When I was younger, My mom and stepdad bought a half million dollar house that had a secret guest house connected to a giant pool. I found it by accident, I fell into the wall in my closet and it opened into a hallway leading into the front entrance. It was a complete house too. The bathroom was beautiful with a brass bathtub and stone shower with a waterfall showerhead. They gave it to me to use as my living space and I also had my bedroom in the main house. I was fourteen when my mom let me have the guest house. I am handicapped and it helped me get around the house. We lived there for 15 years. I loved it. I even cleaned the pool for my family so we didn't need to pay for a cleaning service. I would get my handicapped floater chair and the supplies, and enjoy the pool while cleaning it. At the end I would put the tablets in and let it do it's job. My mom and stepdad worked hard to afford that house. For awhile we were well off. They took good care of me too. They both passed away, mom passed in 2017 from cancer, my stepdad passed away two years ago from heart disease. R.I.P ❤️😭 I miss them very much.
My parents and I moved into a house when I was 12. We lived there 4 years before we were doing some renovations and found out there was a secret room behind a wall that only opened when you pushed on a VERY SPECIFIC and SPECIAL spot. It was a large room. About the same size as our living room which was 50x75. My Grandpa who was helping us renovate the house actually replaced the wall with a bookshelf and then hid the room again after renovating it and turning it into my bedroom. It was the coolest bedroom a teen could ask for.
In this dangerous world only getting more dangerous id like to have a secret room that we could hide in if house was being robbed or broken in .People are crazy and just kill inocent people for nothing!!
I recently had the pleasure of creating a secret room for a young girl. The new house had an unused area in the attic, which I mentioned to the father would make a cool hideout for kids. He liked the idea, and as I was already there to install cabinetry I had built, he asked me to add it to the job. We converted nearly 280 square feet of space, accessed by a ladder hidden in the bedroom wall, behind a sliding mirror like the one at 4:00. That little girl was beyond happy to learn of her secret room, and I was happy to have finally taken part in such a fun project.
I almost bought a house owned by a contractor. He had taken a studio house, added a door that became a hidden hallway to a master bedroom that began a huge 2 story brand new constructed house behind it. The best part was one of the bedrooms upstairs had another door that had a staircase leading down to the 3 car garage. I knew my young teenage son would love that room, but we got outbidded. If I ever get rich, I will build a huge house similar to that.
So I'm an electrician and a carpenter. In response to the attic with loose insulation, I see this quite often. Technically, it's not a finished room, not even close. Everything is completely exposed, no shear, drywall, shiplap or anything covering the stud with probable electrical exposed. Usually you will find electrical or ventilation throughout these spaces. It makes for a great access point for doing wiring. More than likely there is a breaker box below it or in the room on the otherside. It's also likely that lights or bathroom fans are wired and vented through the floor and exiting the wall leaving the house. These spaces are conveniently when you want work done but don't want to have to patch drywall. It makes it quick and easy.
There are several speakeasies here in Texas. One I frequent in Dallas is in the Statler Hotel which is an old hotel itself. You go down to the shoeshine stand, go into a phone booth and dial a certain number and a door opens out of the wood-paneled wall. The interior is filled with 20's era furnishings.
My folks' house has a 1/4 turn spiral staircase from the entry foyer up to the 2nd floor. Nearby (hidden within walls & closed off with a door) is the set of stairs leading down to the basement -- they're straight, but make a 90-degree turn halfway down. As you might expect, the basement stairs are just a simple, basic staircase that follows the downward angle & path of the fancier curved staircase going up... But I have a friend who, after almost 50 years, still insists that there's actually a secret passage there. I've spent a lot of time over the 50+ years my family has owned the house looking and I can tell you there really is not a passage there (the measurements tell me you'd have to be a half-size munchkin to fit between the lower surface of the upper stairs and the ceiling for the basement stairs. So... imagine my surprise when I did some renovation work in the upstairs bathroom (in the "master suite" that is my parents' bedroom) and had to remove a screwed-in panel in the back of the closet to access the pipes for the shower... only to discover a four-foot square "room" with no ceiling that opened directly into the area beneath the roof. Why that space wasn't used for the closet, no one can tell us... but it was fun explaining to my friend that he had the location of secret spaces in the house totally wrong...!
My Uncle was a developer and built custom homes. In one of his homes in Colorado Springs he had a secret wine celler. First this house was HUGE. 2 stories. About 8,000 square feet 4 bedrooms, plus master suite, full finished basement, billiard room plus a good sized one bedroom apartment with a separate entry. It was for a maid, house keeper or mother in law. It had two garages. One on the first floor and one on the basement level. The back of the lot bordered a nature reserve so nobody could build behind them. (Oh yeah, the secret wine cellar.) A about 21:30 in the video the show a wall covered in wood strips about 1 inch wide. My Uncle had that same wall in the kitchen. You pushed a button in a kitchen cabinet and the door popped open about 2 inches. You opened the door to a secret stairway to the wine celler in the basement. It was totally cool.
A hydraulic staircase is an excellent security feature! Imagine how safe you would feel sleeping on the 2nd story of your home, with the ONLY way UP neatly hidden away from robbers, attackers, Zombies, etc.
Forget the "robbers, attackers, Zobmies, etc" think about REAL THREATS like GANG AFFILIATED DOMESTIC TERRORISTS, in costumes with shiny shirt medallions who have Zero Accountability! They can do anything they want to anybody they want anytime they want and then proceed to walk away with a paycheck, benefits package and no consequences regardless of their lawlessness and criminality! American Heros they call them. Haha Haha! Fůkcing Narcissists Psychopaths!
Until the hydraulic fluid leaks or the lift stops working for anyreason and theres a fire...definitely a reason why you dont see stuff like that. Fire codes. Id use Mein Kampf. That way you dont even need the room. Nobody will come over at all after they see that book on display.
How TF could you live somewhere for THREE YEARS and "never notice" a whole locked door right at the top of your stairs with a window on the INSIDE of the house? How is that even possible?
He didn't say that the renter never noticed it, he said that the render never knew what it was until the 3rd year when he finally climbed to the window
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These hidden rooms are also great to hide away and stay safe during a home invasion. I would also add hidden cameras as well to record the criminals for police to identify and arrest.
Spaces like these are perfect for gun hoarders, drug traffickers, child molesters, those into kidnapping and torture or hiding stolen merchandise. How many truly horrible stories have we heard about where daddy or some relative held female relatives or small children hostage for decades to abuse them?
@@amywalker7515 that's true Amy. Unfortunately, some evil people would possibly do that, but for normal people like us, it would be great as a safe hiding room.
@@samp4050 You are so correct. I was 4 when Lincoln Nebraska was under seige by the serial killer Charlie Starkweather He threatened to blow up the city's school buses which my siblings rode - I awoke from my nap to the news breaking in with an order for people to go pick their kids up at the schools. . My mom was in the hospital having my sister and my dad was picked up at the bar across the street from the hospital ( in those days that's where dads waited for babies to be born) and put in jail because he had red hair like Starkweather. Suffice to say it was an all around traumatic day and chaod for a 4 year old, and it contributed to who I am today. I have never moved into a new house without planning a hiding place and escape route. People who think they can shoot their way out of a home invasion need to take that thought to its natural conclusion. In order for you to have the upper hand, you would have to never relax, but be constantly on the alert for someone to burst in with their gun trained on you. Do you sit in your home, prepare meals, sleep and sit on the toilet with a gun trained on the door? No? then give that bravado up because it's far more likely you're going to have your guns taken away and used on you.
Then get one Edit: This is not me being mean this is me saying if you want one go fulfill that dream and get one. I said this just so people don't be yelling at me if it comes out the wrong way or something.
Safe rooms been around centuries.Many homes in America had them as well as the middle East. ( They come in good in the Times we live in now as well as in past centuries).The family that has them will have a sence of feeling safer.
@@butcherbaker4258 honestly most people who want them don't want them primarily for any of those reasons. They want them simply because it's fun and cool. It brings them back to a childlike sense of wonder. If you want a room for protection it doesn't need to be a secret room where you pull out a book and the door appears lol
There is a mansion, here in our area. In the master bedroom there are two regular wooden wardrobes. Behind the wardrobes are 2 extremely large closets, one for him and one for her. They were amazing to see.
