The Church Family Vanished, Leaving Everything Behind
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- Опубліковано 20 сер 2024
- A family was living in this church until the early 2000's when they seemingly vanished leaving all of their belongings behind. This church has been sitting abandoned and neglected ever since, roughly 16-17 years. Any online searches turned up with no information.
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amazing the stain glass windows are still intact and not broken
Thankful for that. People love to destroy
bob crawford: *stained glass 😉😉
Apparently there's still some corners of world where maybe people fear,respect God.
its early days yet some deadbeat spray can losser will come and
spray garbage all over it and break everything possible
No Dickhead Has Thrown A Rock Just Yet Thankfully!
Check the tax records. That’s how I usually locate who owns property or where they are. It’s also how I found my Mom’s biological family in a round about way. The sanctuary is so gorgeous. It be so nice if someone could save at least that with the beautiful stained glass.
The property taxes would have to have been paid or else the property would have been sold off to clear the debt. More research would uncover some answers.
i think maybe someone like the hubby, died in 9-11. & it they still own it, but just don't care about it. & just left it. it my guess, as some of the stuff was from 01. as there is a usa today tag on one of the bags.
I left all of my worldly possessions behind once. You'd be surprised what might trigger someone to do such a thing. I know where they are, but I can't bring myself to go back there to collect them.
That’s so sad...😢 sometimes you do what you gotta to, to move on from a difficult situation.
Same here. People thought it too was “ abandoned” and broke in to look around .Just because there’s no one there doesn’t mean it doesn’t belong to someone.
M Smith what’s your situation
You don’t have to go back, Brad. That you’re in a better place now is what matters.
Sorry you had to do that Brad but i understand there are circumstances that mean thats the option that's needed
19 yrs ago i left everything behind. Household stuff, my son's stuff except his cot, high chair and a suitcase of toys, my motorbikes (dirt n road), my cars including rare toranas, all my tools but worst of all my i had to leave my dog Caspar.
I know where all my stuff or what would be left is but its safer to leave it where it is
please don't give up searching this family, I sense this place has a story worth telling
The Sanctuary is beautiful and it makes me sad to think that it has been abandoned, especially when I see other buildings being erected and we don’t use the ones we already have built.
Freaked out when u walked in that closet with lots of 90s clothes I would kill to pick thru there
That’s what I was thinking 😭😂
Need a fanny pack
It’s all still there....
Those clothes are haunted bro
at 14:54 that Coca Cola bottle has Arabic writings on it; It says "Live The World Cup". That means it was produced at the time of a soccer world cup.
Donbol Don korea/japan world cup. Around 2002
Those were sold for the world cup in 1993 I believe.
SR 71 pics? either an airshow or he was an Air Force member. Plus all the aviation model kits and that A-2 with the Heaven's Angels artwork on it.
Tons of civilians are into war memorabilia and end up taking interests in various things like aircraft. I know guys who have never been near a non-commercial plane whose houses are full of model military planes and things like that.
@@Darxide23 same here, thought I grew up around aircraft and have alot of pilots and service members in my family
Also the post card was talking about flying into LAX and then somewhere the next night. Looks like it was mailed from Washington DC.
Sad to see a sanctuary in such a mess💔.....windows and architecture so gorgeous!
It looked like a church after they ask for donations for a garage sale. A family in our small town bought an old Church but whatever was in disrepair only got worse after they moved in so they bulldozed it. They did manage to save the stained glass and the bell that conveniently fell through the bell tower one day all the way to the basement.
At 4:18 that box that says Бомбардировщик ИЛ - 4 is a was a twin engined long range bomber, and torpedo bomber, called the Illyushin IL-4, and the box next to it is a Russian mig, it's very interesting to see something like that of all places, in an abandoned church.
Kaden Peltier: *an abandoned 😉😉
@@TheDriveInGuys lol thanks, I wasn't going try hard on my grammar
Models. Plastic models. I used to build them in my preteens and three in my 30s. It's a hobby, not a conspiracy my friend.
@@BradGryphonn lol yes, I just exposed a conspiracy deeper than Australia
6:19: That is a vintage Hammond organ. They're not made anymore. That needs to be took out of there and restored, because a working Hammond tonewheel organ is worth thousands!
I was thinking that too. Wasn’t sure of the make but it definitely would be worth a lot if it could be restored. The age alone adds value.
That sawing machine 2
@@justlikebck5162 No, I believe it was a sewing machine.
Can you imagine what the walls would tell you if they could talk.
