Welcome back everyone to Bros Of Decay, I'm Lesley, and let me take a moment I turn, and Danny is behind the camera. - Hey, hello! You're exploring with me today, but oh my god, we'll make it soon, right now we're walking towards to an abandoned house, which has allegedly been abandoned for several decades, and everything should still be left in it. I'm really excited to explore this place and we're going there right now because I want to go inside, it's so fucking cold. Alright let's go! - Let's go! A quarter of a century has passed since the last person Josephine spent her last moments in the house, now the place lies desolate and forgotten, awaiting its inevitable demolition. Together with her husband Patrick, she started living here in the thirties of the last century and through for six decades they raised two beautiful children, got married and lived a long life with good memories. At the beginning of their relationship, Patrick was a truck driver and worked countless hours away from home, which led Josephine to find something of her own and she decided put your passion for flowers into business. Josephine opened a flower shop in town, which was a great success from the start. At one point, Patrick decided to give up his job to help Josephine with her business. They both lived in the house until the very end, Patrick died first and Josephine lived her last days alone until she died in 1997. She reached the age of 96, and at that age she still managed full care herself, while she lived in the house. After her passing, the children and grandchildren did not show much interest in the house, after while recording this video, we talked to one of the relatives and asked him why this is so left, he said he just didn't care too much about it. This left us in a quandary why… Today we will show you the remains of what used to be everything! Oh, Danny, it's much better outside now, let's go into this building, I just realized while I was here how long this place has been abandoned and it is quite fascinating because this place that we will explore today was abandoned in 25 years, not 24. I'm the exact age, I'll show you where I found this in a second, but let me let me close this first because it's really cold outside and the Portuguese is behind the camera cold. Bro, I'm so excited, let's shoot this place, show everyone what's left here, this used to be the house of Josephine, a wonderful lady, she had a husband who unfortunately deceased, and also had a daughter who also lived in this place. I don't know why my daughter doesn't care for this place anymore, but let's go through that and let's try to find their story, the first part of the house, a small outbuilding, he said would, but it was turned into a kitchen area as you can see. And during the 24 years of abandonment, the paint is peeling off, the ceiling is collapsing, but both Danny and I were surprised that this building was still standing. - Yes. You've seen some places in the United States that have been abandoned for 10 years. - And the situation in the house looks like it will fall every second. Especially that ceiling we just showed you, just give it a few more years and it's on the ground. - Yes, this one is already falling. Let's start with this side here, you can see more coolers standing there, just three people stayed in this house, but they still had plenty of storage space for everyone things they bought in the store. You can see this piece on the ceiling, it's barely hanging, can I look over there? There are some other things inside, I see some beer bottles inside and some others groceries. Here is the stove top where Josephine prepared some food for her child and her husband , and even the plates and whatever else was left in that cupboard, oh with the pots and pans that they are still standing there. It always surprises me, it's always amazing to see respected people show respect neighborhood shows towards these abandoned places and that they leave them for so long . You can see here the dining table, four seats around it, where the family used to be have dinner together, let's put this beautiful nickname upright again ooo see a little bell, I think it's made of porcelain, no it's not, it's clay, and it's definitely handmade, probably from someone, maybe Josephine stayed in this place, I like it, let's put it in the middle of the table. Ah a lot of rubble on the ground, but that's most likely from the Abandonment years, you can see here we have this case of beck's beer you can see it falling from there, and all the beers were literally scattered over the ground and there we actually found out the age of the house. So if you see here 97, it says there, and this is the seventh month, brother, it's me born on the seventh month of 1997. So this beer bottle is correct, no, that is not correct my age, but the expiration date is exactly my age, and exactly the same month, isn't that just fascinating! -Lud! I'm not making this up for everyone. Some silver metallic color here, but I looked here and it's not there of papers containing the names of former owners, that is quite interesting, some cabinets up here, a very small kitchen area and I don't understand but in the United States States have a lot of disposable plastic, paper and cutlery. - Yes, I saw how everyone uses it in the houses. Yes, we go to friends and family here in the States and they use plastic cutlery in your house. - Yes. I'm sorry to say it, but it kinda disgusts me. - Yes, just wash the