Correction, Lawrence passed away in 1977 not 1997.

It bugs me that these beautiful homes are left to rot like this. They don’t make homes like this anymore at all.

SO EXTREMELY SAD.....Poor Carol obviously was a VERY sick woman....it's so heartbreaking that she was left ALL alone most likely I pain & suffering until her last dying day....NO ONE SHOULD EVER HAVE TO DIE LIKE THAT!!! HER relatives should have been there for her & if she no longer had any, her neighbors should have been!!! **If ANY of u have an elderly relative or neighbor PLEASE CONTINUOUSLY HELP/CHECK ON THEM EVEN IF THEY DECLINE!!! OUR ELDERLY SHOULD NOT BE FORGOTTEN AND LEFT TO ROT!!! 😢

I feel like most of us who are fascinated by the past are old souls. I love abandoned homes and graveyards. I am highly sensitive and definitely feel I come from another era.

I was 17 years old in 1992, all the furniture and lay out of the house brought back my childhood memories

The "gears" on the front door was the doorbell. Outside was a wind up toy type twist mechanism that made the gears wind up and release, causing the hammers to hit the bell and make it ring. The bottom odf what you thought was a baker's rack is actually the bottom of a washstand. The handles were for hanging your towel and washcloth on to dry. The mirror is missing, and it should have held a large bowl type washbasin and pitcher for the water

I am just in disbelief about how much was left behind. The family just left it all there to rot. It's not really very hard to call an auction house and have an estate sale. I find it incredibly disrespectful of her survivors to just let her things decay in such a manner. And unfortunately as you said it's not uncommon but I still can't wrap my head around it. Those pianos and furniture which I'm sure she loved could have been sold to people who would have been thrilled to have it.

Very sad,I feel like her spirit would be more at peace once she sees love and laughter fill those walls once again. I hope someone saves that house and turns into a home.

That house obviously used to be so warm and full of life. So sad

The stains on the couch was probably body fluids from decompression, happens more often than you think sadly. Always check on your elderly neighbors/friends at least every other day, they might not have family.

These places are national treasures and must be preserved.

Extremely melancholy story. It's heartbreaking to think about all the days,weeks,years? this little woman lived all alone. I'd like to think she just laid down and went to sleep. I took my Mom home to live with me in her final years,she didn't die alone. I gave most of her clothes away...I divided furnishings with a brother,sold the house,she passed debt free,no will was necessary. Everything can be taken care of before an elder passes. I agree with the other comment,it takes respect. We have more people in our society today that just don't care...only think of themselves...and they just don't have any time for that,excuses. Excuses,and apathy get you nothing. Thanks for the video, they need to see these stories,maybe they'll think.

I don’t understand how Carol died alone, wasn’t her family checking on her or someone taking care of her. No one knew she had died for some time. How sad.

That was a door bell. You had a knob on it and you turned it

The cabinets are not made of tin. They are made of steel, which was popular in the 1920's & 30's. The small design reflects an Art Deco motif. The have com back in fashion in England & these old cabinets are being restored/refurbished for use in today's kitchens. They tend to discourage mice. The blood on the couch has the same pattern in the different places it appears. I venture to say the pattern imprints might very well be from her being in a sitting position or the possibility that she was quasi-reclining. There isn't enough blood to indicate she bled out.st She was bleeding from The item on the front door was the inner workings of a doorbell. The furniture styles run from the late Victorian era thru the 1970's? The sofa she died on has me bit stimmed because it is a classic style that has been made up thru 2023. Upstairs in the bedroom with the white furniture, there is a little table to the left of a window (Time Marker 22:25 / 23:05) Behind the picture is a Goofus glass vase that appears appears to be in excellent shape with none of the original finish having been removed, which more often than not happens. Goofus glass is pressed or mold-blown glass with cold-painted (not fired on in a furnace) decoration. It has very defined raised pattern in the glass often referenced as "blown out." The pattern can also be pressed into the glass from beneath the surface providing an intaglio effect Goofus glass is thought to have been produced from 1897 through the early 1920s. Goofus glass was made by a number of noteworthy glass companies, but the most prolific manufacturers were the Northwood, Dugan, Jefferson, and Indiana glass companies. Northwood and Dugan made Goofus glass prior to beginning production of their more well-known carnival glass pieces in 1908. According to an article by David Ballentine, Goofus glass was originally marketed by such captivating names as “Egyptian Art,” “Golden Oriental,” and “Intaglio Art,” On the white stool directly across from the white baby bed is what appears to be a linsey-woolsey woven comforter or bedspread. I can't see it well enough to say for sure. However with the age history of the house, that is a definite possibility.

