Can't say enough about how well you vlog these tours!! I love your steady hand on the camera, love your curiosity bout what you're vlog'ing. Something about abandoned homes that is curious, sad, scarey and wonderful all at the same time!! Thank you for your sharing these with us!
i just wanted to say that i truly love your videos. you do research, you dont do damage, and my very FAVORITE feature is that you walk through, showing how the rooms connect so that quirky people like me can reverse engineer the floorplans. other people use so many jump cuts that the layout cant be deciphered, nor can the daily motions of those who lived there be imagined. thank you, thank you, thank you!
And thank you! I'm glad you enjoy my style. I like the viewers to see the complete layout as it joins together, and I am glad you noticed and appreciate that. :)
These places never seem scary to me. The seem like part of a wonderful history that we are losing. It looked like a raccoon had tried to pull something soft for her babies into the old wood stove chimney. They are great little animals..
Most old houses had windows in there closets, basically for airing out there clothes as they didn't wash their clothes after 1 use, they usually wore them several times. At least that is what I was told. Love your video's, love old houses. A new sub by the way. :)
No sadder word than the word: DEMOLISHED. I would have enjoyed living there and fixing it up. Thanks for doing a video of this house before it got destroyed.
Awesome tour as always, Pam. Love how you find dates of things - which I'm always interested in. Like one person said, the "sporadic dates were driving me crazy." Hard to believe that place only abandoned for a decade! Thanks, Pam! Steve
They weren't making moonshine! That's just old time farm living! I use to help put up caned goods with the family and the one thing is that you saved everything in case you needed to use it of some reason. Farmers had to be self sufficient because you couldn't count on getting or affording help. And if you noticed almost all old farm houses have a front stairs for the family and one that leads to the kitchen area for the hired help for the family. Things were different back then and many women worked for these farmers since they had the where with all the sustain themselves from what they made on the farm alone. Now the taxes are forcing many a land owner to just let old homes go due to the high taxes. Oh and that fact that the rest of the family more than likely have gotten college educations and didn't want to stay on the farm and no one left to take care of the old place and you can't just rent them out to the idiots who tear the shit out of everything. I love the vids and they make me almost cry for the shame of it all. I feel our history just falling apart.
Davie Jones Hi Davie. Amen to your comment. If we let the past slip away, how can anyone see how things used to be! It especially hurts to see so many things that I could use in restoring the old farm house that I live in now destroyed. Such a shame :(
Those feathers are probably from down bedding, pillow, mattress. Century farm designations were given in 1967 to farms that had been in the same family since 1867. My grandfather's farm was a century farm. Truly a stunning house in its day. Although I know that we all die eventually, I still say it is a shame that so much of old Ontario is gone. TikiTrex, thanks again for your work. It will be a delight for some future historian.
Happy Spring, Pam! You really did a fine job on this explore, and somebody else commented on something I'd noticed too-you always manage to be methodical so that the floor plan can be worked out. You give the best sense of being there *with* the viewer as opposed to recording *for* the viewer. Very nice. :) This was a very interesting house. Looks like it was pretty grand in its day-big entrance, good woodwork, stoves in most rooms-but boy, it sure was sad at the end! And it sounds like a lot of the *stuff* being for moonshine was a pretty good bet. Thanks for this video, Pam-this one really did come out particularly well.
Happy Spring to you, Cristina! Thank you so much for the nice compliment.:) I try my best to show the viewers the layout and give a sense that we are all exploring together. I guess pointing out obvious things also gives that illusion since I believe that is what we'd be doing if we were walking through with one another -- musing. Thanks again as always, Cristina! Always a pleasure to read your nice comments. :)
Pam's videos are the best! She's very thorough and detailed This house had very nice wood work who knows the old man who passed might have lived there his whole life.
Hi TikiTrex! U do fantastic work! I love old houses and I actually live in one that was built in the late 1800's. We, too, have a window in our closet. What I absolutely LOVE, LOVE is when you show us the whole layout of each house! In other words you leave the camera going so we can see how all of the rooms interconnect. I'm always so interested in that part of it. U didn't do that as much in this video but I know it is an old one video. Would it be possible to do that more in future tours? Not so much the big hospitals, factories, etc. just the houses. Thanks TikiTrex! Keep up the great work!
This was a beautiful house at one time; thank you tiki for going to the attic, that was cool; I finally realized that I love houses that have a lot of STUFF, all the clues left behind give us a small description of the people who lived there...Great Tour oh yeah; you forgot to say "lone chair" :)
A few people have mentioned that's where the feathers are likely from. I've never heard of feather mattresses before that. I guess you learn something new every day. Thanks for commenting. :)
Yes, Pam, I throughly enjoyed the tour with you. Which brings up a question. Even though you are doing your camera work-exploring alone, do you feel the companionship of each viewer as if each of us is with you? ...giving you moral support as you walk into eerie rooms? Hearing you voice as you carry on conversations with us, observing this and that, makes me feel like we are rubbing shoulders and pushing back cob-webs for each other...haha. Love it. - Tom
I went in here a few years ago. I had a very strange experience while I was up in the attic. I was alone, but I heard voices and footsteps from downstairs. I went downstairs, figuring that what footage I had already got was all I was going to get before being told to leave. But no one was there! The voices were loud, distinct, and sounded like they came from inside the building. And the footfalls were heavy, thumping treads that easily allowed me to determine what room they were coming from. It sounded like 2 men, one old and one younger. But there was no one but myself inside or on the property or surrounding area. Very freaky.
