Exploring The Ghost Town of Inland Manor, IN

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@fred21gps1 7 ай бұрын

WOW! My comment is gone. I thought you wanted history of the neighborhood. Where the fallen tree was is where my Grandma’s house was. The house that your friend said was “really nice” was occupied as recently as 2022.

@SD-jf7nb 7 ай бұрын

I am very curious about this.

@fred21gps1 7 ай бұрын

@@SD-jf7nb the neighborhood was called Inland Manor. It’s off of highway 12 in Miller/Gary, IN. About 20 years or so ago, the National Park Service came in and offered to purchase the properties from the residents with a lease back for $1 per year for 10 years. Some took advantage of the offer, some did not. My Grandma did & lived there peacefully until she could no longer take care of herself (around 2007) and moved out. The park service came in and demolished her home as part of their expansion plan (hers was the empty lot in the video where the tree had fallen). Those who did not take the original offer held out. Eventually the park service ran out of money to buy the remaining homes. That’s when city/county services took over and finally took the homes by eminent domain. The house that the girl said was “really nice” belonged to a dear friend, who held out until about 2022 and was finally forced to leave. Her son owned the blue ranch style home across the street that was all locked up. He also lost the fight against eminent domain. There used to be 4 roads into Inland Manor. Currently only one remains accessible.

@highnoon907 7 ай бұрын

@fred21gps1 Thank you for giving information the authors of this video neglected to

@fred21gps1 7 ай бұрын

@@highnoon907 in talking to my family tonight at dinner, my Aunt & Uncle said the lease back deal with the National Park Service was for 10 years, NOT until death. My Grandma signed her agreement in 1998 (25 years ago).

@bertvosburg558 7 ай бұрын

I've figured out KZfaq is cutting comments off short!

@joeMW284 8 ай бұрын

That 'flower' ledge was for a phone. You'd put the phonebook on the bottom ledge of it. You can see the old fashioned hoookup on the left.

@SilentStorm1031 8 ай бұрын

I was just going to add that answer as well. All the older homes had those ledges for the phone or cubby hole in the wall for the phone and the shelf underneath for the extinct telephone books. Or are they??

@apocyldoomer 8 ай бұрын

Yes Joe, correct, my Mums house had one also, covered up too, from the 1930’s Era.

@user-tr3kc7ep7n 8 ай бұрын

If I hadn't seen it for myself, it would be hard to believe that people used to sit in one place for an entire phone conversation. Or two...

@marylclc1269 8 ай бұрын

Yep. When I was a child we lived in a house in Berwyn, a Chicago suburb that had beautiful built in features including a cubby for the doorbell chimes and the phone. There was an old Bakelite phone in the cubby, and a wooden shelf where my parents put their personal phone books. The house was built in the '30s, I believe. We lived in it from the very late 1960s to the mid 1970s.

@tomwesley7884 8 ай бұрын

@@marylclc1269 Svengoolie

@Reub3 8 ай бұрын

My mother grew up in Gary from the 60s. She doesn't like to see that area or current photos of the area. Makes her sad. It was once a nice place to live according to my grandparents, aunts and uncles.

@Naegiri 8 ай бұрын

Looking at this place on street view is strange. The amount of decay this place experienced between 2007-2013... some parts of it are nearly unrecognizable between the two periods. It's awesome that you've documented this place a little over 10 years after the last street view scan, adding to the documentation of this small neighborhood's decay.

@danielkoher1944 8 ай бұрын

It’s great documentation has and is done. There’s no possible way I could call my hometown that. Because 75-80% is gone.

@josepimp404 8 ай бұрын

Where is this located? Wanting to film it aswell

@FlyinRaptorJesus 7 ай бұрын

Also would like location, I love looking at Google Street view

@steve210sa 7 ай бұрын

9:41 I'd love to see it as well but I've tried looking up Sullivan St and 3rd Ave..... Didn't find anything.

@debraoliver505 8 ай бұрын

Found neighborhood by one street sign in video. - S. Sullivan Street and E. 3rd Avenue, Gary, Indiana 2013 Google Earth, still occupied.

@meycoe 8 ай бұрын

yep, shows cars and boats but who knows how long ago. my own house shows pics from 6 years ago!

