At first, Sarah and Mike Jenkins thought their dog was just being weird.

They had recently moved into an older farmhouse in Vermont — creaky floors, drafty windows, and a dimly lit basement they rarely used. But every time their golden retriever, Buddy, approached the basement door, he froze. Tail down. Ears flat. He would growl — low, steady, and never take his eyes off the doorknob.

“We joked that maybe it was haunted,” Mike said. “Old houses have energy, right?”

But then things escalated.

One night, around 2:30 a.m., Sarah heard footsteps. Not above. Below. She woke Mike, but the baby monitor showed nothing. They brushed it off as pipes or settling wood.

Two nights later, Buddy began barking at the basement door — nonstop. When Mike opened it, Buddy backed away. Wouldn’t move. That’s when Mike noticed something odd.

The wall in the back corner looked… newer.

Different paint. Smoother surface. Poorly patched.

The next morning, curiosity won.

Mike grabbed a crowbar and carefully began peeling the paneling. Behind it was brick. And behind the brick — a hollow space.

They knocked. It echoed.

A small section crumbled, revealing what looked like… a hidden room.

Inside:

• A wooden chair
• An old lamp (unplugged)
• And dozens of Polaroid photos, pinned to the walls in a perfect grid

The photos?
All of women. All taken in the 1980s. None smiling.

Several had red circles drawn around their eyes. One had writing on the back:

“She saw me.”

Sarah took a photo to the sheriff’s office. Within hours, detectives arrived and sealed off the house.

Turns out, the property once belonged to a man named Raymond Delton — a suspect in three missing persons cases between 1983 and 1986. He vanished before he could be questioned. The cold cases were never closed.

The room had been hidden behind two layers of reconstruction, sold multiple times, forgotten… until Buddy noticed.

The basement is now under forensic investigation. Sarah and Mike have moved out temporarily.

But they still praise their dog.

“He always knew,” Sarah said. “He knew something was wrong.”