What a Family Found Behind a Hidden Door in Their New Home
HTML-код
- Опубликовано: 15 фев 2022
- A Virginia family was stunned to find a secret room behind a hidden door in the home they recently moved into. Levi and Kelsey Gilles and their 15-year-old daughter Ada just moved into their new home when they made the shocking discovery. Ada was unpacking her things in the room she picked, when she noticed a latch on the floor. The latch led to a hidden door that opened to a room no one in the family knew existed. On the floor in the room was a hidden drawer, and inside was a box of rare coins.
Can we talk about how the family looks like college roommates not parents and a child!?
I was thinking the same thing. I couldn't figure out which one was the teenage daughter lol. Wow good genes
A perk of having kids young. Lol
They probably were teen parents.
@CelsiusBlack let me guess you were a teen mom lol you can't call getting knocked up young a perk lmfao
What, one of them is younger than the others? They look so young!
Imagine if the previous homeowners never knew about that hidden room, and those were not their coins.
My thoughts exactly. Perhaps belonged to the original family/ owners. If those coins belonged to the previous owner they would have taken their possession when they sold the home
...perhaps they belonged to the boatman, who ferries the souls of the dead. 👿
I was thinking the same thing
But the coin looked new.
@@Nhatanh0475 I think they just put the coins there as props for the video..maybe?
It’s a bit disturbing how the lock prevents someone from the side of the hidden room from coming out instead of the lock being inside the hidden room. Makes you wonder what the purpose of that room was……
I think it’s a good idea to hide inside the secret room behind the wall just in case if there’s a burglar breaking in.
Exactly. Why is there a lock to the storage room. That's like having a lock to your closet.
@@anthonyguarino4242 - what if it is only the hamburglar; bringing gifts...
@@z-z-z-z I don’t accept gifts from hamburglars.
Yeah it bothers me. Makes me think that they could kidnap someone and lock them in the secret room.
That was super decent of them to return the coins. A lot of people wouldn't bother.
👍
Cool little space!!
Well they advertised it to the whole world. They could have gotten cancelled for not giving the coins back.
@@fulanichild3138 i mean, they couldve deleted the video and kept the coins
@@Bodangers Actually they couldn't delete it once it was picked up by Inside Edition.
They could have kept the coins either way. The house was now theirs. So, whatever was left behind legally, is theirs.
@@missycitty9478 right but at that point, keeping the coins comes with potential baggage
Kudos to this family for returning this discovered treasure! Really a stand up thing to do!
So they say. They probably put those there themselves.
@@DavidKen878 yeah lol that’s what I was thinking too.
@@DavidKen878 they were really freaking shiny but I’m a born skeptic 🤷♀️
Probably wasn’t even the previous home owners, they were just like oh yea, darn we forgot those
I wish they would have kept them. But then they couldn’t share their story with the internet..
Let’s see if we see a movie about this in the near future, then we find out who stayed and was locked in that room. I mean we saw house of horrors and many more 🤷🏽♀️
“girl in basement for 24 years by her father”
Right
basically
Sadé!
I’m pretty sure there’s a movie already made about something like this the plot went something like moved into new house, house was haunted and then they found this room which people called it the shame room I believe, it was where they would lock kids who would be deformed
I always dreamed of living in a house with hidden rooms and books, didn't happen. I hope they enjoy their new home, thanks for returning the coins to the owners.
U can make your own hidden spaces. It doesn't have to be an old house. We have a newer home and it had an unused void like this.
So glad to hear they returned the coins to the previous owners! Stellar folks! 💌
"the secret room was fully insulated." Well, thanks to inside edition it apparently is not a secret anymore
THATS WHAT I SAID Like why would you post this. Now I’m finna really breaknin
Well thanks to them to, they posted it🤦🏻♀️
Temporary fame > secret room. 🤷♂️
Likely they should put in some sheet rock and turn it into a storage area for that room.
"Let's go!"
Good on them for returning the coins. Still honest people in this world.
Buy a house. The contents belongs to the purchaser. The coins belongs to the purchaser
@@Theorangecrushgamer and yet they had the heart enough to return it to the previous owners. How about that.
