She’s got a sick house — with an Emergency Room and X-Ray equipment to boot.
While the cost of living is at a ghoulish all-time high, seeing rent in major cities skyrocket to spooky sums, an intrepid dweller has managed to score a cost-free, sprawling estate nestled in the heart of London. And her new home’s filled with tender, love — and the ghosts of inpatient care.
“POV: You live in an abandoned hospital but are also scared of everything, so running is the only way to get around,” penned property guardian Aisha Barratt, 35, from the UK, in the closed captions of her trending creepy crib tour shared to TikTok.
“I’m living in fear!” she titled the clip, in part, which scared up over 564,000 views.
In separate, yet equally bone-chilling snippets Barratt, who doubles as a television producer, regularly showcases the freaky features of her deserted residence, where she’s lived for over a year.
She explained her wacky work-from-home setup for perplexed virtual viewers.
“I’m not a squatter,” Barratt insisted, adding that the hospital’s original owner hired her through a property guardianship company to serve as a 24/7 watchman.
“[An official] will come in, clear the building, clear all the equipment,” she continued from her X-Ray room-turned-bedroom, which is outfitted with medical equipment.
“Once it’s all clear, they’ll determine which rooms need to be condemned, and those rooms will be locked, blocked — you cannot escape, you cannot come out,” said the caretaker.
The hospital areas that haven’t been cordoned off, however, are available for Barratt, as well as the other 150 security guards who live on the property, to occupy as they please.
But she’s come to find that some spaces, such as eerily ill-lit corridors and a funky laundry room, give off “bad vibes” and may be haunted by the spirits of deceased tenants.
And although rolling around — in Barratt’s case, sometimes on skates or a scooter — a vacant asylum might sound like a fearless thrill seeker’s twisted fantasy, frightened folks online are calling the millennial’s living quarters their “absolute worst nightmare.”
“I’d be terrified on my own in there,” exclaimed a creeped-out commenter.
“The ghosts! I couldn’t!” said another horrified viewer.
“That place must be super haunted!” an equally freaked spectator wrote.
But when a scared-witless onlooker wrote, “I will have nightmares,” Barratt replied, “It’s surprisingly chill here,” noting the not-so-scary atmosphere of her peculiar pad.
And she’s not the only brave soul to make her home inside of a ditched structure.
In fact, a musician who couldn’t afford to pay London’s high rent fees moved to an abandoned school located in the city’s southern region. And crafty New Yorker transformed a vintage ambulance into decked-out, rent-free digs for himself in October 2022.
“[It’s] nicer than most people’s New York City apartments,” said the 9-1-1 on wheels dweller.