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Airbnb guest recounts ‘scary experience’ after finding hidden chamber with horror flick overtones in Chicago rental

A woman was left unable to sleep after discovering there was more to her Airbnb rental than first met the eye. Xena Habashi from Kansas City, in Missouri, had rented a basement apartment through the popular homestay platform for her and her family during a trip to Chicago, Illinois, in late December. Having arrived at the property at around 4 a.m. Habashi initially thought little of it and decided to get some much needed rest. However, things quickly changed. "While getting ready to go to sleep me and my cousin noticed a light on in one of the rooms that was locked," Habashi said. "We decided to try and open it...I got a fork and was able to open the door. That's when I saw it." https://www.tiktok.com/@notxh2

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It was an Airbnb straight out of “Barbarian.”

A Kansas City, Missouri, family has gone viral on TikTok after posting an unsettling video inside a Chicago Airbnb that harbored a dark, cellar-like room that sent shivers up their spines.

Xena Habashi rented the basement apartment in the Windy City in late December – but quickly sensed something amiss.

“I noticed that there were so many random doors inside the house that were never shown in the listing,” Habashi told Newsweek.

“While getting ready to go to sleep me and my cousin noticed a light on in one of the rooms that was locked,” she said. “We decided to try and open it…I got a fork and was able to open the door. That’s when I saw it.”

The guest posted chilling video showing her peering into what felt like a secret dungeon.

She saw “wooden doors with locks on” and “chains on the ground” in some areas while she also noticed a wooden door that “goes even further down” into the bowels on the building.

The scene was reminiscent of the 2022 horror flick “Barbarian,” about a woman who discovers that the rental home she booked was already occupied by a stranger.

“I had watched Barbarian a month before and we had been joking before we got there saying ‘imagine something like Barbarian happens!’ Then the room was just like the movie!” Habashi told the mag.

Her two video clips under the handle “notxh2” have amassed over 10 million views.

“This is literally the Barbarian movie,” one user wrote.

Her two video clips under the handle “notxh2” have amassed over 10 million views.

“Oh HELL NO! I’d leave right away!!” another said.

A third added: “I watched Barbarian I know how this ends.”

A fourth user said Habashi was “so brave to stay the night cause I would have been out of that place immediately. Imagine someone or something coming into your room from there.”

Habashi said she called her mother to see the ominous space.

“My mom saw it and got scared too because that was never shown in the listing and it looked scary,” she told Newsweek.

Making things worse, she said they began hearing “tapping noises” so they decided to contact the owner and Airbnb.

“We had that door blocked by a table and a rolled up towel under the handle to where you can’t move the handle,” Habashi said.

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