@AdrienneJung.M 8 ай бұрын

What’s amazing to me is how fast some of the houses built in the 90s/2000s are decaying compared to the older homes

@603carry 7 ай бұрын

I have a house that was built in 1800. For a time it was left completely abandoned for over 10 years. And is standing strong and fine by the time we we're able to purchase

@danielcarter305 6 ай бұрын

As I was saying on another channel, once the roof (which needs to be replaced every 20 years on average) goes, the rest of the structure follows quickly.

@tammybrown4901 4 ай бұрын

Wasent built nearly as well is why.

@joshthefordfan 8 ай бұрын

It’s crazy seeing this kind of stuff. My dad was born and raised in Gary so whenever I see things like this I send them to him, he remembers when they were booming areas and pretty neighborhoods and everything

@shellydunn4566 7 ай бұрын

Gary was a beautiful town at one time....

@kirstymcdannels7731 5 ай бұрын

What happened to the town?

@shellydunn4566 5 ай бұрын

@@kirstymcdannels7731 do you want the truth?? Not get butt hurt over the truth???

@DjJerryofficialChannel1 7 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for holding your camera still! I remember when you first started your camera photography was so shaky. I love your exploration videos and been watching them for years! Keep up the good work !

@sandrawoodsmall5709 8 ай бұрын

I have to wonder if our goverment isn't adding to the problem of affordable housing.

@B1nGo81 8 ай бұрын

Of course they are it's all a plan get ready

@philiphoel4290 8 ай бұрын

Of course it is

@FlyinRaptorJesus 7 ай бұрын

Of course.. They want us all in tiny cubicle apartments in the city.. Never owning anything and never having any freedom. We must stand up against that. Humans deserve to be free.

@rosschamberlin6448 7 ай бұрын

Not adding to the problem, they are the engine driving the problem.

@SD-jf7nb 7 ай бұрын

Real estate lobby. They were handing out indictments to the Reagan administration like parking tickets, HUD, the DOI, the S&L "crisis", using the EPA as a slush fund, it goes on, s bit of s pattern there if you look. Truth is, low income housing, even with incentives, is higher risk than premium. Meanwhile, tight supply keeps prices high.

@Joker058 7 ай бұрын

The thing shelf on the wall by the door that you thought was for a flower was common in older homes and it was for holding the telephone and a phone book on the little shelf underneath.

@Luvpig 8 ай бұрын

I wish your videos were longer. Love them!❤

@GdubbzMultimedia 8 ай бұрын

Great work! I recently found your channel. Cant stop binging the videos!

@Dani-Innit 8 ай бұрын

that little shelf in the second house is a phone niche/nook. they were seen in a lot of homes starting in about the 30s when phones still plugged into the wall.

@DrewsAdventuresGo 8 ай бұрын

What a neat set of finds. This definitely seems to have a big back story and glad you guys got to explore it and filmed it, wonderfully. G'day from Australia 🇦🇺

@JamesL413 8 ай бұрын

The city of Chicago took that area over through imminent domain to build a stadium and park to win a bid for the 2016 Olympics. Rio de Janeiro won the bid and those residents lost their homes for nothing. Now the land sits there empty with no plans for development at this time.

@DrewsAdventuresGo 8 ай бұрын

@@JamesL413 that's so sad and wrong. You'd think the city would have waited till it won the bid 🤔 . Poor residents

@fred21gps1 7 ай бұрын

@@JamesL413not true. My Grandma lived in that neighborhood and the National Park service bought most of the properties well over 20 years ago. They did a lease back with the residents for $1 a year for 10 years. Some sold to the National Park service & some didn’t. The last few residents were living there as recently as 2022.

@melodyfranklin2287 7 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for being so kind sharing your videos.. ☺️ your very appreciated your the best forever. ❤ Melody aka the lostgirl

@Maybe1Someday 8 ай бұрын

Tabby cat out there living its best life. Hopefully it has some friends

@YouveBeenMiddled 8 ай бұрын

Yeah this neighborhood had folks still living there just a couple years ago. This street had the last hold outs.

@zzzJOEB 8 ай бұрын

What neighborhood is this?

