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Lifting the heavy wooden trap door and peering down into the dark, dusty secret room beneath the floorboards at the top of the stairs, Larry Hall appears entranced. Its as if he can feel the ghosts of his hidden past, shrouded beneath a veil of silence for generations and now exposed for all the world to see.https://dev.news.harvard.edu/gazette/wp-content/uploads/2001/02/14-warrenhouse2-450-11.jpg