Elephant Town Chapter 5 (pages 20-22)

Not a tiny door, but some friends of mine have built a Narnia for their kids through a wardrobe in their house - that is an extra room, that is only entered through the wardrobe. I want to be one of their children!

I loooved stories with secret doors and hidden passageways as a kid, so I dreamed up a lot of fun possibilities for what I'd do with them someday.

Katie McMahon

Oh my gosh that's the sweetest gnome-door idea. "Behold, my Best Reads library."

Danielle Corsetto

We rented a house like this when I was really little—little enough to crawl through the tiny tunnels that mysteriously connected all the bedrooms via gnome doors. My mom was continually unnerved. 😂

Sarah Manx

Oooh I love tiny doors! I always want to redo them and create a little Borrowers setup inside :D Or a very tiny library of all my most favorite books!

Katie McMahon

There was probably something like that going on here- no HOA, but some kind of county ordinance. There was no sign of a fixed antenna, but there was the wire going to the power lines, and another one going up one of the taller trees...

Hugh Eckert

The amusing bit is when the house with the ham operator is in a HOA community that bans antennas. I've seen antennas installed inside PVC down pipes from the roof guttering.

Jamie Ellen

Tiny doors are a nope for me!!

Cab

One day, a phone company tech who was working on our internet connection found a wire that reached out all the way to the overhead phone/power lines. Apparently that was a way that an urban HAM radio could use the local grid as an antenna.

Hugh Eckert

Bam! Emeril must’ve been in there! 😂

Ooh neat, I assumed it was being kept as a museum! Man, to live in a house with that kind of history. Amazing.

Danielle Corsetto

Yes, that was cool!))

RAG MASTER

Unfortunately I don't remember the location. This was 40ish years ago and I only went there once to help the family move out. But that is also why I got to crawl all over the place. The house was in Norwich, CT. Pretty close to the Thames river. My understanding is that the fugitives were transported up the river from New London.

Eric Miller

WOOOOWW wow wow that's amazing!! Do you remember where it was?

Danielle Corsetto

Oh that's interesting; my dad was big into HAM radio and I *think* the antenna is still out in the old garden. Parts of it, anyway. ;)

Danielle Corsetto

The coolest old house I ever got to explore was one that had been a stop on the Underground Railroad. There was a small door down by the floor of one closet that connected to a similar door in the closet of the next room. They opened to a passage about eight feet in length, two feet wide and about the same high. Halfway down this passage, there was a trap door in the ceiling that you could only see if you were on your back looking up at it. The trap door led to a ladder to a small area of the attic where the fugitives would be hidden to rest up for the next leg. A really cool house.

Eric Miller

Our house was formerly owned by a ham radio enthusiast and we keep finding weird wiring even after 25 years here...

Hugh Eckert

heeeehehehehe

Danielle Corsetto

Our 110+ year old house has at least 2 doors like that and the tread of a step that appears to have once been cut and a hinge added. In the 8 years we've been here, I haven't looked behind those doors. We found a small hidden room behind a false wall in the back of a closet in our previous house. I suspect that along with exterior security lighting, the room was set up by previous high school principal owner after the secluded house had been broken into by a group of ex-students. The area was carpeted to muffle sounds of movement and there was a door viewer that had been installed through an exterior wall that gave a good view of anybody at the front of the house or on the driveway.

Jamie Ellen

I want a tiny gnome door! It's the perfect place behind which to stash All The Things that you'll forget you put "somewhere." Get thee to Best Buy, Kris. Or just do that ordering online thing.

Ruth Merriam

Was there a glowy tunnel leading to another version of her home, with another version of her mother but with button eyes? Or i guess maybe in this case it'd be her husband with button eyes. That might be creepier.

Sheri Spangenberg

Get a wifi repeater, girl!