The Whitmer Auditorium:  sure we’ve seen it and have been in it, but is there more to this historic edifice than what meets the eye? Many people might say no, but they’re way off.

The Whitmer Auditorium was built in the early 1950s and opened in 1953, so it has been a fixture on the CHS campus for sixty years. There are many different parts of the building: The seats, the stage, and the lobby, but there’s more! Many of the other parts are hidden, out of sight, like the basement.

Where’s the basement, you ask? When you come out of the cafeteria and look straight at the auditorium, that staircase that goes down, that’s the entrance to the basement. The basement doesn’t actually go right under the entire auditorium but rather on the side of it. The basement, former home of a boiler, a heater-like machine, is filled with rusty old pipes. It also contains a generator, which in case of a power outage will restore the auditorium with a limited amount of electricity for a little while.

Another obvious spot is the stage, but not all of it is visible. Did you even know that there is a way to go under the stage? There is a trap door like opening that, if you lift it up, you will be able to go under the stage.  But what about back stage? Well, there may be more then you think. There are two different dressing rooms for male and female, where, well you know, they change, and a large warehouse like room where they store stuff from previous plays and build stuff for current plays.

But the part of the auditorium that is out of mind because it’s out of sight is…The Attic. Hidden by a crowd of doors is the entrance to The Attic. behind this door to The Attic is a long narrow stair case that leads up to a room with, quite a bit of large holes in the wall. Among one on the many holes is a little door way no more than five feet tall once you go in there is when it gets creepy and windey.

Stay tuned to find out the creeps and sneaks that lie behind the tiny doorway