“killll... meee...”
I’m moldy!im moldy!
@@richardkronberg4925 got a laugh out of me :)
"Im bored"
If you want to find out info of such places seek out an elderly person thats lived in community
@Neal Head If there accurate.
That is the most bizarre thing I've ever seen. It's hard to believe so much was just abandoned like that but the pictures were the weirdest thing. I wonder if someone watching this video will see themselves in those pictures and come forward about what happened?
How awful someone is missing their family pictures, I lost a back pack filled with pictures of my kids whole lives in it, in storage, and know they had my name, I always wished the people took the pics and contacted me 😥
jgirl 34 I occasionally bid on contents of abandoned storage lockers. SOME companies request that the high bidder turn in personal belongings. Ordinarily I, myself would, but there's never any guarantee of anonymity, and I'd rather not leave any kind of paper trail that could result in a confrontation. I've found checkbooks, birth certs, car keys, nudie pics, convict cards, baby pics, stolen items, etc.. I sell what I can, donate, recycle,etc.. It's a hard-hearted business that I prefer to leave in the past.
@@TheDriveInGuys wow , thanks for sharing, shines some light on things, also, that's so interesting getting to bid on someone's life belongings, it must tell such a story, did u ever wonder about the people that owned the things originally?
@@TheDriveInGuys I would hope that the real personal stuff you would try to get back to the people they belonged to. I had been paying on a storage unit for over four years and it had gone into arrears a couple times and I always managed to save it a new company bought the storage place and auction my stuff off without even a certified letter I understand it's my responsibility but they had to have known that the things clearly meant something to me if I had saved them so many times from the auction table. They took everything and a lot of the stuff really wouldn't have costed much but meant a lot to me. Things that were given to me from people that had passed that are not replaceable even if I could get the identical thing and nudie pics from when I was very young and naive and I'm now a mother which I know I should have kept a little closer to me but never thought what happened could happen. I can't even watch those storage shows because when my stuff was auctioned off it felt like my guts had been ripped out they told me 3 days after didn't even give me a chance to come up with the money and a chance at saving my things I would have paid anyting I even left the place a letter begging them even if something was broke like the desk my grandmother gave me to please just call me and I got nothing in response but they did have to come off a very beautiful Asian vase I had sealed with my uncle's ashes in it they at least had the decency to leave that at the office for me but I would have paid whatever they asked I had been stockpiling Furniture in there for a future home after my children had grown and I could have nice things again. I'm glad you at least try to make sure that some of those things get back to the people because they truly do mean a lot to them baby pictures and things like that are not replaceable unless they are saved on a disk somewhere. I will tell you I had over 30 years worth of clothing phases I have gone through and capped and the sentimental value was way more than any dollar amount they could put on the stuff broke my heart still does obviously from this rant sorry
Would you ever explore abandoned places
I nevee had any pic ma mom trow everything away when whe was on the street and shit
This exploration was so so sad, you are right, what happened to the family. Why would they walk sway from their home and belongings.
I went to an estate sale in a house belonging to an older gentleman who lived by himself for the last years of his life. He once had a family but they had all passed away or moved years ago. It was sad see random strangers picking through years of personal belongings and momentos. Last estate sale I've been to. This reminded me of that, without the lines of people picking through everything.
I don't know how this place exists without being completely vandalized. Thanks for showing it to us.
The sick feeling that when you die everything you owned and worked for is left behind, especially if you have no family to leave it to.
@Wreckdiver59 I used to go to estate sales too because I loved old things but I stopped going to them because of the reason you mentioned: it made me sad to see people picking through personal items. The last one I went to was at an old lady’s home in a trailer park. The sale was being held by her nephew. All the old lady’s clothes were in garbage bags laying on her bed. At one point the old lady had tried her hand at doing watercolors because she had several sketchbooks with flower studies in them. I found one small cheap sketchbook that was empty and I thought I could get it for a few dollars but the guy wanted $10 for it. I thought about this poor old lady living alone in her single wide trailer with the brown fake paneled walls, doing watercolor studies of flowers, all alone. No one caring that she was learning how to paint. It made me so depressed to think about haggling over a dead person’s blank sketchbook that I left and never went to another one after that.
Those models are worth a fortune, as well as that WWII bomber jacket
Yep
Cheap swap meet replica
That wasn’t a WWII bomber jacket. That was a 90’s jacket with bombers painted on it.
@@IratePuffin so just a modern bomber jacket?
