She advised Eliza to investigate the living room, referencing some of the note’s barely legible instructions about a hidden hatch “five feet from the north wall.” A swirl of questions flooded her mind. A secret passage or chamber beneath her house?
Eliza’s skin tingled. Was it possible her house contained an entire hidden room she knew nothing about? Dr. Ellis gently traced the lines, mentioning that the note might be from the late 1930s or early 1940s, just before the U.S. entered World War II.