Absolutely one of the best urbex videos,Pam! You are so very talented. I always feel like I'm looking over your shoulder as you explore! thank you for all of your great work; it is very much appreciated!
That was a true farm house from back in the day when a farmer had 8 children as field hands,when slavery was abolished and granny in the kitchen at 4 am making huge breakfast feast for everyone.feather beds i actually had a great granny born in 1889-1983 she had a feather bed i slept in and in the morning you awoke in a rut in the middle.you had to fluff it every nite b4 bed, but was unreal comfortable, totally non orthapedic yet look how long she lived.she was awsome cook and there was lard and bacon grease in every meal. smoked for over 30 or 40 years and quit,at age 70 and lived another 20 years ,to almost 100.her husband came home drunk and she kept a shotgun under the bed and would run him off till he got sober...the next morning, he finally ran off and left her with the 8 kids and the farm.Coloreds were not allowed in the house lol.. she was amazing and thats the kind of house she had..
Feathers were all from the mattress's and the pillows in the attics. There was a maid's appartment and maids quarters upstairs. They would cook downstairs in the winter and in the back of the house in the summer, to keep the odors out of the main living area's. Most house's that old would have each room have their own wood stove's. It was a great look to the past. :)
I had a feather mattress, you can still buy them. It was cool in summer and warm in winter and it enveloped you like a good hug. It wore out and I have missed it ever since. I still use feather pillows. Love em. :)
the steel round deals in the floors and walls, are called transfers. i work in HVAC and back before forced air was brought into homes, it would allow heat from downstairs to rise and travel throughout the house.
Beautiful! I absolutely love your videos. Me and my mom sit and watch them together. This place was driving me crazy with all the sporadic dates! I agree with the feathers being from the mattress. If there was one upstairs the wind probably blew them all down and such. Keep up the amazing work. We love you!
Hi TikiTrex, love your video. I think that all those feathers were saved in storage to make feather beds. My GreatGrandmother made one and I used it when I was a little girl, it was so soft and warm! Such small feathers were probably blown all over by the breeze throughout the house. So glad you got out there and documented this great old farm house before destruction. I wonder if you know do they save the doors or banisters for resale? Take good care of yourself.
Greetings from Southern Vermont. Where I used to live in Whitingham there were a few abandoned houses, but I only went into the brick house, it was a pretty building built in the 1860's starting life as a log cabin and I guess by 1880, it was converted to a brick house. When the front wall came down, that was the first time I went inside.. but it was so bad inside, the second floor was sagging to the first, the first floor sagged down but didn't fall in when I walked on it... found the place in 2013 and watched it fall into ruin and kept track of it until 2018, it's still standing... even though it's been vandalized so much and it keeps buckling under the weight.. but I did so much research on it and when I was proudly talking about what I learned, people told me they didn't care.. so I pretty much stopped but I still go back for photos.. surprisingly the floor where the main staircase was gone before the wall came down... it all eventually fell into the basement.. the railing was literally stolen from the stairs... and some time between 2017 and 2018, the vandals went in for the last time to shove what furniture was left into the basement, shove old books down into the basement and old records as well in the basement which is full of water now. the support is basically rocks.. no clue if there's an oil tank down there.. there was an antique stove in the kitchen but I think that's in the basement now
great video, the old couches and chairs as well as automobile seats use to be stuffed with an old spanish moss some were even filled with old straw....that house must have been a real beauty in its day so sad to see no one wanted to live there after the elder man passed on
That fur thing is an old sleigh blanket!!! Used to snuggle under in a "One horse open sleigh!!!" How cool!!! Those date from the early 1900's and it is a full horse hide with a very thick wool felt backing, the felt on the edging is cut in a decorative fashion. I am so fortunate to have two of them. I purchased them 2 different Estate Sales. Another NEAT house you found there, WOW!!!!
I think the feathers were from pillows that you can see in the attic. The attic which you were hesitant to explore but did, brave you. I love these videos!! You seemed a little spooked by this place, and not just from the farmer next door. :)
The one big room upstairs had what looked like an old save in the floor. The round thing. A lot of the really old houses had those and a large carpet to cover them. We had one like that in the old farm I grew up in.
This is one dangerous house !!! That middle room is cantelevered now on the crumbing foundation making it imposible to rip that up to even recycle it with out killing yourself in the cave in. I am so glad that ceiling didn't go when she was hearing the ceiling move. Just imagine the sheer mass of weight on them beams and how a person can just move the ceiling steping on the floor!!!!
Those milk jugs looked like they were tied together to make like a bobber for fishing, and probably the head cheese was bait for fishing, at least a commercial fisherman for local stores or a big fish fry. I would hope the head cheese was not for someone to eat, however my mother loved head cheese.....yuk! Great video, I just love the old houses! :)
Great find and history there. I have family in georgia that lived in a three story house very similar to this. My great grandfather built it without any real plans. Could you tell me how you keep your camera from shaking when you walk through these places? I want to produce these kind of videos but find that its difficult to "float" the camera. You seem to have a way of insulating the camera from your self with the movement.
***** You do an excellent job with it. I would love to do this here in Florida but these places are few and far between in pensacola. There is one steak and ale restaurant right off the interstate on davis thats been closed for about 20 years now. Ive been seriously considering that one.
I noticed upstairs the mattresses you saw and what you thought were large pillows were most likely old feather beds. And there were feather pillows in the attic. That's where the feathers came from.
