'Part of the horror of this scene comes from a shared, familiar unease: we’ve all had the experience of not knowing what sounds our home is making or why. In this way, my cat Poe is also like a possessed Catholic schoolgirl.' | katie_prout
Photos by Kirk Williamson and Amber Huff; collage by Kirk Williamsonwhere a teenager named Kat slips out of her room and into her boarding school’s dorm basement. An older girl named Rose, apparently the only other student left at the school over winter break, grows curious and follows. Old pipes creak and whine as Kat’s indecipherable voice floats on the air, her murmurs part of a one-sided conversation only she is privy to. As Rose creeps toward the boiler room, a dull, rhythmicgrows louder.
The hissing and trickling I kind of like. And because I grew up with five siblings, clanging and banging are noises I’ve long been conditioned to ignore. But the whistling? The whistling really freaks me out. What does it mean? What is my radiator trying to tell me? Is it about to blow up? Am I going to die?in Humboldt Park. His voice over the phone is gravelly and low, and he’s patient with my questions and economical with his words.
Steam radiators, the kind we’re talking about, are especially common in old Chicago apartments and homes. They’re powered by water heated in a boiler, which is usually located in the basement . The resulting steam travels through a pipe to the radiator, which radiates out the heat; as the steam cools, it condenses back into water and returns to the boiler.
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