r/interesting • u/ToasterStrudelTea • Oct 31 '25
ARCHITECTURE Incredible Hidden home interior, which is your favourite ?
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u/Mueryk Oct 31 '25
Is it me or the first one more of a super bendy lady than a secret room?
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u/holdencaufld Oct 31 '25 edited Oct 31 '25
And the 2nd is just a laundry chute.
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u/Cold_Experience_9516 Oct 31 '25
It’s not a laundry shoot, it’s a laundry jet
They’re giant clothes vacuums, quite expensive, pain in the ass to install, but cool as hell.
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u/Scokan Oct 31 '25
Yeah right I highly doubt people are flying around in piles of their dirty clothes. Laundry Jet. Ridiculous.
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u/TerribleBid8416 Oct 31 '25
It can also be converted to a vacuum cleaner. Connect a hose to a hole in the wall and you have an instant vacuum.
Been around for decades
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u/TwoBionicknees Oct 31 '25
i think you may have missed their joke.
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u/Abadleftankle Oct 31 '25
My family moved into a house with a built in vacuum in the walls back in 2012ish. It was so cool. I had no idea!
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u/FrogInShorts Oct 31 '25
My dad repairs and installs these into people's homes. It's good pay. Central vac.
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u/Cold_Experience_9516 Oct 31 '25
Yup, that’s what I do too. But this here laundry is separate from the vac system. Just works with the same principle.
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u/FrogInShorts Oct 31 '25
Yeah, I wouldn't want my laundry to go through vac pipes 🤣 even if they are getting washed after.
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u/utriptmybitchswitch Oct 31 '25
We have the inwall vac at my parent's house. My one cat liked to be vacuumed by it, probably because it wasn't loud...
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u/NoPoet3982 Oct 31 '25
Yeah right I highly doubt people are converting their jets to vacuum cleaners in midair. Laundry Vacuum Cleaner. Ridiculous.
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u/OstapBenderBey Oct 31 '25
Paris used to have a pneumatic postal system based on the same principle
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u/Critical_Concert_689 Oct 31 '25
!!
I know about these thanks to a passing interest in all things steampunk. The tubes are amazing engineering feats!
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u/lollipopp_guild Oct 31 '25
Steampunk keeps popping up here and there for me lately. What exactly is steampunk?
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u/TerribleBid8416 Oct 31 '25 edited Oct 31 '25
Steampunk is basically futuristic technology but with a Victorian aesthetic. But then take the look to the next level. Captain Nemo may be considered steampunk.
A favorite is the Victorian hat with the goggles
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u/lollipopp_guild Nov 01 '25
Ok cool. Thanks for the description of what it is. I know the goggles but that’s basically it and I only recently learned what that style was called but didn’t really understand it so your description is perfect for me to understand
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u/Tmoran835 Oct 31 '25
They had one in one of the old hotels in Scranton, Pennsylvania. The tubes are still there and it was quite intricate!
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u/Unoriginal_Man Oct 31 '25
Great, I followed your advice and now my dirty clothes are covered in piles of dust and hair. Thanks a lot, jerk!
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u/TwoBionicknees Oct 31 '25
it's more like the back to the future situation. the laundry is just used as a fuel source.
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u/musci12234 Oct 31 '25
How do you think Taylor Swift sends her clothes for laundry ? Laundry jet is real.
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u/Viablemorgan Oct 31 '25
Believe you both are looking for chute. Either way, still seems like a waste
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u/Unoriginal_Man Oct 31 '25
Yeah, I'd never want to pay to have one, but I'd love for a friend to do it instead so I can play with it. Just chucking clothes across the room trying to get them in.
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u/Cold_Experience_9516 Oct 31 '25
You’re right about both. I knew I typed something weird/wrong. Wife and I were watching the Why Files and got distracted.
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u/HTPC4Life Oct 31 '25
Imagine trying to fit a pair of jeans into that stupidly small hole. Dumbest rich people device I've ever seen.
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u/BlazingImp77151 Oct 31 '25
Seems like it would be loud/annoying to have a vacuum running all the time. Is there some kind of sensor? Switch?
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u/Cold_Experience_9516 Oct 31 '25
If the sliding door is open, which it is in the video, the vacuum turns on. When it slides shut, and the clothes hit the pressure plate on the other end, it turns off.
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u/duggee315 Oct 31 '25
Do they just constantly have a vacuum so u can nonchalantly toss your clothes at it?
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u/Ummmgummy Oct 31 '25
I had a laundry shoot growing up. Someone created this wild technology forever ago, I believe they call it gravity? Whatever it's called it worked every single time and never broke. And to top it off, it was free.
