Irish man discovers secret ‘dungeon’ under his apartment floor

emmabrighton

"AN IRISH MAN who moved into a new apartment in Leamington Spa got more than he bargained for in the lease when he discovered something beneath the floorboards."

Irish man discovers secret ‘dungeon’ under his apartment floort

What the funk?!? I immediately thought of Josef Fritzl. I doubt it is anything near as sinister but Wow!!!! Wonder if he will find a safe in there too?

Heres hoping

Cody Pomeray

wow, very cool.

I'm guessing drug factory? or yknow a wine cellar. but probably a drug factory.

danniemcq

emmabrighton wrote: »

"AN IRISH MAN who moved into a new apartment in Leamington Spa got more than he bargained for in the lease when he discovered something beneath the floorboards."

Irish man discovers secret ‘dungeon’ under his apartment floort

What the funk?!? I immediately thought of Josef Fritzl. I doubt it is anything near as sinister but Wow!!!! Wonder if he will find a safe in there too?

Heres hoping

hmmmm looks like a bed in one of those pics, guess thats it liable for the second bedroom tax over there now!

jjdub1

Wonder how long it took to 'discover' - what with the handles on full display and all ...

kneemos

Wasn't that secret in fairness.
Had an obvious hatch with a handle.

gobnaitolunacy

Looks like his new apt was grafted on to the remains of an older building beneath.

It's not a dungeon without a skeleton or two or a torture device.

Nothing to see here, next week, man finds change under sofa cushion.

SteelyDanJalapeno

It's a burner room

emmabrighton

gobnaitolunacy wrote: »

Looks like his new apt was grafted on to the remains of an older building beneath.

It's not a dungeon without a skeleton or two or a torture device.

Nothing to see here, next week, man finds change under sofa cushion.

What would you class that bed in the picture as?

I had to sleep on an orthopedic mattress when I went to visit my granny as a teenager...

If I had any hidden secrets, I would have sung like a canary after a summers worth of sleepless nights tossing and turning on that brick... *shudder* the horrors!

xabi

Why is it a 'dungeon'? Surely its just a basement or a cellar.

SV

xabi wrote: »

Why is it a 'dungeon'? Surely its just a basement or a cellar.

because headlines

gobnaitolunacy

emmabrighton wrote: »

What would you class that bed in the picture as?

I had to sleep on an orthopedic mattress when I went to visit my granny as a teenager...

If I had any hidden secrets, I would have sung like a canary after a summers worth of sleepless nights tossing and turning on that brick... *shudder* the horrors!

It's probably not a bed at all, might be just reinforcing or accomodating a sewer pipe or anything.

Cody Pomeray

TiltedBrain wrote: »

It's a burner room

a burner room for an apartment?

might be that the hatch is new, and the room was bought from the complex by a previous owner, but there's no reason why an apartment needs its own burner room.

CardBordWindow

Today's Post of the Day has more pics of it.

Omackeral

Woulda been perfect for Walter White and Jesse Pinkman. Yeah Science!!!

emmabrighton

Omackeral wrote: »

Woulda been perfect for Walter White and Jesse Pinkman. Yeah Science, B*TCH!!!

FYP

SV

Omackeral wrote: »

Woulda been perfect for Walter White and Jesse Pinkman. Yeah Science!!!

Nah, cooking meth is awful smelly.

danniemcq

Omackeral wrote: »

Woulda been perfect for Walter White and Jesse Pinkman. Yeah Science!!!

nope terrible ventilation down there, no quick escape if something did go wrong

Now a grow room... that could work

Omackeral

emmabrighton wrote: »

FYP

Ya know what?? He didn't actually say Bitch!!! Looked it up on YouTube last night. Heartbroken

emmabrighton

Omackeral wrote: »

Ya know what?? He didn't actually say Bitch!!! Looked it up on YouTube last night. Heartbroken

Noooooooooooooooooooo! It made saying b*tch cool!!!!!

