basement

So at 6 a.m. the next morning, Missy and Berard, not quite mother and son, drove off to get the basement dweller’s jaw fixed.

The underground space spanning some 5,000 square feet is, he explained, is "just like a little shelter, it's like a basement".

"But ultimately, they found him hiding in a crawl space. I believe that crawl space was in the basement … and he had put some thought and work into the hiding space he was in."

Her father was a haberdasher and she later recalled sheltering from German bombs in the basement of his shop during the war.

This battered two-story home with ominous scratches on the basement door has been in Todd’s family for six generations, as the cemetery out back proves.