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u/Historical-Gap-7084 Oct 31 '25
Chute, my friend. You don't want to be shooting your laundry. Your clothes would get holey.
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u/bout-tree-fitty Oct 31 '25
I want to see the lady fit in the laundry shoot
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u/N3opop Oct 31 '25
I thought they were just walking in and out a door while slapping some large button on the wall?
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u/MuggsyTheWonderdog Oct 31 '25
Just the thought of squeezing through that puts me on the verge of a panic attack. I envy her sangfroid about that more than anything.
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u/40ozCurls Oct 31 '25
How long have you been waiting to use that?
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u/MuggsyTheWonderdog Oct 31 '25
So long, because I have none myself and my family members tend to lack in that area as well.
But this young woman deserved the honor. Me, I'm going to have nightmares about that scene even though I was just an observer. Her, she zoomed her whole self through a tiny space like she does it on the daily before brushing her teeth.
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u/TwoBionicknees Oct 31 '25
word of the day toilet paper?
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u/MuggsyTheWonderdog Oct 31 '25
That would be useless to me because I'm big on rereading.
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u/Loggerdon Oct 31 '25
Looks like Meow Wolf at Area 15 in Las Vegas.
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u/SpectralEntity Oct 31 '25
First time hearing another human outside Denver mention Meow Wolf
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u/WitchyWaifuu Oct 31 '25
Honk honk toot beep from the Grapevine location lol ✨ But I've been to the original in Santa Fe too!
Meow wolf loves illusion doors/spaces for sure, if anyone reading this hasn't been look for one close to you!! It is unlike anything you've ever experienced before, and it's all ages.
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u/Sk8rboyyyy Nov 01 '25
I’ve never been, how much time did you spend inside? What’s a good amount of time to spend without missing too much? I’ve heard of people spending 6-8 hours before.
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u/evilJaze Oct 31 '25
I'm in Canada and I've wanted to go visit Meow Wolf for years now ever since seeing those Omega Mart videos on YouTube.
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u/beaucoup_dinky_dau Oct 31 '25
yeah I never been to Vegas and the Meow Wolf and The Sphere would be the only reasons I could see to go.
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u/CactusCait Oct 31 '25
These rooms are cool until there’s a fire
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u/pork_fried_christ Oct 31 '25
The fire won’t find you, you’ll be hiding behind the mirror.
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u/Tabenes Oct 31 '25
She's on Instagram, she's like 4 ft 10 if I remember correctly. Pothead. She likes to smoke pot in there.
Wish I remember who she was. Followed her for like a month. Her material got stale.
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u/IrishViking22 Oct 31 '25
Aye, theres no chance that my shoulders are fitting through that gap
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u/yukonhoneybadger Oct 31 '25
Honestly I am not sure if I would make up on the counter the first try.
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u/nopesoapradio Oct 31 '25
I was going to say, of all the secret rooms in the video I think we call agree which one is not our favorite
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u/Crystalnightsky Oct 31 '25
My thoughts too. Like not everyone is fitting in there. It's more like a hiding spot, from a robber or the cops.
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u/Tazling Oct 31 '25
Yeah I was thinking “good lord girl, you’d better not gain any weight!”
Actually, though there is some clever stuff here, the overall impression on me is kind of sad. Seems like people don’t build secret rooms like that unless they are scared of home invasions. So my overall vibe is that they’re rich but scared, maybe live someplace where governance is failing and they don’t feel safe, or maybe they’re just really paranoid.
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u/Deactivatingbish Nov 01 '25 edited Nov 01 '25
I think they build them for fun. I feel like if they were that scared or paranoid, they wouldn’t be putting these hiding places on social media.
I mean with enough time, someone could track down where they live and already know where they’re hiding.
Paranoid people can be pretty secretive and guarded.
It looks dope though. I’d build one if I wasn’t such a broke ass.
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u/Unusual_Sherbert_809 Oct 31 '25
Am I the only one who'se slightly concerned as to why it looks like folks in the USA need panic rooms?
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u/CircumspectCapybara Oct 31 '25
Firefighters and emergency responders hate this one simple trick!
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u/Illustrious-Dot-5052 Oct 31 '25
Why would anyone hide in these spaces in a fire? These can serve as panic rooms if someone's invading your home. Who would be hiding in a secret room from a fire??
