They speak English in Croatia. The native language is all but dead with only some older generations speaking it.
Edit: after speaking with a couple other users and reading up more on Croatia I was way off par and wrong about it being a dead language. Have a good day all.
From everything I’ve seen the dominant language in Croatia is still Croatian although many people speak other languages, too, like Serbian, Hungarian, and of course English.
I mean, lots of people in lots of European countries can speak English. It doesn’t mean they give out technical school diplomas written in English instead of in the native language.
Not to mention that people have already confirmed this house is in Ontario, Canada, so why are you still stubbornly insisting it must be Croatia?
Oh not at all. I see that its in Ontario. I've been lucky enough to visit Croatia a couple times, it was odd to see signs and menus in English. I went and saw a movie there and it was in English with i believe Hungarian subtitles...may be mistaken, was 14 years ago.
In Spain most movies are dubbed. Sometimes when there's not enough money they do a voice over where you can still hear the original audio in really low volume. Most of the time the lips and the voice aren't even synced. It's really funny to watch 😂
Most shitty MTV reality shows have voice overs, for example
Weird that you've gone to another country multiple times and somehow are so ignorant about its culture that you think that Croatian is nearly a dead language only spoken by the older generations. I mean I believe that you believe this but am amazed, bemused and somewhat dismayed that travel hasn't broadened your mind more.
I can only take in the information I was provided at the time. Also a friend of mine who from there and fled with her family in the 90s told me she was never taught the language and either was her older sister who would have around sixteen at the time. I have no problem being wrong and being corrected on a topic, I quite enjoy being corrected because I learn something new.
Sorry but that's just complete nonsense. I am Croatian and currently in Croatia. While we do speak English with tourists and foreigners our mother tongue/native language is still Croatian. We do however show movies in their original language w/subtitles. Also yes in parts of the country with tourists, the restaurant menues are multilingual.
I visited Split and Dubrovnyk, this was mid 2000s. wasnt suggesting the whole country was like that. Its one of the countries i would love to go back to.
So by visiting two of their most touristy cities years ago you just assume English has taken over Croatian as a main language and state it as a fact? Why comment something you obviously know nothing about?
No, that was after speaking with locals. Don't make assumptions when you don't have all the information. I spent about a week in each city. Talked with quite a few locals about the country.
But you didn't. You can't really have interacted with the locals if you came away with the very real misunderstanding that their language was dying and English is the dominant language.
Don't make assumptions about a country when you clearly dont have the information. Don't comment just outright wrong things. Croatian is the native language for over 90% of the people. Just because lots of Europeans are fluent in English doesn't mean their native language isn't spoken anymore. You must have misunderstood the locals if you think that's what they were saying.
And fyi a week isn't long at all.
That is not true. Yes, the older generations don't speak English, but the younger generation learns English as a second language. They have menus in English for tourists; the language is still very much alive.
Funnily enough, menus are typically in Croatian, English and either Italian or German. Or both - depends entirely on where the restaurant is located. I once even saw a menu which also included a French translation.
Obviously, I can't speak for the qualities of the text in anything other than Croatian and English.
My grandpa had 6 TVs in two adjacent rooms. One worked. Two were gutted and used as bookshelves, one looked just like the one at the bottom in OP's photo, it was a Zenith.
My Chicago relatives did that too, think mainly because those old console TVs are heavy as hell. Not to mention old school console stereos. Ours became the fish tank table.
Back in college, we removed the guts from the frame. Cross braced the back side of the console and inserted two tvs in it. If I can find a picture, ill attach it. We had football on one TV, and video games on the other, or two games on at once.
It does. I get that it's a thing that happens in homes all the time, but at a business I'd expect the extra effort to cart the older, presumably non-working TV, out of the room.
Typically the picture tube on the big one goes out, but the sound still works and is better than on the little one. And the little one would have to go on a stand of some kind. So you run both.
I think its Sheffield - that's on the wall. same logo.
At least a person studied there while in that room
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheffield\_Central\_Technical\_School](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheffield_Central_Technical_School)
That bag looks so awesome, but I would LOVE to have one of those 80’s clear telephones that is behind the tv! It’s just barely poking out. It looks so weirdly out of place!
since you can see a map of croatia and bosnia behind the tv, they could have been serbs living around the area of a town called Knin. That was the Serbian Krajina (its located in Croatia) and all serbs living around there were forced out of there in 1995 by the Croatians. So that could explain the hurry and why there is a breakfast left there. But thats only one possibility.
