Our Stories: The Secret Room: Part 2 § The Amanda Project

The Secret Room: Part 2

There's good news and bad news. The bad news (I like to get bad news first because then the good news is like a little present) is that no one else here knew about this little doorway. The good news is that Hal, Nia, and I aren't completely clueless while everyone else in school is in on some cool secret place. So…

Off we went exploring. Again. It's not like anyone wanted to be the sacrificial lamb, so all three of us went. As Nia said in her last post, the door is only about 2 ½ feet tall. It was obvious some crawling would be required. Since Nia had on a 1960s mini dress, Hal and I decided to go while she stood guard.

Hal went first. He could feel that there was a drop off just inside the door, but luckily there was a ladder along the wall underneath the opening. We went down about 6 feet or so and entered a skinny hallway. It was so narrow that we couldn't even walk shoulder-to-shoulder. For some reason, I had packed my dad's gigantic lantern flashlight, which was handy because the hallway was pitch black. (See photo, exhibit A. No way I could hold camera and giant flashlight at same time.)

We walked for 189 steps (So around 147.656 feet by my measurements - anyone care to guess my shoe size?) and then just like that, the place just opened up into this huge triangular room. It was about 10 degrees cooler, too. We were standing at a point of the triangle. On the wall in front of us was a long folding table with a stack of books – a set encyclopedias that was missing the letter C– piled underneath. On the right there was an empty coat rack, a chalkboard that had been wiped clean, a box of colored chalk, and two empty lanterns. And on the left… wait for it… a mattress on the floor with pillows and a blanket, made up like a little sofa or something. Oh, and I almost forgot, a few camping chairs. We searched high and low for any sort of clues that might give us more, but nada.

What is this place? Is someone living here? And if someone is, IS IT AMANDA? And how do we find out?

22 responses

dem_94 06.12.2009

Someone needs to stake-out the place. Sit and watch it for awhile and see if anyone comes in or goes out. Obviously they’re very sneaky since they’ve gotten past the principle, all the teachers, and all the students. Unless there’s someone inside the school helping them? Defiantly possible.
kayleigh 06.12.2009

Its the bunkers duh. Maybe Amanda was living there because that would be a good way for her to get to all the places she has been sneaking around.
kimberly 06.12.2009

remebering Amanda’s snaekyness it would have been easy for her to be living there, did anyone really see her get on a bus, ride a bike or go in a car to get home? We could easily put a nanny-cam in there to see if it’s still in use…but the moniter can’t go very far away from the base, 600ft at the most…
urban_hippie 06.12.2009

Maybe, this is where Amanda was living. Because remember, she never told Cal, Hallie, or Nia where she truly lived.
themidnighter 06.13.2009

There’s a possibility that Amanda is leaving there. But knowing Amanda, she wouldn’t just leave clues behind. She is one of the sneakiest person I met. Still there is a possibility that she’s the one leaving there. So we just have to surveillance the place. Watch it for awhile.
aGirlLikeMe 06.13.2009

Completely agree with TheMidnighter. ^
AwesomeAnna93 06.14.2009

Amanda could be living there. It is a possibilty. Maybe she doesn’t live there alone.

(The janitors would know about the little door.. They know every corner of the school. Maybe the janitor is helping her hide there.)

If it’s Amanda that lives there then she proabaly already know that you all have been there…
stef_stone 06.15.2009

I agree with some of the previous statements, we should stake out the area for a few hours and see if anyone comes in, or install cameras.
DeeSweetsz 06.15.2009

maybe its just a place for clues and where you can work them out. maybe amanda knew you guys would find it.
Kewpie83 06.15.2009

I wish you guys had found something! Anyway to put a secret camera in the area to see who goes in and who goes out? Anyone think looking back to old *old* staff members, like when the school first opened. See if any hand a shady past and would have needed this room? Oh, I vaguely remember Amanda mentioning she had a distant relative who went to the school a long time ago. Anyone else catch that? Maybe during her introduction ‘hi I’m Amanda’ speech she did for public speaking?
DarkCharlotte 06.19.2009

Okay, so I was just thinking about the tarot cards thing and as I was thinking about the whole supernatural thing I had an idea. What if someone went down into the secret room with a oiuja board and ask questions about who uses the room and what they use it for. Who knows? It could work if you believe in that kind of stuff like I do.
theresaax2 06.21.2009

Yeah, I agree with sea-creature. Maybe the truth lies in the supernatural for this one.
RandomInRed 07.07.2009

Maybe set up something to watch the room to see who lives there. Maybe Amanda did live there.
Rosie 07.18.2009

Hey, can anyone think of why the C encyclopedia might be missing?? Were there any past clues that started with C??
alicewriter13 08.30.2009

a lot of the things in the room involved “c” an empty coat rack, a chalkboard that had been wiped clean, a box of colored chalk, but the two empty lanterns throw it off… so maybe its not that… but who knows with Amanda….
Serenity 08.30.2009

C could stand for ‘cards’ meaning tarot cards. Maybe that could be a clue that Amanda was there. But, like alicewriter13 said c could stand for anything. What I think is “Find the c encyclopedia, find a clue.”
tiffany923 09.24.2009

totally agree w/ serenity! find c, find a clue. i don’t know who would be living there. seriously, im drawing a blank. no idea. it could be amanda, but tht seems 2 obvious, which is so not amanda. she was always so sneaky.
littlebit478 10.16.2009

maybe the lanterns where ‘coleman’ brand. i totaly agree with tiffany923. amanda is not obvious. she knows you where going to find the door maybe the missing mom? she obviosly has a link to the vp. i think it is worth it to look into an old relitive of amandas or a rilly old teacher. there must have been a need for the room when the school was built but what was it?
Milana 10.20.2009

I once asked Amanda about her family. She just smiled sadly and said, “They’re gone, but they’re closer than you think.” I put it away in my mind for the moment, and sort of assumed they were dead. Now I’m wondering…closer than you think? Hmmm…
Sarah1214 01.27.2010

Stay away from Ouija boards!!!! That’s just asking for trouble.

But I’m all for the nanny-cam!! ^.^

Well, so much for the “pipes” theory the clarinet section was maintaining. Like I said, I don’t think anyone actually ever opened the door, and I even doubt anyone currently in the band ever even saw it. If they had, it’d been all over the school by now.

I agree with AwesomeAmanda93, that the janitors would know about the door. Who knows, maybe they even know about the little room? But I can’t imagine Slimester Stan crawling down there to check on things, if you know what I’m saying. And personally, he’s always kind of creeped me out, and I highly doubt he’s helping Amanda in any way. Still, I don’t rule out the possibility that it could be one of her hideouts (I say “one of” because if Amanda was trying to stay hidden, she wouldn’t choose just one place. She’s smarter than that.)
Pipper 02.07.2010

it is totally where Amanda is staying, all the places she said she was living in she wasnt, so where else?
Basil_H. 10.03.2010

That sounds like something creepy from a movie/music video. I find it really strange the room is triangular. Could it point to something or represent something?
More later, I guess…