Finders keepers
Idiots should’ve kept the coins
Maybe the coins didn't belong to prior owner, of they would have taken them when moving out
Wow top tier reporting on a big brain discovery. I was so utterly and totally shocked when the bookshelf that had a lock on the outside of it opened!! Good thing they explained how to unlock it too I’ve never seen one of those latches before
Pleased to hear they managed to find the owners and return the coins, where they belong. Interesting to find out what the purpose of the room was for.
If you call that a "secret room" y'all would think my grandparents old farmhouse I grew up in as well was some type of magical place as there were many different hidden rooms much like that upstairs and was essentially attic space or for storage back then so as to not waste the space by just blocking it off or sealing them. I thought they were very neat as a kid but also a little scary at times.
Inside Edition click bait. Every house with a room in the attic has that kind of space.
@@vipahman disguised as a shelf x to doubt
Also it had a special hidden compartment under the shelf
@@vipahman Pssh most of the houses I've lived in had an inter-dimensional gateway to a world of mystery & romance 🌹
Ding dong open up im here for the service of who tf asked
Yea. I’m pretty shocked this made it on as a story. I’m mean it’s cool and all… but I was waiting for something crazy to be back there.
I’m more impressed at how young the parents looked!
I was thinking opposite that the daughter looked old lol
@@luluinterrupted9213 which one was the daughter?
@@ocoss1983 right I’m like which one the mom they look the same age , daughter looks like she pushing 30
the redhead is the daughter???
@@pripyat.sadboi8092 I think redhead is the daughter , I think I peeped a tattoo on the blonde heads arm
top notch journalism... giving us the stories we need to hear!
WOW amazing story! thats why i love inside edition!
That’s the character of this family, the fact that they found someone else’s treasure and returned it without a second thought!
I Tip My Hat To You Gilles Family 🎩
They probably returned it to the wrong owner who will keep it instead of passing it around
They probably "returned" it because it wasn't worth anything.
It was probably their own coins, All just a lame set up to get on the news.🙄
I'm going to believe they found it, returned it to the right owners and they lived Happily Ever After!
Oh and I love how you added the 🎩 to your comment! Ha!
God bless you!
Lynne🍃💜🍃 ---> 👒
@@airwolf3607 A dumb set up too... everything looked so clean and neat. Some people would do anything nowadays to go viral... ANYTHING!
I grew up in Virginia. I had multiple friends with older houses that had hidden rooms and spaces like this in the walls (made for great games of hide and seek as kids!!) so this home likely used to be a safe house that was used/constructed during the days of the Underground Railroad. People trying to help free ensalved African Americans had small rooms like this in their houses (and usually more than one) to protect these people in case police or anyone unsavory came knocking/snooping around
this looks more like somewhere you’d lock a child in if you were an abusive parent this is too new to have anything to do with the underground railroad
@@equals2921 looks can be deceiving. My great grandparents house had a hidden room off of their basement that had all kinds of things inside of it. One of which was an old ships lantern. Nobody knew it was there until my moms uncle bought the house and they were renovating the basement to put in central heat. They thought it was as simple as removing a wall. Nope. They found an entire room. And there was a lot of evidence that the house was part of the Underground Railroad. The house could easily have been renovated and that room was just insulated. A lot of times it’s cheaper and easier to just deal off a room like that.
You can tell by the construction that is not an old house.
@CimarronWay If this was a safe room for slaves that insulation would have come in handy. 👍
Returned to the previous homeowners?? They were probably like, "Thaaaanks. Hey Honey, you know of any secret door & valuable coins?? No, but keep smiling & shaking their hand." 😁
I would have used that and embraced that area as a safe instead of exposing it to the world …
Exactly my thoughts.
“The family was able to return the coins to the previous homeowners”.
I honestly doubt they knew they were there lol
They just needed something exciting
enough to make it a news story. Wasn’t that exciting, though. Haha
@@rachele3334 yup that's half the stories on here unfortunately lol.
If I had found found those coins, the reporter would've said, "The homeowner was able to return the coins to the pawn shop." 😂
That's awesome they found cool treasures!! I honestly hope they find more hidden entrances lol
I'm still trying to find the secret room in the house I bought... Sadly I haven't found one.