About your question on just who is farming these days, it is for a sad but true reason that it takes huge corporations to run the farms these days. Gone are the small Ma and Pa egg and poultry farms that I used to buy our eggs from. An independant farmer just can't compete anymore. It also scares me how many former farms are converting to developments, or manicured acreages
I find your videos are very interesting, and I prefer your videos over other similar ones. If possible could you show better/longer shots of the heating and pump systems in these places? I think the feathers may have come from the mattress because they look like old feather beds. Thanks for posting them.
Hey Pam, that was a very interesting video! What an odd house. That was a very old meat grinder on the table. I love old stuff & I noticed a few items that perked me up when I saw them...lol.. I think the feathers may have been from the pillows & or mattresses. My mom had those & I hated them because the feather tips would stick out. I like the crackled paint effect & that one door I'm sure came by that naturally over time. You're a brave woman & I'll say again you are the best!! Stay Safe!!:)
Hi Pam. I am from south central Kentucky USA. I heard you mention Ontario in one of your videos. Is that where most of your videos are from? This is my first comment. This house was beautiful to me! You do make me feel as though I’m exploring with you. You do a great job! Just found your videos a few days ago. Thanks for sharing 😃
excellent as usual. I think it would be likely that the house has been vacant for years and years and whoever owns it has just dumped junk or left the place to disintegrate. I am amazed with how the old wallpaper seems to hang off the walls like drapes hang on windows. The stoves or rather where there were stoves were hazardous looking in that I think it was creosote dripping down the walls. I wish these old places could actually talk. Thanks again!
when I was 16 I found two abandoned houses. Like the people just vanished. every thing was still there. I took a lot of stuff. Was so eerie but I wouldn't do it now. Love your vid's and sexy voice. thank you for brining back the memory's
I've been watching your interesting videos for quite some time now. You are so brave! I appreciate that you are very thorough and you talk throughout the home. I keep thinking, "I wonder what happened here?" or why folks leave in things in such disarray or what the home looked like when it was new and filled with a family living there. Finding calendars is great. I keep wondering if you ever come across someone inside the house; I hope you have something with you to protect yourself.
Windows in closets because the closets were built probably around 1920 or so. Before it was just one large room with a chiffrobe or armoire on the wall. Depending on the age of the home, a long piece of wood with pegs on it served as a clothing rack. Keep in mind three garments - one to work in, one for every day, and one for church.
A great video of an original, unmolested old house. It's virtually unheard of to see the old knob and tube switches still in place. It looks like a familiar story in rural areas...the heirs want to use the farm land, but have no use for the old house. But it looks like this house has serious problems lol.
Very amazing house. Looks to of been built in the early to mid 1800's. Light switches use to turn instead of flip. The feathers look like the type used to stuff matress & pillows. I really like the way you show everything with your camera. I would love to renovate & live there.
terrific video ..Really enjoyed ..... Love this pastime but you have a marvellous find ..... Brilliantly filmed and wow you have captured the atmosphere !!
Weird Pam, some of those pipes in the basement looked new ??? along with a small water heater. take note of those jars used for preserving, they are now hard to come by and are an important part of our history for without them our pioneers would not have survived, amazing house keep up the good work Pam it's all very additive & very interesting.:-]
Yes, actually, I do feel as though we are all walking through together and that I really am talking to you guys, which I am. I'm sure if anyone saw me, they'd think I'm crazy talking to myself, lol. But I do feel as though we are all in this together and want to portray that feeling to all of you, also. Thanks, Tom! I'm glad you enjoyed! :)
By the way, my house here has one old indoor transom above the door to the back bedroom but it's solid. These seemed common back in the day. Before Zillow removed the particular listing, a huge three storey rowhouse with all kinds of holes in the floors had a broken solid one.
This is an awesome house. It's a shame to see old houses like this left to the elements. By the way TikiTrex, most of the mattresses you see in that house are feather filled. (reason for feathers on floor) In the 1800's beds had small posts sticking out around the perimeter where you would put rope netting and set the feather mattress on. I have seen many feather beds converted to accept regular mattresses. (usually the small posts are sawed off) But I've never seen a feather mattress.
I have been looking for one of those old large meat grinders for years. I can't find one and you fall over one. Fate is not on my side. Good video, keep up the great work.
Great video, as always. In it's day, that had been one Beautiful house. The windows above the doors, are called transdom (spelling??), had a house with one.. Solid paneling.. At 10:13 were the walls separating from the window?? that's where you comment about the settling of the house.. Would be nice to see it restored. Thank you so much..
so when you go to places like this, where do you park your vehicle?? In this one you mention the guy on the tractor is out there whom likely owns the place. was just kinda curious how you go about that?? thanks for sharing these adventures with us :)
awsome vid!!! This house was about to go. Even with the better beams used in the day the wall crack you can see through to the out side means it is about to colapse. Another sign is the center room. Step on the floor and the ceiling moves...wow. Thank you ever so much for showing this one. Makes me feel they were keeping the house around in his memory, and given the state of the house, this vid deffinately will prlong the memory of the man. I bet most folks in the area knew this man!!! Just them can of corn syrup i bet he was a moonshinner. That syrup sure pumps up the alcohol and smoothes it out.
