December 20, 2021
Everyone enjoys a secret tunnel, right?
Especially when it’s a tunnel that was built in the 1920s by oil barons to keep their families safe from kidnappers and marauders! This tunnel is one that few people get to see — it’s in the basement of one of the skyscrapers in my home town of Tulsa. We took our family for a trip of the tunnels in downtown Tulsa at Christmas time, and this one was the best. By far.
I think it makes for a great story: you’ve built a fortune in oil — and unfortunately that’s made you and your family targets for people who want your money. So you hire guards and build secret tunnels that allow you to go where you want to go. What’s the thing you hope for most? That the bad guys never find the key to open the big door at the end of the long tunnel.
So…what kind of story would you tell about this scary tunnel under the skyscraper? Does someone have the key? And when you’re in bed at night, do you hear the soft SLAM of a thick door several floors below you. And do you wonder — is someone in my tunnel?