Imagine spending Christmas there with friends and family while the house was in its prime . It must’ve looked like it came out of a Disney fairytale movie
I used to live in a house alot like this the same size and everything holidays where amazing there like easter they would hide huge easter eggs all over the grounds and christmas always felt just really festive and the fireplace was always lit and yeah my cousins would play the piano super amazing place
Wow what those walls could tell you! Looks like maybe there was a business too. Even though it's in ruins I love it. You can just imagine what it was like in the day. Live it but sad to see all those books rotting. Thanks guys!
The pizza is what got me... the way it had been shoved in the fridge in the box like "yeah, I'm gonna finish that pizza tomorrow" makes me think that whoever lived here did not intend to leave that day and never come back...
Its a shame the kids who inherited it don't care enough to take the things like the books, photo frames and other stuff not completely destroyed to preserve their family's history. People just don't care
With all the dishes still sitting up I wondered how many of them were handed down from previous generations and now they are just waiting to be destroyed.
9:33 in, to think that when this newspaper was printed, either the TITANIC just had sunk, or was about to. Absolutely mind blowing this relic of an article we are looking at has lasted 108 years. Congratulations on another successful explore. Bravo my friend, bravo...
@@myMotoring It is an original French magazine that is bound together. They had large magazine newspaper combos back then and it was common practice to bind all the issues together for a years worth of printing. I have some American ones like this, and a few French supplements for serial stories that are close to this size. They often printed these magazine/newspapers on a better slicker paper, it was not as costly to do so as it was in later decades (graphic designer that collects historical ephemera).
yeah would be great if they would just let people live in them take care of them and just pay the taxes on the property that would solve the problem of these old houses being abandoned and then eventually deteriorate. 👍
Stones are usually on older properties to show the property line. My dad was a home developer. It's no different than a fence really. EDIT: I'm dying from laughter! Josh said, "Look at that private lake right there..." & shows us a POND. 🤣😂
its so sad to see places like this going to waste. the old books that are getting lost because no one bothers to try and save them. i have watched so many of these abandoned explorations and see furniture, crockery, books old sewing machines and everyone who goes and explores just goes away and leaves them there shame no one can rescue some of this stuff for museums because before long there will be nothing for future generations to see so very very sad. keep up the good work josh cant believe you have been doing this for 7 years now. next time you are in the uk you should look up some local beauty spots in south yorkshire not far from me is the only remaining round keep castle in the uk. look up conisbrough castle south yorkshire and see the pics. stay safe in this terrible time love from the uk xxxx
Another commenter stated that the children who used to live in this house spoke about being abused, so just going back to the house would probably bring back a lot of trauma. If I were them, I'd never want to look back either, but it is sad to see a lot of things go to waste.
They most of the time don’t do that because it’s officially called stealing and there always a possibility that abandoned places like these are haunted and if you bring something haunted with you from a place it will haunt you, your family and friends the rest of your life. So that’s probably one of the main reasons they don’t bring any
@Jane Marsee can't steal something that's been abandoned. Hell I purchased a mobile home and when the landlord wanted my mobile home removed from the park he evicted me. I had no way to move the old mobile home so they claimed I abandoned it. Not even a year later actually just a month ago they tore it down. So I guess anything I'd left and couldn't get because I was banned from the park was stolen by whom ever.
I mean if you were abused in that house would you still wanna take care of it knowing that haunting memories happened there? Those kids/people were probably traumatized.
They are also rocks that farmers pulled out of there fields and built walls with them instead of scattering the woods. I have an old one that has been covered up over the years in my yard.
Yup they are border fences and back in the day that was probably fields and pasture where the rocks would be thrown eventually creating the border walls. They are very common allover New England
They do this in Ireland and Scotland I believe still to this day. I think it gives the property more character and keeps a natural barrier rather than an artificial one with fencing.
lmao I go with my friends to the mall, movies, bars, Josh goes with his friends to abandoned places not even to party or trash, but to explore, god, I could be friends with this guy
When I saw the library, I just imagined the beautiful old day. The young owner of the 1850 house read the book with the sound of rain in that house. I can feel the 1850's vibes there. How beautiful
I always get so sad when I see big, old houses with lots of history just totally abandoned and left behind. for what reason?! Couldn´t they just have sold it or something?
Josh mentioned that there was abuse going on inside the house, so it is understandable that they'd abandon it I mean would you still want to go back to the place where you were abused knowing that there were a lot of haunting memories that happened there? Those kids/people were probably traumatized
These kinds of places are so interesting to me. There’s so much stuff left over, like clothing and food, stuff you would take if you’d moved out. I always wanna know why everything was left.
