. Yes, and his girlfriend is with us as
well. I forgot your name, excuse me. That's Casey. Okay, let's go to the house now. Let's
check it out. We've already been there yesterday to take some pictures, but
today we're going to film the place, document it as a full historic site, and
everything that's been left behind there. It's still a trek through the forest here to
get to this place, as you can see. Still very cold in this part of the United States.
I'm still in upstate New York today, but wow, it's like a fairy tale
that we're walking through. Over there in the distance, we get the
first glimpse of the mansion. It's one of the most extravagant places so far that we are
documenting here in the United States. And for me, it's always very special if I find something new,
something that I've not documented before in the past. Like a Jewish family, that's insane.
I'm very fascinated by the Jewish religion, by their way of life, and to see a mansion of
theirs is a dream to me. And then this setting, and this foresty setting over here, it's going
to be even better to document this place. Snowy winter wonderland going to landscape, as
you can see. There are still a lot of things on the outside. It has been abandoned since 2018 when
a fire, a devastating fire broke out inside of the place. And I'm going to show you this in a moment.
But as you can see, they tried to board it up, people came here, smashed the windows, opened
the place, and now it's open for us. Of course, that's of course a bit devastating, but now we
can get a chance to document this wonderful place. While making our way towards the abandoned house, we were secretly followed by four young
members of the nearby Jewish community. They were interested in what we were going
to do there. After explaining our purpose, they gave us a tour of the house and told us
a bit more about the family and their fate. So, these gentlemen here, these are
Jewish people from the community, and they actually know the owners of the
place that we're going to document today. And they told us just that in 2018,
like I said before, a fire happened in this place. And you also knew the
person that lived in this place, right? Yeah. And who was it to you? It was a friend. Yeah, a friend. Yeah, friend of yours. What happened to the people that lived here? They sold the house, and
there's a construction fire. Okay, so that moved somewhere
else now, but they're safe, right? Yeah. Okay, that's great. As we're now about to visit the mansion, I
am excited to see what we'll find inside. Thank you, guys. They're gonna
show us some things in the house, probably tell us something about the history.
So, I'm first gonna move my car because I parked at that Jewish school over there, and
they said that our car is going to get towed. So, that's, uh, I'm gonna do that first,
so gentlemen, I'll see you in a moment. Why don't they restore the place? I have no clue. Insurance money. There's no insurance on
the house yet. Why not? Because those just sold. They were in the middle of selling
the house, and then it broke down. So, the insurance wasn't on the house yet. Jeez. Yeah, so it's actually not
that that's all of a house, right? No, it was pretty old when they sold it. Yeah, I don't know how exactly, but I believe
it's from 1981 or something. 1981. Looks old. Okay, it looks older. So, is this a typical
Jewish house, which you would say, or no? This is a little resistance, okay? But
like a typical rich person Jewish house? Not anymore. It's a little older now. Okay, interesting. I mean, I apologize if you see anything like a feature in this home
that's typical from your culture. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. So, a lot of hats
throughout this house for praying. For praying, yeah. If we go back to like the 1900s,
everyone was wearing a hat. Okay. And now it's just so... Yeah, I live very close to Antwerp, and I see the
Jewish Community always walking around with hats. Yeah, yeah. It's just like it's just a religion.
