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* ''Film/LaComunidad'': Julia figures out that the deceased man hid his jackpot money prize under a loose tile, which she identifies thanks to a paper in the dead man's belongings that reveals that it's the one erroneously white tile in the middle of the black and white-checkered floor.
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* ''LightNovel/GoblinSlayer'': Goblin Slayer's sister hides him under the floorboards to save him from a goblin attack. He survives; his sister does not.
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* ''Series/TheBlacklist'': Tom hides a secret stash filled with cash, false passports and a pistol beneath the floorboards of his apartment, which Elizabeth finds while cleaning his blood out of the carpet.
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* ''Series/TheLastOfUs2023'': After he decides to go find Tommy, Joel pushes aside a closet in his room and takes out a couple of floorboards. Underneath are some weapons and supplies for the trip.
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** In "The Second Stain", the stain of the title is a bloodstain on one side of a carpet, which strangely has no corresponding stain on the floor below. Holmes deduces that the carpet is covering a hidden compartment in the floor, and was hurriedly replaced the wrong way round.
** "The Naval Treaty" has the titular treaty go missing for several weeks after being stolen, which seems to correspond to the time it took for the last person to see it to recover from a mental breakdown (as he was also the person charged with its safety). After a few attempted break-ins, Holmes realizes the treaty must be hidden in the room an waits in ambush to avoid having to search the room. It turned out to be [[spoiler:the room's former occupant and the victim's brother-in-law]], who'd hidden the treaty behind a mobile board used by plumbers to access the pipes.
** "The Naval Treaty" has the titular treaty go missing for several weeks after being stolen, which seems to correspond to the time it took for the last person to see it to recover from a mental breakdown (as he was also the person charged with its safety). After a few attempted break-ins, Holmes realizes the treaty must be hidden in the room an waits in ambush to avoid having to search the room. It turned out to be [[spoiler:the room's former occupant and the victim's brother-in-law]], who'd hidden the treaty behind a mobile board used by plumbers to access the pipes.
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round. Holmes finds [[spoiler:nothing there because there is nothing there, the incriminating document was stolen]] the night of the murder.
** "The Naval Treaty" has the titular treaty go missing for several weeks after being stolen, which seems to correspond to the time it took for the last person to see it to recover from a mental breakdown (as he was also the person charged with its safety). After a few attempted break-ins, Holmes realizes the treaty must be hidden in the rooman and waits in ambush to avoid having to search the room. It turned out to be [[spoiler:the room's former occupant and the victim's brother-in-law]], who'd hidden the treaty behind a mobile board used by plumbers to access the pipes.
** "The Naval Treaty" has the titular treaty go missing for several weeks after being stolen, which seems to correspond to the time it took for the last person to see it to recover from a mental breakdown (as he was also the person charged with its safety). After a few attempted break-ins, Holmes realizes the treaty must be hidden in the room
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* ''ComicBook/TheLostBoy'': After picking out his new bedroom [[TheProtagonist Nate]] discovers a loose floorboard. Underneath he finds Walter Pidgin's tape recorder and audio logs.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSnowman'': In ''The Snowman and the Snowdog'', Billy stumbles over a loose floorboard in his new bedroom. Looking under it, he discovers a picture of James (the protagonist of the original film) and the Snowman and some of the stuff used to create it. It's left unclear why James chose to store this stuff underneath the floorboard, however.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSnowman'': In ''The Snowman and the Snowdog'', Billy stumbles over a loose floorboard in his new bedroom. Looking under it, he discovers a picture of James (the protagonist of the original film) and the Snowman and some of the stuff used to create it. It's left unclear why James chose to store this stuff underneath the floorboard, however.
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* ''ComicBook/TheLostBoy'': After picking out his new bedroom [[TheProtagonist Nate]] Nate discovers a loose floorboard. Underneath he finds Walter Pidgin's tape recorder and audio logs.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSnowman'': In ''The Snowman and the Snowdog'', Billy stumbles over a loose floorboard in his new bedroom. Looking under it, he discovers a picture of James (the protagonist of the original film) and the Snowman and some of the stuff used to create it. It's left unclear why James chose to store this stuff underneath the floorboard, however.logs.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSnowman'': In ''The Snowman and the Snowdog'', Billy stumbles over a loose floorboard in his new bedroom. Looking under it, he discovers a picture of James (the protagonist of the original film) and the Snowman and some of the stuff used to create it. It's left unclear why James chose to store this stuff underneath the floorboard, however.
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* ''Series/Forever2014'': Medical Examiner Dr. Henry Morgan finds small slivers of white pine under a victim's fingernails. When they visit the victim's house, the new floors are white pine, leading to Henry discovering a stash of $100,000 and a key hidden under a loose floorboard.
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* ''[[Creator/RoaldDahl BoyTalesOfChildhood]]'': Young Roald Dahl and his friends used a loose floorboard in their classroom to put their stuff in. One day they discovered a dead mouse and used it to pull a prank on the mean owner of the sweet shop, Mrs. Pratchett.
