Sometimes when it's late at night, our children are sleeping, and the house is finally quiet, we like to spend time scrolling real estate listings to see how the rest of the world lives. And we can't lie; some things we see are pretty darn swoon-worthy, with amenities such as perfect kitchens and outdoor spaces that look like luxury resorts. And please, can someone give us one of those she sheds?!?!?. Of course, some listings make our jaws drop for totally different reasons.
Thanks to content creators on platforms like TikTok, we don't have to do the hard work – they bring unbelievable real estate listings right to us. A TikTok user who uses the handle @homes.tastrophes shared a video of an Ohio home like nothing we have ever seen. The creator posted a trigger warning when the pictures went from a "normal" home to something that looks a bit shady. So many people wanted to know what the heck was happening at this house.
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The first few photos showed a beautiful kitchen.
The creator shared screenshots from a Zillow listing that initially seemed pretty nice. The kitchen is updated and spacious and appears home to what she called "All-American, football-loving types." But when she gets to the bedrooms, it gets a bit creepy.
Aside from the primary bedroom, which seems to be decorated for the world's biggest Pittsburgh Steelers fan, the rest of the bedrooms are stark, to say the least. They each have minimal furniture, mostly just beds, and no decorations. The creator warns that it appears "trafficking" could be happening in the home.
The basement is downright creepy.
Not only is there a strange room with a dirty mattress, but there also appears to be a club with a stripper pole ready for lots of dancing. There are also some positively terrifying-looking bathrooms that seem to be straight out of a horror film.
"If this is for your friends to just come over and hang out, wouldn't you feel weird asking your friends to use these bathrooms?" the TikToker asks.
Her video has more than 25 million views and 2 million likes. People were dying to know what the heck was happening at this house.
The comment section was shook.
The setup looked eerily similar to some people.
"I've seen basements with bedrooms like that – especially just the mattresses on the floor – on Law & Order SVU ," one person commented.
Some TikTokers wanted the police involved.
One person wrote, "I'm sorry, but those wooden stairs and the single chair. that looks like an auction block for something worse. it NEEDS TO BE INVESTIGATED."
Another person agreed, commenting, "No one is gonna talk about the sticky fly paper hanging from the ceiling in the man's room. SUSSSSSSSSSS."
It turns out that it's not quite what people thought.
The home wasn't always a house. It was actually just an abandoned laundromat until contractor Wayne Gheen Jr. purchased it in 2020 to fix up and use for his shop. But he told the Cincinnati Enquirer he got a bigger idea. Gheen renovated the top floor into a 2,400-square-foot living space with five bedrooms and made the basement into a man cave.
"Every man's got friends, drinking around the pool table," he told the newspaper. "I've got a lot of friends. I'm known in Zanesville. It started out, 'Let's go to Wayne's mansion and party.' At first all I had was a beer pong table and a pool table."
The man cave became the place to be in Zanesville. "It turned into 500 people coming every weekend," he said.
"Over the course of the parties, there was no crime, no drugs, no fights, just a bunch of friends. I know everyone, I got a lot of friends," he said, per the Enquirer. "People from the public tried to come too and the city came down hard on me. They said I couldn't' do it … After I dumped $50,000 or $60,000 in the basement, they pretty much told me I can't charge people at the door and let them drink."
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His residence allegedly became a nuisance, and police got involved.
Zanesville Police Chief Scott Comstock told the Enquirer that Gheen's home became a well-known location.
"He'd pretty much became our after-hours clubs," Comstock said. "We usually have one, but usually they're on the edge of town. This was in a residential area. … He was jamming up the street with cars, they were rolling in at 2, 2:30 in the morning. There were a few random shots, drunk people, over there."
Gheen reportedly had enough of the police and the people and decided to sell the property, listing it for a whopping $600,000. He told the Enquirer that was a fair price and claimed he'd put $300,000 into the project.
The last listed price for the property on Zillow.com was $325,900; it is unclear if Gheen was ever able to sell.