@KFJN 8 ай бұрын

@@zzzJOEBI think it's Bensenville

@s0nicfreak 8 ай бұрын

@@zzzJOEB It's the Inland Manor subdivision

@alexis808_ 7 ай бұрын

@@s0nicfreakin indiana ?

@s0nicfreak 7 ай бұрын

@@alexis808_ Yep

@melvinglick9446 7 ай бұрын

Got caught there by the cook county forest police for trying to release a squirrel from a have a heart trap. He said it was illegal to relocate any animals onto State property.

@maclura 8 ай бұрын

i knew someone that would've lost their home to the park service, except they burned it to the ground and poisoned the land and off'ed themselves right there and sent them a nice note the day they did it explaining they would not continue to live without their home that had been in their family for generations.

@maclura 7 ай бұрын

@tattooed_countryboythey figured they could just snatch the land from an elderly farmer without issue. i haven't seen our country as a free nation since. we've been living in a dystopia all along.

@christhefamcraft1756 7 ай бұрын

Good video. The young lady is wonderful and should be in all videos 😊

@rickengen5249 8 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing

@thomashughes_teh 7 ай бұрын

In the 1970's my Dad took the family to Indiana Dunes two years in a row. In 2015 I did a bike tour through that same area to discover the neighborhood street where we used to park was now a low use greenway. We used the unmanned gap in the fence the locals all traversed to enter the park. The area was almost completely reclaimed by nature. Only block foundations, a few places where the asphalt wasn't completely dirted over and the occasional traffic sign or post still showed through the undergrowth next to saplings and bushes and 30 year old trees growing through what was once sidewalks and street. The really eerie thing was the actual street name on a post poking up in what was otherwise now a wooded area. There was a peppermint striped swing set frame oxidizing in two tones of rust all alone in the woods.

@safetymikeengland 8 ай бұрын

It's a tiny bit annoying that you don't say where it is, but it looks like Gary In.

@blablablablabla3959 8 ай бұрын

stay on the dunes highway towards Michigan city and you’ll find a few more of these. Assuming this is where I think it is.

@drofscnul 8 ай бұрын

Michigan city represent

@mistikbunny7840 7 ай бұрын

This is neighborhood is in Lake County. There are some neighborhoods near Beverly Shores and Pines. I think those may be the ones you are thinking of.

@deborahbouchard5475 7 ай бұрын

❤ i recently came across your channel love watching your video's great job

@Juliet-on-YT 8 ай бұрын

Exploring like this looks like such a blast, but where I live, I'd be paranoid about running into snakes, haha. Keep up the great videos! Can't stop watching them since KZfaq recommended me some of your shorts the other day. :)

@EddieVBlueIsland 8 ай бұрын

Not too many snake around Chicago

@intheredcold9216 7 ай бұрын

The Fed government has stated and started a program to "reclaim" private land to give to park and rec's. That's not sinister at all. They have a goal of 30% of private owned land by 2035 and 50% by 2050. I may be off on dates but read up on their totally not concerning plans to take land.

@davem7720 7 ай бұрын

Your right, I heard of this. Bidens 30 by 30 plan. Theres lots about it. Basically the government is taking land for preservation, is what they call it.

@donnierobitson7221 4 ай бұрын

Democrats🤮

@RobinMcCracken 6 ай бұрын

Places like this in Denver would be turned over to the homeless as shelters. They are bulldozed immediately to prevent that from happening.

@eileenwalker9807 8 ай бұрын

All the homeless people in this world All these abandoned homes. It doesn't make sense.

@anarchytelevision8445 8 ай бұрын

There's so much abandoned homes and property all over the world and I've asked the same question, also there is so much public land as they call it

@shauncasey8295 8 ай бұрын

I remember those bowling video games being in almost every bar in the late 90's and early 2000's.

@derrickwillie4449 8 ай бұрын

It’s a golden tee machine bruh

@TheDynotuner 6 ай бұрын

You didn't look in that large double garage behind that yellow house? I've found closed door garages usually hide the most gems... Be safe & keep exploring!

@James-ll3jb 8 ай бұрын

(4:15-4:17) That's a telephone stand, dude.😊

@waxshoppe 7 ай бұрын

The brick house at about the 7 min mark was still occupied in late 2021, according to an article I found. Not sure how long after that article that the city acquired it.

