We found a secret room in our house, picture included

[Ohwhatswrong]

I've seen these threads before and thought how on earth did you not know! How big must your house be to have a secret room.
Our house is not massive, 4 bed, normal size not really old or anything.
But there's a super creepy room. Hidden at the back of the loft, It's got carpet, wall paper and even spot lights! And a director's chair... just sitting in the middle of it! It's weird.

It's not walled off - it's just a section of the attic, so they wouldn't show it.

What are you going to do with it? Just seems fantastic

Creepy AF. The hard chair, harsh spotlight doesn't to me equate to a snug or somewhere for P& q from the OPs info appears to be a bit hidden/ not particularly accessible. the wallpaper on the left appears to have not have been trimmed to size, just left, from what I can see. Would only say hobby room on a more innocent reasonable explanation.

So there’s no door to it. How big is the attic? For your husband to have been up there so many times but never noticed it?

ChatGPT just says what you want to hear. Try again and tell it you're excited to have found it, and it will tell you all the cool things about the room and why it's not creepy in the slightest. 🤣

It's a ventriloquist's room. A previous owner sat on that chair making dolls talk. He died in mysterious circumstances and the dolls have never been found.

If you wake up precisely at 3.14 am, and listen carefully, you'll be able to hear some of the voices...

Do you know the previous owners names?! Maybe look them up and send a message ?! Or see if any mentions of the room on their socials ?! Could’ve been something Pervy the couple did together up there, basic instinct I’m thinking. Or could be completely innocent, they started to renovate the attic in that space then didn’t bother with the rest, and just happen to have left that chair there!

I really hate when it sneaks in 'our' and stuff. I got one the other day saying, "Humans can navigate those neatly, because WE understand..."

Look, I'm a real boy!

Be reasonable, can't you? The poor man has been working so hard for many days, taking all of his beloved maiden aunt's treasured rugs, her collection of bright, cheerful wrapping paper and her wholesale packs of Pritt Stick supplies (she always loved a bargain) up there to ensure their safe preservation - along with a big unlabelled box full of her back issues of 'knitting' magazines.

She was a much loved member of the family and her sparkling, eccentric legacy must never be forgotten.

It's been so exhausting that he had to do it in stints and then regularly have a nice sit down. OP would have helped, but he's so considerate that he really didn't want her to ever find his secret man-lair be put to any trouble.

This doesn't look like anything put up during the pandemic for calls - the location doesn't make sense, and the decoration looks mid-90s ish and not like it's been maintained for a while.

@Ohwhatswrong how long did the previous owners live there? Could it pre-date them?

I agree. Why would anybody have felt the need to section of a part of their own home - presumably to isolate from other householders?

It was always accepted as a given that people who shared a household could and would freely mingle.

My conspiracy theory is that it was a MNer playing the long game. She deliberately set this up and then left it unused - for no other purpose than to wait until a future occupant of the house, maybe years down the line, found it and started a thread about it!

I remember the groundbreaking Channel 4 documentary about Jonny Kennedy - the wonderfully brave and inspirational man who suffered from a very painful and debilitating skin disease from birth and sadly died at just 36.

He had a great sense of humour and, when planning his funeral, he insisted that he wanted a carving of a random Heinz beans tin to be included on the side of his coffin - for the sole reason of making everybody who saw it do a double-take and rack their brains in amazement and bewilderment as to what deep personal meaning it could possibly signify

Ok so I've been up and had a proper look around...
We found magazines dating back to the 70s, wish I could say there were something interesting or that would add to the spookyness but car magazines, nurses weekly, health visitor magazines.
Not so creepy.
Unless they kidnapped a pregnant woman and bought the magazines to know how to deliver a baby 😱.

Coincidence... Maybe not, my husband just got a voicemail from a funeral directors, about him coming to the chapel of rest! They have his name and number but he's never heard of them before!

Trying to post the pictures but it won't

To work in private - or could have been one of the children attending online lessons. Bedrooms and shared spaces aren't always suitable.

Of what?

how big is the attic?

Take a UV light up and have a scan about

Could be a hideout for a criminal or something in case the gaff gets raided.

I think it would have four walls then. It's open to the rest of the attic. OP just didn't notice it.

She said it was hard to spot though, and maybe it was boarded up previously or it could be blocked with boxes or something.

I mean like the chair. If it were used for this then the perp probably wouldn't spend his time sitting there in a chair with his elbows on his thighs 24/7. It's far more likely there was a bed in there at some point if it were used for that purpose. Maybe the imprint of the bedposts could be seen on the floor.

The chair might just be there because someone needed it to change the lights.

The spots are unusual and quite modern compared to the wallpaper ? If there are LED lights in the spots it suggests that they were maybe changed out in the last 10 years or so ?

There is what looks like a car footwell mat at the bottom of the picture. Not sure what someone would use that for.

Ah, I see what you mean - sorry, I misunderstood.

Good point: dealing with conditions because of covid, rather than the virus itself.

Magazines years old. Maybe they had an unwed mother who was put there if people came to the house

Probably something really boring like a little office and I think there was a desk in front of the chair. We know someone who has made a sort of work space in his loft because he can’t work with the noise in the house.
It isn’t wall papered but similar sort of proportions nearish the loft ladder.
Im claustrophobic so wouldn’t want to do it and when I asked him what he would do if a fire broke out he cheerfully announced he’d hop down the ladder and out the nearest bedroom window.
They couldn’t afford to do a proper conversion so boarded out abit of it and made do!

Torture chamber 🤔