Sherry writes about secret places in stories. I enjoy these places too. I’ve always loved the idea of a secret room in a large house. Of course, I’d want to go into it often–the kids would too–so the secret or secluded part of being in the room would wear out soon. But true stories like this one of a man finding a hidden room while renovating a 120-year-old house are so cool–unless you balance them with stories about hidden rooms with notes (“I owned this house for a short while, and it was discovered to have a serious mold problem.”).
Was the Indiana man’s “hidden room” a cistern?
I don’t think so. The article calls it a bedroom first, so I assume there is a bed frame or bench or something that would lead the writer or home owner to speculate. If it was just a bare room hidden beneath the kitchen, why would they call it a bedroom?
http://www.idsnews.com/news/story.aspx?id=66250&comview=1 Here’s another story on it from the same time with a somewhat unhelpful photo.
Wow! Boy! I’m really getting into this blog stuff!!! Hidden rooms… My old farm-house had two such rooms up under the eves. You had to crawl past a large chimney, into a dark little corner and find some little finger grips which eventually opened a segment of plaster wall. Inside was a pretty dirty little area that was VERY long and narrow… but my kids cleaned it all up, I installed lighting and we all had great times wondering who had first made them. We found books, comic books, lanterns, etc….
btw phil… what is a link? a b-quote? more? close tags? dict? and a URL? Thanks from an illiterate computer user.
I loved secret places as a kid. My cousin’s barn had a room in the back of the haymow that was inaccessible most of the year since the mow was full of hay. But as the pile of hay bales dwindled down in the spring, the door appeared and became a secret fort for us kids throughout the summer. I think the room at one point had been a roost for homing pigeons. It had a window and a wall filled with bird cages.
I had a recurring dream as a child that our house had a secret stairway from the basement to the attic. Many a morning I overslept because I didn’t want to wake up when I was busy exploring that staircase trying to find my way back to one of the many secret rooms I remembered having visited in previous dreams. Instead I was always finding new nooks and cranny’s to explore in my imagination.
jbook,
The buttons above are to help you with code in your comment. They aren’t needed to leave a comment, and maybe I should turn them off. “Link” is to help you make a link to another website. When you click that button, you will see a window asking you for a web address (that’s a URL). Fill it in and press OK to see the link code appear in your comment, like the link in the last sentence. Then type words you want to use a link, and press “Link” again. That’s how I made “when you click that button” into a link.
“More” allows you to make a long comment shorter by added a little link for the rest of the comment, like this. OK, apparently More doesn’t work in comments, and I don’t see why it should anyway. So, ignore that one.
“B-quote” means blockquote or indented quotation. If you leave a long comment and quote several sentences from another source, you can blockquote them with that button.
“Close tags” is a helper to wrap up any open code you have in your comment, if you went wild with bolding, italicizing, and blockquoting.
“Dict” helps you look up a word on Answers.com.
And again, URL is a web address. It stands for Uniform Resource Locator.