#35

I heard a story about a row of tenements in Glasgow where someone found the attics of a whole row of buildings had been knocked through and there was an immaculate hardwood dancefloor and ballroom curtains and stuff up there.

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#36

That sounds brilliant. Our attics above the block of flats are one giant space with no fire walls :grimacing: but now I’m thinking I could start my own club night up there…with the bats and mice

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#37

Was this in Upperton Road by any chance?

#38

Hmm, not sure, was a few years back. It was in the Clarendon Park area of that helps?

Just looked it up and I think it might have been - Fosse and Ashleigh Rd are very familiar! Do you know my pals??

#39

Win win really

#40

My street is all big Victorian houses that were turned into flats in the 60s and 70s in very odd ways. I have a box room that is on a lower floor than the rest of the flat, with a little staircase down to it.

The building next door has a bathroom that doesn’t belong to any of the flats. It’s just a weird abandoned bathroom on the first floor.

Also the abandoned bathroom turns out to belong to the council.

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#41

I often have dreams that I’m a spy infiltrating a cult or secret society in some huge labyrinthine building.

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#42

Love stuff like this. I want random stairs in my flat

#43

They basically knocked two big terraced houses together, kept half of the stairs for a communal hallway using a zigzag pattern, and then just randomly used the leftover sections in the flats.

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#44

Ah @froglet here’s the diagram from the estate agent’s booklet- I’m the top left hand floor of the castle.

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Those stairs go down, not up. Also kind of a cheek claiming it’s a “bedroom”. If you had a bed in there, you’d have trouble fitting anything else.

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#45

We got married in my wife’s home town in the US, and for a few days before the wedding we rented an AirBnB, which was an upstairs apartment in a big detached house that had been weirdly subdivided. It was half finished, which we knew when we booked it, we just needed a place to sleep really, but it was an odd space, lots of odd mezzanines and things. There was a door at the back that we assumed was a fire exit which we ignored, until we’d been there a couple of days and a friend came round and asked about it - and it turned out it was unlocked and led to a rear internal staircase with doors to the other flats, all of which seemed similarly unlocked, so anyone could’ve wandered in at any time. Cool cool coolllllll

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#46

Still shudder when I think of that place I stayed in Copenhagen

#47

True story: something very similar happened to me.

Rented a tiny first floor one-bedroom flat back in 2012. It was the first time I’d got my own place as opposed to house-sharing - the place was an absolute BOX but it was my own space anyways.

So I’d been in the place just over four months, and at the beginning of January 2013 it was time to take the Christmas decorations down. With storage space being practically non-existent, I asked my dad to fetch a stepladder around so that I could stick the decorations into the attic, which I’d never even been arsed to look in.

So my dad steps up first, turns on a light, and exclaims “There’s an entire room up here!” I thought he was on the wind-up, but it turns out there was one of those sets of attic steps installed. So I step up and lo-and-behold, there’s an incredibly ornately decorated attic room, with floor space that is bigger than the actual flat itself (it extended over the flat next door too).

There’s a desk, a futon, an office chair, CD player, a collection of CDs and cassettes (lots of metal), soft lighting installed into the wooden finish on the walls, an old map of the town framed on the wall, and a fucking connected LANDLINE which allows me to dial out - the contract can’t have ended yet. I hadn’t even bothered to plug a phone into the landline downstairs, as I was working in a call centre for minimum wage and couldn’t afford phone/internet.

There was also a selection of small axes and other woodworking tools, which made things even creepier. Anyways, a few months later I got into conversation with the guy who lived downstairs (used to call him Matrix Man because he was about 6ft 6in tall and wore a leather trenchcoat and shades all-year round). He asked me if I’d been in the attic.

Turned out the previous tenant was a joiner who had passed away, and the landlord was seemingly unaware that the attic had been secretly renovated - or if they knew, they didn’t advertise or mention it as it probably fell foul of regulations.

It was creepy as fuck though and I didn’t really spend much time up there - it just felt like I was invading a dead man’s space, especially with all his personal artefacts still in place, so I just left it closed up.

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#48

i would like to rent this haunted room, please

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#49

the pictures are even worse than i remember!

I got chatting to these really cool and lovely girls from Paris who invited me to go to a rave with them in Christiania and I was like “I’d love to but I have to get back to my room before the sun goes down as I’m too scared” hahahahaha

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#50

I don’t have any secret bits in my house

#51

This was the picture on one of the doors, really creates a welcoming atmosphere guys thanks

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#52

Those corridors look like if you counted the number of turns, there would be more right angles than is physically possible.

#53

On a related note, this Spanish film is incredibly creepy and involves a secret door which is only noticeable when looking through a video baby monitor.

I don’t remember very much about it, except that it was a really tense film. One of those that was on BBC at about 1 in the morning. I might have been on a comedown or something and it isn’t as good as I remember, but at the time it definitely creeped me out.

#54

Ha, no Clarendon Park is a bit posher than Upperton Road which might explain the mansion-like proportions of the house you’re talking about. I used to go out with someone who lived in a five bedroom (student) place in Upperton Road just a few minutes walk from the (then) Walkers Stadium and it sounded vaguely similar but this was more than ten years ago, so unlikely to be the same people!

Plus I don’t remember any secret doors.

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