All language subtitles for Abandoned.Engineering.S09E09.Ancient.Encounter.1080p.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.H.264-squalor_track3_[eng]

Narrator: A beautiful French
chateau with a grim past.

This castle's glory was born
out of deceit and treachery.

In Kansas City, america,

a gloomy looking structure
once a beacon of hope.

It was a remedy to the racial
injustices that were going on.

An isolated settlement
off the coast of Ireland.

There was no local
doctor, there was no priest

and the government even
refused to install a telephone line.

And an out of this world site in
Turkey built by sheer ingenuity.

A lot of resources were spent
to create these beautiful spaces,

hundreds of feet above ground.

Decaying relics...

..Shadows of lost worlds.

Ruins haunted by the past,

their secrets waiting
to be revealed.

In the heart of
France's loire valley,

to the south west of Paris

is a fairy-tale structure
with a dramatic story to tell.

I feel like I've been sat down in
the middle of the magic kingdom.

It's beautiful and
utterly captivating,

it's like this mix between
ankur watts and Disneyland.

This region is known for
it's sprawling chateaus.

But none look quite like this.

It's not the standard version,

most of them are
very, very symmetrical.

This one is fun, it sits
in the middle of a lake,

a deliberate lake

and it makes the castle
look like it's floating,

it's a really clever
architectural trick.

Yet the days of grandeur
are now a distant memory.

The roof's gone

and there's vegetation crawling
it's way through all the windows

and along all the walls.

But behind this glorious chateau
is a tale of treachery and deceit.

It's owner was labelled a traitor
by France's most notorious king.

But his fall from grace was the
making of this fantastical place.

The loire valley is famed
for it's extravagant castles.

Centuries of aristocratic wealth

meant that opulence
was the norm here.

Here we are in the garden of
France, the climate is perfect,

it's not too dry,
it's not too wet,

it's this wonderful
lush kind of setting.

Why not have a chateau here,

indeed, why not have
many chateau's here?

(Speaks in French)

When romain delaume
first came here in 2017

he was instantly struck
by the majestic charm

of the run down ruin.

Chateau de la mothe-chandeniers

dates back to the 13th century,

a time when powerful kings
and queens ruled the land

and long before the horrors
of a bloody revolution.

(Speaks in French)

Over the years the chateau
has changed hands many times

and so has it's appearance.

It's most notorious owner
was francois de la rochechouart.

He's one of the you know,

great nobles of the
17th century in France.

Quite close to king Louis the
13th, the father of Louis the 14th

and thick as thieves with the
ruling elite in France at the time.

Francois is captain of
the king's bodyguards

so he's responsible for
the royal family's safety

and protection.

But at the start of 1643

the sudden death of the king
sent shockwaves across France.

The death of Louis the 13th
brings about great political unrest,

they're in the middle of
the Franco Spanish war

and a change in
leadership at this moment

is absolutely catastrophic,
turns politics in to turmoil.

The new king, Louis the
14th, was just four years old

so his mother and her
advisors took control.

They soon raised taxes

to cover the escalating cost
of the ongoing war with Spain.

This provokes an uprising in
France of the leading noble families,

the merchant class

and even just ordinary
people in the big cities like Paris

against the regime, rebelling
against these tax demands.

1648 marks the start of
a series of small civil wars

collectively known as the frond.

And during the frond,
rochechouart falls under suspicion

of agitating against
Louis the 14th

and so he's imprisoned by
order of the king for two years.

When he was finally released
francois de rochechouart

now exiled from Louis'
royal court in Paris

retreated to his family's dilapidated
castle here in the loire valley.

Originally built as
a hunting lodge,

fortress, it's been pretty
much disused for two centuries

but he sets about transforming
it in to a renaissance palace.

And to make up for his
dramatic fall from grace,

he creates his own court
to overshadow the king's.

(Speaks in French)

Extravagance and indulgence
were the order of the day.

Everything here is
designed for hosting.

