Hello everyone, welcome back to the Bros Of Decay. I'm Lesley and today I'm going
to take you on another adventure, we are today in the south of France and we're exploring an abandoned place that has
such a creepy story that it even creeped me out. I've seen a lot of things, I've explored a lot of
buildings, but this one is one of the craziest. We're standing now currently in the
backyard trying to find an entrance, as you can see everything is totally overgrown
over the last years this place has been abandoned. Okay, my friend is opening a door
over here, let me help him out, okay we're now coming inside of some sort of a
barn that seems to be completely filled. What happens in this place? Look at these tractors that are left behind, I will go into greater detail a little
bit later in the video, but oh my god! This seems like some sort of a castle... The house we are going to explore is next to it. What in the world did we end up in? Let's go through the backyard and yes,
this is the place where we came for the abandoned house of Anneliese and Michelle. The window seems to be just open over here, so
let's go inside and let's see what's left behind. Somewhere between the endless vineyards
in the Southern French countryside rests a picturesque property that has
been abandoned for a quarter of a century. The family Mullet started living here before
Napoleon even ruled the kingdom of France, over the years they built a successful business
in grape cultivation and wine production. At the start of a beautiful story of Mrs. Annalise and Mr. Michelle end up to the
bird of that daughter Caroline. Caroline was not a normal child, at first she
seemed very normal but when she got to the age of puberty a change started to happen, out of
the blue she went on a path of self-neglect. She stopped grooming herself, she
didn't brush her teeth anymore, she developed an alcohol addiction and her
life went in a complete downward spiral. Rumors also have it that she would yell out of her
window at passes by and even threw books at them. Her parents tried everything in
their power to heal their daughter but didn't succeed in their quest. On a particular night when she was 24 years old she passed away in her sleep
from alcohol poisoning. After these terrifying events
happened the parents packed their bags and never went back to the home ever again. Let us roam through its contents in
search of an answer to this bizarre story. So everybody, welcome back to another
adventure by the Bros Of Decay, I'm Lesley, and today I'm filming one of the
craziest abandoned places that I've ever filmed. Not because of the house but because
of the story that you just heard, we're gonna see everything
that happened in this place. I'm really excited to explore this
one, it's in the South of France and this place has been abandoned for 35 years. Annelise and Michelle, the
parents of Caroline left it behind without notice, packed their
bags, and never came back. Let me show you around this place and
let me tell you what happened here. When we start walking through the backyard the
first thing that we see is the car that they left behind, this is a two-horsepower Citroen car
and I think it's built around the 1960s or 70s. It is totally overgrown by thorns and
vines, have a look at this car, it is just deteriorating over the last 35 years that
Caroline and Michelle have left it behind. What a crazy find and that door
over there is gonna lead us into their property, let's
try to get through here. You can already see lots of things on
the ground, I'm not sure what kind of business these people had, but I believe it
was something to do with farming equipment, I'm gonna open the door for my cameraman Martijn. Are you okay? Because this is pretty
difficult with all the vines and plants. We don't want them to get into
your eyes or something like that. Wow, we just ended up in a barn and it truly
looks like these people had something to do with the making and selling of farming equipment. I'm gonna show you and follow me around and we will see all the tools that
are still in here, all left behind. Maybe around there, you can show them,
where Michelle used to work on the equipment that he made and I believe that these people
that lived here were also very rich people, because there are so many artifacts
that reveal this around the location. Look at the tractors that are left behind here,
these must at least be more than 100 years old. These are steel tires. We have not seen tractors
like this in a very long time. They also have a more recent one behind here, *Nuffield* which says
on there, it's a French tractor. And another one over there. And then when you walk onto that
