I live in an old funeral home – I found a creepy room I had no idea existed, it’s connected to our bathroom
A WOMAN who lives in an old funeral home has found a creepy room during restoration of the property.
She had no idea the hidden chamber existed but discovered it was in fact connected to the family bathroom.
But this lady expressed relief that the hidden space was empty. She had feared it might contain a skeleton because “The house has a wild past,” she said.
Her TikTok goes by the name of This Old Mortuary (@thisoldmortuary) and it has built up a respectable following of over 52,000 and another 385,000 likes.
She uses the platform to document the restoration of her home, an ex-mortuary built in 1923.
But the building’s secrets have begun to emerge and the discovery of the secret space was a big shock, as she explained in this post.
“We just found the wildest thing behind the little door,” she said of the entrance to the attic space. “Yes, we might be in the very beginning of a horror film.”
Inside was a box-like area that was situated below the window of their bathroom: “We’d never seen it before,” she explained.
She admitted it was far too tempting to ignore, so they cut it open.
“We’ve all seen Law and Order and CSI and this was what was inside.” The camera panned around a small space, certainly high enough to stand up in.
“We think it might have been part of a built-in closet in the bathroom before,” she figured.
The experience, while intriguing, was also unsettling. “After we’d seen it we were a little bit creeped out,” she admitted.
“I honestly thought we might find a mummy or skeleton.” But she also silently wished for other discoveries.
“We’re hoping to find gold bars or something to pay for the renovations.”
She rounded off her post with a chilly challenge to her viewers: “Would you spend a night in our house?”
Of the 14,000 likes to her post, there were not many willing to take it up.
There was no doubting this commenter’s feelings: “To answer your question, I would not set foot in a 100-year-old mortuary much less spend the night or live in one. WFT, I’m running.”
Another had a suggestion: “Make it a panic room.”
This fan offered a possible reason behind the newly-discovered space: “Yeah, old houses, especially homes that doubled as a business, would have secret rooms to hide their income.”
For the final commenter, it was a win-win situation: “I’ve seen worse and as space and storage are always a good thing, I think it is a bonus.”