Mysterious Hidden Rooms and Outbuildings
I’ve always dreamed of having a hidden room after reading The Diary of Anne Frank and The Underground Railroad as a child. My imagination took me to weird places sometimes - I’d scare myself into thinking, “What if a robber broke in? Where would I hide?” and I always ended up in an enchanted attic space through an opening in the top of the linen closet (told you … weird places!)
An Indiana man recently found a *real* hidden room as he was renovating his 1890’s home in Terre Haute.
A friend of Carl Thoms was working recently on plumbing in the 1890 home’s basement when he noticed that he could see around those pipes into a hidden room covered in tiles.
He also spotted a staircase — a discovery that led Thoms to a bedroom off of the home’s kitchen, where he pried up some floorboards and accessed those stairs.
At the bottom of the stairs, Thoms found himself in a walled-off 10-foot-square room covered in tiles that at first made him think the room might have once been a tiled sauna.
Further in the article, the home owner speculates it could’ve been a bootlegging room built during prohibition.
A friend of mine bought a home last year and although she hasn’t found any hidden rooms, it did have some mysterious outbuildings. One was a workshop that took me back to my grandpa’s old machine shop… I just wanted to stand in it all day and live in the past. Another was a run-down greenhouse* about 100 feet back from another mysterious building that took us some time to figure out. Her Daddy said it was a pump house, but I like to think of it now as the house where the ghost of her backyard resides.
Another friend had a her home built. What should have been a door to the upstairs unfinished bonus room was changed in the plans to a bookcase… the bookcase quietly slides open to reveal an amazing storage space (or place to escape).
I want a hidden room.
