This story is actually one of the plot points in Real Genius, one of the movies on College Insurrection’s top 10 college movies list.

Eric Owens of The Daily Caller reports.

Ohio State roomies find random student secretly living in their basement

This fall, a group of engineering students at The Ohio State University rented part of an old house and ended up dealing with some problems that are fairly ordinary for a college rental unit.

“There was mold in our air conditioners,” Mark Hartman, one of the tenants told The Lantern, OSU’s student newspaper. “The walls and the floors were all dirty.”

Oh yeah, and there was also this mysterious dude named Jeremy living in the basement.

“Some random guy had a key to our house and was just living in our house without anyone knowing,” explained Brett Mugglin, another tenant.

The five first-floor roommates were under the impression that there was a utility closet behind a locked door down in the basement. However, when the landlord’s maintenance staff knocked the door down, they discovered a fully furnished bedroom suite decorated with photographs and strewn with textbooks.

There was also a toilet and a sink in the basement for Jeremy to use.

The residents asked the management company, NorthSteppe Realty, to change the locks, which it did. A realtor also left a note asking Jeremy to call.

The tenants alleged that the locks had not been changed for years until the shady new roommate was found.