I always wanted to have a house filled with secret passages. One example of one was the first room you entered when you went in the house was a little library, and when you closed the front door you could barely see it behind bookshelves. Then, on the other side of the room would be one of those bookcase doors. When you went through that one you'd be in an identical room. I figured that if someone found the secret door by accident, they'd think there was another one, but there was really a concealed trap door under the rug. Another one is kind of like that fireplace design, except there was an actual fireplace with a sliding heat-proof panel in the back (so you don't burn your hand when someone lights a fire) which led to a ladder to some secret room. But I think that stair idea was absolutely incredible.
yeah, my 10 year old little sister dressed up as Coraline this Halloween. My mom was The Other Mother and they went Trick or Treating, I wore my cosplay from 2 years ago of Tanjiro Kamado From Demon Slayer.
Seen this one off and on for years, they climb in the window but fail to notice the door hinges on the outside of the door. Should have just popped the pins and in you go
@@SpawnofChaos I would. A weird little window above a staircase and right beside a locked door that I didn't have access to? That would have been one of the 1st things I did once I moved in!
I was wondering wondering that same thing. And how many other important things escape their attention every day? I bet they've been hit by a car at least once. Lol
The Carlos Fernando door @21:55 isn't even remotely as complex and difficult to create as you seem to think (or want us to think). All of the "math involved" is non-existent. You just construct the wall with a flush door then cover it all with the same thickness slats. Not very complicated at all.
basic beadboard. Just measure the room to be the same as the paneling. In my 1860's house, they apparently ran out of beadboard and when they went back for more the width had changed. So the last 4 feet of one of the bedrooms has wider beadboard than the rest. Now THAT might have required some fast figuring This - not.
I lived on a former plantation as a child. There were intact slave quarters, including indoor ones over the former kitchen, which was a garage when we lived there. the more modern kitchen was next to it, and on either side of the door into the house was a pantry. There were 23 foot ceilings and each of the pantries had deep shelves from floor to ceiling. deep enough for large burlap hags full of grains and beans, etc, or cotton or wool, as the lady of the house was a well known weaver and we think one of the pantries was for her supplies. In the one we used for food, my brother and I climbed the shelves to the top and discovered an entrance to the indoor slave quarters. The quarters were an attractive apartment with a large central room with a large fireplace in the middle and opposite it was a wood bin with a bedroom on either side. To enter the secret passageway to the pantry, one would remove the logs and the lose boards at the bottom and there below it was the top shelf of the pantry. It was truly genius and no doubt provided the enslaved with extra food. I believe there was also a space in the basement that could have been used to hide runaways as it was so dark we could never see into it even with a flashlight. I once found a game made of perfectly round black stones lying in the dirt just outside the darkest area. I've always wished I could go back and explore the space with new LED flashlights. I now live in a house that was built in 1860. The last owner found some Confederate money and papers in the wall of the first owner's law office. I guess when the money was devalued he never bothered to retrieve it. We pulled out a book case in the kitchen and found a recess deep enough for the original stove - which would have been vented up the chimney. The chimneys no longer function, but I'd like to finish that recess out and replace the book case with one that slides out, or turn the whole thing into a deep cupboard for appliances. Nothing really thrilling in that house, except for the ingenious construction and the careful placement on the land that makes it cool year round - nobody does that anymore, even when people build their own.
See my comment above. Even though the house was a plantation, it was also probably part of The Underground Railroad helping slaves to escape. Hence the hidden entry points.
After looking carefully at the adiacent house's blueprint and realizing something didn't add up, a guy I know found by accident two entire rooms hidden behind a wall of his very old masonry house! He made a small apartment for his son out of them. Talk about lucky!
I built a Torando Shelter room/ Gun Safe at the end of my Master bedroom closet. (6' w X 4' D X 8' H) We have a wrap around porch and that part of the pporch was just wasted space. And that meant the Shelter didn't take up and of the walk in closet space. The access door to the shelter is a shoe shelf that swings out, totally hidden if you don't know it's there. Then the safe type pocket doors are behind it. It's made from 3/8th amored steel plates welded together and lined with Armor Core Sheetrock insde, painted inside to give it a normal room appearance. It has 2 wall mounted bunk beds that are big enough for 2 to sleep on or fold the upper bunk down to make the bottom bunk into a couch. There is a small fold down table on one wall that is big enough for a Ipad. Some shelves above it, and around the wall above the beds. And on the wall above the table is a 23" TV and 9" CCTV monitor so we can see the weather conditions outside and if any damage is done to our home before we exit. The lower bunk has stotage for fod and water. And there is a portable toilet in the room too! It have a solar panel outside and a Lithium battery inside topower the TV's and ventilation fan. And there is a 2 & 10 meter ham radio inside the room with a flexible car type antenna mounted outside. I am friends with my Local PD so if my house it hit by a tornado they know where to come look for us. Plus my wife is a member of the National Weather Storm Spotter Organization. It's a small room meant for just a few hours. But could sustain us from bad guys if need be! If I had more money I'd install a 6 person Bomb Shelter in the back yard.
I worked in a house that had a wine cellar in the basement that was accessed similarly to this. It was a ladder hidden under a corner countertop. Flip up the top, open the door and climb down. Gorgeous all wood finished cellar.
I wired up a Safe room for a Guy He had a LARGE digital combination pad hidden in what looked a standard area of the wall But when you opened the door locked by the digital combination pad You entered a stair way down to a concrete lined room under the basement It was a complete second basement Three of the walls had 8' tall safes imbedded into the concrete wall With more safes in the middle of the room I found out he collected books and needed someplace fire proof to store the books I was sort of hoping for cash , gold or guns
20:35 ... err, there is a more sinister reason for such a room. That room was likely used to keep someone hidden away within. As in a child abductor and such. Being hidden behind a bookshelf within the wardrobe like that meant the abductor could enter and exit the room unnoticed by a child within the room. Those tiles under the carpeting on the first entry point was to hide the sound of footsteps.
I'm sure there are so many things like this hidden in plain sight no one ever notices. That "abandoned warehouse/factory/whatever" you pass by every day could be used to house 100s of sex slaves, kidnapped children, human experimentation whatever and no one would ever know. The same goes for entire floors of huge buildings, if you don't have access to that floor from the elevator you'd have no idea what is actually going on. A seemingly everyday office building or apartments could have a whole floor dedicated to abducting children or whatever....
I'd love to have the room behind the library shelves with the rolling staircase. But that's because I want the library shelves with the rolling bookcase, not necessarily the room :)
Meet, too! But the room would also be so cool! I had a house that had a space that would have been perfect for it...but husband was not a reader & had no imagination, wouldn't let me do it!
My husband and I bought the house we have been renting for the last 5 years. During the inspection we went into the attic space and I had never seen it and figured it was a small unusable space. Wow it is huge! I had no idea. We are making plans to loft it open to the living room😄
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Nope only a shadow. I'm guessing you believe in zombies too. Stop watching stupid scary movies. They are meant to scare kids with an under developed sense of reality.
That "attic" behind the panel would have been too cold in the winter, too hot in the summer. having hung drywall myself and looking at all the angles I would guess it would be super expensive to finish.
Who’s to say that the owners of that place aren’t among the 0.1% of Elites in America? They wouldn’t worry about spending w/o limits fixing up that space. Money, for those types, isn’t an issue.
Not that expensive. Add some outlets, sheetrock and some paint. Said the flooring was already finished. Make a great study or just a private space. Need a bigger opening though. LOL!
I concur. It was probably sealed off and insulation scattered on the floor to reduce the HVAC bill for the rest of the house, because properly finishing and insulating it as a room would have been pretty expensive, and whoever did that probably didn't need the space.
Given that they have a room they use on the same floor it shouldn't be that big a deal to insulate, lay down a floor and put up drywall. It looks like our attic, except ours is a floor above our living areas, Ours has a - well, I'll call it a port for want of a better word - a hole with a cover on the roof ( 4 floors up, 1860's house with amazing mountain views). We've talked about putting a tower in with windows all around and a reading area. We also want to put a floor in over the joists so the attic itself can become a much needed storage space. The problem is access. When we moved in, there was a teeny hole in the laundry room right below it. The size an 1860's man's shoulders fit, but not modern men. We made a larger opening with a standard pull down attic ladder, but using the attic for anything is pretty hopeless due to the ladder access. Those pull down stairs in the other house intrigues me, but it's all much tricker than the house in the video
That "Secret Viewing" one is clearly a secret passage for a child to play in. The heights of the doors are perfect for small kids and the bookcase is a children's style.