Visiting old abandoned homes Me: *starts picking up things and putting them where i assume they belong* No lie i could spend HOURS in somewhere like this, especially looking at the books.
i am 50 yrs old and i watch at lot of these. i love these kind of videos. i did what you are doing before you were even born except without a video camera..
Josh, as possibly one of your oldest fans, I'll explain the house design & layout. Back in the day, it was very common for the family to start off with a small house, and then to just add on and add on as the years go by. It was also very common to build houses for other family members very close to the original house. So it was not uncommon for brothers and sisters, aunts and uncles to have homes right next to each other, and then to even connect the homes later on, so that it's easier to go from one family member's side to the other, while increasing the common areas for both families. My old Text family did this, by starting a zillion years ago with a one-room house, and then over the course of about 50 years, it grew every few years with a new addition, and even an addition of a second floor about 75 years after the first walls went up. This is why you should bring an old dude like me along with you, so I could explain all the old stuff to y'all young folks! If you're ever in Florida (not the there's much old stuff to explore here!) let me know and I'll join you guys and provide some more historical accuracy for stuff. Thanks for all the awesome videos! You're totally living my life!
You should always try to check out those old books. Especially in the house of a millionaire. There could be works that are almost forgotten or even first editions of historical books that shouldn’t be left to decay. Cool video, thanks for sharing.
I just can't believe the family left all their things behind like that. I would love to know where they are now. My favorite thing in the house was the old safe, really cool. I thought the house would have been made of better quality wood and such. Especially the first half you went through Josh. The walls and doors seemed so narrow for a great home like that. Wonderful explore. Thank you for sharing. Delaware 🇺🇸
@@Mich-xs5vz A person on another comment stated that the family was abused. If I were them, I definitely wouldn't want to come back, it would just bring back a lot of trauma. Some people just want to forget their horrible pasts.
You should really wear some kind of helmet, the collapsed part should be enough to tell you the place isn't that safe to go in without any protective gear.
People really dont know this? I guess being from New England this is just common knowledge to everyone. And 1850 isn't an old house up here. It would be considered fairly new. So He is in the midwest? Just a guess.
Like walking gardens around the landscape with roses, different things. In other places they used like entrances. Such beautiful art works across the world made w what they had.
I just love how at 2:13 Josh describes it as being frozen in time To me his description of it really adds to the abandoned damaged old aged look at the place
I tipped Josh off to this location, and he did get some of the facts wrong. The family who was gifted the property as a marriage present to James Sibley Watson Jr (he wed Hildegarde Lasell in 1916). They both came from extremely prominent families, but unfortunately I believe that due to that extreme wealth nobody in the family wanted to come back to the area to live in a vacation home permanently. The family member that got ownership of the property (I’m not exactly sure who, but I’ll keep researching) had addiction, and financial problems. I could tell that she had up and left the property with food still in the guest house above the garage and tissues covered in mascara all around her bed. I don’t know what happened, but draw the conclusions from that as you will. I had also seen men’s clothing in one of the closets, so perhaps heartbreak. There was no evidence of a hard drug addiction, (needles, syringes, etc.) unless you consider Mary Jane a hard drug. Anyhow, she ended up staying at a motel out West for an extended period, and went into debt at a Motel 6. From what I heard, they were involved in the sale of the property to another prominent family in the town who have since demolished this building, closed it off, and made it a outdoor property for their sons and grandchildren. Despite this home being gone, I’m glad Josh could document it before it was demolished and sharing this gem with the world. I hope viewers can try imagining what the home looked like in it’s prime, and recreate something similar for themselves.
i suddenly wanna locate this place grab some friends and people who know how to organize decorate and fix stuff up and go see if we can fix it a bit and make it last a few hundred more years or less or more maybe see if we can find out who made those drawings and bring them to a museum perhaps?
The first room you went through had clearly burned at some point, all the roof beams were black and a part of that bookcase had soot on it. It is so sad that something that nice looking history is let down and gets rotted away.
Hello Josh I'm one of your older viewers, your my favorite tubers ,you have a wonderful way about your approach and the way you talk and the enthusiasm and excitement that you have , your very genuine, and there's strong light around you,please be so safe 😘👒🎥💕
the stone walls (here in the uk) are usually used as boundary markers for property e.g. to show the edge of the garden. or they can be used as separators of land.
the old stone house structure could well been the old kitchen back in the 1800's it was common to have a separate structure for the kitchen so as to not burn down the wood house
Rock walls are commonly found in New England and they were built to identify property lines. Even though most of them are built in the 1800’s people still do them today. My grandfather lived in Maine and he built one, and my father in Colorado did the same thing, pretty neat!
The great-grandchildren who inherited it weren’t the ones who lived there and were abused. They likely abandoned it due to a severe drug addiction, as he said.
