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Layered, then you walk on it and you layer and you walk on it. it was like walking on a floor. you could pound your fist on it. and you could break your wrist. it wasnt just that area. it was throughout the entire bottom floor. >> in the basement, busted water pipes create a stagnant pool of sludge. >> they had no heat. and as a result the pipes broke. >> we were wearing boots above the knees to get through that stuff because the paper and all the stuff, the clothing and things are absolutely di...

And the bedrooms, pretty much same thing. pretty much linens, blankets, stuff like that. >> it was kind of like hilly. you had to climb over it. >> theres the other bedrooms. >> when you looked at the doorway, the top of the doorway was where you would smash your face on it. debris was three feet from the top of the doorway, which is roughly 4 1/2 feet deep. other areas it was higher. basically got stacked. couldnt see out of the windows. some of the places it was stacked to the cleaning. >> it ...

Chair was was a pile of garbage. >> the whole living room was like a refrigerator from a horror flick. it was just unimaginable. the organic material came up about as high as the arms of the recliner. it was so packed that you could actually in midday see the steam coming out from the methane gas from all the organic material. >> this stuff was rotting. all right? creating heat. >> what i saw would make anybody want to vomit. you didnt know if you were looking at a dead possum or just old food. ...

Understand. i was constantly throwing things of my own away and purging my own belongings. stuff i probably would have liked to have kept. and kind of like there has to be other people out here. there has to be someone whos talking about this. >> jessica finds great comfort online. shes an active member of the not for profit organization children of hoarders and corresponds with others for support. >> even just reading about other peoples experiencing, what theyre experiencing and if i cant rela...

Bunch of plates that they were used. they werent washed. and they were stacked up and there was spoons and forks and pots and pans that were used and not washed. >> at one point during the survey lang loses sight of his friend rick. >> where are you at? >> over here, fella. >> we didnt see him back there at first. he was standing where the kitchen table would have been. i think the kitchen table was actually under all the stuff. it was up to the ceiling. ive never seen anything like that before....

And it would really be amazing if i found it. >> whats the odds of finding something like that in that mess? >> im 53" and it must have come up to my shoulder. a lot of times you see these places and theres a political path. there was no path. you didnt just walk in, you climbed in. it was an amazing amount of trash. >> because of the amount of debris, the living conditions are extremely dangerous. >> she was clearly in danger of having fire in that building. because when you live in a place lik...

Door to the car, the car was filled to the ceiling. >> they shut the door and locked it. im sure if you opened it up, it would all fall out. >> looked like stuff youd find digging through the garbage. >> there was a note in there saying in is my stuff. do not take it. its not garbage. this is my stuff. >> with the camera still rolling the group heads into the neglected home to assess the damage. >> different places in the house had different things. when you initially walked into the house, it w...

The residents from the main woman was just filled with all sorts of stuff. it was sort of a little trail to go through the trailer. very strong odor in there of urine and feces. the animals were sort of climbing over piles of debris. the dogs were heartworm positive. many of them had heartworm that had advanced to such a severe stage that they were suffering from heart failure at that point. >> a team of more than 20 people examines and documents each animal. >> there were a lot of dogs that wer...

And that seems to be the biggest problem weve had with finding help. >> but without immediate answers, the hoarding continues. >> part of it and the feeling you fight against is the idea that, okay, this is mine. i bought this. i have the control over it. and now somebodys telling me that i need to get rid of this and i need to let go. it becomes an issue more of control than perhaps emotional attachment. >> i think its just the issue of letting it go. i think she feels that when she lets it go,...

Storage apparently now because there was no way that anyone could live in the house. >> no way, shape or form was it livable. >> if you have an entire house amassed with stuff from wall to wall, where do you even begin? what a lot of times happens is they sort of throw their hands up. they feel very beaten down, they feel very hopeless and overwhelmed, both anxious and depressed. >> this is hoarding. >> the removal of clothes and debris takes schaeffer one month to complete. >> i filled up four ...