Redwood Bureau – "HIDDEN ROOM" (Redwood Bureau Phenomenon #0257)

Podcast by Eeriecast Network | Released: April 11, 2026
Host: Agent Conroy (voiced by Josh Tomar), Guest Analyst: Cypher

Episode Overview

This gripping episode of Redwood Bureau delves into the chilling case file of the "Hidden Room"—an anomalous dimensional space discovered behind a closet panel in an old house and the unimaginable ordeal of the young woman who stumbled through it. Agent Conroy and Cypher expose the Redwood Bureau’s relentless efforts to research and exploit such supernatural phenomena, highlighting the Bureau’s ethical void and the catastrophic consequences for those caught in their wake.

Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Dimensional Nonconformities and Historical Precedents

• Cypher opens with a recounting of mathematician Charles Hinton’s attempts in the early 1900s to help humans visualize higher dimensions, concluding that the fourth dimension "existed alongside ours" and that "our inability to see it was a limitation of biology, not physics." [02:00]
• Cypher explains the existence of real, physical spaces—rooms and corridors—that defy standard geometry:

  "There are spaces in this world that don't conform to the geometry we understand... They're physical locations. Measurable, sometimes repeatable, and extremely rare." [03:10]

2. The Bureau’s Involvement and Current Operations

• The Redwood Bureau maintains a dedicated department to map, monitor, and exploit these so-called "dimensional non conformities."
• Cypher’s update: a dangerous situation is unfolding on "Floor Three beneath Lumpkins," already resulting in Bureau casualties.

  "Containment is not holding, and there's internal disagreement about whether to push deeper or seal it permanently… Floor three is not what anyone expected." [04:32]

• The Bureau views these anomalies not as threats, but as opportunities for exploitation—often with dire costs to the humans involved.

3. Case Narrative: The Hidden Room

• The protagonist, a teenage girl forced to move into a decrepit old house, discovers a hollow wall in her closet—an entrance to an unknown space. The account is told in her raw, anxious, and sometimes humor-tinged voice:

  Discovery:

  "I do that sometimes when I feel overwhelmed. Just sit in the dark... I leaned back and banged the back of my head against the wall, but it sounded wrong. Hollow. More like a door than a wall." [06:00]

• She uncovers a seamless panel leading to a perfectly preserved, dustless hidden room, inexplicably larger than should fit inside the house (“the room was bigger than the house should have allowed” [07:15]), and then a door with a peculiar asymmetrical latch.

  Entering the Other Side:

  • Opening the door transports her to a mind-bending, massive biomechanical world—part canyon, part living organism, teeming with bizarre life forms and golden light.

  First Encounter with the Inhabitants:

  "I stood at the mouth of the passage... But it just couldn't. The size was a cavern. Or canyon doesn't even begin to describe—it was a world." [09:00]

  • The protagonist witnesses immense alien ecologies, predator-prey relationships, and living structures that dwarf human understanding.

4. Survival and Escalating Danger

• Predator Attack: The girl is hunted by a brutal, insectile beast, escaping only by squeezing into a narrow crack in a bone-coral-like structure.

  "Its front end was just a wet, dark cavity lined with points that curved inward, designed to stick into whatever entered and keep it there." [23:00]

• Marketplace of Terrors: She stumbles into a bustling, alien market, full of trading, strange commodities—and even dissected, preserved human body parts offered for barter:

  "I saw something I recognized... pieces of something that looked human... This place had seen others who looked like me. It was clear where humans ranked on the food chain." [41:00]

• Alien Flora: In a grotesquely beautiful “garden,” she is watched and physically attacked by carnivorous, aware plantlife, barely escaping with further injuries. [45:00]

5. The Maze & Loss

• Entering a geometric labyrinth, she is hunted by blade-armed, hyper-coordinated sentients. Trapped, she is swiftly and surgically mutilated:

  "The blade went through my arm below the elbow. I felt it as a thin line of cold..." [54:10]

  • In agonizing, surreal detail, she describes the horror of seeing her own severed hand still moving.