Nice to see people haven’t vandalized it. I’ll never understand why people do that.

Lots of inaccurate descriptions in this walk-through. They built a log cabin & you show a wooden ancient barn. That's an Acme steel kitchen cabinet. These were popular before WWII but this one looks like 1948. The sink is probably American Standard out of Pittsburg. Frigidaire-made stoves & refrigerators -- I had one from the 40s where I kept my beer as a kid. The company was founded in 1918. House looks like it's been looted pretty good. The framed pictures over the upright piano are not family members -- they're actors. From left: Henry Fonda (not Jimmy Stewart), Tyrone Power & Bob Hope. What's funny is that house explorers (many) go through the rooms where there is black mold (dangerous stuff) without masks or gloves, move things around like disintegrating books filled with paper mites, breathe stale air -- and you caught in your video the atmosphere in that house with all the dust & spores airborne at 13:15 & toward the end of the video too. That's what you're inhaling RangerRick. Wear a mask, please. These items may not have been left behind. Someone is the caretaker of the estate. Someone pays the taxes on the plot of land. Someone boarded up the front door & windows on the second floor. Wrapped the wire around the old telephone. Maybe there are issues with the insurance settlement. Issues with relatives who may live in another state. The picture of the young boy may have been her son. If she died on that couch (it's not necessarily murder). She probably had a heart attack, died, and was dead for a few days or weeks. A body will expel fluids -- it doesn't all look like blood -- it looks like the beginning of decomposition. Blood is far darker than what you're showing & it's not centralized. It's scattered. It's where she had lain. The piano is a Brambach -- established in 1823. One of the earliest & largest piano manufacturing companies of the late 19th Century - early 20th Century. An old Baby Grand could go for $2500 today & Brambach's (though they manufactured many pianos often made a good product). This one needs total restoration. They weren't designed to stand the test of time. The company went out of business in 1957. Upstairs you say it's easy to squat (squatters being homeless people who move into abandoned structures). But what's dangerous is if it's a shooting gallery (where they buy, sell & inject drugs). If any evidence is seen I'd get out fast. Uncovering a nest of drug addict activity can be threatening. Good luck -- but take better precautions.

This was one of my great grandma fears, dying alone especially when she started to out live her, children, grandchildren and all her close friends. She passed on in 2001 at the age of 96 in her bed with family present.

The “gears” on the door is for a windup door bell. Originally it would’ve been covered with a round metal plate that would’ve been struck by a lever when someone rang the bell from the outside resulting in a ringing sound. It had to be wound up like a clock, it works similarly to a windup bedside alarm clock. I recall my family had one in the 1960’s on our front door & I remember watching my mother wind it up, it was very loud when fully wound lol..greetings from across the pond 🙋🏻‍♀️🇬🇧

I cannot imagine the despair she went through alone in there after losing her husband and being elderly herself. It’s odd the kids just abandoned the house. There might have been some bad memories in there for them. You don’t know what goes on inside a family.

Looks to me like Carol died an elderly person's unattended home death and may not have been found for a bit - so the couch got a bit icky. Fluids and stains don't have to mean something happened that you have to figure out. That's just silly ol' drama mongering for clicks. Stop that. She was old. She died at home. She probably wasn't found for a few days, and decomp started. It happens far more than people realize.

What a lovely home shame everything is left behind some of the old stuff should be in a museum love your vids

Looks like an old Electrolux with sleigh runners instead of wheels. My grandma had one and she would pull us on it when she vacuumed

Just sad how a house deteriorates when a person passes. You'd think someone would have purchased it, but no, it just ROTS AND SLOWLY BECOMES PART OF THE LANDSCAPE. May Lawrence and his lovely wife Rest In Eternal Peace.

Most likely nothing nefarious. Since the body wasn't discovered for some time, it looks like normal bodily fluids.