I have always liked your presentation of these video's. Some of the others have annoying chatter and/or heavy breathing that is a turn off, camera motion that makes me sea sick. You're the best Pam, I'll easily give you a 10 in old house explorations.
those switches are more commonly used for gas lighting. those feathers are probably from the mattress's that you called pillow/mattress's most likely this was a boarding house especially with the "common" room upstairs. this house reminds me of the Mennonite house (from the outside) I love the older homes like this thx for another great vid!
shame this piece of history is going to waste. it must have been really nice at one time. the woodwork is evidence of that. really enjoy your videos. thanks for sharing
Always makes me happy when I see you have posted another video. IMO your the best urban explorer herexon YT. What a huge house makes you wonder how many people lived in it at one time. Was it one huge family or a couple familes or with extended family members did look like there was any signs of kids being there. I always make up senerios in my head when watching videos like this...lol Wonder what was up with all the milk jugs and what did they use them for...lol
Wow I am glad to see another video from you. :) I think those news papers from the 60s through to the 80s was from the original owners and maybe stuff from a decade ago is from squatters. It would explain all the random mounds of pillows on the upper floor.
I love your videos, and I've noticed one main connection between a lot of them. The farm houses are abandoned...........SO WHO IS FARMING THESE DAYS??? I just wonder why none of the ones you took us through were picked up by younger generations, other farmers, etc. Just sad that most of them look like they would be awesome farms to work and they're just dying. Sad. Thanks again! LS
AZBYCXDWE SMIT Yeah for the 80.7% of americans (not just youth) for sure. When you're outside of the urban areas you'd be surprised. Out there people actually have a work ethic.
super vid. looks like the place will fall down next time there,s a storm. some old folk just never throw stuff away. I think all the feathers came from old bedding, but they did look rather too new for that. so who knows? once again,great work.
Good Day, Those round Light Switches date from about 1912. My Grandfather had some, & the Wiring was done on the outside of the Wall. They were used in homes built *before Electricity*. You rotate the Knob. "Clack" it's on, turn again, "clack" it's off. The bare Bulb hangs suspended in the centre of the Room, & anything like electric Bread Toasters, had a Threaded Plug, & You removed the Bulb to connect the Toaster. Fabric covered Wires in twisted pairs back then. Life at the turn of the Century. Why the hanging Milk Jugs? I would bet He had Friends owning a Dairy Farm, & He would have been forgetting to take the empties back for a refill.
Me guess is the first floor had central heating, meaning it was heated most likely buy coal and on the upper floor most likely all the rooms where individually heated with most likely coal-wood burning stoves, it looks like had some modern conveniences like the bathtub on the main floor, but I never saw toilet some most likely they still use the outhouse, down in the basement that smaller tank to the left of the well pressure tank was the hot water heater. I love the woodwork throat that house
Hi Pam! Wow new video's thank goodness. Yours are so interesting. Your lucky this one didn't crumble down around you. Be careful...........I don't want to loose you it would be boring without your wonderful video's LOL Hugs Nola
Nola Harris That is very sweet of you to say, Nola! Thanks so much. This video isn't that new. I actually have posted around 30 videos since this one with my most recent just uploaded the other day. :)
Well I am so busy making pocket letters I guessed I missed them. Drop by my channel Nola Harris if you want to see what they are. I will catch up now Yippee more to watch !!! Hugs Nola
The heating system - coal burning pot belly unit which had a flu pipe in the wall to the unit. The damage to the floor was from the coal burning pot belly unit. I suspect this home was built prior to the 1900's around 1860 - 1870 based on the door handles and architecture.
Can't say enough about how well you vlog these tours!! I love your steady hand on the camera, love your curiosity bout what you're vlog'ing. Something about abandoned homes that is curious, sad, scarey and wonderful all at the same time!! Thank you for your sharing these with us!
wow great house. Lot of old stuff in there. Love the older TV. Great Video
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed! That's what I like most about places where there is stuff left behind. You can definitely find more clues from that.
i just wanted to say that i truly love your videos. you do research, you dont do damage, and my very FAVORITE feature is that you walk through, showing how the rooms connect so that quirky people like me can reverse engineer the floorplans. other people use so many jump cuts that the layout cant be deciphered, nor can the daily motions of those who lived there be imagined. thank you, thank you, thank you!
And thank you! I'm glad you enjoy my style. I like the viewers to see the complete layout as it joins together, and I am glad you noticed and appreciate that. :)
i was thinking the same thing
These places never seem scary to me. The seem like part of a wonderful history that we are losing. It looked like a raccoon had tried to pull something soft for her babies into the old wood stove chimney. They are great little animals..
Most old houses had windows in there closets, basically for airing out there clothes as they didn't wash their clothes after 1 use, they usually wore them several times. At least that is what I was told. Love your video's, love old houses. A new sub by the way. :)
No sadder word than the word: DEMOLISHED. I would have enjoyed living there and fixing it up. Thanks for doing a video of this house before it got destroyed.
Awesome tour as always, Pam. Love how you find dates of things - which I'm always interested in. Like one person said, the "sporadic dates were driving me crazy." Hard to believe that place only abandoned for a decade! Thanks, Pam!
Steve
Seeing these vids reminds me of all the great old and abandoned homes I have enjoyed exploring over the years. There is nothing like them.
They weren't making moonshine! That's just old time farm living! I use to help put up caned goods with the family and the one thing is that you saved everything in case you needed to use it of some reason. Farmers had to be self sufficient because you couldn't count on getting or affording help. And if you noticed almost all old farm houses have a front stairs for the family and one that leads to the kitchen area for the hired help for the family. Things were different back then and many women worked for these farmers since they had the where with all the sustain themselves from what they made on the farm alone. Now the taxes are forcing many a land owner to just let old homes go due to the high taxes. Oh and that fact that the rest of the family more than likely have gotten college educations and didn't want to stay on the farm and no one left to take care of the old place and you can't just rent them out to the idiots who tear the shit out of everything. I love the vids and they make me almost cry for the shame of it all. I feel our history just falling apart.