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* ''[[Creator/RoaldDahl BoyTalesOfChildhood]]'': Boy: Tales of Childhood]]'': Young Roald Dahl and his friends used a loose floorboard in their classroom to put their stuff in. One day they discovered a dead mouse and used it to pull a prank on the mean owner of the sweet shop, Mrs. Pratchett.
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* ''Literature/TheMermaidsMirror'': In the corner of Lena's parents' bedroom is an antique chair that no one ever sits on, and that usually has other things piled on top of it. Lena suspects it's hiding something, so she pushes it aside and yanks up the carpet, under which the floor has been cut. Lena lifts the floorboards to find [[spoiler:a sea chest full of pictures of her biological mother Lucy, letters she wrote, newspaper clippings about her "suicide," a jeweled comb, and the titular MagicMirror]].
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* ''Literature/HarryPotterAndThePrisonerOfAzkaban'': During the summer term with the Dursleys, Harry uses a loose floorboard under his bed to hide his school supplies and birthday presents.
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* ''Film/{{Centurion}}: Arianne hides her Roman visitors underneath the floorboards of her hut when Etain and her warriors come calling, which saves them from being killed.
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* ''Animation/HappyHeroes'': In Season 5 episode 22, Careless S. thinks one of his weapons, which have been confiscated by Headmaster Tele due to him becoming reckless and destroying the school as he uses them, is hidden in a floorboard in his classroom. When he uses a toy claw to grab it from the space in the floorboard, he thinks he's latch on to not one, but two of them, but he pulls Big M. out of the bathroom in the floor below instead.
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* ''Animation/HappyHeroes'': In Season 5 episode 22, Careless S. thinks one of his weapons, which have been confiscated by Headmaster Tele due to him becoming reckless and destroying the school as he uses them, is hidden in a floorboard in his classroom. When he uses a toy claw to grab it from the space in the floorboard, he thinks he's latch on to not one, but two of them, but he pulls Big M. out of the bathroom in the floor below instead.
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* ''Animation/HappyHeroes'': In Season 5 episode 22, Careless S. thinks one of his weapons, which have been confiscated by Headmaster Tele due to him becoming reckless and destroying the school as he uses them, is hidden in a floorboard in his classroom. When he uses a toy claw to grab it from the space in the floorboard, he thinks he's latch on to not one, but two of them, but he pulls Big M. out of the bathroom in the floor below instead.
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* ''Series/{{Ghosts}}'': In "Getting Out", Alison and Mike have decided to sell Button House, and the ghosts are trying to raise money to stop them from doing so. Fanny's solution is a priceless gem which she had hidden under a floorboard in the house. Too bad that her husband had found it a long time ago and pawned it.
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* ''Series/{{Ghosts}}'': ''Series/GhostsUK'': In "Getting Out", Alison and Mike have decided to sell Button House, and the ghosts are trying to raise money to stop them from doing so. Fanny's solution is a priceless gem which she had hidden under a floorboard in the house. Too bad that her husband had found it a long time ago and pawned it.
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Loose floorboards can be a nuisance. They can reveal you creaking down the stairs in the middle of the night. Someday some one could step on a loose floorboard and hit him in the nose. Other times it can creak under your own weight. You can repair a loose floorboard by driving nails or screws.
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Loose floorboards can be a nuisance. They can reveal you creaking down the stairs in the middle of the night. Someday some one someone could step on a loose floorboard and hit him in the nose. Other times it can creak under your own weight. You can repair a loose floorboard by driving nails or screws.
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* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': In "[[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS1E8SandysRocketSqueakyBoots Squeaky Boots]]", Mr. Krabs gives [=SpongeBob=] a pair of $2.00 fishing boots that he tried unsuccessfully to give Pearl for her birthday in place of the Flipper Slippers she wanted, passing them off as official Fry Cook boots. The squeaking of the boots drives Mr. Krabs crazy, to the point where he sneaks into [=SpongeBob's=] house, takes them, and hides them under the floorboards of the Krusty Krab. After [=SpongeBob=] becomes upset from losing the boots, Mr. Krabs begins to hear them squeaking even though [=SpongeBob=] isn't wearing them. Mr. Krabs confesses what he did, then takes the boots out from under the floorboards, cooks them in french fry oil, and eats them to stop the squeaking.
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* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': In "[[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS1E8SandysRocketSqueakyBoots Squeaky Boots]]", Mr. Krabs gives [=SpongeBob=] a pair of $2.00 fishing boots that he tried unsuccessfully to give Pearl for her birthday in place of the Flipper Slippers she wanted, passing them off as official Fry Cook boots. [[MisophoniaGag The squeaking of the boots drives Mr. Krabs crazy, crazy]], to the point where he sneaks into [=SpongeBob's=] house, takes them, and hides them under the floorboards of the Krusty Krab. After [=SpongeBob=] becomes upset from losing the boots, Mr. Krabs begins to hear them squeaking even though [=SpongeBob=] isn't wearing them. Mr. Krabs confesses what he did, then takes the boots out from under the floorboards, cooks them in french fry oil, and eats them to stop the squeaking.