Talking about second head covering like we have. Yeah, those are called kippahs. And your holy, like, kind of
Bible is the Torah, right? Yeah, yeah. Okay. And now we were discussing this. This
is written here in Hebrew because we saw the side of the building, and that's those strange
letters like the school. That's Hebrew, right? Yeah, okay. Do you know how
to talk that language, too? Some schools they have like subjects on
it, but yeah, like we could read it like... Yeah, so if we find the Torah inside
of the house, you can read it? Yeah, yeah. Technically, translating it. So, I'm back outside right now, but I'm now
standing in front of the place, and I just had the first look at it, and it looks magnificent. It
even looks like a European place. Let me show you what this place looks like. So, they have this
beautiful front side of the Mansion over here. Oh, this looks like an Austrian German style of
architecture. They even have this fountain here in front of the mansion, and then this enormous
driveway and front yard. These people were rich, and we thought I just talked to the Jewish people,
and they told us exactly that. They had multiple businesses. They were in a managing position of
multiple businesses. They are very influential people in the New York Community, but also in
the community of the Jewish people. A wonderful fountain here in front of the house. Let me
show you the architecture of this place as well. I'm enjoying this place. Look at the stone
architecture they have on there, the stone-exposed stone. I don't think these are full stone. This
is probably just a mimic, but it looks amazing. It feels like I'm in Austria, Germany, like
I said before, and we were exploring one of those places in that country. It's all boarded
up after it got destroyed by a fire in 2018. You can even see those lions here
guarding the front door of this household, and it looks like they also used to spout
some water out of there back in the day. Front entrance to the house, and up there,
you can see there's even a balcony left behind where they could stand up there in
an early morning, drink a coffee, and overlook that property. And here, you
would enter into that wonderful mansion. This front door is amazing. Let's open this
beauty up and let's go on a tour throughout it. Wow, that's just amazing
walking into this hallway. Have a look at the extravagance that
we're seeing here in front of us. These people were insanely rich that once
lived here. I don't know much about them yet, but I hope to find that out during our exploration
of this place. Even the sides of the hallway in here are completely designed, every single detail
they thought about. Let's close this door up, and then we have a serene space where we're
gonna do our walkthrough of this mansion. Wow, even the insides of the door here are
uniquely carved. Every single detail they thought about. Oh, and even the door handles,
this brass or gold-plated gold they have on there, or this brass color. And even one
handle, unfortunately, has broken off. Here was the alarm system that has now been
dismantled, and everything. All the light switches are also still in here. I heard from somebody
that at one point, the electricity still used to work in this place. That seems very unsafe
to me because there was a huge fire in here. I'm going to show you over here is this
one carving above it here, and then this same style of doors within smaller formats
that end up. Wow, this is completely loose, and that reveals this bathroom with these mirrors
inside of it. Have a look at this. Isn't that just insane? The whole floor is covered in debris, so
we can go in here, but we have to be very careful. Have a look at this. When we're sitting on your
toilet in here, you could look at yourself from every single angle while you were doing your
business. I didn't want that at all. I think lovely marble sink, all the artifacts,
and ornaments still standing there. This is insane, all destroyed up. And the wonderful hallway itself,
the chandelier hanging up there. Okay, there's another one of those doorways over
here. Let's have a look behind this one. Let's see what this one reveals. Oh, there's another room
behind there as well. I haven't seen this one yet. Oh, this looks like a French decor room, as you
can see. While we enter into there, I'm gonna turn up the light a little bit and show you this
room. I'm not sure what this space in the house was used for back in the day, because there's a
chair still standing there, a beautiful fireplace, wonderful design features on it. I love this blue
glass that we have behind here. And even all the firewood is still standing there from the time
that they used this. There are light displays of bottles that used to hold liquor back in the time. And now we have this sort of trumpet
bottle with Hebrew writing on there. Like always, the fashion that
I do, I always smell things, and I always want to see what these liquors
are like. I'm not gonna taste it, don't worry. Oh, this is actually a very nice liquor. Wow,
that smells really good still after the four years of abandonment and the fire that happened in
here, of course. That's interesting. A wonderful lamp also standing in here, but again, some
unique design features on the bottom of it. This face standing over here, this looks like
an urn. It's definitely not some sort of a vase, probably something Jewish that I don't
know anything about. And then it's slowly, and also have a look at these tapestries or this
wallpaper. It's not even wallpaper. This is what I was talking about. This French style, like
we have these bouncy wallpapers in this house, and there's something you see coming back in
French manors and castles a lot. And in the middle of the room, you have this wonderful upholstery
chair standing, waiting to be used again. What do we have here at the end
of the room? Another lantern, another Gerard on there. Oh, and here we have
one of those Jewish bold hats. Let's see if there's any making there. Ruin Foe, it says on the
inside, imported exclusively by Bencraft. Let's go back out here. Let's have one last glimpse at
this hallway. I can't get over it how beautiful this is. Even though this is a mansion that has
been built in the 1980s, it still feels like I'm walking in a place that has hundreds of years
of history, and it has a lot to show for them. And then they also had this corner of the room
here, completely burned up. If you look at this mannequin here, this Jewish hat on there,
it's completely burned up on the side. This is one of those engagements in a wall where
you would also put a bust or statue back in the time. I don't think this is original. The
mannequin, they probably had like a heavy-duty, beautiful carving statue like a marble statue
on there, but this is definitely not original. And then they have this corner in the room. I
think it might have been a reading corner or something like that. It also used to be a light
fixture up there in this crown molding. And then they have this wonderful chair standing here,
and I think it was some sort of a reading space, especially when you were sitting here.