Upstairs, on either side of my 2 window dormers, are small 4'×4'×4' boxy spaces. I only found these after we had a major house fire. Apparently, our local government regulations require certain sized "Rooms" have specific human sized egress rules for safe evacuation in, guess what, case of a fire. For these tiny rooms to be 'rooms' they'd each have to have a 3'×3' window all so, in a fire, a person could crawl out to safety. My contractor was LEGALLY required to COMPLETELY seal the tiny rooms making them impossible to enter. But (*wink wink*) not before accidentally putting a rough floor over the insulation & suggesting a few UA-cam "How to" videos. Coincidentally he left perfectly sized, cabinet doors, hinges & trim. TaDa! Extra 'secret' storage. I did use screws to close & secure the cabinet doors. Eventhough the doors are hidden in the upstairs closet, having kids around meant taking no chances. Out of sight storage (ie a wedding dress) is one thing endangering kids is another. I don't feel too bad, the County is taxing us for usable & unusable space equally so SAFELY using what I'm paying for just makes sense. Maybe simular laws are why there is no entry to some of these secret places.
My friend brought a home and during revovations found several secret rooms and one led too a door which said "Do Not Open" and he was curious and opened it anway and he's been unable to enjoy a good night sleep since. According to the daughter of the deceased she said her parents kept the room sealed off to keep something in and the kids were told to stay away. Apparently the room had some portal to hell and my friend laughed it off and said yeah right. I know when revovations were completed friends and family refused to spend the night and with and kids said they had an eere feeling about the home and refused to move in and so far he's been unable to sell it and stays in the home by himself and the last two dogs both passed away suddenly in the home and he even asked a priest to do a house blessing and whatever is in the home is not leaving.
Thanks!! Meow Wolf (all 4 of them) went on the bucket list. My daughters and I are taking a year-long road trip after she graduates, and we're determined to see and do it all!!
The main reason why I want a secret room is in case there's an intruder or someone has a hit on me to be murdered. I'll have a secret room to hide. What would be a huge plus is if there's another secret, concealed door to escape outside to get help.
I love the hidden slides! When I was about 4, for about 6 months we lived in a 2-story house with a full-size basement. I once found a little door in the upstairs hallway. It opened horizontally, and behind it was a metal space that appeared to be bottomless. Fortunately (maybe? ;)) my mother found me inspecting it via a stool in hopes of discovering a SECRET SLIDE! Alas, it was only a laundry chute, and my mom was horrified that I was considering a test run. She told me to never, ever get inside of it because it went down two stories to the cement-floor basement. But I think I need to have a house where I can create one! Either a laundry chute or a SECRET SLIDE :D -- or both.
If I had been your mom, we would have tossed a stuffed toy down to determine the landing area, then put a kiddie pool and a bunch of couch cushions and pillows in the house at the bottom of that chute in a kiddie pool and we would conduct extensive testing with various objects.
@@BonitaKayAllen When I was in kindergarten, I had a friend with one of those laundry chutes. It led to a canvas cart of the type that are used in warehouses, and was full of laundry. We would slide down it. I've often heard of other people doing that with chutes. During the same period, people put dumbwaiters in their houses and kids would ride in them too. I rented a house that had one, but it no longer functioned. I did find a 1940's superman trading card in it.
I have a secret compartment in my house. So basically it's a 2 platform shelf that goes into the wall. But if you look hard enough there's an Alan wrench stuck in the side that's what locks it in place. and when you pull it out you just have to pull on the cabinet and it opens up via hinges and reveals a secret storage room about 10 ft in total area. We lived there for a year until we found it we have no idea if the previous owners even knew about it.
I remodeled a home and found a secret room. The owner had been renting the home out for many years and she never knew about it. the room was full of private papers and canceled checks from over 40 years earlier. the house seemed haunted to me...
@@stevenmccrickard1401 oh my, I would be scared if its haunted. When she got the house it should have been told to her that there was a secret hidden area I would assume right, unless the realtor didnt know either? So that just makes it way more scarier and hard to tell what went on in that house
@@pamelahigh-foltz6951 I agree, neither the owner nor the tenant of over 12 years knew about it's existance. There seemed to be a very malicious energy in that house. It made working there quite challenging & my best employee would not go back inside choosing instead to miss out on weeks of income. I can't imagine the stress that living there would have caused.
@@pamelahigh-foltz6951 I found the space at the end of the job when monies were running low and as I recall the owner who has since passed on, had me seal up the access. I wonder if anyone found it thereafter. Interestingly the access was opened by pulling a Allen wrench lnside a cabinet which opened the back panel of the cabinet.
My choice of book would have to be: "14th Century Convent Room Decor" "How to fix your sewing machine" "Amazing ways to recycle used baby pampers and brassiere wires" Ooh top that!
but just a light burning steady day and night for a month only cost around $1 per month on electrical bill,,its the big appliances like stove,fridge,dryer,hot water .furnace that run a bill up ,,i just wish to let all know not to worry about 1 light being on and most bulbs would burn out and blow after 2 or 3 months anyway
Part of our house's attic 'crawl space' is accessible via a panel in the back of a secondary closet (we call it the 'nook') in my youngest's room. We've always wondered it there would be a way to outfit it to be habitable, or extra storage space. Something about floor vs ceiling joists that I'm not familiar with.
19:44 This is pretty common, especially with custom built homes. It's called a Bonus Room. Bonus rooms can be finished at the time of building, but probably more often they are left unfinished. Depending on the layout of the home, adding a bonus room at the time of building can be relatively cheap. What isn't cheap is finishing the bonus room, and paying taxes on it as "living space" ... Think of it like an addition that could be built really easily if they need it, but they don't have to pay taxes on it until or unless they do.
@@mirzamay Depends on building code where you live and/or if you try to sell it after the room gets finished without a permit. Any inspector worth a crap will be able to spot an illegal addition. I've seen people have to "undo" additions because they didn't get a permit.
A huge downside to finishing this type of space without a permit and inspections (in my area) is that when you go to sell the house you can't include it or the square footage in the listing, even if you disclose that it was unpermitted you don't recover your investment. Additionally at that point you get caught and fined.
I have been obsessed with hidden rooms all my life! I have to wonder where that comes from? I have put a bookshelf from my door to my bedroom. I want more…
I have been obsessed with secret rooms since I started reading YA mysteries when I was a young girl! Nancy Drew books always had the best spooky bad guys hiding in them in creepy old mansions 😆
Honestly, the guy at 3:55 with the hidden mirror was the only one who made a truly purposeful hidden area/panic room. The others just seem to be for fun or a surprise factor.
These videos are giving me the same feeling I had when I discovered the secret drawer in my dresser. Mom couldn’t find my phone to take before bed time anymore after that mwahaha
I love hidden rooms when we renovated my oldest brother home and turned it into a up and down duplex we put the furnace and hot water tank upstairs in a hidden furnace room just big enough to house them access to the furnace was gained from the master bedroom closet remove the upper and lower closet rods grab the right side closet bar holder close to the front of the closet and pull it and the whole wall swung out giving access to the front of furnace and humidifier access to the hot water heater was accessible from hallway remove the cold air return which was at the 6 foot height inside the cold air return was a 3/4 by1/2 inch reducing pipe pull it up and the whole 3 foot by 5 ft section of the wall would lean out grab both sides and lift up and remove the section of wall at my home I had a massive deck at ground level back of the house grab the right side of the deck and lift it up to reveal a stairway down to a large storage room under the deck I also built two hidden rooms in my younger brother home one accessible from his bedroom behind a bookcase on hinges and the other access from his top floor deck behind a wall
Believe me I would roll my eyes wenever Tik Tok came up..until my daughter showed me tik toks on my favorite hobbies n topics..and now im on it every day, getting motivated to make some side hustles! Youd be surprised lol
@@cathithomas2888 I think it's super user friendly that's one of the reasons it's so popular 🤷🏻♂️....I won't download it just because it's a Chinese company and I'd be giving permissions to the CCP to access every single piece of information about me at any time they think I'm important enough LoL.
Was touring a house, on the top floor there was a second bedroom next to the master bedroom. They both had closets on the separating wall, in the same place. Apparently, there was actually a narrow hidden passage between the tunnels that I could walk through.
OMG! That landlord 'place to crash,' thing! Yeah, if I was walking around there in the morning with a coffee and I saw my landlord's face there I'd have a heart attack!
