Originally published at: Man finds secret inhabitant playing video games in inaccessible Airbnb room - Boing Boing
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If i had to guess they’re getting in from that window instead of a door
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Not sure if I should make a joke about Real Genius or Arrested Development here.
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Didn’t the character in the Jumper books have that? He’d teleport into rooms without openings. 
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It’s called “take a tape measure & figure it out” - yes, they built a dummy room at the back, since neither the bedroom or the bathroom actually have windows onto the backyard (fyi, whoever it is is using the patio door to get in and out)
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The use of the word ‘fake’ to describe this room bugs me. It’s not fake or false in any way, it’s an actual room, it just doesn’t have a door for an entrance.
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Indeed, I think he started with an apartment in a bad part of town and just didn’t use the actual door. Had a hard time opening it when he decided to have a visitor. He later built a place inaccessible by foot or car, not intentionally accessible by aircraft, with no doors but did have balconies & was pretty far out in the wilderness.
Which is nothing compared to what his daughter built in the sequel Evo.
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Home security guard?
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“For the love of G-d, Montressor! At least leave me my gameboy!”
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Playing video games… or reviewing footage of you playing games from the night before…
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You meant to say, “Exo” instead of Evo.
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My money says, if he did walk all the way around the house, he would have found the door.
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This guy has poor spatial reasoning skills.
There’s probably an entire second apartment that runs the full width of the house between the pool and the interior parts of the house that he can access, with an entrance on the side of the house. All the windows on the back of the house by the pool are windows into that second apartment, not into the rooms we see in the video.
The bathroom he shows isn’t anywhere close to deep enough to run all the way to the back outside wall of the house, and the “bathroom window” that he quickly points out in the shower (1) has no light coming through it despite it being a sunny day and (2) doesn’t look like the same style of window as the windows on the back of the house. Likewise the bedroom “plastered over” window isn’t the same window as the one on the back of the house.
This is dumb.
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And it clearly isn’t as deep as the bedroom, either - so the video maker’s stated assumptions don’t make any sense: that the bathroom window is visible from the outside (but is completely opaque, for some reason) but the visible window right next to it is the bedroom, which has been blocked off inside (but weirdly they kept the exterior window).
It very much seems like the house owner decide to add an addition on to one whole side of the structure (and blocked off the existing interior windows of rooms that had previously been outdoors-facing), and decided to keep the whole thing not-so-obvious (by e.g. replicating the bathroom window on the outside, and completely blocking the views through the outside windows). Which is weird enough. But I suspect the video maker, had they gone to the front of the building, would have seen a second door for the semi-secret apartment - and probably had seen it, knew what was going on, but decided to make a video about this “mystery” (that wasn’t actually mysterious to them).
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Yeah, it’s weird - there’s two front doors, but the AirBNB host only gave me the key to one of them!
I don’t know about other cities, but chopping up a single house into multiple units is really common here. Except in Santa Monica, where I’ve seen the opposite - converting an entire apartment building into a single family dwelling for rich assholes.
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I’d be afraid of getting killed in my sleep if I discovered this.
I’d either find the circuit breaker and shut the power down to everything, or throw one of the patio chairs through that window and run like hell, only to come back later to find out what the situation really is.
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Well to be pedantic I did mean to say Evo because I was wrong. Exo is the right title, I just didn’t remember it.
…also maybe I should reread that series
There’s a commercial building near where I live that had a restaurant occupying part of the structure. The restaurant went out of business and was replaced with a take n bake pizza place, which didn’t use all of the space, walling part of it off. And so now that walled off part has some windows, but no door to the sidewalk. The building owners are still trying to rent it out. Unsurprisingly, they haven’t had any takers.
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And then what? Through the hinged full-length looking glass in the bathroom? The TV wall which is operated through a combination of buttons on the remote? By going through the back of the wardrobe and avoiding the fauns, lions and witches? Through the wall between platforms 9 and 10?
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