Imagine back in the day, where you lived in this house and this overlooked while you
were reading. That must have been wonderful. Here, we see one of the first art pieces
completely destroyed after the fire by people that came into this place to
vandalize it. Something very terrible. A lovely clock in here as well. This is a
regulator. Oh, that's a very harsh noise. Look at what I just found. Oh my
gosh, it's a Jewish boy over here, probably one of the residents of the place.
And look at this, they're all scientists and all wrote on there. Probably children from
his class. Maybe something happened to him, I don't know. They even drew him a mustache and a
beard, as you can see. That's pretty interesting. Okay, let's put this back nicely and give the
space over here behind the couch. There we go." Oh, look at this hat. This is pretty creepy,
flying over here. And they have this sort of storage area here underneath the stairway. Wow,
some art pieces are stored in here and some other things like that. And then we're going to go into
one of the most spectacular rooms of this entire place, the living space where the family came
together, held parties, and had a lot of laughter. You can still feel the memories that have been
created in this room. I love how it has been set up. It just looks like a typical European manor
in the south of France, and that's what really intrigues me about this place. It brings back
a lot of memories. I was expecting that all the places that I'm gonna film in the United States
are pretty much trashed, but discovering a place like this, completely left behind, just blew my
mind. The artworks and everything that's still in here is just insane. This wonderful cabinet
over here with intriguing design is something typically European. They probably imported it at
some point. You have these weapons crest in here. There's encavement in here, and this beautiful
cabinet is just a very expensive piece of antique. Oh, look at this gold foil they even put in here.
They probably placed this on the table when they had dinner parties, fancy dinner parties. Wow,
everything is still in here, pretty much stuck. And then all the liquor bottles still on top of
there. They definitely did love the liquor in this place. We already saw the other bottles in the
other room, but I think I gotta smell this one as well because this is a liquor that I've never
seen before in my life. It's 32 percent Maraska original liquor. And I'm looking at which country
it's from, but I don't see anything on there. It's probably from Czech Republic, but let me just
open this beauty up. Uh, I can't get it open. I'm just gonna leave it over here. It's fine, it's
fine. A lovely plant standing over here as well. This is a Jewish liquor, as you can
see from the Hebrew writing on it. It's sort of a white wine. I don't think it's
been opened yet, so I'm not going to open it up. Over here on the table, we have some items
on display. There's a lovely chandelier hanging on the wall, a crystal
chandelier, like I always say. And then this view that we have in front
of us is something very unique. These gold-plated cabinets are something I have
not seen before in my career of exploring. They have also been damaged by the fire that
happened in this place. You can see they have some black smoke on them and have been damaged
throughout that time. There's nothing really interesting in there, but what intrigues
me the most are these mannequins in here. Like Jewish people, who love their hats, they are
big on hats. Whenever I used to walk through the streets of Antwerp, pretty close to my home, they
have a very big acidic Jewish community, and you would see them all walking around with hats like
these. They are very common in their traditions. Wow, the painting hanging here on a wall is
so impressive. And then this stroller here in the middle of the room, isn't that just a
beautiful antique piece with these two dolls in there? Oh my gosh, maybe these were from the
children of the ladies that used to live here. They could play with them. Can you imagine
walking down the street with the stroller and your child in there? You would definitely
be the center of attention when you did that. There are even more dolls than this one. The
same style of cabinet, completely identical to the other one. The only thing that's different
with this one is there are drawers inside of it. I love this face that is over here as well. Look over here on the table. One of
their guns is still left behind. This is actually the first gun that
I found in the United States. And this is definitely a real gun. As
you can see, there's no inscription on there or anything. Wait, we have some
inscription over here: bsio bs10 sule. A wonderful rifle is always very special
to find, a rifle in an abandoned place, because they are not cheap. And
then the stable down below here, beautiful design, his face carved into here. It's very unique. Let's see if there's
anything in the drawer over here. No, there used to be items in here. You can
see there are footprints still in there. And then we have this fireplace, the light of this room back in the time, even
some blocks of wood still in there, with the marble around it. Must have been wonderful
when it was burning. Everybody sitting on the couch over here and just enjoying each other,
drinking some liquor, talking about our days. I can only imagine it must have been wonderful.