dishes. Yes, they can if you're hosting a party, but don't use plastic cutlery when you're alone at home, you can wash the dishes, and you are literally destroying our environment . All right, here we have a United States Postal Service stamp and it has a name. I think that it says W. Nater here, so it could be a man who once lived here, ok, no date there or something, quite interesting! Some more cups and plates and everything, also some medicines over there on the side, everything is still there. Turn around brother and look at the clock here, time has literally stopped at 1 p.m., that was the last moment the clock struck in this place and now it is forever silent. Let's move on, oh excuse me, I have to kneel down, look at this, February 1958, and this is from their local radio station as you can see, am I right? Yes, the local radio station, so they had a calendar. It's definitely not an abandonment date, but it's pretty much it interesting to see that there is still a 60-year calendar left here. And also the fire extinguisher, that's also something that Danny and I looked at when we asked for a date, what did you see here? - See those numbers above, see 72. Oh, it's the year. - it is a year, it means that the research date is... November 72 - no, it was renovated on October 70, yes, and the last expiration date is 72. Here they had a fire extinguisher that had expired for 20 years, let's move on because I think this room is very interesting, not because of the kitchen, it's quite ordinary, but look at this beauty here, standing in the corner, first time I see this kind of ceramic stove in the United States, they were mainly used in Europe made of wood, but not sure about this American brand. Oh no, this one is from Florence, look at that, look at the brand here, Florence, you know where Florence is Danny, no, but I'm imagining Italy, yes, that's one of the the most beautiful provinces in Italy in my opinion. What we have here, I'm not sure, oh, it's likely that something is baked, but I think it's this was a gas stove, but I'm not 100 percent sure, please let me know, and I think the coop tops, yes, they are under here, wonderful steel cooktops and they protected them with this with the plastic piece here. So here we also see the Florence logo, here Josephine prepared all the darlings meals for your husband and your child, here we have a kitchen with all the cupboards, you can even see some other dishes inside, oh and you know my favorite part o this kitchen Danny? What? Hanging pots and pans are simply magnificent. And they look really good in really good shape. They've been hanging here for so long, even the knife that's left and all, Oh, I thought this one was real, this is just plastic. Then we have a small decoration here, a sailboat, maybe someone had something to do with sailing or fishing or something like that. United States of America, we have been investigating for five months in this country and any is so fascinating, I would never have thought that the United States had such amazing abandoned places everyone, I love your country so far. Oh, look at these, these are all rusty coins. Wow, they've been lying here for a long time, exactly my age, and then we have another one a show piece here, a cabinet with pictures of lovely flowers above, let's open this one. Some cutlery here. Oh yeah, if you look down there, I'm going to try to open Danny, look at this. - It's falling apart down there. But what is made here is a nest of animals, yes. - Rats. Yes, exactly rats, sorry I forgot which animal makes these nests. - Those are rats, okay, that's right, so don't touch it. There are probably still rats in there. This is also a nice chair. - No, no, that's not how it's used. Do you like walking on it? - No, these are not stairs, they are just steps on which you can rest your feet. Just sit like this, okay, I've never seen a seat like that before. - I've seen bathroom seats like that, but not with a back, you know? Okay okay. And now it's time to move on to that part of the household. Let's go through this corridor, oh there's a bathroom here too, come check it out man, it's pretty interesting, be careful there is a lot of glass on the ground. Look at this door that's in the bathroom here, the glass panels there and everything, this looks more like a door that would be on the outside of the house. - Yes Yes. And then we have a very traditional American bathroom here, but literally, it's everything still left inside. All their cleaning products are still on the shelves, and what I always have interesting are these products that remain, the space is very tight, even shavers, and everything, and I saw that here we have a bathtub with a converted shower. Oh, I thought so is a towel, but it's a bath mat, and there's a window there. Okay, let's get out of here slowly, because it's too small for both of us. And then we go to the next room and it's actually this one here, i know there is a lot of debris on the bed, but you can see that this was the bed Josephine supposedly slept on the last days of our lives. This was her bedroom because, she probably couldn't climb the stairs anymore because has become too old, look at the decay of this place that nature is literally taking over. Let me enter this room . Okay, I just wanted to look, oh my god! - Be careful! I'm always doing crazy things, but I saw this frame laying here on the bed, and it used to be here was a picture, but nature has already completely devoured it, you can see a small