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Was thinking about this story again and cracking up while doing some chores, a few more details:Out where I am it's not uncommon for people to buy farm houses then move them, so there's these weird amalgamations of 2 houses slapped together with shitty additions. I could see someone staying in a locked wing of one of them trying to hide from the renters.
You pretty much nailed the description, it was a weird house. Along one of the sides extending to the back of the main house was this extension that my buddy thought was a locked storage room, but in reality was like a little studio apartment with its own entrance...
Evening rolls around and my buddy and his family are sitting around a fire pit, but my bud couldn't relax; he was getting that weird feeling we've all experienced that someone's watching you... It was an odd-looking house in the middle of nowhere so he chalked it up to that, but he still couldn't shake that feeling... He mentioned it to his brother and his bro's eyes widened and he said he was getting that creepy feeling too...
Later on they were inside the house and they suddenly heard someone coughing from the other side of the wall, coming from that locked room! He nearly shit his pants and then he and his bro went out and knocked on the door...
No lights were on inside but after a few minutes this old, white haired lady opened the door and immediately started apologizing, saying she had nowhere else to go and that she was the owner. My buddy was blown away, she hadn't turned on any of the lights and was clearly trying to hide the fact she was there...
She then asked them if they could be quiet inside the house and my friend, still kind of shocked, was like ma'am we rented this place out here away from civilization so we CAN make some noise, not sure what to tell you. She got upset and tried to guilt trip them before they shrugged and walked away.
Later on I was at his place when he was writing the review and he wasn't sure what to put, he ended up saying the owner was there even though they specifically rented a place all to ourselves... I guarantee that wasn't the first time she did that, and nobody wants to hang out with like Jimmy the aging hippie or Mildred the nosy grandma on their vacation.
He's had a couple other real stinker Airbnb's but in the end he at least has a few funny stories. My Airbnb experiences have been inconsistent as well, I mostly stick to hotels now.