When I was finally moving out curiosity got the best of me and I pushed on the panel at the top of the stairs until it popped open and hoisted myself up there. The room was small and dark, tucked behind what only appeared to be an exterior wall of the attic and contained a small bed, a strangely annotated map of the city, and an array of empty food cans. Never have I felt so much panic. The electrician was working down in the basement and wanted to drill through a (brick) wall to the outside for some reason I no longer remember. Almost every home we have worked on, whether in India or abroad, has had a requirement for such a secret chamber.". All designs are by Creative Home Engineering. Unfortunately despite plenty bargaining, none of us were ever able work up the courage (liquid or regular) to tie a rope and climb down for a closer look. Well, we were scraping up the linoleum tiling (covering the original hardwood floor, disappointingly enough) in a side room when I made the joke about the previous resident being a secret mass murderer and that there was a trapdoor under the linoleum full of dead bodies. This house, located in Litchfield, Connecticut, has hidden rooms that were part of the Underground Railroad, Kris Lippi, a realtor with Get Listed Realty, tells Readers Digest. Said window was covered on the outside by an apron of siding that came from the cantilevered room upstairs all the way down to the concrete pad. Why are adults like that, not wanting to know more? the whole story sounds very interesting. (Closed), I Make Micro Crochet Toys That Fit In A Tiny Glass Bottle (35 Pics). More!!! PerpetuallySl33py , Berit Watkin Report. What could be in this room? It was sewed out of some kind of patterned fabric in a vaguely dog like shape. ", Exploring the hidden room again w/@mxttygore #secretroom #hiddenroom #oldschool #library #scary #crazy #fyp, Kam Mee, known online as Kammee0508, discovered a hidden room with plenty of mystery. If you still have not had any luck, you might need to completely remove a wall to reveal a hidden space. Note: this post originally had 70 images. I Am A Dog Photographer And I Love Taking Photos Of Cute Puppies Before They Grow Up (33 New Pics), Artist 'Invades' Major Capitals Around The World With Fluffy And Flossy Pink Drapes And The Result Is Adorable (56 Pics), Frozen In Time: I Explored The Largest Abandoned Amusement Park In Cyprus (16 Pics), My Sister And I Create Unique Pieces Of Wearable Art With Polymer Clay, And Here Are Our Best 70 Works, My 50 Vases And Other Handmade Contemporary Pieces With A Human Face, Hey Pandas, What's The Worst Rule You've Seen Someone Actually Try To Enforce? As Im cleaning the alcohol off of them, I notice one of them had a crack between the others. And with a secret entrance, you wont even have to think about those tasks once theyre done. Be sure to take into account any dead space, even if it has been walled in. Why is there so many? Helping my granddad move house, we accidentally found access to the under floor area (not even big enough to really call a crawl space I don't think, spotty memory). It flexed more than I expected, and after some inspection I found that it was removable. Errohneos , Onur Bahvanclar Report. Fight boredom with iPhones and iPads here. The secret guest rooms At Charleston's HarbourView Inn, six of the 52 rooms are actually hidden from guests. I started the company back in 2004 after a movie scene inspired me to build a motorized secret passageway in my own house. She opens it, saying: "Check this out. It's really interesting. Another homeowner found a "secret passage" hidden behind a door in an 148-year-old house she had recently bought. The Pakington Family, notably head of household Humphrey Pakington, were devoutly Catholic and had a series of "hides" created around architectural structures like the great staircase and kitchen. Capture some of this same magic with a creative entrance to a hidden room that they can play in. It might be something you never need, but it can give you the comfort you need to sleep at night. Often equipped with communications options and monitoring equipment, a high security hidden room keeps the bad guys at bay while you summon help. Oh and the spiders. Now imagine a stunning, grand library filled with rare manuscripts and thousands of books housed in that building. By submitting email you agree to get Bored Panda newsletter. WatertotheTree , Alan Levine Report. Hey Pandas, What Are Your Most Useful Travel Tips? That's where I'd hide when relatives come over :))). Next, Courtney and Matt followed the letter to a secret room found in the [bathroom], directly opposite the door in the wall.. When clearing out my grandmas house I found a small door in the wall of the basement that led to a tiny room, according to my mother thats where they hid the family heirlooms when thieving relatives came to town. 