part of the frame still left inside. This used to be their vanity here, everything is still up to him, and you can say year, first let me turn around. - You're stuck. And! When you're researching, you always have to be careful where you stop, it's television still here and this is an old model Danny if I had to guess I'd say 70's or something similarly, you can see that it is probably black and white. It has a color TV logo. - Yes, but it's a gold star TV, must be from the 80s or 90s. Okay, I've never seen this model before, quite interesting. Okay, let's go from this room before I break my neck. - *Danny laughs* Please give me the camera for a second, I just saw something out of the corner of my eye, let me show you, there is a chandelier hanging here in the closet, a copper chandelier with pieces of crystal, beautiful to see. I remember these rugs we have here for my grandmother's house back in the day, here bro - Back to me. Okay, and from here we can go on to the next room in the place, and this one used to be was a living room, you can see in the corner, they stacked a lot of furniture, but here right in front of us we have a sitting area where the three of them could sit together. Bro, this is absolutely perfect, Josephine, her husband and their daughter next to them. - Yes. Exactly as it should be. I also like the design on the sofa itself, nice pattern there, traditional agricultural pattern, what do we have behind? - It is certainly a work of art. It looks like a work of art of your own making. - Yes. You can see it's cut out of steel, and then we have copper or tin, it's very fragile, she is a woman. And then I like this footrest that we have here in front of us, is it called a pouf? - Uh, I don't know. No, it's like a place where you rest your feet. - I don't know his exact name. Beautiful woodwork also divides this space, before we look at that side, let's take a quick look here. This door no longer opens. - No no no. Okay, I'll go first, but I want to show you what we're working on here. This is the basement of a place I can't get into as you can see if I - Yes, ice. Oh, I've already passed, there's a bottle of alcohol left here, give me the camera for a second, I want to show this, oh, we even have a boot left up here, it's complete Frozen is weird. And this is some kind of food pantry down here, lots of liquor bottles still left in there, you can see that the entire basement is completely frozen. Oh, I have to be careful not to the camera falls out, that's so interesting! What are you doing? - I was just trying to get that tube out. Okay, man, I've got to be careful. - just let it go. Yeah, I'll let it go, you okay? - Yes... Okay, we're back in the house, lots of cold air coming straight from the basement. - Yes. Okay, and then we have the dining room on this side, the table still made, I think these are set by photographers because it looks too untouched, but still, you can see if let's put it all back here and here, it would be right for three people, right for the people who lived in this household. A very simple dining table, also not much decoration around it, and the walls are completely clean, I look to see if there are hooks on the wall where there might have been pictures, but I don't see anything, there is one picture of me standing here, so I repeat, very simple dining room. And then, of course, the TV in the corner to watch TV while we have dinner together. And this is also a very unique design feature of the United States House. These are heaters that I have never seen in this position. - Is that a heater? Yes, I think so. - Or is it for running the cables behind it. You can see here. - Oh yeah, it's a heater, what? These are the radiators inside this house, that's how it would be heated, Danny, I also realized something else, you just saw the radiator on that side, but here you have a shoot that literally goes through the top floor and if you look closely, you can to see Mauren standing there. Maureno! - What's up? Look down. - What the hell! You can see Mauren through the floor. - Can you see me? Yes, barely, but we can see you, so this is also how the heat will be transferred throughout the house, if this room were to heat up, the floors above would also immediately warmed up and I think it might have been the shutter but we'll look into that up there yes let's separate the two floors. Next room my friend, again you can see the nice door with the windows which they take us to the next room, this is a big mess. - Yes. But there are still some fascinating items here, let's start with this, a nice seat, and in fact, a very nice one to be found in the United States, an antique seat, of course, nice upholstery here. We can also see some animal droppings here and they are definitely not from rats. - No, it must be a cat! I think the cat might have lived here for a while, yes, it might have been unlucky to see everyone on the seat here, this is such a wonderful piece, oh, this television next to him, oh my god, this is the biggest television of the house. I love how they used to design a small piece of furniture around the television and even had carvings inside today, it's just a big ugly screen, and this is simple beautiful, It looks like a drawer, but it's not. - Yes. Everything just for aesthetics and beauty, and the televisions of that time were literally were made for years and years, decades maybe even. You see it's still standing here, it will probably still work if you plug it in. - I don't