Despite my utter appreciation for these beautiful homes, whenever i see the beautiful artifacts and paintings.I am 100% reminded of my incredibly sticky fingers all i can think is "oo i'd take that for my living room" SMH
I would take every clean electronic in that house, especially those computers and monitors, I would be the biggest theif ever if I were in this house dayum.
That's not the only thing, but the comments below are correct. Waaaay too much damage but at one time people were probably here walking right on top of a lot of expensive stuff.
In England in Europe we have these everywhere, it's not to physically keep people out it's just so you can tell who's land is who's. It mostly divides farmers fields along with hedges
I lived in a house growing up not far from me now that used those rocker-like push in light switches. I always got in trouble because I would run up and down the stairs to flip them on and off lol
During these hard times when you can’t go anywhere besides your yard, these kind of videos are the best to feel better that one day we can go back to seeing stuff like this!!!
It was interesting and if u could tell us for more what happened to the family. If someone in the family has written a book what happened then and who published the book. Thanks
I used to be subscribed to you on my old channel, but then it got deleted. I totally forgot about your channel until, some one mentioned it, and I’m so happy to find your channel again.
I feel so sooo sorry for Josh, for only have seen libraries in people's houses only twice. 😲😭 I never considered my family as rich, but I now know how to appreciate the bliss to being able to just go to our own library and seek for a interesting book. All the family houses or apartments ( even the 1 room app) in our families have a little library. And as a kid when I visited my aunts and uncles or cousins etc... the first thing I would do before go to bed is explore their libraries content. It says a lot about the owners and its awesome to see what are their real interests or at least for a certain time captured their interest. It's also a great conversation starter and especially with family members, it helps to shorten the usual boring small talk about parents siblings and school etc.
more information I was able to find online. - "Gentleman's retreat on over 170 acres with outbuildings: big timber barn, garage w/updated caretaker's apt, stone walls & serenity.The main house built to 1850 specs of original section & added on in the 1920's-hand plained floors, hand hewn beams, museum potential used as a summer getaway."
21:54 landline phones use different grid from power lines altogether, it will not be cut if you don't pay the bills they just gonna block your calls. That's why the phone still got power but can't make any call but you still can call 911.
Imagine spending Christmas there with friends and family while the house was in its prime . It must’ve looked like it came out of a Disney fairytale movie
I used to live in a house alot like this the same size and everything holidays where amazing there like easter they would hide huge easter eggs all over the grounds and christmas always felt just really festive and the fireplace was always lit and yeah my cousins would play the piano super amazing place
Actually I think mine was bigger
Or like Kevin home alone lol
Now living there would be more of a horror movie lmao
Wow what those walls could tell you! Looks like maybe there was a business too. Even though it's in ruins I love it. You can just imagine what it was like in the day. Live it but sad to see all those books rotting. Thanks guys!
When I see a house like this, I think there are secrets hidden in the walls.
Ash Marshall yesssss me too.
Yeah me too 🤣
Ash Marshall the boy who
Ash Marshall couldnt agree anymore
It's like if those walls could talk scenario..still interesting to watch
The fact those chairs in the collapsed part of house look almost brand new is interesting
WHITE!!!!
Probably half set up like the picture sitting at the door
That magazine was printed 5 days after the Titanic sank! What a cool piece of history!
Exactly what I thought too!
What magazine?
Dietrich what time frame? I can't see
What time frame?
GEDD __ 9:24
The pizza is what got me... the way it had been shoved in the fridge in the box like "yeah, I'm gonna finish that pizza tomorrow" makes me think that whoever lived here did not intend to leave that day and never come back...
Dang that makes me scared ngl
mathew boggs same, I’m watching this at night
@@senorkrabs520 R.I.P
Great observation .
o god-
“Built in 1850 so it’s old”, me a European, *old* ?? that’s toddler years
Me, an Asian : amateurs 😪
Yeah no kidding 1850 is not that old I live in a house that was built in 1865
@@79tazman any ghosts?
Me a swede: *sips on beer* ameteurs..
@@nine-vi7rw asian too and yes, I agree 😅
Its a shame the kids who inherited it don't care enough to take the things like the books, photo frames and other stuff not completely destroyed to preserve their family's history. People just don't care
maybe nobody inherited anything
I agree with you
It’s sad but true.
Ariana Rus you kidding me
With all the dishes still sitting up I wondered how many of them were handed down from previous generations and now they are just waiting to be destroyed.
9:33 in, to think that when this newspaper was printed, either the TITANIC just had sunk, or was about to. Absolutely mind blowing this relic of an article we are looking at has lasted 108 years. Congratulations on another successful explore. Bravo my friend, bravo...
