Cheaters usually try their best to keep their infidelity secret, but even at their best, cheaters still leave a trail.
Most of the time, these trails are not in plain sight, so many people end up not noticing them.
Cheaters who go to great lengths to hide their secrets may even convert ordinary household items and rooms into covert hiding spots.
I have seen and heard of some of the weirdest hiding places for evidence of cheating.
In this article, we will be exploring these weird places as well as the common hiding places.
Let’s get started.
8 Places In The House Where Cheaters Hide Things
1. The phone
We will start with the most obvious – the phone.
You could argue that the phone is not a place in the house, but since cheaters usually have their phones on them at all times, it makes them the most common hiding place.
Technology is important, and smartphones have done many great things.
Now, you can communicate with people in different countries in real-time.
It’s all so amazing, but smartphones are ground zero for cheating.
They are quite handy when trying to hide an affair.
Apart from the fact that they are very mobile and you can carry them everywhere, hence reducing the chances of your partner picking up a call that isn’t meant for them, cheaters use smartphones to hide their conversations with their affair partner.
On WhatsApp, there is a disappearing message feature.
It deletes all messages within twenty-four hours.
I have a really active imagination, and when I see someone who has disappearing messages on, I start imagining a lot of things.
There are so many secret vault apps that keep incriminating evidence locked up and guarded under a layer of passwords.
When you start thinking that things can’t get any worse, there is one more hiding place on phones.
A friend showed me an app that looked like a calculator.
It even works like a calculator until you press a code, and it reveals what is hidden in it.
These apps can hide secret galleries, and when I see apps like that on anyone’s phone, it sparks my curiosity.
What’s so secret that your phone’s password is not enough protection?
If you notice these apps, as well as suspicious movements like frantic screen swiping when you come into a room, it could be a sign that your partner is hiding important evidence on their phone that they’d rather you don’t see.
2. A cluttered drawer
Cluttered drawers have this way of discouraging people from opening them.
Unless you are the type of person who likes to organize things.
A cluttered kitchen or home office drawer is a natural hiding spot for cheaters.
They can hide second phones under an innocuous layer of old documents or old equipment.
They could hide receipts, gift cards, and even cash from affairs.
I know it is silly, but I have seen some really sentimental cheaters who keep handwritten notes from their affair partners in cluttered drawers.
3. The garage
Garages are really nice additions to houses.
Especially in certain neighborhoods.
A few weeks ago, my neighbor’s motorcycle was stolen right in front of his house.
This happened probably because there was no garage to park the motorcycle in.
Apart from this benefit, garages have other benefits to cheaters, especially cheating husbands.
Basically, men use the garage more often.
So, it’s more plausible for a male cheater to hide evidence of his cheating in a garage than for a female.
Garages are gold mines for discreet storage.
There are toolboxes with false buttons to hide phones.
There are empty paint cans for keeping sentimental mementos of their affairs.
They could also hide them in the compartments of their cars, especially if the car is for their personal use only.
One way to know that something is probably happening in the garage is to notice how long your partner spends there.
If they are always in the garage for long hours, give vague explanations for why they spend so much time there, and display other suspicious signs of cheating, they could be hiding stuff in the garage.
4. The kids’ toy boxes
I think kids with many toys generally discard some of their toys.
They just stop playing with those toys, and when this happens, a cheating partner could seize on the sneaky idea of hiding things in those toy boxes.
This is a risky gamble.
But cheaters are known for taking risks; even cheating itself is a form of risk.
The gamble is that their partners won’t go snooping around in children’s spaces.
They could slit the sides of stuffed animals to create an opening for stuffing things that could expose their affairs.
They could use the boxes of board games like Monopoly and Scrabble to store secret letters from their affair partner.
It’s weird.
I mean, who still sends letters when they can just send a text and reduce the risk of anyone else ever seeing it?
Anyway, I have never claimed to be able to understand the thought processes of a cheater.
5. The bed frame’s underbelly
When I was a kid, I used to play hide and seek with my siblings.
My favorite spot to hide was usually under the bed.
Sadly, it was usually also the first place they checked.
So, they caught me a lot of times.
The bedroom always offers some secret hiding places for cheaters.
They could hide many things under the bed.
Magnetic key holders and taped envelopes.
Sometimes, even emergency cash for their cheating escapades is also hidden under the bed.
But it is also a dangerous place to hide things, especially if they share the bedroom with their partners.
However, it is a possible hiding spot for cheating partners.
6. Books
I like to think of books as treasure boxes full of treasure.
If you need knowledge, you can get them from books.
However, books can also serve as a hiding place in the hands of a cheater.
Now, the bibliophile in me is enraged at this gross misuse of books.
A bookshelf is the ultimate hiding spot.
And I don’t mean the way movies portray secret compartments behind shelves.
It is nothing that sophisticated.
Cheaters may hollow out thick books to stash letters, condoms, or even a second phone.
To ensure that they are not caught, they usually use false titles on such books.
Boring titles are better.
Only very few people will want to read a book on tax laws.
That’s some heavy and academic reading that students only do when they know they have to.
Also, they could hide them in books that don’t match their partner’s interests.
So, if their partner loves fiction books, they will hide whatever incriminating item they have in nonfiction books because their partners are less likely to open those books.
7. Simple “innocent” files on the computer
One time, when I was younger, my brother wanted to collect some movies from a friend who had a treasure trove of movies on his laptop.
He borrowed his laptop, collected the movies, and would have returned it without knowing anything, but my sister noticed some folders that seemed to have great sermons by Christian preachers.
So, she opened the folder and attempted to check the files.
Well, we all met a shocker.
These supposed folders of Christian sermons were filled with pornographic videos.
For so long, he had kept his porn stash on his laptop without arousing any suspicion with this classic misdirection tactic.
Cheaters practice the same tactics.
The best way to keep something hidden is to hide it in plain sight.
Then everyone can see it, but only a few people will recognize it for what it truly is.
It could be files on their computers, appropriately misnamed to discourage people from opening them.
It could be fake client files in their home office.
It could be password-protected USB drives disguised as key holders.
The possibilities are just endless with cheaters.
Their minds come up with hiding places on the go.
8. The digital cloud
This is not a place in the house, and in a world where everything is digital, smart cheaters know that they don’t need to leave things lying around the house or even on their phones.
They can upload videos, pictures, and audio to cloud storage.
They can do the same with their intimate chats.
There are shared note apps for texting.
The only way this could be really visible is if you can track data usage.
Unexplained spikes in data usage could indicate uploads of large numbers of files.
The truth is that cheaters thrive on distraction.
They hide things where you would least expect.
And while knowing these spots is good for uncovering whatever your partner is doing, I must warn you about the impact of unwarranted suspicion on your relationship.
Trust is still very important in relationships, and unless your partner gives you ample reasons to distrust them, that’s what you should do.