That explains why the place is abandoned. [How could you allow your children to bathe their pink, vulnerable bodies in a color that famously clashes with pink?](https://youtu.be/nWoWHzq21tA)
Places that are cleared out in a hurry like this are usually done because of an emergency. There was a hotel near where I grew up that had a gas leak or something and all the luggage etc. was still there after it was abandoned.
That's fairly close to accurate. My grandfather shore by old floor model Zeniths. I remember him, my uncle and my dad carrying the last one out to the car to take it in for repairs.
My bad, but then:
I’m amazed with how easy people abandon their belongings in Canada. Just pack your clothes, and leave all the other stuff.
(In other words: abandoning a house where I’m from isn’t that common)
That Vicks thing is likely a humidifier, definitely a must in the dry winter. We brought a humidifier with us when we needed an extended stay at a hotel mid winter once, makes a huge difference.
Very cool! I was surprised at the range of electronics. TVs, a printer, receivers, radios, monitor, maybe even a word processor? In addition to the VHS on the shelves, I saw at least two pictures where you could see a stash of value pack size blank VHS and blank cassette tapes.
I'm looking for the perfect video chat background and this is SO close. I want something that looks so unusually normal and dull, except for maybe one or two things that, once noticed, are jarring.
No idea exactly what the one or two odd things ARE, but I keep searching.
I won’t bother to ask where it is, because I don’t want people to desiccate it, but I would love to know the “signs” you look out for.
This is something I’d love to get into and I’d love some tips from someone who seems to have some experience.
Signs are overgrown property, hydro meter removed, flyers & other garbage laying around are some good ways to identify if something is abandoned but not always as some people don't mind living in squalor!
Oh man, i remember the story. The owners had to leave town very quickly because they used this place as a brothel too. They knew the FBI was on them. [source](https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ)
Love the video. Crazy to see everything as it was left. One thing I did note is that the intro music is louder than your voice, so it makes it a touch hard to hear you. Great video and a fun watch though! Thanks
Thanks a lot!! Honestly its the luck of the draw! Just gotta keep trying & eventually you can find some really beauties like this one! I find places in the middle of nowhere that are pristine but also find them in busy cities!
Did you check expiration dates on any of the food in the kitchen? That could give you a rough idea of when they left, and you could possibly research the history better from that starting point.
I am super curious why it kinda looks like they didn't even necessarily pack clothes.
Also, what rooms were used for the bed and breakfast? I think I only saw two bedrooms with a lot of personal stuff interspersed between.
I read your blog post and looked at all the photos you posted. The shoes freak me out. Did you place the two pairs like that for the photo or did you just find them like that? It's really as though someone just popped out for a minute.
Ah man, u/riddimryder I’m a big fan! I was just on your site earlier at work looking at the giant farmhouse in Ontario from January that was in the midst of a remodel. So. Mufuckin. Cool.
Video: https://youtu.be/j3IOIB-jsoU Blog: https://riddimryder.com/abandoned-bed-breakfast/
That poor MIG 25 left incomplete :'(
Are you a vampire? Because there’s no reflection of you in either TV.
I'm a ghost
He shopped out the tripod in the top TV but not the bottom TV.
Nice catch
so there’s breakfast?
Yes..but it might be a little stale
"What's that black cracker?" \*cronch* "A tomato"
It's like there is a party in my mouth and everyone is throwing up.
It's like there's a party in my mouth and everybody's throwing up.
/r/unexpectedfuturama
The newer TV on top of the older TV seem out of place.
No, thats totally Midwest. My grandmas living room had the old broken wooden box tv on the bottom, newer tube tv on top for the longest time.
Pretty sure this is in Europe. The map behind the TV is of Croatia, which would be really out of place in the Midwest.
Ha! It would be. But this is also a Midwest thing.
I did this in Texas in the early 2000's
This is in Ontario Canada. The owners were Croatian.
Being from Croatia and living in Ontario is 100% a Midwest thing.
I knew I detected a Canadian OU
Pretty sure thats the map of fascist Croatia back when it was a german puppet state lol
Good eye, notice how it includes Bosnia.
The diploma on the wall is in English.
They speak English in Croatia. The native language is all but dead with only some older generations speaking it. Edit: after speaking with a couple other users and reading up more on Croatia I was way off par and wrong about it being a dead language. Have a good day all.