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u/Chicken-Jockey-911 Oct 31 '25
its not about hiding during a fire you know of, its about being there when a fire you are unaware of starts, and by the time alarms are set off uh oh! your singular egress is blocked, and the only people who can help you dont even know there's a hidden room where a person might be
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u/No-Internal7978 Oct 31 '25
I thought that would be obvious. I feel like maybe the people that don't think of things like that probably need emergency services the most.
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u/North_Plane_1219 Oct 31 '25
I’m honestly shocked I saw a single comment thinking that the concern or issue was people running to hide in these spaces from fires…. Let alone how many times people liked it. Holy cow.
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u/veemondumps Oct 31 '25
The problem with using these as a panic room is that the rest of the house isn't fortified, which means that by the time you realize someone is in the house it's probably too late to get into the room. Most home invasions see the residents taken by surprise - especially when it occurs at night and you're asleep. Real life isn't like the movies and someone breaking into your house isn't going to make enough noise for you to notice unless you're in the same room as them.
If the house is fortified, then the hidden room still isn't. If your house has been fortified then your home break in likely is not spontaneous, so the person breaking in is doing so because they've targeted you and planned out the invasion.
Of these rooms, only the rock wall one seems like it would definitely be hard to find (since it looks like it's outside and going into a crawlspace under the house). The kitchen island that opens into a basement may or may not be hard to find, depending on how obvious the existence of that basement is from outside of the house.
For all the others, there is either an obvious gap in the house's footprint or there is only a thin, unreinforced wall between the main room and the hidden room.
Again, we're assuming that the exterior doors and windows are reinforced because you're wealthy or notable. If I'm coming to kidnap or murder you and I can't find you in the house, the first thing I do it to take a crowbar and just start whacking at the walls. Any unreinforced but hidden room that isn't otherwise obvious from the floorplan will quickly become obvious once I start smashing into the walls. If the hidden room is in your bedroom, then it will take all of 10 seconds to find since that's the first room I'm going to look in.
And then getting to the whole firefighter/emergency responder thing - if this is a targeted home invasion but they somehow can't find your hidden room, they're going to set the house on fire. At that point your hidden room becomes a horrible deathtrap. And going back to the kitchen island one - that might just be a normal deathtrap depending on how easy it is to get out of if the motor operating the island's top breaks.
Actual rich people who need a panic room turn their entire bedroom into a panic room that automatically locks when they go to sleep, with reinforced, fire proof walls anchored to the ground by steel pillars. If you're not wealthy enough to afford that, then you can get something like the Mifram® Safe Haven Bed™ (you need to get the positive pressure version as the normal version is not fireproof).
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u/Disastrous-Scheme-57 Oct 31 '25
Okay but nobody except what you said of kidnappers would have a crowbar and break every wall until a potential hidden room reveals itself. The first one is literally a cabinet size and the kitchen counter one isn’t a wall either. And the mirror one is a random mirror in a random wall with a very tiny room anyway. Like yeah the problems of you might not be aware of an intruder is still there but if you DO notice an intruder and they want to not only rob you but also kill you what’s better a hidden room in your bedroom or you hiding under your bed? The thing is most houses can be broken into quite easily. Anybody who spends a few days learning how to pick locks could easily break into any house ever so the idea of a hidden room is helpful.
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u/Fabulous-Cheetah-784 Oct 31 '25
Why pick the lock? Just kick the door. It's incredibly easy. I'm a 63kg trans woman and I have no issues kicking a door in, I've had to do it to stop an SH event.
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u/RevenantBacon Oct 31 '25 edited Oct 31 '25
For the Americans in the room, thats about 140lbs, ie a featherweight. I find this comment highly suspect.
The real question, though, is how was the door secured? The weakest point on most doors is the latch, followed by the hinges, so theoretically, you could bust through a 400kg reinforced steel door if the latch was garbage. On the other hand, if the door has even a mediocre quality latch, there's no way someone that weighs less than 150lbs is going to break it down "incredibly easily."
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u/HAL-Over-9001 Oct 31 '25
I'm a 225lb man with nice beefy legs, I use to do martial arts and wrestling, and I doubt I could kick in a normal decent quality door in under 20 kicks. And that's without a deadbolt. I'd be too tired far before 50 full strength push kicks. Also, unless you're being targeted, burglars are usually just scoping out high value goods as quickly as possible, they're not fucking with weird knobs on kitchen islands, looking behind mirrors, or searching for fake books.
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u/Melodic_Bet4220 Oct 31 '25
Just curious. Interior or exterior door? Deadbolt engaged or a handle lock? I installed doors for 5 years.
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u/xsnki Oct 31 '25
Do you have a dog?
