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 Jaded Echo
Location: CFB Shilo
Gender: Female
 |  | Indiana man renovating old house finds hidden room
< on 2/18/2009 1:53 PM >
|  | | | I am seriously dying of jealousy:
From: http://news.yahoo..../odd_hidden_room_3
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. – A man who's renovating a 120-year-old house has discovered a hidden room in its basement — a find he said shows that some old buildings definitely hold secrets. 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.
But he also wonders whether it might have been a bootlegging room during Prohibition — or any number of possibilities.
"You never know what it could have been," Thoms said. "It's really cool to find something like that."
He said the room appears to have been intentionally walled off from the rest of the basement but that it's difficult to date the blocks used to wall it up because they appear old. The stairs may have once been accessed through the bedroom via a trap door that no longer exists.
Thoms began renovating the 886-square-foot house near the city's downtown for him, his wife and their four children after buying it in 2007.
The 32-year-old said he plans to do some library research his old home's history.
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Gatsby
 
Location: Minneapolis, MN
Gender: Male
Like all UER people, I've only explored your mom.
| | Re: Indiana man renovating old house finds hidden room
<Reply # 1 on 2/18/2009 3:49 PM >
| | | | Yeah! I wish I'd find something like that in my house!
I only listen to 104.7 Poop. I'm always in deep shit, so I may as well listen to poop. |
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Jaded Echo
Location: CFB Shilo
Gender: Female
| | Re: Indiana man renovating old house finds hidden room
<Reply # 3 on 2/18/2009 4:06 PM >
| | | | lol, yeah, time to go to the store for grow-lights!
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CaptOrbit
     
Location: Sarasota, FL or Cincinnati, OH
Gender: Male
There you are, right back in the jungle again.
| |  | Re: Indiana man renovating old house finds hidden room
<Reply # 4 on 2/18/2009 9:43 PM >
| | | | Whenever I have all over access to an older house I'm always on the lookout for "missing space". Am I the only one who does that?
The personal responsibility train left the station years ago, and you gave it the finger as you watched it leave. |
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UniqueStyle
Gender: Male
| | Re: Indiana man renovating old house finds hidden room
<Reply # 5 on 2/19/2009 1:55 AM >
| | | | Posted by bourbonbaby
He should keep the tradition alive and turn it into a grow room!
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Kinda like this, huh?
http://www.youtube...atch?v=b0GBSeT_QSc
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bash
 
Location: Wisconsin/ Milwaukee/ Menomonie
Gender: Male
light up the darkness
| | Re: Indiana man renovating old house finds hidden room
<Reply # 7 on 2/19/2009 6:11 PM >
| | | | I have always wanted to come across a house with a hidden room. I was once Urbanexing a place in the area that has long since been burned down due to arson that looked as if it might hold such a space. A friend of mine who went another time said that he did a little "scavenging" and was able to pry open what appeared to be a wall with hinges. Said that it was in fact a room, or closet rather that was just full of old empty wooden crates.
I must to say that up till now, I never thought that there was anything of interest in TN. I have been greatly mistaken. Ahh what drug money can't buy..
You cannot begin to live until you cease to just exist. |
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UniqueStyle
Gender: Male
| | Re: Indiana man renovating old house finds hidden room
<Reply # 8 on 2/20/2009 3:57 AM >
| | | | Posted by bourbonbaby
Mother of god... we're gonna need the Costco sized Cheetos for this one!
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better get a couple of bags, it could me long night
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/-/ooligan
Location: Las Vegas area
Gender: Male
When in danger, when in doubt, RUN IN CIRCLES, SCREAM AND SHOUT!
| | Re: Indiana man renovating old house finds hidden room
<Reply # 9 on 2/20/2009 5:45 AM >
| | | | Easy to clean up blood & other sacrificial bodily fluids from tiled rooms!
There are no stupid questions, just stupid people. |
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quicksilver98
Location: Bay Area, CA
Gender: Male
| | Re: Indiana man renovating old house finds hidden room
<Reply # 10 on 3/20/2009 2:05 AM >
| | | | Posted by /-/ooligan
Easy to clean up blood & other sacrificial bodily fluids from tiled rooms!
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is it bad that i thought the same thing? lol
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Supermom
Location: East Kootenays BC
Gender: Female
| | | Re: Indiana man renovating old house finds hidden room
<Reply # 11 on 3/20/2009 2:27 PM >
| | | | Posted by CaptOrbit
Whenever I have all over access to an older house I'm always on the lookout for "missing space". Am I the only one who does that?
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Nope, not alone!
I spent months "discovering" our 150 year old house. I would invite friends over for a discovery party. All we discovered was the bats in the attic. Good times!
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DiVaMoNKeY
Location: Grundy County, IL
Gender: Female
I pushed with all my might; I pushed with all my love.
| |  |  | | Re: Indiana man renovating old house finds hidden room
<Reply # 12 on 3/20/2009 2:42 PM >
| | | | Not to date myself or sound totally cheesy - but for the GIRLS on here - doesn't that story remind you of the one girl, Dawn I think, from the Babysitters Club books? She had a secret passage in her old farmhouse too lol
I know more about blood than you |
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