Couple discover creepy 'secret rooms' in their historic house... and get letter from only surviving

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Couple discover creepy 'secret rooms' in their historic house... and get letter from only surviving family of original owners

Daily Mail
By ALEXA CIMINO
30 November 2025



A California couple who moved into a 132-year-old home discovered a labyrinth of hidden rooms and creepy artifacts - before being inundated with cryptic letters.

Courtney Weil and her husband Matt bought the Los Angeles County property in late 2022 for nearly $1.38 million, spending $250,000 over more than a year renovating it before finally moving in last January.

Almost immediately after the purchase, the couple received a stream of handwritten notes from an elderly woman claiming to be the last surviving member of the family who lived there for decades.

But those first letters were only the beginning. Not long after moving into the Victorian home, the couple's two-year-old son began pointing around the house and repeating a single word: 'Ghost.'

'He says it constantly,' Weil told the Daily Mail. 'He'll point to the trees outside or an empty room and say, "ghost". I don't detect anything but it's definitely weird.'

As part of her interview with the Daily Mail, Weil exclusively shared a detailed 35-page dossier charting the home's entire history.

She engaged a building biographer to do the research, which includes newspaper clippings, 19th-century maps, obituaries, architectural records and long-hidden ownership documents, soon after the letters and weird discoveries, such as secret rooms and a 'coffin-sized' music box dating back to the 1800s, began.

'You crank it and it plays the wedding march - "Here Comes the Bride,"' she added, calling it 'horror-movie material'.

Her husband screamed for her to come upstairs when he found it beneath old trunks. 'I instinctively started recording because I had no idea what he was about to show me,' Weil said. 'I've never seen anything like it.'

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[MeganC]

Cool story! 

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@MeganC
How lucky are these people! Not only to get the house but to get all the antiques in it for free. Those antiques should be worth a fortune at auction. I would have appraisers in there immediately inventorying every single item.

[libertybele]

@MeganC
How lucky are these people! Not only to get the house but to get all the antiques in it for free. Those antiques should be worth a fortune at auction. I would have appraisers in there immediately inventorying every single item.

We have several clocks in our house but definitely none as beautiful or as ornate as those on the mantel.  Absolutely beautiful.

[MeganC]

@MeganC
How lucky are these people! Not only to get the house but to get all the antiques in it for free. Those antiques should be worth a fortune at auction. I would have appraisers in there immediately inventorying every single item.

I agree!

After my husband passed we inventoried his rifles and a friend of his told us to get an appraisal on Steve's reproduction Sharp's .45

Turned out it is not a reproduction! Steve got it 40+ years ago and always thought it looked too good not to be a copy. I wish he had known!

[Smokin Joe]

Cool story! 

Really! I don't get the whole "creepy" bit in the title! I would have been ridiculously thrilled!

[Smokin Joe]

I agree!

After my husband passed we inventoried his rifles and a friend of his told us to get an appraisal on Steve's reproduction Sharp's .45

Turned out it is not a reproduction! Steve got it 40+ years ago and always thought it looked too good not to be a copy. I wish he had known!

Nice!

Many moons ago I was out in Big Timber, MT and got to tour the Shiloh Sharps factory there. Impressive, if modern made, rifles (and come at an impressive price, too). I have no idea what an original would be in excellent condition, but consider yourself lucky to have one. Your husband had good taste (but then, that's obvious ).