Airbnb guest finds ‘secret chamber’ connected to her rental

An Airbnb impermanent was filled with fright aft discovering a doorway successful her rental led to a hidden chamber.

Xena Habashi booked a basement flat successful Chicago done the abrogation spot rentals institution and was shocked to find what she described arsenic a ‘hidden chamber’.

‘Found a country that wasn’t portion of the Airbnb listing,’ she captioned a video she posted on TikTok.

The clip, with ominous-sounding euphony successful the background, shows a mean looking chamber and past pans to 1 of the doors which she opens and exposes a dark, cellar-like country with exposed brick, wood and different items.

Among the items were ‘wooden doors with locks on’ and ‘chains connected the ground’, and different doorway went ‘even further down’ the building, Habashi told Newsweek.

Habashi, of Kansas City, Missouri, said she checked successful astir 4am connected December 30, 2023, and intended connected going to sleep, but struggled to aft making the discovery.

‘I noticed that determination were truthful galore random doors wrong the location that were ne'er shown successful the listing,’ she said.

‘While getting acceptable to spell to slumber maine and my relative noticed a airy connected successful 1 of the rooms that was locked. We decided to effort and unfastened it… I got a fork and was capable to unfastened the door. That’s erstwhile I saw it.’

Habashi said she and her relative ran to different country to pass her mother, who ‘got frightened excessively due to the fact that that was ne'er shown successful the listing and it looked scary’.

She said they blocked the doorway utilizing a array but were not capable to sleep.

‘We stayed up till the morning, kept proceeding noises, and earlier we near I decided to instrumentality that video and it went viral unexpectedly!’ she said.

Habashi besides captioned the video, ‘literally barbarian’, referring to the 2022 fearfulness movie astir a pistillate who reserves a rental location she does not cognize was double-booked and has a acheronian secret.

There were nary anterior complaints astir the listing, which had a 4.84 rating.

‘The listing is advertised arsenic a basement apartment, and the abstracted abstraction that was accessed is portion of the basement,’ an Airbnb spokesperson told Newsweek. ‘Our lawsuit work squad supported our impermanent with their concerns astatine the time, and assisted with a refund and different spot to stay.’

It is not the archetypal clip specified a find has been made. In 2021, a Sussex homeowner recovered a concealed door down a bookshelf and a web of concealed tunnels and rooms beneath his family’s 500-year-old home.

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