Whatever happened to the people living there? Were they kidnapped by aliens ? Looks like they simply vanished, leaving beds unmade and dishes on the table. Weird.

While nostalgic and artistic it looks very staged to me.

Abandoned or not, going in to a property that you are not asked to or isn't yours is so wrong...I guess I'm just 'old fashioned'

... And here's the land patent - Swallow-Fa...3cd9a1.jpg

If there is a heritage problem and one of the siblings does not want to sell, some houses can sit like this for a very long time before anything can be done. There were a lot of them in the Brittany countryside around my grandmother's village. The furniture is quite pretty but also very standard for a turn of the century household, and today it has almost no market value so people probably just left it there instead if having to deal with moving it.

Oh I'd love to explore that! I've always wanted to explore old abandoned buildings..

Nice pics ! there's a sh*t ton of abandoned manoirs, houses, farms, villas and even chateaux abandoned in France.

The pictures look like the inhabitants just up and left. I do hope this in not a war story, where they were kidnapped, arrested, shot, etc. But it is strange that the house was left to rot. Was no one left who felt responsible for a decomposing house?

I'm pretty sure they didn't have electricity, television, or incandescent light bulbs "several hundred years" ago.