One possible reason so many things are still in the house……my mother-in-law from Nebraska inherited her sister’s house in California. They were both in their 80s. My husband and his brother plus me & my sister-in-law had to fly in from Iowa and Montana to help my mother-in-law go through the house (first time she had been in it) so she could take what she wanted and ship a few things back to Nebraska. Two women had lived in that California house and the last to die left it to her sister (my mother-in-law). No other relatives lived in California so there you have a house filled with belongings from two women who bought the house in the 1940’s. Eventually a realtor sold the place and I have no idea what happened to all the furniture, etc. When relatives have to fly in from other states, obviously emptying a house of a lifetime of goods that no one in the family wants means it either stays with the house or is auctioned. There are also people who buy old properties like hoarders and never get around to doing anything with them.

It’s sad that somebody actually lived there day after day ..and now they’re gone to never spend another minute on this earth… thanks for the video buddy…

The photograph between Henry Fonda and Bob Hope was Tyrone Power. My dad was a funeral director in Los Angeles. He knew the man who embalmed Mr. Power. It is said he didn't have a scratch or mark on him. Usually people have scars of some sort but his body was perfect.

Looks like body fluid not blood

It must've been lonely for her there all alone after her husband died.

When a person dies and is laying there, without being found, the body starts to decompose. Decomposition leaves fluids everywhere. This is probably what we are seeing on the sofa. Very sad Carol was not found sooner. 😢

The knob in the middle of the front door is an antique doorbell. My maternal grandparents had one.

All Her wee shoes lined up 🥺🥺 aww my heart

What a shame to see a beautiful old home just left to decay and crumble.

Beautiful home. It's always a shame that these houses are left to collect dust and rot instead of letting someone else have it.

The working on the door was once a door bell! It’s very sad there was not one person to check daily on that poor little lady

How weird her family dropped off the funeral stuff then just left the house.

Since I was a kid my parents and aunts seemed to be the ones in charge of going through the homes of the elder relatives that passed, they would split stuff up between each other, and have a sale on the stuff that was still in good shape and people could use, many times just giving things away. The other stuff would end up being thrown away. I'm 63 so us cousins would find things and laugh at what these items were for. That's why now that I'm older I dont collect anything anymore, I dont want my daughter and nieces having to go through my stuff 😂, trying to make it easy on them lol. It's just so sad what I see left behind in some of these beautiful abandoned homes, beautiful furniture, dishes, etc. Will share your videos Rick.❤

I once owned a historical home and can tell you that the mechanisms on the door is where the door bell was. The doorbells were very different. The individual would twist the bell instead of pushing a button.

The gears on the door is a door bell. It’s missing its backing. From the outside you would turn or twist som sort of knob and it would make a unique sound to alert the occupants of visitors at their door. 😊

Tyrone Power, I believe on the middle photo on the piano. The gears on the door was the door ringer. you turned it and it rang. It wasn't electrical.

My parents bought a home 60 years ago and had an acme sink in the basement 😊 That thing you were looking at and didn’t know what it was is a doorbell. My sister has a very old house with one of those.

Kitchen cabinets, my in laws built their house in early 1950s. Same cabinets. So much furniture in this home is similar to in law’s home, had been inherited from their parents and grandparents. Many items appear to be from 1950s. They also had pianos and that vacuum cleaner. I had to clean out their house by myself. A daunting task. This encourages me to continue getting rid of my own old stuff so that my children don’t have to deal with it. I offer it to them now, explain the history and get rid of it if they don’t want it.

Loved this. As I am watching your channel for the first time, I am pausing as you entered the back door into the kitchen. The ACME company made both porcelain coated steel sinks and cabinets starting in 1948. The house my father grew up in was built in the 1820's and sat on 1200 acres in the Sequache Valley in East Tennessee. He was the last generation of his family to live there. At our family reunion , just last weekend, I was looking at some old photos my cousins brought and in one of them, I saw the kitchen sink and cabinets, that I remembered my grandmother having in her kitchen about 25 years after they moved from the farm to town (after Papa Payne died). They were in a picture of the "old home place," on the farm. However, I remembered the exact same kitchen in the house where my grandmother lived, in town. I asked about the kitchen sink/cabinets and its exact match to her kitchen that I remembered so well. It turns out, my grandfather built this "new" kitchen for grandmama and when they moved into town, Daddy's brothers took it apart and moved it into the kitchen, that I grew up in, at their new place. It was an Acme kitchen. I almost cried when I saw the name on these. Until now, my grandmother had the only one I ever knew existed. You made my heart smile with this one. We washed many a ton of produce from the garden in that old sink. So to put this into context, the kitchen here post dates WWII but just barely. ❤

I really enjoyed your video. I am new to your channel and I loved how you presented this home, and how you included the back story of this family. The music you included was absolutely perfect given the sadness and just the feel of the story. So I am looking for more of your videos, so well done and I just loved it!!