Pistol Packin' Mama jacket is worth around a grand.
Reminds me of the church from Alice's Restaurant. I had Arlo Guthrie playing in my head the whole time. Crazy find!
.....🎤..You can have anything you want @Alices Restaurant...🎶🎸..
Woody AND Arlo in that one. Way to take me waaaay on back!
That must have been a beautiful church at one point.
Still is! Stay safe.
do you know where this is? It looks like it was a protestant church at one point. I'm guessing Methodist. Definitely not Episcopalian or Lutheran
@@paulesmond3713 what's the difference in the way the churches look? So many denominations that I can't keep up with
btw if you really want to know more, would suggest asking around the community about who lived there or who might have information on those living there. Someone without the area would know
The Stained glass Windows need too be saved...
So many VHS tapes , and a rewinder even, haven;t seen one of those in ages!
The foreign soda and tagged suitcases make it seem like they had returned from vacay and then something happened
Also the clothes were probably from a Church Rummage Sale
It is a crying shame such a beautiful building was abandoned. 😢
I too want to know more. There has to be public records, inmate searches of prisons, death records, something to tell you how to contact someone that knows the owners.
The Church is stunning!! Someone needs to come and restore it. The stain glass windows are just breathtaking
April Saffle - *stained glass 😉😉
Auto correct.. Got to love it 😉
OMG, those beautiful stained glass windows. Such a shame that they are just sitting there.
Just glad they’re intact!! Hopefully they stay that way.
I used to kinda collect stained glass..those are some beautiful windows
The wood work on the sanctuary ceiling is incredible and the stained glass windows are still intact. It makes attempting to salvage the building worthwhile. Shame to let it rot away.
Wow those coffee percolators are from the 1910's! Very neat
Urns
They are percolators, there are glass tubes and a screen to hold the coffee, the gas heats the water and forces it through the tubes, boil for 15 minutes or until dark
The cinephile in me wants to rescue all those vhs tapes. lol
They're probably mold damaged beyond repair.
Dibs on godfather 😝
I have hundreds of vhs. Love em.
Horrible if they get burned, they melt and release toxic fumes.
Wow! That was so curious. Hope you are feeling better. Stay safe and healthy out there! Thank you for sharing a part of your day with us!
OMG, I've been looking for one of those JVC TVs for years. So sad to see it wasting away in a place like this.
I just want to go through every item. Especially that safe lol
When I see an old safe I think of the movie “The Lovely Bones”.
This is typical of most “church” family’s that run a church. They do move around a lot on spur of the moment choices. I have seen it many times where I grew up. Not surprised by this. Good video tho.
This was/is fascinating Chris. I hope that you are feeling better now. Take care of yourself please. I’ve never missed one of your videos and never been disappointed. ☮️❤️
What a decaying mess in the church but I always enjoy your explores
I'd love to sift through all those vintage 90s clothes and I'm sure tons of nice items to salvage
The only real way to find out anything is to go to the county courthouse and look at the tax records or plot maps . If the taxes are still being paid someone knows about it.
All I was able to figure out was that whoever sent the postcards was in the Air Force and stationed somewhere in Russia... beyond that I couldn't tell much since it was all blacked out.
It was called the bargain basement, they sold clothing on friday and saturday.
You know the place? I was guessing it was a massive rummage shop that went bust.
@@nickshipway8199 The bargain basement was to assist the Veteran groups, which they were not so the property owner stopped the free rent. neighbors donated everything. When a senior passed away, unwanted loot was donated. The property owner died, and the back taxes due prevent anybody from taking the property. It is well built and would make a nice home!!! Walk by it daily!!
Such a beautiful building a terrible waste.🐻🤗👍
suggestion: check the local courthouse records, or Jails
Wow, what an incredible residence this could have been, had it been taken care of and restored... and so much more, but man, the nave alone could have been a beautiful home ⛪❤️‼️
Is there any way you could research it as you know where this place is located and see what you can come up with and then let us know what you found?
Such a mystery and a beautiful church. Thanks for the adventure!
Somebody in the neighbourhood must know something about it! The building looks quite solid. It would take a mint of money to fix it, but surely less than building a new place. Especially the nave of the church looks great - airy, bright, beautiful! Please update us if you get any news about this place! How about notarial records for owners, etc., or diocesan records.
Cool bike. The stained glass windows are beautiful. This old church would make a beautiful home if you had LOTS of help to clean the place out. And yes you’d need lots of cash.
