I dont dare to imagine how the blind brother must have suffered, hearing the crashing of rubble bury his brother, the silent when he calls to him and not being able to help even when being just a few feet away...

@pooslide1333

3 жыл бұрын

Ikr thats freaking scary and sad, I cant imagine his fear and desperation

@daerdevvyl4314

3 жыл бұрын

And he couldn’t get out because of a combination of being blind, having severe arthritis, the house is a maze, and traps everywhere. And no phone, and of course it’s long before the internet. There’s literally nothing he could do except hope someone came to save him.

@autistic.drones

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah that’s pretty sad

@gokuxsephiroth4505

Жыл бұрын

That is genuinely one of the scariest things I can imagine.

@pantsenfuego9986

Жыл бұрын

Never mind the suffering of the person WHO WAS ACTUALLY BURIED ALIVE

It seems to me that the hording was not the key problem. It's the most obvious problem, but each major escalation in the story seems to be triggered by people invading and/or attacking the home, leading to an increased paranoia and further isolation from the outside.

@KittyGamingtheBestYoutuber

3 жыл бұрын

yes

@kanamekiyru

2 жыл бұрын

Ya. Should've left them alone or try a different approach

@BigRhys02

2 жыл бұрын

Mo money mo problems

@mikajen9126

2 жыл бұрын

Well, yes. That's how hoarding kind of sets in. It isn't a condition in itself, but rather a symptom of untreated trauma(s) a person faces. It's another unhealthy defensive/coping mechanism

@LikaLaruku

2 жыл бұрын

It's like a bad chain reaction. Parents separate - Mom teaches them to be recluses - Parent dies - Quitting job & working from home - Pride in wanting to play doctor - reliance on antiquated medical books at a time medical science was advancing - Stress from the Great Depression - Disgust at the rapid societal changes between the Edwardian period & the Jazz era - Living off the grid & shirking bills for long periods of time - Lack of communication with the outside world leading to rumors - & this is where the break-ins & rocks through windows finally come in to play.

The man loved his brother so much he gave up his entire life to help him.

@martiddy

3 жыл бұрын

Ironically, he would have help his brother way more if he wasn't that paranoic and let him see a doctor.

@MrPUNK309

3 жыл бұрын

@@martiddy it didn’t sound like he made that choice him self. It sounded like they were afraid a doctor would do more harm than good. At the end it sounded selfish but he handled it the same way as they had before.

@KD6-3005

3 жыл бұрын

@@MrPUNK309 in that era... I dont blame him..

@based_prophet

3 жыл бұрын

Like God n jesus

@Wtfinc

3 жыл бұрын

These are all really good opinions and I think work quite well together. Obviously the issue is as difficult to navigate as the Collyer Brother's house but we don't have to settle on one definitive answer. Sorry, the idea has been on my mind, because kids.

So the brother was just sitting there, Immobile. Slowly starving to death while his brothers corpse slowly decomposed , releasing a fowl stench. All the while listening to the rats eating away. Blind and immobilized.

@berenodabasi30

3 жыл бұрын

That’s .. I don’t even know an adjective sad enough to describe it

@doodlewing6840

3 жыл бұрын

@@berenodabasi30 idk either.. my best guess would be depressing... like major depressing..

@Hamzter1234

3 жыл бұрын

@@doodlewing6840 yeah it would be kind of a understatement

@doodlewing6840

3 жыл бұрын

@@Hamzter1234 just a bit.

@olomarcakes

2 жыл бұрын

@@doodlewing6840 its extremely morbid, terrifying and depressing. I litteraly think there is no adjective to demonstrate the full realization of the situation

Yeah this is just a sad one. Basically two kids that have lost everything they cared about tried to stay positive and be a good influence on their community and then one got sick and they decided to hunker down where they felt safe. You could make an emotionally brutal movie or mini series based on these guys.

@TheBizzle1984

2 жыл бұрын

It's a lot like Grey Gardens.

@Plaksa2004

Жыл бұрын

I understood that they had money, why didn`t they just buy a small house in the other community where ppl are different and say tp everyone, that there`s no more money? Like we spent it all or donated..

Thats sad... if it weren't for those traps set to ward off people who kept trying to break in. this wouldn't have ended like that...

@somedudethatripsplanetinha4221

3 жыл бұрын

well if those freaking rumors didnt get spread it wouldnt have ended like that

@Solesteam

3 жыл бұрын

@@somedudethatripsplanetinha4221 Yep

@Saurophaganax1931

3 жыл бұрын

@@Solesteam considering the state of their living conditions, I don’t think their story was going to have a happy ending either way. If it wasn’t the traps, it’d have been something else.