Davie Jones Hi Davie. Amen to your comment. If we let the past slip away, how can anyone see how things used to be! It especially hurts to see so many things that I could use in restoring the old farm house that I live in now destroyed. Such a shame :(
Seems, the government has an agenda of keeping it this way, getting rid of the old ways, and bringing in the new crappy ways. God bless y'all !
Those feathers are probably from down bedding, pillow, mattress. Century farm designations were given in 1967 to farms that had been in the same family since 1867. My grandfather's farm was a century farm.
Truly a stunning house in its day. Although I know that we all die eventually, I still say it is a shame that so much of old Ontario is gone.
TikiTrex, thanks again for your work. It will be a delight for some future historian.
Happy Spring, Pam!
You really did a fine job on this explore, and somebody else commented on something I'd noticed too-you always manage to be methodical so that the floor plan can be worked out. You give the best sense of being there *with* the viewer as opposed to recording *for* the viewer. Very nice. :)
This was a very interesting house. Looks like it was pretty grand in its day-big entrance, good woodwork, stoves in most rooms-but boy, it sure was sad at the end! And it sounds like a lot of the *stuff* being for moonshine was a pretty good bet.
Thanks for this video, Pam-this one really did come out particularly well.
Happy Spring to you, Cristina! Thank you so much for the nice compliment.:) I try my best to show the viewers the layout and give a sense that we are all exploring together. I guess pointing out obvious things also gives that illusion since I believe that is what we'd be doing if we were walking through with one another -- musing. Thanks again as always, Cristina! Always a pleasure to read your nice comments. :)
Pam's videos are the best! She's very thorough and detailed This house had very nice wood work who knows the old man who passed might have lived there his whole life.
Wow! Thank you, Moo Cow, and to everyone else for your ongoing support and positive comments! It's much appreciated! :)
Hi TikiTrex! U do fantastic work! I love old houses and I actually live in one that was built in the late 1800's. We, too, have a window in our closet. What I absolutely LOVE, LOVE is when you show us the whole layout of each house! In other words you leave the camera going so we can see how all of the rooms interconnect. I'm always so interested in that part of it. U didn't do that as much in this video but I know it is an old one video. Would it be possible to do that more in future tours? Not so much the big hospitals, factories, etc. just the houses. Thanks TikiTrex! Keep up the great work!
This was a beautiful house at one time; thank you tiki for going to the attic, that was cool; I finally realized that I love houses that have a lot of STUFF, all the clues left behind give us a small description of the people who lived there...Great Tour oh yeah; you forgot to say "lone chair" :)
A few people have mentioned that's where the feathers are likely from. I've never heard of feather mattresses before that. I guess you learn something new every day. Thanks for commenting. :)
This is definately top 10 of your best urbex vids . I enjoyed it .Your welcome and thank you as well .
Yes, Pam, I throughly enjoyed the tour with you. Which brings up a question. Even though you are doing your camera work-exploring alone, do you feel the companionship of each viewer as if each of us is with you? ...giving you moral support as you walk into eerie rooms? Hearing you voice as you carry on conversations with us, observing this and that, makes me feel like we are rubbing shoulders and pushing back cob-webs for each other...haha. Love it. - Tom
I went in here a few years ago. I had a very strange experience while I was up in the attic. I was alone, but I heard voices and footsteps from downstairs. I went downstairs, figuring that what footage I had already got was all I was going to get before being told to leave. But no one was there! The voices were loud, distinct, and sounded like they came from inside the building. And the footfalls were heavy, thumping treads that easily allowed me to determine what room they were coming from. It sounded like 2 men, one old and one younger. But there was no one but myself inside or on the property or surrounding area. Very freaky.
The original owners letting you know, that they never really left....
Wow..that house is very old with the wide floor boards etc.. Another wonderful video Pam..thanks for taking us along..
I can imagine that this was a very nice home back in the day. It's a shame no one restored this house.
Thank you! Yeah, the windows were actually even separated from the house. Bizarre.
Absolutely one of the best urbex videos,Pam! You are so very talented. I always feel like I'm looking over your shoulder as you explore! thank you for all of your great work; it is very much appreciated!
What a great old farmhouse! I love the old wood work throughout.
The feathers look like they came from the pillows in the attic. This was very interesting one. God bless!
That was a true farm house from back in the day when a farmer had 8 children as field hands,when slavery was abolished and granny in the kitchen at 4 am making huge breakfast feast for everyone.feather beds i actually had a great granny born in 1889-1983 she had a feather bed i slept in and in the morning you awoke in a rut in the middle.you had to fluff it every nite b4 bed, but was unreal comfortable, totally non orthapedic yet look how long she lived.she was awsome cook and there was lard and bacon grease in every meal. smoked for over 30 or 40 years and quit,at age 70 and lived another 20 years ,to almost 100.her husband came home drunk and she kept a shotgun under the bed and would run him off till he got sober...the next morning, he finally ran off and left her with the 8 kids and the farm.Coloreds were not allowed in the house lol.. she was amazing and thats the kind of house she had..
those tvs need to be in a museum.
This house has a true Gothic feel. The blue painted Windsor chair was nice.
