Hiding a room is one thing, but how do you hide an entire garage? Then let us know in the comments below what you would turn a hidden room into if your home had one. The box was about as big as a love seat and it looked as old as the house. Found it moving in. Well we kind of still want our wiring situation taken care of, but if there's a body and some amontadillo in there, I definitely want to know. It was used by servants from their rooms. I crawled under the log frame a few feet and there was a wall made of baseball sized rocks. asking people who have found a secret room or space in their house to share, Woman Shows How "Harry Potter" Characters Were Supposed To Look According To Book Descriptions (35 Pics), Overworked Employee Quits Because He Wasn't Getting A Fair Wage, Costs The Company $40 Million, Bride Doesn't Include Wedding Dinner Price In Her Wedding Invites, Is Surprised To See Many Guests Canceling On Her After They Find Out, 30 Y.O. One day an older neighbor girl (native Danish) was over and said while we were playing that people used to hide in it. This is one of the traditional methods for creating a hidden doorway. It was just a normal pantry but they never told our mother they managed to open it, and used it to hide things from her like alcohol, smokes, and weed. Sounds more like a cess pit. We found some personal documents of no real interest, a newspaper from the day after Pearl Harbor, and a hand drawn cartoon of a pregnant Lucy yelling Goddammit Charlie Brown!Update: The newspaper turned out to be a reprint, so not valuable but still fun to look through. I got a friend to help me come dig around it, expecting to confirm that it was just an old foundation. We give him the okay and go about our business. 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We found some personal documents of no real interest, a newspaper from the day after Pearl Harbor, and a hand drawn cartoon of a pregnant Lucy yelling Goddammit Charlie Brown!. We bought a house that had been built in the 1880s, lived in it for seven years and then had to have some wiring work done. Rat carcasses fused to the carpet, old tax documents from the 60s, etc. Watched home alone and saw that attic that Macaulay Culkin was staying in and wondered if we had one in our townhouse. In these TikTok clips, Freddy Goodall explores forgotten alcoves, alongside his friend, Matt. But if they were gambling, storing alcohol during prohibition or participating in a host of other crimes, a secret room might have been a necessity. 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Tucked away in the corners of these historic homes, secret rooms and spaces hide all kinds of stories about the past. 91. r/secretcompartments. We moved into a house with a door in the kitchen that could not be opened. I think I would make a tiny bowling alley or an indoor pool if I had the chance My parents bought a house from an old family member to help her pay for nursing home care (she hadn't lived in the house for years at that point). Whether you're looking to add a bit of fun and mystery to your abode or are keen on some old world seclusion, these hidden door ideas are your escape from the obvious-and an endlessly fun approach at that. But to find it, you must solve the pyramid's perplexing puzzles, riddles and challenges. Kam Mee also posted a video of a photograph inside the hidden room and the house became even more sinister. He starts drilling and then stops, comes upstairs and tells us he just found a bricked up room and what do we want to do about it? ", The scare I got when I discovered this third room. There was a small room, built right in the middle of the house around the chimney. So, before you ask to be taken to see what lies in the hidden room, think about whether you and your bank account can actually handle it! Next, Courtney and Matt followed the letter to a secret room found in the [bathroom], directly opposite the door in the wall.. Ahhhhh the story of "the murder room". Among the more gruesome hidden rooms and secret passages were those used by H.H. Start writing! Never have I felt so much panic. The basement was creepy as hell anyway because it had rickety wood slat stairs, stone walls, was dimly lit, in an L shape with dark corners, and had (i s**t u not) a single hanging lightbulb around one of the corners. He agreed and patched it up, drilled somewhere else, finished the rewiring and we all continued our lives. He said that he has sold homes with concealed rooms that have been panic rooms or spaces to hide valuable computers and servers. On the other hand, I don't want to let my sister's boyfriend knock the wall down with a sledgehammer. We didnt go inside because the doorway was so small and we were already creeped out by how dark it was in there. You know how they say if you need to ask how much something costs, you probably cant afford it? My family just moved out of our (story-and-a-half) house that we had lived in for around 2 years. There was no easy way into the attic. Be sure to take into account any dead space, even if it has been walled in. There were no lights, no comfort, just a sheet blocking off the part of the attic that didn't have some semblance of a floor, and a bloody mattress. There was no easy way into the attic. According to SOSS Door Hardware, any of us could be hiding a secret space in our homes. Here an area is closed off to make a secret day bed hidden inside a closet. Ooops! Remember, as a kid, watching "paranormal mysteries" like Scooby-Doo or the Haunted Mansion, wishing to go on a real-life hunt through a mysterious house with winding staircases, hidden rooms behind bookshelves, and trap doors? In my house there was an upstairs bedroom that was made into a game room for me and my sister. I would have loved to have found an entrance into the bunker, if that's what it was. I started the company back in 2004 after a movie scene inspired me to build a motorized secret passageway in my own house. We had sold the house and were expected to leave by September first. The really crazy one was when we redid the insulation in our attic. Especially if your home is old, there's no telling what secrets it could be concealing. Blown. Design by Creative Home Engineering Rau Antiques, an antique store in New Orleans, the most expensive, iconic, and unusual art objets dart are actually sequestered behind a hidden door. Soooo many spiders and cobwebs, *and* these spiders turn bright white when they die for some godforsaken reason. The Bored Panda iOS app is live! What amazes me is the lack of curiosity by a lot of these. There was a small (almost unnoticeable) door panel on the slanted ceiling that gave access to the 3rd window. Well "door" is probably an overstatement. My best friend lives in France where I did as well for many years. My cousin told me that she bet there was a