Mickey Nixon Films Thats exactly what I was thinking too!
that is a republished newspaper and compiled into something like magazine. Look how glossy the paper is at 9:37
@@myMotoring It is an original French magazine that is bound together. They had large magazine newspaper combos back then and it was common practice to bind all the issues together for a years worth of printing. I have some American ones like this, and a few French supplements for serial stories that are close to this size. They often printed these magazine/newspapers on a better slicker paper, it was not as costly to do so as it was in later decades (graphic designer that collects historical ephemera).
Mickey Nixon Films April 20, 1912. 8 days after the Titanic sunk and over 1200 people lost their lives
Lmao if I explore an abandoned house and come across writing that says “turn back” you can bet I’m running from that place.
Gotta do what it says XD
Josh, the walls could be old town lines or to mark property lines.
Yea that's what I was thinking
usually they are main property boundary walls.
Ya I was thinking property line marker
I SAID THAT
It’s a dry stone wall, we get a lot of them here in England, just boundaries to separate land.
How many cases have you had where old owners of the houses you explore see your videos and get into contact with you?
Wish he’d respond! So cool to know!
I hope he sees this, I’m interested to know too
Me too!
Right?!
C'mon Josh, the subscribers want to know. Indulge us!
When I he says “Country barrel”
My Grandma when she heard this to
“He means Cracker Barrel”
I was hoping someone said something about that. 🤦🏼♀️ I said the same thing your grandma did "it's cracker barrel dude!" 😂
Yea. Cracker Barrel or sure
Old Country Buffet
I wonder how many of the books have old letters, notes, or pictures that were put in them for safe keeping.
Or maybe even some hidden dosh?
Or cash
Probably zero.
Some people also stash money in them for just in case
Imagine if someone stayed there and lived and took care of the place it would look so nice
You’ve always been the caretaker, Mr. Torrance
I wish that could be me honestly
yeah would be great if they would just let people live in them take care of them and just pay the taxes on the property that would solve the problem of these old houses being abandoned and then eventually deteriorate. 👍
yeah but it would ruin the feeling of urban exploring...
I always wonder how houses like this become abandoned.
Stones are usually on older properties to show the property line. My dad was a home developer. It's no different than a fence really.
EDIT: I'm dying from laughter! Josh said, "Look at that private lake right there..." & shows us a POND. 🤣😂
I love scary stuf😌
I have stone walls all around my property you’re spot on my friend.
Exactly. They were most common between the 1700s-1800s i believe (this is based off of observations of my own this might not be true)
milk house... built by water for cooling properties... usually spring fed, that 's why there is still water in that "lake"....
Yeah agreed
Who think that's there is a hidden story beyond the people leaving this place??!
No, they just leave it, cause it's their hobby
noFront bahahahaha 😂😂😂😂😭😭😭😭
No, duh
They are so rich they don't even care moving their old stuff moving into new house. They can just buy more better stuff.
Back in the day when they plowed the fields they would geather the rocks and use them to make fences
When you realise 2007 was 13 years ago...
what
14 years *
I rant about life being fake nope, 13
@@cooper_ae but I was born in 2006 but im 13 .... I'm so confused.... 👁️👄👁️
@@robbin2046 same I'm 13 too
Your genuine excitement with every single thing you come across is contagious.
Its sad to see this piece of history crumble back into the Earth.
its so sad to see places like this going to waste. the old books that are getting lost because no one bothers to try and save them. i have watched so many of these abandoned explorations and see furniture, crockery, books old sewing machines and everyone who goes and explores just goes away and leaves them there shame no one can rescue some of this stuff for museums because before long there will be nothing for future generations to see so very very sad. keep up the good work josh cant believe you have been doing this for 7 years now. next time you are in the uk you should look up some local beauty spots in south yorkshire not far from me is the only remaining round keep castle in the uk. look up conisbrough castle south yorkshire and see the pics.
stay safe in this terrible time love from the uk xxxx
Another commenter stated that the children who used to live in this house spoke about being abused, so just going back to the house would probably bring back a lot of trauma. If I were them, I'd never want to look back either, but it is sad to see a lot of things go to waste.
They most of the time don’t do that because it’s officially called stealing and there always a possibility that abandoned places like these are haunted and if you bring something haunted with you from a place it will haunt you, your family and friends the rest of your life. So that’s probably one of the main reasons they don’t bring any
@Jane Marsee can't steal something that's been abandoned. Hell I purchased a mobile home and when the landlord wanted my mobile home removed from the park he evicted me. I had no way to move the old mobile home so they claimed I abandoned it. Not even a year later actually just a month ago they tore it down. So I guess anything I'd left and couldn't get because I was banned from the park was stolen by whom ever.