That thing with the gears on the door is an old doorbell. Had one on my old house that was also built in 1800's

I love the look of old houses so much detail on the outside love the big wrap around porches and Victorian homes are my favorite ❤

Just subscribed!!! I been watching your program all day. A great job explaining everything.

The stains look like the same basic patterns...I'm betting a medical issue at the end of life...😞

Thank you for the tour! The cabinets and countertops are made from steel. Acme was very popular post WW2.

One can wonder how much love really was given and taken within the family and the community.

I had never watched this program before. I found it very interesting. I Iove hearing about the stories of houses where people lived and died. Found this to be very interesting. Will continue to keep watching in the future.

Hi Rick, that sewing machine is a treadle, meaning you had to work the foot to sew. Each of my grandmas had one. That is what I learned to sew on.

What a great video. Thank you for sharing. It’s a shame to see that beautiful home go to waste.

The guy looks at the old rotary phone like my grandparents had and all he can say is. There's a picture of a phone😂

Lot of nice antique furniture,love houses like this

It always baffles me how these beautiful family houses are just left abandoned. I will never understand that.

I am surprised no kids went in there and destroyed the house and put graffiti all over the walls. At least the poor lady's house was left alone.

I just found your channel & subscribed. I’d like how you give history of the house & owners . I enjoyed it very much. Great job.

Anyone else notice on the Calendar someone wrote "Left Home" on the 15th and "Operation" on the 17th. Also the celebrity photos are Henry Fonda, Tyrone Power and Bob Hope.

All property owners, spirit or flesh have a natural need for privacy and total respect of property. Whether it is a rare time capsule or today’s Walmart is still all someone’s property, spirit, privacy. This video was done well and I liked the fact that it’s not a bunch of kids looking for free antiques to steal and sell, but rather older, mature folks filming. The very heavy vacuum cleaner in this video was called a bullet vacuum. Lots of elders leave outdated calendar’s on walls for several reasons, Broken pipes and floods in there a few times as well based on the wall in that bedroom.

Thanks I enjoyed it. One day my house is going to go that direction. I’ll be long gone by then.

Thanks for the explore. Love old homes and history.

Unfortunately, the stains on the couch are more likely to be due to decomposition. If the lady of the house wasn't seen by the neighbors for a few days, the most likely scenario is that she passed, and since she was not discovered for a bit, nature took it's course. And the "gears on the door" are a door bell 😅

This makes me want to cry! I feel so sad that she died alone like that 😢

The "gears" on the front door was the "doorbell" of the 1800s. The 1882 farm house I grew up in had one on the front door and the dining room door which were side-by-side.

My neighbor had a sofa similar to that, it had fringes on it. He was born in the house in 1924 and it had all of his parents furniture in it. It's not far off from 1940.

We bought a 150 year old farmhouse. It had been abandoned for many years. There was an antique metal Beauty Queen sink/cabinet. We restored it (had a lot of rust) and it now has a prominent place in my vintage kitchen replete with a working Kelvinator and O'Keefe & Merit gas range. So many treasures left behind here including a gorgeous antique clawfoot tub.

I enjoyed your video. So sad to see someone’s life’s possessions and memories just sitting there.

New subscriber here! Absolutely loved your in depth observation and talent with history! Greeting from Alberta Canada 🇨🇦

Idk why, but these videos of old abandoned houses makes me so sad. I mean, they're old houses so they were huge, and beautiful, and once full of life. Now theyre just forgotten and decrepit. Its just hauntingly sad. And knowing she must have had been on that sofa for a while for all the blood to be there. Its heart braking to know that she died alone.

Thankyou,Sir,for this intersting,and somewhat sad story.Well done!

I don’t understand how the family or caretaker just left everything. Like someone said before me, how hard was it to have an estate auction to remove all belongings and then put the house up for sale? Sure is a big waste.

That's why I don't buy much stuff because I can't take anything with me when I die 😞

I would love all that furniture, its gorgeous

Yes my first thought on the video was also that this Ranger Rick misspoke; the man couldn't have passed away in 1997 when the wife passed in 1996. Thank you.