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* ''Anime/DarkerThanBlack Gemini of the Meteor'': Hei keeps a spare coat, mask, and set of knives hidden under the floorboards of an abandoned house.
* ''LightNovel/GoblinSlayer'': Goblin Slayer's sister hides him under the floorboards to save him from a goblin attack. He survives; his sister does not.
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* ''Anime/DarkerThanBlack Gemini of the Meteor'': Hei keeps a spare coat, mask, and set of knives hidden under the floorboards of an abandoned house.
* ''LightNovel/GoblinSlayer'': Goblin Slayer's sister hides him under the floorboards to save him from a goblin attack. He survives; his sister does not.
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* ''Fanfic/PockyInRamen'': Chocoholic Mello hides a backup stash of chocolate bars under the floorboards, though it only contains ten bars.
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* ''Fanfic/PockyInRamen'': Chocoholic Mello hides a backup stash of chocolate bars under the floorboards, though it only contains ten bars.
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* ''Film/Deadpool2'': Wade pulls up a floorboard in Blind Al's apartment, revealing a bag of cocaine and a box labeled "Cure for Blindness."
* ''Film/DontBreathe'': After killing Cindy, the Blind Manin puts her corpse in a big metal box that he fills with acid, then covers it up with a piece of flooring.
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* ''Literature/BoyTalesOfChildhood'': Young Roald Dahl and his friends used a loose floorboard in their classroom to put their stuff in. One day they discovered a dead mouse and used it to pull a prank on the mean owner of the sweet shop, Mrs. Pratchett.
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* ''Literature/BoyTalesOfChildhood'': ''[[Creator/RoaldDahl BoyTalesOfChildhood]]'': Young Roald Dahl and his friends used a loose floorboard in their classroom to put their stuff in. One day they discovered a dead mouse and used it to pull a prank on the mean owner of the sweet shop, Mrs. Pratchett.Pratchett.
* ''Literature/CagingSkies'': Johannes discovers that his parents are hiding a Jewish girl named Elsa under their floorboards.
* ''Literature/CagingSkies'': Johannes discovers that his parents are hiding a Jewish girl named Elsa under their floorboards.
** In ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire'', he stashes sweets under the floorboards when Aunt Petunia forces the whole family to adhere to Dudley's new diet.
* ''Literature/YoursTruly'': Truly and Mackenzie discover a compartment underneath the floorboards in Truly's closet that contains the diary of the original Truly Lovejoy.
* ''Series/MissFishersMurderMysteries'': A blackmailer had stashed underneath his floorboards photographic plates showing a man's homosexual activities (a prosecutable offense at that point in time), which Jack informs Phryne about having located. He tells her to incinerate the evidence, because while his hands are tied by being a police officer, she has full freedom to do so as a civilian.
* ''Series/{{Westworld}}'': Maeve keeps having what she thinks are dreams featuring a Westworld staff member in a HazmatSuit. When she suspects her memories are being tampered with, she sketches the figure of the staff member and hides it under a loose floorboard, only to discover she's already done this several times.
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* ''Music/SufjanStevens'''s song "John Wayne Gacy, Jr." about the real-life serial killer of the same name contains the following lyrics:
-->And in my best behavior\\
I am really just like him\\
Look beneath the floorboards\\
For the secrets I have hid
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* ''Music/SufjanStevens'''s song "John Wayne Gacy, Jr." about the real-life serial killer of the same name contains the following lyrics:
-->And in my best behavior\\
I am really just like him\\
Look beneath the floorboards\\
For the secrets I have hid
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->''Villains! I shrieked, dissemble no more! I admit the deed! Tear up the planks! Here, here! It is the beating of his hideous heart!''
-->--'''The Narrator''', ''Literature/TheTellTaleHeart''
Loose floorboards can be a nuisance. They can reveal you creaking down the stairs in the middle of the night. Someday some one could step on a loose floorboard and hit him in the nose. Other times it can creak under your own weight. You can repair a loose floorboard by driving nails or screws.
However, loose floorboards in a room can also be a useful place to hide your stuff instead.
Whenever you need to hide something secret from your family, a loose floorboard is the right spot for you. Loose floorboards can be used for your [[PornStash Porn Stash]] and your [[SecretSnackStash Secret Snack Stash]]. It can be perfect for hiding contraband items. A loose floorboard hiding spot can be found in any room in the house, including your bedroom. Every time you hide something under your floorboard, no one will ever notice that you're hiding something. Be careful not to step on it or else someone will discover your secret stash.
Compare to [[ConstructiveBodyDisposal Constructive Body Disposal]], where a dead body gets hidden under some loose floorboards. [[HiddenSupplies Hidden Supplies]] which is often used to hide ammo and weapons. Contrast with InsideAWall where a character hides between the walls.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheSnowman'': In ''The Snowman and the Snowdog'', Billy stumbles over a loose floorboard in his new bedroom. Looking under it, he discovers a picture of James (the protagonist of the original film) and the Snowman and some of the stuff used to create it. It's left unclear why James chose to store this stuff underneath the floorboard, however.