Same im so pissed that he didnt even open a book wtf
I would of *steal* that computer monitor hell YEAS.
Look at this swamp land
Shrek: WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN MY SWAMP
Siren Head?
Ik
I binge watch memes
Josh: “I’m only 5’10”
Me 5’3 : “I’m NoT EvEn ThAt TaLl”
me who is 5’1: i feel your struggle too
@{{Moõñliğhť Ĺunar}} I wanna be tall *jenna marbles starts to play in the background*
Im 6'1 and i feel small :D
dude i’m 5’2 i feel you
5 and 7 as a male. Sometimes I feel like a trash.
imagine how beautiful this house was. it’s so sad when theses houses don’t get taken care of and are just left to decay.
I mean if you were abused in that house would you still wanna take care of it knowing that haunting memories happened there? Those kids/people were probably traumatized.
rory are u an asin tho?
This house,made me feel very sad
The rock walls were used to mark 1time property lines
Yeah, there are a bunch of rock walls around my property
They are also rocks that farmers pulled out of there fields and built walls with them instead of scattering the woods. I have an old one that has been covered up over the years in my yard.
Yup they are border fences and back in the day that was probably fields and pasture where the rocks would be thrown eventually creating the border walls. They are very common allover New England
They are also for lumber lots for firewood and general lumber. Due to the cedar and pines in NE. Made a lot of money for locals back then.
They do this in Ireland and Scotland I believe still to this day. I think it gives the property more character and keeps a natural barrier rather than an artificial one with fencing.
lmao I go with my friends to the mall, movies, bars, Josh goes with his friends to abandoned places not even to party or trash, but to explore, god, I could be friends with this guy
Glad he respects the properties
I love the enthusiasm in Josh' voice, you always know josh is doing it for the content and not for the money.
l i n k exactly he loves exploring!
When you said the year 1912... that was the year of Titanic.
Interesting. I just realized I always refer to things that happened in the early 1900s as before or after titanic sank
am i the only one that think the year 1912 is the year of the ww1?
@@mgapryt4930 yeah that's what makes it unbelievable that people actually lived in 1912 almost 108 years old
@@mgapryt4930 WW1 started in 1914 and ended in 1918. So you might be?
This gives me chills. The people just disappeared. It doesnt look like they took clothes or shoes or anything. It bothers me.
That's so sad knowing that someone happily lived there with whole family and now the house is abandoned and all the memories too...
WHY IS NO ONE TALKING ABOUT THE RACCON?
Something about that didn't sit right with me...
Chupacabra!!! He is no longer after goats!
R.I.P
I know! Why did it look like it had a shirt on?
@@luckylala1224 Predators will turn the skin inside out to get to the tasty bits.
When I saw the library, I just imagined the beautiful old day. The young owner of the 1850 house read the book with the sound of rain in that house. I can feel the 1850's vibes there. How beautiful
I always get so sad when I see big, old houses with lots of history just totally abandoned and left behind. for what reason?! Couldn´t they just have sold it or something?
Josh mentioned that there was abuse going on inside the house, so it is understandable that they'd abandon it I mean would you still want to go back to the place where you were abused knowing that there were a lot of haunting memories that happened there? Those kids/people were probably traumatized
@@joytan4611 bro explaine3
@@joytan4611 bro explained
These kinds of places are so interesting to me. There’s so much stuff left over, like clothing and food, stuff you would take if you’d moved out. I always wanna know why everything was left.
fh Most of the time it might of been because they need to move fast and go live some were else but I ant for sure low for the reel reason
Because they were abused, maybe they didn't wanna keep them cause there were traumatizing memories
i would recommend wearing a mask in some of these places due to mold just and fyi!
Visiting old abandoned homes
Me: *starts picking up things and putting them where i assume they belong*
No lie i could spend HOURS in somewhere like this, especially looking at the books.
Dark Darling I would be entertained by the books too
Same i would restore a room.
i wouldread every paper 😍
And the clothes & shoes. I was curious about it
And organizing everything.
i am 50 yrs old and i watch at lot of these. i love these kind of videos. i did what you are doing before you were even born except without a video camera..
Must be scary
Imagine walking in to any room and seeing someone sitting in the corner 🤒😂
They used to hide money in their books back in the day. This is such a shame that all these artifacts are ruined. Great videos. Love your channel.
Corona Virus: Stay at home or else
Josh in the middle of nowhere: Lmao no
at least (so far threw ) there 6ft apart and noone elce around
At least there is no one around and they are doing a good job social distancing.
I mean this looks like maybe December, January feburary. This was probably filmed before all the distancing & virus stuff.