There's a food basket up here completely made out of concrete and an enormous mirror behind it.
We even have some crown molding on the walls over here. I have not noticed that yet, but literally
everywhere there is design throughout this place, throughout this house. Still standing on this
coffee table here and these two couches around it. Now we also have this sort of face lamppost
over here to the side, and for some sort of weird reason, there's a rope hanging from
the ceiling in the middle of this room. There are tears hanging here on a wall, and
then we have this trolley over here. It doesn't seem like a real one. This is just the design
piece that they have in the house. Oh, look, this is just terrible. You can see footprints
here on the wall where they tried to kick in and make holes in the wall. Geez, some
people just don't have any respect. A wonderful cabinet over here as well, and
there are some paintings on the top of it. Oh, a temple in the back, a wonderful landscape as
well, with some flowers and everything up there. Oh, look at this bond, it's
a ferret! A taxidermy ferret, it's probably something that a woman of
the household would wear. Something that's just disgusting nowadays and that we... Oh,
there's even two suits next to each other, something that we never do nowadays
anymore. It's just not acceptable anymore, and they're hanging on this
upholstered chair over there. There's one more thing I need to point out in
this room, and those are these statues over here. Beautifully carved statues, as you can see.
And then we can go further into this side of the mansion, and this is actually where it gets
pretty interesting because this is where the fire happened in 2018, and you can clearly see the
aftermath. This place is just not livable anymore. The whole ceiling collapsed on the air upstairs,
the bedroom there, and you can even see a mattress barely hanging on. But here we have just come into
what used to be the kitchen of this Jewish family, where the mother, like it always
has been in the Jewish community, used to cook the meals for the whole family.
What I think is also very interesting is the building style of this kitchen. When you enter
into this place, you immediately have this huge rack over here, this library with hundreds
of books, all cookbooks still left behind. And down here, there are even still some
pictures of the family left. Oh, look at them, their baby photos that they didn't even take
out after the place got abandoned in 2018. Everything is still in here. You can see
some Hebrew writing on this book over here, the 36th anniversary dinner greetings Steno book.
There's even some handwriting on the top of it. Here you have this booklet about Furnishings.
Let's have a closer look at this kitchen because this is where the mothers of the family, just
like it used to be in the Jewish community and in their culture, used to cook the meals
for the family and the men that left here. Everything is broken and fallen over,
completely dilapidated, unfixable anymore. The beams over here in the ceiling
have burned through to the ash. I love the style of this kitchen. This
truly reminds me of an Austrian German kitchen that I used to film in another video.
I will link it up there. An enormous fridge, even the bottles of everything, are still
left in there after the devastating fire. All the cooking equipment everything still in this
state of levitation. Here we can see pieces of the bedroom lying here on the ground. See, this is
probably from a cabinet upstairs that fell down. There's also a piece of the ceiling here.
Everything is left. I love these lamps that are hanging here and all the plates, cups,
and China still in the cabinets over here. It's so interesting. I was just talking to
those Jewish guys and I was asking why don't they take out the pictures out of this place,
but they just didn't know it. They didn't have any words for it because they told me that the
Jewish community has a lot of value in their heritage and their memories, and they normally
take good care of it. But why this family didn't do it is unclear. They are safe, they are
in a new place, and yeah, it's just unclear why they didn't come back to retrieve those very
important memories that they made in this place. Look at this lovely stove that we have standing
over here. Isn't that just interesting, everybody? I think I would also cook something on here, or
maybe it was just only for warmth. There are some blocks of firewood underneath there, all still
left behind from the day the place got demolished. A wonderful stove standing here as well, the cast
iron stove that's a brand I've not seen before yet in my videos. Let's try to get over here. We
have this huge island here with these cooktops and everything. Let's try to get over because I
saw something very interesting here at the end. All the bottles of wine and champagne are
still left in these holsters out here. What kind of wine did these
people love to drink? Okay, wine. This is just a table wine as you can see, a
sweet and natural grape table wine, lying in here, sparkling apple cider. This is not even
alcohol, it's probably just for the children. Wow, and even a microwave at the
end here, built into the stone wall. And now we have the dining room to this side.
