Rosemary's Baby-like Mystery

[PorchePine]

@Ranger_Jeff

I’d ask the folks upstairs what’s above your empty space. It could be the space where plumbing pipes pass through to/from upstairs. What kind of heating do you have? It couldn’t be where the furnace or water heater is because sooner or later, you’ll need access to them.

Everything is geothermal. No water heater or furnace.

Anyway…cut around the door with the carpet knife. I have my crowbar at hand.
Wish me luck.

[Wile_E]

Ooh, finally! I keep checking back to see if we have an answer yet.

If you never post again, either something really terrible was in there or you are the greatest troll who ever trolled and my hat is off to you.

[VanillaGorilla]

@Wile_E

Ooh, finally! I keep checking back to see if we have an answer yet.

If you never post again, either something really terrible was in there or you are the greatest troll who ever trolled and my hat is off to you.

It’s probably something really terrible though.

[Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor]

@chacoguy

Call Geraldo Riverra

Under no circumstances whatsoever. :mad:

[IvoryTowerDenizen]

@PorchePine

Everything is geothermal. No water heater or furnace.

Anyway…cut around the door with the carpet knife. I have my crowbar at hand.
Wish me luck.

Godspeed, my friend.

[The_Other_Waldo_Pepper]

Let’s see, here…boots…gloves…weapons…framed photo of 1930s superheroes…

[Turek]

@RivkahChaya

I’ve seen servants’ quarters on a top floor turned into a two-bedroom apartment with a living room, and the door to the interior stairway sealed so there was no connection between the floors, and an outside entrance was built.

I’ve seen houses that were big and had more than one furnace from when furnaces came into use, renovated to have a central system, and some of the old furnace rooms shut up, because they weren’t useful as closets. I’ve seen doors between rooms shut up, to essentially make a duplex out of a regular one-family house. A fairly large house becomes a smaller house with an attached one-bedroom apartment.

I’ve seen fireplaces removed, and the area walled off, instead of being turned into useful space, like a closet. I suppose someone cheap might use an old door instead of bricks or studs and drywall, if he already had the door.

Did anyone else read this post in Rutger Hauer’s voice? No? Just me? Ok. :o

@vd

I’m going with stairs down to a basement/sub-basement (depending on how “bottom” you are) that was deemed unusable.

I’m not sure how his sexual proclivities factor into this.

@Omar_Little

Stairway to the basement

“What was the title of the first draft of the Led Zeppelin song?”

@PorchePine

I’ve decided that I am going to open the door. I will post the results tomorrow, possibly…

DO IT NOW, FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT’S HOLY!

[RivkahChaya]

@Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor

Under no circumstances whatsoever. :mad:

Nah; calling Geraldo Rivera is probably the surest way to make sure that there’s nothing back there but some empty bottles, and a lot of dust.

[RivkahChaya]

@Turek

DO IT NOW, FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT’S HOLY!

Who’s hoping for Jimmy Hoffa? Maybe Glenn Miller.

[CheshireKat]

You know, if it is a staircase to the sealed door of another apartment, you could have a lot of fun…rattling chains at Halloween, shaking sleigh bells at Christmas…

Or maybe a cowbell?

[carnivorousplant]

@RivkahChaya

Nah; calling Geraldo Rivera is probably the surest way to make sure that there’s nothing back there but some empty bottles, and a lot of dust.

Good plan.

[PorchePine]

@Wile_E

Ooh, finally! I keep checking back to see if we have an answer yet.

If you never post again, either something really terrible was in there or you are the greatest troll who ever trolled and my hat is off to you.

To be honest, the thought of doing that did occur to me.

[PorchePine]

The purpose of the space does seem to be basement access–not a staircase, but a ladder–no ladder though, just a hatch into my ceiling.

However, the mystery deepens…

Inside was a really nice pedestal table and a touch-tone phone.

I haven’t checked for a dial-tone yet.

[Morgyn]

@PorchePine

The purpose of the space does seem to be basement access–not a staircase, but a ladder–no ladder though, just a hatch into my ceiling.

However, the mystery deepens…

Inside was a really nice pedestal table and a touch-tone phone.

I haven’t checked for a dial-tone yet.

WHY NOT?

Sheesh, I’d have done that before coming back to post.

Maybe it’s a direct line to someone … important and mysterious.

[Omar_Little]

@Omar_Little

Stairway to the basement?

@PorchePine

The purpose of the space does seem to be basement access–not a staircase, but a ladder

Close enough…Winner Winner, Chicken Dinner!!!

What’s my prize?

[Omar_Little]

Have you ever heard a phone ringing, but not sure where it was coming from?

[Dewey_Finn]

@PorchePine

Inside was a really nice pedestal table and a touch-tone phone.

I haven’t checked for a dial-tone yet.

Sounds like the beginning of a bad spy novel. You pick up the phone. There’s no dial tone, but a voice on the other end asks you a few questions. It becomes obvious to them that you are not one of their agents. They send large men in dark suits with big guns to take care of you, because you Know Too Much. You’re forced to go on the run, relying only on a mysterious stranger to keep you alive. Meanwhile, all of the answers are in an envelope taped to the underside of the pedestal table, so you have to return to the flat to retrieve it.

Can you tell I’ve read too many books by Robert Ludlum?

[PorchePine]

@Omar_Little

Have you ever heard a phone ringing, but not sure where it was coming from?

I have. I just always assumed it was the upstairs tenants…

[PorchePine]

@Dewey_Finn

Sounds like the beginning of a bad spy novel. You pick up the phone. There’s no dial tone, but a voice on the other end asks you a few questions. It becomes obvious to them that you are not one of their agents. They send large men in dark suits with big guns to take care of you, because you Know Too Much. You’re forced to go on the run, relying only on a mysterious stranger to keep you alive. Meanwhile, all of the answers are in an envelope taped to the underside of the pedestal table, so you have to return to the flat to retrieve it.

Can you tell I’ve read too many books by Robert Ludlum?

That would make my life a bit less mundane.

No dial-tone, BTW.
Nobody at the other end, so no adventures.
But I did score a nice table.

[Dung_Beetle]

@PorchePine

No dial-tone, BTW.
Nobody at the other end, so no adventures.

That’s what you think now. One day, it will ring.