5 Unsettling Abandoned Places with Dark Histories

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Thank you for this unexpected tour of your homes, Simon.

One creepy place that will never be abandoned. The Blazement. When one script writer manages to escape, they're quickly replaced. Danny and Kevin are never getting out of there!😮‍💨🕳️

As an ER doc who has to cut off rings on the regular.... Don't ever get a titanium ring... Or at least don't wear one on a finger that is important to you.

The Willard Asylum is within the footprint of the state regulatory body I'm employed by. Every two years I need to walk through all parts of the buildings and inspect certain infrastructure. I don't enter the parts that are unstable. However I look through the windows now and then. The buildings falling in are full of asbestos, and can't be disturbed unless they fall into their own basements. Then in theory, ground water would douse the asbestos making it safe to excavate. I've been in a house with a cage in the corner of the basement, and the house rumored to be where a man kept his daughter in a small cage in the attic for almost a decade. The buildings falling in are full of beautiful old granite bath fixtures and tile work. It's beautiful. Also dark.

What a terrible shame that the castle was demolished. It's almost always upsetting when historical properties are destroyed.

Here in México city there's the hotel "Posada del Sol" an eccentric hotel that became abandoned in the 40s, later during the 1968 college student protests, it was used by the police as an improvised safe house, where a number of students were "interrogated" and... disposed off. It's unown how many students lost their lifes there because the official numbers have never been made public.

0:55 - Chapter 1 - Pripyat 2:55 - Mid roll ads 4:15 - Chapter 2 - Willard asylum for the chronic insane 6:50 - Chapter 3 - Chateau miranda 9:35 - Chapter 4 - Beelitz heilstatten hospital 11:35 - Chapter 5 - La isla de las munecas

Simon had his writers make this video so he can look for a cheap second home because ghosts aren't real.

I believe my Great-Great-Grandmother is burried at Willards. She's not burried with her husband, 9 children, sons-in-law, etc in NYC. However, there's a woman by the same name, born in the same place (Hanover) and with the same number of children born and living (9 and 2) residing at Willards during the US 1900 census and the NYC 1905 census. NY "owns" their records though. There's little hope of finding out for sure. :(

When I was little my grandparents lived in a rural area of Texas and we'd often pass old houses on forgotten farms that were so old they had outhouses... any way they called them "couldjya houses" and say, could ya still love me if we lived there...

One of my first thoughts when seeing abandoned properties like those featured in this video is: Wow, that would make for such a cool residence (either for a single person or, for many of the large properties, condominiums - perhaps with several businesses).

It’s heartbreaking when irreplaceable architecture as stunning as a castle, is torn down. Tragic.

Regarding visiting Chernobyl: It's unfortunately easy to do so. It's an issue. Not only are people profiting from disaster - The tourist hot spot (pardon the pun) isn't managed or regulated. While there, people are competing to win the Darwin Awards, vandalizing the area, disturbing the ecosystem, and stealing items, which put themselves (it's hard to feel sympathy) and others at risk. The area should remain closed off except for scientists. As an aside, Kyle Hill recently produced several videos on the topic that may be of interest.

OMG, Willard! I did my nursing training in upstate NY and Willard was our psych rotation. Incredible estate that used to scare the crap out of me driving in, it really was creepy af. Straight out of a horror movie. I had a chance to explore the deserted buildings and it was really unsettling. Some of them were beautiful architecture. Didn't know it had been abandoned. It was a sad facility, the staff knew they were just caretakers, no one was going anywhere, and some of the patients were some of the most fascinating experience of a mind gone wrong. I've never forgot Willard

Modern inhabitants of Chernobyl were Ruzki infantry in early ‘22. They were ordered to dig deep trenches in Chernobyl’s radioactive soil; sleeping in the trenches until they retreated. Many soldiers became ill or died. The contaminated soil traveled w/them on kit & shoes, and ended up spread across the Federation. ☢️

you forgot to mention that the doll island is also home to TRILLIONS OF SPIDERS even if the spirits of children are at peace there

Yo, I'm not going to the island of the dolls because of the spiders alone! Ryan and Shane did a Buzzfeed Supernatural episode in case anyone wants to see those bad boys.

I've been to the Isla de las Muñecas a couple years ago. One of the most interesting experiences I've ever made. Highly recommend it ... well, unless you have arachnophobia. Place is teeming with spiders more so than dolls - and the dolls are everywhere.

#1 is my favorite, as well as the park in England with all of the poison plants in it....