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New York Woman Finds Empty Apartment Behind Bathroom Mirror
By Ben Hooper
March 5 (UPI) -
- A New York woman investigat- ing a hole behind her bathroom mir- ror went through the proverbial looking glass and made a startling discovery -- an entire empty apartment.
Samantha Hartsoe, who chronicled her discovery in a series of TikTok videos, said she was investigating the source of a cold draft in her Roosevelt Island apartment, and she tracked the blowing air to her bathroom mirror.
Hartsoe removed the mirror and
discovered it was hiding a large, square hole into a dark room.
"Curiosity killed the cat, curiosity is going to kill me," Hartsoe recalled thinking
in an
interview with NBC New York. "I can't not know what's on the other side of my bathroom."
Hartsoe climbed through the open-
ing and discov- ered the room was part of a two- story vacant apartment. She said she explored the whole resi- dence, finding only trash bags, an uninstalled toi-
let and an empty water bottle.
"I was kind of expecting there to be somebody, especially with the water bottle being there," Hartsoe told
Curbed.
Hartsoe said she made sure the door to the unfin- ished apartment was locked before making her way back to her own resi- dence. She said the front door to the vacant domi- cile was located elsewhere in the apartment com- plex from her own home.
She said she con- tacted mainte- nance to patch the hole in her bathroom and a representative from the manage- ment office is expected to visit her apartment soon to investi- gate her discov- ery.
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