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In November of 2005 I met a former psychiatric aide named Lisa who worked at Dammasch for 2 years. She explained to me that Dammasch was built to be instantly serviceable as a nuclear decontamination facility and surgical hospital in the event of a nuclear attack. This may in part explain the subterranean tunnel system that supposedly went to an underground food cache. Originally, the tunnels were about a mile long and went all the way from the hospital basement to the Living Enrichment Center (AKA The Callahan Center) on Grahams Ferry Rd in Wilsonville, OR. As of May, 2006, there were

only about 1200 feet of tunnel left that connect to the hospital.Just outside the tunnel system is a set of bullet-holed, chained doors. The top left image was taken outside these doors. The other 2 are from just inside them. The first image below was taken down the corridor, looking back at light peeking through the closed doors. The ceiling looks like it is made of wooden panels but it is actually poured concrete. In the adjacent, collaged image I simply turned around and took a shot of Levi at the back wall. Behind him is a set of handrails. These handrails mark the beginning of the formerly-mile-long tunnel. The image of the right, below is a 2-second hand held shot taken at the top of those handrails.

The Residents’ Hall is connected to an Auxiliary Building by a basement-level corridor. This same corridor turns into the tunnel system as you approach and move beyond the auxiliary building. There's a service elevator in this corridor and right around the corner, in the basement of the auxiliary building is a storage area.

One morning, the Construction Manager walked by the closed service elevator into the storage area where he set about cleaning a mess of shattered glass left behind by vandals. After awhile he heard a loud slamming sort of noise and felt surprised because he was the only person in the building. He turned the corner and saw that the heavy doors to service elevator had been forced open. He began to rationalize why it had happened; the doors had counterweights in them, after all. But in the end he concluded that there was no good explanation for why this happened...unless, of course, you believe in ghosts...which he claims not to!