@@julianacromey7151 right. Idk why nobody thinks this.
Social distancing, explorer style.
Josh, as possibly one of your oldest fans, I'll explain the house design & layout. Back in the day, it was very common for the family to start off with a small house, and then to just add on and add on as the years go by. It was also very common to build houses for other family members very close to the original house. So it was not uncommon for brothers and sisters, aunts and uncles to have homes right next to each other, and then to even connect the homes later on, so that it's easier to go from one family member's side to the other, while increasing the common areas for both families. My old Text family did this, by starting a zillion years ago with a one-room house, and then over the course of about 50 years, it grew every few years with a new addition, and even an addition of a second floor about 75 years after the first walls went up.
This is why you should bring an old dude like me along with you, so I could explain all the old stuff to y'all young folks! If you're ever in Florida (not the there's much old stuff to explore here!) let me know and I'll join you guys and provide some more historical accuracy for stuff.
Thanks for all the awesome videos! You're totally living my life!
Hey old person here:: That safe and baby highchair are worth big money.Especially baby chair.From the early 50s and exceptionally rare.
Josh: “I’m not even that tall, I’m 5’10”.”
Me, being 4’9”: 👁👄👁
Im 4’9 to
I’m 5’9”
He’s not tall, you’re just a midget
laughs in 4'8
Cries in 4’7
You should always try to check out those old books. Especially in the house of a millionaire. There could be works that are almost forgotten or even first editions of historical books that shouldn’t be left to decay. Cool video, thanks for sharing.
Or even have money in it
I just get sucked in to Josh’s videos. It’s like once you start watching one you can’t leave till it’s over because it’s just so interesting
There called dry stone walls an either used to keep animals in or in this case I recon it's to mark out your land
Literally nobody at all josh>>> the house is so dark and gloomy seconds later says “the vibes are great”😭😭😂
I just can't believe the family left all their things behind like that. I would love to know where they are now. My favorite thing in the house was the old safe, really cool. I thought the house would have been made of better quality wood and such. Especially the first half you went through Josh. The walls and doors seemed so narrow for a great home like that. Wonderful explore. Thank you for sharing. Delaware 🇺🇸
Hopefully rotting in jail.
@@Mich-xs5vz
A person on another comment stated that the family was abused. If I were them, I definitely wouldn't want to come back, it would just bring back a lot of trauma. Some people just want to forget their horrible pasts.
@@realdumbash true. But rather they just ditched the house y dont they sell it or donate it to the homeless
@@witch_noona I mean it's their decision if they wanna sell it or not. Not a hate comment
You should really wear some kind of helmet, the collapsed part should be enough to tell you the place isn't that safe to go in without any protective gear.
Exactly
yes please
The stone walls that you see at older property’s are the property lines it’s the way they told there neighbors this my land that side is yours
People really dont know this? I guess being from New England this is just common knowledge to everyone. And 1850 isn't an old house up here. It would be considered fairly new. So He is in the midwest? Just a guess.
Josh, you're so lucky to be having to see these places and explore the whole world.
The rock wall are a historic feature that is in old historic areas and places
Yes, we call them dry stone walls in the UK. They are essentially just walls to mark a boundary.
Like walking gardens around the landscape with roses, different things. In other places they used like entrances. Such beautiful art works across the world made w what they had.
Loved the history.
And the mystery..
What happened to the daughter?
No family left?
Love the old fireplaces..
Cool video Josh.
Hi Josh. Thank you so much for inserting the photo of the house in it's prime. It was gorgeous. Such a sad end to it's story.
josh: let’s go check it out
me, turning on every light, wrapping myself in a blanket, and pouring salt in front of the doors: ok I’m ready
😄😄😆😆😆😅😅😅
Pop the popcorn, snuggle up infront of the tv, weapon near me, rainy and dark outside, doors locked, all lights turned off. We are good to go.
this cracked me UP 😂 same page
SAME HAHAHA
Pour a circle of salt & sit in it with an iron weapon! Okay so I sort of was obsessed with Supernatural forever. Sam & Dean would protect us💗💯
Rock walls are typically a property lines when they’re that short
I just love how at 2:13 Josh describes it as being frozen in time
To me his description of it really adds to the abandoned damaged old aged look at the place
I tipped Josh off to this location, and he did get some of the facts wrong. The family who was gifted the property as a marriage present to James Sibley Watson Jr (he wed Hildegarde Lasell in 1916). They both came from extremely prominent families, but unfortunately I believe that due to that extreme wealth nobody in the family wanted to come back to the area to live in a vacation home permanently. The family member that got ownership of the property (I’m not exactly sure who, but I’ll keep researching) had addiction, and financial problems.
