An urban explorer has been left stunned after he found a secret stash of luxury items inside a £10,500,000 abandoned mansion.
The 27,000 sq foot property was built by a local surgeon in the northeastern United States before he tragically died along with his 15-year-old son in a plane crash.
Expensive goods left inside include an unopened £10,000 designer shoe collection left behind since 2016 and luxury cars worth £80,000 left to rust.
One image taken by 34-year-old filmmaker and photographer JeremyExplores shows a vintage Mercedes Benz and a Volkswagen Bug, while in another haunting shot a shoe collection including Nike Air Max, Chanel and Christian Louboutin can be seen still in their dust covered boxes.
The mansion's former owner left behind a wife and three other children following the accident - but he had not been paying the premiums on his life insurance, meaning she lost the house and all financial support.
There was still £8million owed on the mansion. and the mortgage was £50,000 a month.
Within three months of the surgeon's death the bank seized the property, and it has been left to the elements ever since.
Now completely empty other than during occasional visits by a homeless person who was overheard by Jeremy during his 11-hour filming session, it provided a perfect yet melancholic scene for the curious urban explorer to capture.
Recalling his journey through the vast property, Jeremy said: "I remember the house being so reverberant as the sound of my footsteps echoed throughout the halls like I was in a temple. The smell of each room was different.
"Some had a pungent scent of perfume and soap while others were musty and even stunk of dead rodents. The lighting inside the white marble home bounced off every surface evenly and gave it a satisfying glow throughout each room.
"It makes no sense to me why these things were left behind as they could have easily been packed up and transported out of the home whenever the family left.
But he says that as the exploration went on his sense of excitement "shifted into a feeling of sadness and reverence" for the family who had "lived there and ended up losing everything."
Describing the house as a "memorial of the life and the love that once dwelled there", he said it was also an "excellent example" of the "waste that people produce and the amount of resources that are abandoned every day."
"People generally have the same reaction as I did when I first discovered this mega mansion - they respond in absolute amazement and at the same time, sadness for the family and the home that has begun to be consumed by nature.
“It’s beautiful to see people respond with such empathy for the family and shock at the amount of waste of such an amazing home with so much valuables left inside.", he said.
Jeremy also revealed that some have doubted his story, suggesting that the photographs are in fact staged or the story fabricated.
But he concluded these people are simply in denial - and cannot "wrap their mind around the sad reality" that even the most lavish of lifestyles can be suddenly lost forever.
