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Oct 2022
16m 50s

The Secret Room

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When Wolfe Maykut was an undergrad at the University of Washington, he lived in a run-down rental house near campus. One day, he discovered the house had a secret: a room that was largely inaccessible. Wolfe's initial curiosity about the room quickly becomes a dangerous obsession - one that the house is prepared to thwart at every turn.

This story is part of a special KUOW Shorts series called K-Boo-O-W Shorts, a collection of creepy stories just in time for Halloween.

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