Woman finds secret room in the ‘creepy’ basement of her 200-year-old house after noticing a mysterious water leak

A woman has discovered a secret room hidden in her basement.

New York-based content creator Mystee Ipong posted a TikTok series documenting her journey to finding a “random room in” [her] cellar that is closed [her] 200 year old house.'

She “noticed there was a leak” with “water coming up” from a mysterious place in the basement, and her plumbers told her she had to tear down the wall so they could find the broken pipe causing the damage.

In a series of videos, Mystee's husband, Ken, is shown trying to open the wall in their “creepy basement” as she explains the “interesting history” she discovered over time to her followers.

Mystee told her viewers that there was new stone “covering an entire room and you can even see the doorway around it.”

Her goal was to find out what was in the “creepy room that was blocked off.”

Her original video received over 2.9 million views, 172,500 likes and many comments.

One person wrote: 'Girl! 200 year old house? It certainly could be an underground railway passage.”

Another person added, “We call that a basement in Michigan. We found small “rooms” presumably [the] underground railway line along the way of [the] underground railway museum.'

“My house growing up was part of the Underground Railroad and had this!! Go upstairs and look for a line of congestion in the wood on the floor,” a third person advised.

Someone else commented: “They locked that room for a reason” and warned “a lot of bad things usually happen” when you enter a room that was previously closed.

One person wrote humorously: 'Listen… 2023 is almost over. Let's not open a whole paranormal apocalypse before 2024.'

Another follower comically added: 'No, that's the magic cellar.'

Mystee posted a second TikTok video with a sped-up video of her husband, Ken, using a hammer in an attempt to break open the wall.

She also responded to several questions from followers about the mysterious room.

One person asked if the pair had gotten the house “inspected,” and she responded that she had “multiple inspections” but nothing was “seen” until the leaks started.

The couple thought a problem with the septic was causing the problems. However, when the plumbers inquired about what was behind the wall, the couple said it was the garage, and told them there was nothing behind that wall.

She informed viewers that the couple had trashed the house before moving in, which her husband emphasized because his family has “some experience with very creepy things.”

Mystee also told another follower that she didn't believe it was a coal room because she knew it was in a different part of the basement because she found the material on the ground.

The content creator then posted a third video with updates, saying they “couldn't get through the wall” because the room was filled with rocks.

She admitted to having been down a “rabbit hole,” saying that because the couple lived “just outside of Rochester,” she knew there were “some ties to the Underground Railroad.”

Mystee explained that famous abolitionist Harriet Tubman was once in Rochester because it was one of the places where slaves stopped on their journey to freedom and Frederick Douglass owned a house in town.

However, she wasn't sure if there were any ties to her specific city.

She said she “started looking up Brockport under the railroad tracks, and that was definitely the case [had] some tapes.'

The house was owned by Lucy Jane Blodgett, whom she knew because they had purchased the original lithographs for the house online.

Mystee also looked up Clarkson and the Underground Railroad and discovered that there was a well-known station eight minutes away.

She emphasized that the distance is only half a mile from her home, which she found interesting.

Once she knew the name of the home's owner, she started searching for the last name and eventually found someone “who posted on a lot of different discussion boards about having a great-great-uncle who was part of the Underground Railroad.”

His name was John Blodgett and after checking his parentage, she discovered that he was indeed the great-grandson of Lucy herself.

The couple also discovered through the historic district that there was a mill nearby and that part of it had been preserved.

The mill was only 100 meters from her house, so they went to have a look.

She told viewers that she had contacted both John and the Historic Society in an attempt to get more information.

Mystee posted a fourth follow-up video showing the mill and confirmed that there was a “tunnel running underneath” and she believed it was “protected.”

She also discovered that one of the descendants or one of the previous owners of the house was related to a “fairly prominent family” within their village and that they “have a preserved house closer to the village center.”

Mystee admitted that she was “super interested in the history” and that this had been the highlight of purchasing the house.