"Come, come experience
this place, here is your room,

"here's the ballroom

"and join us this evening
for this amazing party."

It's all about building alliances
through hosting and fun.

This was a very decadent
period for the nobility.

At the time they'd certainly never
heard of the saying less is more.

This life of luxury
had a high price,

one that the out of
favour de rochechouart

could actually ill afford.

(Speaks in French)

Sadly after it's initial
moment of glory

the castle moves through
different sets of hands

and gradually
falls in to disrepair.

The chateau was left to
rot for another 140 years.

(Speaks in French)

Inspired by the romanticism

of the most beautiful
castles of the loire,

they transformed the
chateau once again.

But in the end a tragic
event led to the destruction

from which it would
never recover.

A devastating fire in 1932
broke out from a new boiler,

destroying huge
parts of the chateau.

(Speaks in French)

The next chapter of the fairy
tale castle is only just beginning.

When romain first came here the
ruin was scheduled for demolition.

He had 80 days to save it.

(Speaks in French)

40,000 people from all over the
world invested in the rescue project.

Now the chateau's doors
are open once again.

(Speaks in French)

You can imagine francois
would be pretty pleased

to know that there's that level
of interest in his pet project.

In central Turkey

is a peculiar looking cliff side

full of strange shapes

and striking rock formations.

This place looks almost
like an alien landscape,

you have these towers of rock,

you have areas that look
almost like sand dunes

with holes in them,

it's a really bizarre
other worldly landscape.

When you get closer

you realise you can actually
get inside these caves,

they were put there deliberately

and there's little
signs of civilisation.

So these caves
were intentionally built

hundreds of feet off the ground.

Some caves hold
clues about their purpose

and several have their
stories painted on the walls.

People clearly put a vast
amount of time and skill

in to beautifying and
decorating these places

even though they really
are in the middle of nowhere.

We're in modern day Turkey
which has an incredibly long history

but also a major
impact on the world.

This is a parched
land, very dry, very hot,

you have to be really
determined if you want to live here.

(Speaks in Turkish)

For the past 20 years

mehmet ekiz has been
documenting the rich history here.

(Speaks in Turkish)

Dwellings like these were
dug in to the rock out of fear.

The caves were simple.

Small shelves
provide places to sleep.

And one room was
dedicated to a new religion.

(Speaks in Turkish)

When these
structures were built,

they were part of the
enormous Roman empire.

In the second century

the Roman empire stretched
from britain to the persian Gulf.

The new religion of
christianity was outlawed.

If you were caught
by a Roman soldier

speaking about your
god and his son Jesus

you could be forced upon pain
of death to renounce your religion,

you could be arrested,

we've all heard stories about
christians being fed to the lions.

As a result of this
brutal treatment,

christians made their way to the
furthest reaches of the Roman empire

but even there
they weren't safe.

(Speaks in Turkish)

If the romans had found
a Christian church like this

in the 2nd century

they would have
raised it to the ground

and they would have had all
the christians inside executed.

But this particular church

was built by none other
than the romans themselves.

Christianity became more
and more mainstream,

by the 4th century
for the first time

a Roman emperor, constantine,
converted to christianity.

The legend says that constantine
was baptised on his death bed,

soon afterwards christianity was
made legal in the Roman empire.

(Speaks in Turkish)

Suddenly the christians in
cappadocia could come out of hiding,

they didn't have to worry about
the Roman soldiers anymore,

they could re-join the
rest of Roman society.

But cappadocia wasn't abandoned.

Instead they dug
further in to the rock.

(Speaks in Turkish)

Much of Roman cappadocia
has been damaged or looted

but one church
has been preserved.

Guano formed a hard
amour over elaborate frescos

preserving them almost as they
were more than 1,000 years ago.

You can see that they spent a
lot of resources on the church,

they used expensive blue pigment
in the painting and even real gold.

After a couple of
centuries of repression

this was a golden
age for christianity.