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}}'': Rapunzel hides Flynn's satchel and stolen crown under a loose board on her tower's stairs, which Mother Gothel later finds.
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* ''Film/{{Equilibrium}}'' opens with emotion police, called Grammaton Clerics, raiding a hive of citizens indulging in sensation. Most are shot dead on the spot, and their cache of books and paintings are exposed after some floorboards are pulled away. (The Clerics had intel where to look.) This cache is obliterated with a flamethrower, showing ''La Joconde'' going up in flames.
* ''Film/GhostbustersAfterlife'': Phoebe discovers a slide puzzle on the living room floor of her new house. She solves the puzzle, revealing a secret compartment under the floor containing a ghost trap inside.
* ''Film/InglouriousBasterds'': A very serious example; in the opening scene, the Dreyfuses hide under the floorboards in the farm. Hans Landa figures out that they're there and orders his men to shoot through the floors at them.
*''Literature/JamesAndTheGiantPeach'': James took out a box of crayons and a birthday candle under a loose floorboard in his room. He uses them to make a floating lantern out of a bread bag in order to contact help to get away from his [[AbusiveParents abusive aunts]].
* ''Film/TheLovelyBones'': Lindsay breaks into Mr Harvey's house and finds his sketchbook hidden under a loose floorboard. It has a record of the investigation into Susie's disappearance. (In the book, it's on Mr Harvey's bed.)
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* ''Literature/BoyTalesOfChildhood'': Young Roald Dahl and his friends used a loose floorboard in their classroom to put their stuff in. One day they discovered a dead mouse and used it to pull a prank on the mean owner of the sweet shop, Mrs. Pratchett.
* In the second ''Literature/TheFamousFive'' book ''Five Go Adventuring Again'', one of the secrets of Kirrin Farm House is a floor stone which lifts up to show a small hidey-hole. It is empty, but looks exciting to the children, who later discover much bigger secrets.
* ''Literature/HarryPotterAndThePrisonerOfAzkaban'': During the summer term with the Dursleys, Harry uses a loose floorboard under his bed to hide his school supplies and birthday presents.
* ''Literature/TheMagicOfOz'': The plot starts when a former wizard's son sneaks a room he was banned from, believing some magic implements are hidden there. He finds nothing, goes to the exit... and stumbles on a floorboard. So, he pries it off to check what's hidden underneath it... nothing. Then he notices the writing on the bottom side.
* Public informer ''Literature/MarcusDidiusFalco'' is tasked with investigating the death of another informer who probed a case too deeply and too unwisely. Falco knows all the tricks for concealment and keeping things safe - he uses them himself. He soon deduces that a knothole in a floorboard that looks like any other floorboard in the room is ''just'' big enough to insert a finger into. This allows him to lift the board up and discover this is the safe hold for the dead man's note tablets and other evidence relating to cases he has been working on.
* ''Literature/SherlockHolmes'':
**In "The Second Stain", the stain of the title is a bloodstain on one side of a carpet, which strangely has no corresponding stain on the floor below. Holmes deduces that the carpet is covering a hidden compartment in the floor, and was hurriedly replaced the wrong way round.
** "The Naval Treaty" has the titular treaty go missing for several weeks after being stolen, which seems to correspond to the time it took for the last person to see it to recover from a mental breakdown (as he was also the person charged with its safety). After a few attempted break-ins, Holmes realizes the treaty must be hidden in the room an waits in ambush to avoid having to search the room. It turned out to be [[spoiler:the room's former occupant and the victim's brother-in-law]], who'd hidden the treaty behind a mobile board used by plumbers to access the pipes.
* ''Literature/TheTellTaleHeart'': After the villain protagonist killed the old man, the villain hid the dead body under some loose floorboards before the police arrived to investigate.
* ''Literature/WorldOfTheFiveGods'': In ''Knot of Shadows'', when Penric and Desdemona search Thernias's room Desdemona finds the loose floorboard under which he has been keeping his embezzled loot. As a chaos demon it was easy for her to detect it.
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[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* ''Series/{{Bridgerton}}'': Season two reveals that the real Lady Whistledown hides her scandal sheet earnings and scribbles in a loose floorboard under her home, hidden under a carpet.
* An episode of ''Series/BurnNotice'' has Michael and his team face off with a drug dealer and his gang. They decide their best course of action is to frame the dealer's lieutenant as an undercover cop and do so by hiding fake evidence under a floor board in his house. [[spoiler:The dealer misses the fake evidence and discovers real evidence in another spot, revealing that the lieutenant actually is an undercover cop.]]