I love your theory of the secret bookcase from when you said, "every time I see a bookcase I think there's a secret passage behind it."... LOL!!!... Funny you mention that, I think the same thing! 👍🤭
Careful what you wish for. Our house is from 1908 in rural Idaho. We discovered a chute in the basement, turns out it was the first morgue In The area 😅 it actually explained a lot happening in the house
My friend was obsessed with secret rooms and furniture that morphed. He passed away last year. We watched videos on YT for hours of homes with secret rooms or just secrets. Plus the abandon homes, and anything new tech. I am wanting to see the ultimate house with a surprise inside that is die for awesome. I have seen some great stuff though. There use to be a house on YT that had a park/playground inside the home for the kids. I don't remember if they had the no sun disease it has been a long time since I saw it, but i think they did. I tried to find it one time to show someone. Never did find it.
Oh, man! The one where the people had a part of their attic they couldn't access until they noticed the little panel that was screwed shut in her closet is SUCH an opportunity! That room had finished floors! If they tore down the back closet wall, vacuumed out all that insulation, and put up drywall in the hidden room, she could have an EPIC closet!
I love watching these videos. The “hidden rooms” type videos. Not that I’ll ever own a house with this type thing. I love to see that it’s possible and I’m clearly not the only one who’s jealous
There's a somewhat small closet in my house that could be easily turned into a hidden room and have a secret access hatch installed in the floor that could lead to a smaller storage area below.
@@jediknightjairinaiki560 😄understood. Well whenever you do take on the project, good luck. I'm a contractor and would love to do it for you because I love doing that kind of work. But I'm in Hawaii
So the guy at 16:30 had been renting that house for 3 years. Theres a locked door he's never had a key to, and a big window RIGHT next to it. Both overlooking the stairs he uses daily and they're right in front of his face as he heads on down. On an area where the walls/ceiling clearly show "unused space" where there's at least room for a spacious storage area, if not a whole ass bedroom depending on where you live. Yet somehow he never noticed the window he walks under daily (the window which was referred to as a "freaky feature". Ya know...cause windows are super creepy features lol). And then it took him 3 whole ass years to ask his landlord about the locked room in his house? Um no. Stop it. I don't believe you lol 🤨🤦🏻♀️
5:49 I would take a page out of snatcher's book (snatcher is a character from a hat in time) and called it How to kill kids because nobody in the right minds would want to read unless they are a child murder.
Dude everyone is going to pick up a book that's called "how to kill kids" because your going to want to know what the hell is going on and who the hell made that book
I do have to wonder just how effective the shrub rover would be in a zombie apocalypse since we've always seen the people in game trying to outrun the living dead on foot.
I always have a dream that there is a secret upstairs room in the other part of my dad's duplex that I used to rent off him. It's a recurring dream I've had for about 5 years now lol
I have had house dreams for many many years ( maybe since childhood), and secret rooms and rooms that appear and disappear are standards. Whenever I have something big I'm dealing with, I start having house dreams. They really accelerate when I am house shopping. I love having them!
@@laurelparker3171 me too because it's stuff you'd dream about having in your own home. I haven't been lucky enough to be able to afford my own house but it would be nice if I had one with a secret room lol
Good start... showing that scene from The Addams Family movie. I love the Addams Family! But even more, I love the new show, "Wednesday"!! In the first 2 months I watched it 13 times. Best show I have ever seen!!!
I definitely enjoyed Julia's pink and brown tunnels. If you're claustrophobic, beware, because they're really tight...butt then again, I'm pretty sure they would get you past your phobia. Absolutely amazing.
Its not uncommon for houses to be build with unfinished rooms for future use. A house my sister bought had an unfinished second floor. Benefit is that it makes it cheaper and faster to build. Guess that happened with that house with the unfinished room.
A friend of mine had a large multi level house. On the second to the lowest level behind the wet bar was a hidden spiral stair (verry cramped) If you went outside you could clearly see another huge living area on the lowest level. The "hidden stair" was the only Interior way to get into that space. Someone inside the house might call that a hidden room although from outside it was not hidden.
Incidently I was hired to install hidden safes in that home. After my friend passed away the home was sold. I sometimes wonder if the new owner ever found them.
Simple reason for the sealed off attic space on the Sissy Hankshaw story. Somebody just did not want to spend the money to finish out that extra space, but needed to leave access. Really quite common.
Yes. Back in the late 60's when my parents were house shopping lots of houses were sold with that extra unfinished space - to be finished either with subflooring for a storage room or more formally if one needed an extra room. It makes sense, really, as families vary so much in terms of needs.
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When I was younger, My mom and stepdad bought a half million dollar house that had a secret guest house connected to a giant pool. I found it by accident, I fell into the wall in my closet and it opened into a hallway leading into the front entrance. It was a complete house too. The bathroom was beautiful with a brass bathtub and stone shower with a waterfall showerhead. They gave it to me to use as my living space and I also had my bedroom in the main house. I was fourteen when my mom let me have the guest house. I am handicapped and it helped me get around the house. We lived there for 15 years. I loved it. I even cleaned the pool for my family so we didn't need to pay for a cleaning service. I would get my handicapped floater chair and the supplies, and enjoy the pool while cleaning it. At the end I would put the tablets in and let it do it's job. My mom and stepdad worked hard to afford that house. For awhile we were well off. They took good care of me too. They both passed away, mom passed in 2017 from cancer, my stepdad passed away two years ago from heart disease. R.I.P ❤️😭 I miss them very much.
I’m sorry
Sorry for your Loss, hon. You doing okay these days? I hope so.
Condolences for your loss. Have also lost both parents and still miss them at times.❤
So cool, great story
Stop the cap
My parents and I moved into a house when I was 12. We lived there 4 years before we were doing some renovations and found out there was a secret room behind a wall that only opened when you pushed on a VERY SPECIFIC and SPECIAL spot. It was a large room. About the same size as our living room which was 50x75. My Grandpa who was helping us renovate the house actually replaced the wall with a bookshelf and then hid the room again after renovating it and turning it into my bedroom. It was the coolest bedroom a teen could ask for.
In this dangerous world only getting more dangerous id like to have a secret room that we could hide in if house was being robbed or broken in .People are crazy and just kill inocent people for nothing!!
@@cindymccollum4540 I can relate
That sounded cool.
Wish I could've had one like that growing up lol
You were so lucky 😇
I recently had the pleasure of creating a secret room for a young girl. The new house had an unused area in the attic, which I mentioned to the father would make a cool hideout for kids. He liked the idea, and as I was already there to install cabinetry I had built, he asked me to add it to the job. We converted nearly 280 square feet of space, accessed by a ladder hidden in the bedroom wall, behind a sliding mirror like the one at 4:00. That little girl was beyond happy to learn of her secret room, and I was happy to have finally taken part in such a fun project.
I almost bought a house owned by a contractor. He had taken a studio house, added a door that became a hidden hallway to a master bedroom that began a huge 2 story brand new constructed house behind it. The best part was one of the bedrooms upstairs had another door that had a staircase leading down to the 3 car garage. I knew my young teenage son would love that room, but we got outbidded. If I ever get rich, I will build a huge house similar to that.
very kool !!
but why a young girl tho?
@@dokisans What??
Oh nice
So I'm an electrician and a carpenter. In response to the attic with loose insulation, I see this quite often. Technically, it's not a finished room, not even close. Everything is completely exposed, no shear, drywall, shiplap or anything covering the stud with probable electrical exposed. Usually you will find electrical or ventilation throughout these spaces. It makes for a great access point for doing wiring. More than likely there is a breaker box below it or in the room on the otherside. It's also likely that lights or bathroom fans are wired and vented through the floor and exiting the wall leaving the house. These spaces are conveniently when you want work done but don't want to have to patch drywall. It makes it quick and easy.
If I were to ever have enough money to build a custom house, I would definitely have a few hidden rooms built in!
I would have a hidden underground carpark/garage.
Someone’s a Batman fan
@@damocles2817 nah, I prefer the old horror movies. And "The Count of Monte Cristo "
Same
Addict space sealed cause they ran out of reno money
These kinds of videos fuel my intentions to build a house filled to the brim with secret rooms, hallways, trap-doors, including outside.
Reminds me of the house with ghosts and only way see them are with special glasses. Never did remember the name of movie
Same. I've designed them all in my head lol.
that's the goal!
@@BeAmazed YAAAAAA
u gotta be lucky as fudge to have be amazed reply
There are several speakeasies here in Texas. One I frequent in Dallas is in the Statler Hotel which is an old hotel itself. You go down to the shoeshine stand, go into a phone booth and dial a certain number and a door opens out of the wood-paneled wall. The interior is filled with 20's era furnishings.
@Laura Brown uuijjjjjjjjjjjjjoeoeiiiiiiiiieieeeuui
Sounds pretty neat.
Gunna give up the number?
