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To be irritated about DP and the tunnel?

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RockHardCake · 18/03/2024 20:21

DP (we don’t live together) has just moved into a new house. It’s in a right state, needs ridiculous amounts of work doing to it including a whole new heating system (currently just has coal fires in each room!) new bathrooms (of which there are 3) and roofing repairs etc etc - he kind of inherited it but not completely, he has had to pay for it but at a daft price. It’s a listed building with land, pretty isolated.

Anyway! He’s been in there a few weeks and found a tunnel in the basement that was bricked up but the bricks had began to fall apart which is how the tunnel came to light. I found this fascinating and asked where it led and he said he didn’t know. I asked “did you not go in it??” And he said “no, it won’t be anything excited”. Why would you not go in it?? I’m desperate to know where it leads!! I’ve asked him a few times to have a look and he said he has more important things to be doing - I can’t get my head around it!!

im staying there at weekend and I said I’m going to explore the tunnel - he rolled his eyes and said “ffs can you stop fascinating over that stupid tunnel?”

it’s making me quite annoyed

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brainexplorer · 18/03/2024 23:24

Why are you on mumsnet when you could be tunnelling in a tunnel right now?? This is my dream. None of my houses have ever had a tunnel and I feel absolutely robbed. My sister had a secret compartment under her last house (also Georgian) that she was utterly disinterested in and wouldn't let me smash into either.

CrushingOnRubies · 18/03/2024 23:22

I'd have to go down there but I'm a scardey cat and have watched enough horror movies so would need a buddy with me. Would also take a torch and a hard hat !

delphi13 · 18/03/2024 23:10

Our village has quite a few tunnels as it's an old smugglers village. We viewed another house before settling on the house we bought and it had a weird cellar bit in the living room that had a blocked up tunnel that led to the pub. Literal stuff of dreams! Except the bit to the cellar was lethal and our then 2.5 year old would surely have broken his neck within 20 minutes of moving in so we didn't buy it in the end. We live 5 mins from that pub but I really wish I had a tunnel to take me there. It would be so cool.

Caerulea · 18/03/2024 23:00

Well sure as hell I'd be stood in the mouth of tunnel coaxing DH down it, I'd HAVE to know what it was...fucked if you'd get me down there though.

Also, your title definitely sounds like a Famous Five book.

Mynaddmawr · 18/03/2024 22:52

YANBU, obviously there is something wrong with him. How could you not go down the secret tunnel?!

JordanPeterson · 18/03/2024 22:41

It does speak to a certain lack of curiosity & sense of excitement

To be so blasé about a secret tunnel on your property

B1anche · 18/03/2024 22:39

Ooh there might be treasure! 🪙💎

GalileoHumpkins · 18/03/2024 22:32

Sic Mundus Creatus Est.

LoveSkaMusic · 18/03/2024 22:15

Oh do promise us you'll update this thread with pics when you go in!!

malmi · 18/03/2024 22:15

It's a time travelling tunnel. Each time you go through it sends you back to the first day of your relationship with DP, This is the first time you have posted it to Mumsnet though so we can tell you it's time to break the cycle. Don't go through the tunnel.

Finlesswonder · 18/03/2024 22:08

Why would a house be built with a tun el to a church?

TesticularHeft · 18/03/2024 22:05

No, no, no! Leave it be! We have been through enough. Ive watched enough horror movies to know that if someone has built a wall to hide a tunnel, no good will come from going down there!

AuntieJoyce · 18/03/2024 22:04

Are you Agatha Raisin?

GertrudePerkinsPaperyThing · 18/03/2024 22:00

whatsappdoc · 18/03/2024 20:49

It's giving me the heebie-jeebies just thinking about it! I'd have a proper survey done before I'd step foot in it.

This! Please don’t go into it without getting it properly surveyed- it could easily collapse on you and kill you.

Laiste · 18/03/2024 21:57

Whatineed · 18/03/2024 21:32

Go and watch the film "Barbarian" op. 🤣🤣🤣

I was going to say this but you beat me to it!

Watched it last weekend 😲

dickdarstardlymuttley · 18/03/2024 21:50

WingsofRain · 18/03/2024 21:12

You can’t go in without three other people and a dog - he is waiting for them to arrive before he sets off.

Timothy!

piscofrisco · 18/03/2024 21:49

Mine was a bit older than op's. It was built in 1500

socialdilemmawhattodo · 18/03/2024 21:49

LuluBlakey1 · 18/03/2024 21:24

Ignore me- just seen it's Georgian.

We don't need to: 18thC is georgian!

RockHardCake · 18/03/2024 21:47

piscofrisco · 18/03/2024 21:41

My old house had a tunnel! It once went to the church but it caved in about five meters away from our house. It was bricked up but very loosely so we were able to find it and have a look in it. Loved that house!

Where abouts was this house? Would be weird if it turned out to be the same house 😂

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JanglingJack · 18/03/2024 21:44

I read a fiction book like this recently. Turned it was old smugglers tunnels with loads of dead bodies in. Huh 🤷

Allofaflutter · 18/03/2024 21:44

Not near cliffs is it lol. All I can think is smugglers lol.

piscofrisco · 18/03/2024 21:41

My old house had a tunnel! It once went to the church but it caved in about five meters away from our house. It was bricked up but very loosely so we were able to find it and have a look in it. Loved that house!

Vinvertebrate · 18/03/2024 21:39

I’m having flashbacks to a film where 2 priests end up being eaten alive in the belly of the beast, faces burning with digestive acid, the works.

It’s bound to be that.

redalex261 · 18/03/2024 21:34

Like you I would absolutely have to explore. Would also be terrified it /collapsed/was haunted/contained murder victim/contained scary box holding demonic presence sealed up over 90 years ago by local demon-hunting vicar/contained a coffin (complete with vampire). Get yourself a flashlight. Check old OS maps and council plans at library.

If you make it out post update next Monday!

Whatineed · 18/03/2024 21:32

Go and watch the film "Barbarian" op. 🤣🤣🤣

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