“It Looks Down Into One of the Bedrooms” — Woman Finds Hidden Ceiling Door in Airbnb

A woman uploaded footage of her stay at what she calls the "worst/creepiest Airbnb ever." TikTok user Mich (@mich3113.0) posted a duo of videos detailing some of her time at the establishment, which she posted to the popular social media application. In her first clip she writes an ominous text overlay that reads: "I think I'm gonna die in this house."

A few seconds into the post, she details why. Mich films herself walking slowly to the edge of the bed. She then records a portion of the ceiling, which features a strange indentation that sits up significantly higher than the rest of the ceiling.

Following this, she shows off two people holding up what someone to peer into the negative space she clocked on her initial view of the ceiling. Next, her video cuts to a picture of the area taken by the person being held up by Mich's friends. There's a small door that rests behind the sloped portion of the ceiling, without any explanation from where it leads to.

Presumably, anyone with access to this door could peer into the room and come down from the ceiling if they wanted to, getting the drop on whoever is resting in the room.

In a follow-up video, Mich reveals that she ended up not sleeping in the room.

Instead, she opted to share a room with a fellow Airbnb guests. Opting to avoid the potential horror movie scenario. "Sleeping in the same room in an Airbnb with the door locked because we were not about to stay apart at night," she wrote in the clip.

However, some commenters stated that they felt that Mich and her friends would have probably been best served not staying in the Airbnb at all. "Girl you is brave, I would have called 911 so fast," one remarked.

But there were others who thought that sticking together in this scenario was a good way to ensure their safety, too. "That’s hella smart tho," one penned. And another stated: "Now this is how people should think in horrors."

"OK y'all smart ! Y'all will survive," one TikTok commenter wrote.

Others had a more practical and less creepy explanation for the mysterious door hidden in the ceiling. Some mentioned that Airbnb owners will typically have storage areas to keep private belongings locked away for guests not to use while they're renting out their domiciles.

"They lock stuff to keep supplies, and if you say you don’t have as many people they lock doors so you don’t use one of the rooms so they don’t have to clean it later. Or maybe that is their space when they stay there and don’t want anyone using it so it can stay personal," one person mentioned.

Someone else on the app had the same idea: "Many AB&Bs have private quarters for the owner’s use only. Those areas stay locked and inaccessible to renters. My cousin has one, and if she doesn’t do this, her private quarters and things get stolen or trashed when she wants to be there," they wrote.

One user also highlighted that this type of setup in homes isn't all that common. "Guys it's literally a 'sottotetto' it's common in Italy," they said.

Daily Italian Words confirms that this is indeed an architectural fixture, stating that these attic lofts are "the space inside the roof of a house."

In the same piece discussing these fixtures, the website adds that these spaces are "generally not naturally lit and ventilated due to a lack of windows." Furthermore, sottotettos are often "used as a storage or mechanical room." Typically, however, this isn't the case.

The sottotetto often "serves to protect the top floor from heat, cold and humidity." By providing a space for air in a home to gather, the sottotetto helps to regulate the temperature throughout the rest of the home, as hot air naturally rises in a structure.

Additionally, if folks do decide to make a sottotetto habitable by installing "windows, a walkable foor, insulation, and connections to gas, water, and electricity, it becomes a cosy mansarda."

Judging by the fact that there's a door in the Airbnb, however, it doesn't look like this area is a sottotetto. What do you think? Is it just being used for storage? Or is there some nefarious purpose going on at the Airbnb Mich and her friends stayed at?