haunted old tomb down there with probably valuable stuff from older times, and so to prove she was right i charged the board with an electric drill during a night. Not everyone wants the bathroom visible from their office. They have this huge office with beautiful wooden bookcases around the whole room. There's a concealed reading room behind this hinged cabinet bookshelf in Hilltop House by Sellars Lathrop Architects. While many people know about the staircases leading to the ceiling and doors leading to bricked-up walls, some may not know that through a cabinet located in one of the house's six kitchens, there's a "hive" of 30 rooms concealed away. Prashant Chauhan of Zero9 Studio told Economic Times, It might sound strange, but people do demand spaces which are known only to them and since the supply for such spaces is usually short, interior designers have to put on their creative hats and camouflage their designs to create an illusion, as if it doesn't exist. Because it was so modern as compared with the rest of the house, we hid it behind a bookcase, Welmoed tells Readers Digest. If it was for storage, why would it be walled off from the rest of the basement? Well, not completely hidden. There was another room roughly the same size but deep, maybe 15 feet down, and mostly dirt. Lived in a warehouse in Melbourne. We kept it a secret so that when friends came over we would have the ultimate hiding spot for hide and seek. There was a small (almost unnoticeable) door panel on the slanted ceiling that gave access to the 3rd window. Originally built between 1878-1880 in Kernersville, North Carolina, the house is full of secret cubbyholes and passageways that were said to allow people to move from various parts of the house without being seen. Anything that visitors wont catch at first glance can be lurking behind a door or wall. A couple found a secret bathroom hidden behind a wall in their first home together in Oklahoma. Don't judge I haven't decorated it yet.". Especially after we noticed that the bricks which I thought had fallen in were all accounted for, scattered around the hole as if something had broken out. See anything interesting? Had old equipment, like tables and stuff with military emblems on it and we thought of cause it could have been an old Nazi HQ or so, not adding two and two together that the school was built later than 1945.But it was an old nuclear shelter thing that later was revealed to be a cancelled part of the school. #HiddenRoom #homeimprovement #Oldhouse #Remodel #creepyhouse. Bought a very rugged cabin with acreage a few years back. We are no longer supporting IE (Internet Explorer), Do not Sell or Share My Personal Information. Lol I'd have moved out there and then. Behind that wood panel was a secret room that had monitors lining the wall along with a random assortment of items. Most old homes have their fair share of secretsany horror movie will tell you that. #fyp #crawl #Coralinehouse #window #confused #housesoftiktok #creepy #tunnels #why #foryou. It had been advertised as '4 bedrooms, 3 baths' so they were kind of pissed off to find that there were only 2 bathrooms and the fourth bedroom was kind of small.The day before they were leaving they did a little bit of a cleanup. We lived in this house for 6 years and I found out about this door 2 years ago, when we opened it we saw a skeleton in the corner, not gonna lie that scared me s**tless, although it was just a prop left by the past owners of our house. I was pretty young (maybe 7-8) so I dont remember all the details. No signs of forced entry, no obvious break-in Then a police officer happened to accidentally push a book on a random shelf, and voil! I bought a house back in 2010. A couple of years ago I rented an apartment that was in a massive old architecture style building, no idea how old it was. Don't judge I haven't decorated it yet.". Also regular stains emerge after some time. So our new friend gets his scope set up and we all go down to the basement and watch the monitor. Note: this post originally had 70 images. A gate latch on the inside of the secret room is an easy way to conceal the latching mechanism from outside view. Employee They Disrespected, I Used AI To See What These 30 Popular Cartoon Characters Would Look Like In Real Life, And Here's The Result (New Pics), People Are Roasting Airbnb For Getting Completely Out Of Hand, Here Are 30 Of The Most Savage Tweets, Employee Laughs In Boss' Face For Saying It's "Unethical" To Make Plans After Work, Takes The Case To The Director, 30 Stunning Photographs Of Bangladeshi People By This Photographer (New Pics), 79 Surreal Images Of Sneakers Placed In Some Very Interesting Locations By Carlos Jimnez Varela. Gabija is a photo editor at Bored Panda. The owner was.eccentric: Maybe the owner had some interesting interests that were embarrassing to show company. Go ahead and unseal the tomb of a 148 yr old demon. Even tho i couldn't see, the floor was made of dirt! Lindsay Grummett shared the clip to TikTok, which can also be seen here, explaining the renovations of her new home, which she snapped up because of a wall of exposed brick. It was kind of a hanging half-door made with weathered 24's with big metal hinges. Slylizardcue , Henry Burrows Report. The Block House $24.9 Million. Hidden closet in basement wall after 20 yrs of living in the house. Why are adults like that, not wanting to know more? When they removed the old wall they discovered that it was actually the entrance (or rather exit) to a tunnel that was an escape route from the towns (pone, France) castle. 22 things your real estate agent isnt telling you. Mind. It was a walled off section of the basement with a dirt floor. One of my friends went to put the broom into the closet beside the fridge. An unfinished hidden room provides the best of both worlds. There is a company called Creative Home Engineering that specializes in hidden passageways. Bored Panda works better on our iPhone app. One day, when her daughters were playing in a closet in the library, they put their feet on the wall and it moved! We respect your privacy. These valuable antiques might be hiding in your own house. A secret room containing displays of crystal and rock samples behind a shelf by Karina Oldemans Interior Design. Here are ten notable hidden chambers, secret rooms, and concealed passages from throughout history from priest holes to royal escape routes. Millennial couple Courtney and Matt are discovering secret rooms, hideaways and compartments in their 130-year-old home, thanks to an eerie, unexpected message from the last surviving member of the family that previously owned the estate. The family never allowed her to marry her "undeserving" love; rumor has it that the lovers still haunt the secret passageway today out of spite. 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