For offering up the proper response, have 25 karma.
(And since the scene happened in the basement, It's even valid for the thread topic.)

Ghouls!!! They're using ketchup to flavor up their 'meals'!

Hmmm... I think this could a simple and easy run.

Or if not a run, a really bad zombie movie. Ghouls in the Cellar, Witches in the Attic


Or a sexploitation movie only as how TROMO can make them "Zombie Witches Going Down Under." (although it has far too many words to be a true TROMO movie)

The best thing I ever found in a basement was at my church. There was a huge old octopus boiler to heat the sanctuary, but It had been decommissioned long before I saw it. There was a huge iron door on the front of the coal burning box with the old school lever to slide 2 bars into place to seal it off. The door was big enough to roll a wheel barrow full of coal inside. Perfect for body disposal.

Is it bad that that is almost identical to the boiler I currently have underneath my house (and currently use)? Of course, mine is smaller. You couldn't easily burn a body in there. Maybe in pieces, but not all at once.

Ahhh...that explains the tub in your basement

Cast iron Honestly, there is a toilet in our basement in a little shed like an out-house, and a pair of big wash basins under the laundry chute. Pretty cool, really.

I actually made that story up, but I'm glad that I gave some people ideas.

I hadn't thought of that. Now that you mention it, I think so. I've always been skeptical of people in Ohio who say their house was part of the Underground Railroad. It just seemed to me a little too convenient that a county full of intolerant rednecks would have just enough of a progressive past to raise property values. But I did buy the idea that they had tunnels (I can't specifically remember seeing buttress type features, but I'm pretty sure I saw what looked like archways that had been bricked up and thought they were sealed tunnels). I just thought it was people's crazy moonshinin' uncles or something, and everyone was trying to turn a family history of bootleggers into a family history of heroes. Maybe they were just turning a load-bearing wall into a family full of heroes. Next time I'm down there, I'll have to go poking around other people's houses a little more!

Also, OSU does have steam-tunnels, but judging by this thread Michigan's got OSU beat, hands-down. I just hope nobody tells my asshole neighbors, because they'd probably torch cars over it.

while probaly not related in any way, today i read about a old woman that had died while sitting down to drink a cup of tea in front of the tv. the impressive part was that it took 42 years before she was found! her apartment had been left untouched since 1966! walking in there was like walking back in time

Yeah, but that was in the former Eastern Bloc, right? Going anywhere there is like walking back in time, from what I understand.

if your an outsider visiting, it probably do...

no basements here in swamp land country

Burn what fits. Eat the rest.

Not quite a basement but this is a fun little story that is close enough.

Years ago I worked at Case Western Reserve University, specifically the school of nursing it along side the school of dentistry where built back in the 50s or 60s as the school of psychology. The building its self was a psychology experiment every corridor in the giant box shaped building was identical. There was no signage any where to let you know what floor or hallway you where at, the doors where set back from the main hall so you could not even see room numbers. The core of the building was a series of chambers where you could go into the inner core and see the surrounding rooms but they could not see you.

One of the creepiest parts though had to be in the graduate student lounge it was a tiny sliver of a room and it just did not match up wall wise with the rest of the building. One day a leak was detected on the floor bellow, no one could figure out where the leak came from. After a more detailed inspection and much confusion we opened the wall to find a fully functional sensory deprivation chamber equipped with a running toilet (the seal had finally given out)

The chamber is about 20 by 20 room that is sound proof light proof you can stand at the entrance on the outside and watch the subject through these darkened glass and you have a wide variety of knobs and buttons at your disposal. You could turn on various lights sounds wind gust and they all still worked. I only went in once because there was no way to open the door from the inside and yah that place was freaking creepy.

Of course then you also have the maze of tunnels under the university and at the time university hospital originally used to allow the students and teachers to get to the hospital for there training with out the joy of Cleveland winters that was some times used as morgue overflow. Nothing like turning a dimly light corridor and seeing a body on a cart with a sheet over it.

and then have said body rise up and ask what time it is