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By Brian Dillon
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A couple were blown away when they finally got to explore a whole new level not mentioned in the sales description of the old house they bought.
TikTok user @_wrinkle314 showed the attic space in the home they had just purchased, revealing they hadn't known exactly what was up there.
In the clip, which has received 3.5 million views since it was first shared on January 12, we see one of the homeowners climbing a ladder into the space. They wrote in the text overlay of the video: "POV [point of view]: You enter the floor that wasn't included in the listing of your 1890 property …"
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In the post's caption, they said: "This is one of the reasons I bought it!"
The video shows a number of old forgotten features on the unseen floor, including a toilet, old wallpaper, and a large floor-to-ceiling window.
"It's been a while since somebody has lived up here," a woman says in the video. There appears to be multiple spaces and rooms on the floor, which the couple show off in the video, most of them empty and abandoned.
In the U.S. the sale of old or existing homes far outweighs the sale of newly-built homes. Statista reports that over four million existing homes were sold in the U.S. in 2023, compared to under one million newly-built homes.
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Many other TikTok users were fascinated by the couple's discovery of the floor that was not included in the listing of their century-old home. Thousands of people shared their thoughts and reactions in the comments section of the post.
Some theorized that it could have been used as a "disappointment room," which were rooms said to have been used to hide family members, often children, with physical disfigurements or mental illnesses, something we see in horror and thriller movies.
"Could be a servant quarter, could also be a disappointment room because people still used those. But honestly, that's a very cool find and I hope you have a wonderful inspiration for the use of it," said @abitchthatwould.
Meanwhile, Slay At Home Mom suggested: "Something bad happened in the room in the back. I would get your house blessed."
"If it was mine it would look just like the breakfast party from A Little Princess," Natalie shared.
"The windows would've been a dead giveaway for me as I was buying the house," said Sorta Black, to which the video creator responded: "Yes, the windows led us to the space."
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