know about that, but it's a thing that lasts forever. They used to be did things that took forever. I like that time period better, because nowadays people buy a television and throw it away after a few years, they already buy a new one because it is a new technology. - It's the same with phones and computers. I hate it, I hate it! People throw away their phones after a year. But it makes everyone to he decides for himself, of course. - Oh, it's an antenna. Yes, exactly in color supreme, so this used to be a color TV, oh amplifier and everything that exists. Look at this, here we have a Teleflora line of credit, okay, this is kind of a bank machine, you can swipe your credit card here, oh, some nice china too the pieces here are even branded and made in China. Anyway lovely piece, oh and this is a birdhouse bro, would this hang outside, probably Is it? - I think it's more a decoration for a plant, but like a vase, but I don't know. It's like a small sitting area, I think the family used to come here just to drink coffee or a little, I want to say that this was not a place for dining. - No no! Yes, I love the two levels of the coffee table and this reminds me of Portugal, how about that he says in English, I'm talking about a piece of cloth. - Yes, yes, I don't know. But when I was at your house in Portugal, your mother literally had it everywhere. - Yes, everyone has something like that. Yeah, I like to see that, lots of boxes behind, oh look at this - Oh, I was right, this is because this is a vase, and you stick the flowers here. Right, but there are literally hundreds of them out there, probably all these boxes are filled, - see these flowers and just do it. Maybe she did something like that for her job. - it's mostly for decoration, but yes, it could be ok, interesting. Maria on the wall there, nice carving, lights up the house, decorative piece, oh and look here we have this display case standing here but it's multipurpose showcase, I would say, the first and most important thing that attracts my attention is that there are three phones are lying here and then we have a secretarial desk that also works in this part, you can see it's all her equipment for doing secretarial things I would say. Stampers, pens and everything, everything is still here, even the postage stamp in left hand, Eisenhower is an American figure, but I'm not sure exactly who that man was, my name rings a bell, on the back of my watch, look at this wonderful lamp that is also hanging wow inside. Oh wonderful picture, this could have been her husband. I like it, vintage picture. - Unbelievable. Let's put her back where we found her, okay, let's close this beauty. Oh, this is too great, this drawer used to be in there, but over time it fell out and now they're all there papiri popadali na pod. - Yes, I see that rats probably did it. The florist in the studio, this is from flowers, so she probably did something as a job for it. - That's why all these names. Yes, that's right, Dad, that's Father. - Yes. Wow, yes, she did something with decorating and selling things like that. - Yes, I saw a lot of birthday things, you see a lot of birthdays in the kitchen , you know and many pots of flowers there so, yes, it was all about decoration, all about birthdays, all about events or something and now we have another wonderful one seating area here on the upholstered seat, nice lamp in the corner too. And the only fireplace in the house, I think, but I don't even think this one was real. - No, yes! There is no chimney, decorations for sure absolutely, there are still pieces of glass, wow, at first I thought it was coal, but here we have glass. And there are three light bulbs behind it, so they would also light up they would be reflected in the glass. Only the color, only the ambience, even the tools for the fireplace remained. We'll pass by you, and now we'll head up to the upper floors. Here we see an RCA XL-100 TV from the 1970s. Since the first radio was introduced, electronics were made to match the decor of the living room, and people preferred that the furnishings it looks like furniture. The wood around it was cheap and worked too as an excellent heat spreader. It was a very typical set for its period. This here is the entrance to the house, as you can see, the front door are now completely locked with three layers, even a piece of plywood they put inside. Whole the window is broken, but you can see that this was a kind of medical part here, so maybe At the end of her life, Josephine was in medical need and needed help. We saw the bed downstairs and everything, but behind us, we can go up the stairs, the beautiful staircase to the second floor, the bedrooms, the most intimate part of the house, oh, I'm always alone honored to climb here, normally don't see this. First room, let's look inside, oh my god, decay here, yes, nature takes over, there are some beautiful pieces of furniture here, take a look first this bamboo chair i would say wow it is totally Frozen to the ground. I love the shape and style of this one, lovely piece and the complimentary flower basket next to it him, which Josephine probably used to show off her flowers to her friends and family, oh, and these lanterns standing next to him are not simply beautiful well. This one even has these beautiful designs on it, it used to be an oil lamp, but it was later converted into an electric lamp. And here we can see everything falling from the ceiling there, creating a big pile of garbage or just decaying