when you said that about hanging up a coat for the last time not knowing itll be the last time they ever do it made me shiver because i just recently had a massive heart attack, they call it the widow maker , and yes, i had things around the house that didnt realize it would have been my last time. im going to tell you a little story but you all have to keep it to yourselves because if hubby ever knew i said something he would be upset. when he took me to the hospital i had left my drink sat in the cup holder of my recliner and my slippers by my recliner as well. when i got home they were still sitting there and he had confessed to me that he didnt want to move it until i was back home safe and sound. he made me cry , silly fool, he just didnt want to disturb anything i had done until he knew i was ok . all this time i was thinking that we were growing apart because all we pretty much did was sit beside each other in our recliners , me on the laptop and him watching the television...lol .....just so you all know.... we spend a whole lot more time talking now 🥰

Matt it is your channel you do not force people to watch your videos and follow you and if they dont like your videos well then they can leave...You make your videos in the way you want not for others if you would make videos to fit everybody that would be impossibule...if 20 people tell you waht to capture or not no Matt we follow you and your channel and again those who do not like it tell them to find another channel then..We who stay we who follow you are the ones tnat like your videos..What we see it was you see and your words we listen to...I like old things History etc and i think like you who was the people who lived here well like you say...Kepp up the work Matt you doing great...

14:15 That was a definite whisper

I love all of the little details and stuff you look at, really shows true life and history. A beautiful brick, shells, twine, all the things that build a life! And being sensitive to life and the past is a treasure, don’t ever think differently! Thanks for taking us along!

Please don't doubt yourself Matt, ALL of your videos are amazing! Each person will have their own favourite sort of explore but having all different types makes things interesting and varied. Whether its a huge mansion with everything inside, a church which is decaying fast, a hoarders paradise or a tiny little cottage it is YOU that makes them what they are. Even the short trips with Bear to a beach or forest or just walking around an old village with a bag of chips, it is your way of chatting, story telling or getting passionate about an old fireplace that make these videos great. Please don't stop!! 😊

31:05 The pottery is used for gravy. The attached plate is to catch the drippings when poured.

Matt, recognizing fashion is history is not an indicator of anything more than the fact that you are observant. You are doing what historians - like me-- do for a living. You look at the world around you through a historical lens. You would have to be a dunderhead to not notice the history you find every place you explore. What you are drawn to is Material Culture....everyday items, how they were used, who used them, why and when. That's why I watch you. You excell at that. Never stop! 😊

Matt you say the house didn't have a lot in it but i think it was one of the best you've ever done. So glad you got away in time.

They were preserving food for the winter months. The “potato ricer” is actually a strainer to make tomato sauce, for example. They needed the shells at the bottom of the pot so the jars weren’t in direct contact with the heat of the bottom and burst when processing. The clock in the kitchen was to time the food they were canning to be sure any botulism spores would be killed during processing. They grew their own food 100 years ago…there weren’t supermarkets. Lol The advertisement on top of the piano is an ad for a yogurt maker.

All you need is an imagination. I could picture that room. How beautiful It must have looked.

The bottled tomatoes. Matt Its called Canning or bottling to preserve tomatoes to use through out the winter, they use them to make sauces for pasta, soups, salsa etc

Awesome explore, Matt 👍⭐️ Stop worrying so much 😂 - you could explore a nun’s bum hole and I’d watch. You are a massive part of why I tune in. You bring these old places back to life with your endless rummaging and story telling. Adore you 👍👌❤️🇦🇺

What a stunning place! Maybe it was used as a school, with all the school books all over the floors. The washroom looked like a Jack & Jill one. You were lucky the Frenchman only had a light - they usually have guns on farms too! Excellent explore Matt, but had me quite nervous at the end!

I am SO pleased that you feel the same about “the last time “ scenario. I honestly thought that I was the only person to think like that. I am having so much mental problems with this after my parents passed away- I found it worse with tins of food - they MY PARENTS ( in my mind screaming) bought this stuff to eat , absolutely NO intention of never op ening it up and eating it - SO SAD 😞 😢😢 I guess this feeling is because it makes us aware of our own vulnerability 😢

"Pretty Bricks" Now I'm going to have that in my head all week! 😅

The little sieve type thing with the handle that turns is called a Moulie. I had one when my children were being weaned, to turn dinner into babyfood. They were/ are very effective and it's a really cheap way to feed babies, rather than having to buy supermarket tins/ jars etc. Ooo that was a smashing explore Matt but it made me suck air through my teeth in case you got caught at the end.