+Tim Royal Would also love to have the mural of the lady in the red dress and fur stole. Or is it a coat with a fur collar? Was she the Chatelain?
Feathers were all from the mattress's and the pillows in the attics. There was a maid's appartment and maids quarters upstairs. They would cook downstairs in the winter and in the back of the house in the summer, to keep the odors out of the main living area's. Most house's that old would have each room have their own wood stove's. It was a great look to the past. :)
I once had a feather pillow! It was annoying because some spilled out lol.
I had a feather mattress, you can still buy them. It was cool in summer and warm in winter and it enveloped you like a good hug. It wore out and I have missed it ever since. I still use feather pillows. Love em. :)
the steel round deals in the floors and walls, are called transfers. i work in HVAC and back before forced air was brought into homes, it would allow heat from downstairs to rise and travel throughout the house.
Interesting to know. Thank you for pointing that out.
Beautiful! I absolutely love your videos. Me and my mom sit and watch them together. This place was driving me crazy with all the sporadic dates! I agree with the feathers being from the mattress. If there was one upstairs the wind probably blew them all down and such. Keep up the amazing work. We love you!
in the older days they used to stuff mattresses with feathers and the pillows, i bet thats where the feathers came from...
Hi TikiTrex, love your video. I think that all those feathers were saved in storage to make feather beds. My GreatGrandmother made one and I used it when I was a little girl, it was so soft and warm! Such small feathers were probably blown all over by the breeze throughout the house. So glad you got out there and documented this great old farm house before destruction. I wonder if you know do they save the doors or banisters for resale? Take good care of yourself.
Greetings from Southern Vermont. Where I used to live in Whitingham there were a few abandoned houses, but I only went into the brick house, it was a pretty building built in the 1860's starting life as a log cabin and I guess by 1880, it was converted to a brick house. When the front wall came down, that was the first time I went inside.. but it was so bad inside, the second floor was sagging to the first, the first floor sagged down but didn't fall in when I walked on it... found the place in 2013 and watched it fall into ruin and kept track of it until 2018, it's still standing... even though it's been vandalized so much and it keeps buckling under the weight.. but I did so much research on it and when I was proudly talking about what I learned, people told me they didn't care.. so I pretty much stopped but I still go back for photos.. surprisingly the floor where the main staircase was gone before the wall came down... it all eventually fell into the basement.. the railing was literally stolen from the stairs... and some time between 2017 and 2018, the vandals went in for the last time to shove what furniture was left into the basement, shove old books down into the basement and old records as well in the basement which is full of water now. the support is basically rocks.. no clue if there's an oil tank down there.. there was an antique stove in the kitchen but I think that's in the basement now
Wonderful old home. Sure wish people would start rehabbing them.
great video, the old couches and chairs as well as automobile seats use to be stuffed with an old spanish moss some were even filled with old straw....that house must have been a real beauty in its day so sad to see no one wanted to live there after the elder man passed on
It's not considered burglary here unless you are stealing stuff from these places. I am not stealing anything or taking anything.
That fur thing is an old sleigh blanket!!! Used to snuggle under in a "One horse open sleigh!!!" How cool!!! Those date from the early 1900's and it is a full horse hide with a very thick wool felt backing, the felt on the edging is cut in a decorative fashion. I am so fortunate to have two of them. I purchased them 2 different Estate Sales. Another NEAT house you found there, WOW!!!!
That outlet on the wall was an old gas vent for gas powered lights, that had been plugged up.
wow - great and thorough video. This is the kind of house exploring I enjoy. Thanks so much.
Thank you, Bettie! I'm glad you enjoy this.
I think the feathers were from pillows that you can see in the attic. The attic which you were hesitant to explore but did, brave you. I love these videos!! You seemed a little spooked by this place, and not just from the farmer next door. :)
you're brave, if i was there and heard something in the attic I probably would have swan dived out the nearest window.
It is always heartbreaking to see these once beautiful homes left to rot. It is such a waste.
The one big room upstairs had what looked like an old save in the floor. The round thing. A lot of the really old houses had those and a large carpet to cover them. We had one like that in the old farm I grew up in.
Love the old trim, what a gem
would love to see those floors and woodwork redone! beautiful
This is one dangerous house !!! That middle room is cantelevered now on the crumbing foundation making it imposible to rip that up to even recycle it with out killing yourself in the cave in. I am so glad that ceiling didn't go when she was hearing the ceiling move. Just imagine the sheer mass of weight on them beams and how a person can just move the ceiling steping on the floor!!!!
Those milk jugs looked like they were tied together to make like a bobber for fishing, and probably the head cheese was bait for fishing, at least a commercial fisherman for local stores or a big fish fry. I would hope the head cheese was not for someone to eat, however my mother loved head cheese.....yuk!
Great video, I just love the old houses! :)
Great find and history there. I have family in georgia that lived in a three story house very similar to this. My great grandfather built it without any real plans. Could you tell me how you keep your camera from shaking when you walk through these places? I want to produce these kind of videos but find that its difficult to "float" the camera. You seem to have a way of insulating the camera from your self with the movement.
I might have used post-production stabilizing software on this one. I have on some of my videos.
***** So the original is too possibly more shaky until you use this stabilizing software after?
mhtfixit Maybe a little. I try to hold the camera as still as possible as well.
***** You do an excellent job with it. I would love to do this here in Florida but these places are few and far between in pensacola. There is one steak and ale restaurant right off the interstate on davis thats been closed for about 20 years now. Ive been seriously considering that one.