property, the first thing you see, this is actually not the house that they lived in. But it's some sort of a manor
or a castle, that's left behind. I would call it a castle actually, we're gonna
explore that one at the end of the video, but it's completely collapsed so we
have to be very very careful in there. And then we walk onto their property. Look at this machine! Wow, I've never seen something like this in my
life, I think it would be to make hay bales, it would be pulled by horses. He might be into the business of restoring historical farming equipment, which seems to be a
very good business to be in, what a masterpiece! I have absolutely no clue how
this machine would function. And then we have also a plow in front of it here,
a very big one, that will be pulled by horses. Wow, let's go over their property. You can definitely see, the grass is growing, the trees are taking over and this
place is falling into disrepair. It's actually a very nice vibe walking over
here, despite the story that happened here. That door over there is going
to lead us on later in the video to the top of this castle, but
over here we see their grand house. I would call this a manor, a manner is French
for villa and this is definitely a villa. You can also definitely tell that
we are in the south of France by the palm trees that are growing over here. What a place! The last thing before we go inside, the roses are growing here because it's
springtime right now beautiful pink roses in front of their front door, let
me knock and see if anybody is home. So we just entered the house through the
window over here and this is the first room that we ended up in, the
dining area of the people. And this is already a very
flowery sunny happy room, as you can see Michelle put flowers all over it. I always assume that a woman does the interior
design of a home because she has the best taste, but that's not always true. There are Rundgren pictures on the table over
here of a spinal cord as you can see a pelvis, these might have been of Caroline. There are so many of these left behind
here on the table, let me show you. Here's another one, they might have been
taken when she got sick over the years. Crazy! It's a plate, 60 years diamond
anniversary it says over here, this is the diamond anniversary of
Annelies and Michelle, their wedding. So they were 60 years married
to each other, is that true? That can be true actually and then we have
the big fireplace with the exhauster above it, here in the corner of the room,
where the food would be cooked on. And the last ashes from 35 years ago
are still in there and this to the side looks like some sort of a
speaker, but I'm not sure. Amazing finds here on the table,
we also still have a newspaper left and from which there is this one 1932,
almost 90 years old depicting the cable rails with the cards to take people up in the alpine
mountains of France, to go skiing most likely. There's even a half-drunken
bottle of wine on the table, wow! The broom is also still left behind over
here and this doorway over here leads us into their broken-down kitchen. Oh my god, isn't that just crazy
everybody, the decay in this place, the window that they would open. Wow, even a microwave back there, some food pots, that's how your life looks like and your house
looks like after you leave planet earth behind. A stove underneath the exhaust and all the
pots and pans still neatly hanging from there. That's a crazy sight! And to this side, we have
all the built-in cabinets with the food and the drinks and
the liquors still stored in there. Pernot that's a fine drink, I've had it before! Hair clipping device, wow! Oh, this is an agricultural machine
Renault says on there it's from 1919, so Mr. Michelle might have had something to
do with the restoration of these machines. Okay, that's why we probably saw them so many of them in the backyard, then
to the side here we have the sink. Even more foods all throughout these cabinets. So let's not waste any more time in this kitchen,
let's show you the remainder of the house. Okay, here's the doorway that we just came
in through uh we didn't come into here but we knocked on it and it's not able to
open anymore because a door has fallen on it. Well, the spider webs are completely covering it and that leads people into the hallway of
the house that's also completely designed with this wonderful wallpaper that's now
peeling off the walls after all those years. And that leads us into another room, Oh, Oh my god, I just stepped over in this hole
over here oh that was a bit, scary everybody. That leads us into a bedroom actually, oh my
god, look at this we just entered into a bedroom of this place, the lovely side table maria on