@zarynt1089

3 жыл бұрын

@@Saurophaganax1931 Like the Gmork...traps won't work on the Gmork. Or the Grimace...

@Solesteam

3 жыл бұрын

@@Saurophaganax1931 Yess but it wouldn't have ended specifically like that, it probably would've been sickness or something else that kills them tragically

“A story of one of New York City’s prestigious families whose prestige eroded over the years and eventually ended in tragedy” Sounds like my grades when I was going from middle school to high school

@firstnamelastnamethirdname

3 жыл бұрын

Nice Marisa Pfp friend. Also i agree with you

@youngengineer6697

3 жыл бұрын

Just wait till college, it only gets worse

@muffinman8018

3 жыл бұрын

Mine too

@falcon1378

3 жыл бұрын

Bro you gotta get those honors classes fr fr. And that sheet is hard. I’m lucky I survived 9th grade.

@DPJDoesThings

3 жыл бұрын

i dont mean to laugh but i do

That brother had some mad dedication when you think about it.

@Broockle

3 жыл бұрын

ye but ultimately made some really bad decisions.

@spd5871

3 жыл бұрын

@@Broockle agreed

brews voice is just like so full of emotions but also monotone (two contradictory words, i know)

@aaronsmith610

3 жыл бұрын

Yet quiz is like nails on a chalk board times a million

@kristacs6942

3 жыл бұрын

@@aaronsmith610 LOL its nice having another female on their team though

@BoredSai95

3 жыл бұрын

:0

@milestone1719

3 жыл бұрын

@@kristacs6942 funny story: When I watched Brew for the first time I thought Chill was a female.

@shoty_x1693

3 жыл бұрын

@@milestone1719 same

Can we just take a second to talk about how they took apart there car so the car could also be inside the house, that's a whole new level of hoarding I didn't know excited

@101Volts

2 жыл бұрын

@Captainzilla418 Quite. A Model T is not very big, either. It's not like they assembled an F150 in the living room.

@101Volts

Жыл бұрын

@Captainzilla418 I saw that. I was backing up your words.

what a sad way to end a life. Mere feet away from your brother that took care of you for years, unable to help or even see him.

I like how brew casually talked about how their parents were cousins

@georgiykireev9678

3 жыл бұрын

This kind of stuff was surprisingly common back in the day. In fact, it was considered normal until a couple decades ago. People weren't really aware of the risk of genetic defects that comes with it

@emmadobbins694

3 жыл бұрын

@@georgiykireev9678 yeah, absolutely. I think some religious groups still opt for first cousin marriages?

@pseudonym711

3 жыл бұрын

@@georgiykireev9678 Actually, contrary to popular belief, first cousins don't pass on a greater risk of genetic defects to their children

@amandabushore7890

3 жыл бұрын

@@pseudonym711 The risk is double than unrelated couples. Not too bad of chances still since the rate of congenital anomalies is 2-3% in unrelated couples

@jackswan3420

3 жыл бұрын

A part of me kind of bets that might have had a helping hand in the brothers' issues.

These poor brothers. Give them not your disgust or your pity. Pray for these brothers. That lived in a time where medical science was still young and people where less understanding of mental illness. One thing for sure is these brothers loved each other. And that's what matters in the end. God rest their souls.

@funnyanimalsandgaming9995

3 жыл бұрын

Yes

@kommandantgalileo

3 жыл бұрын

indeed

@funnyanimalsandgaming9995

3 жыл бұрын

@@polocatfan yea I don’t know what I’m talking about

@cobbleindistries

3 жыл бұрын

our understanding of mental health is barely any better now, but i do agree that it's more a failure of the system than anything else

@gojistopmotionguy8171

3 жыл бұрын

yes

I can't even imagine having to hear your brother's final moments, and not be able to do anything to help him at all, even when you're sat only mere feet away.

It's not because they had some sanity disease. It's because people kept trying to rob and attack them, in their home, they had no safe place to even eat and sleep, terrified to go out and be assaulted, while even journals lied about them and made them targets. They didn't do it to themselves. People in society did it to them. Forced them to made traps out of garbage to prevent assault and lived in constant terror until their body fell apart, and they died too scared to call for help. Shame on you society, you're still doing it.

@maidenless1156

3 жыл бұрын

It’s called the Dr. Phill show. People enjoy making spectacles of undesirable people just so they can pity, point and laugh, and sit there and feel like a better person thinking “Gee thankfully my life isn’t that bad!”

@therealbuba

3 жыл бұрын

They were hoarders, society didn’t do that to them, they did it to themselves.

