Mays Hall, Stephen F Austin State University

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Before it was a Texas dormitory it was a hospital with a morgue in the basement, and at the other end of the building there is a ruined bomb shelter.

Mays Hall at Stephen F Austin State University in Nacogdoches, Texas was a hospital before it was a dormitory, and the morgue was in the basement. At the opposite end of the building is a deep and ruined bomb shelter dating from the 1940s or 1950s.

The basement is normally locked, though residents occasionally get in and wander about. What they describe there is a persistent negative feeling that nobody manages to put into words, though the accounts agree it is mild rather than alarming.

The bomb shelter is the stranger half. It had been locked for years before it was broken into again, and what the students found inside is the detail that lifts this entry above the usual dormitory story. The lining on one wall stops partway along, which suggests a false wall behind it. Nobody had noticed before, because of the poor lighting and the amount of debris across the floor.

What is behind that wall has not, as far as we can establish, been determined.

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Where is Mays Hall, Stephen F Austin State University located?

Mays Hall, Stephen F Austin State University is in Texas, United States.

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