# Secret Rooms in your house **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 21, 2007, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-rooms-in-your-house/412632 "2007-07-21T04:47:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2007, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-rooms-in-your-house/412632/41 "2007-07-23T19:56:16Z")
It’s been posted here before but if you like the secret passage thing and you happen to be in Milwaukee check out [The Safe House](http://www.safe-house.com/). It’s a spy themed bar. The entrance doesn’t even look like a bar but is a door on a brick wall that says “International Exports, LTD.” Go in the door and you’ll be in a small reception room no larger than 6’ x 6’ with a woman at a desk. She asks for the password and if you don’t know it are asked to perform a stunt. Once your party is okayed she hits a hidden button and the bookcase pops open. Follow the darkened path to the bar. A fun way to leave the bar is to go into the phone booth located in the center of the bar. Close the door and type the correct code on the phone and a sliding panel will open leading down concrete steps, through a tunnel, and dumps you into the back alleyway. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2007, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-rooms-in-your-house/412632/42 "2007-07-23T20:00:01Z")
There is a secret panel in my bedroom and a huge unfinished unheated room behind it. Legally it can’t be used for anything but storage, so I have stored all my second bedroom things in it. ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2007, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-rooms-in-your-house/412632/43 "2007-07-23T21:13:48Z")
[QUOTE=Lanzy] Top this one. Living in Herndon, VA in 1986. After living in a townhouse for about a year I noticed a sealed up area under the stairs had a loose screw. I assumed it was a panel to allow access to pipes or something but for some reason removed the screws to see how big an area it was to see if I could put xmas lights away. There were 3 large storage cases in there. When I pulled one out it contained 12 magnetic tape reels marked SECRET and labelled Defense Mapping Agency. All in all there were 31 tapes. I called them and they sent a retrival team out to take possession on them with a CIA guy. They located a buried (in my shed) short wave radio. The neighbors described a “foreign” guy that lived alone and kept to himself that lived there before I moved in. And before you ask, no they NEVER told me any other information at all and the agents never returned for another visit. [/QUOTE] That is so dramatic! I would have liked it better if they would have interrogated you under a single light bulb hanging from the ceiling…and a couple guys in fedoras makin’ you sweat. ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2007, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-rooms-in-your-house/412632/44 "2007-07-23T21:15:15Z")
[QUOTE=Renee] How completely awkward. Really, how do you respond to something like that? “Oh, what lovely wallpaper!” [/QUOTE] I think the BIL said things like, “You don’t say!” and “Really!” I’d have just freekin’ died on the spot. Way too awkward. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-rooms-in-your-house/412632.md?page=2)