We found a secret room in our house, picture included

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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.

How long have you lived there OP? Can you contact estate agent/prev owner to ask about it?!

What a storm in a tea cup

not a secret room at all. No door to it. Simply…. One corner of a modest sized attic. Which your husband has been up to lots.

The photos gives me the heebie jeebies. It just looks so sinister. My brain also went to where a lot of people suggested in terms of what it was intended for. Would be crazy if it was indeed just a completely innocent hidden room.

i think you’ve made this clear enough but it does appear that the half wall was originally a full/complete wall.

I’m 100% in the tall to the police camp. Everything about this is weird.
As well as taking images, Potentially, depending on how interested they are, they could check back on previous occupants.

I can't get the song 'Green Door' out of my head now! Maybe it's haunted by the ghost of Shakin' Stevens.

I do think some people need to step away from their true crime podcasts/books/programmes etc and give their overactive imaginations a rest. I'd bet my bottom dollar that this was just a gaming den for a kid who thought it would be cool to have a secret room. The half wall would have been an (easily removed) full wall, the top bit of which would have been removed to take something worth taking out again, like a telly, and unlike a manky old chair. The means of access while the full wall was up was via crawling to the little green door because what's the point of a kid's secret room that has a big obvious door (thus rendering it not secret). If there was already power and light in the attic, as seems likely, it's not exactly a difficult thing to knock up.

And if you were going to kidnap people and do horrible things to them in secret from the rest of you family you wouldn't use a room that is going to be a right bastard to access, that you can't swing a cat in (can you even stand up in this 'room'?), and which is in the loft so any movement is going to be audible in the rooms below. You are also unlikely to leave it behind, half uncovered, for the next owner to find.

This is incredible!!! Would not let kids play up there alone with that skylight though.

Exactly. I'd be looking at the penultimate owners as well as the previous ones. There are parts of the building that I live in that I have never ventured into and I have been here for years (conversion with communal basement).

Some sanity thank you,

There’s no evidence there was ever a full wall. It looks like it was built l like that. No windows and 4 walls would make it a cupboard too stuffy to sit in. The reason it’s open to the rest of the attic is simply for air.

A previous owner has looked at the large attic and thought part of it could be put to use.

I would be tempted to contact the previous owners and ask about it.

The decor looks like late 90's, probably a teenagers hide out, we had one similar, however the whole loft was boarded out and then there was a little storage room at the end

I'd be inclined to check whether it is being accessed by your neighbour or even belongs to your neighbour since it looks quite uncobwebby for an unused loft space. In terraced housing or semis, sometimes the roof space isn't as securely separate as you would hope. It might not be creepy at all! It could be a meditation space, for example.

Surely the first thing you do when you realise they have also boarded up the other side is take the board off and see what's in that space. If it's the size of two bedrooms then boarding it off is very strange.

I would also pass the image to the police just in case they can match it to photos they are investigating. It's too weird not to - particularly with the other side also blocked off

My exact first thought!

Distinct 'Come and play with us, Danny!' vibes coming from this.

I do love a thread like this.

Also thought this about the little green door- it’s little because children could have used it to get in and out of the room.
Also I’d be definitely checking what’s behind the other boarded up space!!

my first thought on seeing the photo is that it’s a “naughty room” instead of a naughty step. Somewhere a child was sent when they were being naughty. And couldn’t run away from because they would just remove the ladder.

Sorry haven't RTFT but when we moved into our house there was a chair in the loft and a dirty mag. We assume that's where the owner went for a wank because he had two teenage daughters and probably didn't want to risk being caught at it.

A wank cave. What a delightful thought.

Indeed.

Nothing to do with the ops room but just to add to the people who have the find extra rooms in the house dreams…

I spent a year or so living as a lodger with a friend. He had a ground floor flat in a big converted house. I wasn’t working for some of that time and he was away with work so I spent a lot of time pottering about the flat. It was a huge flat, bigger than my house now.
One day I realised there was a door that I didn’t know what was on the other side. It was locked with a key. I took the key out and peered through the key hole. There was an entire house on the other side of the door. The door was at the bottom of a grand hall way! I opened the door but never went in. (It was just the rest of the converted house, nothing exciting.)

Also, I had a friend as a child who lived in a massive isolated house by the sea. In her living room there was a door that they never used. If you went through that door there was a hall way with a grand staircase. Under the stairs there was a door leading to two flats that had people living in them!

I think the cut off bit is the main event. The yellow room is just a side show.

The vendors must have known about this so it's unlikely to be anything criminal. Get in there and have a look!

Bet one of the family was a budding vlogger/youtuber/influencer.

Seeing the rest of the photos it does look quite creepy. The wallpaper is awful, not mancave wallpaper, I don't think. Interpol post background images taken from darkweb exploitation photos - ie just backgrounds not of the images themselves - and if you recognise anything you can email them and they investigate. It is worth contacting them direct via their website with photos and details to see if they want to take anything further, in the first instance, rather than going via local police first. There are some really great people who work on this sort of thing.

I'd also check out what is behind the boarded bit so that you know what is in every inch of the house.

Imagine trying to get a tantruming child or a sulky teenager up there, though. And why bother with the wallpaper? It's not as if they have to sit in the chair - they'd have access to the whole unboarded part of the attic.

Somebody liked sitting in a cheerfully decorated, secluded space, doing something. Could have been reading, gaming, crafting, driving trains, podcasting, YouTubing, watching something respectable or otherwise on TV, working or studying online at home. They had a couple of (possibly older, leftover) wallpaper rolls and did their spaces up.

It's no more sinister than the back wall of anyone else's attic.

I wonder if the people who are so worried about it ever do any DIY projects themselves? It's not a professional job or an Instagram ready space - it's just someone being resourceful with what they've got.

I have this dream too.

Weirdest was where I found a room off the kitchen behind one of the three range cookers I had in there. Why the fuck did I have THREE range cookers?!

Two things are unclear:

1. Is it an intended, strut/supporting half-wall, or has park of the wall been removed? Different options-can we get a clear photo from the outside?
2. Lightswitch by the green door - is the switch inside or outside of the room?