I found a secret room hidden in my basement — I was shocked by its mysterious origins

Mystee Ipong recently stumbled upon a secret, walled-off room in the “creepy basement” of her 200-year-old home, and took to TikTok to crack the mysterious case.

It all started when the couple, who had just recently moved into the upstate New York house in June, discovered some sort of leak in the bowels of the building, but the source was unidentifiable, and water appeared to be flowing out from underneath a wall.

“Then we noticed,” Ipong explained in a viral TikTok video with 2.8 million views, panning to the seemingly unassuming wall. “That’s definitely a bricked-in wall.”

New stone — at least, when compared to the surrounding walls — was placed in the shape of what would have been the doorway to the mysterious room, which was shockingly missed despite “multiple” inspections.

“If I had a choice, no I wouldn’t open it up,” Ipong said in a voiceover while her husband chipped away at the cinder block barricade.

Since the leak was likely caused by a pipe located behind the brick, the couple began the tedious process of removing the cinder blocks to unearth what was behind it — after clearing the energy with sage, of course.

But the couple was down on their luck: The room, they learned after days of attempting to hammer through the bricks, was full of what appeared to be rocks, forcing them to find another way to break into the secret chamber.

Viewers invested in Ipong’s secret room series on the platform theorized that the home could have been part of the Underground Railroad, which was used to help enslaved people escape to the North.

Upon further investigation, the couple revealed that their Clarkson, New York, home once belonged to Lucy Blodgett, who might have had ties to the Underground Railroad.

While it’s unclear whether the house really has ties to the freedom routes or why exactly the mysterious room has been sealed, some TikTokers warned Ipong to not disturb it out of fear the house would cave in.

“Am I the only one that thinks that room is sealed off for a reason,” mused one person.

“Could definitely be a way to fix the structure of the house. My brother works in concrete and has filled in basement rooms to stabilize the house,” another wrote.

“if the garage is over that sealed room those rocks could be supporting the foundation of it. I’d get someone out to look at it,” advised another.