That must look soo cool
Omg, that sounds fun as hell!!
My folks' house has a 1/4 turn spiral staircase from the entry foyer up to the 2nd floor. Nearby (hidden within walls & closed off with a door) is the set of stairs leading down to the basement -- they're straight, but make a 90-degree turn halfway down. As you might expect, the basement stairs are just a simple, basic staircase that follows the downward angle & path of the fancier curved staircase going up... But I have a friend who, after almost 50 years, still insists that there's actually a secret passage there. I've spent a lot of time over the 50+ years my family has owned the house looking and I can tell you there really is not a passage there (the measurements tell me you'd have to be a half-size munchkin to fit between the lower surface of the upper stairs and the ceiling for the basement stairs. So... imagine my surprise when I did some renovation work in the upstairs bathroom (in the "master suite" that is my parents' bedroom) and had to remove a screwed-in panel in the back of the closet to access the pipes for the shower... only to discover a four-foot square "room" with no ceiling that opened directly into the area beneath the roof. Why that space wasn't used for the closet, no one can tell us... but it was fun explaining to my friend that he had the location of secret spaces in the house totally wrong...!
My Uncle was a developer and built custom homes. In one of his homes in Colorado Springs he had a secret wine celler. First this house was HUGE. 2 stories. About 8,000 square feet 4 bedrooms, plus master suite, full finished basement, billiard room plus a good sized one bedroom apartment with a separate entry. It was for a maid, house keeper or mother in law. It had two garages. One on the first floor and one on the basement level. The back of the lot bordered a nature reserve so nobody could build behind them. (Oh yeah, the secret wine cellar.) A about 21:30 in the video the show a wall covered in wood strips about 1 inch wide. My Uncle had that same wall in the kitchen. You pushed a button in a kitchen cabinet and the door popped open about 2 inches. You opened the door to a secret stairway to the wine celler in the basement. It was totally cool.
A good decoy book would be “the finance of Japanese infrastructure“.
A hydraulic staircase is an excellent security feature! Imagine how safe you would feel sleeping on the 2nd story of your home, with the ONLY way UP neatly hidden away from robbers, attackers, Zombies, etc.
Paycheck, fat benefits package and absolutely no consequences whatsoever regardless of their lawlessness and criminality!
Forget the "robbers, attackers, Zobmies, etc" think about REAL THREATS like GANG AFFILIATED DOMESTIC TERRORISTS, in costumes with shiny shirt medallions who have Zero Accountability! They can do anything they want to anybody they want anytime they want and then proceed to walk away with a paycheck, benefits package and no consequences regardless of their lawlessness and criminality! American Heros they call them. Haha Haha! Fůkcing Narcissists Psychopaths!
@@karenwright848UH? you ok? Karen
@@karenwright848 I agree with everything you said. Tell me more.
Until the hydraulic fluid leaks or the lift stops working for anyreason and theres a fire...definitely a reason why you dont see stuff like that. Fire codes.
Id use Mein Kampf. That way you dont even need the room. Nobody will come over at all after they see that book on display.
How TF could you live somewhere for THREE YEARS and "never notice" a whole locked door right at the top of your stairs with a window on the INSIDE of the house? How is that even possible?
Hi! Because it's hidden.😂
@@marendelllincks9195 it wasn’t though. There was a door with no handle and a window.
@@marendelllincks9195 It's not hidden, at all.....
He didn't say that the renter never noticed it, he said that the render never knew what it was until the 3rd year when he finally climbed to the window
@@KKonUA-cam My original comment still stands.
I love all these "secret" rooms that are on UA-cam for all to see.
Well if they're posting addresses then that would make sense, but only showing where public places are located so..
It didn't exactly come with addresses or what the house looked like on the outside.
If you recognized any as your friends home well now you know and they know that you know too.
I agree, it's stupid to post a video of a secret room on the internet, even when they don't show an address.
Unless the video gives the address, you're good.
Imagine all the scaring you could do on Halloween in the shrub cube thing 😂
Success is dependent on the action or steps you take to achieve it. . Investment is building a safe heaven for the future:
Show me a man who doesn't have an investment and I will tell you how soon he'll get broke.
Speaking of investing, as it is right now investing in Crypto currency is making more than 85% of the world billionaires
Most people remain poor only because friends and relatives discouraged and advised them against investing and trading Bitcoin.
Assets that one can invest on, to become successful in life.
STOCK
CRYPTO
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@@kelvinenem2956 People will be kicking themselves in a few years if they miss this precious opportunity to trade and invest in Crypto currency this period.
at this present economic crisis, telling anyone about those assets to invest on, isn't financial advice, but by all factors It is a life advice.
These hidden rooms are also great to hide away and stay safe during a home invasion. I would also add hidden cameras as well to record the criminals for police to identify and arrest.
Here in the US in most places, we would just exercise our 2A rights, no need for a secret room in a home invasion.
And the criminal will also have a gun. And when someone else has a gun, it is safer to hide than fight back
Spaces like these are perfect for gun hoarders, drug traffickers, child molesters, those into kidnapping and torture or hiding stolen merchandise. How many truly horrible stories have we heard about where daddy or some relative held female relatives or small children hostage for decades to abuse them?
@@amywalker7515 that's true Amy. Unfortunately, some evil people would possibly do that, but for normal people like us, it would be great as a safe hiding room.
@@samp4050 You are so correct. I was 4 when Lincoln Nebraska was under seige by the serial killer Charlie Starkweather He threatened to blow up the city's school buses which my siblings rode - I awoke from my nap to the news breaking in with an order for people to go pick their kids up at the schools. . My mom was in the hospital having my sister and my dad was picked up at the bar across the street from the hospital ( in those days that's where dads waited for babies to be born) and put in jail because he had red hair like Starkweather. Suffice to say it was an all around traumatic day and chaod for a 4 year old, and it contributed to who I am today. I have never moved into a new house without planning a hiding place and escape route. People who think they can shoot their way out of a home invasion need to take that thought to its natural conclusion. In order for you to have the upper hand, you would have to never relax, but be constantly on the alert for someone to burst in with their gun trained on you. Do you sit in your home, prepare meals, sleep and sit on the toilet with a gun trained on the door? No? then give that bravado up because it's far more likely you're going to have your guns taken away and used on you.
My daughter bought a house that had a 'secret' room. Behind a pair of bookshelves of all places. After seeing it - I wanted one! 😆
There are 2 kinds of people, one wants it for good reasons, like for safety and protecting valuables and then there are the other people.
Then get one
Edit: This is not me being mean this is me saying if you want one go fulfill that dream and get one. I said this just so people don't be yelling at me if it comes out the wrong way or something.
Safe rooms been around centuries.Many homes in America had them as well as the middle East. ( They come in good in the Times we live in now as well as in past centuries).The family that has them will have a sence of feeling safer.
My friend has one like that too!
@@butcherbaker4258 honestly most people who want them don't want them primarily for any of those reasons. They want them simply because it's fun and cool. It brings them back to a childlike sense of wonder. If you want a room for protection it doesn't need to be a secret room where you pull out a book and the door appears lol
There is a mansion, here in our area. In the master bedroom there are two regular wooden wardrobes. Behind the wardrobes are 2 extremely large closets, one for him and one for her. They were amazing to see.
the kitchen island hiding the stairs was absolutely genius to say the least
I always wanted to have a house filled with secret passages. One example of one was the first room you entered when you went in the house was a little library, and when you closed the front door you could barely see it behind bookshelves. Then, on the other side of the room would be one of those bookcase doors. When you went through that one you'd be in an identical room. I figured that if someone found the secret door by accident, they'd think there was another one, but there was really a concealed trap door under the rug.
Another one is kind of like that fireplace design, except there was an actual fireplace with a sliding heat-proof panel in the back (so you don't burn your hand when someone lights a fire) which led to a ladder to some secret room.
But I think that stair idea was absolutely incredible.
That dryer tunnel reminds me of the door in Coraline that she opens up to get to her other world! That was amazing!!!
@@mansionbookerstudios9629 stop spamming people bud
@@fuckyoutube5584 👍🏼
yeah, my 10 year old little sister dressed up as Coraline this Halloween. My mom was The Other Mother and they went Trick or Treating, I wore my cosplay from 2 years ago of Tanjiro Kamado From Demon Slayer.
@@ODST_on_the_saxophone never did understand that movie Caroline.
@@fuckyoutube5584 😱 what did you not get???
How unaware must you be to live in a home for 3 years and never notice a door and a window, ffs?!
Probably noticed the door but not the window. Who would ever look there?