Dont worry, I think the Rumble Pak should work with a couple of bombs
Because you're a bot
@@chespinsupremacy If not, song of storms
Omg i think i watch some of your videos! How's it going? You do Mods for Smash bros right?
I don't see how people wouldnt notice. There shouldnt be large spaces between rooms and knowing your house from the outside and inside you would kinda be able to figure that out easy and say why the hell is there a space right here like there wouldnt be that much wall here. It's kinda hard to hide a hidden room unless you had a hidden way down and put it under.
The previous home owners? They just happened to forget they stored Olympic coins in there?
Sometimes, i remember story of my uncle where he hides some money (around $500) inside a sofa from his wife (because you know, it's drink money). one day they do renovation jobs and his wife just sell that used sofa for like $50 or something.. he cursed at his heart but cannot complaints, well he never told his wife and only us though.. 🤣🤣
@@garryjohnson6794 Lol poor uncle.
Seriously a hidden room? Lol . It’s unused storage space that is common in older homes.
That was nice giving them back well done but showing everyone a Hidden room dude that could been a life saver if anyone broken into your home no one would of known .
I think that's not so much a room, but storage. We had that exact kind of space on the third floor of our house - attic if you will. It was insulated (with fiberglass in those days) and looked like this. Plus I believe a proper "room" requires a window
yeah lol thats just a storage cubby my parent's cape style house has these with those tiny half doors. insulation is just the house insulation lol not like drywalled
Exactly 👍 that’s a storage not a secret room 😁 my old house had the same thing
My mother is a realtor and the only requirement for something to be considered a bedroom/room is closet
@@paisleybaisleyy A bedroom also needs two means of egress :) and technically has to be a specific minimum of square feet to be considered a bedroom (which I'm sure varies depends on state/country, I'm in US and it is 7'x10' I believe)
Yeah It a hidden storage room because I have the same thing in my upstairs Bed room but mine had real door and if it was a room it wouldn’t lock from the outside they probably had important stuff inside or was a paranoid person lol
Mom and dad look so young, I can't tell who the 15 year old daughter is.
Their daughter looks very sweet.
Lol me either they look the same age and it's not age 15🤣🤣🤣
If the daughter is the red head one, she looks way older
That's actually too cool! House looks beautiful on the inside for sure
I'm glad they returned the coins. I have once left a box of my childhood "treasures" hidden in an apartment I used to live in and never had the chance to get them back.
I have one of those “hidden rooms”… it’s called a storage room. They build them when you have weird angle roofs and live on top floors. They fill the void with a book shelf or small door
I have one too, you’d never know it was there… unless you took a minute and looked 😀
@@gr8dvd I want to find one in my house that leads to a parallel dimension or something. Now THAT would be cool.
What does the latch do for that type of room?? I’m
Exactly, lol. Not a secret room but rather utilization of dead space for storage. Honestly, has no one else ever seen houses like this? And btw, if the space were intended to be truly secret they wouldn't have put a lock to draw attention to it. So many people saying that it was an evil room to lock children inside. Such drama! The lock is to keep the "door" from inadvertently swinging outward.
@@francesmcstay if you own a cape style house. You more than likely have a space like that. It all depends if you want to use it or not. In one of my rooms is a built in dresser the other is a small closet. Whoever built the bookshelf did a nice job.
Why would you return the coins to the previous home owner? When they sold the house they sold everything in it.
9mm smart
It reminds me of the home owner who was doing some home improvements when he came across a gun permit buried within the walls. He turned it over to police and it turned out to be instrumental in leading to serial killer (former cop Ronald West/"The 22 cailbre killer"). You have to wonder why he wouldn't have just flushed the permit down the toilet or burned it but nope, he just had to go and bury it in a wall!
It would depend on the value of the coins.
@@isabellind1292 now THAT is an interesting story!
How lovely that they were so honest that they returned them
Oh thats so awesome! Would love to have a house with secret spots like that!!!
Put a book case near it so you cant see the latch and it would be a great place to hide if there was ever a home invasion
Exactly what I was thinking I would use it for...
