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UndergroundEx
location: Victoria BC Gender: Male
| | Victoria High School (attic) < on 3/16/2013 6:53 PM >
| | | The Victoria High School Attic. It is home to Thousands of Signatures.People who have seen it are mostly alumni The current school building, which was designed in 1911 and opened in 1914, has been listed on the City of Victoria's Heritage Registry since 1982. The foundations of the school are made of impressively heavy 4-foot-square blocks of granite. The building has two ornate facades, including some very large windows which offer prime views of downtown Victoria and the Fernwood neighborhood. The building is U-shaped, with a large auditorium inside the U. Additions to the school have turned the spaces between the auditorium and the rest of the building into inaccessible courtyards. The school has two gymnasiums, one of which is from 1914 and is notable for having a wooden running track suspended 20 feet above its floor. There is a rifle range in the attic, and there is an old tradition that the graduating students sign their names there. There are three large underground floors for storage and boiler rooms. There are also believed to be two tunnels under the school. There are two war memorials in the school's main entrance, one for the First World War and another for the Second World War. After the Second World War a large flag (four stories high) was commissioned. It had blue and red maple leaves on it, each representing a student or staff member who died in the war, respectively. It was then lost until 2005, when it was found in the school's basement. For Remembrance Day it was hung from the school's fourth floor. History source: WikiPedia Photo source: UndergroundEx 1.
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A. Lien
location: Fantasy Island B.C. Gender: Male
Abductees Anonymous all welcome
| | Re: Victoria High School (attic) <Reply # 1 on 3/17/2013 1:17 AM >
| | | Good research and photos. There was supposedly tunnels from Fairy Tech to main buildings I think. I was shown what might have been the entrance once. (A covered hole in the floor) The attic is cool, It felt like what I imagined being in the book depository building in Dallas that fateful day in '63 would have been like. Supposedly it's haunted because a student hung himself up there.
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UndergroundEx
location: Victoria BC Gender: Male
| | Re: Victoria High School (attic) <Reply # 2 on 4/15/2013 8:15 PM >
| | | Yeah! There was a tunnel. Which existed before the recent renovation. The tunnel was collapsed for security reasons, because the old fairy tech was knocked down. But there is supposedly another tunnel leading to central as well as the community center nearby. Source: Personal Experience [last edit 4/16/2013 5:50 PM by UndergroundEx - edited 2 times]
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