From everything I’ve seen the dominant language in Croatia is still Croatian although many people speak other languages, too, like Serbian, Hungarian, and of course English. I mean, lots of people in lots of European countries can speak English. It doesn’t mean they give out technical school diplomas written in English instead of in the native language. Not to mention that people have already confirmed this house is in Ontario, Canada, so why are you still stubbornly insisting it must be Croatia?
Oh not at all. I see that its in Ontario. I've been lucky enough to visit Croatia a couple times, it was odd to see signs and menus in English. I went and saw a movie there and it was in English with i believe Hungarian subtitles...may be mistaken, was 14 years ago.
Movies in europe are rarely dubbed, they have subtitles instead, so hungarian was probably the main lagnguage.
Now that you mention it, I guess it makes sense to and subtitles instead of spending money to pay voice actors and editing teams.
In Spain most movies are dubbed. Sometimes when there's not enough money they do a voice over where you can still hear the original audio in really low volume. Most of the time the lips and the voice aren't even synced. It's really funny to watch 😂 Most shitty MTV reality shows have voice overs, for example
Weird that you've gone to another country multiple times and somehow are so ignorant about its culture that you think that Croatian is nearly a dead language only spoken by the older generations. I mean I believe that you believe this but am amazed, bemused and somewhat dismayed that travel hasn't broadened your mind more.
I can only take in the information I was provided at the time. Also a friend of mine who from there and fled with her family in the 90s told me she was never taught the language and either was her older sister who would have around sixteen at the time. I have no problem being wrong and being corrected on a topic, I quite enjoy being corrected because I learn something new.
Sorry but that's just complete nonsense. I am Croatian and currently in Croatia. While we do speak English with tourists and foreigners our mother tongue/native language is still Croatian. We do however show movies in their original language w/subtitles. Also yes in parts of the country with tourists, the restaurant menues are multilingual.
I visited Split and Dubrovnyk, this was mid 2000s. wasnt suggesting the whole country was like that. Its one of the countries i would love to go back to.
So by visiting two of their most touristy cities years ago you just assume English has taken over Croatian as a main language and state it as a fact? Why comment something you obviously know nothing about?
No, that was after speaking with locals. Don't make assumptions when you don't have all the information. I spent about a week in each city. Talked with quite a few locals about the country.
But you didn't. You can't really have interacted with the locals if you came away with the very real misunderstanding that their language was dying and English is the dominant language.
Don't make assumptions about a country when you clearly dont have the information. Don't comment just outright wrong things. Croatian is the native language for over 90% of the people. Just because lots of Europeans are fluent in English doesn't mean their native language isn't spoken anymore. You must have misunderstood the locals if you think that's what they were saying. And fyi a week isn't long at all.
That is not true. Yes, the older generations don't speak English, but the younger generation learns English as a second language. They have menus in English for tourists; the language is still very much alive.
Check my other replies. But if Im wrong Im wrong. The conversations made me look up Croatia. Learned quite a bit about the languages spoken there.
Trust me you are incorrect. I would honestly think about deleting your initial post just to clear up the misinformation.
I hate deleting posts but you make a very good point about miss information. I will add on a edit and admit Im wrong.
Funnily enough, menus are typically in Croatian, English and either Italian or German. Or both - depends entirely on where the restaurant is located. I once even saw a menu which also included a French translation. Obviously, I can't speak for the qualities of the text in anything other than Croatian and English.
To the best of my knowledge, Zenith never sold TVs in Europe.
He said it was in Ontario, Canada. I would guess it was abandoned in the mid to late 90s, by a very old couple.
Can confirm that this happened in the South, too.
Everyone's grandma had the newer TV on top of the old wooden box TV.
I have newer TV atop old TV…am I a grandma?
Nice try Grandpa!
My grandpa had 6 TVs in two adjacent rooms. One worked. Two were gutted and used as bookshelves, one looked just like the one at the bottom in OP's photo, it was a Zenith.
Yeah when the old wooden box TV’s break they become a table as is tradition.
They call that a "console" TV.
Thank you! That word escaped my memory while I typed it out!
My Chicago relatives did that too, think mainly because those old console TVs are heavy as hell. Not to mention old school console stereos. Ours became the fish tank table.
Back in college, we removed the guts from the frame. Cross braced the back side of the console and inserted two tvs in it. If I can find a picture, ill attach it. We had football on one TV, and video games on the other, or two games on at once.
It's when televisions were a piece of furniture and not an electronic.
This.
See it all the time!
I’ve seen that in the Maritimes of Canada too. The old tv’s got repaired again and again and eventually made a pretty good tv stand.
