Secret Passages: Episode 11

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  • Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
  • Rating: Not Rated
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Run Time: 50 Minutes
  • Region: Region 1 Region?
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
  • Language: English
  • Studio: History Channel
  • DVD Release Date: June 17, 2002

See the home where over 2,000 runaway slaves hid from pursuers, earning its owner the title "President of the Underground Railroad."



This series explores four secret passages located in random hiding places such as Indiana, Egypt, Pennsylvania, and even Alcatraz. This DVD contains the following:

  • Coffin House: The brick home of Quaker Levi Coffin in Fountain City, Indiana contains several secret areas, including a tiny hidden room. It was in one of these cramped spaces, concealed behind two beds, that Coffin managed to hide a total of 2,000 escaped slaves over the course of twenty years earning him the title "President of the Underground Railroad". Remarkably, many fugitives stayed inside this claustrophobic room for up to several weeks, gaining strength for the rest of their journey. One escaped slave called Eliza hid inside this dark chamber for several days. Later, parts of her story would be featured in Harriet Beecher Stowe's classic novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin." Amazingly, despite the constant raids, Eliza and every other slave that Levi Coffin took in eventually escaped to freedom.
  • Serapeum, Egypt: One of the most perplexing tombs ever discovered in Egypt is a massive underground tunnel that contains the mummified remains of 26 Apis Bulls. Known as the Serapeum, the tomb's meaning is as mysterious as how it was constructed.
  • Iron Mountain: In a top-secret location in western Pennsylvania is one of the largest high security information storage facilities in the country. Two hundred feet below the earth in a abandoned limestone mine, the operation houses 13--acres and 20 miles of roads. Each room, vault, tunnel and chamber has been designed to withstand nuclear and terrorist attacks.
  • Alcatraz: Hidden beneath the concrete floors of Alcatraz prison are a series of secret passages and rooms. Built in 1857 by the U.S. Army, the rooms originally housed military personnel during the Civil War. When a prison was constructed above the ground in 1912, eight of the storage rooms were transformed into hidden dungeons to hold prisoners in solitary confinement. To this day, these secret chambers have never been opened to the public.

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