They went back outside and threw a ladder up to the mystery window and opened it from the outside.
Place looked like a museum.
Open it up and theres a tunnel with pipes and lights running down the whole length.
Aaron Anderson
Pictures of the Hales Mansion.
He then got super excited and took us up to visit it.
Didnt think anything of it, considering how weird the place was already.
But the developer opened the fridge door AND IT WAS A SECRET STAIRCASE GOING DOWN TO AN UNDERGROUND BASEMENT.
The basement had the craziest sound system and disco balls and a motherfkn stage.
It led to a finished attic room that Id hide in to scare my parents.
It was this walled off area between the unexpectedly wide chimney and the outside wall.
Big enough for maybe 3 adults to stand in somewhat uncomfortably.
The weirdest part is that it was all painted red.
Floor, ceiling, walls.
The building was pretty old over the years had seen busineses and owners come and go.
Each store had a small door at the back that had access to a service corridor.
We thought we were pretty clever being able to randomly appear at different parts of the mall like magic.
One day, we came across a panel that looked like it didnt quite fit right.
We showed our parents, and the landlord.
It became the de facto kid hangout for those of us in the mall.
ViperThreat
This sounds so cool
The landing on the staircase going upstairs was hinged.
If you opened it you could drop into the area below the staircase.
From there you could open a door in the wall which leads down into the basement.
The room is nearly soundproof and you really wouldnt notice it unless you were looking very closely.
Only way in and out of the room was the hole I crawled through.
Didnt freak me out too much, figured I was underneath next doors house but the duvet bothered me!
Lived there for a year with no problems though!
Before he got around to working on it, hed let me hang out there with friends.
It seemed pretty cool until the first (and only) night we decided to spend the night.
It was getting pretty late when we started to hear noises coming from upstairs.
It sounded like scratching and rustling… nothing too freaky, probably mice or something.
Well, anyways, one of the guys that was over decided we should go investigate.
Were walking through the hall, getting closer and closer to the noise.
Of course we were giddy, cause this is some shit you only read about or see in movies.
We shine our phones into the room and its straight out of a horror film.
You could even see the dirty handprints that went along with them.
It was the thing of nightmares and we got the hell out of there quick.
Definitely one of the scariest things Ive ever seen.
The place looks like an old fort.
Anyway, senior year we are messing around in the Sally Port wrestling, shoving, whateverjust being idiots.
One of us slams into a green door and it popped open.
The door opened to a spiral, metal staircase that went down into the darkness.
Long story short, it was a creepy, musty, old storage area.
I think I took an expired fire extinguisher that was in some forgotten corner of the area.
kjob
Urban exploring
I used to live in downtown Greenville, TX in the 1990s.
My friends and I used to explore the abandoned buildings for fun before urban exploring became a thing.
There was a door-sized sliding panel that had been papered over decades before.
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Trap door
My husband and I bought a 100+ year old farm house.
It needed to be refurbished.
It was the biggest undertaking that Ive ever done.
We peeled up the carpet to find asbestos tile.
Then we peeled up the tile to find laminate!
Then we peeled up the laminate to find WOOD FLOORS!
And not just a wood floor, a fucking trap door in the kitchen!
I thought that was super freaking cool.
It was extremely water damaged having been right next to the kitchen sink.
But we pried that sucker open to find…. the coal room.
Theres still coal down there.
A few tons of it.
I dont know why that hatch was there.
I assume back in the day they burnt coal.
He was moving out due to retirement, so his house was empty.
I was just there to vacuum all the rugs.
Anyway, Im in his bedroom vacuuming and I open his closet door to get the rug in there.
It had a lock on the outside so needless to say I immediately venture to unlock it.
It was a slide lock so it took me a minute to undo it.
Finally I did, and I inched the door open a bit.
Ill have to look at it again and get a photo.
Behind the panel was steel door that led to a panic room of sorts, built into a hill.
The room also had a toilet and shower, along with a shop sink.
There were fans that blew fresh air into the room from pipes leading outside.
There was a huge 3d topographic map of the surrounding area on one wall.
All of the electrical for the room was powered directly from the solar panels on the roof.
The tunnel led to a false floor in the garage, so you could make your escape.
The guy who built the house was a Y2K nut.
buttsniffingmonkey
High school hideout
My old high school was built in the 1800s.
It is a very beautiful building that is 4 stories tall.
We were on the bottom floor and noticed there were stairs leading down to another level below.
We followed those stairs, and noticed they lead to a door which was cracked open.
We were confused and we left.
We tried to return a few times later but the door leading to the room was always locked.
There is also a decoy house a few hundred yards away.
To this day its one of the darkest/coolest places I have ever been.
The company would cover the hotel and food.
In northern California, perhaps San Leandro, there was a hotel right off the freeway.
I did not go up there.
Anyway the shop was just up from Castle Keep.
It was going to be our spy headquarters but now it just holds boxes.
There was only one door that led to the attic area where the servents quarters were at.
I remember seeing where a bell assortment hung that went to each room of the house.
It was long gone, but the stained glass was still there.
I loved that secret room and plan on making one if I ever build a house.
Suddenly appeared beneath one of the tires.
A whole web connection of tunnels hidden beneath us all kept secret.
None of us had known it was there.
Dutifully, I go forward into the darkness.
So I just said that the blueprints were right and got the fuck out of there.
Definitely something youd see in a horror movie.