But 300 years after Rome
made peace with christianity,

cappadocia came under attack
again, but this time from a new direction.

The new force was the
conquering Muslim empire

which had expanded out
of Arabia in all directions.

For 300 years, cappadocia was
caught in a battle between east and west.

During the invasion the
christians went back underground,

some of them literally
dug an underground city

but that's another story.

In the 11th century

an army from a Muslim
people called the seldjuks

marched in to cappadocia.

When the Muslim armies arrived

there was tension
and conflict initially

but the christians
weren't wiped out

and over time the two peoples
grew and lived together in this region.

(Speaks in Turkish)

For the next 800 years,

christians and muslims
lived here peacefully

but in 1915 cappadocian
christians faced persecution again.

In the early 20th century
the Turkish government

under took a murderous campaign
of eradication against christians,

today we call it the
Armenian genocide,

it targeted Greeks and Armenians

both of which were
largely Christian groups.

Many, many thousands
of Greeks and Armenians

were forcibly deported from the
area and most of them were christians,

there were also accounts
of up to 750,000 people

being massacred

but that has always been
denied by the Turkish government.

The Armenian genocide marked
the end of a 1,600 year old story,

no christians have lived in the
caves of cappadocia ever since.

These dwellings
were still in use

several decades in
to the 20th century.

But in the 1960s two people
were killed by falling rocks

and the rest of the
residents were moved.

Today cappadocia is a
unesco world heritage site,

600 churches have
now been documented

with many more still
waiting to be discovered.

In Kansas City, Missouri, usa,

a stone building stands
apart from the Metropolis.

This place sits just on
the outskirts of the city

and you wouldn't
necessarily tell

that something
important happened here.

Most of the windows
are boarded up,

if you happen to be
able to look inside

you see the stripped rooms,

it's clearly been
abandoned for some time.

Inside the building
has been striped bear

but some clues
hint at its history.

Everything's been emptied out,

there are places where
equipment used to be.

The architecture's very basic,

there are no frills here

and usually that might
suggest a government building

or a place that was built in
a hurry for a desperate need.

Without this building
many of the cities' residents

would die unnecessarily.

Historian Gerry Sanders

spent more than five years
piecing together the puzzle here.

To her frustration she hasn't
been able to go inside until now.

It's been closed for 30 years.

I can't even express to
you how emotional I feel

about being inside this
building for the first time.

But it just pains me that there
is just so much, you know,

negativity on the walls
that just says light it up,

like somebody wanted
to burn down this place.

This was once at the centre of a
community called 18th and vine,

it was known as the black mecca.

18th and vine is this historic
district in Kansas City Missouri

and it's formed out
of black migration,

from places in the south,

places in the midwest,

and by the early 1900s, it
has this amazing music scene.

It's a place where jazz thrived

and drew more African
Americans in to the community,

then black culture thrived
and expanded there.

In many cases, places
like 18th and vine,

places like the black
section of Kansas City

really are places where
black people could organise

and feel a little bit safer.

By the 1920s,

more than 30,000
African Americans

lived around 18th and vine.

But even Kansas
City's black mecca

wasn't exempt from the
notorious Jim crow laws.

It comes from an English actor

who used to play to a
song called 'jump Jim crow'

and he would act in black face

and eventually that became
the moniker for segregation.

African Americans were not
allowed to integrate anything,

schools, churches and
my favourite, cemeteries.

I mean like, what would
a dead black person

be able to do to a
dead white person?

Another segregated
institution was healthcare.

Kansas City had
only one hospital

for it's entire population
of black people,

it was called
general hospital two.

General hospital two
was quite literally a hospital

that had served
whites in Kansas City,

and was then left once white
people got a new hospital

that was built for them.

It's in effect a
cast off building

and black people
received cast off care.

For every ten beds
for white citizens,

there were just
three for black people,

but by 1918, attitudes within
18th and vine were changing.

