A Florida home for sale has gained an abnormally high level of attention on social media thanks to an unlikely feature: a dungeon-type basement hidden behind an iron-barred door.
The Orlando Weekly reported the home at 18785 NW 240th St. in High Springs became a TikTok sensation when real estate agent Jessica Law shared a video of a home tour. In the video, Law opened an ordinary-looking closet door to find an iron-barred door that led to a staircase that descended into cement block-walled room under the house. The subterranean space had functional water and electricity, and its only furnishings were a dehumidifier, a bean bag chair and a small rug.
“It is set up to house, you know, living things,” said Law in her video.
The house was built in 1958, which led to online speculation that it could have been a Cold War-era fallout shelter. But other online denizens imagined the space could have offered more sinister or kinky uses. Nearly 13,000 comments were made on Law’s TikTok video since it was first posted one week ago.
The 1,524-square-foot house is priced at $285,000 and contains three bedrooms and a shed; the half-acre lot also features a shed, a workshop and a well.
Photo: The iron-barred door that opens to the dungeon-style basement, courtesy John Caldwell / BHHS Florida Realty
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Looks like the perfect house for human and sex trafficking. I’m sure the newfound publicity thrown on this property will lead authorities to at least look into the previous owners to determine if there has been a previous contact.
I have an upcoming listing in Hudson, FL with a full underground bunker with bath and kitchen. I will be promoting the heck out of the bunker house!
I agree with Chey this is a feature I would not have highlighted
Definitely a late 50’s ERA Bomb Shelter. I remember the school practices of hiding under our desks. We would play “house” in the Bomb Shelters a few families in our neighborhood installed. Florida and SE Georgia were on edge during the buildup to the 1961 Cuban Missle Crisis.