An Airbnb visitor was full of fright after discovering a door in her rental result in a hidden chamber.
Xena Habashi booked a basement condominium in Chicago by way of the holiday property leases firm and was shocked to search out what she described as a hidden chamber
‘Discovered a room that wasn’t appart of the air bnb itemizing,’ she captioned a video she posted on TikTok.
The clip, with ominous-sounding music within the background, exhibits a standard trying bed room after which pans to one of many doorways which she opens and exposes a darkish, cellar-like room with uncovered brick, wooden and different gadgets.
Among the many gadgets had been ‘wood doorways with locks on’ and ‘chains on the bottom’, and one other door went ‘even additional down’ the constructing, Habashi advised Newsweek.
Habashi, of Kansas Metropolis, Missouri, mentioned she checked in round 4am on December 30 and supposed on going to sleep, however struggled to after making the invention.
‘I seen that there have been so many random doorways inside the home that had been by no means proven within the itemizing,’ she mentioned.
‘Whereas preparing to fall asleep me and my cousin seen a lightweight on in one of many rooms that was locked. We determined to attempt to open it… I acquired a fork and was in a position to open the door. That’s after I noticed it.’
Habashi mentioned she and her cousin ran to a different room to tell her mom, who ‘acquired scared too as a result of that was by no means proven within the itemizing and it regarded scary’.
She mentioned they blocked the door utilizing a desk however weren’t in a position to sleep.
‘We stayed up until the morning, stored listening to noises, and earlier than we left I made a decision to take that video and it went viral unexpectedly!’ she mentioned.
Habashi additionally captioned the video, ‘actually barbarian’, referring to the 2022 horror film round a girl who reserves a rental residence she doesn’t know was double-booked and has a darkish secret.
There have been no prior complaints concerning the itemizing, which had a 4.84 ranking.
‘The itemizing is marketed as a basement condominium, and the separate area that was accessed is a part of the basement,’ an Airbnb spokesperson advised Newsweek. ‘Our customer support crew supported our visitor with their considerations on the time, and assisted with a refund and one other place to remain.’
It isn’t the primary time such a discovery has been made. In 2021, a Sussex house owner discovered a secret door behind a bookshelf and a community of hid tunnels and rooms beneath his household’s 500-year-old residence.
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