Fireplace Prank Gone Wrong Exposes HIDDEN Room at the Heirloom Hotel Laurel MS, Guest Checks In For Life
Here are the top 5 things you need to know about this bizarre discovery:
- A guest’s attempt to start a cozy fire in their suite’s antique fireplace accidentally triggered a hidden mechanism, revealing a secret, fully-stocked panic room behind the hearth wall, untouched for 90 years.
- The hidden room contained original 1930s furnishings, a vintage rotary phone that still works, and a leather journal detailing the paranoid fears of the hotel’s original owner, who vanished mysteriously in 1934.
- Staff at the Heirloom Hotel Laurel MS were unaware of the room’s existence; the property has been meticulously restored but this chamber was not listed on any original blueprints filed with the city.
- Local historians are now re-investigating the owner’s disappearance, with the journal entries suggesting he was hiding from a rival sawmill family, adding a layer of true crime to this Southern Gothic inn.
- The hotel has turned the discovery into a new luxury ‘secret suite’ for booking, but the guest who found it has been given a lifetime 50% discount and a permanent nickname: ‘Keeper of the Heirloom’.