Seen this one off and on for years, they climb in the window but fail to notice the door hinges on the outside of the door. Should have just popped the pins and in you go
@@SpawnofChaos I would. A weird little window above a staircase and right beside a locked door that I didn't have access to? That would have been one of the 1st things I did once I moved in!
I was wondering wondering that same thing. And how many other important things escape their attention every day? I bet they've been hit by a car at least once. Lol
The Carlos Fernando door @21:55 isn't even remotely as complex and difficult to create as you seem to think (or want us to think). All of the "math involved" is non-existent. You just construct the wall with a flush door then cover it all with the same thickness slats. Not very complicated at all.
basic beadboard. Just measure the room to be the same as the paneling.
In my 1860's house, they apparently ran out of beadboard and when they went back for more the width had changed. So the last 4 feet of one of the bedrooms has wider beadboard than the rest. Now THAT might have required some fast figuring This - not.
“All about menopause”, that’s the book that I’d use.
I lived on a former plantation as a child. There were intact slave quarters, including indoor ones over the former kitchen, which was a garage when we lived there. the more modern kitchen was next to it, and on either side of the door into the house was a pantry. There were 23 foot ceilings and each of the pantries had deep shelves from floor to ceiling. deep enough for large burlap hags full of grains and beans, etc, or cotton or wool, as the lady of the house was a well known weaver and we think one of the pantries was for her supplies. In the one we used for food, my brother and I climbed the shelves to the top and discovered an entrance to the indoor slave quarters. The quarters were an attractive apartment with a large central room with a large fireplace in the middle and opposite it was a wood bin with a bedroom on either side. To enter the secret passageway to the pantry, one would remove the logs and the lose boards at the bottom and there below it was the top shelf of the pantry. It was truly genius and no doubt provided the enslaved with extra food. I believe there was also a space in the basement that could have been used to hide runaways as it was so dark we could never see into it even with a flashlight. I once found a game made of perfectly round black stones lying in the dirt just outside the darkest area. I've always wished I could go back and explore the space with new LED flashlights.
I now live in a house that was built in 1860. The last owner found some Confederate money and papers in the wall of the first owner's law office. I guess when the money was devalued he never bothered to retrieve it. We pulled out a book case in the kitchen and found a recess deep enough for the original stove - which would have been vented up the chimney. The chimneys no longer function, but I'd like to finish that recess out and replace the book case with one that slides out, or turn the whole thing into a deep cupboard for appliances. Nothing really thrilling in that house, except for the ingenious construction and the careful placement on the land that makes it cool year round - nobody does that anymore, even when people build their own.
See my comment above. Even though the house was a plantation, it was also probably part of The Underground Railroad helping slaves to escape. Hence the hidden entry points.
I live in a house built in 1890 and located in the city and I haven't found anything. I'm the forth owner.
After looking carefully at the adiacent house's blueprint and realizing something didn't add up, a guy I know found by accident two entire rooms hidden behind a wall of his very old masonry house! He made a small apartment for his son out of them. Talk about lucky!
I built a Torando Shelter room/ Gun Safe at the end of my Master bedroom closet. (6' w X 4' D X 8' H) We have a wrap around porch and that part of the pporch was just wasted space. And that meant the Shelter didn't take up and of the walk in closet space. The access door to the shelter is a shoe shelf that swings out, totally hidden if you don't know it's there. Then the safe type pocket doors are behind it.
It's made from 3/8th amored steel plates welded together and lined with Armor Core Sheetrock insde, painted inside to give it a normal room appearance. It has 2 wall mounted bunk beds that are big enough for 2 to sleep on or fold the upper bunk down to make the bottom bunk into a couch. There is a small fold down table on one wall that is big enough for a Ipad. Some shelves above it, and around the wall above the beds. And on the wall above the table is a 23" TV and 9" CCTV monitor so we can see the weather conditions outside and if any damage is done to our home before we exit. The lower bunk has stotage for fod and water. And there is a portable toilet in the room too! It have a solar panel outside and a Lithium battery inside topower the TV's and ventilation fan. And there is a 2 & 10 meter ham radio inside the room with a flexible car type antenna mounted outside. I am friends with my Local PD so if my house it hit by a tornado they know where to come look for us. Plus my wife is a member of the National Weather Storm Spotter Organization. It's a small room meant for just a few hours. But could sustain us from bad guys if need be!
If I had more money I'd install a 6 person Bomb Shelter in the back yard.
If I did have a secret door to a hidden room, I wouldn’t tell anyone.
😄👍
Same
Ditto.
Exactly. It’s not a secret if everyone knows
Truth!
That hidden home theater is just awesome and the door slides so easily.
I worked in a house that had a wine cellar in the basement that was accessed similarly to this. It was a ladder hidden under a corner countertop. Flip up the top, open the door and climb down. Gorgeous all wood finished cellar.
I have allways wanted this in my house. It would be so cool!
I wired up a Safe room for a Guy
He had a LARGE digital combination pad hidden in what looked a standard area of the wall
But when you opened the door locked by the digital combination pad
You entered a stair way down to a concrete lined room under the basement
It was a complete second basement
Three of the walls had 8' tall safes imbedded into the concrete wall
With more safes in the middle of the room
I found out he collected books and needed someplace fire proof to store the books
I was sort of hoping for cash , gold or guns
20:35 ... err, there is a more sinister reason for such a room. That room was likely used to keep someone hidden away within. As in a child abductor and such. Being hidden behind a bookshelf within the wardrobe like that meant the abductor could enter and exit the room unnoticed by a child within the room.
Those tiles under the carpeting on the first entry point was to hide the sound of footsteps.
I'm sure there are so many things like this hidden in plain sight no one ever notices. That "abandoned warehouse/factory/whatever" you pass by every day could be used to house 100s of sex slaves, kidnapped children, human experimentation whatever and no one would ever know. The same goes for entire floors of huge buildings, if you don't have access to that floor from the elevator you'd have no idea what is actually going on. A seemingly everyday office building or apartments could have a whole floor dedicated to abducting children or whatever....
Yes. I was thinking the same thing.
Wtf
FBI open up
You asked what book would you use as a latch to a hidden door:
I'd title it as an encyclopedia, or a manual for one of those IKEA pieces of furniture.
9:35
ok no. If I ever ended up in an attic where I saw all of that, I'd have either two options
1. Burn the house
2. Burn the house
Bro ur so funny😂
I'd love to have the room behind the library shelves with the rolling staircase. But that's because I want the library shelves with the rolling bookcase, not necessarily the room :)
Meet, too! But the room would also be so cool! I had a house that had a space that would have been perfect for it...but husband was not a reader & had no imagination, wouldn't let me do it!
@@patriciatinkey2677 Damn husbands! LOL
Tell him youll put a batmobile down there
Sounds great to me!
Not really a "secret room" if everyone knows.
lol
Right?!
Exactly my thoughts
My husband and I bought the house we have been renting for the last 5 years. During the inspection we went into the attic space and I had never seen it and figured it was a small unusable space. Wow it is huge! I had no idea. We are making plans to loft it open to the living room😄
You lived there for 5 years and never felt curious enough to check out that space? Wow! But I'm glad you discovered it eventually.
Amazing memories, and wonderful parents!!! It’s so sad having lost them, but your awesome time together will keep on being one of your best times! What a blessing! Congrats! Hope you find many friends to keep on sharing those awesome experiences!!! Thx 4 sharing!!!🎉😊❤
Did you guys see that black figure in 20:59
Nope only a shadow. I'm guessing you believe in zombies too. Stop watching stupid scary movies. They are meant to scare kids with an under developed sense of reality.
That "attic" behind the panel would have been too cold in the winter, too hot in the summer. having hung drywall myself and looking at all the angles I would guess it would be super expensive to finish.
Who’s to say that the owners of that place aren’t among the 0.1% of Elites in America? They wouldn’t worry about spending w/o limits fixing up that space. Money, for those types, isn’t an issue.
finishing that space would be less expensive than adding a room because the structure is already there.
Not that expensive. Add some outlets, sheetrock and some paint. Said the flooring was already finished. Make a great study or just a private space. Need a bigger opening though. LOL!
I concur. It was probably sealed off and insulation scattered on the floor to reduce the HVAC bill for the rest of the house, because properly finishing and insulating it as a room would have been pretty expensive, and whoever did that probably didn't need the space.
