Property Developer Discovers Secret Passageway Behind Bookshelf in 500-Year-Old House

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Freddy Goodall of Brighton, England, detailed his finds in a series of social media videos


Like a scene out of an old mystery movie, a British property developer recently discovered a secret passageway behind a bookshelf in his 500-year-old home. As Mary K. Jacob reports for the New York Post, 23-year-old Freddy Goodall also found an old safe, schoolbooks, letters and other artifacts in the Sussex estate’s network of tunnels.

Goodall, who first revealed his finds in a viral TikTok video, was looking at an 1870 photograph of a room in his family’s house when he noticed a doorway where a bookshelf now stands.

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Property Developer Discovers Secret Passageway Behind Bookshelf in 500-Year-Old House | Smart News | Smithsonian Magazine