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For a month and the videos published by youtubers followers of urbex, a building with extraordinary architecture, lost in the middle of nowhere, attracts visitors. Behind the rumors of rituals and the clichés of Freemasons, the work of a life of a man, a doctor, who died at the end of the summer.
Elbows resting on his gate, a neighbor admits recent weeks “intense”. The man, solid body and voice, remains on the lookout day and night. He saw prowling “three vehicles” the other night, then a “pretty weird van”. The latter has “turns around full blind” when he hailed it. The gendarmes themselves parade, come to see the degradations undertaken to enter the building opposite his home. For a month now, this house in Trébons, in the Hautes-Pyreneeshas become a machine for laying the most morbid fantasies.
At the beginning of December, two youtubers who practice urbex, urban exploration and the discovery of places deemed abandoned, upload videos of the house. They film themselves there, discover underground rooms, find esoteric writings, documents freemasons, a study room – where part of the Masonic initiation process takes place – medical instruments. Also, a skeleton of human appearance and, at the far end, in an immense room, an altar with columns and a checkerboard, surrounded by a white circle.
JoUrbex and Adrien Urbex, the two youtubers,