When the black soldiers
came back from world war I,

there was this new
attitude that they portrayed

and it was kind of talked about
as being in the "new negro."

Around 200,000 African Americans
were drafted and sent to fight in Europe.

With hundreds dying
defending their country.

There was a new awareness

of how people
were being treated,

the injustices, inequalities
that were going on.

But while the so called
new negro movement

was demanding political equality

and an end to segregation,

in Kansas City, sick black
patients were going untreated,

the solution to the problem
still stands on 18th and vine.

Erica Brice is restoring
this 100-year-old building.

You see a lot of the
original wood in here,

you see the newer
beams and original beams.

So this is wood
that is so solid,

like literally they do not make
buildings like this anymore,

the cost of a building like
this, I can't even imagine.

When you think you have boards

maybe 1901 well over
a century and a quarter,

you know, over
ago still rocking,

solid you know,

the floors that you see
over there are all original too.

Kansas City had four
hospitals for white citizens,

but the only facility
for African Americans

was an abandoned
formerly white only hospital.

One man decided he was
going to do something about it,

his name was
doctor Edward Perry.

Edward Perry is the
son of former slaves,

he's born in Texas,
he excels academically,

he attends meharry
medical college

which is a black medical
college in Nashville Tennessee

and he becomes a medical doctor.

Perry founded the
wheatley provident hospital.

This hospital was
really filling a void

for black residents of
Kansas City, Missouri.

And it was really
just a bandy at first,

it was a single
two-storey building

that was providing
care to people

who may not have
received care at all

or who are receiving
substandard care.

As I understand, a lot of
these were medical rooms,

either examination rooms
or rooms for patients,

and so this actually building

despite the condition
it looks in right now,

this is the most solid
part of our building or was.

This was not a
cutting edge facility,

they were not operating

at the boundaries
of modern science,

but what they did offer

was a capable and compassionate
service with a bit of dignity.

Gerry Sanders has
collected together stories

from former patients,

including one who was actually
born in wheatley provident.

He said that his mother came
from Saint Louis to give birth to him

because it was kind of
looked upon really badly

that she was a
young unwed mother,

so doctor Perry would
accept all patients

regardless of colour and
regardless of ability to pay.

The wheatley provident hospital

transformed the
standard of medical care

for black people in Kansas City,

but the city's most needy
patients still weren't being treated,

so the hospital
commissioned the construction

of a second building.

Behind this is the
original building

that was the hospital in 1918,

and we've now re-entered
the side that was built in 1924

as part of the model
children's ward.

In 1925, they built a whole new
wing to take care of children's needs,

a paediatric wing.

They called it the mercy ward,

and the mercy ward was
a major game changer,

not only in terms of
offering paediatric care,

but also training for
nurses and doctors.

And so we have a few photos,

we have seen some
ads for some nurses

where they're
looking for nurses,

and you'll see some children
sitting on some beds and what not,

that was in this room,

and so you can kind of imagine
kind of like a nursing station

back here probably some sinks
or something like that and beds.

The remodelled hospital was also
a shining example of social equality.

So you have two
white women, doctors,

this is 1924, 1920s

right, early 1920s,

and you have two
African American doctors

and you have this
organisation that come together

to provide quality health
care for all children.

That level of equality
was revolutionary.

To see the humanity
in each other

and work with
each other like that,

that was actually
pretty revolutionary.

And so what makes
it so special to me.

For 50 years, wheatley
provident hospital

took care of children and adults

in the African American
community here.

But inevitably, it eventually
reached full capacity.

Wheatley hospital could
no longer accommodate

the number of patients
that were coming in,

so in 1972,

they built Martin Luther
King junior memorial hospital.

That same year, wheatley provident
hospital closed its doors for good.

It may sound like a sad
ending for wheatley provident

after it did so much
for the community,

but it plastered over a
major social injustice,

and when that
injustice was corrected,

wheatley provident
graciously retired.