Great video Matt . I think some people might find looking through that house boring but your enthusiasm is amazingly infectious. It's your attention to detail that I love. Your 'escape' was grippingly intense. I'm glad you got away and hope the hand wounds have healed nicely. 👏🏼👏🏼👍🏼👍🏼

EPIC VIDEO! Loved this place. One of my favorite videos you have done!❤❤❤ I too am so fascinated by who lived there. It also heartbreaking to see beautiful pieces of history rotting, especially the books!!

That’s what I love about your explores, you are very attention to detail, I love seeing all the items that some people may find boring, I agree it’s about your outlook your perception, some may think it’s an empty room where as I look at the detail the history I try and vision how it would of been when full of life and how the people lived, I find it very interesting, thank you Matt ❤

I love the old messy buildings too as well as all the others the older the messier the more history keep doin em Matt Love and Hugs from Sheffield xxxx

There's absolutely NOTHING WRONG with a man being in touch with his feminine side!! It also DOESN'T MEAN that you're gay either! It just means that you know yourself and what you like and you're also not scared to show it!!🥰❤❤

Brilliant video, no one saw the mattress covered in blood in the loft you saw the base first the mattress was propped up. Great to see the history. Thanks matt x

That spot on the mattress was definitely suspicious!!! I think you had the right idea about it! I too thought that!!

Im as happy to see a messy bando as much as an elegant bando castle. You're the only utuber that inevitably makes me laugh out loud. You're so funny. Keep up the good work! Love it

I love that you love the history of these abandoned places. You bring it to life for all of us. Well done, Matt.

I think the same as you Matt. About the lives of the people. My imagination goes and I love it! Love these explores!

26:37 - it’s a potato purée device, very popular in France and Italy. A masher just doesn’t create the same texture as this absolute legend - the creamiest, smoothest potato purée you’ll ever have in your life! 😂

I do not know how you go alone at 3am pitch black to somewhere you have no idea what you might find but having said that what you found had quite a lot of interest.

That clawfoot bathtub 🛁 is extra deep!!! As a child I lived in an apartment that was built in 1900 and it was great because all the decades later that I lived there the clawfoot bathtub was still in use! It wasn't as deep as this one but it was a fantastic bathtub!!!

That was intense exit Matt! Glad you got out safely. You had me laughing so much with the attic section - “The grand high bat” and Nun Porn 😂🤣🤣 I really love this place, would love to spend some time back in those days just to see it all in action and modern to their times. Thanks for taking us through with you and for the laughs 😄

It was a big french farmer at the end and he was going to make you his bride lol 😂

20:05 It's a 1980's tat candle stick holder. I had the same thought as you with the mattress. Matt: "Aahh, a bat!" Bat: "Aahh, a human!"

That mincer thing with the handle and little holes is a thing that separates the husks from flour that's left over after milling and makes the flour finer as well. The xray is very inlarged prostate, poor bugger bet he was in pain.

I too think about who lived there, what they did etc, especially old photos, I wonder what their names were and all that sort of thing.

2nd half . The xrays are amazing. The bath is so deep and gorgeous. Size of the wardrobes, you are right about french everyday clothes being awful. Look at that amazing chair in attic, proper 40s style. I remember gurning. The saw woodchips were out of mattresses back in the day. Langoustine trap, small lobsters. Tights are just odd. Maybe someone lodged in the attic. French hoarders possibly. Incredible history, i love it 🎉

Hi Matt , It definitely looked like you got pushed before you fell through the ceiling. Plus earlier on their were voices. I hope you recover okay. Regards Paul Rawcliffe

Hes beautiful 😍 I 🖤 bats!!!

Now Matt, if you ask me those sounds, sound to me like breathing and someone or something trying to speak to you! Especially the one you hear while looking at the school books! Spooky sounds every now and again. Really kind of a creepy place!!!

You're spot on about those vents above the fireplace in the kitchen! They are indeed to allow warm airflow into the kitchen from the fireplace.🥰❤❤

It low key gives me the chills when you're on your own at these things! I feel like you should do a charity bid for one of us to come and join you cus at this point I'd pay loads just to look after you and bring snacks XD

47:05 I have a theory! 😅 Maybe he shot himself because he had cancer or the tumour burst and the black stuff is fluid which would have filled his lungs 😢

Your narration of the beautiful building you are in is an absolute pleasure to listen to. I totally agree with everything you said, beautiful social history at its best. Massive and well deserved congratulations , keep doing it just like you do 🎉🎉

A GREAT video, Matt ! I like the sheer ruined nature of places like this.