@apocyldoomer 8 ай бұрын

@4:22 was a phone shelf, the bottom ledge was, as joegac57 typed, for a phonebook, my Mums house had one, but it was removed at some time and wall papered over, a thing of the 1930’s!

@faheemabbas3965 8 ай бұрын

Illinois going to warehouse crap so bad. I know this is too personal, but if you’re liking Illinois less and less to the point that even your connections to the state are bad, then I suggest you move out of the state. After which, you can make a mega-documentary about the downfall of the state to warehouses.

@CurlyPewbes 8 ай бұрын

This is Gary Indiana.

@eringreer2425 8 ай бұрын

This is in Indiana

@JohnDoe-ik4uu 8 ай бұрын

All the corn fields going away as fast as u can say ass

@alexplore92 8 ай бұрын

Nice tour, I remember going back there several years ago. Theres one house thats still used by the park ranger. Watch out for him.

@ROCK-vl5yw 7 ай бұрын

Where is this

@brentfoust7440 7 ай бұрын

😮 It's on route twelve in indiana west of county line road

@jamesschaefer2760 8 ай бұрын

Love your video 😊

@djwick6722 7 ай бұрын

The space in the wall that you thought was for floors is actually where the telephone for the house was kept and the shelving under is for telephone books

@frankaugustine9832 7 ай бұрын

Would be cool to see old photos of what the neighborhood used to look like.

@deannahaworth7666 7 ай бұрын

Some of those houses was worth saving , I read there was a lot of flooding in the area

@jamescotter6114 8 ай бұрын

NOICE traveling compaion!

@db9904 7 ай бұрын

The Chicago Tribune posted a very interesting article about one of the last few people living here and what the park and Gary were doing.

@Ihold8stars 7 ай бұрын

“Old fashioned… idk….to put a flower 😂” It’s where you’d put your phone… a landline phone 😂

@RobinMcCracken 6 ай бұрын

Millennials...😂

@thomashughes_teh 7 ай бұрын

@4:16 That's a landline shelf for the kind of phone you could only lose in a tornado.

@jimvanbemmelen4131 7 ай бұрын

cool video guys.. awesome!

@JamesL413 8 ай бұрын

I think this is the area the city took over through imminent domain to build a stadium and park for the Olympics that wasn't guaranteed. In the end Rio de Janeiro won the bid and Chicago residents homes were taken. That's the government for you.

@s0nicfreak 8 ай бұрын

Nah this is in Gary, the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore was doing some kind of leaseback thing with this neighborhood (Inland Manor subdivision) in the 90s but they ran out of money... a few years ago Gary Sanitary District started taking over the remaining properties through eminent domain.

@JamesL413 8 ай бұрын

@s0nicfreak The title of the video says "Exploring an abandoned neighborhood on the outskirts of Chicago." What did I miss?

@s0nicfreak 8 ай бұрын

@@JamesL413 Yes, it does. Good reading! Gary is considered by many to be on the outskirts of Chicago. Not by people that live in Chicago, because they don't want to be associated with us, but by everyone else lol. You can look at google maps, and match up the street signs and houses in the video. The mint green one for example, is 323 Sullivan St, Gary, IN.

@denisebear4607 7 ай бұрын

Did they give up on the stadium and build the hard rock casino

@s0nicfreak 7 ай бұрын

@@denisebear4607 The baseball stadium? That's still open

@eugenenelson5398 7 ай бұрын

That shelf thing on the wall was where the old home phone would have sat at..

@robertmailhos8159 8 ай бұрын

Those houses look like they were built in the 1950s or 1960s

@patrickclifford3120 8 ай бұрын

Maybe a few from the 1930's and 1940's or maybe a little earlier.

@robertmailhos8159 8 ай бұрын

@@patrickclifford3120 that is.possiable also

@rukamukus 7 ай бұрын

I’d be wearing a mask and some gloves, breathing & touching that stuff could be dangerous to the health.

@Franke609 8 ай бұрын

That Bride bookbag 🦾

@mikeFPS1980 3 ай бұрын

One of my friends family had a house in that area, it’s need the Indiana Dunes, those houses got taken by the national park district! They stopped issuing permits in the late 80s for home improvements and basically took over homes one by one! They claim the homes should never have been built on public land.

