# Ghosts! Secret Rooms! Hidden Treasure! People walled up alive, hundreds of years ago! newslink **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 22, 2010, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ghosts-secret-rooms-hidden-treasure-people-walled-up-alive-hundreds-of-years-ago-newslink/561594 "2010-11-22T23:16:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2010, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ghosts-secret-rooms-hidden-treasure-people-walled-up-alive-hundreds-of-years-ago-newslink/561594/21 "2010-11-24T16:01:08Z")
If they can’t open it, how do they know it’s there? I don’t get it. ---
**Author:** ![Enuma\_Elish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5e9695/32.png) [@Enuma\_Elish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enuma_Elish)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2010, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ghosts-secret-rooms-hidden-treasure-people-walled-up-alive-hundreds-of-years-ago-newslink/561594/22 "2010-11-24T18:05:20Z")
1. Is there some rule against showing a picture of the National Library in the Times of India? :rolleyes: 2. We looked and looked and looked and couldn’t find a trap-door. We have no idea how to get in the room. There was this big walled-up archway … but naaaaa that couldn’t have anything to do with it…:dubious: I want the person who wrote this article to be given the position of city housing inspector in my town! “What do you mean, I built a garage without getting a permit? There’s no garage there. If there were a garage, there would be a door to it from my house. Can you find such a door?” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2010, 9:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ghosts-secret-rooms-hidden-treasure-people-walled-up-alive-hundreds-of-years-ago-newslink/561594/23 "2010-11-25T09:16:39Z")
> [@a35362](#): > > If they can’t open it, how do they know it’s there? I don’t get it. Well, you see, there’s this cat that nobodies quite sure about. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2010, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ghosts-secret-rooms-hidden-treasure-people-walled-up-alive-hundreds-of-years-ago-newslink/561594/24 "2010-11-25T12:21:05Z")
> [@a35362](#): > > If they can’t open it, how do they know it’s there? I don’t get it. Floorplans, oh Boy Genius.:rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![dotchan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9d8465/32.png) [@dotchan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dotchan)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2010, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ghosts-secret-rooms-hidden-treasure-people-walled-up-alive-hundreds-of-years-ago-newslink/561594/25 "2010-11-25T15:48:04Z")
I call porn stash. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2010, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ghosts-secret-rooms-hidden-treasure-people-walled-up-alive-hundreds-of-years-ago-newslink/561594/26 "2010-11-27T04:14:57Z")
> [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](#): > > Floorplans, oh Boy Genius.:rolleyes: And the eye-rolling is necessary why? Besides, while you may be correct I didn’t see anything about it in the article, and furthermore; why would you necessarily expect the original floor plan of a 250-year-old building to be available? In a big enough structure, I don’t think it would be that hard to gloss over a missing hidden room, if the surrounding rooms are large enough, and particularly if it was a floor plan drawn up after the fact to decide whose desk should go where, or which section of the library stacks were going to be in which area. No note/warning issued. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2010, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ghosts-secret-rooms-hidden-treasure-people-walled-up-alive-hundreds-of-years-ago-newslink/561594/27 "2010-11-28T01:10:19Z")
> [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](#): > > And the eye-rolling is necessary why? > > Besides, while you may be correct I didn’t see anything about it in the article, and furthermore; why would you necessarily expect the original floor plan of a 250-year-old building to be available? In a big enough structure, I don’t think it would be that hard to gloss over a missing hidden room, if the surrounding rooms are large enough, and particularly if it was a floor plan drawn up after the fact to decide whose desk should go where, or which section of the library stacks were going to be in which area. > > No note/warning issued. If you measure the floorplans, and sketch it out, a closed up area will be obvious. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ghosts-secret-rooms-hidden-treasure-people-walled-up-alive-hundreds-of-years-ago-newslink/561594.md?page=1)