Your definitely from the city . First thought that comes to your mind is a home invasion
@@Open_Your_Eyes I mean... there's not much other reasons to have a secret room in plain sight in your own house lol
I was thinking the same kind of thing but using something heavier so the latch wouldn't be noticeable. Plus use the room for yoga meditations or craft room.
It's a great panic room.
Awesome that they tracked down the previous home owners and returned what they found in their new home. Not many people would have been the same caliber of honor and integrity.
Obviously it wasn’t too important- they forgot about it lol
I mean, maybe the coins weren’t even the previous homeowners - they just accepted them when they were offered them lol.
@@justanotherhappyhumanist8832 Agree with you. Maybe the previous owner had something hiding there and this was a clue leaving behind. This is just a mystery.
@@justanotherhappyhumanist8832 ..yes,that's exactly what i thought..I mean,would you forget something that precious?..ha,haa!..🤔🤫😏🤗🤑😉🤩😊..🤣🤣🤣..
I wouldn’t of returned it
Hats of for these honest people for returning those coins
Nice and insulated for growing ''plants'' 🌿🌿 🤔
I need updates on the previous homeowners... How long they lived there.. etc... I am curious because people move all the time... Was it really theirs? Did they have kids.?? Etc..??
I was thinking the same thing lol
Exactly, “What coins… rare, valuable coins? Made of metal and round… oh yea those were ours, thanks!"
@@gr8dvd "Made of metal and around?" 😭🤣
The key point is the outside lock? If you lock from outside, it's only for three reasons:
1.Prevent intruder from out of the house to break through the insulation to sneak into the house.
2.Kept something inside.
3. Used as a hide place in emergency.
If it was 3, there should be a locker inside of the door. Otherwise it mostly like 1 or 2.
Or it could have just been there so it didn't move easily if something knocked into it. That latch would be destroyed easily if someone wanted to get through it. It was tiny.
Or if you loosen the tinfoil cap a fourth option would come to you, it could just be to stop it from swinging open on its hinges back before they sagged. In regards to your ideas. 1 and 2 both have the same problem, that flimsy lock isn't keeping anything more than a 5 year old in and for 3 as a hiding place in an emergency, the lock would be on the inside not the outside as you pointed out so I'm not sure why you listed it.
@@recipioct what’s the chances of you seeing that, while your robbing a house?
Looks like #2. Since there's rare coins in the hidden drawer.
@@Rainy_2X While in the hurry... pretty much low chance that would came to mind unless the thief truly know one have time for the family to return from a vacation or something.
Great story!
Insulated walls and a lock on the outside of the room? Hopefully, it was insulated to keep the house warm/cool, and the latch was just to keep the bookcase in place and NOT because they were trying to lock Harry Potter (or someone else) in there.
If I'm looking for a house like that, I'll be like "oooh nice shelves underneath the stairs". How could you not see the lock.
You would think a lock would be the first thing you would notice if someone was I don't know sweeping a floor or something
They just bought the house. It's not like they were living there for years and just noticed it now.
@@Littleone124 even still you wouldn't notice a shiny piece of Steel?
How cute, what a space to utilize into a little reading nook or something that radiates to them more .. little theater area with bean bags , sensory room, art space , gaming ❤️endless cute little space ideas
Lets just hope the secret room doesn't have a sinister history. First thing I thought they would find is a dead body chained to the floor.
server room
@@timeless1922 The Nut Room.
Panic room in case of intruder.
Leprechaun
What a nice family, returning valuables to its previous owner.
Killer panic room for sure!!! Love it Odd that the previous homeowners didn't tell them about this.
I wouldn’t call it a secret “room”, it appears to be an under-stairs closet.
Well when you buy the property and they don’t say anything, I’d call it a secret 🤫
I've seen your name before, i don't remember where though
@@EasilyCringed not sure I’m all over the place my man
Eww
I thinking was a panic room to hide & put their values there , to hide it from the thief's, in case breakin
Certain things you should keep to yourself I would never tell nobody unless it was a body in There.... People Should never know About your secret room
That room is so great for Valuables, well hidden and locked off
Crazy thing is that the previous homeowners didn't know anything about the secret door or the coins but they gladly took them. Haha. They would have told the new buyers about the door and room if they knew about it.
