I need to hide a gardening journal in a glass house's work room, a diary in a teenager's bedroom, a couple of mannequins in a middle-class house that the rest of the family can't find out about (they can be dismantled). Can anyone help me? They can't do anything too out there or expensive.
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Hmm... break open some floorboards, if the walls are wood then maybe same trick there. Or the old favorite about shoving it under the rug.
("Why is there a person shaped bump under the rug?"
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Or maybe a fake bottom in a drawer for the diary? Not so hard to make. Just needs a piece of wood of the right size and colour.
For the books, you could hollow out a larger un used book.
There is also always storage. Put it in a box, put the box in the attic/closet/sotrage unit/shed/basement under other boxes no one cares about.
If the workroom has a dirt floor, just toss the journal in a hole (wrap in plastic first) and then even out the floor and put something on top of it.
In the glass house -- a big pot or urn with a slightly shallower one on top filled with dirt.
In the house -- inside a heat register, up an unused chimney flue, between joists in the attic with a box or trunk over them, just tucked behind a row of big books on a shelf or simply on top of a very high bookcase. in the freezer (modern) wrapped in aluminum foil, stuck inside a box of cereal in the pantry, folded inside a blanket in the bottom of the blanket chest, in a bucket of oily water in the garage wrapped waterproof.
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Journal: Tucked under a low-flowering shrub?
Diary: Wrapped in plastic and taped to the underside of a drawer? Pull some books from the bookshelf and put the diary against the back of the case and replace the books? Or tucked down the crack at the back of some (badly) fitted wardrobes?
Mannequins: These would be best off in the loft/attic. Could make for an interesting situation if someone goes looking for them, particularly if the light's poor ...
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A diary would fit easily above a drop ceiling panel. I don't know if they had those back in the 20's though. Perhaps one of the closets has a false-ceiling type of hatchway above it, which pops up into the attic. Or the diary could be shoved under the attic insulation. It might be hidden behind some paneling in a space cut out of the drywall beneath (again, this assumes modern construction though). It could be under a stairwell, with some kind of false structure built to make that space seem inaccessible. Maybe one of the stair steps can be slid out, and there's a secret compartment underneath.
for the diary in a modern bedroon inside the devan base of the bed as these are mostly empty space.
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A good "secret compartment"? 7th planet furthest from Sol, not that i'd use it, but it seems to work for a lot of modern day drug mules.
Oop; you want the investigators to be able to FIND this stuff, right? OR are they given clues to the locations or what? I wouldn't hide a journal in a flower pot - it'd rot. For easy access, I'd put a push-open compartment in the workroom chair itself, under the seat. Engineering-minded investigators might be curious about the chair and why it's completely sealed on the bottom. Press a design circle on one side, and it actually pushes the drawer out from the opposite, revealing the journal within.
Does the journal HAVE to be hidden? It's a gardening journal. Not out of place in a gardening workshop. Have it filed right in plain sight on the shelf with other journals and magazines, but stick it in the middle, maybe hidden away a bit.
With the diary, that might be behind a wall painting or other artwork, hanging inside the frame. That's where I hid my Hustlers.
For the mannequins, use the corner of a junk/storage room, or a very deep teen closet, filled with clothes and toys and junk.
Or an unused attic accessible through both the main hallway and through a person-sized hole in the closet of the person you're setting up. We never used the attic in my parent's house. The entrance was through a hole in their closet and through a hole in MY closet. They never used it; I kept stuff up there too. It was a ceiling panel; no staircase. Push it aside, get what I need, put it back.
In plain sight, but with a dust-jacket from something innocent and uninteresting of the same size...
Why does the gardening journal need to be kept hidden? Couldn't it just be vague, like this:
"14 Feb. 1921 - #37-60: good growth with solution #3 (1½"-2") since last week, slight budding"
The key explaining the various codes could be more conveniently hidden... it wouldn't get in use so often.
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For the teenager's diary, how about the space below the drawers in a dresser? (Accesseable by pulling the bottom drawer out completely.)
How big is the diary? A small sized diary could be taped to a ceiling-fan blade. This is convenient if you want them to actually find the diary, as the weight could off-balance the fan and create a noise that an observant investigator could notice.
Any self-respecting angsty teenager will carry their diary around as a comfort object. Ergo best place to 'hide' it is in a backpack or satchel with other books.Originally Posted by Laraqua
Hide the gardening journal in plain sight, as a chaotic volume of handwritten notes mixed with seed packets, flower pressings, newspaper clippings, magazine articles, plant sketches etc.
The mannequins are a bit of an oddity. If the hider is into dressmaking you could hide them in plain sight beneath work-in-progress dresses. Alternatively there is always the standby of wrapping the mannequin bits in plastic bags and putting them in the loft or basement along with the rest of the junk e.g. abandoned toys, boxes of old clothes, old furniture et al.
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Peter.
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