I will come there in a second, but I think this used to be their living room, and they overlooked
the whole forest at the end there. Let me show you if I can bring it a bit clearer, the whole forest
you can see from this enormous window over here, and the design from the outside also comes
back on the inside. Stonewall and everything with the brown ceiling up there. The
fire spread throughout the whole house. It was actually a pretty wonderful living
area with an enormous couch over here, a bench over there, and even this lower area
with a fireplace behind this painting. There, you can still see a glimpse
of the fireplace in the back. Here's some sort of a book here. "Dear Tamari,
I'm gonna miss you so much next year. I hope you enjoy high school. I had so much fun with you in
school. Please kid, love you. Esther Alexander." This is some sort of a book where they wrote
in all their wishes for the child that went to school. So Tamari was one of the children that
lived in this place, and he went to high school at some point, probably in another state or far from
here. It even has this lettering up here that says "Tamari." Still see the engraving. "The Journal."
Your journal. And this is from the summer of 2014, and this is also from that child, Tamari, the
30th of June, 2014. Everything is still in there. What are these notes that
we have here on the floor? There's nothing on them anymore, unfortunately. And then one of my favorite
rooms in this entire place, the dining space, a very important room in a
Jewish house, and they had a skylight above here that's unfortunately now covered with debris
from that natural decay, but it must have been wonderful in here when the people were still
sitting here around the table. Can you imagine a Jewish family still sitting here, the man
on the corner of the table with the hat on, and they're having dinner together after a long
day of work and school? Wow! The plants are also still in here. I suppose these are all fake.
Yes, these are fake plants. And here we can see a picture of the children, that's most likely Tamara
and her younger sister that we see next to it. Wonderful plants in here as well, really
lights up the room, brings character to it, and then this wonderful dining table
centered in the middle of this room. Wow, tablecloths still on there and everything,
and a chair standing here at the end of the table. Oh, I love these lanterns
that I have over here as well. Okay, I think this doorway over here leads us to
the outside, to that balcony that we just saw. Have a look at this, a complete overview of
that property. They had an enormous property, as you can see. The children probably would love
to play in this backyard between the trees. Here is where they would have outside dinners in
the summer, and you can even see a glimpse of the house from over here. It is enormous. Glass
panels over there, icicles are forming there. Let's go a bit closer to that side.
Here you can see the icicles are forming. That's a beautiful view, everybody. I love it. And then from the kitchen, we can go further into
the house, and the first thing I notice over here is this food cabinet with this writing on it. Like
the phone numbers are still on there, and it says, "Tari, Mommy, Bobby, Rachel, and Holmes". So
these are all the numbers, I believe, that "Daddy" is like a name for a father. And here we even
have the phone number of the Mario. Of course, I'm not going to show those, I'm going to blur
this out, but just promise me that there are phone numbers on there. But I'm not going to show those,
of course. Lots of paperwork in here as well, and then phone numbers with the streets and
everything. And here we got this wonderful display of pictures left behind of the people
that once used to live in this place. And they don't look very Jewish in these pictures,
maybe on a vacation they weren't as strict as they were when they went to the synagogue
or when they were practicing their religion. All the cans of food are still
left behind here in this cabinet. The bottles, the olives,
everything is still in here. I almost fell over there, Jesus Christ! Pots and pans in here and even an extra fridge.
I'm not sure how many people used to live in this space, but it is an enormous house so you
can bet a lot of people used to live in here. Here we have a cabinet still filled with clothing.