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. There are lots of fluids that after a while may look like it. The secret door I wanted to build really required the expertise of a mechanical engineer like myself, and since there were no firms dedicated to this type of work I decided to start my own.". It wasn't a room, but after living in our house for a few years, we decided to remodel the basement bathroom. A couple found a secret bathroom hidden behind a wall in their first home together in Oklahoma. "If you put your valuables into a safe you might as well add a neon sign above it that says 'This is where the good stuff is at!' Theyre housed in a former 1930s cotton warehouse and tucked behind an industrial-style door, paying homage to Charlestons historic roots that reach back to the cotton industry. A family bought an old house and found a secret room in it, which no one entered for 102 years. I would like to tell you about the secret rooms and a few things you may not have been told when you bought the house.. However, under the famous facade is an 800-foot tunnel that connects to the property's stables. I assume the Lino tiles being scraped up were in the kitchen, so the little room adjoining it was the pantry and the trap door was the access to the root cellar beneath it. On their blog, SOSS explains that two of the most common reasons a home may have a hidden space are because the owner was eccentric or there were illegal activities taking place. Lindsay Grummett shared a clip to. I had no idea. Childrens stories are full of secret passages and portals to other worlds. Error occurred when generating embed. A door opened to reveal a small secret room with an escape route that the thief was accessing the library through! What if on the other side.of the door there was a portal, or a wardrobe that leads to Narnia? There was a hobbit-sized door on the bottom floor and I glanced in there a few times but only saw pipes and different electrical units and stuff. Hidden closet in basement wall after 20 yrs of living in the house. Design by Creative Home Engineering I used to do evictions and clean houses before they were put back on the market. Cabin was built in the 70s. The most unnerving part about the cabin was the previous owner, upon finding news I had bought the land, came back just before I got the keys from the realtor and left a note that simply read "good luck" in the center of the living area. We give him the okay and go about our business. According to SOSS Door Hardware, any of us could be hiding a secret space in our homes. I tore it apart, salvaged a bunch of wood, and rebuilt a new cabin without the creepy vibes. Turned out to be a small finished room over the eaves that had a small portal window. You can either remove the wall (forsaking your search for the door). Sometimes, they are just a whimsical element that homeowners desire to make their houses unique and special. But sometimes its a good idea to leave a portion of the basement unfinished. Join. I got a friend to help me come dig around it, expecting to confirm that it was just an old foundation. Your account is not active. Had some toys from the 70s in it. There are some stairs that are blocked off in here. Fell through one time. Of course this only made the interest grow but (while freaking out) i had made a discovery while inside. Professional athletes are even interested in secret spaces to have somewhere to store their awards and athletic memorabilia. You never know what you might discover. My father had removed one of the large rocks that makes up the basement wall. basically bought it because I fell in love, Everyone Practices Cancel Culture | Opinion, Deplatforming Free Speech is Dangerous | Opinion. So cool!. Its always furnished and awesome and Ive had the dream so many times! Well this 2 million dollar house was abandoned because nobody could afford it, and some teens decided to throw a rager in it. In the process we tackled each other with shoulder pushes and my friend flew into a panel at some point, where a screw popped out of panel that revealed over-painted screws that revealed a panel door.The janitor thought it was just the ducts for air or water pipe maintainance under the school, when we told him about the door and asked and said he came to the school in 1971 but never had been in there.Of cause, the two of us being 6th graders, had to go on a hunt and later returned with a screwdriver after school hours (school was not locked due to after-school club same place) and entered with a flashlight.It was a secret basement of ducts at first, super dusty and metal stamps revealed at least something in the coridors were built in 1959. She also has a special place in her heart for film photography, movies and nature. So he and his team created a hidden playroom