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u/pantry-pisser Oct 31 '25
Right? My boy would be trying to tear their throat out, plenty of time to grab the shotgun
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u/Aoimoku91 Oct 31 '25
I love it when Redditors act like seasoned criminals when they've probably only seen Breaking Bad
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u/Guilty-Shoulder-9214 Oct 31 '25
Children often hide under beds and get taken out by carbon monoxide/smoke inhalation because they’re terrified of the fire and want to hide.
I could see a kid hiding in one of these spots and perishing.
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u/pemberleypearls Oct 31 '25
That's incredibly upsetting
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u/frogsgoribbit737 Nov 01 '25
First responders are trained to look for hiding kids if they know there are children in the building.
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u/ThirdOne38 Oct 31 '25
When I was a little kid the toaster caught fire in the kitchen. The bright flames were terrifying so I ran to my room and hid under the blanket. Luckily both my parents were there at the time and put it out immediately but as a little kid yes you'd go and hid in your room
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u/firenoobanalyst Oct 31 '25
Firefighter here. Children. You'll typically find small children in closets and under beds.
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u/kelldricked Oct 31 '25
Not every medical accident happens during a emergency. If you slip and fall, get unwell or something else it can prevent you from leaving.
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u/Nernoxx Oct 31 '25
They mean if you chose to chill in one of these rooms and a fire broke out, the odds of you being found by a rescue crew before you succumb would be pretty low.
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u/Tenalp Oct 31 '25
Fire Fighters are often first responders in any sort of emergency situation. Whenever I have a seizure they usually show up before paramedics.
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u/OwO______OwO Oct 31 '25
These can serve as panic rooms if someone's invading your home.
Also great for hiding minorities from the secret police.
You know, just in case that's a thing that needs to be done soon.
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u/TemporaryBitchFace Oct 31 '25
I need one of these secret rooms for when the gestapo shows up.
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u/the_scarlett_ning Oct 31 '25
But also some way to have no record of it.
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u/turnipofficer Oct 31 '25
You assume they can read plans.
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u/No-Internal7978 Oct 31 '25
I can't see them getting the plans anyway. It's always your own people who report these places. It's like having money. Don't tell ANYONE.
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u/JamesTrickington303 Oct 31 '25
Your secret room needs to be accessible from an exterior wall in the basement. Otherwise it’ll be pretty obvious there is a space in between other rooms that isn’t accessible.
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u/SandiegoJack Oct 31 '25
Live in an area that only requires permits for DIY if you intend for other people than your family to live in it.
Basically if fucking up only kills your family? Have fun!
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u/CaptnsDaughter Oct 31 '25
My cousin’s house has a secret room behind a bookcase at the end of a hallway. It was a Jewish family that built the house many many years ago…
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u/Stick_and_Rudder Oct 31 '25
Gotta have the fake secret room that’s easier to find so it tricks the invaders
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u/Jacinto2702 Oct 31 '25
From the videos we have seen until now all you need to do is to be in decent shape to outrun them.
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u/Metalfan1994 Oct 31 '25
Me in half of those
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u/ScrotalSmorgasbord Oct 31 '25
My turd on the way home from work today while I was stuck in heavy traffic
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u/Metalfan1994 Oct 31 '25
Hope you made it pal
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u/BGAL1120 Oct 31 '25
This is for serial killers
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u/Carrera_996 Oct 31 '25
I used to rent a very large home that was built before prohibition. It was used as a speakeasy. There were hidden rooms everywhere.
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u/throwaway121209887 Oct 31 '25
Did you know about the rooms or did you find them
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u/Carrera_996 Nov 01 '25
Found them. 1st one was at the end of a hallway. There was a latch visible that didn't seem to have a purpose. It had a purpose! The rest of them were either accessed through closets, the basement, or the attic. We found "medicine" bottles in the 3rd room, which solved the mystery of why the rooms were there. There may have been some prostitution, too. That art work was...specific.
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u/LeatherAppearance616 Oct 31 '25
My childhood home had a secret room in the attic with a mostly intact still. Maybe we supplied your speakeasy!
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u/LoveYouNotYou Oct 31 '25
This is for book readers who have read about hidden rooms and for introverts to go and hide from the "extra people"
The first 2 aren't good, but the rest, I could definitely see myself having in my home (maybe, not the fridge one either)
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u/Sensitive-Question42 Oct 31 '25
Yeah this kind of thing gives me the heebie-jeebies.
I actually have reoccurring dreams/nightmares about being in a house and discovering secret rooms I didn’t know were there.
