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* [[https://www.youtube.com/@OhTekkers OhTekker's]] video "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ayZmclKDIY I Survived 100 Days Inside a Hidden Minecraft Base]]" involves him spending 100 days hiding in someone else's base, without them knowing about it, by scurrying around in the walls and making hidden passages a'la ''Film/ThePeopleUnderTheStairs''. It requires him to ''constantly'' pound invisibility potions, carefully only mine when the base owner is far enough away to not hear him, and avoid direct eye contact since your potion particles become visible if someone looks directly at you. His plan is to even escalate to do the final 10 days wholly visible if he makes it that far. [[spoiler:He gets spotted on Day 81 by opening his hidden passage at the wrong time, but decides to finish the challenge since he reasons that, while he got seen he still ''survived'' and [[ExactWords the challenge was still on]] -- he comes back and finishes the final 20-ish days.]]
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* ''Series/Goosebumps1995'' has ''My Best Friend Is Invisible'', where a not-so ImaginaryFriend is revealed to actually be a regular boy, Brent Green, who has been turned invisible in order to be able to squat in his old home. [[spoiler:The ending implies there are a number of humans who survived this way after the visible people, actually alien invaders, took over their planet, as once the parents become aware of Brent they immediately know what he is, turn him visible, and [[DownerEnding capture him]].]]

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While this has apparently [[TruthInTelevision happened in real life]], it also has many of the hallmarks of a modern UrbanLegend, due to showing up in some more dubious or less trustworthy sources. The secret squatter is also a semi-regular guest in ''other'' UrbanLegends.

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While this has apparently [[TruthInTelevision happened in real life]], it also has many of the hallmarks of a modern UrbanLegend, {{Urban Legend|s}}, due to showing up in some more dubious or less trustworthy sources. The secret squatter is also a semi-regular guest in ''other'' UrbanLegends.



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* ''Film/ISeeYou'': Mysterious events keep occurring in the Harpers' spacious home as the father, Greg, is investigating a series of child murders. It turns out that they have been targeted by a pair of "phroggers", one of whom is actually the SerialKiller Greg's surviving victim who is determined to torture his family in revenge.

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* ''Film/ISeeYou'': Mysterious events keep occurring in the Harpers' spacious home as the father, Greg, is investigating a series of child murders. It turns out that they have been targeted by a pair of "phroggers", one of whom is actually the SerialKiller Greg's surviving victim who and is determined to torture his family in revenge.



* ''Film/ThePact'': Annie is being haunted by a ghost - but the ghost is trying to warn her that there's actually a flesh-and-blood SerialKiller, her crazy uncle, hiding in her basement.

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* ''Film/ThePact'': Annie is being haunted by a ghost - -- but the ghost is trying to warn her that there's actually a flesh-and-blood SerialKiller, her crazy uncle, hiding in her basement.



* In the second series of ''Series/AufWiedersehenPet'', the gang are staying in an empty mansion that is being converted into a retirement home. Barry hears a local ghost story about how the mansion is haunted, and after hearing the story food starts disappearing from the refrigerator and objects start moving when the gang is out working. Barry thinks this is proof that the ghost story is true, but Oz gets to the bottom of the mystery by putting superglue on the fridge door handle; it turns out the "ghost" was a homeless man who had been squatting at the house and hiding in a cupboard during the day. They give him some new clothes and money, and send him on his way instead of calling the police.
* ''Series/TheBrittasEmpire'': "[[Recap/TheBrittasEmpireS2E2TempleOfTheBody Temple of the Body]]" reveals that, unbeknownst to anyone in the leisure centre, Carole, one of the employees who works there, has [[NonResidentialResidence moved in]] after having been thrown out of her apartment between Series 1 and 2. This is not found out until Brittas, who was doing an unrelated search for a "[[SexAtWork love nest]]", stumbled upon the bedroom she had made up in one of the cupboards. ZigZagged in that Brittas does threaten to kick her out once he finds out, but she does ultimately get to live there for the rest of the show.
* ''{{Series/CSI}}'' had the appropriately named “Stalker” where a guy gets fixated on Nick and was essentially living in his attic spying on him and recording him. He did it to other people too before Nick. He was a cable guy who got fixated on some of his customers and wanted their lives.

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* In the second series of ''Series/AufWiedersehenPet'', the gang are staying in an empty mansion that is being converted into a retirement home. Barry hears a local ghost story about how the mansion is haunted, and after hearing the story which food starts disappearing from the refrigerator and objects start moving when the gang is out working. Barry thinks this is proof that the ghost story is true, but Oz gets to the bottom of the mystery by putting superglue on the fridge door handle; it turns out that the "ghost" was a homeless man who had been squatting at the house and hiding in a cupboard during the day. They give him some new clothes and money, and send him on his way instead of calling the police.
* ''Series/TheBrittasEmpire'': "[[Recap/TheBrittasEmpireS2E2TempleOfTheBody Temple of the Body]]" reveals that, unbeknownst to anyone in the leisure centre, Carole, one of the employees who works there, has [[NonResidentialResidence moved in]] after having been thrown out of her apartment between Series 1 and 2. This is not found out until Brittas, who was doing an unrelated search for a "[[SexAtWork love nest]]", stumbled upon the bedroom she had made up in one of the cupboards. ZigZagged [[ZigZaggingTrope Zig-zagged]] in that Brittas does threaten to kick her out once he finds out, but she does ultimately get to live there for the rest of the show.
* ''{{Series/CSI}}'' had ''Series/{{CSI}}'' has the appropriately named “Stalker” where episode "Stalker", in which a guy gets becomes fixated on Nick and was essentially living lives in his attic attic, spying on him and recording him. He did it to other people too before Nick. He Nick; he was a cable guy who got became fixated on some of his customers and wanted their lives.



