Woman finds boarded up hidden door in uncle’s house. Then comes the eerie basement below: ‘The door is literally an upside down cross’

A TikTok user has posted a video showing her uncle’s house, where the family just discovered a hidden door behind a panel of drywall.

Kassidy Tucker, who posts as @misfittoy_827, filmed the whole thing as he removed the panel and then began to work the screws out of the old-looking wooden door.

Apparently, a previous owner had decided to board the entire section up, and even her uncle didn’t know about it. “All the years of horror movie experience I’ve ever watched is telling me not to do this,” she says. Her aunt, off camera, is blunter: “You better stop.”

But the man keeps going with his work. The video runs more than three minutes, and most of it is spent on the screws, and the family fills the time with the kind of commentary that …

When the screws all come out and the door swings clear, there are stairs going down into the dark. It’s a damp place, and the flashlight picks out a dirt floor, with scattered chunks of wood, a green bucket in the corner, and cobwebs on the ceiling all contributing to its eerie quality. “I ain’t going down there,” Tucker says. “Hell no.”

The video has drawn more than 120,000 comments. “There are more than 43 movies explaining why this is a bad idea,” warned one user in the comments.

Others pointed to the door’s design, which seems to be an inverted cross. “The door is literally an upside down cross,” one comment read.

“Hidden doors are hidden for a reason,” wrote Daniel Agyei. Another user joked: “Here we go again.”

“Totally normal for a door to be hidden and have 100 screws,” one user helpfully pointed out.

A noise is heard in the night

The original video has garnered a staggering 128 million views as of writing this. There are two followup videos. Tucker explains in one that her uncle heard a noise in the middle of the night which brought him back up to the door again.

He decided to close it for the night and investigate tomorrow. In part 3, he goes down and checks the basement out, and Tucker is heard joking that if he dies, she’ll take care of his wife and unborn child.

While Tucker still doesn’t show the basement, the anticlimactic end to this story might be that the basement was just a basement. The consensus in the comments, however, remained the same. When you happen upon a hidden basement door with questionable carving, maybe just leave it alone.