You can tell in it's day it was a gorgeous farmhouse!!!!!! So sad to see it this way now!!!
I was so excited to see that you posted a new video! As always, I thoroughly enjoyed it.
My daughter loves going through empty homes and buildings, you and her would make a great team....pat
Thanks for the tour Pam! That house did look like a horror movie set.. Glad you made it through. Lol love all your videos
wonderful..watched this again...bet that elderly man was born and raised in that house..wow so much history...
I noticed upstairs the mattresses you saw and what you thought were large pillows were most likely old feather beds. And there were feather pillows in the attic. That's where the feathers came from.
I'm glad you enjoyed it, thanks!
About your question on just who is farming these days, it is for a sad but true reason that it takes huge corporations to run the farms these days. Gone are the small Ma and Pa egg and poultry farms that I used to buy our eggs from. An independant farmer just can't compete anymore. It also scares me how many former farms are converting to developments, or manicured acreages
I find your videos are very interesting, and I prefer your videos over other similar ones. If possible could you show better/longer shots of the heating and pump systems in these places? I think the feathers may have come from the mattress because they look like old feather beds. Thanks for posting them.
That does makes more sense. Thanks, MDF!
Hey Pam, that was a very interesting video! What an odd house. That was a very old meat grinder on the table. I love old stuff & I noticed a few items that perked me up when I saw them...lol.. I think the feathers may have been from the pillows & or mattresses. My mom had those & I hated them because the feather tips would stick out. I like the crackled paint effect & that one door I'm sure came by that naturally over time. You're a brave woman & I'll say again you are the best!! Stay Safe!!:)
Hi Pam. I am from south central Kentucky USA. I heard you mention Ontario in one of your videos. Is that where most of your videos are from? This is my first comment. This house was beautiful to me! You do make me feel as though I’m exploring with you. You do a great job! Just found your videos a few days ago. Thanks for sharing 😃
Hi Maria. Welcome to my channel. I’m glad you are enjoying the videos. Yes, they are mostly from Ontario.
excellent as usual. I think it would be likely that the house has been vacant for years and years and whoever owns it has just dumped junk or left the place to disintegrate. I am amazed with how the old wallpaper seems to hang off the walls like drapes hang on windows. The stoves or rather where there were stoves were hazardous looking in that I think it was creosote dripping down the walls. I wish these old places could actually talk.
Thanks again!
when I was 16 I found two abandoned houses. Like the people just vanished. every thing was still there. I took a lot of stuff. Was so eerie but I wouldn't do it now. Love your vid's and sexy voice. thank you for brining back the memory's
I've been watching your interesting videos for quite some time now. You are so brave! I appreciate that you are very thorough and you talk throughout the home. I keep thinking, "I wonder what happened here?" or why folks leave in things in such disarray or what the home looked like when it was new and filled with a family living there. Finding calendars is great. I keep wondering if you ever come across someone inside the house; I hope you have something with you to protect yourself.
Windows in closets because the closets were built probably around 1920 or so. Before it was just one large room with a chiffrobe or armoire on the wall. Depending on the age of the home, a long piece of wood with pegs on it served as a clothing rack. Keep in mind three garments - one to work in, one for every day, and one for church.
Not necessarily. My folks have a huge old farmhouse and there are windows in every closet, for light and air.
we would get along very well. I also love to explore old abandoned farmhouses. You should come to iowa someday. there all over and Kansas to
A great video of an original, unmolested old house. It's virtually unheard of to see the old knob and tube switches still in place.
It looks like a familiar story in rural areas...the heirs want to use the farm land, but have no use for the old house. But it looks like this house has serious problems lol.
Very amazing house. Looks to of been built in the early to mid 1800's. Light switches use to turn instead of flip. The feathers look like the type used to stuff matress & pillows. I really like the way you show everything with your camera. I would love to renovate & live there.
terrific video ..Really enjoyed ..... Love this pastime but you have a marvellous find ..... Brilliantly filmed and wow you have captured the atmosphere !!
Weird Pam, some of those pipes in the basement looked new ??? along with a small water heater. take note of those jars used for preserving, they are now hard to come by and are an important part of our history for without them our pioneers would not have survived, amazing house keep up the good work Pam it's all very additive & very interesting.:-]
Yes, actually, I do feel as though we are all walking through together and that I really am talking to you guys, which I am. I'm sure if anyone saw me, they'd think I'm crazy talking to myself, lol. But I do feel as though we are all in this together and want to portray that feeling to all of you, also. Thanks, Tom! I'm glad you enjoyed! :)
Oh how I wish I had photographic equipment with me when I was so actively exploring in the 70s and 80s.
Per usual, beautiful woodwork that could be re-purposed. What a waste. Even the house's brick could be re-sold.
Great job on this one. I would been afraid to breathe.
Is it possible those switches were for some kind of oil lamps on the walls? They look kinda like dials to me.
By the way, my house here has one old indoor transom above the door to the back bedroom but it's solid. These seemed common back in the day. Before Zillow removed the particular listing, a huge three storey rowhouse with all kinds of holes in the floors had a broken solid one.
Gorgeous house actually, too bad it hasn't gotten the attention it deserves. Great video! Thanks for sharing!
This is an awesome house. It's a shame to see old houses like this left to the elements. By the way TikiTrex, most of the mattresses you see in that house are feather filled. (reason for feathers on floor) In the 1800's beds had small posts sticking out around the perimeter where you would put rope netting and set the feather mattress on. I have seen many feather beds converted to accept regular mattresses. (usually the small posts are sawed off) But I've never seen a feather mattress.