** In ''Message in a Haunted Mansion'', Charlie, a handyman hired to renovate the titular mansion, has been living in one of its secret passages for some time. In fact, he got the job because he overheard the owners when they decided to start hiring. But he's [[RedHerring not the saboteur]] Nancy has been looking for- just a good kid [[https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/12/02/even-less-affordable-bay-area-home-prices-keep-soaring/ down on his luck]]. If Nancy confronts him, he apologizes and promises to tell [[BenevolentBoss Rose]]- who presumably forgives him, given [[HappilyEverAfter the tone of the epilogue]].
** In ''Warnings At Waverly Academy'', Rachel's identical twin Kim lived in a secret passageway off her room, [[TwinSwitch swapping out with her whenever it was needed]], while everyone thought they were only talking to one person - "Rachel".
** In ''Ghost of Thornton Hall'', Harper has been hiding --and living-- in the basement of Thornton Hall for an unspecified period of time, unknown to anyone until she alerted Jessalyn that she believed Clara had killed Charlotte.

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** In ''Message in a Haunted Mansion'', Charlie, a handyman hired to renovate the titular mansion, has been living in one of its secret passages for some time. In fact, he got the job because he overheard the owners when they decided to start hiring. But However, he's [[RedHerring not the saboteur]] Nancy has been looking for- for -- just a good kid [[https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/12/02/even-less-affordable-bay-area-home-prices-keep-soaring/ down on his luck]]. If Nancy confronts him, he apologizes and promises to tell [[BenevolentBoss Rose]]- Rose]] -- who presumably forgives him, given [[HappilyEverAfter the tone of the epilogue]].
** In ''Warnings At at Waverly Academy'', Rachel's identical twin Kim lived in a secret passageway off her room, [[TwinSwitch swapping out with her whenever it was needed]], while everyone thought they were only talking to one person - -- "Rachel".
** In ''Ghost of Thornton Hall'', Harper has been hiding --and living-- -- and living -- in the basement of Thornton Hall for an unspecified period of time, unknown to anyone until she alerted Jessalyn that she believed Clara had killed Charlotte.



* ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'': "[[Recap/TheAmazingWorldOfGumballS3E36TheNobody The Nobody]]" has Gumball and Darwin being blamed for various things disappearing around the house, after which they learn that they have a squatter. They eventually catch him and learn that the squatter is their classmate Rob, corrupted by the Void.



* ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'': "The Nobody" has Gumball and Darwin being blamed for various things disappearing around the house and they learn that they have a squatter. They eventually catch him and learn that the squatter is their classmate Rob, corrupted by the Void.



* In the ''WesternAnimation/SmilingFriends'' Pilot, Alan, while looking for his stolen cheese and paperclips finds a man living in the walls of Smiling Friends HQ, complete with computer and enough internet access [[CaughtWithYourPantsDown to have something to hide]]. Alongside a massive infestation of bliblies which proceed to overrun the building.

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* ''WesternAnimation/SmilingFriends'': In the ''WesternAnimation/SmilingFriends'' Pilot, "[[Recap/SmilingFriendsS1E1DesmondsBigDayOut Desmond's Big Day Out]]", Alan, while looking for his stolen cheese and paperclips paperclips, finds a man living in the walls of Smiling Friends HQ, complete with computer and enough internet access [[CaughtWithYourPantsDown to have something to hide]]. Alongside hide]]... alongside a massive infestation of bliblies which proceed to overrun the building. building.



* The story of Theodore Edward Coneys, better known as the "Denver Spider Man". [[note]]No relation to ''that'' ComicBook/SpiderMan.[[/note]] One September evening in 1941, Coneys, hungry and homeless, broke into the house of Philip Peters in Denver, Colorado, and took up residence in a small attic crawlspace. He lived there for 5 weeks before Peters found him; a fight broke out, and Coneys bludgeoned the elderly Peters to death. He then returned to the attic and hid there while the police searched for the mysterious assailant. Thereafter, Peters' wife, housekeeper, and neighbors all came to believe the house was haunted, hearing strange noises and seeing lights going on and off at night. It was only after 9 months that Coneys was finally discovered, and spent the rest of his life in prison.

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* The story of Theodore Edward Coneys, better known as the "Denver Spider Man". [[note]]No relation to ''that'' ComicBook/SpiderMan.[[/note]] One September evening in 1941, Coneys, hungry and homeless, broke into the house of Philip Peters in Denver, Colorado, and took up residence in a small attic crawlspace. He lived there for 5 weeks before Peters found him; a fight broke out, and Coneys bludgeoned the elderly Peters to death. He then returned to the attic and hid there while the police searched for the mysterious assailant. Thereafter, Peters' wife, housekeeper, and neighbors all came to believe the house was haunted, hearing strange noises and seeing lights going on and off at night. It was only after 9 months that Coneys was finally discovered, and spent the rest of his life in prison.
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