  "The creature was holding the rest of it. My forearm, my hand and its gripper. My fingers were still moving… it examined what it had taken." [54:17]

6. The Return & Bureau Cover-Up

• Driven by anger and primal will to survive, she stumbles upon another door—this time the reverse of her entrance, exiting into her home:

  "Set into it, low, almost at floor level, was a door. Small, wider at the bottom than the top. I dropped to my knees in front of it and touched the latch… Bare walls, bare floor, and the faintest smell of an old house—home." [58:50]

  • She manages to call her mother, still in shock and missing part of her arm.

• Aftermath (as recounted by Cypher):

  • Eleven days in the hospital. Unexplained injuries and anomalous bloodwork.
  • The Redwood Bureau steps in, fabricating cover stories, seizing the house and extracting the hidden room in its entirety for containment and further research:

    "They extracted it… reinforced it with a containment framework and transported it to a sub facility..." [60:50]

  • The Bureau now regularly uses the door for short, armed excursions, losing personnel but continuing relentless "research" and expansion:

    "A 16 year old girl lost her arm and almost her life in that place. And the Bureau’s takeaway… wasn’t caution. It was opportunity." [62:15]

Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On the horror of encountering the alien world:

  "I stood at the mouth of that passage in my jeans and my torn T-shirt, and I watched a world full of things that defied everything I knew about life and cried. I just stood there and cried." (Narrator, 19:40)

• On trauma and returning:

  "That's everything. Every detail I can remember. I've told you. I don't have anything else to give you. I just want to go home." (Narrator, 59:20)

• On the Bureau’s ethics:

  "A 16-year-old girl lost her arm and almost her life in that place. And the Bureau’s takeaway… wasn’t caution. It was opportunity. The girl is a case file now. A data point in a program she doesn’t know exists. Your nightmare is their research grant." (Cypher, 62:15)

• On rare "Keystone" anomalies:

  "A stable, traversable door connected to a full scale populated environment is, by the Bureau's own internal language, a Keystone class anomaly. They found fewer than a handful in the organization’s entire history, but they are looking for more—actively." (Cypher, 62:51)

Timestamps for Key Segments

| Timestamp | Segment | Summary | |:-----------:|:----------------------------------------|:------------------------------------------------------| | 01:44 | Cypher’s Introduction | Historical context, Bureau’s classification systems | | 04:32 | Operation Update: Floor Three | Bureau in crisis, containment failing | | 05:05 | The Girl Discovers the Hidden Room | Narrator’s account begins; discovery & entry | | 09:00 | Encounter with Alien World | Description of alien biome, first life forms seen | | 19:56 | Signal Interruption (ads) | | | 22:27 | Return to Story: Predator Attack | Chased by predator, hiding to survive | | 35:00 | The Market | Description of marketplace, human body parts found | | 45:00 | The Garden | Alien flora, injury, escape | | 48:56 | The Labyrinth & Amputation | Encountered by sentients, arm severed, trauma peaks | | 58:50 | Finding the Exit | Finds another door, collapses back into home | | 59:46 | Cypher’s Aftermath & Bureau Cover-Up | Hospital, cover story, Bureau repurposes anomaly | | 64:00 | Cypher’s Final Warning | Rarity of these anomalies, Bureau’s ongoing search |

Conclusion

The "Hidden Room" episode paints a terrifying picture of otherworldly dangers lurking just out of sight and the cavalier predation of the Redwood Bureau. Listeners are left with a visceral journey—half survival horror, half chilling exposé on government secrecy—underscored by the final warning: most hidden places are just that, but when they aren’t, those in power will always choose secrecy over safety.

"This is Cypher. Stay alert, stay alive." (Cypher, 64:11)

Perfect for fans of cosmic horror, SCP, and government conspiracy, this episode is a standout example of immersive audio storytelling and existential dread.