Forgotten Train Set Found in an Abandoned Time Capsule House
Located in the Muskoka region of Ontario Canada, this long abandoned house sits boarded up along a remote highway. Unassuming from the outside, this forgotten bungalow is overgrown and boarded up, nothing more than an eyesore to neighbours and drivers passing by.
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One day, in 2020 an explorer from North Bay Ontario named Chad Gray and a friend stumbled upon this home, curious, he pulled over and headed inside with no idea what he was about to walk into. Inside, the home is a perfectly preserved time capsule, with nothing but the effects of time altering the conditions.
As I entered the home, I was hit with that familiar blast of abandoned house air, the musty damp smell that never leaves you, that tells you that you’re in for a surprise. With an asian themed tiki bar, a fully intact living room, kitchen, bedrooms and more, this is the kind of house that only comes along every so often.
The biggest surprise sits in a small room in the basement, where the German man who lived here spent years building a custom toy train set, in an Austrian Alps setting. While this train set would have been spectacular at one point, it now sits like a post-apocalyptic scene, a miniature version of an abandoned village.
The owner of this home was a German American named Günter, who moved to Ontario Canada with his young wife. The man was a high school teacher, teaching grades 11 and 12 at a local high school.
As a personal project, he was building a separate, self-sufficient home next door. He had his students build a scale model of the home, which is still there today.
One day, Günter suffered a heart attack while working on the unfinished house and died shortly after.
His wife didn't want anything to do with the project or to find someone to finish his view of the unfinished house. His wife packed her belongings and went back to her country, leaving this home abandoned and full of Günters belongings and his passion project next door forever incomplete.
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located in the muskoka region of ontario
canada
this long abandoned house sits boarded
up along a remote ontario highway
one day in 2020 an explorer from north
bay ontario named
chad gray and his friend stumbled upon
this house
curious they pulled over and headed
inside with no idea what they were about
to find
as i entered the home i was hit with the
familiar blast of abandoned house air
with an asian themed tiki bar a fully
intact living room
kitchen bedrooms and more the biggest
surprise sits in a small room in the
basement
where the german man who lived here had
spent several years building a custom
toy train set
in an austrian alps setting join me as i
explore the abandoned train set
time capsule house
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so
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okay what's up guys and welcome back to
another freakography abandoned time
capsule house adventure
so the first time i ever saw this
abandoned house was on the feed of a
girl named amid the abandoned
and she's been following me for a while
and i've been following her and she's
been putting out some really cool places
i put some feelers out there to see who
i know who might know this place
friend of mine who goes by the name so
sincere on instagram he knew of it
uh he has actually been here long before
fully intact
abandoned time capsule house and in the
basement one of the coolest things i've
ever seen
a beautiful toy train set
okay we are going to start in the first
room that i just happened to be in and
that's this
side room here and there's a uh
i forget what the name of this piano is
i somebody told me once
this type of piano sorry i can't
remember
the exact type of piano but that that is
i'm sure some of you guys will correct
me
and fill me in in the comments down
below so as you can see
all of the windows through the house are
boarded up so there's boards right there
a little bit of light coming through
uh the top of the boards but the whole
house is dark
so i am going to turn my light up
because it is so dark in here
there we go now look at the butterflies
on the wall here
from there
right there
head on over here there's one right
there
just chilling pinned on the wall
and then right there
so many interesting features
in this house to see guys we're not
gonna see it all because there's just
too much
it has that perfect abandoned house
smell
that there hasn't been anyone in here in
such a long time
change the antenna
vhs tape rewinder
or is that a uh well that's just a tape
player
yeah that's just a tape player cassette
player
very few houses guys are this good
and just intact with this much
interesting stuff left behind
let's see what we got here
neon war windows
then warwick here 100 classics
world famous the ogs
chicago greatest hits
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dr chivago
a hand coming
some good stuff here guys got some got
some solid gold
vinyl in this house
who's this
oh diana ross
glenn miller orchestra
christmas cards tijuana stuff
all right christmas books or christmas
music oh there it is michael jackson
thriller original pressing
i had this open it up you got the tiger
inside if it'll open
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there you go second time i found one of
these guys in an abandoned house
original pressing of michael jackson
thriller
written with michael jackson's
handwriting on the back
that's a rare one guys
oh i had this too the jackson five
reunion album from the 80s
yeah i had this stance what's the song
can you feel it
okay shake your booty
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okay so here we are guys the front door
is right here
there's a hat hanging on the wall and i
wonder if we have power
no we don't have power guys doesn't look
like it
no so we're in the front main
hallway and as we come over here you can
see the
um closet is full of coats
and clothes and you hit up top here and
you've got some old
sleeping bags very old sleeping bags up
top there
we will take a deeper look inside there
a little bit later
and then there's a very interesting
feature
that greets you when you come inside in
this night
medieval knight
light fixture medieval knight
he has a sword and everything
that is crazy
okay let's move on to some of these
bedrooms here
this is an auction this is actually an
office big saw puzzles
a whole bunch of books down here
