This is probably the most bizarre time capsule we've ever captured. Wherever you look, there are dead animals (there were too many to count, seriously). Taxidermy covers almost every square inch of this abandoned home. Browsing through what's left behind, it turned out that whoever lived here wasn't just a hunter but also an asylum doctor.
It felt like we were being watched when exploring this former home. There were eyes everywhere, monitoring all of our moves closely. But it's not just the stuffed animals - it's also the people in the photos left behind. With letters lying on the table, it appears as if the inhabitants could be back any moment. But no one lives here anymore. The style of this place's interior is kinda unique though: a mix of vintage and disturbing.
The house is a hodgepodge of the most different items. In the office, we hoped to find more information about whoever used to live here. We found passports - and also rifle ammo that hasn't yet been fired. What's weird: the tips have been filed off three of them. A gun expert told us that this is old World War ammo and to make this available for civilians, they cut off the tips.
Why are there dead animals literally everywhere?! Taxidermy is made to look at, marvel at, and enjoy. But here, there’s no one left who could. These are just skins now rotting away in a dusty building. Taxidermy has a certain code of ethics. But killing more and more of these animals just to decorate your home, all the way to the point where you have too many to display, and some need to be stored in cubbyholes... Is this still art - or has it become pathological?
Here, even mythical creatures were fabricated from dead animals. What kind of diagnosis would the asylum doctor have given himself? And what's with all the drugs we found all around the place? Okay, we're getting very speculative now... But what we do know is that much of this taxidermy is already more than 100 years old. This may have been a family tradition, actually. Or maybe most of it was just inherited by the doctor from the previous generation.
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Even if it appears the home is still full of personal belongings and precious artifacts, this site has already been ransacked and looted several times. You won't find any more valuables. And the only reason there hasn't been more theft is because you're constantly under surveillance. Not just the neighbors have prying eyes. Nobody likes to be in here: on the contrary, you want to leave this place straight away.
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Therefore, isn't it obvious why this place is abandoned? Many rumors are circulating about this house, which we deliberately didn't mention. These include jail time, and a family that fled abroad. But we don’t believe all this, because we haven't found any evidence. Older people have lived here, that's for sure. By the time they passed away, their children had long since started their own families. They didn't want to move back to their parent's home, to the place where they grew up. And there's a reason for that. In fact, there may even be hundreds of them...
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Join us on this exploration in this YouTube video:
Dark Secrets of a Taxidermist's Abandoned Home | Austria Uncovered