Today, Erika Brice is helping

to restore the wheatley
provident hospital

to make it the centre of
18th and vine once more.

And we do have some
super strong visions

for what happens next,

but it's also critical to us

that this is also
economic generator,

we don't wanna just
be pretty to look at,

we want it to continue
to be a functional source.

And for Erica, this is much
more than simply a job.

This is not for the money,

there's a lot easier
ways to make money,

you do this because you have a
passion for preserving this asset,

and so my nieces and my nephews

and my family members to
come and Kansas citizens to come,

can also participate
in this building.

These institutions
like wheatley provident

that were born out of
segregation in many regards

where the activism done
to dismantle segregation,

many of these institutions
became temporary,

but they served a
tremendous service.

These were
institutions that served

a crying need and
were game changers.

Off the west coast of Ireland,

a marooned outpost bears
traces of a Hardy people.

You can look out to the sea

and in the distance, you
see a rugged looking Ireland.

Out here you were completely
alone with nothing but your face.

Dilapidated, weather worn
buildings hug the landscape.

Roofs and walls are
crumbling and collapsing in,

there's slate and
timber all over the floor,

they're in complete disrepair,

and surely have not been
lived in for many years.

There are few hints
about what went on here.

A small defunct pier,

shows us some of the things

that the people must have
done in their daily lives,

but it's out there
with the ocean

and showing that every day danger
that they must have faced as well.

But there was something much
more mystical about this place.

If you look beneath
the crumbling rocks,

you'll see centuries
of history revealed.

But what was this place?

Was it an ancient
Roman mining town?

Was it the remote fortress
of some band of knights?

Was it the kingdom of
some obscure Irish prince?

What tragedy left this
tiny place deserted?

Situated five miles out
in the Atlantic ocean,

this is inishark.

Getting to the
island is difficult.

There's no natural harbour.

There's a pier there

that was badly
damaged with storms

and never got any
repairs done to it.

Local archaeologist Tommy
Burke has been fascinated

by the islands ghostly houses
since he first came here as a child.

It was actually quite eerie.

All the houses
were in disrepair,

but some of them still had a
lot of evidence of habitation,

you could still see the different
coloured paint on the wall.

Walking around, you felt you were
intruding on somebody else's life.

Tommy knew that a tough
community still lived here

during the first half
of the 20th century,

so he set about searching
for former members.

75-year-old Martin Murray

was born and raised on inishark,

and he remembers a frugal
childhood in his family home.

This is the kitchen of the
house here now, you know,

and that's the fireplace,

and that's where all
the cooking was done.

And the table was here,
chairs and everything.

We all sat around and that's where
we all had our meals and all that.

This is the room that I slept
in and my bed, I'll never forget,

used to be over here,
going that way, you know.

There used to be a
mantelpiece across there,

and we also had an
open fireplace in the room.

But what drew families
like Martin's to these shores?

Inishark's glorious isolation

has attracted religious pilgrims
for more than 1,000 years.

The land was both
a humble sanctuary

and a cultural vanguard

that attracted people
from around the world.

Holy men who came here

felt that they
were closer to god

than those at the
centre of civilisation.

Archaeologists like Tommy
believe that a Christian community

was established here as
early as the 6th century.

Those here devoted their
lives to contemplation and prayer

in these tiny stone built
cells known as clochans.

This is the beehive,
the clochan,

and it's the main
surviving feature

of this period of the
Christian community.

Originally, it was a place

where the monks or the priests
would have read their prayers,

would have read the gospels.

Clochan Leo, as it's known,

would once have had a
special conical stone roof,

kind of beehive shaped,

it was a secluded oratory
for private devotions.

Although this is all that remains
of the clochans of inishark,

it's clear to see
that everything here

was part of an important
religious ceremony.

Clochan Leo is believed to be

the last in a 14
station pilgrimage

on the island representing
Jesus' last walk.

The pilgrims would do
circuits and stop and pray

and say rosaries and spend a
day in prayer and in pilgrimage.