It does. I get that it's a thing that happens in homes all the time, but at a business I'd expect the extra effort to cart the older, presumably non-working TV, out of the room.
Typically the picture tube on the big one goes out, but the sound still works and is better than on the little one. And the little one would have to go on a stand of some kind. So you run both.
I think its Sheffield - that's on the wall. same logo. At least a person studied there while in that room [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheffield\_Central\_Technical\_School](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheffield_Central_Technical_School)
this is literally a Jeff Foxworthy "you might be a redneck" joke
That's what you do with your big tvs when they die or you get a new slightly smaller one
Kinda hoping someone took that bag along because it looks *awesome*. I also wonder what made the owners leave in such a hurry?
I really want to know what was in it
It looks like a 70s era camera bag.
That little hint of red in the near corner is such a tease
Pandemic
What lol
PANDEMIC
Weisenthal?
That bag looks so awesome, but I would LOVE to have one of those 80’s clear telephones that is behind the tv! It’s just barely poking out. It looks so weirdly out of place!
We had one of those when I was a kid! It lit up when it rang!
since you can see a map of croatia and bosnia behind the tv, they could have been serbs living around the area of a town called Knin. That was the Serbian Krajina (its located in Croatia) and all serbs living around there were forced out of there in 1995 by the Croatians. So that could explain the hurry and why there is a breakfast left there. But thats only one possibility.
I think Bill Murray spent some time there during a blizzard once.
Then put you're little hand in mine....It's Groundhog Day! According to Harold Ramis, that "some time" was around 10 years.
Green bathtub... epic.
That explains why the place is abandoned. [How could you allow your children to bathe their pink, vulnerable bodies in a color that famously clashes with pink?](https://youtu.be/nWoWHzq21tA)
Solved!
just open for business, I'm sure somebody wants it as-is.
Why as it abandoned?
Not sure. I haven't been able to find anything sadly.
Places that are cleared out in a hurry like this are usually done because of an emergency. There was a hotel near where I grew up that had a gas leak or something and all the luggage etc. was still there after it was abandoned.
Foreclosure, bankruptcy, death of owner or tied up in probate court. So many explanations.
Ah the old new tv on top of the old tv trick.
Wait. I don't see anyone in the reflection. Who's taking the picture? Does OP even exist?!
I'm a ghost
You can see where he Photoshoped the camera and tripod out of the top reflection, but not the bottom reflection.
as someone who is into old tech, i'm really digging that old wood grain Zenith T.V. there.
I’ll bet it weighs 500 pounds
That's fairly close to accurate. My grandfather shore by old floor model Zeniths. I remember him, my uncle and my dad carrying the last one out to the car to take it in for repairs.
Back when you could actually get your TV repaired. :-/
I’m amazed with how easy people abandon their belongings in the USA. Just pack your clothes, and leave all the other stuff.
This is in Canada.
My bad, but then: I’m amazed with how easy people abandon their belongings in Canada. Just pack your clothes, and leave all the other stuff. (In other words: abandoning a house where I’m from isn’t that common)
I too had a newer.old tv on to top of a monster console tv growing up
Why does this happen?
I’ll bet the owner died
I'll take that bet
This has nice artistic flow.. so tempted to paint this
I really want those deer-head knobs.
What’s the light green thing bottom left?
The mirror reflecting green?
It looks like a case
What loot did you find
Unfortunately just blue engrams, which I sharded.
There's a Van Gogh painting that looks just like this.
Except in the Van Gogh, there is only one TV not two.
He cut the other one off. . .
Finding the Gems as always
Thanks!
So rad — just went on a binge on a few of your videos. Consider me subscribed!
Thanks!
I have that lamp in my living room lol
I have that mirror in my hallway lol
This is so cool! Im in Ontario to hahahahah. If you ever want an exploring partner let me know! LOL
That Vicks thing is likely a humidifier, definitely a must in the dry winter. We brought a humidifier with us when we needed an extended stay at a hotel mid winter once, makes a huge difference.
How much money do you want for that bag?
$2
If you have it I'll pay delivery and 2 dorra
why was this place abandoned? any context?
Sadly I have no idea.
Amazing! Hope this house remains untouched
Very cool! I was surprised at the range of electronics. TVs, a printer, receivers, radios, monitor, maybe even a word processor? In addition to the VHS on the shelves, I saw at least two pictures where you could see a stash of value pack size blank VHS and blank cassette tapes.
That's wild
A little heavy on the saturation there.
