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What Is This Spooky Passageway?

This spooky passageway, hung with spider webs and dank with disuse, is built into a hill sloping away from the west side of Bldg. 15K, but no one at NIH appears to know what it is, when it was built, or why. Authorities at ORS and its contractors are stumped, so we go to you, the reader, for help. Is it an old Cold War-era bomb shelter? Or a "document shelter" from the same period? Access to an ancient, unbuilt Metro system? Coin slot for a cosmic Coke machine? Send us your hypotheses, and we'll dig further...


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