 Hello, thank you for joining me on this lovely summer's day and out for a pleasant walk in the woods in the Surrey Country side And what we're going to do in today's video is we're going to go and look for a very mysterious mausoleum Where bodies have come and gone. Sounds strange doesn't it? That building there is The Chantneheath 74 Tower, which I have just been to. So if you want to see inside that tower because that really is something fascinating and a unique survival, please look at the link on screen now But in this video, we're going deeper into the woods because there really is this very mysterious mausoleum Which I'm very keen to go and find This is quite a pleasant walk across Oakland's common You can hear the birds singing really nice place to be on a hot summer's day like today But the place we're going to is very mysterious and its back story is even stranger Usually the mausoleum is where people are buried and they're laid to rest forever But not this one Some mausoleums usually are quite attractive buildings interesting styles. They can be quite large This one is quite big But it's very odd as to what actually happened with the bodies that have come and gone from this place It was commissioned by a gentleman called Sir Henry Samuelsum. He built it for his father Bernard Samuelsum his mother Caroline and his sister He wanted them to be buried there and the idea was Generations of the family the Samuelsum family would all be laid to rest there Over the coming years things didn't quite work out like that for a start his father mother and sister were already dead And they were buried down in Torquay. Although this was the family estate the father Bernard had spent a lot of time Down in Torquay. He had a steam yacht down there. So he very much liked it down there, but in 1919 this was commissioned by an architect he commissioned an article Mr. Plum to design it and It's got similarities to Montague house, which is a natural truss house in Somerset, which I've not actually been to yet So he got them to design it and they actually moved The bodies of his mother father and sister were dug up from their graves in Torquay They were traveled 170 miles into this Surrey woodland And they were laid into their new home, which is this This is the mausoleum which we've been walking through the woods to see now This is where naturally you'd assume They'll be laid to rest Unfortunately for them things didn't quite work out like that. We're going to go up to the mausoleum So this is the big dome on top as we come into here can't be stairs And so it has This is color stone isn't what you expect to find in Surrey It's more like something you'd see in the Cotswolds or maybe Somerset. It's that kind of orangy color. If we have a look at this here Let me have a look at that So they They were originally buried down in Torquay. They've been moved up here They were buried here downstairs We're going to go and have a look Unfortunately, what happens if we're wondering how on earth are they not here anymore? What could happen? Well They were Moved here in 1920 1960 or early 60s around that time a lady was out for a walk with her dogs in the woodland You know down the path what are you going down there? And she saw two men With a winch coming out from down there. We're gonna have a look down there a minute pulling out a bronze coffin So these they were stealing the coffin Because suppose they wanted to you know for its monetary value they wanted to Set it off for scrap. She phoned the police. Unfortunately, the men got away But luckily they didn't get far because further up the road another police officer spotted this van with a 40 tail line For that's all I'll pull them over and found the bronze coffin, but it's understood It was never returned to here. So I'm not sure if they got away or quite how it happened But sadly it never came back Up into the dome But as for Sir Henry Samuelson He naturally would have been the next person to get buried here when he passed away and you know He'd intended it for future generations of his family, but we're going we're gonna jump back a bit So I mentioned how in the 1960s the people who were buried here Left but before then in the night. I think it was about 1937. So Henry Samuelson eventually passed away He wasn't buried here. He obviously didn't know about the unfortunate future this place had but he In lati years of his life was in ill health and he'd moved down to the Côte d'Azur in France And he and his wife passed away down there. So they were buried down there. So they didn't ever so he You know went against his plan. His plan was for future generations of the family to be buried here He he wasn't and then as I say it was unfortunate. What happened that, you know That the coffin was stolen. Hey, let's go down and have a look. Here's a bit of a Mysterious place. That's so very peaceful. I don't feel like there's anything sinister Yeah, but that's another thing I was going to go on to. So coming to here, this is like a little chapel You can see there's a cross on the floor And there's much more modern brick walls If there is any, there's a coffin still here. They're behind this brick wall. They've been Bricked in. Unfortunately, there has been a bit of vandalism as you can see. In fact, that's interesting I noticed that that's gone. I wonder if that somehow got damaged in when they were trying to pull the coffins out I assume they had gone that way out the door But maybe they were using Some sort of to put a winch around. I don't know. Unfortunately, there is a bit of graffiti and so that's the more modern of the bricks So it wasn't ever the resting place It was meant to be. It's now just you go out for a walk in the woods and it's a curious place to come and have a look at Um, it wasn't quite what they had planned so Yeah, a bit odd. Let's have another look around the outside so you can see Each side underneath the building. That's where Yeah, they would have been Walk around here. I won't go round that side. You can see it's quite overgrown. It's so Odd though. There's just you don't seem to see anyone. That's interesting. Look at this. It's going to appear on the steps See down there He's hold That must be to the air In and out There's another shield here Let's have a look at that one. I'll go over the other side and Have a look So in so I'm not too sure again if anyone knows more about it was there Like sort of a replica of a tomb here. It almost looks a bit kind of ruined not quite As it was intended now you've got you're quite high up up dome And on all four corners. So it's it's effectively it's symmetrical certainly down the middle and then You've got these columns. So you've got eight of these on each Art so just after the aperture of the art got these columns. Unfortunately People have come and vandalized it. You know, I think that's the shame That's the problem. It's in open wood and anyone can come here and it's nice that anyone come here But sometimes the wrong people come here. I think it's a great building It's an interesting story a bit of a sad one a bit of a odd one um but you know It'd be a bit boring if everything had the same thing so Whether there's actually anyone in there now or where we don't look there's some more another it's like an Air circulation see just there see little holes So, yeah, I don't know if there's anybody's in there, but it's very weird I don't feel like I said it doesn't feel like a haunted sort of place There are suggestions that some someone said that witches come here and practice their rituals I don't quite believe that story Some places you go you kind of get that feel about it But here, you know, it's on the edge of a peaceful woodlands Um as for Hatchford park. I'll just that's another interesting bit So when Sir Henry Samuelson sold off the estate This wasn't included in the sale of Hatchford park and it passed on to the local church So it's it's effectively a gravestone. It's just not in the local church anymore. So It's um, yeah, like I say a bit of an unusual story So if you'd like to come and see this it is just be Be aware it's a fair walk to it. You're probably looking at maybe a least a miles walk from where from nearest road So it's it's worth coming to see and as we saw at the beginning of the video I was at the seven four tower If you're staying there, it's a perfect place to come for an evening walk And if you want to go to one there open days, you could also come here like I have done So from this rather unusual mausoleum in the Surrey countryside, thank you very much for watching Please do feel free to like subscribe and comment. Goodbye