I'd say oh this is also completely frozen. A small bedroom can be a child's bedroom. - Probably, most likely! From the daughter you can see light blue colors. - Purple too. Where do you see the purple, Danny? - Around the window, the door is purple, let it be light purple. I'd say it's light blue. No, it's definitely purple, okay, let's get out of here, now we're going back to the main one hallway and we have, oh, look at this a toilet with a throne, that's a raised toilet, I've seen this only a few times, but the only time I saw her was in a castle or a big villa, but never simple enough normal houses. - why did they do it? I have no idea maybe it has a purpose or maybe there is something down there what's blocking it, i think the plumbing is down here. - oh, okay, okay. You can see the toilet bowl that was completely eaten by the rats that live in this place, but it's still hanging here after all these years, after 25 years, you can still use this one WC. Well left or right which first? - Exactly. I had to think about that for a second, welcome, I think we just ended up in the master bedroom places, you can see that we just ended up in a beautifully designed bedroom and this must have been her bedroom Josephine, look at the flowers on the bed, it was natural person, she loved flowers, she loved the beautiful design, you see the flowers and the gift with vines printed on the wallpaper. Absolutely in love with him! Give me that for a second. I want to show this side of the bed, here we have our bedside table , with some potholes there, some religious artifacts, you can see some Statues of Mary even two hands coming out of a praying Bible. I absolutely love almost a sort of small terrarium with flowers and even and a butterfly inside. I'll give you this back. - Back to me. Yes, and this was our vanity, you can still see her sitting here in the mornings beautifying are. Yes, this was her jewelry, it would all be here, hers the earrings, her makeup, all the things and even the flowers here, yes she definitely loved it , this is a rather heavy wooden carved elephant. And this is most likely the Bible, no reader can digest the abridged volume of book 3, never heard for that, the record player also stands there, oh oh I see this I imagined his dad, beautiful the song is playing on the record player, she's sitting here in front of the vanity, beautifying herself in the morning, this must have been such a beautiful picture. - Yes, wow! And then we have to stand here, with the television on top and about is the same as we saw below, the three points up here you can see. - This is Samsung. These don't open anymore, a nice light next to it, and the antenna stands all the way pulled out. - Really big antennas. And did you notice that there is a very small door behind you? - no, I didn't notice. First what is this? - I have no idea... Ah, volume, light radio. - See, that's what he did. Let's open this beauty wow, where do we end up now? Okay, sorry, I don't want it break it, I'll put it on the floor, I don't know if this is safe, I'll go alone if you want to. - Okay, be careful, please! Some kind of loft. Store some stuff up here, not that interesting, but you can see some pipes on the house and things like that, but not really anything interesting just for this horn lying here on the the floor. Deer's head, still lying here, all right! Here, brother! Okay, and then we'll go into the next room. Before we go inside, this is the vent we just saw from below, see, you can watch straight into it, yes, you can't see it clearly, but there is also a mechanism with sides here that I was just talking about, you can close the segment off, but it's complete rusted so this lever would be used for that, interestingly, now you can go inside . But I was just looking at this room that looks so different from the other room that we just saw that the furniture here is from America from the 1970s and the other one is all vintage , so yes, that is very interesting to me. In the lovely little bedroom, the bed is still made with gold details, as you would call this hanging thing aside. - I have no idea. This to me is very noble, very classic. - I wouldn't say classic or noble, but just some decorations that people normally use they use, in Portugal we also use it a lot. I don't know the name, but if you know, leave it him in the comments because I want to know. A nice lamp that stands on each side of the bedside table, with rugs underneath again , clots below, and we also have two books, two children's books lying around here, probably from that daughter from the time of the little mermaid and a week colors. Oh, that is to teach the children the days of the week and teach them at the same time colors, I need this book because I'm not colorblind. Everything is still lying there, I really like it when the pillow is still on at the end of the bed and everything is still in place. You also have this little sitting area here in the front and to my surprise, there is still some clothing left. Look at this, it was their daughter's clothes from a long time ago, wasn't it just a lovely pretty pink and now we also have our blue skirt with trousers underneath oh no this is the skirt now we still have the top left here this is probably from when was very young. So great to find, from the same side to that side she also had a television above everything. - These people have a lot of televisions, yes, it's like the fourth or fifth. That's true, why does television do