Michigan Man Finds Creepiest Trapped Door in 118-Year-Old Home After Tearing Up Carpet

Old buildings can be full of forgotten secrets, just waiting for their future owners to (hopefully) uncover them. Sometimes you get lucky and discover a priceless hidden gem, and other times, you find yourself at the start of a real-life horror movie. Unfortunately, this Michigan man experienced the latter.

Grymm Dupp lives in a 118-year-old church in the town of Horton, Michigan - a rather unconventional vintage home that he is still in the process of renovating. While updating one of the church's bathrooms, Dupp removed the old carpet to discover something chilling hidden beneath it - and things only got weirder from there.

Dupp's video (shared by @nypost ) quickly turns from mundane to uncanny. Underneath the beige carpet lining the bathroom floor, Dupp discovered a ceramic tile floor that he believed dated back to the 1970s... along with a secret trap door. Between the door and the sink, there was an obvious cutout in the floor, which the carpet had previously hidden. This would have been a creepy find even if it wasn't in a church built in 1906, but Dupp wasn't deterred as he opened the door up "for the first time in I don't know how many years" to take a peek.

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Unfortunately, the interior was too dark and spiderwebby for Dupp to get a good look in the moment, but it led down to some kind of deep cellar, deep enough that you couldn't see anything past the end of the rickety wooden stairs. Genuine, bona fide, Grade A horror movie material... or was it?

Mundane or Macabre?

A trap door hidden away inside a vintage home - and an old church, no less - has all the makings of a great ghost story set-up. But was that trap originally designed with any nefarious reasons in mind? Social media users speculated all kinds of theories about the room's true purpose, suggesting that it might have been a whiskey cellar used by smugglers during the Prohibition era , some kind of storm shelter , or even an "exorcism room."

However, the likeliest explanation is also the most mundane. As multiple social media users pointed out, the presence of PVC piping down there indicated that this was not an original feature, and the "trap door" was probably just added for easy plumbing access. Regardless, reasonable explanation or no, that cellar still looked like something straight out of The Conjuring !

Fortunately, those spooky vibes might be just what Dupp is looking for. According to the New York Post , the 1906 church-turned-vintage home is being featured by a paranormal investigation team, and that hidden basement that Dupp uncovered will allegedly be used " as a film set for ghost stories ."

At least they won't have any problems setting the mood down there...

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