there holding a cross, what do we have over here? A lovely book that they didn't even finish
reading, it's still on one of the last pages. The glasses, wonderful clock as well, they
truly loved flower design in this place. Depictions of French farmland, castles
all over this wallpaper, and the bed is still made after all those years of
abandonment that's what I truly love. Another clock face with an elephant on top. Cointreau, that's a very typical French liquor
actually, and also Calvados to the side over here. Let's open up one of these very very big
built-in cabinets, I almost knocked this over, let me place this to the side, it's pretty heavy! Actually, I don't know what it is, but I think
they are decoration pieces for the clock. Okay, now we can open it up and that
reveals just a storage area in this cabinet. In the middle of the room, we have this fireplace that would be lit up in the evening
to heat up this wonderful room. And above the fireplace, there is this
wedding picture that's actually taken on the grounds of this property, and these
two people, are they Michelle and Annelies? I'm not sure because it seems like a very old
picture, but you can see the castle behind it here, no this is from 1892 that might be
the grandparents of Annelies and Michelle. Flowers made into a display over here, I'm not gonna open this one up, because I have
to move so many things to open that one up. More liquor down here, look at this, we've got
a champagne bottle, oh no this is actually wine, wow! We are of course in France and
wine is very common over here. Oh this is a trophy from Jupiler and that's
a beer from my country actually, Belgium has, one of the best beers in the world, so
it's not uncommon to see something like that. And then we have a table over here in
the middle with a nice postcard, wow! This is a postcard that they made of this
place of this castle that's on the property and as you can see closely the car that
was completely overgrown in the backyard is standing here in front
of the castle, oh my god! That's a very very wonderful postcard, this looks
like some sort of a glass plane that they made. A handwritten receipt also left behind, just
gonna go through the things and show you and then a record player underneath
and another one behind here as well. What a room, oh I see something else, another one of those restored agricultural
machines depicted over here, wow! And even a wall clock without a clock
face anymore left on the wall over here and then we enter into this room that I just
saw from the corner of my eye and I think this is where Michelle deducted conducted his
business made his invoices and all this stuff. Look at this very very wonderful bureau that we
just entered into, it looks more like a library than a bureau, when you first
enter this room you see this, I think it is some sort of a dentist chair
that you put into here to conduct this work on. I assume yes, it's very very heavy and it
even has this lever to pull and put down the patient with it I can think you can pump it
up like that wow it's completely falling apart and then there's some sort
of a desk over here as well. Some of his glasses are left behind. And another one over here, let's put them
together with a clock face above there. Renaissance 1835 from Paris, let's open
this up and let's see what's in there, it's a very old booklet that's left here. And even all the letters that he once
wrote to his clients are still left here, the date on there says 1964 and it's
a posted stamp from Lourdes actually. I can see also this postcard down here,
think it's the castle of Versailles, Palace of Versailles, exactly chamber
de Louis XVI so the 14th Louis It's a postcard of that place, one of
my favorite places to visit in France. Over here some of his keys are even left
behind and a map of France as well and look at this side of the bureau, all
the books that are stored up here. Very fascinating display, this is one
of my favorite parts of this house, oh and even more of these letters are
left in here and they're all handwritten, like people used to do back in the day. Now everything is made with computers
but this took time and dedication. Up here we have a projector from back in the day. And another clock face down here
as well, so many things to look at in this place, I can't stop going through here. Wow, look at this carriage
that's depicted on here, also from the palace of Versailles and this one
is fully written out, it says that it's from 1919. More than a hundred years old is this
postcard, more than a hundred years old. And we have also this Kochier
sewing machine down here. And also look at all the invoices that are
hanging from here, isn't that just crazy? These are all the invoices that Mr.