I just don't understand why they wouldn't even take that clothing out of the house. It's not
broken, there's nothing wrong with it. After the fire, these are their formal clothing
that they used to wear when they had formal occasions and went to the synagogue and
practiced religion and stuff like that. Very interesting. All the gloves
were also still left there. Excuse me, everybody. And here we're coming to, I believe, some
sort of a playroom. Oh yeah, and even the ceiling over here has collapsed, probably from
the heat that was generated in this place. You can see some game boards still left
behind. Words With Friends, playing cards, Uno, I see laying on the ground. So, in
here, this was their playroom. Even a ping pong table still left here. And then, yeah,
we call this football billiards in Belgium, with these knobs on there and the ball bounces
off it. It's actually a very strange billiards table. I'm just going to call it a double
just table to find, because I've never seen it in this shape before. Normally it's
just a normal billiards table with these rubber plugs in there in the middle to bounce the
balls off. Even a kitchen in this room. Then you can really tell that people are rich if they
have multiple kitchens throughout their house. And then a sitting area to this side as well, where they would used to relax in the evening,
enjoy themselves, enjoy their company. The grand... Wow, have a look at this. This is
actually the plan of the house. You can see the staircase that we saw earlier, the dining
hall that we saw, over here, the living room, the guest rooms. I think we are right now in this
room. No, we are in this room, I believe. Yeah, that's so interesting, and there are multiple ones
of these. Oh, this is a view from the front of the house. That's actually not the house that
we are visiting today. So this might be a different house than the one that we are in right
now. It does look like it, but yeah, if I look closer at the hallway, it doesn't resemble this
house. So maybe the managing company would also design houses and stuff like that. We have a book
laying over here. Oh my God, have a look at this. This is a story about how my great-grandfather
survived the Holocaust. My great grandfather, Gitshka Sternhill, was 14 years old in the war.
His parents were taken away and left him behind by non-Jewish neighbors. This is a complete story
about the events that happened, the terrible events that happened in the Second World War to
the Jewish community. They really didn't deserve this, nobody deserves it. And this is a picture of
the man in question that survived the Holocaust. All these people are still in here. That
really leaves me speechless for a second. I'm very interested in the events that took place
in the Second World War and the reasoning behind the terrible events that happened. I also visited
a lot of Holocaust camps in Poland and Germany, and just seeing a house over here in the
United States where actually there's history about the people that lived here that
even experienced these terrible events, it's touching. It's really touching. Let's go for a little while. This house leaves
me speechless. I'm just going to say it again. I think we have ended up in some sort of
a laundry room over here. You can see the iron still standing there, the knitting
equipment, everything is still in here. A few pieces of clothing with some text still on
there. Oh, I love this ironing board that folds up into the wall and then neatly folds away.
It falls out again when you need it again. All the blankets, clothing,
and everything still in there. Okay, before we go upstairs, and first
you can see the stairway over here, there's one stairway upstairs, but there's also
one downstairs. I just briefly showed you the downstairs earlier on, but let's go down there
right now and let's look at it more in depth because a drink is also a pretty interesting
space in the basement of a place people also store a lot of artifacts and history about their
lives because yeah, they didn't need it anymore. Wow, there are some paintings down here
that have completely been trampled, as you can see. I'm gonna save this one because I
think it's just devastating. Keep it lying around, people are just gonna walk over it, and you've
destroyed even more than it's destroyed right now. Might the fire have started from this
basement over here? It looks way worse than upstairs. Look at all that black
smoke that went throughout this place. Here we have a painting hanging on a wall
that's completely covered with black smoke, and here we come into some sort of a bigger
basement. Maybe this is also where the cars were stored back in the time. You should frame
sand standing here, gold-plated picture frames. Look at this game. I forgot the name for it for
a second. I love these machines. You can put a quarter in there and then you could play a game.
Oh, these paintings that are standing here are still pretty pristine with these landscapes
back here. They are still very pristine. Oh, look at this furniture that's standing here.
Back here we got this wonderful poltriest so fast standing here in this room. They probably saved
them somehow from the fire and put them down here. This one is so nice, it's something you would come
across in a French castle that I've filmed before. They're standing here rotting away
in the basement of this Jewish house. That was a very interesting basement. I really love this place so far. I'm curious what
we can find upstairs, so let's head over there right now. I'm definitely gonna walk after that
winding staircase and get that feeling of when people used to live in here and what it must have
been like to live in such an extravagant place. I'm now going to take a stroll at the staircase
to the upper floors and see what's up there. I just love the design and architecture of
this place and the staircase itself. I have already expressed myself multiple times,
but I just can't exaggerate it enough. The window behind here, letting light into
the building, with the chandeliers next to it, such a warm and beautiful feeling. Then
the staircase itself is just magnificent, with this chandelier hanging here in
the middle and the walkway around it. Let's go into this first room here
to the left, and I believe that this used to be the master bedroom of the place,
where the parents of the household used to sleep. And it's actually pretty funny because in the
Jewish community, they have some strict rules. You can see that the beds are able to separate
from each other before marriages. Before marriage, the man and a woman can't sleep together.
