Hidden Rooms: What Lurks Inside the Walls

Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan

True Crime, Society & Culture, Science

4.1 • 10K Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Have you ever had one of those dreams where you discover other rooms in your apartment? Like, suddenly there’s a door you never noticed before, and beyond it is all the extra space you always wish you had? Or maybe you’ve had the nightmare version where you open your closet door and instead of your clothes, you’re looking at some kind of medieval torture dungeon. What would you do if you actually found a hole in your home leading to somewhere else....

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0:00.0	Hey, strangers, welcome to our month of limbo in between seasons four and five. We'll be bringing
0:05.3	you 10 classic episodes this month. Today's episode originally aired in season one on October 11th,
0:11.4	2021. It features a story about a man who built a secret apartment in the Providence Place Mall right
0:17.5	here in Rhode Island. A documentary about the secret apartment and its architect
0:21.0	has recently been released. Fun fact, after I moved to Rhode Island, I randomly met the dude
0:25.8	who built the apartment. I told him about this episode. He never reached out to tell me what he thought.
0:30.6	Maybe it's because I basically called him the Ferris Bueller of Secret Art Statement Projects. Who
0:35.8	knows? I hope you enjoy. Have you ever had one of those
0:43.7	dreams where you discover other rooms in your apartment? Like suddenly there's a door you never
0:49.5	noticed before and beyond it is all the extra space you always wish you had. Or maybe you've had the
0:55.7	nightmare version where you open your closet and instead of your clothes, you're looking at some
1:00.3	kind of medieval torture dungeon? What would you do if you actually found a hole in your home
1:07.0	leading to somewhere else.
1:14.3	Welcome to Strange and Unexplained with me, Daisy Egan.
1:19.5	I'm a writer and an actor who could really use a spare room no one else knew existed.
1:24.7	My husband would be like, where do the bottles of wine I buy keep disappearing to?
1:29.3	And I'd be like, definitely not in the secret room I hide in so no one can bother me. What? This week, what lurks inside? Four stories about hidden spaces in plain sight.
1:42.3	In March of this year, Samantha Hartso posted a video on TikTok showing a mysterious draft coming from the windowless bathroom of her apartment in New York City.
1:57.1	New York City apartments are not known for being paragons of craftsmanship, especially the newer or, quote, remodeled luxury apartment buildings.
2:07.3	I once heard a construction worker on his cell phone on a break and Brooklyn say, you couldn't pay me to live in one of these places.
2:13.8	They're made of cardboard and tape.
2:17.2	That said, it's not normal for a draft to be coming
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