What if someone’s family moved in there, moved in all their random bits ,then the family all died in an accident their extended family couldn’t bare to come in and sort it all out.
Over the years people have come in ransacked the place, squatted in it, such a shame you weren’t able to find anything on the history of the place.
And left those model kits and software? I don't think so.
This is so sad😟.
Hope your feeling better.
Take care!
"B" Series (possibly a B-3) Hammond Organ @6:18.
I believe I also saw Chambers for a Pipe-Organ.
31H Leslie Speaker viable @16:46, top Left of Screen.
The church was beautiful!!!
Very beautiful wood and stained glass.
I always feel sad when urbexers got through abandoned churches, but in this case, I'm glad to see no one but Mother Nature has vandalized this one. It's a beautiful building, with most of the original fittings still looking good. Thanks, Mike, for taking us along. I hope you're feeling better now---and please be careful in your explorations; don't take unnecessary chances. Stay safe, everyone.
I found a house like this. Everything they owned was just left. Crazy!
that was cool!...about the coffee and i was thinking the same thing!, wow!.
This guy was probably in the war and just died of old age and had no relatives, so it’s in legal limbo
More than one guy. There were several bedrooms that were obviously not just guest rooms.
Looks like the family has a Strong Military background, the Aloha shirt, various pictures and the Hawaii Boggie boards..
Those were skim boards
I love your videos! You've got a good, pleasant voice and edit well!
Thanks!
As well as not going crazy with the camera. Nice and slow.
I'am guessing someone passed away and possibly the property and it's contents are tied up in probate court?.
Thanks for sharing this with us ✌️
LOL !!
This long yeah right lol
The architecture in the church itself is beautiful.
After that many years there has to be a trust set up somewhere that pays the taxes on the building or the state would have taken possession of it......
I thought churches were tax exempt.
Tax-exempt or not, other bills are payable such as electric, water, and sewer, whether you use them or not.
Yeah that’s the weird part...
@@andylucas8262 pretty sure churches still have to pay property taxes on their buildings
@@coderexe30 churches are exempt from property taxes. You can Google it yourself if you don't believe me.
*FBI raid ... cross reference the names on the luggage tags with a list of current federal prisoners. Guessing you'll get a couple of hits*
The FBI raided the church? Or did they bring all of the raided belongings to the church?
Look around, there should be mass Graves close or a incinerator close.......can you get a list of all the names laying around to match to missing persons lists. We would do it for you if you can send us the names. Alot of bad things happened there for sure....
@@rootmandrake5141 I hope Chris and Jay read your comment. It seems very dead on to me!
@@JohnShinn1960 did you notice the white med/lab coats here and there, so many possibilities, all bad....
So you think somebody was on the run and they took their whole family with them?! Good thought, I figured they lost their home but owned a church so they moved in, but who knows!
The organ is a Hammond “B” model maybe a BC or BV from the 1940s..,but not the famous Hammond B3. The speaker in the loft is a Leslie model 31H. These have value and need to be saved. Just FYI for music enthusiasts. But what a great exploration opportunity for you guys. Thanks for the video...
Back when an average Church was Grand, hi arching ceilings and stain glass. Now they are in rundown abandon strip malls.
I should add, or Huge Mega Concert Arenas run by Charlatans.
We are living in "post-Christian" days now Goomer. A great falling away from faith in Christ is occurring.
The suitcases always creep me out!
It was a beautiful place in it's time. Such a shame its left to rot. I hope you're feeling better now.
Church/Thrift store donation storage
That's what I think, too. I've seen other videos where urbexers explored abandoned churches that were still full of items arranged for a rummage sale. I wondered then, and still wonder, why the stuff wasn't offered to another church for people of lesser means could take advantage of other people's generosity. It's part of the mystery, I guess. Stay safe.
Wow... This church was absolutely beautiful... Messy however it is beautiful none the less.
That sowing machine was so nice
The woodwork is actually really amazing in there
Beautiful windows and the wood work in the chapel is awesome..That was a lot of stuff inside what a shame just to let it all go to waste.. If you find out anything about it please let us know..Thanks guys
Some people have taken old churches and made them into community centers for kids! Also depending on how many buildings lady around the church they've also made tiny homes out of them. There's quite a few antiques in the building. Remarkable that the stained glass is all still there intact!
Garfield: Don't leave me here! Please take me home with you. 😥
Lol I had that same one when I was a kid.
20 years with no lasagna...
The church build is quite beautiful!