They can only have a girlfriend from when they are 19 years or older. So those are all
strict rules by the Hasidic Jewish community. Look at this, I love these beds.
Wonderful carvings on them, beautiful inlay, the flowers, and everything,
and then these pillows here in front of them. So amazing to see. Oh, better put this back nicely
again. Of course, I have to put everything like I found it. The bed has been torn up over here, and
then they have these cushions in front of them. And they even have the same style
of cabinet in this room as well, with that flower design on the front of
it, beautiful carvings throughout it. And I don't know what happened over here, but
the whole wall has been destroyed somehow. That's not part of the fire, that's
probably somebody that came into this place and searched for copper that they
probably wanted to steal at some point. Shoes are also still here in the cabinets. And here we have some clothing of the man left
behind. Have a look at this vanity that we have over here. We have these two doll hats standing
up here, or these mannequin heads still with the traditional hats that the Jewish woman used to
wear on them. And you can see, we already saw it throughout the house, they were very big on
their heads. That's part of the tradition, that's part of their community, and I just love that
they have such an eye for design, these people. This one is also in the same style as the other
pieces of furniture that we have in this room. Oh, this opens up to reveal these
drawers, discovered spaces that they could use for their socks, ties, there,
everything, maybe even their hats as well. Fairly richly designed,
lots of luxury in this room. Let's go further. Here, another
cabinet standing to this side, and I have not been on this side of the
house yet. Oh my God, they have a very luxurious bathroom here. You can see the
bath up there at the end, wow, completely made out of probably Italian marble. Oh, this
is really nice here that would, or like, fill it up. I think the ball is pretty uncomfortable
to sit in, but the style of it is just amazing. This is the device to open and close, wow. And even a marble shower to this side, all
their products are also still left in there, they're a dough of shampoo. Their
shower head is completely corroded up. Wow, and even their toilet is still
standing in this part of the house. Oh my God, there's even a sauna in this place.
Whatever, man and woman could sit together in the evening and enjoy a nice hot sauna before they
went to bed. Whoa, have you ever seen that before? This is totally insane. And all their products
are also still left here, the toothbrushes, their toothpaste, everything black from smoke on
that devastating fire that happened in this place. And then they had this nice overlook over the
overlaying backyard of this place. Then we're going back out into the hallway. Have a look at
this beautiful piece, chandelier hanging in the middle, a crystal linear chandelier, an arch
design up there. It's just wonderful. And back in the time when these windows weren't boarded
up, it must have been flooded with light in here. And also looking at the walls that don't
seem to be painted, that's pretty strange. Even at these encavements in a wall
where statues would be standing everywhere, they had this shape of chandelier
saying here to flood more light into the rooms. This doesn't open up anymore, but this goes to the
balcony that we just saw in front of the house. Look at this shot, that's just totally insane. I love it. The drawer standing upstairs
here as well, some paperwork on the floor. That's all from that company. Yes,
this is from that company. I'm not gonna go too in-depth into it because
otherwise, the location will be revealed. But we have a drawer standing here, and that
brings us into the next part of this exploration. And over here, we're going to see the
real devastation of this building. I think this was another bedroom at one point.
A lot of things still lying on the floor. Oh, they got this sort of couch area to this side.
The mirror behind there, pretty fancy actually, and we got this picture of this
lady lying here, this young girl. She looks lovely. Oh, so many
memories still left in this place. Socks and everything are still lying on the
floor, and here we have some Hebrew writing on this paperwork. I don't know if this was
something from school or something else, but of course, can't read Hebrew.