Not exactly a secret room when there is an obvious latch on the outside. Seems like it was meant to be used as storage.
💯
It's not so obvious lol, and it can easily be hidden by obstructing it with a drawer or well pretty much anything
Oh wow, they have a storage room that's just insane. I found a door in my garage ceiling and it turned into stairs and there was an entire attic in there, it also had a light. We called all the local news outlets to show them what we found and they all said who cares?!?!? It's probably what they should have said to you also.
Right? I'm shocked at the stuff that goes viral. I recorded our, then, town's sheriff walking down the street COMPLETELY plastered & none of the news outlets cared.
lol thank you for this. I hate these stupid clickbait videos and I hate that stupid algorithms bombard me with these stupid videos. If this family lives in a multi-story home, unless their home has a completely flat roof they're probably going to have some floorspace/wall void/area around dormers and roof gables which may or may not be accessible and may or may not be finished for use as storage space. This is not remarkable at all. I mean the coin part was 2% remarkable but not really even.
The reaction to finding those coins 🔥
a literal secret turning bookcase to discover a secret room. that's so cool!
What happens if the previous homeowners didn't know about the secret stash of coins so they got free coins and sell them
That's what I was thinking
It is the property of the new owner now, technically came with the house
@@colinlebihan3641 yes so it's there's now hehe
How valuable were those couns?
Your videos always make my day. Keep up the awesome content!! :D
I did not think of those as rooms but more as bulk/holiday decoration storage spaces. Well, my current home has 4 of those spaces and I turned on into a dogroom for my staffy dog. She loves it. The others I used to store winter clothes in totes in the hot summer months and other odd things. I should get more creative I guess. Looks like fun. 🤪
It’s attic space. You can store all the junk, just don’t seal it off, unless you like moisture in your walls.
You should have called Inside Edition to tell them about this amazing architectural feat because apparently, it’s breaking news!
thats the perfect grow room right there
great minds think alike
You could fit only one short, fat plant in there
@@octowuss1118 or multiple tiny plants
That was very kind of them to return the coins. I saw it as a finders keepers thing, but what they did was more appropiate🤣
Good for the family!
i read this as "family found behind hidden door"
Why the latch? That would have only one purpose: to keep someone or a pet in that cubby hole (not a real room as reported) inside. To prevent a person or pet from getting free by latching the entrance shut is disturbing
EXACTLY!!! Why is no one talking about this???
That latch isn't strong enough to keep a human from getting out. Even a child could break out of there.
@@SwapPartLLC Yeah, makes me think it's just so the door can't swing open on it's own.
@@justsomesoyboy That is all it's for. If it was really intended to be a secret, it wouldn't have that latch blatantly out in plain sight.
looks more like a weed room where u can secretly grow it
Gosh, how exciting! Who woulda guessed!
Ohhh ahhh a hidden room...
Top story here
It's not a secret room anymore 😅
Keep it a secret then.
One of my previous houses had a secret room in a storage closet. No idea what it was built for, but it made a great secret club house.
Highly doubt their home inspector didn’t notice this.
That was so nice to return the coins.
That's just for extra storage. Not a secret room. Pretty common in those old houses.
Exaclty! Lol i dont know inside edtion did not vet this story
Wouldn't call it a secret room, more like "an attic"
Seriously
A damn crawl space.
It was like their first time in a house…
Dope growing room
Glad they returned the coins! Cool house-what else will they find 👀
What next? Houses with attics and people find secret attic!? It's not a secret room, it's just a room.
Hidden behind ze bookcase
Quick get in it, before ze Germans come!
They probably have a door w/a knob on their ceiling too that they haven't figured out yet, lol!
Bruh I’m not sure if those previous homeowners actually owned those coins, lol.
Why do u think there was a latch on the door? I’m curious as to why they were locking it in there
Such good people...returning the coins
That is so cool!