Oooo that gate house at the begining was lovely, we used to go to la'rochel every year it is lovely best bakery ever right in the middle ❤

Another tremendous Ripsnorter at 32.24 Matt!

Dogs always know when someone is creeping about lol. The man with the flash light probably stays in property beside it.

27.03 its called a mooly or Food. Mill Not sure how you spell it, but it's for blending down vegetables and fruit to make a puree like tomatoes In the jar to make. into a tomato( Pasta or soup.) sauce.❤❤❤❤

I really loved this place, so much old stuff.....there was 2 things in the kitchen you didn't know what they were used for, the first is a stone stove, where you have small grates over the 4/5 holes on top, and then you light it with firewood, (I still use my old wood stove here in Spain) it heats up the whole kitchen in winter. The second was the puree machine, which has probably been used for all the tomatoes in the house 😂 but can be used for most cooked vegetables and fruit...the piano is from around 1912 to 1920, Dumont Lelievré produced mostly church organs and harmonium..where u get u horses ready, we call it grooming stall ( hvev horses for 40 years, a lot of grooming) 😊

That bed that is bigger than a single but smaller than a double is known as a 3/4 mattress. They're not very common and are quite hard to find nowadays, if you can even get one nowadays. They from around the early to mid 1900's.

I absolutely loved this weeks video. You proper make me laugh Matt until the end where I was holding my breath 😂 xx

It could be a rusty bed pan left

There's me going "so cute" with the bats and Matt's freaking out. 🤣 I am a serious weirdo

Love calligraphy. Learned it in high school with fountain pens.

One of my favorite types of places. Spooky & old,. Love it!! ❤️

It's a yoghurt maker Matt xxx in France you are given your X rays to take home,I have quite a few x

The brick in the kitchen.Sometimes in old farmhouses, they had a swinging kitchen door, and they would hold it open with a brick.Also, the bedrooms with the space in between is a jack and jill

The metal thing with the blade is used to make juice. It was an old juicer. The. Tomatoes are used in cooking sauces etc.

At 2702, yes that is a ricer, I have one myself plus I had been a cook for 24 years. I'm retired now. Yes, they had "pretty" bricks in the olden days for the richer people to use in fire mantles and such. Farmer's wives did can tomatoes and still do, they use them for soups and stews and to make spaghetti sauce. Have a great day!

@14.15 def man's voice an the sound went funny

That ricer thing can be used as a potato ricer or a food mill to make jams and jellies and a lot of other things

That was a pretty cool explore. Shame the guy ruined it for you but in his defense, he probably saw your flashlight panning around the windows etc..

This was awesome ! Omg Matt just love to see you be silly !! Scaredy at the end .

Thank you! I have felt a feeling of fear trying to get out of a place because of PEOPLE. Places dont scare me People are the ones that unnerve me.

Fantastic! We are having a Sunday explore. I hope you, Freddie and your dad is having a wonderful time in France.

19:38 I about passed out I was laughing so bloody hard... Cheers Matt 💚🤙🏼❤

Hi, Matt, 26:43 looks like an old sifter for flour! Maybe the man had a bad diagnosis that was picked up from those x-rays. Perhaps he ended his life on that bed. Ooh, that is CHILLING! I DO really love these old houses, they are always full of interesting, once beautiful and creepy old stuff! Thanks, Matt x

I love this kind of explore too Matt* :-) Thank you So much for all that you do*

The "potato ricer" is called a moulin strainer,they're still in use in professional kitchens today, not cheap either around 250 quid for a decent one,as for the man stalking you he must be scared as well I mean when he's finished with you he's got to walk back on his own 😅

The black thing is a variable resistor, used to tune a radio. The wiper moves across the top and changes the resistance of due to the length of wire the current passes along. Interesting point though. The original recording devices used a wax cylinder. It was only a fair bit later that people settled on the disc shape for records.

1:01:47 Shared room is called Jack & Jill. Usually 2 bedrooms share a bathroom in-between.