it. - Because it's a portable TV. Can you literally take it somewhere? - Yes, because before you simply connected it because the antenna was the receiver antenna, so you could place it anywhere you wanted. Oh, you would always receive the signal through the antenna of course, and then cable television came, wow! This looks like something Spanish or Portuguese, especially the shape of the i design. Let's see if there's anything else here, in this drawer, there's also something else her clothes, you can see the lovely pink clothes all from the daughter, this is probably her pajamas. This is crazy, and here we have another bed standing in the corner, maybe a friend would came to the household could place her friend here. Bro this house is getting creepier LH those are my exact initials this house was abandoned the same year and month and my correct initials are here. I don't know if it's a coincidence, but this is total madness on these chests wow. And then we have our vanity sitting here, also an absolutely beautiful piece, the only thing very creepy about him is down there. Look at him. - Yes, that doll, yes, I spotted it. His face is completely deformed, if other researchers came in here, they would say that it's haunted, but for me, I don't believe in it, but it's still very creepy to see this one doll laying here, oh his head just came off it. Oh, that was Josephine, this was the mother of the family, now we have her picture yes, we can imagine her now and she was like that. Wow great, ok let's put it where we found it. Look good though! Then the vanity itself, were there candles here? No, it looks very plastic. And then another little sitting area on this side, some more animal excrement over there, again I think as you said before it must be a cat. - Yes. I medo. - He looks very angry, I don't know. The face looks like it has a tongue out, but it doesn't i know Oh yes, it really does. - It's like a mixture between spicy and ordinary. This piece of furniture is out of place, it fits better in another room, yes, it was made for another room, but for some reason it was put here. And then again another beautiful child's dress still hanging here, I'm surprised yes all the clothes in this room look like they are from when the child was still very young, so why there are no clothes here from when she was older. - That begs the question. It is a very strange question, what happened to her? But we probably never will find out and then we'll have to go to the closet, all the clothes are still hanging inside, I'm only talking about clothes, but I can see that these clothes were from when she was a little older. Interestingly, a closet full of blankets and everything, let's close this beauty and see we're the whole house, Danny, unfortunately, we've come to the end, but I'm not wrong, when we can go out and in the front pantry of the house or the front porch houses. Let's go there now. Oh, let's go in, what an amazing place, brother, let's put this behind us because I don't want anyone to see that it's open and I can get inside. Okay, the sun is already setting outside, how much time did we spend inside? - I think six hours was too much. Six hours? But the people here also had a nice yard with some trees and some plants and similar things. Actually, I think it goes pretty far, but it's not like anything there. And they also got a lawnmower here to make everything nice and nice and tidy, ah, let's look at the house, wow, you can see it from the side of the building which is completely falling apart and completely falling apart, which is literally crazy to see. I gave him for a few more years and then they will just collapse on top of each other. This is the portico we quickly crossed to enter the place. Oh, sorry Maureen, I come to this picture. Wow, from the outside the place is absolutely magnificent. A typical American house with north side of America from New York you can definitely see it in the architecture and design features of this place, but there is one more thing we have to show you here, that is actually here. We can go in here, so this here was the door we're behind, this is the coffee shop which I called before, but yes, here we are in the terrace of the place and from that room, you can come in and sit here, look at the road through the windows on this side and as you can see Josephine also decorated the space nicely, you have some flowers here flowers there and there everything is like fluorescence and everything here and me absolutely love it. Some notches at the top here, pretty crazy and also falling apart at the top, mold is already forming everywhere and water is leaking inside. Bro, look at this, some traditional New York plates, this is an old design, now it says New York at the top, that's how it used to be, so that's probably where it was license plate from their car. Turtle here and I'm just wondering why it has so many holes in it from some big salt dispenser maybe. I absolutely loved exploring this place, it was a true time capsule abandoned from mine birthdays, it is simply unfathomable. Thank you Danny so much for going along and exploring with me this place with me you people @ES. Forgotten link in the description. - Thank you! And if you liked the video please like it, it helped me a lot to post the video and for people to see it. Subscribe to the channel if you are new here and press notification bell and write me a nice comment in the comment section. 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