Tenant finds hidden room behind a wardrobe in house she's lived in for three years

A tenant has accidentally discovered a hidden room in her home, behind a wardrobe, three years after she moved in.

The original Tiktok video of the shock find in the American rental, concealed by a dry wall at the back of the closet, has gone viral.

“My mom broke her closet wall down and it turned out to be a whole new room that people never finished. We’ve been at this house for three years,” the caption says, with vision panning across a small, empty room with a debris-littered timber floor and a window with blinds, lined with insulation.

Tiktok user Abriana Cristel uploaded the multi-part series of videos explaining the bizarre development at her mother’s house.

She says her mum’s boyfriend was moving in and they wanted to create some storage space for him, so they dismantled the closet and during the renovation, found the secret room.

“There was a dry wall here,” she says, gesturing where the back of wardrobe used to be. “There is a whole other side of the house, bro”.

The surprise door is petite – another family member stands in front of it, and says he is five-foot two or three, and he would barely fit through.

Cristel said her mum’s boyfriend wasted no time starting work on the startling new space, even at 2am.

The first of the Tiktoks had amassing almost 90,000 likes at the time of publication, and hundreds of comments.

One fan commented that these sorts of surreptitious rooms are common in houses in her neighbourhood.

Another asked why the family did not climb a ladder and look through the window to the outside that is in the room. Cristel replied: “We’ve noticed the windows from the outside of the house but after a while we stopped looking for them because we’ve been living here for years.”

She also said they previously looked through the window but could not see anything.

“You never thought about how there was another window?” one Tiktok fan asked. Cristel answered: “We have, plenty of times. Looked plenty of times, never figured it out until a couple of hours ago!”