Awesome video.really enjoyed watching.thank you x

I love old houses, and loved the stairs in this one.

You've never heard of Acme?! It means the highest quality. It also was the name of a prominent grocery store! They were everywhere before giant. You're older than me and I remember them well. Even in old cartoons, weapons usually had the "Acme" logo. Like on anvils.....? Wow.

What an interesting time-capsule. So many memories in that house. It's a shame that it will rot away there, but that's how it goes most of the times. Subscribed!

You wouldn't want too , sleep overnight. On these abandoned homes. Very spooky indeed, especially the state of the homes, smells spirits, and earey and the set-up, of these homes.

Such a beautiful home 😢, it’s sad that these homes are left to rot …. Save these homes such historic pieces 💖

The gears on the front door you were wondering about are what is left of a doorbell. That circular enclosure with the gears would have had a cover. On the outside of the door there would be a connected covered portion with a key head like crank that when turned would ring the bell inside the portion with the gears. It was on a tension system so you could ring as much as needed to get the residents attention. Hope this helps. A few of my friends from childhood had these on old doors in their homes. I am 67.

I've seen videos where people want their home decor to look very vintage and old fashoined and it looks pretty convincing until you see the big flat screen tv. I don't see any flat screens so this was a long time ago. As far as the vacuum goes, it looks like one of those kind the door to door salesmen sold to housewives. Maybe an old Hoover?🤔

Even natural death is not pretty. Bodies will excrete gases, blood, excrement. You name it. Doesn’t look like a violent death. I just hope she didn’t suffer

It makes me feel sad to see the neglect of her memory. I would love to fix this home up, what a nice place to visit when you need a break from the stresses of your daily life. ❤

That was very interesting 😊 Thank you. Beautiful house just falling apart 😢

Picturing somebody desperately ripping the panels off the walls to get to the other room creeps me out maybe more than the sofa's history.

I hope someone saves the stuff before mother nature ruins it all 😢💔

MY. GOSH. I. LOVE THIS. STUFF. WHUT. A. GREAT. JOB. IM. NEW. HERE. !!!!!! OUTSTANDING. JOB. !!!

I really enjoy watching, the history it amazing me. Thank you 🍀🇮🇪

I just found your channel and I appreciate your time and care to this woman’s home. (I hope people don’t vandalize it after watching your video) You are so detailed in your research. It’s heartbreaking seeing the house rot away it’s so beautiful. I wish family members took the pictures. Thankyou for all that you do. Subscribed! (The 2000 newspaper is probably from a squatter. In my line of work, squatters find old or abandoned houses and stay in them for a time. We sadly demolished an abandoned home in the forest where squatters took over it and deficated in the kitchen sink. Did drugs and hit the walls with a hammer. Drew satanic symbols on the walls. The original owner was an elderly man who died in the kitchen at his table)

I believe that round thing you asked about by the front door is a door bell with parts missing. When you turn it like you did it would ding-a-ling-a-ling!!! Yes, that heart must've been at the funeral home, and brought back to take off all the cards and some give money, some just give condolences!

🌷The beautiful furniture should be saved.

my grandma had a vacuum just like that one. It's an old school canister vac. You had to change the bag outside, because dust would fly everywhere.

This is so sad. My mother was Japanese and taught me that we take care of our ancestors. Her ashes are in Japan in the family temple. The monks care for the ancestors so they are not forgotten. I have her shrine in the dining room in a hutch. That way, she is still a part of our lives. I also have my father-in-laws ashes in the hutch as well. My mother-in-law is buried with the rest of the family, but my husband cannot bear to visit her grave site. But I have her picture and some of her belongings in the hutch so that she can still be a part of the family. It is sad to me that family can be forgotten. Just because they are dead doesn't mean that they are no longer a part of our lives.

Hello now this is the way you do videos if you're going to a Place where someone just died or murdered a least try to get some info about what happen.some explorers just walk around showing things boring but you actually give a lot of info about your ventures Please don't stop love your videos. Thumbs up Rick!!!!!

The lady that owned the house in this video was neat and tidy. No hoarding signs whatsoever. Tells me this was a mentally stable family who lived a fairly peaceful life.

I always enjoy your explores. Perfect curiosity level!! 🎉❤️⭐️

That's so sad to see a beautiful old house and its belongings left to rot away.