a secret passageway which leads to the dock. Every step of the staircase in the passageway is a different height from the others to make tripping more likely. Bennett would practice running down the steps to memorize their spacing in order to give him an advantage if pursued. One hidden room had access to a central point in the ventilation system, where conversations from multiple rooms could be clearly overheard. The roof of the building featured a guard station parapet at one end, complete with a fireplace to keep Bennett's men warm while on 24-hour armed watch when Bennett was at the lodge in colder months. Bennett had a private airfield with an airplane at the other end of Lost Lake. In the event of an attack, Bennett could take the secret passageway, emerge by the dock, take a boat across the lake, and escape by airplane. An attack never came. The lodge and property were purchased in 1964 by the Boy Scouts of America, Clinton Valley Council. The property was developed for the Lost Lake Scout Reservation. The lodge was abandoned after the reservation was closed. Much of the furniture remains, but the pool has fallen into disrepair. Trees have been planted on the airfield. Bennett's hideouts Harry Bennett had a similar outpost on the north side of Geddes Road west of Prospect Road about from his estate near Ypsilanti. It was a concrete cabin constructed to look like a log cabin. A hidden door disguised as a book shelf rotated to reveal access to an upper level hide designed to be a look out. This was behind the fireplace and lead to a place with gun ports for defense. Near this cabin was an underground bunker, including a separate building with a Ford flathead V8 engine acting as a generator to make the property self sustaining. The bunker was similar to the ones at Ford's Fair Lane estate. The compound also was a sugar bush that produced maple syrup. The property included a curbed circular drive however at the time of my observation it was not possible to determine where there was access to the main road as the surrounding property was used as active farm fields. The barn on Geddes road had a cornerstone with "Harry Bennett" inscribed. Bennett had a second hideout for himself, his family, his henchmen, and his visiting boss Henry Ford, consisting of