Posted on 02/17/2009 8:04:31 PM PST by nickcarraway
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.
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bttt
ok ya piqued my interest : 0
Does it have mirrors on the ceiling and velvet handcuffs?
No, you silly perv.
Too new for the Underground Railroad waystation. Interesting factoid. After 10 year of marriage my husband and I discovered that we had each had ancestors who maintained stations of the Underground Railroad. One in southern Illinois, the other in Detroit.
Hart to Hart episode PING!
Thanks, rintense!
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