@rosa4892 8 ай бұрын

That shelf with the dome shape,Thats where you would put the household phone.

@lisakain4414 2 ай бұрын

Still blows my mind. How people can be forced out of their homes. For the homes to be left and destroyed. Not to mention tons of people that are homeless. These places could be used. All these gorgeous homes such a waste.

@marvin_6669 8 ай бұрын

I think the little niche in the second house was for an old school land line telephone, I have lived in old houses with those.

@eringreer2425 8 ай бұрын

You're absolutely 💯

@michellerobinson1318 7 ай бұрын

Some of us still have those "old school" landline telephones.

@marvin_6669 7 ай бұрын

@@michellerobinson1318 One of my aunts has the same phone in her house from the early 50s the number on the dial is logan#-####, back in those days you just dialed 5 digits now it is a minimum of 10 digits.

@redneckbryon 8 ай бұрын

4:18, that’s a Phone Nitch. Too bad there wasn’t any calendars in the intact houses, to try and find out when they left.

@robertwayland8477 7 ай бұрын

The government is seriously over stepping boundaries with taking people's property

@intheredcold9216 6 ай бұрын

Its a program called 30/30. Google it they want to take 30% by 2030 and 50 by 2050. Part of the great reset.

@cdcd1607 8 ай бұрын

4:17 telephone desk. Thats where the landline telephone sat

@jimreitenbach6023 8 ай бұрын

I think that little arched cut out in the wall was for a land line phone.

@intricatic 5 ай бұрын

Looks way more welcoming than most suburban neighborhoods I've lived in.

@johns4584 8 ай бұрын

The wooden thing built into the wall was a telephone stand, from the day when folks still had home phones........

@Thrakus 8 ай бұрын

4:24 was for a phone and phone book

@annajohnson3309 7 ай бұрын

I would say that most of these people got evicted from the home and didn't have nowhere to take their stuff so they trashed the house and left the stuff even left the water on

@edwardtraylor3984 8 ай бұрын

I would not left have that turkey platter behind. That would have came with me. Thanks for sharing with us.

@PgPgDn 8 ай бұрын

That little nook you said might be good for flowers is a phone nook.

@bertvosburg558 7 ай бұрын

The government is scratching their heads trying to find housing... There are so many area's like this in USA. Take my Parents generation that grew up in the 1930's and they'd all know how to start over with nothing because they knew how to scratch to get by because they started out with nothing and I'm certain my Dad could live there because I've heard him say, "I could live in that" when ever we went by some run down place.

@john45hhh 7 ай бұрын

The population is better controlled when they all put together in big city's especially living in pods :). No privacy, peace and quiet for anyone.

@ericvonwiegen5672 8 ай бұрын

Nice 👍

@4EverParkedLS 8 ай бұрын

Where did she get that backpack? I am interested in getting the same one.

@fortnitefails5512 7 ай бұрын

4:20 - that is a place where telephones used to go. Rotary, most likely lol.

@danielcarter305 6 ай бұрын

That neighborhood looked like it was a really nice neighborhood at one time.😢😢😢

@apocyldoomer 8 ай бұрын

Good stuff, the overgrown sidewalks were cool, yes, I’m strange, why be normal?

@EddieVBlueIsland 8 ай бұрын

Were is this located? never mind found 327 Sullivan Gary, IN ~20 miles from Chicago - adjacent to the "Dunes"

@Tempe1962 7 ай бұрын

Poor cat-probably someones pet.I like the mailboxes for the newspapers. Is that done anymore? Sounded like you kicked a plastic easter egg in the basement.Those things get everywhere.lol.

@Typical-Aviation 7 ай бұрын

Close to my house in finland in a neighborhood is one abandondoned building and prettt close to my school is one abandoned house

@jayuno3009 8 ай бұрын

4:17 that’s for a telephone

@nicholaswetherell8599 8 ай бұрын

Obsoletevoids she is so cool.