Love your joy of exploring

The lovely French pottery is a gravy boat! The pretty bricks were often used to cook with! They made designs on breads, tea cakes, tortillas. And that huge fireplace thing on the brick floor surrounded by wood flooring, with several front openings , I believe is a stove. It would make sense to have it surrounded by brick flooring for heat protections. The pans around it, the brick for weighting and decorating the food, and the gravy boat...Brian says they used to have stoves like that in India. The brick would make sense to use on Lavash bread! I haven’t seen any so I couldn’t say. Anyone? Quite lovely! What a great old,place! Thank you again! Really really enjoyed it!

The writing is exquisite special for a youngster😮

The egg bit in the xray like like it could been a tumor maybe

The lovely French pottery is a gravy boat! The pretty bricks were often used to cook with! They made designs on breads, tea cakes, tortillas. And that huge fireplace thing on the brick with several front openings , I believe is a stove. The pans around it, the brick for weighting and decorating the food, and the gravy boat...Brian says they used to have stoves like that in India. The brick would make sense to use on Lavash bread! I haven’t seen any so I couldn’t say. Anyone? Quite lovely! What a great old,place! Thank you again! Really really enjoyed it!

That glass star bit was a candleholder. You were holding it upside-down.

I LOVE EVERYTHING YOU DO AND SAY.. KEEP BEING YOU!

The canned tomatoes they are great when you make homemade chili, spaghetti sauce. There's all kinds of uses for canned tomatoes they are the best. I have canned tomatoes

There was alot of Spooky sounds in today's installment!!

1:16 I am so happy that you listen to your intuition. People that brush the Red Flags aside, are normally the ones that get hurt and God 🙏 forbid , killed. Too many people ignore the warning signs. Safety 1st. I truly Love 😘 your Explores. You're Awesome 💯 Matt.❤

Jack and jill for the connecting room, usually a bathroom

at 8:23 I wonder if those big cauldrons were for cleaning/dying fleece? Or wool?

I love pottery like that 😍 that's what I'm into old pottery if I can find it my auntie left me a lot of blue and white pottery she died about a month or two ago I remember saying to you

I believe that the third Xray that you looked at was of his chest area taken from the left side.

A shared bathroom is called a Jack and Jill bathroom.......Romeo and Juliett 😂

I would love to give those notebooks a home, they're so cool! I am obsessed with collecting old things like that, but mostly it's just books and some old catalogs right now. One of my best pieces in my collection is this sears catalog from the early 1900's where all the items for sale are drawn in. Those of you who played red dead redemption; it looks exactly like the catalogs you buy stuff from in the game lol. It sells everything from clothes, saddles, tombstones, livestock, medicine, houses...it's so awesome, and I got it at a flea market for 2 bucks lol

I believe that the star 🌟 shaped thing that you picked up was actually a candle holder. 🥰❤❤

Looking forward to another amazing video Matt 😄

The blood spatter around 46:35 kind of freaks me out as well, but I don't think it's human. The staining you see around the blood is caused by adipocere from the body's decomposition, but if it were a human you would be seeing that around the entire body and not just the fatal wounded part. To me, it looks like a cat or small mammal that didn't just die but was killed. The worrying part to me is that it's not there anymore....which makes me think of other nefarious things. Though, I guess it could be a decapitated head left there and then removed later.

Its probably a bottle of byagra to go with them tights What ever went on there he went out with a smile on his face 😊

54:54 I had a relative who was a local gunning champion years ago 😂

I enjoyed the video although I was saying Matt don't go upstairs.❤❤

Ooo, pretty brick!

Another great explored Matt. Those yucky tomatoes jar.

No I understand you life is special and you see things and you put the clues together the family that were there the individuals and what they did each day? what work they did for a living, where did they walk their 🐕? what did they look like I understand being there is completely different but now I can imagine being there myself with you, just amazing

Hi,maybe the rooms are from when they have servants..(like Downtown Abbey )❤be careful ❤❤(Love your videos and when you talk us threw them ❤❤/Susan

I love these types of buildings ❤

Ecole Primiaire Primary School and it's a school work book for homework. There was maths, grammar, dictation etc they never date their work in french schools, I found that freaky at first because we had to name and date every page we wrote in the UK Now they don't use lined paper they use squared paper. The Cahier d'ecriture was funny. They obviously had grumpy kids in those days. The lines were Soyez sage et studieux (be wise and study) and Maitrisez votre colere (control your anger) LOL 🤣 Even now when the kids are learning to write at age 4 or 5 they start with ink pens and learn cursive writing exactly like that.

Sounded like you were popping the champs there Matt 😂

Love love loved this one !