A Texas man thought he heard running water inside his Airbnb at Toledo Bend Lake, but he wasn’t expecting to find the sound coming from beneath his feet. When he looked inside the home’s floor vents, water appeared to be flowing through the ductwork like a tiny indoor creek.
Zack Hall shared his bizarre finding on TikTok. He is a content creator who, in the past, has shared his encounters with a bunch of creatures in the wild. This time around, he decided to book an Airbnb at Toledo Bend Lake. The clip attached above went viral, garnering 6.7 million views, 343,000 likes, and more than 9,700 comments.
Once he stepped inside the Texas Airbnb, he soon came across a particularly familiar sound, given his experience in the wild: running water. Then, as the video shows, the man spotted the AC vents located on the floor. Water was, in fact, running, as if it were a creek.
In total, Zack showed four different vents. The water was running through all of them. He said, “Pretty wild, if you ask me.” And arguably, it was.
Hall didn’t simply ignore what he found. In a follow-up video, he said he immediately contacted the Airbnb host and suggested condensation or rainwater might have gotten into the vents. According to a message Hall displayed, the host responded, “Yes. It’s condensed, but it’s ok to run the unit.”
“I feel like she just didn’t understand the gravity of the situation or genuinely care. I don’t know. It’s her camp on the lake. They’re making some money off of it. Written out to goobers like me,” the man said.
Airbnb’s current rebooking and refund policy says guests may be eligible for assistance when accommodations contain a safety or health hazard or when an advertised air-conditioning system isn’t functioning properly. Guests generally must report the issue within 72 hours of discovering it and provide supporting evidence. Whether Hall’s situation would have qualified isn’t clear.
Texas Airbnb’s Water-Filled Vents Alarm Viewers
Some viewers immediately jumped to potential health concerns. “I can smell the Legionnaires’ disease through the phone,” one person wrote, while another told Hall to get his money back over the same concern. Nothing in Hall’s videos establishes that Legionella bacteria were present in the water or that anyone contracted Legionnaires’ disease.
Others, while keeping their comments lighthearted, still found the AC water odd, to say the least. One wrote, “Cooling their home like a data center.” Another one added, “That’s a creek, you gotta be quiet.”
Despite discovering what looked like a miniature creek running beneath the floor vents, Hall didn’t immediately pack his bags. He said he stayed at the Texas Airbnb for two nights and ultimately left it a three-star review. There was at least one unexpected amenity: Hall admitted the water-filled vents kept the floors surprisingly chilly.