Michelle made for his clients, wow! I love to find rooms like these that hold
true history and that are time capsules. Let's now go through the hallway over here and go further into the house, this is
where the people came in and left as well. There are even more of those
Rundgren pictures here on the floor, I'm not going to go in-depth
on every single one of them. Cassettes left behind more and oh these are
all cassettes that they made, they even wrote on there what it says, the 9th of June 1983
and this is for a birthday as I can read. I think we enter into the kitchen over here to the
right, I love how these doors were made back then. The mechanism on there is just fascinating, a very big kitchen actually for only three people
and an enormous exhauster right next to me here. I'm gonna turn off my light actually and show you when I turn off this light you can see the
light from up there coming into the place. I hope you can see this right,
let me turn on the light again and show you that we are inside of the exhauster
the light is just flooding into this place wow they had an oven over here a cooking
pot which they made the last meal with. I think before Annelies and Michelle
more people lived in this place. Look at this cooking pot that we have over
here, that's to at least feed a hundred people, wow, what does it say on there? Oblain foundry from some sort of foundry
model, I can read, not very clear, but you would heat it up from down here and
then you could cook your meal in this pot. And in the kitchen, there's also so much
food just left behind and rotting away, canned food is something very
common to find in abandoned places. A suitcase to travel the world and see different
countries, that's what I love to do in my life, traveling the world, seeing different
things and experiencing different people. And the enormous dining table is also still
left here, two, four, five, six, seven, eight chairs in this place, wow! I think they only used the
first dining room that we saw, the alpine mountains of France are depicted here. An oil lamp above. Is this the Notre Dame? Yes, it is! And this is of course before it burned down and
the spire that we see up here totally collapsed. The Notre Dame of Paris. We even have a calendar over here that's from
1900, I can't see the last letter anymore, the last number, but look at this
calendar how it's made, I just love it! Food is also still left in here, okay,
interesting all this, very interesting! We haven't looked at this one yet, it's like
a family diploma or something like that. Bottles of liquor are all left here. Okay, we saw the kitchen, this is the stairway, but first, there's one
more room that we have to cover to this side. I think this was the utilitarian
room where the washing would be done, where some of the food would be
made and as well I see a bathroom. Let's first focus on this side, because
we have another exhauster over here, wow! They also cooked some food
in this room as you can see. Some tools to this side. Wow, we have some hats from
Annelies also left here. Oh, this door you can definitely
see that it's not been opened for such a long time, the spider webs
are so present on it, it's just crazy. Let me show you in the bathroom as
well, what that used to look like. This was their bathroom would be
the toilet and a sink very basic. I think their shower would be in here,
look at the contraption that they made to keep the showerhead up, wow! They were not people that just bought a new
one, they really tried to fix this one up! Let's now head up this wonderful
stairway to the top floor and let's see what's left behind over there. I have to be a bit careful because I
don't think this one is very stable. While going through these places you also
have to be very careful where you're walking, because a place that has been abandoned
for 35 years can be very dangerous, you have to be very careful with those. But now to the left of us, we
are entering Caroline her bedroom and this is actually the
saddest part of the house. I'm gonna tell a story about this room. So Caroline this was her bed, where she
slept, where she grew up, and where she got mentally ill and this is the window
that we see over here and here people of the town always walked by because
the street is right in front of the window. And she would be in this room in front
of this window all the time looking out and throwing things at people, shouting at people,
calling them perverts, and all these bad words. And these people that walk by of
course didn't do anything wrong, but that's just how Caroline her brain
worked and at a certain point in the evening on her 23rd year of life, she was lying in this
bed, probably under the influence of drugs, alcohol and other things she
suffocated in her own vomit. I'm 99.9% sure that this story is right
because the people of the town have verified it and of course, these people have experienced it, because it's 35 years ago, it's
not a century ago or anything. These people that live in this town have
experienced this girl and the things she did and that's the saddest part about this house and probably also one of the
sad stories that I've ever told. The whole ceiling has just come
down on top of the bed leaving it crumbled away, even her head is
still hanging on the side of the bed. Oh this gets me, this really gets me,
it's still made after that certain day, her pillows are still on there and there
seems to be another bed behind this bed. Wow, what a place, what a truly sad place. I can feel what happened in here,
I don't believe in spiritual things or anything but I definitely can feel
that bad things have happened in here. We have got a picture of an army
