Airbnb guest finds hidden chamber with horror flick overtones

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.

“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.

“We weren’t able to sleep. We stayed up till the morning, kept hearing noises, and before we left I decided to take that video and it went viral unexpectedly!” she added.

Airbnb offered the family a refund for what Habashi called a “scary experience.”

The popular homestay company told Newsweek that it had had no other reports of safety concerns with the listing, which it described as a “spacious basement unit” with a 4.84 rating and good reviews.

“The listing is advertised as a basement apartment, and the separate space that was accessed is part of the basement,” an Airbnb rep told the outlet.

“Our customer service team supported our guest with their concerns at the time, and assisted with a refund and another place to stay,” the spokesperson added.