Edit: And the suitcases creeped me out a lot! 😳🤔
The church of the Lost souls so sad 😢
I wouldn’t be able to resist swiping some of those vintage clothes.
At 7:05 the photos show fire damage in a house... wild guess here but the family's house had a fire that was bad enough they couldn't live in it anymore so they were allowed to move in a vacant church (or squatted)... and ended up living in there until they died or were placed in a hospice or simply disappeared for some reason.
Hope you’re feeling better! Great video
IF that's a church people donate clothing for the needy.
Couldn't you at least say what state it's in? I've dreamed my whole life of living in a church. Totally worth restoring! Those windows are gorgeous.😍 Cool antiques, too.
He probably left that part out on purpose so people watching this video couldn't do some searching around and go there and scavenge through the place anymore than it already has due to it being someone's personal belongings, and based off the comments some of the things in there are quite valuable now.
Financial ups and downs. Closing churches sell the property so that they can close out their federal paperwork. Problem is that the only good fit for a church is another congregation and there is not always one around looking for the exact size of building. So it gets sold off to the highest bidder who may not realistically be able to maintain the building. The heating and cooling alone can run in the tens of thousands. All that square footage of roofing to be maintained ... So they stay until the money runs out and then have to leave abruptly. Possibly moving in with relatives elsewhere in the country. Often times they have some hopes of turning their fortunes around and coming back but that doesn't prove practical. Hence all the personal items left behind. They may have been trying to stock up for a thrift store or run a clothes donation ministry. Usually part of the pact of receiving donation is that you have to take everything on offer and use or dispose of it. No cherry picking, which would explain the odd assortment.
That leather jacket in the church closet pistol packing mamas is from like WW2 .also AL Dexter made a song pistol packing mamas very well known..a lot of history on that. You need to check it out Chris.
I am used to seeing deserted places where old people have died and it is apparent they had no family so its all left to rot. But this is not the norm for sure. That is way too many clothes for just a family. Unless there were like forty people in the group. It could have been donations they were sitting up to give away but something happened and they left. Very interesting situation. It looks more like they ran or fled for some reason and they left in a really big hurry. Stay Safe out there.
Would the latest dates of paperwork possibly be prior to 9/11? I thought you said 2001, just makes me wonder.
That's one place that definitely needs restoring
why? who needs another lame assed church?
I didn't say it had to be restored back to being a church just that it needed restoring as a building in general
@@herbertorendorff6323 ok... got a spare million bucks?
Crazy, such a cool find!
Why would a church have so many other rooms attached to it? And where in the world would they get all that junk that's in the place. I can't even imagine the energy it would take to move all that stuff in there much less move it all out to clean the place up.. Overwhelming!
That book "The watchers'
Is about The Nephlim.
The Fallen ones.
Pretty ironic; seems quite fitting for the times we are currently living
It's a good book. I noticed all the cassette tapes for Mr. Murder, another Dean Koontz book. He's one of my favorite writers.
@@awarenessvillage mine too! I think I read most all of his books when I was in 6th or 7th grade. Of course thats been 25 years ago so I'm sure there's many I haven't read.
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Great video! Too bad all of those old antiques are left there to rot away.
Would love to know the name of the family so we could do some digging of our own please and thank
Yes, I used to work helping a private investigator. You can PM me and I could see if I can find out anything.
@@awarenessvillage its def got "FBI raid" written all over it that or just storage with no cares of ever coming back to it.
5:12 *said completely non-ironic way as he enters the church* haha very cool video
Just the sale of those jeans would bring in a ton of money. I assume you didn't mention the state nor the name of the owners , so that folks won't find it and go there. I can't believe it would be that hard to find out the back story. Researchers love this. I know, because I was a paralegal who LOVED research. Thanks for going there.
The thing that stands out to me is the family photos , everything else can be explained away but nobody would leave that stuff behind, it doesnt take much to grab a photo album. Ya know
hard to grab photo albums when you're in handcuffs being escorted to the back seat of a squad car ... "watch your head"
I bet I looked at my photo album maybe 5 times in 40 years, they're useless
@@KubotaManDan well for a parent what has pictures of their children in them, they definitely are not useless
I betting that if I bought it I would turn it into a beautiful house! With that beautiful ceiling and stain glass windows, which I would replace it would be nice
i heard about an owner of a flea market using an old church as a wear house but i don't know if this is it
Some churches have food pantry, home furnishings, and clothing for distributions for the parishioners of the city or town. We have here in Oklahoma most of the churches her hands out to people in dire need.