PHOTOS: Inside the mystery dungeon room

Jugs of water are neatly placed along a wall inside the confinement room in a Pickering farmhouse. (SUPPLIED PHOTO/CBC)

Chains hang from the ceiling inside the basement. (SUPPLIED PHOTO/CBC)

Low-resolution images have surfaced that show several different angles of the room, which is believed to be 12-by-8-feet, located in the basement. (SUPPLIED PHOTO/CBC)

Steel-linked chains hang from the ceiling, and a ragged white-painted bench is pushed against one wall, stretching the length of the room. (SUPPLIED PHOTO/CBC)

The Pickering farmhouse before it was destroyed by fire. (LIAM CASEY/TORONTO STAR)

The Pickering farmhouse burned to the ground on Friday. Police are investigating the incident and the confinement room that was discovered inside in the weeks before the blaze. (Tomislav Stefanac/SUPPLIED PHOTO)

Fire crews at the scene of the 136-year-old farmhouse after it was destroyed in a fire Jan. 6. (AMY DEMPSEY/TORONTO STAR)

Comments

[Dom]

I really hope police are combing the area for any other potential spots this type of room could be built in. Now it really doesn't look like it was just a movie set.

[Joe Lee]

Police needed to monitor this house and not provide information about this property. I guess what was I expecting, all that money spent on the G20 and they can't find efficiency in their budget to do surveillance in this house. Maybe I am paranoid but someone doesnt' go through all this trouble to build a dungeon. People go missing all the time and we never know what happened to them.

[concerned citizen]

I think the police were a bit sloppy with this investigation. Something this errie should have been kept under wraps, a hidden camera installed to monitor its activity and actually confirm if or what this dungeon was being used for. Who ever built this was obviously very motivated to hide whatever evidence may have been uncovered. Someone this motivated unfortunately will most likely set up this sick shop somewhere else. Now, the police may never really know who was behind this.......pretty scary to think that someone built this, and even scarier to not know what it was built for. Now, we will never know.

[1BlackDragon]

The drain in the middle of the floor should have been tested for human blood and excrement.

[DobberHockey.com]

We should all chip and give the police investigators a $100 camera. Get some better quality pictures. Time to put that 1970 flash bulb camera to rest.

[Mark Kedrick]

Looks like a CIA rendition operation facility.and the fire that followed even more of a cover up... just saying....

[Chris Meisenheimer]

This is real time scary. It's ovious that someone was inspired by the Saw movies and were trying to make fiction a reality.

[Robert]

Those water jugs make it look like they were planning "waterboarding". Might be one of those secret CIA interogation rooms.

[Frank Curley]

Something was definitely going on there. I would sincerely hope that our police had the place under watch to apprehend those involved.

[Michael C.]

Looks like a dark site for interrogation my some intelligence agency Why else would it be burnt down

[Darren]

Very creepy

[Larry Pontiac]

Looks like a grow room there's one on every street in mark ham . You are all watching to many movies.

[Marc]

It was a rather odd place. Also tipping off the public earlier was huge blunder by our police or a complete lack of professional desecration on the media's part. Whom ever built this, be it Government foreign and/or domestic or a private "pervert". When it's discovery was made public all parties involved, which could be multiple people or a single individual, destroyed as much as possible to hinder all further investigations. Lastly the grow-op theory seem plausible but the chains hang too low for lighting purposes and seem to be too few if you were planning to use them to hold up your water tables/pots (but there could of been many more off camera) and the dimensions seem good for that too, oh and the water is a tip off too since all plants need water to grow.

[John Clussler]

I once built a dungeon in a basemet for a Dominatrix a few years back. Yes it was her house. Trust me this was not a dungeon, but a holding cell. It was most likely used or going to be used to keep someone captive. My guess is it wasn't finished yet. Noticed the full water jugs. There're still full. I do wonder if the police had enough common sense to at least take finger prints. Mot of the item were most likely purchased at a place like home depot. The other question is was the wood used to reinforce the door cut on site or pre cut. If it was cut on sute that would mean that the person had some constriction knowledge. It would also mean that this was planed not just last minute. This was not a normal person into BDSM. This was a sicko.

[jw]

To ConcernedCitizen: Where in these pictures do you see a drain in the middle of the floor?