A Georgia woman was casually clicking through a virtual house tour when she got more than she bargained for. Inside the closet, a morphed woman’s face was staring right back at her, and the moment she caught it, she nearly jumped out of her seat.
The TikTok video, posted by user @softlyhiddengemini, has racked up over 600,000 views. According to BroBible, the woman described the experience as a full-on “jump scare” while browsing what appeared to be a completely empty home.
“Normally, it’s just this little sticky thing,” she explained in the clip, referring to the camera on a tripod that typically appears in these tours. Everything seemed routine at first. Then she stepped into the virtual closet, turned around, and found herself face-to-face with a ghostly, distorted figure.
“That b—- scared the s— out of me. I jump so hard when I see her,” the TikToker said. “So I’m just looking at the closet like, ‘What the h—? Who the h— is this child?’ I never seen that before.”
How does this happen?
The explanation is pretty simple, and it is not supernatural. When photographers capture panoramic images for virtual tours, the process requires setting up a 360-degree camera, letting it shoot, then moving it a few feet and repeating the process across every room. If someone wanders into the frame mid-shoot, their image gets stitched into the virtual tour permanently.
One commenter in the video shed some light on just how tedious the whole thing is. “Matterports are so hard to make,” they wrote, referring to the popular virtual tour platform. “You pretty much have to set the camera up and set the timer and run and hide so you aren’t in the frame and then move the camera over three feet and do it all over again until the whole thing is done. She probably didn’t want to do another one it takes forever.”
That context made a lot of people more sympathetic. The mystery woman in the closet almost certainly just walked into the shot at the wrong moment and nobody noticed before the listing went live.
Real estate listing horrors are on the rise
This kind of oddity is becoming more common, not less. As more realtors turn to AI tools to clean up and enhance their property photos, the chances of something strange slipping through have gone way up.
Earlier this year, Futurism reported on a Washington, D.C. rental listing that went massively viral after an AI-edited bathroom photo accidentally included a distorted, fleshy humanoid creature emerging from the mirror. The listing, for a property in Fort Totten that rented for $1,800 a month, was quickly pulled from Apartments.com. Reddit users described the figure as their “sleep paralysis demon,” with one commenter writing, “That thing somehow struck raw primal fear in me at an unparalleled record high.”
AI tools notoriously struggle with mirrors and reflections because they try to fill in visual information based on pattern recognition, and sometimes the results are deeply unsettling. As of January 2026, California has started requiring realtors to disclose when AI has been used to edit listing photos, and to provide access to the originals.
The woman in the virtual closet, at least, was a real human. Probably just an unlucky photographer who did not want to redo the entire shoot.
Comments are loving it
The comment section under the TikTok quickly filled up with reactions ranging from amused to genuinely freaked out.
“Thats your new roommate,” one person joked.
“I would’ve took this as a sign AND IMMEDIATELY went to looking at the next apartment,” wrote another.
Others immediately connected it to the broader pattern of weird things people have discovered while house hunting online. Strange real estate listing discoveries have become their own genre of viral content. Not long ago, a woman spent $186 on a Groupon mystery vacation and deeply regretted the reveal, proving that surprise-reveal content has a dedicated audience. And weird discoveries on yachts have gone viral too, like the Miami woman who says NFL players’ host kicked 12 girls off a yacht for being ugly.
The Front Feed reached out to @softlyhiddengemini via TikTok direct message and comment. The creator had not responded at the time of publication.