@olomarcakes

2 жыл бұрын

@@therealbuba thats not really true cuz from the actions of individuals accusing them and causing social problems that are hard to fully comprehend unless you where living through that situation, they could have developed mental disorders and gone insane while suffering an intense traumatic experience, to the point of insanity and setting traps for people robbing them. And then you also have medicine from back then which not to say it was completely useless but compared to medicine nowadays it's pretty trash

@kheymaurasweat2840

2 жыл бұрын

@@therealbuba ig you didn’t watch the video

@nikkicas260

Жыл бұрын

@@therealbuba thank you, like for real their father was a DOCTOR! You mean to tell me his brother refused to get a doctors appointment for his brother once he realized not taking medication isn’t helping his situation. This was pride and stupidity

I've been trying to figure it out, and I think I finally know why your drawings of real people feel off to me. You try to draw them realistically, but to make them more cartoonish and stylized, you leave the noses off. For me, the amount of effort you put into the rest of the face is what puts them solidly in the uncanny valley

@crabinijig8403

3 жыл бұрын

irs a commitment

@emero.a.scythe1786

3 жыл бұрын

I personally, just think they're cute, but I understand why you feel that way about it.

@frozenjune83

3 жыл бұрын

I've noticed this so long ago. And I agree with you. I've been trying to tell him to PLEASE draw even just a tiny nose line!

@sprigganpanda

3 жыл бұрын

@@frozenjune83 it's so uncanny and weird to look at with no noses but i kinda like the charm to the style

@simonbouma2434

3 жыл бұрын

Had the same revelation last video

I have to say that the collyer brothers sounded really cool. Setting traps, being frugal, reading so many books, caring for each other. So much stuff. They had a complex life, and I think that's the last thing you should take away from this. You're just not supposed to know about other's lives when they get this complex. Only they could know.

@CosplayDreams16

Ай бұрын

The library with 15,000 medical books intrigued me a lot. I would have LOVED to read all those books.

Respect to the brother for taking care of his other brother.

Can you please give the little guy in the Aquarium a treat 🥺

@TwilightPrincessFR

3 жыл бұрын

Bean deserves a treat♡ he is always so happy

I'm just gonna go ahead and applaud this video in advance.

Thank you so much for the captions!! I'm hard of hearing and have a processing disorder. It's so rare to find proper captions on the videos I enjoy, so I cant thank you enough

@yourlocaldemon2195

3 жыл бұрын

same! I can’t listen to anything without mishearing atleast 5 words, so this was nice.

me: "my room is dirty" *sees video* "ok maybe it can wait another month"

@thecorrurtion215

3 жыл бұрын

Lol

Both Chill and Brew uploaded today, just waiting for Spill and Grill.

@zyansheep

3 жыл бұрын

Chill second upload POG

The main point of the story is the ostracization built upon by public pressure and rumor, and misguided compassion turned to hoarding. But sure, use the lesson to strike fear into your kids about hoarding stuff, that's fine too I guess.

@anon123214

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheresaTV1 Rampant Intuitiveness is also a mental disorder.

@FreespeechUnite

Жыл бұрын

That’s they’re fault

@anon123214

Жыл бұрын

@@FreespeechUnite Fault wasn't argued, that's still missing the point.

Hoarding was a staple in my family until we took it upon ourselves to not keep stuff we know we won't touch anymore. Our major problem was from the fear of potentially needing certain items and overall sentimental value, especially because we didn't have options to give our old stuff to collector sellers in the past.

Failed a class, but Brew uploaded so the day is better Edit: I'm retaking it again this summer

@noahtheboa7605

3 жыл бұрын

theres always next year bro

@Marshmallow_Embers

3 жыл бұрын

Let bear cheer you up ʕっ•ᴥ•ʔっ

@alixcanotas5644

3 жыл бұрын

You'll get it next year

@Jenkinsfromsfh

3 жыл бұрын

F

@BoredSai95

3 жыл бұрын

good luck on enrichment classes, then

Ouch, that's tragic. I'm introverted and have hoarding tendencies, and... in general I can really relate to the story you've shared this time.

So, glad Brew has someone equally excited in his stories as he is.

Down the rabbit hole did a super deep dive of this if ya wanna hear more about these guys

@josephiroth89

3 жыл бұрын

Was going to say something similar.

@swin1640

3 жыл бұрын

Fredrik Knudsen

This is both dark but beautiful.

I like that Brew talks about whatever stories interests him; they’re all cool.