@leadslinger49 8 ай бұрын

I probably went to High School with kids that lived there during the 60's. Looks like a lot of people just walked away from everything. I would like to know what rhe National Park Service's grand plan for the whole area. Porter and Lake Counties ect.

@s0nicfreak 8 ай бұрын

Environmental restoration is supposedly the plan (removing everything and restoring the area to natural habitat)

@linardskinard8199 7 ай бұрын

Let it rot ,that's the plan

@TheMightyCookieShow 7 ай бұрын

Imagine how creepy this neighborhood would have been like day one after they've kicked everybody out like day one

@sherieallen4552 7 ай бұрын

That was a place to put your telephone back in the day. At one time every house had those.lol. That was the second house when you asked.

@3230visuals 8 ай бұрын

What the town name

@ericamiles666 8 ай бұрын

So did you go back and leave the lil kitty some food?

@gailspaw5521 5 ай бұрын

It's Pretty there❤

@vanoramoon674 8 ай бұрын

Nature always takes back it own. Overgrowth...

@anarchytelevision8445 8 ай бұрын

4:18 it's where your telephone would sit

@handymanbrian8269 8 ай бұрын

4:25 thats where theyd place the telephone.

@Get_er_Done_389 8 ай бұрын

What are the names of the 2 other people you were with so we can follow them and show support?

@1971PaulClark 5 ай бұрын

At 4:18 seconds that little cubbyhole in the wall that you couldn’t figure out what it was. It was for an old-fashioned telephone to sit in.

@gailspaw5521 5 ай бұрын

Sup from Kentucky❤

@RapShitBen 8 ай бұрын

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

@lonerevenant0 8 ай бұрын

This guy sounds like Bob's Burgers

@sandraenglandful 8 ай бұрын

It’s a shame these houses could have made a lot of homes for people, especially with so many homeless. Wildlife is more important than people!

@terryl.cooper 8 ай бұрын

Lead paint and asbestos.

@michellerobinson1318 7 ай бұрын

These houses were peoples homes, stolen by the government through eminent domain

@mistikbunny7840 7 ай бұрын

Not to mention the city of Gary is not a place I would want to live. This land is near the steel mills and the air often stinks from them. I live about 30 miles Southeast of this area and at certain times when the wind blows from that direction it smells terrible. Just this summer they released some chemical and had everyone in the region calling 911 to report gas leaks. Even made the Chicago news.

@twrecks4676 7 ай бұрын

Bowling game!? That’s Golden Tee Golf bro 😂

@37HD 8 ай бұрын

Where the hell is that? Gary ain't chicago Joe! Not even the same state....

@mssayida 8 ай бұрын

I said the same.... wtf.

@1800imawake 8 ай бұрын

sigh

@johng5710 7 ай бұрын

Do you know what "outskirts" means?

@37HD 7 ай бұрын

@@johng5710 uh huh. I guess so. Gary isn't even Suburban Chicago. Might as well call Wisconsin and Michigan the "outskirts" Only hillbillies live in Indiana!

@court-730 6 ай бұрын

You guys need another crew member? This would be my dream job!

@ivenothumbs 5 ай бұрын

Centralia Pennsylvania vibes for sure

@meycoe 8 ай бұрын

If they took my house, I would burn it too!

@drofscnul 8 ай бұрын

I used to live here.

@StringerMedia 8 ай бұрын

No way

@MacHamish 7 ай бұрын

Leave it to a cute gothy chick to find a kitty. 😁🐈 Hopefully kitty gets rescued and finds a nice home.

@Neoncaffeine 8 ай бұрын

you guys gotta live close to me cuz i know all these places

@derrickwillie4449 8 ай бұрын

Where is this place? Michigan City Indiana?

@adammintern3927 8 ай бұрын

i wonder why these places are abandoned and why the people left some of the house look brand new and the people who live in these houses and the people who owned them seemed to live there for very long

@derrickwillie4449 8 ай бұрын

Well if you paid attention the national parks services used eminent domain to take possession of those houses

@adammintern3927 8 ай бұрын

@@derrickwillie4449 im sorry

@yaiburanakul8505 8 ай бұрын

It is part of the UN AaGgeennddaa 2211 / aaggeennddaa 22003300.

@adammintern3927 8 ай бұрын

@@yaiburanakul8505 cool