I could tell that she had up and left the property with food still in the guest house above the garage and tissues covered in mascara all around her bed. I don’t know what happened, but draw the conclusions from that as you will. I had also seen men’s clothing in one of the closets, so perhaps heartbreak. There was no evidence of a hard drug addiction, (needles, syringes, etc.) unless you consider Mary Jane a hard drug.
Anyhow, she ended up staying at a motel out West for an extended period, and went into debt at a Motel 6. From what I heard, they were involved in the sale of the property to another prominent family in the town who have since demolished this building, closed it off, and made it a outdoor property for their sons and grandchildren.
Despite this home being gone, I’m glad Josh could document it before it was demolished and sharing this gem with the world.
I hope viewers can try imagining what the home looked like in it’s prime, and recreate something similar for themselves.
Has anybody else explored this and posted it on UA-cam before the Parlor collapsed? Cause now I’m really curious
i suddenly wanna locate this place grab some friends and people who know how to organize decorate and fix stuff up and go see if we can fix it a bit and make it last a few hundred more years or less or more maybe see if we can find out who made those drawings and bring them to a museum perhaps?
lemme join you
@@WarriorCats4EverFan i would say yes join me but am to young to do anything about it at the moment.
Am i the only one who saw the books and wanted to collect every single one of them🥺
Yes!! Or at least clean them up and donate them to a library or museum
I think I started drooling...
same
Me too
The first room you went through had clearly burned at some point, all the roof beams were black and a part of that bookcase had soot on it. It is so sad that something that nice looking history is let down and gets rotted away.
Hello Josh I'm one of your older viewers, your my favorite tubers ,you have a wonderful way about your approach and the way you talk and the enthusiasm and excitement that you have , your very genuine, and there's strong light around you,please be so safe 😘👒🎥💕
4:07 Your right! Just a creepy feeling! The yard and all the stuff laying outside just gives a creepy vibe!
the stone walls (here in the uk) are usually used as boundary markers for property e.g. to show the edge of the garden. or they can be used as separators of land.
the old stone house structure could well been the old kitchen back in the 1800's it was common to have a separate structure for the kitchen so as to not burn down the wood house
Rock walls are commonly found in New England and they were built to identify property lines. Even though most of them are built in the 1800’s people still do them today. My grandfather lived in Maine and he built one, and my father in Colorado did the same thing, pretty neat!
U should have explored the RV and the surrounding area
Definitely need to metal detect around that house.
You’d be surprised of the things u find when u go looking :)
So maybe after 200 years someone will come exploring our houses too!🙄
I would love to know the poet or book that was written about this house. Anyone figure it out? I tried to do some looking but didn't get too far. 🤦♀️
They possibly abandoned the house due to the brutalizing abuse, they suffered as children.
This makes so much sense if I had lived there I would also not come back if I was abused
The great-grandchildren who inherited it weren’t the ones who lived there and were abused. They likely abandoned it due to a severe drug addiction, as he said.
Kat Rose regardless, if I was abused at a house I grew up in. I would not come back and would neglect it.
I have heard and read many house that become neglected if the child was abused in it. It’s not always drugs FYI
If I was abused in a house like that, I'd sell it for 50$. If I was a crackhead and got posession of that house, I'd sell it for 50$ worth of crack.
That house would’ve been way more preserved if people didn’t know about it and only explorers that knew about it wouldn’t toda crash the place
Despite my utter appreciation for these beautiful homes, whenever i see the beautiful artifacts and paintings.I am 100% reminded of my incredibly sticky fingers all i can think is "oo i'd take that for my living room" SMH
but i would love it, not destroy i!!!t
Same😂😂😂😂😂
Am I the only one who kept wanting to take stuff like old magazines and stuff as like a peice of old history
yes i wanted to look through everything lol
I would take every clean electronic in that house, especially those computers and monitors, I would be the biggest theif ever if I were in this house dayum.
I would take the clothes and shoes lol. It's vintage!
I would take the crockery,, those tea sets were pretty af man
”i never had a drum set when i was a kid. lucky..” 😂
Those look like first edition books - they can be worth hundreds to thousands.
Yes it could😉
And ? They're not his.
That's not the only thing, but the comments below are correct. Waaaay too much damage but at one time people were probably here walking right on top of a lot of expensive stuff.
back in the 1800's and earlier they would use the rocks pulled from the fields to make stone fences.
A stone house too
Yeah not everyone had the money to buy and put up wooded fences.