Its a bit ironic if he hadn't hoarded all these items him and his brother would have lived

@skye387

3 жыл бұрын

@@FOXEVY Probably would still happen given time with how awful the condition of the building was and how the items keeps adding on.

Interesting that you're mentioning down the rabbit hole. They taught me so much about mice experiments and the history of computers chess... It's always interesting whenever one KZreadr one watches cites another KZreadr they watch.

The love and compassion they've shown for their family is just so beautiful it's sad

finally I remembered how to disable blured screen I wiped my eyes with tissue

This explains the movies about old people's houses stuffed with cash and insane traps placed everywhere.

See? Chill and Grill didn't go anywhere. They're just taking a break!

Watching this when I’m in my bedroom I can barely even walk through (I’m looking for something because I can’t find it and my room is normally better)

10:28 "The tale differs based on the retelling, but one thing remains the same, there he saw the *emancipated* Homer Collyer," Yeah, I'm gonna just guess that what you meant to say was "emaciated," unless somehow being blind and crippled constitutes legal freedom of self... which given his absolute dependence on his brother I would say his situation is the exact opposite of emancipation.

@RamadaArtist

3 жыл бұрын

11:30 okay but you used it correctly here for some reason?

I’ve always loved this story as far as a learning experience despite the unfortunate and sad nature of it. It truly is an example of what can happen when people have money, a disorder, time, and no resources for help. Shame kept them from reaching out, and no one would have dared engage... lessons can be learned from this for sure.

@StoryMing

3 жыл бұрын

But *will* they be...?

@smilesfordays

3 жыл бұрын

@@StoryMing some will some won’t. Who knows? Maybe we’re all in purgatory doomed to repeat the same mistakes until we individually find our way out. Who can say?

I know an old lady who lives like this. Her home is a maze with boxes and junk on either side of a narrow path. She sleeps atop a mound of old clothes and newspapers..

Chill and Grill are the MOST adorable ever.

Bean just floating in the background while Brew talks about people dying

Im a simple man i see a brew upload, i click

5:34 Was definitely not expecting that reference.

my mom had a room full of trash amd my sister wanted her own bedroom so i started taking her trash out and she got really angry at me, i cleaned that room anyway cuz sometimes dust from that room would come to my bedroom

Hey, I was just watching an older video wondering when you'd post another video. Great timing 👍🏻

I really like how you've made a few videos about hoarding. I'm not a chronic hoarder but I do hoard things a lot and well I've been doing it less now.

I think the fact that after their father died Homer and Langley took all his possessions and stuffed them into the house speaks volumes. Even taking apart the Model T. They didn't sell or donate items they didn't need, including 15,000 medical books. Maybe they missed their father so much that they could not let go. And it snowballed as the years went by and they accumulated more items. Langley never gave up hope that Homer would get his vision back. So he kept buying newspapers. It's amazing that the house never caught on fire with all those papers and books.

It's rather tragic. Instead of dying of natural things such as old age. They died from their own actions. To themselves they probably were fine living as they were. A shame, really.

I can't ever see the word "Manhunt" normally again.. **Dream manhunt music**

@rezanova420

3 жыл бұрын

DUDUDUDU

@idioticmax6035

3 жыл бұрын

DUDUDUDU

@jayswtnap

3 жыл бұрын

DUDUDUDU

@Kajionn

3 жыл бұрын

DUDUDUDU

@protomedia8325

3 жыл бұрын

Du.....du...... ima end the chain

Gonna be amazing, as always!

The just seem to be very caring people and can't seem to let go of the past who got harrased by people :(

so no one talks about the brotherhood, he took care of his brother for so many years. Their situation created by the greed of the same humans that lived in the area.

Hey Brew it's really good to see you, Grill and Chill.

Not many story-telling KZreadrs do visuals like this and I love it. Earned my sub for sure

Hoarder’s aren’t “disgusting” they have a severe mental health disorder. It can be really heartbreaking/tragic

Apart from the extreme hoarding brothers story, I think this episode is really sweet... I love the thought that Chill and Grill would just wait Brew out whenever he's doing a dark episode 😂 and the way Chill scoots away to make room for Grill when he enters the room is such a cute detail!

Ty for the context at the end. Hoarding is extremely stigmatized but often is a symptom of other mental health issues. Also hugs for any one who needs or wants them, whether you have mental health conditions or just need a hug

Man... Those brothers seemed to be being attacked from the inside and out. The hoarding was for sure an issue, and I reckon grief and paranoia as well, but with how the outside treated them, I'm not surprised at all how they acted. A sad story all around.

Not sure if anyone said, but the word you actually mean at around 10:33 is "emaciated", not "emancipated". Emaciated means skeleton-thin, and emancipated basically means liberated or freed.