I have a recurring dream where I find a secret room like this. It's always filled with stuff and I get to look through it all. It's always a different home with different stuff. It's a really fun dream
Dreams about finding a secret room or space mean that you need to expand your religious or spiritual side of you good luck that's a great trip
🤔⛪📿🕯☦☮
@@cynthiasmith3660 thanks. I have no specific religious beliefs or practices so makes sense
That was my childhood dream, to have a house with several hidden rooms. In the dream, there was always a room that was filled with wooden toys for me. Another room had an old fashioned school desk. All of the rooms had secret hidden doors and passageway’s just like this lucky find!
Same
Wow! We found a hidden space in our home when we first moved in, but no treasures! 🤣😂😅 Previous owners didn't know it was there. My husband's sudden breathing issues prompted duct inspections and they discovered it!
Cool extra storage!
I remember my old house's secret room was just like this one, was insulated too, had a similiar lock on the bottom same corner, even had a drawer just like the one here and that's where my family kept our heirloom olympics coin set too. Must have been the same architect or blueprint for the shelf inlay. Amazing! I wonder what happened to my family's Olympic coins after we moved from our old home?
Funny.
Someday somebody will find them and return them to you, I'm sure
We all know that someone was forced to live for 12 years in that room.
God if only that wasn't a "thing" that actually happened.. so scary to imagine.
Thought the same thing when it had A lock on the outside 😨
Harry Potter 🤔
With high rent prices, they can rent out that room.
My cousins had that exact same thing in their bedrooms upstairs. They had a door on theirs. We made a fort in there. It was a ton of fun!
Good on them for returning the coins. Sounds like previous folks lived through some kind of trauma.
once there's a latch/lock...it's not a "secret room"
The fact that there was a lock ON THE OUTSIDE makes me strongly believe the previous owner(s) abused their child(ren) and put them in there. If it were to hide from intruders, the lock would have been on the inside. Horrible discovery!
I think it's just a storage space.
@@TheShoottheradio if it’s ‘just storage’, why would there be a lock? It’s not a ‘nobody can access this’ kind of lock, as you just pull, it just means nobody can come outside from the inside.
If you locked it because you didn’t want your kids or someone to get in, you’d get a lock with a key, and if you didn’t want intruders to know you’d either get a secret lock or no lock at all and make sure it’s flush against the wall.
I mean… maybe I’ve just seen too much abuse in my life but… it makes absolutely 0 sense to have a non-locking kind of lock, unless you wanted to keep someone on the inside from entering the outside
Nah ,I think it's a safe room. The latch might have been put on to keep kids from going in there, but at the same time ,it gives away the safe room. The fact that they had a secret drawer with valuable coins tells you that it's a safe room,But if you put a latch on the outside, it gives away the secret..lol
@@MsFlame2000 that is not a lock that’s gonna keep anyone from entering, not kids either, you literally just swipe it aside.
@@GayCorvidae69 yeah ,but it's not going to keep anyone in there either. Since it doesn't have hinges, you could push that out with your body weight. Unless they kept a pet in there ,when they were gone. It's definitely a room for storing valuables. A lot of old homes in the South have that kind of storage.
cool, an extra room. Market value ^^
Plot Twist: Previous homeowners had no idea about the coins but accepted them anyway
🤯 Lol.
The previous homeowners be like “Bunch of suckers”
Which one is the 15 year old lmao? They all look 30
I have been taking care of foreclosure houses for over 10 years, I hope one day to find something cool like that.
Yea I would definitely turn that into a hangout , hot box 😂😂.. great for when u got a intruder
I doubt the previous homeowners would forget they left those type of coins there. 😏 Also secret room? Could have just been a extra space for storage.
Imagine they find the previous home owners just chilling in there.
You can use your children to get grounded in there for months (or maybe years).
@@josemoreirafilho8108 Thats child abuse 💀
That was really nice for them to return the coins to the original family fair play to Them
*You're a wizard, Harry!*
So nice of them to return the coins! I was wondering about that.
Why is there a lock from the outside? You lock it to prevent someone or a living thing to go out. 🤔
It’s to keep it from swinging open. Nothing insidious.
@@kjsaaaaaaaa wym ?
@@leongxchx904 It doesn't open by itself
thanks for letting me know.
Good on them for returning the coins