As you can see, there's also a picture of this man lying
on the floor. He's giving a kiss there's a lady at the top. Maybe this was his
girlfriend or a secret girlfriend. Who knows? This was definitely a bedroom at one point. The
clothes are still hanging here in the cabinets. Everything is still present from
the time the people left here. Let's look at what kind of clothing there were,
actually out pretty fancy, as you can see. There's also a bathroom back here, and
it's completely devastated by the fire. The whole walls have come off, completely
broken, and the ceiling is falling out. Every single bedroom in this
place had its own bathroom, and that definitely tells you these people are
very wealthy. Because when we explore these castles and these palaces in Europe, you always
see that every single room had its own bathroom, and this is also the case over here in this house.
Her hair clips are also still left there. Let's go further. I think we
can get an overview over here of this living room area downstairs. All
the rubble you can see lying down there. The ceiling is falling out. It's also always
a pretty surreal sight. As you can see, the paint is slowly chipping off the walls,
completely burned away by the wood by the fire. And I've been talking a lot in my United States
videos about the construction style of these houses, and that it's very different from Europe.
Here you can actually see it in person. It's all made with wood. It's all made with plywood and
panels, instead of Europe where everything is built out of stone. European houses are way
stronger, and if a fire happens in a place like this in Europe, it would survive, definitely.
But this is unrepairable, unfortunately. And here, we come onto an upstairs bedroom, and we can look straight into the kitchen
downstairs, where Morena is filming right now. That's totally insane. Here, to this side, we have
all the bed linen left behind on this upper floor. Teaser was saying that the basement looked pretty
terrible with the fire, but this upstairs is completely devastated. There's a little sitting
area over here. There is a window behind there, but it's completely boarded up right now. I
think after the fire, they completely boarded up this house. All the clothing is lying on
the floor. And then over here, we actually have a pretty interesting piece because this is
a jacket from a lady that lived in this place. Top half of it is burned. You can even see there's
a hat still hanging in there. It's completely molded onto the fabric of this beautiful red
dress. I love the style and design of it. I think we can enter into that bedroom
over here. I have to, of course, be very, very careful because the floor is probably
unstable. This is not a master bedroom; it's actually a pretty bad bathroom. You can see the
mattress is still standing in there. Everything is still there. It used to be the bathroom. The
whole floor has sunken out. I can maybe make a small move towards over here, and then we can have
a glimpse of the downstairs floors over there. Whoa, this is pretty dangerous what I'm doing
right now, but I just want to give you those shots and views of this place and just show
you what fire does to a place like this. Wow, that's dirty. All the clothing all
molding up still in the cabinet over here. This used to be white clothing
down there, white jackets, and white, oh, I forgot the name for a second, but
all of these things have become yellow. That's actually pretty funny because
I consider myself fluent in English, but sometimes I just forget names of items,
and then I just have to improvise. That's also why I always get comments about
that, and a lot of people tell me, like, 'it's this,' but I know it sometimes,
but sometimes I just forget it. But that's just when you speak multiple languages.
You just have to excuse me for that. Here we have another completely
black painting hanging on the wall, flowers and everything still on there. Now we have
two chest drawers, and the bed linen is stored in. Let's go into this room, and here
we have yet another bedroom. So it's a rather small place for six
people to sleep in this household, so they must have been with six or more
people living in here at one point. All their books are still in here that they
used to read at nighttime. Curious to see if I can find more pictures and memories of the
people. Oh, here we have not a lot of mixer. We saw this lady before in the other room, and
now we see her again coming in this place. Oh, and yet we have another
picture over here as well. Look at these colorful clothing, probably
for a special event they would wear these. And even still, this cabinet over here is
completely filled with clothes. So much clothing in this house. This is probably the
house where I've found the most clothing ever. Literally beyond all my expectations. Nine
years' time, so much clothing everywhere. I'm going to thank the people who once lived
here. I hope they found a home where they can be happy now and where they can live their
lives out. And I hope that at one point in time, they will come back here to retrieve their
valuables and items that they left behind, because they're all invaluable memories
that you just can't replace. So please, the people that once lived here,
come back and save those items. I want to thank you all for watching
this video. In my honest opinion, I think this was one of the best places
in the United States, not only for the building but also for the story behind it. The
Jewish people that we met in the beginning, like all the storylines we found in the place
itself and just the entire video as a whole. Thank you so much for watching it. Please
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