A gazillion of boxes...
...stuffed full of personal things.
When we’ve entered this abandoned mansion we couldn’t believe our eyes.
Wherever you looked:
Moving cartons were piled up all the way up to the ceiling.
There were barely enough space to move across the rooms.
Roughly half of the rooms were inaccessible because of the boxes and objects.
Most of it was personal stuff.
But there is no chance that all of it belongs to one single family.
Items were way to different – especially when it comes to the stuff’s age.
Obviously we weren’t the first visitors of this mansion.
Boxes were torn open; objects were located anywhere on the floor.
A lot of stuff was probably already stolen.
However, it is fascinating what we have discovered.
Unnecessary to add: Everything we looked at was placed back were we’ve found it.
During our exploration we thought: “How is something like that even possible? How did it come to this?”
During four years of urban exploration we‘ve never experienced something like that.
Look at this. It’s in mint condition.
Like no one has ever read it. – True that. – What a shame.
“Till Eulenspiegel” – And here is a extreme contrast to that too.
“Ewiges Deutschland” (Immortal Germany)
Nazi reading?
Obviously from World War Two.
“A German housebook”
Yap...
“Christmas gift from the Winter Relief of the German People”
How kind of them.
It’s already yellowed.
That’s for sure my favorite book we’ve found so far.
A paper plane manual!
“Lightning paper airplanes” – No ordinary paper planes but lightning paper airplanes! – Exactly!
Written by René Lucio and Jan Spütz.
That’s compulsive reading.
“Every sheet can turn into a blazing fast paper dart. All you need are two skilled hands.”
“Whether normal plane or fancy glider: Step-by-step instructions explain how to fold 30 models.”
“Also you’re learning everything about material and throwing techniques.”
“And you get plenty of successful ideas for your air fleet.”
I would have loved it back then. – I would have learned it by heart.
Here is even the “Flash Gordon”! – That’s impossible!
And the “Lyrika Cantabilis” too.
It took us years of exploration to find it:
The first abandoned building with power still on.
…and it’s the first abandoned building with six boxes full of mini-salami.
By this time it might be reasonably assumed that this is a trap.
These are respirator masks in the original packaging, …
…power is still on, supplies are infinite.
We have multivitamin juice, cookies, pasta, …
Do you think that this stuff belongs to a prepper who is getting ready for apocalypse?
Dude…
This house is designed for surviving the zombie apocalypse.
You can protect yourself against viruses.
Well, they are smelling pretty old…
There are even more.
You can’t have enough of respirators.
Wherever you look you’ll find something interesting.
“As a keepsake of my school years”. I’m covering the name.
It’s from 1913. Knitted!
We think that all of this stuff doesn’t belong to one single person. – Damn straight.
Here’s a slatted frame, next to it are ten umbrellas.
Here’s a piece of antler.
Where’s the other half of it? – I have pulled it out of this pile.
Christmas balls...
Dumbbells.
Dumbbells?
Holy shit!
Chinese simmer sauce.
Wow…
That’s Asiatic too. It’s Thai fish sauce.
Inside of this box are pans, ...
...knifes, …
…sugar?
I guess this stuff is like ten years old.
Old plants, huge jars, … They are real fancy.
Show me the huge jars.
Here is rolling paper. Cigarette paper.
A woven basket. Art out of wood.
Lovely.
Floor lamps, picture frames, here is jar…
…filled with hygiene products for women.
Perfume! There’s perfume.
And they’re Asiatic too.
Bamboo perfume, …
And it’s all empty.
What the fuck…?
That is women’s stuff for sure.
When a female is watching this video write down in the comments what you’re doing with this.
…or what you’d like to do with this. – There’s a brush, here are different colors and we are in the mirror. Pretty sweet.
This is not a move. You don’t have towels boxed as new when you’re moving.
But it doesn’t look like a real prepper compound.
It’s just a bunch of random stuff.
Agreed!
Let’s take a look inside…
…to see whether the box content is still in here. That would be sick.
What’s supposed to be inside of it?
A brandy punch set out of Jena glass.
So?
Advent calendars…
If we had forgotten our tripod: No problem!
Because here’s a backup tripod.
The basement of the building…
…with a workbench.
A bench vise…
That’s not healthy. These are butts.
This is a bunch of cigarette butts…
It’s terrifying how… - It’s terrifying that we’re easy to spot here.
What I wanted to say: Here’s a lot of space compared to the other part of the house.
Aaaand it’s…
…Zero degrees.
Psst!
And here we’ve got a newspaper.
It’s from…
…1991.
“Die Union” (The Union)
Dude…
These skis are older than dirt.
Look at these poles. That’s crazy!
Here are the old bells…
Power is still on, so these bell might work after all.
…but we won’t try it. We want to stay inconspicuous.
So what have you found now? - Stewed apple at its best. Look!
A neat old briefcase. Looks like a movie prop.
Why is this stuff in this house?
A folding bicycle.
Today's children wouldn’t be satisfied with a toy like that.
Is this a weaving loom?
That would be really weird…
But it looks like one indeed. – Yes.
Over here is the foot pedal.
It’s a weaving loom for sure. – Wow.
I totally missed that!
Is there some kind of instrument inside?
It looks pretty antique. Just watch out!
Dude, be careful with that.
Too bad. Would have been to rad I guess.
However, it’s fancy at least.
Very fancy!
Look, it’s covered in velvet.
You can touch it too.
Velvet!
This was the home office I think. Light was on all the time, maybe we should turn it off when we’re leaving.
However, the light was already on when we arrived.
Here’s the household waste collection calendar from 2013.
A PC.
And…
…Kaspersky Internet Security.
Here’s film.
There’s film in this book?
And…
… an audio book.
We spent around an hour amid the piles of objects.
Till today we don’t understand how something like that is even possible.
Why did someone block a mansion with endless boxes full of personal stuff?
Our attempt to explain:
Maybe an investor bought multiple properties.
And he brought the inventory of the houses, which was still there, to the most unprofitable real estate he owned.
Maybe just as an interim solution…
We don’t know for how long these things are stored in the building.
What’s your explanation?
Have you experienced something similar yet?