* ''Series/{{CSINY}}'': In "Admissions," the victim is a high school guidance counsellor. When Mac and Lindsay search his office, they find a loose floorboard in the closet. Mac removes it and discovers a box filled with money and a few laundromat tokens. Curious, Mac and Flack go to the laundromat and discover a heavily taped off machine. They insert the tokens, revealing the door to a hidden gambling den.
* ''Series/{{Ghosts}}'': In "Getting Out", Alison and Mike have decided to sell Button House, and the ghosts are trying to raise money to stop them from doing so. Fanny's solution is a priceless gem which she had hidden under a floorboard in the house. Too bad that her husband had found it a long time ago and pawned it.
* ''Series/GilmoreGirls'': Lane hides her concert tees, her makeup, and more individual, less conservative clothing under the floorboards of her bedroom from her strict mother. By the 2016 revival, she hides food from her sons in the same place.
* ''Series/{{Grimm}}'': Rosalee has a loose floorboard hidden under a carpet in the office of the Spice Shop, where she keeps spare cash and paperwork relating to the off-books fake ID business her brother used to run. When Nick realises the MonsterOfTheWeek is after the [[{{Macguffin}} key]] and entrusts it to Rosalee, this is where she hides it.
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* ''VideoGame/FarCry4'': [[TheHero Ajay Ghale]] and two members of [[LaResistance the Golden Path]] hide below the floorboards of the Ranas' house just as [[TheCaligula Pagan Min]] shows up to visit. After briefly chatting with the Ranas about their hospitality and noting that [[ShameIfSomethingHappened he would not want them to be associating with the Golden Path]], Pagan asks if they'd like him to [[ExactWords preserve their honorable reputation]]. As soon as they agree, Pagan [[KickTheDog has his soldiers walk in and shoot the Ranas]], whilst Ajay can only watch from below the floorboards.
* VideoGame/GodOfWarPS4: Kratos hides the [[spoiler:blades of chaos, his old weapons,]] under the floor of his house, which can only be accessed when opening the basement.
* ''VideoGame/HalfLife2'': In ''Episode Two'', one of the secret stashes is hidden in a small shed, but all you can find in said shed is a sawblade embedded in the floor. Soon after, a hoard of zombies attacks the player, and some might try to rip up the sawblade with the Gravity Gun for use as an ImprovisedWeapon, only to pull up the floorboard along with it, revealing a veritable jackpot of supplies hidden underneath. Though you'd need to break open the rest of the floor (ideally with the crowbar) to get everything.
*''VideoGame/PinkPantherPassportToPeril'': The storage cellar of Camp Chilly Wa-Wa has one of these. Pink can use it to hide the evidence he has gathered against The Dogfather, most prominently the two letters he picked up in England and Egypt.
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[[folder:Visual Novels]]
* ''VisualNovel/TheGreatAceAttorney'': Petenshy has hid some newspaper clippings and an empty jar under a loose floorboard.
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[[folder:WesternAnimation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'': In "White Rice", Francince learns that Stan has been regularly taking her to a hypnotist to make her forget things he didn't want to talk about. When her memories start to return, she realizes that the room Stan uses to keep his commemorative plates was formerly her own workspace. With this in mind, she removes a floor board, revealing a video tape of her stand-up comic routine hidden underneath.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'': In the episode "[[Recap/ArthurS1E18ArthursChickenPoxSickAsADog Sick as a Dog]]", Arthur and his puppy Pal ate some two year old Halloween candy under a loose floorboard in his [[TreehouseOfFun treehouse]].
* ''WesternAnimation/TheCasagrandes'': In "[[Recap/TheCasagrandesS2E12ChanclaForceFluffLove Chancla Force]]", Rosa tosses her chanclas at anyone who doesn't obey her rules, so Carl sneaks into her bedroom in the middle of the night and hides them under a loose floorboard in his bedroom, as several other hiding places were taken by his halloween candy, hair gel, and cash. The next morning, Rosa is unable to stop her family from doing what they want without her chanclas. At first, Carl enjoys this, but things soon begin to spiral out of control, as Carl has his favorite things taken by the rest of his family and nobody is doing their chores. When he tries to make things right by returning the chanclas, Lalo finds them and Sergio blends them. At the end of the episode, the chaos escalation as a result of Carl's bad decisions turns out to be an OpinionChangingDream, and Carl returns the chanclas to Rosa the next morning.
* ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'': In "[[Recap/EdEddnEddysJingleJingleJangle Ed Edd "n" Eddy's Jingle Jingle Jangle]]", while his parents are out for the night, Eddy tries to find his Christmas presents around the house. He checks the attic and finds some loose floorboards revealing the presents he's been searching for. Eddy opens the presents only to reveal clothes, much to his frustration.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': In [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS6E2LisasRival "Lisa's Rival"]], Allison makes a diorama for Edgar Allen Poe's short story "The Tell-Tale Heart". Later played straight when Lisa hides the diorama under the gym floorboards.
* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': In "[[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS1E8SandysRocketSqueakyBoots Squeaky Boots]]", Mr. Krabs gives [=SpongeBob=] a pair of $2.00 fishing boots that he tried unsuccessfully to give Pearl for her birthday in place of the Flipper Slippers she wanted, passing them off as official Fry Cook boots. The squeaking of the boots drives Mr. Krabs crazy, to the point where he sneaks into [=SpongeBob's=] house, takes them, and hides them under the floorboards of the Krusty Krab. After [=SpongeBob=] becomes upset from losing the boots, Mr. Krabs begins to hear them squeaking even though [=SpongeBob=] isn't wearing them. Mr. Krabs confesses what he did, then takes the boots out from under the floorboards, cooks them in french fry oil, and eats them to stop the squeaking.
* ''WesternAnimation/MissionHill'': In "Happy Birthday, Kevin (or, Happy Birthday, Douchebag)", it's revealed in a flashback that Andy used to hide alcoholic drinks and pornographic magazines under a loose board in his room. When Andy tracks Kevin back to their childhood home, he shows Kevin his old stash, which is still there.
* ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventuresNightGhoulery'': In the "The Tell-Tale Vacuum" segment, Plucky expresses a hatred towards Hamton's vacuum cleaner, so he sneaks into Hamton's bedroom while Hamton is asleep and destroys the vacuum, hiding it under a loose floorboard. The next day, Hamton asks Plucky if he's seen the vacuum, to which Plucky pretends not to know what happened to it. Hamton then starts talking a lot about how much the vacuum meant to him, and this fills Plucky's conscience with guilt. Eventually, Plucky confesses his crime to Hamton and shows him the remains of his vacuum under the loose floorboard. As punishment for destroying his vacuum, [[CoolAndUnusualPunishment Hamton turns Plucky into a vacuum and uses him to clean his house]].
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!! Indexes: ASafeIndexToHide. BuildingTropes, ArchitectureTropes, TheSecretIndex
->''Villains! I shrieked, dissemble no more! I admit the deed! Tear up the planks! Here, here! It is the beating of his hideous heart!''
-->--'''The Narrator''', ''Literature/TheTellTaleHeart''
Loose floorboards can be a nuisance. They can reveal you creaking down the stairs in the middle of the night. Someday some one could step on a loose floorboard and hit him in the nose. Other times it can creak under your own weight. You can repair a loose floorboard by driving nails or screws.
However, loose floorboards in a room can also be a useful place to hide your stuff instead.
Whenever you need to hide something secret from your family, a loose floorboard is the right spot for you. Loose floorboards can be used for your [[PornStash Porn Stash]] and your [[SecretSnackStash Secret Snack Stash]]. It can be perfect for hiding contraband items. A loose floorboard hiding spot can be found in any room in the house, including your bedroom. Every time you hide something under your floorboard, no one will ever notice that you're hiding something. Be careful not to step on it or else someone will discover your secret stash.
Compare to [[ConstructiveBodyDisposal Constructive Body Disposal]], where a dead body gets hidden under some loose floorboards. [[HiddenSupplies Hidden Supplies]] which is often used to hide ammo and weapons. Contrast with InsideAWall where a character hides between the walls.
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!! Examples:
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[[folder:Comic Books]]
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSnowman'': In ''The Snowman and the Snowdog'', Billy stumbles over a loose floorboard in his new bedroom. Looking under it, he discovers a picture of James (the protagonist of the original film) and the Snowman and some of the stuff used to create it. It's left unclear why James chose to store this stuff underneath the floorboard, however.
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[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}}'': Rapunzel hides Flynn's satchel and stolen crown under a loose board on her tower's stairs, which Mother Gothel later finds.
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[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
* ''Film/{{Equilibrium}}'' opens with emotion police, called Grammaton Clerics, raiding a hive of citizens indulging in sensation. Most are shot dead on the spot, and their cache of books and paintings are exposed after some floorboards are pulled away. (The Clerics had intel where to look.) This cache is obliterated with a flamethrower, showing ''La Joconde'' going up in flames.
* ''Film/GhostbustersAfterlife'': Phoebe discovers a slide puzzle on the living room floor of her new house. She solves the puzzle, revealing a secret compartment under the floor containing a ghost trap inside.
* ''Film/InglouriousBasterds'': A very serious example; in the opening scene, the Dreyfuses hide under the floorboards in the farm. Hans Landa figures out that they're there and orders his men to shoot through the floors at them.
*''Literature/JamesAndTheGiantPeach'': James took out a box of crayons and a birthday candle under a loose floorboard in his room. He uses them to make a floating lantern out of a bread bag in order to contact help to get away from his [[AbusiveParents abusive aunts]].
* ''Film/TheLovelyBones'': Lindsay breaks into Mr Harvey's house and finds his sketchbook hidden under a loose floorboard. It has a record of the investigation into Susie's disappearance. (In the book, it's on Mr Harvey's bed.)
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[[folder:Literature]]
* ''Literature/BoyTalesOfChildhood'': Young Roald Dahl and his friends used a loose floorboard in their classroom to put their stuff in. One day they discovered a dead mouse and used it to pull a prank on the mean owner of the sweet shop, Mrs. Pratchett.