Was starting to think Grill and Chill had died somewhere too until the last minute of this episode.

Great work. Big fan

I remember reading about them about 30 years ago. Such a sad yet fascinating story.

This is kind of like what my grandfather went through. He was an Army mechanic, Master Mechanic of Toyota cars, and a hobbyist munitions loader before he died. My grandmother helped recycle objects in their backyard before she died. When that happened, he basically lost his mind, and began collecting junk to turn into munitions or to sell off the scrap. The backyard basically became a scrapyard: both the old garage and the house were packed. Thankfully not to the extent these two brothers put themselves into, but enough to know that animal dander and sawdust was present and pathways were being made in the basement, some areas completely closed off. But to wrap this up: the Age of Convenience is frightening. It can change people, and it makes me want to get rid of stuff that more easily.

I drew fanart of brew hoarding boxes and boxes of coffee beans and it fits perfectly with this vid

@aaronsmith610

3 жыл бұрын

Would you do a commission of quiz dead?

@yu-jr6bk

3 жыл бұрын

@@aaronsmith610 I don’t do commissions and idk what that is

Love the night at the Roxbury walk!! Nice touch

You guys make great videos.

A published archive of those rabbit holes would be a gold mine Please make that public owo

Wish I had some coffee right now Thanks Brew!

loved the pkmn layout and theme absolutely brilliant !

Brew buddy you got to release more often. We miss you!

Your videos butter my biscuits thank you

But like am I the only one who kinda wishes I had that many classical and vintage books?

God… I’ve lived in NYC for the last 6 years, including on Roosevelt Island, briefly. Even went to school in Harlem and was accepted into City College. Yet… I had never heard about these brothers. What a heartbreaking story. Happy to be able to say I struggled with my mental health in NYC, and recovered in NYC due to the high quality mental healthcare that’s available here now.

Last time I had this story told to me, it all started with a didgeridoo and a way more menacing aura

My cousin Brianna is a hoarder. It’s gotten so bad that she abandoned her room and now sleeps with my aunt. She’s twenty-five and is the one responsible for making my eternal cosplay real last year (she’s a hairstylist who just graduated

So sad. Especially because I'm just one bad day away from becoming a hoarder too.

1:47 Calm, happy steel drum music is playing in the back Brew: And his sister tragically died

Uh I like that we've slipped over the fact that they got a WHOLE MODEL T FORD into a BROWNSTONE

Wasnt there a story of a mother that was a hoarder that her son had died in her attic? I forgot how the body was finally found but the mother had said her son came and gone as he pleased and no one thought much of his absence..

First heard about these two from Down the Rabbit Hole, which you mentioned at around 2:50-3:00. So I thought it interesting you used him as a source. Hee! ^-^

3:19 this bad boy has a template from a old meme rated 1 out of 10 rarely seen today

I want more 8bit👾oldschool retellings- that was wonderful🥰👏

I knew who this was going to be about before even watching the video. Thanks, Fredrick Knudson and Down the Rabbit Hole!

My mom always talked about how her mother talked about how her mother talked about these guys.

3:15 **slaps piano roof** this bad boy can play even the classics with no problem!

Literally they would’ve been semi-okay if only people weren’t so fricken nosy and left them alone and didn’t try to break in and get all up in their business further feeding the younger brother’s paranoia. Truly a whole set of unfortunate events lead them to such a sad demise.

Brew, this is the second time you mentioned death and hoarders in the same video.

A true love between brothers. Sad how they ended

That Ace Attorney reference made me laugh way too hard.

This teaches me proper trash disposal and a few principles in the usage of materials. Just don't keep it where you live, reuse as much as you would use, or throw them out properly.

2:45 you can't just drop a reference like that one just like that

@alejandropetit6573

3 жыл бұрын

3:18 again

I feel sorry for them, especially the one who was left to starve after his brother passed

Love the phoenix wright reference lol 👍

These brothers loved each other, through thick and thin. May god bless their soul. It’s horrible that this happened to them.

Well they seem to be one of the best brothers in the history, they gave up their life for each other. But apparently they took really bad decisions :( They were also victims to other people's greed

it is phisically impossible for anyone to have finished the video rn

@DiscreetLuka

3 жыл бұрын

Not if I skip to the end

@catelynh1020

3 жыл бұрын

"Finished" is a relative term. You can finish any time when you are done watching, whether it's a second in or when you see the replay/next video button

I can’t help but feel pain for those brothers I understand how important family is.

I honestly think I’ve heard of those two but your explanation is way more interesting