Given that they have a room they use on the same floor it shouldn't be that big a deal to insulate, lay down a floor and put up drywall. It looks like our attic, except ours is a floor above our living areas, Ours has a - well, I'll call it a port for want of a better word - a hole with a cover on the roof ( 4 floors up, 1860's house with amazing mountain views). We've talked about putting a tower in with windows all around and a reading area. We also want to put a floor in over the joists so the attic itself can become a much needed storage space. The problem is access. When we moved in, there was a teeny hole in the laundry room right below it. The size an 1860's man's shoulders fit, but not modern men. We made a larger opening with a standard pull down attic ladder, but using the attic for anything is pretty hopeless due to the ladder access. Those pull down stairs in the other house intrigues me, but it's all much tricker than the house in the video
That "Secret Viewing" one is clearly a secret passage for a child to play in. The heights of the doors are perfect for small kids and the bookcase is a children's style.
Upstairs, on either side of my 2 window dormers, are small 4'×4'×4' boxy spaces. I only found these after we had a major house fire. Apparently, our local government regulations require certain sized "Rooms" have specific human sized egress rules for safe evacuation in, guess what, case of a fire. For these tiny rooms to be 'rooms' they'd each have to have a 3'×3' window all so, in a fire, a person could crawl out to safety. My contractor was LEGALLY required to COMPLETELY seal the tiny rooms making them impossible to enter. But (*wink wink*) not before accidentally putting a rough floor over the insulation & suggesting a few UA-cam "How to" videos. Coincidentally he left perfectly sized, cabinet doors, hinges & trim. TaDa! Extra 'secret' storage.
I did use screws to close & secure the cabinet doors. Eventhough the doors are hidden in the upstairs closet, having kids around meant taking no chances. Out of sight storage (ie a wedding dress) is one thing endangering kids is another. I don't feel too bad, the County is taxing us for usable & unusable space equally so SAFELY using what I'm paying for just makes sense.
Maybe simular laws are why there is no entry to some of these secret places.
My friend brought a home and during revovations found several secret rooms and one led too a door which said "Do Not Open" and he was curious and opened it anway and he's been unable to enjoy a good night sleep since. According to the daughter of the deceased she said her parents kept the room sealed off to keep something in and the kids were told to stay away. Apparently the room had some portal to hell and my friend laughed it off and said yeah right. I know when revovations were completed friends and family refused to spend the night and with and kids said they had an eere feeling about the home and refused to move in and so far he's been unable to sell it and stays in the home by himself and the last two dogs both passed away suddenly in the home and he even asked a priest to do a house blessing and whatever is in the home is not leaving.
Thanks!! Meow Wolf (all 4 of them) went on the bucket list. My daughters and I are taking a year-long road trip after she graduates, and we're determined to see and do it all!!
The main reason why I want a secret room is in case there's an intruder or someone has a hit on me to be murdered. I'll have a secret room to hide. What would be a huge plus is if there's another secret, concealed door to escape outside to get help.
We should appreciate this man because he thinks of these amazing but cheesy joke for every vid
I love the hidden slides! When I was about 4, for about 6 months we lived in a 2-story house with a full-size basement. I once found a little door in the upstairs hallway. It opened horizontally, and behind it was a metal space that appeared to be bottomless. Fortunately (maybe? ;)) my mother found me inspecting it via a stool in hopes of discovering a SECRET SLIDE! Alas, it was only a laundry chute, and my mom was horrified that I was considering a test run. She told me to never, ever get inside of it because it went down two stories to the cement-floor basement. But I think I need to have a house where I can create one! Either a laundry chute or a SECRET SLIDE :D -- or both.
If I had been your mom, we would have tossed a stuffed toy down to determine the landing area, then put a kiddie pool and a bunch of couch cushions and pillows in the house at the bottom of that chute in a kiddie pool and we would conduct extensive testing with various objects.
@@BonitaKayAllen When I was in kindergarten, I had a friend with one of those laundry chutes. It led to a canvas cart of the type that are used in warehouses, and was full of laundry. We would slide down it. I've often heard of other people doing that with chutes.
During the same period, people put dumbwaiters in their houses and kids would ride in them too. I rented a house that had one, but it no longer functioned. I did find a 1940's superman trading card in it.
Nice
Awesome seeing all these cool hidden spaces
The landlord secret room is DEF creepy. Prob gave up on secret rooms when he figured out wifi. Yeh, watch the movie, The Rental 2020. Creepy crazy.
I have a secret compartment in my house. So basically it's a 2 platform shelf that goes into the wall. But if you look hard enough there's an Alan wrench stuck in the side that's what locks it in place. and when you pull it out you just have to pull on the cabinet and it opens up via hinges and reveals a secret storage room about 10 ft in total area. We lived there for a year until we found it we have no idea if the previous owners even knew about it.
I remodeled a home and found a secret room. The owner had been renting the home out for many years and she never knew about it. the room was full of private papers and canceled checks from over 40 years earlier. the house seemed haunted to me...
That's cool
@@stevenmccrickard1401 oh my, I would be scared if its haunted. When she got the house it should have been told to her that there was a secret hidden area I would assume right, unless the realtor didnt know either? So that just makes it way more scarier and hard to tell what went on in that house
@@pamelahigh-foltz6951 I agree, neither the owner nor the tenant of over 12 years knew about it's existance. There seemed to be a very malicious energy in that house. It made working there quite challenging & my best employee would not go back inside choosing instead to miss out on weeks of income. I can't imagine the stress that living there would have caused.
@@pamelahigh-foltz6951 I found the space at the end of the job when monies were running low and as I recall the owner who has since passed on, had me seal up the access. I wonder if anyone found it thereafter. Interestingly the access was opened by pulling a Allen wrench lnside a cabinet which opened the back panel of the cabinet.
The book I’d have would have to be
“caillou: accidents happen (clubhouse)”
Great choice!
Caillou=Major Cringe!
Ughhh just thinking about that whiney bratty voice automatically makes me feel so annoyed!
My choice of book would have to be:
"14th Century Convent Room Decor"
"How to fix your sewing machine"
"Amazing ways to recycle used baby pampers and brassiere wires"
Ooh top that!
Ewwwwwwwwwwww caillou freaks me out.
Imagine the electric bill if they left the light on in the secret room behind bookcase before selling.
but just a light burning steady day and night for a month only cost around $1 per month on electrical bill,,its the big appliances like stove,fridge,dryer,hot water .furnace that run a bill up ,,i just wish to let all know not to worry about 1 light being on and most bulbs would burn out and blow after 2 or 3 months anyway
I love your videos
The "hydraulic staircase at 14:00 is NOT hydraulic, its electric linear screw actuators.
Part of our house's attic 'crawl space' is accessible via a panel in the back of a secondary closet (we call it the 'nook') in my youngest's room. We've always wondered it there would be a way to outfit it to be habitable, or extra storage space. Something about floor vs ceiling joists that I'm not familiar with.
Wine cellar one was awesome if they could make it so the hinges aren't on show
19:44 This is pretty common, especially with custom built homes. It's called a Bonus Room. Bonus rooms can be finished at the time of building, but probably more often they are left unfinished. Depending on the layout of the home, adding a bonus room at the time of building can be relatively cheap. What isn't cheap is finishing the bonus room, and paying taxes on it as "living space" ... Think of it like an addition that could be built really easily if they need it, but they don't have to pay taxes on it until or unless they do.
Or ever, because who's gonna know it's there? Also it wouldn't be as secret if the county knew about it.
@@mirzamay
Depends on building code where you live and/or if you try to sell it after the room gets finished without a permit. Any inspector worth a crap will be able to spot an illegal addition. I've seen people have to "undo" additions because they didn't get a permit.
A huge downside to finishing this type of space without a permit and inspections (in my area) is that when you go to sell the house you can't include it or the square footage in the listing, even if you disclose that it was unpermitted you don't recover your investment. Additionally at that point you get caught and fined.
I hope you get 10M subs soon.
Your videos are so entertaining
I have been obsessed with hidden rooms all my life! I have to wonder where that comes from? I have put a bookshelf from my door to my bedroom. I want more…
I have been obsessed with secret rooms since I started reading YA mysteries when I was a young girl! Nancy Drew books always had the best spooky bad guys hiding in them in creepy old mansions 😆
Honestly, the guy at 3:55 with the hidden mirror was the only one who made a truly purposeful hidden area/panic room. The others just seem to be for fun or a surprise factor.
These videos are giving me the same feeling I had when I discovered the secret drawer in my dresser. Mom couldn’t find my phone to take before bed time anymore after that mwahaha
This mom would have canceled your service, mwahaha
My phone didn’t even have service, it was a glorified iPod so mwahahaha again :P
I've been to MeowWolf in Santa Fe, and I knew what that dryer was as soon as it appeared. It's an awesome place.
