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<\/p>\nA family-of-four were left “traumatised” after allegedly catching the landlord of their Wexford holiday rental hiding behind a makeshift wall during their stay. <\/p>\n
Speaking to Ireland’s RTE Radio One, mother Therese said the \u201cblood drained from her face\u201d when her husband made the bizarre discovery on Saturday night. <\/p>\n
The family had arrived at the rental property at 5pm after renting it on Booking.com for a one-night getaway to celebrate a birthday in the family. <\/p>\n
The landlord met the family at the rental and offered to give them a tour. <\/p>\n
As they made their way around the house, Therese noticed the landlord had left a bundle of clothes in the dryer. <\/p>\n
Asking whether he would be back to collect them at a later time, the landlord insisted he would not be returning. <\/p>\n
Thinking nothing of it, the family went out that evening for the birthday party – but the mother made a peculiar discovery upon their return. <\/p>\n
She noticed that the dryer was now empty and the landlord’s clothes were nowhere to be seen – leaving her convinced that he had returned to the rental. <\/p>\n
She said: \u201cI felt a little bit weird. So I said to my partner, \u2018Will you go upstairs and just check all the rooms?’<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd he went up, and he came back down. He was feeling a little bit weird.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo then we didn\u2019t initially notice that there was like this partition-looking wall.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was actually a really thin piece of plasterboard with a nail and there were no nails on one part.<\/p>\n
“So my partner went, ‘What’s behind that?’ because it looked like it could move.<\/p>\n
“When he went to move it, it came off. And it was just darkness behind it, and I heard: ‘Hey, hey!’<\/p>\n
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The mother noticed the dryer was empty and the landlord’s clothes were nowhere to be seen<\/p>\n
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\u201cWe obviously died. And I went, \u2018Is there somebody behind that wall?\u2019 And my partner went, \u2018Yes.\u2019<\/p>\n
The mother said that although the man did not initially emerge, she immediately told her husband to grab the children and get out of the property. <\/p>\n
She said her children had been so terrified by the discovery, they had to be physically dragged out of the holiday rental.<\/p>\n
The family uncovered a small room with a single bed and a television, where the landlord allegedly had been staying while renting out the property to earn some extra cash.<\/p>\n
He then met the family outside, where he is said to have pretended he had no idea who they were.<\/p>\n
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The Irish Gardai confirmed they had attended the scene after receiving a call about the incident<\/p>\n
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Therese said her children will never feel safe in another rental property again after the bizarre episode.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou just don\u2019t feel safe even in my own home now. It\u2019s crazy, I know I am safe, but I\u2019m still like psychologically affected by it. It\u2019s terrifying,” she said. <\/p>\n
A Booking.com spokesman told The Sun: \u201cWe take safety and security very seriously.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs soon as we were made aware of this incident, we launched an investigation into the property, which is ongoing.\u201d<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the Irish Gardai confirmed they had attended the scene after receiving a call about the incident. <\/p>\n
\u201cGardai in Gorey were called to a residential property in Gorey, Co Wexford on Sunday, July 20,” a spokesman said. <\/p>\n
\u201cGardai responded to the matter and no criminal offence disclosed, at this time.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A family-of-four were left “traumatised” after allegedly catching the landlord of their Wexford holiday rental hiding behind a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":705125,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,2274,50,56,54,55,231],"class_list":["post-705124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=705124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/705125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=705124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=705124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=705124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}