Sticking it at the end of magnets/science...

Wait, what am i saying????

*Slinks back to my nerdy desk, in my nerdy lab coat, wearing my nerdy glasses to play tetris *

Maximus Alexander

Hehe, one of the comments on that article:

"He must have leveled up and and unlocked his first dungeon."

SteelyDanJalapeno

Cody Pomeray wrote: »

a burner room for an apartment?

might be that the hatch is new, and the room was bought from the complex by a previous owner, but there's no reason why an apartment needs its own burner room.

Obviously the apartment wasn't there years ago, probably a converted Georgian or something,

Tank would of been on that raised platform.

strobe

Yes... yes... google play store.

FUKK YOU, THE JOURNAL!! NO ONE WANTS YOUR ****TY APP!

Milly33

mmm I doesn't look like it was that well hidden in fairness he hardly discovered it.. Sorry to put a downer on it but me thinks some either tried a no planning extension or just decided to get creative..Would'nt mind something like this..

Alun

It's just a very ordinary cellar, very common in old properties in the UK. Plus it was hardly 'secret' was it?

blaze1

I like the way he send his female friend in further to investigate while he takes pics of her hole

Shenshen

So he opened a clearly visible hatch and found a basement?

And that's news?

Milly33

yep yep.. but look it has a coffin bed... It only we all opened a hatch and there was a spare room down there

Duggy747

Not really a secret now, is it?

A potential secret sex dungeon gone to waste by telling everyone on the web.

biko

Last renter was Fritzl.

humbert

There's probably another 'dungeon' above the ceiling too, albeit a relatively modern one.

sbsquarepants

Jesus that is brilliant - i'd kill for something like that under my apartment. Kill for it, not in it! A beer fridge, a few chairs, internet connection and a ipod dock and i'd rarely come up to ground level again!

michellie

Ughh imagine the spiders

SpaceTime

That 'bed' looks more like the base for an old central heating boiler or maybe even a laundry room in the basement.

It also looks like a window was bricked up. Perhaps some people broke in scribbled on the walls and squatted there or something in the past? Who knows.

The rest of it just looks like your typical grotty basement.

I'd be more concerned about radon than anything else!

Hoop66

Leamington Spa! Woo Hoo!

It's my home town. Well, it's next to my home town.

Now, where's that trivial acheivements thread?

MadsL

xabi wrote: »

Why is it a 'dungeon'? Surely its just a basement or a cellar.

Have you no imagination? Or fetishes?

FouxDaFaFa

I think it's cool. I would love a creepy basement.

Imagine the fun you can have with friends who didn't know about it.

"Say guys, what's that noise? Do you hear that? It sounds like it's coming from...under the floor?"

demc7

Glad you guys like it

Oryx

Milly33 wrote: »

yep yep.. but look it has a coffin bed... It only we all opened a hatch and there was a spare room down there

Id prefer to open a hatch and be John Malkovitch.

0ph0rce0

HAHA One of the comments

"If he found that in apartment in Ireland They would TRIPLE the rent at least."

So true :pac:

MadsL

0ph0rce0 wrote: »

HAHA One of the comments

"If he found that in apartment in Ireland They would TRIPLE the rent at least."

So true :pac:

I've seen places to rent that look like the basement.

chopper6

Very modern-looking basement...built of breeze blocks and with dodgy-looking wiring aroound the place...possibly a 1940's bomb shelter.

He obviously lives in a converted house and this is part of the basement...the brickwork looks really,really shabby though and i would hope it's not supporting anything.

Surveyor11

Sue the surveyor.....oh wait....

demc7

Here's a video tour of it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5wmJaQ3GfY

And yes, it's me

humbert

Why do you refer to it as a dungeon? While we're at it, why do you call it secret?

kneemos

demc7 wrote: »

Here's a video tour of it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5wmJaQ3GfY

And yes, it's me

Wouldn't want to be the worse for wear in that bedroom.

BillyMitchel

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