man, 1818 it says on his collar. A dog and a cat are depicted over here. Underneath, we have a radio let's see if our clothes are also left behind,
no they are not, but the bed linen, yes they are. What a room! I think that wardrobe over there was for her clothes, but of course, I'm not gonna
walk there because it's just too dangerous to do. Okay let's turn back, let's leave this room
behind, I'm gonna close the door because I want to close this part off. What a story everybody when I heard
it I was just in shock about it, let's go further everybody, let's go further. Sometimes you have to tell stories
that you really don't want to tell, but they have to be out there and in
this room, there are even two more beds. And we have a fireplace to the
side here, a wonderful fireplace! It used to be a very beautiful room
but now, of course, it isn't anymore. I think I see these pieces of
furniture in a lot of lots of places and at first I thought it was a sled, but looking
at it closer I'm actually not sure what this is. Does anybody have a clue what this device
was used for, because I don't I just don't? Okay, let's cover the last bedrooms of this place. I'm walking slowly through the hallway over here, we even have a baby crib over here, wow,
what was its purpose? I have no clue! Some parts of these stories, I
don't understand them, I just don't! But we enter into the master
bedroom over here of this place, you can see a big bed where Annelies and Michelle used to sleep together, that still made after all
those years, the pillows still lying in the top. Wonderful design! A religious statue above here on the
nightstand and the chamber pot underneath, wonderful blue design on it. Here we have a picture of windmills on farmland. Let's see what's in this room, to this side we
have an upholstery chair with Annelise her leather snakeskin purse next to it, this must have
been a pretty expensive piece actually. I love this chair as well, wow and I think this
is a polishing machine that we see over here, yes it is it's a polishing
machine, a very old piece. And then we have these built-in
cabinets, you can open them up and they reveal a costume of Mr. Michelle
even his pen is still in his pocket over here. Inter oil it says on there, it's maybe the
oils that he used for his farming equipment, fascinating! Lots and lots of religious depictions
over here a new sewing machine down below and a wardrobe as well with the same design on it. And then we have one last room back here, okay. This also used to be a bedroom back in
the day as you can see a very tiny one. The French written note from 1953 on there,
lovely to see and then we have one last bedroom over here to this side, with built-in
cabinets on either side of it. These are the same ones as
we saw in the other bedroom, okay they also have a costume
probably of Annalise in here. Look at this bedroom and this is also a very
very tiny bed that's left in here, look at this, some praying beats on the bed itself,
an upholstered bed as you can see. Wonderful and a television
to this side of the room. You can't even use a remote on
this one that's how old it is. Lovely last room of the house and
now the last thing that I'm gonna do is I'm gonna take a look in the castle
and show you what that used to look like. So let's go over there right
now let's show you the castle. Okay, everybody, we're back outside right now
and we're standing in front of the castle. I'm really excited to see what's in there, so let's get over there and let's see
what's left behind in this place. Jeroen just also told me that
there is a wine cellar, is it here? I have to light over here okay because
we need some light in there, of course, oh my god, we're entering
inside of the castle now. As you can see this was used
to produce wine actually, so the people Annelies and Michelle
might have also been in the business of creating wine, all these wine bottles
left over here, they are all empty of course. And then in the middle of this castle,
we have an enormous wine barrel, a little faucet up here that you could turn
open and tap your bottles of wine from. Even some corks left behind that
would close off the bottles. Is there more to see in this basement? Whoa, there's a big hole in the floor
over here, you have to be a bit careful. Okay, this is to press grapes I think. Oh my god, look at this device that we have over
here, it's a mechanical grape presser i think. Amazing machines! Okay let's now go to the top of the castle and see
what's up there, even an old bicycle left here, it was probably from Caroline, wow! Let's go further. Here to the stairs, yes, okay let's go up there. Up to the top of the castle that's falling
apart right now, as you all can see. Oh my god, here we can get an
overview of the house to the side and see how it's collapsed over the
years, the 35 years that it's abandoned. I also want to check out this one, oh
enormous rooms, most likely people have also lived in this place before, but very very
early before Annelies and Michelle their time. And here we have another grand room, wow! Okay, let's now go to the very top is
that possible, you have not tried it? -No, I haven't. Oh okay, Let's go up there. Are you oke? I think this is the highest point we can get,
over here we get a nice view of the town as well. Maybe show around. Wow, from the door over here you can see the
complete town and overview of this place. So everybody. I think this is
where I'm gonna end the video. With nature taking over this place,
trees growing inside of here, wow. I want to thank everybody for watching this
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