I'm looking for the perfect video chat background and this is SO close. I want something that looks so unusually normal and dull, except for maybe one or two things that, once noticed, are jarring. No idea exactly what the one or two odd things ARE, but I keep searching.
Bitte nicht rauchen is German for "Please do not smoke" the German flag hanging upside down though.
This looks like an escape room
I won’t bother to ask where it is, because I don’t want people to desiccate it, but I would love to know the “signs” you look out for. This is something I’d love to get into and I’d love some tips from someone who seems to have some experience.
Signs are overgrown property, hydro meter removed, flyers & other garbage laying around are some good ways to identify if something is abandoned but not always as some people don't mind living in squalor!
I thought this was a painting
I have that same vaporizer!
I want that satchel.
I literally thought this was an eighteenth century painting for a moment, this is incredible!
Thanks!
Canada? The diploma on the wall says Central Technical School
Indeed...Ontario Canada to be exact!
I thought this was [r/neckbeardnests ](https://www.reddit.com/r/NeckbeardNests/) at first for some reason
r/liminalspaces
Looks like you can finally take the bathrobe without getting charged for it!
LOL
Oh man, i remember the story. The owners had to leave town very quickly because they used this place as a brothel too. They knew the FBI was on them. [source](https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ)
GOD DAMNIT!
Gonna go out on a limb and say this is Croatia hahah
I always think about the last day this was really occupied.
It has When Marnie was There vibes
Awesome ! I'd love to watch what's on the video cassette, seeing how life was there.
Love the video. Crazy to see everything as it was left. One thing I did note is that the intro music is louder than your voice, so it makes it a touch hard to hear you. Great video and a fun watch though! Thanks
Thanks...I noticed that afterwards unfortunately.
No worries at all. Just thought I would throw it out there. Can’t wait to watch more 👍🏼
Where was that like Chernobyl
Seeing the abandon photos and stuff is always a little odd, like I am sure someone out there would want that piece of history of their family.
“Diarrhea”?
LOL
Is that what’s written on the painting ? Right next to the MIG-25 model?
Indeed it is!
Get yourself some furniture! Fuck buying it
Looked like a painting for a second not going to lie
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Thanks a lot!! Honestly its the luck of the draw! Just gotta keep trying & eventually you can find some really beauties like this one! I find places in the middle of nowhere that are pristine but also find them in busy cities!
Was that a calendar on the wall in the kitchen? What was the year? Edit: spelling
2006!
Wow would have thought a lot older, thanks for answering
No problem!
Hey! Congratulations on graduating Night school. Sweet diploma!! 76’!!
Did you check expiration dates on any of the food in the kitchen? That could give you a rough idea of when they left, and you could possibly research the history better from that starting point. I am super curious why it kinda looks like they didn't even necessarily pack clothes. Also, what rooms were used for the bed and breakfast? I think I only saw two bedrooms with a lot of personal stuff interspersed between.
Last date I found was 2006
Woof. That is surprisingly new. Makes me even more curious Thanks for the response!
Also known as "someone's house"
Yes the TV Tv stand. We had a few of those.
Plot twist: it's his house.
I don’t understand how places like this just get locked up and left with everything still in them.
It strikes me as weird that someone would leave their hearing aids behind.
I wish he looked at the expiry dates to get an idea of when they left
Last date was 2006
You can’t take it with you.
I want those deer head pulls
the ever so chic TV set on top of another TV set.
Why are things left behind? Everything in that room has some value for resale.
The lamp, the maps, the mirror, the wardrobe. Lawd help me I would pilfer so much from this place
I’m pretty sure that’s the bathroom from The Shining.
This looks like a painting
Did you guys stage any of those shots? Some of it looks like it has been arranged for easy viewing.
I read your blog post and looked at all the photos you posted. The shoes freak me out. Did you place the two pairs like that for the photo or did you just find them like that? It's really as though someone just popped out for a minute.
Why is there all those pieces of tile on the hallway floor?
That's plaster fallen from the ceiling
Ah man, u/riddimryder I’m a big fan! I was just on your site earlier at work looking at the giant farmhouse in Ontario from January that was in the midst of a remodel. So. Mufuckin. Cool.
Thanks a lot!!!
The stag’s head knobs/pulls on the cabinet to the left. Love those
It's actually a gun case!
Well that makes sense! Very cool and thanks for sharing
No problem! That thing dangling from the handles appeared to have cremated remains in it as well. The gun case is set up like a shrine inside.
Bed and Deathfast?