Watch: New York woman finds secret apartment behind bathroom mirror

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Watch: New York Woman Finds Secret Apartment Behind Bathroom Mirror
Samantha Hartsoe squeezes through a hole in her bathroom wall. Photo: Samantha Hartsoe/TikTok
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A woman in New York went viral on TikTok last week after documenting how she found a secret unoccupied apartment behind her bathroom mirror.

Millions have now watched Samantha Hartsoe make the unusual discovery, offering comparisons to films such as Parasite and Candyman.

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In one of the clips, which has since been viewed more than 11 million times, the 26-year-old shows how cold air is blowing her hair in the bathroom. Then she looks behind the mirror, revealing a hole in the wall that leads to another flat.

She then decides she needs to see what is on the other side for herself, and squeezes through the hole in the wall armed with a hammer, face mask and torch.

What she finds is a mostly empty and unfinished apartment, containing only rubbish bags, boxes and a disconnected toilet. Hartsoe also finds a plastic water bottle, which she says is the only “sign of life.”

“I was kind of expecting there to be somebody, especially with the water bottle being there,” she told New York magazine after the ordeal. “And that definitely put me on edge.”

“My landlord is getting a really fun phone call tomorrow,” she says in the final TikTok clip, while putting the mirror back in its place.

Hartsoe then says she will be “cementing the mirror down”.

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