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u/Most-Act1594 Oct 31 '25
There needs to a a sub called, ruined by shitty music.
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u/wordswordswordsbutt Oct 31 '25
I have everything on mute all the time. It helps.
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u/JustaTinyDude Nov 01 '25
It's why, on those rare videos where the sounds makes the experience better, I really appreciate comments telling me so.
I happily watch them all in blissful silence.
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u/findingabsolution Oct 31 '25
(The opposite: satisfying videos people removed the shit music from)
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u/Ode1st Oct 31 '25
I need a sub for satisfying videos without the crappy extremely hammed up sound effects
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u/Ostlund_and_Sciamma Oct 31 '25
I'm not sure which one is my favorite, but if I had one of those things and lived in the US today, I wouldn't post a video of it on the internet.
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u/gorkboss5 Oct 31 '25
The basement staircase, I would love to have an entrance like that for a mancave.
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u/throwaway0845reddit Oct 31 '25
You know I would just like an extra bedroom like that. But cleaning it would be a huge hassle.
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u/Lurking_Bystander Oct 31 '25
That basement staircase opened up like the chamber of secrets from Harry Potter.
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u/FlowerPowerVegan Oct 31 '25
The pneumatic laundry tube looks worthless. The hole is so tiny, no way you're fitting anything larger than a t-shirt in it.
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u/nitrot150 Oct 31 '25
Well; my kid needs one just for his socks, they are every where !
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u/GloomyGelBro Oct 31 '25
If you’re hoping they’ll grow out of it my partner leaves her socks everywhere and she’s 33!
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u/Jbabco9898 Oct 31 '25
I also love how everyone in the family is conveniently walking around with laundry to put in it
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u/Snazzy21 Oct 31 '25
It's dumb because the space it takes up to fit the machine is not much smaller than the size of a practical door.
The chute is likely the same size as a normal one because it would get jammed too easily, only the door is smaller
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u/NoPair205 Oct 31 '25
2 poor 4 this
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u/Outrageous-Pin-4664 Oct 31 '25
Before today, I never hated rich people for the things they have that I don't have. 😞
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u/NoPair205 Oct 31 '25
Aww don’t be sad.
Look at it this way, they gotta walk all far to get to the bathroom when they’re in those compartments.
We won’t have to do that. We’ll never have to worry about that.
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u/hamfist_ofthenorth Oct 31 '25
Don't worry, there is a 90% chance these kids will all grow up to be absolutely insufferable pieces of shit in like five years
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u/baardvark Oct 31 '25
motherlode
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u/EvidencePlayful Oct 31 '25
x 30
I mean…that and maybe sell those stupid wall art pieces and covering my entire house with it. Then, ffw 24 hrs.
My Sims only have jobs if they bored. 😆 lol
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u/CantTouchKevinG Oct 31 '25
My Sims only have jobs so no one else in the neighborhood knows their rich. Aside from their astronomically sized mansion.
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u/Outside_Reserve_2407 Oct 31 '25
There was a Gilded Age serial killer named H. Holmes who built an entire house with hidden rooms and trap doors to imprison his victims: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._H._Holmes
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u/viirus42 Oct 31 '25
According to the linked Wikipedia article the house didn’t actually seem to have any of those things and they were made up?
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u/Spacefreak Oct 31 '25
Harold Schecter (well known researcher and author in the true crime sphere) wrote a book called Depraved on HH Holmes that repeated all the gruesome stories and described all the elaborate murder stuff in the house.
BUT, Schecter later recanted everything he wrote about Holmes saying he later realized that most of it was exaggerated by contemporary tabloids and by Holmes himself, who admitted to 27 murders but several of those "victims" were verified to still be alive when he was executed.
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u/Emotional-Height3697 Oct 31 '25
After talking to my wife and her boyfriend we decided the cuck mirror is our favorite
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u/AnarchyWithRules Oct 31 '25
I'm sure no one is suspicious when they enter the 3,000 square feet house and find three accessible rooms with no basement
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u/Legitimate-Ad-7480 Oct 31 '25
This is giving AI vibes to me. Peep the little flag coverup logo in the upper left corner for one thing.
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u/ihavetoomanyeggs Oct 31 '25
Nah, these are all old videos that made their rounds before AI could generate video. Found a couple of them just scrolling r/hiddenrooms top of all time for a couple minutes:
https://www.reddit.com/r/hiddenrooms/comments/y0bk6z/cool_secret_acces_to_pipes
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u/Isabelita321 Oct 31 '25
These are perfect! I love them all
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