* In the second ''Literature/TheFamousFive'' book ''Five Go Adventuring Again'', one of the secrets of Kirrin Farm House is a floor stone which lifts up to show a small hidey-hole. It is empty, but looks exciting to the children, who later discover much bigger secrets.
* ''Literature/HarryPotterAndThePrisonerOfAzkaban'': During the summer term with the Dursleys, Harry uses a loose floorboard under his bed to hide his school supplies and birthday presents.
* ''Literature/TheMagicOfOz'': The plot starts when a former wizard's son sneaks a room he was banned from, believing some magic implements are hidden there. He finds nothing, goes to the exit... and stumbles on a floorboard. So, he pries it off to check what's hidden underneath it... nothing. Then he notices the writing on the bottom side.
* Public informer ''Literature/MarcusDidiusFalco'' is tasked with investigating the death of another informer who probed a case too deeply and too unwisely. Falco knows all the tricks for concealment and keeping things safe - he uses them himself. He soon deduces that a knothole in a floorboard that looks like any other floorboard in the room is ''just'' big enough to insert a finger into. This allows him to lift the board up and discover this is the safe hold for the dead man's note tablets and other evidence relating to cases he has been working on.
* ''Literature/SherlockHolmes'':
**In "The Second Stain", the stain of the title is a bloodstain on one side of a carpet, which strangely has no corresponding stain on the floor below. Holmes deduces that the carpet is covering a hidden compartment in the floor, and was hurriedly replaced the wrong way round.
** "The Naval Treaty" has the titular treaty go missing for several weeks after being stolen, which seems to correspond to the time it took for the last person to see it to recover from a mental breakdown (as he was also the person charged with its safety). After a few attempted break-ins, Holmes realizes the treaty must be hidden in the room an waits in ambush to avoid having to search the room. It turned out to be [[spoiler:the room's former occupant and the victim's brother-in-law]], who'd hidden the treaty behind a mobile board used by plumbers to access the pipes.
* ''Literature/TheTellTaleHeart'': After the villain protagonist killed the old man, the villain hid the dead body under some loose floorboards before the police arrived to investigate.
* ''Literature/WorldOfTheFiveGods'': In ''Knot of Shadows'', when Penric and Desdemona search Thernias's room Desdemona finds the loose floorboard under which he has been keeping his embezzled loot. As a chaos demon it was easy for her to detect it.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* ''Series/{{Bridgerton}}'': Season two reveals that the real Lady Whistledown hides her scandal sheet earnings and scribbles in a loose floorboard under her home, hidden under a carpet.
* An episode of ''Series/BurnNotice'' has Michael and his team face off with a drug dealer and his gang. They decide their best course of action is to frame the dealer's lieutenant as an undercover cop and do so by hiding fake evidence under a floor board in his house. [[spoiler:The dealer misses the fake evidence and discovers real evidence in another spot, revealing that the lieutenant actually is an undercover cop.]]
* ''Series/{{CSINY}}'': In "Admissions," the victim is a high school guidance counsellor. When Mac and Lindsay search his office, they find a loose floorboard in the closet. Mac removes it and discovers a box filled with money and a few laundromat tokens. Curious, Mac and Flack go to the laundromat and discover a heavily taped off machine. They insert the tokens, revealing the door to a hidden gambling den.
* ''Series/{{Ghosts}}'': In "Getting Out", Alison and Mike have decided to sell Button House, and the ghosts are trying to raise money to stop them from doing so. Fanny's solution is a priceless gem which she had hidden under a floorboard in the house. Too bad that her husband had found it a long time ago and pawned it.
* ''Series/GilmoreGirls'': Lane hides her concert tees, her makeup, and more individual, less conservative clothing under the floorboards of her bedroom from her strict mother. By the 2016 revival, she hides food from her sons in the same place.
* ''Series/{{Grimm}}'': Rosalee has a loose floorboard hidden under a carpet in the office of the Spice Shop, where she keeps spare cash and paperwork relating to the off-books fake ID business her brother used to run. When Nick realises the MonsterOfTheWeek is after the [[{{Macguffin}} key]] and entrusts it to Rosalee, this is where she hides it.
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* ''VideoGame/FarCry4'': [[TheHero Ajay Ghale]] and two members of [[LaResistance the Golden Path]] hide below the floorboards of the Ranas' house just as [[TheCaligula Pagan Min]] shows up to visit. After briefly chatting with the Ranas about their hospitality and noting that [[ShameIfSomethingHappened he would not want them to be associating with the Golden Path]], Pagan asks if they'd like him to [[ExactWords preserve their honorable reputation]]. As soon as they agree, Pagan [[KickTheDog has his soldiers walk in and shoot the Ranas]], whilst Ajay can only watch from below the floorboards.
* VideoGame/GodOfWarPS4: Kratos hides the [[spoiler:blades of chaos, his old weapons,]] under the floor of his house, which can only be accessed when opening the basement.