I have been looking for one of those old large meat grinders for years. I can't find one and you fall over one. Fate is not on my side. Good video, keep up the great work.
Great video, as always. In it's day, that had been one Beautiful house. The windows above the doors, are called transdom (spelling??), had a house with one.. Solid paneling.. At 10:13 were the walls separating from the window?? that's where you comment about the settling of the house.. Would be nice to see it restored.
Thank you so much..
I love your videos!!!! I love abandoned places!!!!
so when you go to places like this, where do you park your vehicle?? In this one you mention the guy on the tractor is out there whom likely owns the place. was just kinda curious how you go about that?? thanks for sharing these adventures with us :)
awsome vid!!! This house was about to go. Even with the better beams used in the day the wall crack you can see through to the out side means it is about to colapse. Another sign is the center room. Step on the floor and the ceiling moves...wow. Thank you ever so much for showing this one. Makes me feel they were keeping the house around in his memory, and given the state of the house, this vid deffinately will prlong the memory of the man. I bet most folks in the area knew this man!!! Just them can of corn syrup i bet he was a moonshinner. That syrup sure pumps up the alcohol and smoothes it out.
Another great video, Tiki! Loved it!
I have always liked your presentation of these video's. Some of the others have annoying chatter and/or heavy breathing that is a turn off, camera motion that makes me sea sick.
You're the best Pam, I'll easily give you a 10 in old house explorations.
You should come to Nova Scotia! There are tons of abandoned places/houses here!!! Love your videos!
Why didn't I think of that? Thanks for pointing that out.
those switches are more commonly used for gas lighting. those feathers are probably from the mattress's that you called pillow/mattress's most likely this was a boarding house especially with the "common" room upstairs. this house reminds me of the Mennonite house (from the outside) I love the older homes like this thx for another great vid!
is there a lake or water near by?? people here in Arkansas use milk jugs tied together like that for fishing
nice video
shame this piece of history is going to waste. it must have been really nice at one time. the woodwork is evidence of that. really enjoy your videos. thanks for sharing
A lot of older people that lived through the great depression saved a lot of stuff like that.
Always makes me happy when I see you have posted another video. IMO your the best urban explorer herexon YT. What a huge house makes you wonder how many people lived in it at one time. Was it one huge family or a couple familes or with extended family members did look like there was any signs of kids being there. I always make up senerios in my head when watching videos like this...lol Wonder what was up with all the milk jugs and what did they use them for...lol
Wow I am glad to see another video from you. :) I think those news papers from the 60s through to the 80s was from the original owners and maybe stuff from a decade ago is from squatters. It would explain all the random mounds of pillows on the upper floor.
I love your videos, and I've noticed one main connection between a lot of them. The farm houses are abandoned...........SO WHO IS FARMING THESE DAYS??? I just wonder why none of the ones you took us through were picked up by younger generations, other farmers, etc. Just sad that most of them look like they would be awesome farms to work and they're just dying. Sad. Thanks again! LS
You will see my reply on the comments section of Exploration of a Georgian Style Farmhouse on You Tube Andrew Gems
farming is too hard of work for most of the younger folks now-a-days..
AZBYCXDWE SMIT Yeah for the 80.7% of americans (not just youth) for sure. When you're outside of the urban areas you'd be surprised. Out there people actually have a work ethic.
I just discovered this UE series. I love this. I'm going to enjoy your videos!
super vid. looks like the place will fall down next time there,s a storm. some old folk just never throw stuff away. I think all the feathers came from old bedding, but they did look rather too new for that. so who knows?
once again,great work.
Good Day,
Those round Light Switches date from about 1912.
My Grandfather had some, & the Wiring was done on the outside of the Wall.
They were used in homes built *before Electricity*.
You rotate the Knob. "Clack" it's on, turn again, "clack" it's off.
The bare Bulb hangs suspended in the centre of the Room, & anything like electric Bread Toasters, had a Threaded Plug, & You removed the Bulb to connect the Toaster. Fabric covered Wires in twisted pairs back then.
Life at the turn of the Century.
Why the hanging Milk Jugs?
I would bet He had Friends owning a Dairy Farm, & He would have been forgetting to take the empties back for a refill.
Me guess is the first floor had central heating, meaning it was heated most likely buy coal and on the upper floor most likely all the rooms where individually heated with most likely coal-wood burning stoves, it looks like had some modern conveniences like the bathtub on the main floor, but I never saw toilet some most likely they still use the outhouse, down in the basement that smaller tank to the left of the well pressure tank was the hot water heater.
I love the woodwork throat that house
Hi Pam! Wow new video's thank goodness. Yours are so interesting. Your lucky this one didn't crumble down around you. Be careful...........I don't want to loose you it would be boring without your wonderful video's LOL Hugs Nola
Nola Harris That is very sweet of you to say, Nola! Thanks so much. This video isn't that new. I actually have posted around 30 videos since this one with my most recent just uploaded the other day. :)
Well I am so busy making pocket letters I guessed I missed them. Drop by my channel Nola Harris if you want to see what they are. I will catch up now Yippee more to watch !!! Hugs Nola
Head boards and head cheese, I was thinking it while you said it.. Made me laugh! Great video.
The heating system - coal burning pot belly unit which had a flu pipe in the wall to the unit. The damage to the floor was from the coal burning pot belly unit. I suspect this home was built prior to the 1900's around 1860 - 1870 based on the door handles and architecture.