In England in Europe we have these everywhere, it's not to physically keep people out it's just so you can tell who's land is who's. It mostly divides farmers fields along with hedges
I lived in a house growing up not far from me now that used those rocker-like push in light switches. I always got in trouble because I would run up and down the stairs to flip them on and off lol
20:44 that my friend is a dom perignon 1964-1984 bottle if it’s in a good condition it can be worth about $64-$864
During these hard times when you can’t go anywhere besides your yard, these kind of videos are the best to feel better that one day we can go back to seeing stuff like this!!!
What do you mean in these days you can't go anywhere besides your yard?
Lee Thompson, because of the virus and being in lockdown.
@@Mr_LMT_93 think that depends where you are in the world.
@@marthariddlegarcia2991 Does she not mean in the olden days when she said: "During these hard times?"
I'm so surprised that they never see rats and animals living in that house and of them🐁🐀
It was interesting and if u could tell us for more what happened to the family. If someone in the family has written a book what happened then and who published the book. Thanks
Agreed I would love to know more about this who wrote the books and the family etc
@@qsfk. me too tell us about the book please!
Following. So I can find the book lol
I want to know the family name and about the books also.
The family’s last name is Watson. This house is on 10 Watson Farm Road, in Northbridge Massachusetts USA
I used to be subscribed to you on my old channel, but then it got deleted. I totally forgot about your channel until, some one mentioned it, and I’m so happy to find your channel again.
“He’s literally like, leaking”
me: PFTT
them: PFTTTT pfttttt
Grape arbor
I always love abandoned house don't know why but ever since I was a kid.
Me too and I dont have any clue
Josh: *posts*
Everyone: *rushes to the comments*
I subscribed to your account just cuz the name. 😂😂
@@obi-wankenobi1036 LoL, what about me?! 🤪
3:48 That "country barrel" was used for storing milk in it. 😁
Shouldn’t the books go in a museum of some kind ? Before someone steals them
I wonder if this house was haunted being how old it is
I feel so sooo sorry for Josh, for only have seen libraries in people's houses only twice. 😲😭 I never considered my family as rich, but I now know how to appreciate the bliss to being able to just go to our own library and seek for a interesting book. All the family houses or apartments ( even the 1 room app) in our families have a little library. And as a kid when I visited my aunts and uncles or cousins etc... the first thing I would do before go to bed is explore their libraries content. It says a lot about the owners and its awesome to see what are their real interests or at least for a certain time captured their interest. It's also a great conversation starter and especially with family members, it helps to shorten the usual boring small talk about parents siblings and school etc.
That's crazy stuff homie stay safe while you do this stuff
lmao omg you say the funniest stuff like all the time. your word placement is got me cracking up. 12:00 "scroll up, I mean look up" lol
Thank you for explaining the history of the places you go. It makes your channel very unique. Can’t wait to watch more videos
But he is ALWAYS wrong
He always runs with the urban legend and NEVER the true story , that's also the case here .
"Country Barrel" LOL
"Like the restaurant" LMFAOO
and “popcorn seeds” hahaha
Surprised no one tried to steal the RV honestly
VIN numbers, my man. Have fun trying to get any insurance on it.
24:07 is it just me or do I see a face in the corner of the wall
Beside the window...I saw that too
Like a Tim Burton girl with big black eyes? Yeah, I 've seen that too, that mold stain has style😅!
nobody:
Josh: let’s go explore a abandoned witch house 🥴
i will gladly explore a abandoned witch house
you cute
william burningham thank you 😏
@@ItsyagurlLydia you're welcome
more information I was able to find online. - "Gentleman's retreat on over 170 acres with outbuildings: big timber barn, garage w/updated caretaker's apt, stone walls & serenity.The main house built to 1850 specs of original section & added on in the 1920's-hand plained floors, hand hewn beams, museum potential used as a summer getaway."
and I found this: www.historicnewengland.org/property/watson-farm/ Very cool!
Very cool indeed 🤗👏
@@ToriAnneNH says the Watson farm is still a working farm, cant be that one.
I found it on google maps using the clues from BobbyGod's comment. That's not the right one @Tori Robinson 🙂
@@ToriAnneNH that's not the right one 🙂
So weird that the children's room was so well preserved than the rest of the house
No money in that if ur referring to stealing but if ur referring to the natural decay then yeah ur right super strange
23:45. The the drawer opens. Your friend open it? Freaked me out
I saw that too and rewind it many times. That's so creepy.
there was no one opening it
23:44 that drawer freaks me out 🤦♀️
Reminds me of RE 7 house and with the RV and Farm lol
No one else saw the figure in the window @4:03?!
I can see it ☠️
21:54 landline phones use different grid from power lines altogether, it will not be cut if you don't pay the bills they just gonna block your calls. That's why the phone still got power but can't make any call but you still can call 911.
Wow that's neat! I was wondering why myself.
And the phone was broken water damage etc to push buttons put a working phone on it might work