5 Scary Rooms That Should Have Stayed a Secret
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My name’s Jack Finch, and we’re going to be jumping straight in with the Top 5 Scary
Rooms … that should have stayed a secret.
Now I don’t know about you, but I like to pride myself on my spacial awareness - particularly
in places that I regularly stay.
If there was a super scary secret room just laying about, minding its own business - well,
I’d damn well find it.
But … not any of these on this list.
No.
I’d just avoid them entirely.
Coming in at Number 5, we have a bit of an internet urban myth that’s been doing the
rounds since 2015.
Now, some doubt the authenticity of this secret room - but regardless, it’s also insanely
creepy.
A father of two posted a seemingly innocent anecdote involving his son Tim, aged 7, and
daughter Sofia, aged 6.
He’d asked the pair to do some writing exercises to improve their spelling - and then asked
them to draw the family, and make a cute little map of their home, as well as their favourite
room in the house.
Now … take a look at this drawing from his daughter Sofia.
So.
There’s mom, dad, Sofia, Tim … and also two creepy other figures that she hasn’t
drawn the faces of.
Why Sofia?!
Who are they?
If things weren’t weird enough, the dad also noticed that Sofia had drawn a little
room on the map that didn’t exist.
Kids have got a crazy imagination, you know.
Now, he claimed that his daughter was awfully smart for a 6 year old - so deciding to give
her the benefit of the doubt, he asked her about the room.
And, yep … the room actually exists.
Sofia took her dad to the bathroom, where she moved a panel off the wall that looked
like a crawl space for pipes.
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Now, it was /way/ too small for anyone to fit through, so assuming Sofia was just playing
around with him - he told her to knock it off.
But Sofia was adamant that the room was real, so giving her a camera phone to take a picture
to prove it - she crawled right through the space into some strange secret room… and
came out with this.
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Like any Dad would, he told her to never go in there again.
I hope they moved house.
Coming in at Number 4, we have a terrifying tale from Shropshire, England.
The Farla Family had lived in their old Victorian home for three years, and were always curious
about a metre-long metal grate that lay in the floor.
Thinking it was just an old air duct, they’d covered it with mats and rugs and forgotten
about it over the years.
But after having a few drinks and a bit of a party, the family mustered up the courage
to see where it led.
After pulling it away, the family found a hole just big enough for a few of them to
squeeze through.
What they found below - well, no one expected.
Blinking in the darkness, what they first thought was a stone cellar, turned out to
be a strange chapel.
There was a rotten, wooden cross on the ground - and hooks hanging from the ceiling.
The family had no idea that this weird mausoleum was right underneath their feet - the whole
time - and it even turned out that a small staircase from the chapel led directly behind
a bookcase in the dining room.
The family have since reported a strange presence since unearthing the chapel, and have taken
a series of photographs that appear to show orbs and a specter.
Keep it hidden guys!
And next up at Number 3, we have the tale of a brave HVAC worker who delved a little
too deep.
In 2017, a video surfaced online of a guy who had been sent out by his company to clean
an air conditioning unit.
It was kept in a garage, and this meant crawling into the attic space to investigate the existing
system.
That’s where things got a little weird…
As he walked up the attic ladder, he first noticed that there was a strange red carpet
on the floor.
A little bit weird considering - it’s, you know, an attic.
But that’s just the start …
Further on, at the end of the actual attic space - was *another* door.
With a men’s room sign nailed above.
Because that’s normal.
What he found inside was a wood panelled room with blood red floors.
There were several strange etchings on the walls - and also a few license plates hanging
from the ceiling.
If that’s not weird enough, it turns out those license plates - yeah, they belonged
to Dee Dee Moore - AKA the Lottery Killer.
Dee Dee was convicted of murdering Abraham Shakespeare, a Florida resident who incredibly
won the lottery in 2012.
As for the HVAC worker - yeah, he was fine.
They’re pretty resilient people.
Just another day at the office.
At Number 2, we have a story from 2014 - where Reddit user lmbrjack found a creepy, hidden
crawlspace while poking around in his attic.
Now, eventually this story had to be removed from the internet for it’s sensitive material,
but the Reddit user’s tale will send a shiver down your spine.
As lmbrjack made his way through the crawlspace, it led to an ominous looking metal door.
It was locked, of course - they always are.
After eventually breaking through the lock, he found a room where the walls, floor and
ceiling were completely covered in sound proofing and plastic tarp.
As well as a strange, raised area - the size of a single bed, and a black sentry safe.
On the floor, was a large leather briefcase - and inside, was an old wooden box, some
silver ingots, various letters and paper money from several different countries across the
globe.
The weirdest part though - were the tapes that lmbrjack had found inside the safe.
One of them had the words ‘no no no no’ written on, and there was a sheet of lined
paper with ‘SAVE YOURSELF’ written in black ink.
Well - that’s enough of that.
And finally, the Number 1 Scary Room that should have stayed a secret … is technically
a house.
Well - a mansion to be specific.
A murder mansion.
In 1886, the infamous Henry Howard Holmes, decided to build a house full of so many hidden
rooms, secret passages and dead ends - that it perplexed local police for years after
its discovery.
During the construction of the murder mansion, Holmes switched building contractors frequently,
so that no one involved could realize the gruesome end goal of all it’s strange parts.
The building was completed in 1892, and after his arrest in 1894, police discovered that
Holmes had created a dungeon of pure nightmare fuel.
Hinged walls, half partitions.
There were rooms with five doors and others with none.
The were airless chambers hidden under floorboards, and rooms that sealed off and filled with
gas.
It is believed that the actual count of Holmes’ victims stretched into the 200s - and in 1896
he was hanged to death.
Now thankfully, shortly after his execution - an explosion ripped through the murder mansion
and it burned to the ground.
So - we can all rest easy.
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