harlequin presents harlequin books
there's two
three four boxes at least full of
harlequin books
closet will open more books in the
closet
a lot of some photo albums there i'll
have to take a look at those in a bit
and then too
other bedrooms on this side then we go
down to a basement
and then there's another side of the
house that is basically like an
apartment
here's a bathroom
some slides
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let's see
two bedrooms in the end of the hallway
we'll go left first
wigs there's three wigs so far i see
there's a wig on the floor there
and then there's a wig on each bed post
right there another one there
nice room
bed still made clothes in the closet
and then here's this other bedroom here
a little bit messier in the bed
nothing in there
now if i'm going too fast guys don't you
worry like i said
right now we're just going to take a
quick walk through i will be doing a pan
of each room a little bit later as well
as the detail stuff so don't you worry
if i'm going too fast for it
i wonder if this tease any good still
vinegar
strawberry cow strawberry syrup
spice rack
not opening the fridge maybe before i
leave i will
okay let's take a walk downstairs
and check out the basement the other
side of the house
then we're gonna go check out the train
set room
and then we're gonna slow things down
okay so let's go ahead downstairs
there is an interesting bar down here
too
so before we go show you guys this thing
on the wall
some kind of a dragon or something
there's a table there
it's this thing
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very old moldy desk
oh there's another painting on the wall
huh
okay so here's the bar it's kind of like
a tiki bar
but there's not much tiki left of the
tiki bar
fireplace there's a few fireplaces in
the house
and there's a bunch of pickled things in
there
pickled peaches maybe pickled
something or other i don't know
interesting guys there's so much to see
in here got it we gotta come back and
look at the details
guys make sure you stick around for this
whole video because there is gonna be so
much to see look at this fridge
wow
loving this mural all around the walls
here
i'm going to be here for quite a while
guys
okay now we move on to
the other part of the house we will do
the basement first
it's pretty moldy down here so i don't
want to spend too much time down here
but we will just do a quick walkthrough
so you guys can see what's going on
there's not much to see down here
there's the well one more
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and
workshops got a small table old table
saw
not much going on in here
this place has so many rooms
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wow
here's papa's workshop
okay so you know what guys since we're
here this is where the uh train setting
is
we'll take a quick look at the train set
then we're gonna go through the other
part of the house
and we're going to come down here and
look in this room in much much more
detail
because this room is awesome
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wow
just look at the detail and all the
stuff that this guy had
this would have been so awesome fully
intact
and still working
this little car right here wow
so much work must have gone into
building this over the years
here's this control panel right here
he even had like mountain bavarian
mountain settings on the wall
wow
this is so impressive
oh man little airplane
cars i can't wait to come back in here
and play
and then here's all of his parts
christmas lights i wonder if he changed
the seasons
when he was playing with this train set
okay i'm going to turn around and get a
nice wide shot of this room
again guys you do not want to leave this
video you want to stay tuned
to see all of this stuff in more
specific detail
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water feature here and there's a hose up
there
so this is just one simple room
and then there's just another bathroom
here
so whatever they would have been doing
there used to be a door
right here this used to go to the other
side you can see on the other side that
it's been blocked off there as well
so
okay guys so now that we've seen we've
walked through the whole house
so now what i'll do is i'll just do
panning shots
of each room slow panning shots left to
right right to left up and down whatever
then i'm gonna show some detail i may
talk over it i may not i'm probably just
gonna play some music
so let's now enjoy this house in a bit
more detail i'll run a bit of music
and you guys can just hang out and watch
because there's still so much more to
see in this house guys so
let's go check it out
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the owner of this home was a
german-american man
who moved to ontario canada with his
young wife
the man was a high school teacher
teaching grades 11 and 12 at a local
high school
as a personal project he was building a
separate self-sufficient home
right next door he had his students
build a scale model of the home which is
still there today
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one day this man suffered a heart attack
while working on the unfinished house
and died shortly after
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his wife didn't want anything to do with
the project
and she didn't care to find someone to
finish his view of the unfinished house
this woman packed her belongings and
went back to her home country
leaving this home abandoned and full of
her husband's belongings
and his passion project next door
forever incomplete
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wow guys can i just say what an awesome
explorer this has been houses like this
are
so few and far in between that when i
get to explore a location like this i
want to take my time
i'm in no hurry i want to leave like no
stone unturned
and guys this house has just been
amazing i don't know who discovered it i
don't know where it first came from but
i do have to say
thank you so much for amid the abandoned
for bringing this one to my attention by
posting it
and thanks to my friend so sincere on
instagram
for uh passing this along to me guys
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dave dave dave thank you so much
so sincere amid the abandon thank you so
much for
hooking us up with this one and making
this one possible and thanks to you guys
for watching and being such
loyal and awesome subscribers so guys
what do we always say
thanks for watching guys peace
you