* ''VideoGame/HalfLife2'': In ''Episode Two'', one of the secret stashes is hidden in a small shed, but all you can find in said shed is a sawblade embedded in the floor. Soon after, a hoard of zombies attacks the player, and some might try to rip up the sawblade with the Gravity Gun for use as an ImprovisedWeapon, only to pull up the floorboard along with it, revealing a veritable jackpot of supplies hidden underneath. Though you'd need to break open the rest of the floor (ideally with the crowbar) to get everything.
*''VideoGame/PinkPantherPassportToPeril'': The storage cellar of Camp Chilly Wa-Wa has one of these. Pink can use it to hide the evidence he has gathered against The Dogfather, most prominently the two letters he picked up in England and Egypt.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Visual Novels]]
* ''VisualNovel/TheGreatAceAttorney'': Petenshy has hid some newspaper clippings and an empty jar under a loose floorboard.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:WesternAnimation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'': In "White Rice", Francince learns that Stan has been regularly taking her to a hypnotist to make her forget things he didn't want to talk about. When her memories start to return, she realizes that the room Stan uses to keep his commemorative plates was formerly her own workspace. With this in mind, she removes a floor board, revealing a video tape of her stand-up comic routine hidden underneath.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'': In the episode "[[Recap/ArthurS1E18ArthursChickenPoxSickAsADog Sick as a Dog]]", Arthur and his puppy Pal ate some two year old Halloween candy under a loose floorboard in his [[TreehouseOfFun treehouse]].
* ''WesternAnimation/TheCasagrandes'': In "[[Recap/TheCasagrandesS2E12ChanclaForceFluffLove Chancla Force]]", Rosa tosses her chanclas at anyone who doesn't obey her rules, so Carl sneaks into her bedroom in the middle of the night and hides them under a loose floorboard in his bedroom, as several other hiding places were taken by his halloween candy, hair gel, and cash. The next morning, Rosa is unable to stop her family from doing what they want without her chanclas. At first, Carl enjoys this, but things soon begin to spiral out of control, as Carl has his favorite things taken by the rest of his family and nobody is doing their chores. When he tries to make things right by returning the chanclas, Lalo finds them and Sergio blends them. At the end of the episode, the chaos escalation as a result of Carl's bad decisions turns out to be an OpinionChangingDream, and Carl returns the chanclas to Rosa the next morning.
* ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'': In "[[Recap/EdEddnEddysJingleJingleJangle Ed Edd "n" Eddy's Jingle Jingle Jangle]]", while his parents are out for the night, Eddy tries to find his Christmas presents around the house. He checks the attic and finds some loose floorboards revealing the presents he's been searching for. Eddy opens the presents only to reveal clothes, much to his frustration.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': In [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS6E2LisasRival "Lisa's Rival"]], Allison makes a diorama for Edgar Allen Poe's short story "The Tell-Tale Heart". Later played straight when Lisa hides the diorama under the gym floorboards.
* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': In "[[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS1E8SandysRocketSqueakyBoots Squeaky Boots]]", Mr. Krabs gives [=SpongeBob=] a pair of $2.00 fishing boots that he tried unsuccessfully to give Pearl for her birthday in place of the Flipper Slippers she wanted, passing them off as official Fry Cook boots. The squeaking of the boots drives Mr. Krabs crazy, to the point where he sneaks into [=SpongeBob's=] house, takes them, and hides them under the floorboards of the Krusty Krab. After [=SpongeBob=] becomes upset from losing the boots, Mr. Krabs begins to hear them squeaking even though [=SpongeBob=] isn't wearing them. Mr. Krabs confesses what he did, then takes the boots out from under the floorboards, cooks them in french fry oil, and eats them to stop the squeaking.
* ''WesternAnimation/MissionHill'': In "Happy Birthday, Kevin (or, Happy Birthday, Douchebag)", it's revealed in a flashback that Andy used to hide alcoholic drinks and pornographic magazines under a loose board in his room. When Andy tracks Kevin back to their childhood home, he shows Kevin his old stash, which is still there.
* ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventuresNightGhoulery'': In the "The Tell-Tale Vacuum" segment, Plucky expresses a hatred towards Hamton's vacuum cleaner, so he sneaks into Hamton's bedroom while Hamton is asleep and destroys the vacuum, hiding it under a loose floorboard. The next day, Hamton asks Plucky if he's seen the vacuum, to which Plucky pretends not to know what happened to it. Hamton then starts talking a lot about how much the vacuum meant to him, and this fills Plucky's conscience with guilt. Eventually, Plucky confesses his crime to Hamton and shows him the remains of his vacuum under the loose floorboard. As punishment for destroying his vacuum, [[CoolAndUnusualPunishment Hamton turns Plucky into a vacuum and uses him to clean his house]].
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!! Indexes: ASafeIndexToHide. BuildingTropes, ArchitectureTropes, TheSecretIndex