tucked behind a custom maple bookshelf located between the boys bedrooms. Nice rolling door, but no key. It was like that scene in ratatouille. That's it, nothing else. These doors can look like clean walls but they lead to hidden rooms such as a vault, reading nook, children's playroom, home library, home office, gun vault, etc. Electrician asks us what we want to do. Her mother confirmed later that it was a Holocaust hiding space. Cape Cod homes are warm and cozy, but they do have a certain amount of partially usable space on the top floor. It was used by servants from their rooms. Kam Mee also posted a video of a photograph inside the hidden room and the house became even more sinister. The small entrance opened up to a sprawling trunk room. Well "door" is probably an overstatement. 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The existing kitchen is new and modern and the original one was still intact but not in use as it was basically just one of those big fireplaces with a caldron looking contraption in it. 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. I tore it apart, salvaged a bunch of wood, and rebuilt a new cabin without the creepy vibes. Thanks for poking at me to dig this stuff up!! So I made her a desk with letterpress inspired desktop with hidden compartments and features. The homeowners, who had lived in the house for 25 years, said they had no idea it was even there, Perez tells Readers Digest. When I was helping move out, I decided I needed to check out what was up. Cape cod style house, crawl space to basically uncarpetted room with two windows over garage. Enjoy the rest of these fascinating stories, and keep upvoting all of your favorites. Oh, the irony: According to Shutterstocks Krystina Puleo, theres a secret library at Shutterstocks global headquarters in the Empire State Building in New York City, and its hidden behind a wall decal that only looks like a bookshelf, but if you push in the right spot, the door will open and lead you into a quiet space that employees use to either unplug or get in the zone. I always wanted to ask them, but they both died in a car accident when I was 15. Eventually when cleaning out a tiny closet under some stairs I noticed that some of the boards made a destictive square. I just remember her asking us if we want to go to the park. Soooo many spiders and cobwebs, *and* these spiders turn bright white when they die for some godforsaken reason. It's a story that paranormal researchers know all too well. I was mostly interested in the fact that it was covered in scribbles from my mom and her sisters growing up. 9 The House Of Seven Gables Has A "Secret Staircase". About the builders, yeah I live in a relatively old house and whilst taking up the floorboards for wiring, I've found old newspapers, litter, loads of stuff. My older siblings, like any typical teenagers, were not convinced of this and were determined to open it. I got a friend to help me come dig around it, expecting to confirm that it was just an old foundation. Friends of mine rented a holiday villa in Mexico years ago. It must have been old because the bricks had eroded at some point and exposed some of the hole, maybe a 2ft diameter circle out of the full 5 feet. "The stickers lead me to believe that whatever [was] up there was once a room for a teenager," someone speculated. Whether its because you want to keep some storage, maintain mechanical access to the next floor, or leave space around items such as the furnace or water heater. With carefully selected and angled accent lights, this will create an obscuring curtain of water. I crawled under the log frame a few feet and there was a wall made of baseball sized rocks. 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). Insider's author spotted the differences between the rest areas for pilots and flight attendants on an Air New Zealand Boeing 777-300ER. Add trim to the doorway to give it a built-in look. 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. #scary #story #fyp #fypforyou #thriller. I say mostly empty because right in the middle there was a hole the size of a well that had been previously bricked up. Sounds more like a cess pit. They stayed there for 3 weeks. I crawled under the log frame a few feet and there was a wall made of baseball sized rocks. Decades-old, unopened bottles of French ros wine from 1970 and cabernet sauvignon from 1989 were stashed away alongside aged containers of bourbon, beer and cream sherry. No need for complex woodworking to pull off this trick! ", Looking at the layout, TJ Smith thought: "It looks like the bathroom was a renovation that involved the attic stairs. Theres a secret drinking room in the historic Belvedere Hotel in Baltimore, according to Jeff Miller, co-founder of Dependable Homebuyers. 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