If only these floors could talk.
A homeowner sent viewers figuratively heading for the hills after making a bone-chilling discovery under the floor of her 250-year-old domicile.
“How long do you reckon it has been there?” pondered Amelia. TikTok / @haunted_amelia
The book was filled with creepy old photos of what looked like her home. TikTok / @haunted_amelia“I can’t believe what I found,” the content creator exclaimed in the caption of the eerie video, which boasts over 9 million views on TikTok.
The woman, who goes by @hauntedamelia on the platform, explained that she noticed that one of the floorboards rattled when she walked on it because nothing was holding it in place.
But when the TikTokker peeked beneath the plank to see where she could nail it down, she discovered some unique objects protruding from the dirt below.
One of them was an Edward VII 1904 penny — a cool but fairly common cent-piece that was minted during the British monarch’s reign from 1901-1910.
But then she noticed a peculiar rectangular object “wedged underneath” some older floorboards.
The footage shows the domestic archaeologist brushing the soot off the mystery object like Indiana Jones exhuming a long-lost artifact.
“I have been feeling uneasy ever since I found it,” remarked Amelia.
One viewer suggested that there was nothing ominous about it and it was simply a “vintage postage book.”
After a prolonged period of dusting and yanking, she finally manages to wrench the “filthy” item free, revealing that it’s an ornate book with robust, gold-colored pages.
“How long do you reckon it has been there?” pondered Amelia, who regularly shares videos of her macabre finds for her 43,000 TikTok followers. “It’s definitely a book, but they’re not actual pages — they’re really thick.”
The contents of the spooky tome initially appeared innocuous enough, comprising a collection of “old portraits,” the Brit explained in the clip.
But things took a “creepy turn” the deeper she went into the book.
“I noticed what seemed like a very photo of my house,” said Amelia while showcasing the corresponding pages. “The rest of the album is filled with pictures of empty rooms that have an unsettling feeling.”
She observed that a “dark shadow” appeared in all of the photos.
As of yet, the story behind this “unsettling” photo compendium seems unclear, but some TikTok users joked that she best leave it be lest she inadvertently resurrect a malevolent entity.
“Things took a creepy turn the further I went into the book,” Amelia said.
“PUT IT BACK,” commanded one viewer, while another claimed that this is “how most horror movies begin.”
Meanwhile, other viewers compared it to the Necronomicon from the “Evil Dead Franchise” and the grimoire, a magician’s manual for invoking demons and the spirits of the dead.”
However, some skeptics felt like the photo album wasn’t so ominous with one realist commenting, “zero happening there, the dark shadows are just from the age and possibly being buried.”
“It’s a vintage postage book, I have one with some incredible dates and pictures,” assured another.
A third wrote, “It might be showing them building the house or when they took it over. Looks like some family story of sorts. Very interesting find.”
Meanwhile, one viewer speculated, “When you unburied it it looks as if the house was built on top of ashes, as if it burned down and was rebuilt.
Either way, Amelia said she vows to search the area for “more hidden items.”
