It takes a while to settle into a new house after moving in – but once you’ve been in there a few months, you’ve usually learnt everything you need to know about the place.
However, one woman got the shock of her life after discovering a hidden room in her basement after living in her house for “years”.
She explained how her home has been in her spouse’s family since it was built in the early 1900s – but as expected, it has changed quite a lot over the years.
She said on Reddit: “It originally was the house of his great grandmother, than great uncle, then his parents used it for a small business, than us.
“Well one day I mentioned off hand to my mother-in-law how the internet is obsessed with antique canning jars, and she suggested I check out the canning room in the basement.”
Confused, she revealed she’s been in the basement “plenty of times” and knows it to be a empty with no doors or windows.
She added: “I ventured down anyway to humour her and sure enough. What I had assumed was just a wood lined wall of the basement under the stairs was actually a secret room.
“I found the door, and it had a small unassuming padlock on it, and I noped the f*** out. When my spouse got home I told him about it and he cut the lock off and we peaked inside.”
As soon as he opened the door, her eyes fixated on a row of antique turn-of-the-century blue canning jars.
But that’s not all – there was also “a few antique 1950s cans of paint., old booze bottles, other odds and ends, and a mummified mouse body”.
She added: “Nothing too exciting but I was pretty amazed I had lived in this house for years without knowing this room even existed.”
She isn’t the only one to have discovered a surprise in their home, as another user commented on the Reddit post saying: “There was a small cubby underneath the short basement stairs, found old business papers and a box of very old wine.
“We, being early 20s, drank it all. Didn’t taste great, kind of musty, like drinking an old dusty library, but it did the job.”
Meanwhile, another user added: “My parent’s/my childhood home. They had the house built in 1981 and we moved there in 1982. Sometime in the late 1990s we had the attic over the two-car garage converted into a full master bedroom with the roof raised, laundry room, bathroom etc.
“While they were doing the renovation and construction they found liquor bottles from the GC who was basically an alcoholic and would drink on the job building the original house. He used to hide them in the framework behind insulation etc. Was pretty funny to see.”