I smiled at that comment to
I love the one with the tunnel that leads to a bar and kid's play area. I'd turn the play area into a sectional couch. Like a lounge room.
I love hidden rooms when we renovated my oldest brother home and turned it into a up and down duplex we put the furnace and hot water tank upstairs in a hidden furnace room just big enough to house them access to the furnace was gained from the master bedroom closet remove the upper and lower closet rods grab the right side closet bar holder close to the front of the closet and pull it and the whole wall swung out giving access to the front of furnace and humidifier access to the hot water heater was accessible from hallway remove the cold air return which was at the 6 foot height inside the cold air return was a 3/4 by1/2 inch reducing pipe pull it up and the whole 3 foot by 5 ft section of the wall would lean out grab both sides and lift up and remove the section of wall at my home I had a massive deck at ground level back of the house grab the right side of the deck and lift it up to reveal a stairway down to a large storage room under the deck I also built two hidden rooms in my younger brother home one accessible from his bedroom behind a bookcase on hinges and the other access from his top floor deck behind a wall
I was more surprised to learn how affluent TikTok users apparently are. It's obviously a much more profitable venture than I had thought.
Believe me I would roll my eyes wenever Tik Tok came up..until my daughter showed me tik toks on my favorite hobbies n topics..and now im on it every day, getting motivated to make some side hustles! Youd be surprised lol
Are you kidding? TikTok is THE advertising medium for now! Wish I knew how to use it !! Lol
@@cathithomas2888 I think it's super user friendly that's one of the reasons it's so popular 🤷🏻♂️....I won't download it just because it's a Chinese company and I'd be giving permissions to the CCP to access every single piece of information about me at any time they think I'm important enough LoL.
Men's cave is probably most important room in the house.
Every man should have one 😁
Was touring a house, on the top floor there was a second bedroom next to the master bedroom. They both had closets on the separating wall, in the same place. Apparently, there was actually a narrow hidden passage between the tunnels that I could walk through.
That was riveting! I love things like this. If I had my own home & the money for it, I'd def incorporate some of these ideas into it!
Love the high bookshelves with the rolling stairs❤
This man always seems to Be Amazed
OMG! That landlord 'place to crash,' thing! Yeah, if I was walking around there in the morning with a coffee and I saw my landlord's face there I'd have a heart attack!
That landlord is a liar too. More like a perv.
That was kind of creepy... especially since he never mentioned it too them.
I love your theory of the secret bookcase from when you said, "every time I see a bookcase I think there's a secret passage behind it."... LOL!!!... Funny you mention that, I think the same thing! 👍🤭
Careful what you wish for. Our house is from 1908 in rural Idaho. We discovered a chute in the basement, turns out it was the first morgue In The area 😅 it actually explained a lot happening in the house
My friend was obsessed with secret rooms and furniture that morphed. He passed away last year. We watched videos on YT for hours of homes with secret rooms or just secrets. Plus the abandon homes, and anything new tech. I am wanting to see the ultimate house with a surprise inside that is die for awesome. I have seen some great stuff though. There use to be a house on YT that had a park/playground inside the home for the kids. I don't remember if they had the no sun disease it has been a long time since I saw it, but i think they did. I tried to find it one time to show someone. Never did find it.
Brilliant compilation. Though I’m disappointed no secret rooms from history were shown where people were held captive.
wow i definetely found this secret guy fawkes on a balance scale,(your emblem sir)
Those internal slides are way too claustrophobic for me ! It's one of the few times I wish I didn't have it because they look like so much fun.
They were all so cool!
Oh, man! The one where the people had a part of their attic they couldn't access until they noticed the little panel that was screwed shut in her closet is SUCH an opportunity! That room had finished floors! If they tore down the back closet wall, vacuumed out all that insulation, and put up drywall in the hidden room, she could have an EPIC closet!
I love watching these videos. The “hidden rooms” type videos. Not that I’ll ever own a house with this type thing. I love to see that it’s possible and I’m clearly not the only one who’s jealous
7:52 Found a solution to hide the stairs connecting my kitchen to the canteen! Thank you!
There's a somewhat small closet in my house that could be easily turned into a hidden room and have a secret access hatch installed in the floor that could lead to a smaller storage area below.
do it!
Well?
What exactly are you waiting for? Permission? Concurrence? Money?
@@jefferylong4239 Yes, yes and yes.
@@jediknightjairinaiki560 😄understood. Well whenever you do take on the project, good luck. I'm a contractor and would love to do it for you because I love doing that kind of work. But I'm in Hawaii
So the guy at 16:30 had been renting that house for 3 years. Theres a locked door he's never had a key to, and a big window RIGHT next to it. Both overlooking the stairs he uses daily and they're right in front of his face as he heads on down. On an area where the walls/ceiling clearly show "unused space" where there's at least room for a spacious storage area, if not a whole ass bedroom depending on where you live. Yet somehow he never noticed the window he walks under daily (the window which was referred to as a "freaky feature". Ya know...cause windows are super creepy features lol). And then it took him 3 whole ass years to ask his landlord about the locked room in his house? Um no. Stop it. I don't believe you lol 🤨🤦🏻♀️
the theatre one!!! 😍😍😍
I love to have a home
That has secrets
so nobody can bother me 😊
5:49 I would take a page out of snatcher's book (snatcher is a character from a hat in time) and called it How to kill kids because nobody in the right minds would want to read unless they are a child murder.
Dude everyone is going to pick up a book that's called "how to kill kids" because your going to want to know what the hell is going on and who the hell made that book
I haven't been to Meow Wolf, but I have heard of them. They got their start in my home state.
It's amazing. So fun and interesting!
The perfect book to use is a Thesaurus dictionary nobody uses those
Good point and if someone did they would find one on the internet.
Or a book about US laws..seems a lot of people don’t use those either😱😱 JK🤣🤣🤣🤣
Speak for yourself.
To the person who stole my thesaurus, you're a bad person. You made me feel bad. I hope bad things happen to you.
US tax code for a dozen or so years back! Nobody would touch any volume of that! ( remember Day After Tomorrow?
SECRET ROOMS AND HIDDEN SPACES ARE SO COOL!😊
What a Sweet Story! Thank you for sharing!
16:45 I’m wondering how tf it took him 3 years to find that
I do have to wonder just how effective the shrub rover would be in a zombie apocalypse since we've always seen the people in game trying to outrun the living dead on foot.
I always have a dream that there is a secret upstairs room in the other part of my dad's duplex that I used to rent off him. It's a recurring dream I've had for about 5 years now lol
I have had house dreams for many many years ( maybe since childhood), and secret rooms and rooms that appear and disappear are standards. Whenever I have something big I'm dealing with, I start having house dreams. They really accelerate when I am house shopping. I love having them!
@@laurelparker3171 me too because it's stuff you'd dream about having in your own home. I haven't been lucky enough to be able to afford my own house but it would be nice if I had one with a secret room lol
Where the moneys stashed 💜💜💜🇺🇸
Good start... showing that scene from The Addams Family movie. I love the Addams Family! But even more, I love the new show, "Wednesday"!! In the first 2 months I watched it 13 times. Best show I have ever seen!!!
I definitely enjoyed Julia's pink and brown tunnels. If you're claustrophobic, beware, because they're really tight...butt then again, I'm pretty sure they would get you past your phobia. Absolutely amazing.
Its not uncommon for houses to be build with unfinished rooms for future use. A house my sister bought had an unfinished second floor.
Benefit is that it makes it cheaper and faster to build.
Guess that happened with that house with the unfinished room.
A friend of mine had a large multi level house. On the second to the lowest level behind the wet bar was a hidden spiral stair (verry cramped) If you went outside you could clearly see another huge living area on the lowest level. The "hidden stair" was the only Interior way to get into that space. Someone inside the house might call that a hidden room although from outside it was not hidden.
Incidently I was hired to install hidden safes in that home. After my friend passed away the home was sold. I sometimes wonder if the new owner ever found them.
5:47, I'd use a law book and never allow a lawyer into the room
Simple reason for the sealed off attic space on the Sissy Hankshaw story. Somebody just did not want to spend the money to finish out that extra space, but needed to leave access. Really quite common.
Yes. Back in the late 60's when my parents were house shopping lots of houses were sold with that extra unfinished space - to be finished either with subflooring for a storage room or more formally if one needed an extra room. It makes sense, really, as families vary so much in terms of needs.