What happened when you found the secret room in your home?

I found the secret space in my closet when my mum and I were moving out of the house where she was renting to move into my stepdad's house.

I never noticed it because junk covered the section of the wall that was covering a small entrance to a room that was sealed off with boards and plywood.

I couldn't pry it open, but I could see light shining in and a single mason jar filled with what I assumed was water. The air was cold in there, like as if the central heating didn't even reach that part. I showed it to my mum, and she told me that she doesn't remember seeing that there when we moved in eight years prior, but since we were moving out, it didn't matter. The room gave me the creeps for whatever reason. I don't know why it was sealed off or why there was a single mason jar filled with water in the center of the room. I lived in a warehouse in Melbourne. Always thought it would be cool to get on the roof, but there was no access. After about six months, I'm standing in front of a mirror upstairs when I notice it has hinges.

I push on it, clicks and opens out, revealing a small attic and roof hatch.

That was pretty cool.

Used to sit up there and watch the sunset over the city.

It wasn't a room, but after living in our house for a few years, we decided to remodel the basement bathroom, tore out the old shower enclosure and found a window behind it.

Said window was covered on the outside by an apron of siding that came from the cantilevered room

upstairs all the way down to the concrete pad. We tore off the siding apron and let some light in.

It was much better. We were doing a bathroom reno as well, but also there was a covered window

because you could still see the window from the outside, ripped off the shower enclosure and now we have a nice

window in our bathroom. Why people would cover up a window leaves me confused.

We moved into a house with a door in the kitchen that could not be opened. The real estate tried

but failed, assumed it led to the laundry room, but was walled off.

My older siblings, like any typical teenagers, were not convinced about this and were determined

to open it. It was just a normal pantry, but they never told our mother that they managed

to get the door open, and used to hide things like alcohol, smokes, and green herb.

Watched home alone and saw the attic that McCauley Culkin was staying in and wondered if we had one in our townhouse. Ran around with a stepladder until I found it in my mum's closet. Got my tiptoes on the stepladder and fought the door open. It ended up being a big piece of plywood. And then I peered into the attic. A mouse colony stared back. It was like that scene in Ratatouille. Decades

worth of mouse droppings covering the entire space. My mum wasn't happy once I told her.

We moved shortly afterwards.

Oh God. That feels like one of those things you close up and hope like heck people don't

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