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http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/01/17/263476645/whats-inside-this-mystery-house-in-north-carolinaDonViejo
(60,536 posts)was able to solve the question, "what's inside Al Capone's safe?"
Cirque du So-What
(25,938 posts)although I'll say that I consider it a shame that NPR is resorting to cheap, sensationalistic tactics to garner viewers.
hunter
(38,311 posts)It was a much smaller "house" amidst a sprawl of cookie-cutter tract homes. It looked very much out-of-place.
roody
(10,849 posts)Barack_America
(28,876 posts)The reanimated corpse of Ronald Reagan, gearing up for his 2016 run.
B Calm
(28,762 posts)Big mystery
Historic NY
(37,449 posts)(utility) residences hiding in plain site. In my town out in the hinterland years ago the electrical utility company built a 60's ranch style home as a substation. Wish they did it in other places.
lumberjack_jeff
(33,224 posts)Many communities struggle to provide safe water at all.
Heddi
(18,312 posts)it's got dual use: pump station for the neighborhood and some kind of police hang-out. Been there since the early 80's, is very obviously not a residence because it sits in an area where there are no other houses. Utility people go in and out, and cops go in and out.
The people who use the word "mystery" must not know what a mystery really is. I bet everyone in the neighborhood knows what this house is, just as everyone in my grandmother's neighborhood knows what the house is there, too.