Following in the
pilgrims footsteps,

Tommy finds further evidence
of their life of devotion and faith.

Another station
is a blonde stone,

a common feature
of Irish monastic sites.

The circular
depression at the top

is often said to be the
imprint of a saints body,

and the islanders believed that

the water that collected there

could cure all manner
of minor ailments.

Over the centuries,
pilgrims came and went,

and in time the
settlement of inishark grew.

We know from around
the mid-1700s onwards,

there was a permanent
settlement here.

They worked very hard,

many of them were fishers

and they were well known
as being these great rowers,

sometimes they would
even row out seven miles

to some better fishing grounds.

There was a period
in the 19th century

that Ireland became quite
a coveted place to live.

There were very
rich fishing waters,

the agriculture of
land was pretty good,

and people came
in certain numbers.

A chapel was built here in 1894,

and a school in 1898,

and for this isolated
sparsely populated area,

this was a real building boom.

But despite the
growing infrastructure,

much still had to
be rowed across

from the neighbouring
island of baffin.

One essential
import was a priest.

Once a month, a priest would be
rowed across the water to inishark.

Martin Murray recalls his
visits to inishark's quirky chapel.

I remember my mother,

she'd be polishing our shoes,
she'd be ironing our shirts,

she'd be fixing us all and making
us proper for mass on a Sunday.

As you look at
the chapel though,

it feels as if there's
something missing

and it's not just the roof,

for a place of worship,
there's nowhere to sit.

The women would have had to bring
their own wooden three legged stools

while the men would have
just lined up against the walls.

But the priest only
came once a month,

so inishark's more
devote residents

made the perilous boat journey
to baffin for weekly worship.

Life here was incredibly tough,

you were really
exposed to the elements,

so the people would have had
to face the harsh unceasing winds

and the driving rain that
came in on the Atlantic storms.

Eventually, the treacherous
seas around inishark

claimed their victims.

On easter Sunday 1949,
the weather was severe,

a Gale was blowing and
the currents were strong.

Most residents decided
it was too dangerous

to cross to the next
island to go to church,

but two brothers and a cousin
decided they would have a go.

The three men
successfully made it to baffin,

but the storm had worsened
by the time they returned.

As they were leaving and
coming back, the ocean got them.

I remember seeing
all the people crying

and it was a terrible
loss to the village,

three young men
in their prime of life,

getting drowned and only
one of them was found.

The awful event struck fear
in to the people of inishark.

There was no local doctor,

there was no priest,

and the government even
refused to install a telephone line.

In 1958, tragedy
hit the island again.

One man fell drastically ill

when the weather was
too bad to launch the boats,

cut off and with no telephone,

the islanders lit a bonfire

to alert their neighbours
on the island of baffin

that they needed help, but
their signal went unnoticed.

Trapped on inishark, the
man's prospects looked bleak.

I remember them talking
about it the next day.

And then they discovered
that this poor man had died.

No doctors could get to him

and worse in the minds of
many of the people of inishark,

no priest could get to him

to give him his last rites,

and this was a kind of final straw
for many of the people on inishark.

The island's population
quickly dwindled,

and two years later,

the government relocated

the remaining 23
inhabitants to the mainland.

And the entire remaining
population of inishark

departed with one exception.

Thomas Lacey, the father
of two of the three boys

that had drowned in
1949, refused to leave.

And Thomas sets his
table for one last dinner

and he sets out three plates.

One for himself and one
each for his missing boys.

He has his dinner, he prays,

and the next morning
when the priest comes,

Thomas gets on the boat
and leaves inishark for good.

The rocky isle will
always hold pride of place

in Ireland's spiritual history.

It is important
in its own right.

It's part of the stitches that
make up the whole tapestry.

The loss of community

was a loss to the whole
culture of the coast as well.

The island of inishark
symbolises joy,

symbolises tragedy,

but fits itself in this
great museum of Ireland.

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