'Find the bathtub': Twitter users turn this Louisville home listing into viral game

Virtual tours are an innovation welcomed by the quarantine-wrought restlessness of 2020, but the world still wasn’t prepared for what’s been dubbed “the year’s best survival horror game:” a 3D walkthrough of a Louisville real estate listing.

An online tour of the 3,161-square-foot Okolona property at 8800 Blue Lick Road is going viral after TV writer Jenny Jaffe shared the link on Twitter, saying, "Uh. Found this in a Facebook group; the person who posted said ‘tour in 3D, try to find the bathtub’ ...enjoy(?)."

The walkthrough quickly became a game as Twitter users posted screengrabs challenging others to find certain items or rooms in the house.

One person even made a subreddit dedicated to “exploring and finding weirdness at Blue Lick Road” in “the year’s best survival horror game.”

The possibilities are endless — entering one room will bring you face-to-face with a wall of “Girls Gone Wild” DVDs, and that’s far from the strangest treasure in this building. Somewhere in the maze is a bathroom with two toilets positioned a few feet apart. One of the many shelves holds a box labeled “perfect skin,” positioned above another labeled “Black Magic.”

The 3D walkthrough was removed from Redfin Tuesday evening but can still be found on Matterport, a digital tour platform. 

The "bathtub," though, won't be found — what appeared to be a baptismal was attached to the room with the "Girls Gone Wild" DVDs, which was taken out of the tour.

So what is the building used for?

“Church, School, Daycare, Home business this home has been it all,” is how the Redfin listing describes it.

“Two kitchens, a private living space and many more surprises. This is a must see. The pictures do not tell the full story.”

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The full story may never be known, but news reports from 2014 say four men, including the property owner, were arrested and charged with engaging in organized crime after police searched the house and found goods they say were stolen from Kroger and Target stores and sold online.

So that explains the "home business" opportunity?

The listing was posted on Redfin in August, according to the site. Its list price is $375,000. The Jefferson County Property Valuation Administrator values it at $101,830. 

The real estate agent did not immediately return a phone call from The Courier Journal.

According to SharedCount.com, a site that tracks how many times a link has been shared, the direct link to that listing has been shared 122.6K times.

Reach Emma Austin at eaustin@gannett.com or on Twitter at @emmacaustin.