Vad hände med Ställdalen?

In the small town of Ställdalen in Sweden, there is a hotel and a few apartment buildings containing a grocery store, a hairdresser and a pizzeria. But what makes it different from other small towns is that all these houses are empty and abandoned. Ställdalen is a ghost town. Just like so many other old mill towns, Ställdalen has been depopulated, from having had about 1,500 inhabitants at the most in the 60s, it is now down to about a third of that. The service that used to exist in the village has now disappeared. During the refugee crisis, the hotel and parts of the apartment buildings were used as refugee housing, but since then only a few apartments have been inhabited, until recently when no one is left. Some of them have left their stuff behind. But that's not the whole story. This story is also about Tino Bessou, a 58-year-old trickster who, among other things, was named Sweden's worst landlord by the newspaper Hem & Hyra. In addition to Ställdalen, Tino Bessou has destroyed properties in, among other places, Gräfsnäs and in Tidan outside Skövde, where he himself lives. A few years ago, one of his properties in Ludvika became nationally famous after an unfixed water leak led to a giant icicle of over a ton, and the area had to be cordoned off due to danger to the public. The abandoned bathhouse in the Gillersklack ski resort that I went to in another video also turned out to be Tino's work. In Ställdalen, the electricity was turned off after the landlord did not pay the bills. He also turned off the central heating, and gave hte tenants small portable radiators instead. At least some of the tenants, others had to buy their own. In the empty apartments, the water pipes froze. Water leaks led to moisture damage and mold and uninhabitable apartments, and when they were empty without guards or locks, it wasn't long before copper thieves came and looted the place. Two years ago, during the pandemic, there were still people living in the house. The pizzeria and grocery store had been closed for a long time. Today there is no sign of life at all there, apart from being frequented by the likes of me, and maybe the occasional looter. When I went to look around one of the apartments, someone else entered the street door, so I wasn't completely alone. I never got to see who it was. Maybe it's like they say when you meet a bear, that "he is at least as afraid of you as you are of him". No one knows what will happen to the houses in the future. Two years ago, Tino Bessou sold the property to himself for nine million, through a company owned by his son. But it doesn't look like any renovations are underway, it's probably way too late for that anyway. The only thing you can do is to either tear it all down, or let it continue to stand and decay. Then perhaps it can at least become a bit of a tourist attraction for everyone who likes to explore abandoned places in Sweden, but that will hardly save the town of Ställdalen. It's hard to support the local economy when all the shops are closed. The sound clips at the beginning are taken from Sveriges Radio: https://sverigesradio.se/artikel/boen... Subscribe:    / @mobeltass   #urbanexploration #abandoned ​