Intel Folsom has dark zone where none may enter

WE TOOK A TRIP to the area where a Mr Sutter discovered gold had been discovered in his saw mill in 1848, prompting the 1849 gold rush which sent people stark staring bonkers.

Interesting trip it was too - with the area yielding such gems as villes renamed from Hang Town to Placerville and the like, and hydraulic engines which blasted mountains to pieces.

Still, we got a little parched around lunchtime because unlike San Francisco the sun shines bright in El Dorado land. Nibbling at a tiny portion at Denny's 24 hour breakfast joint near Folsom, we met a lass, not Eva Glass, who told us that Intel's site there has many mysteries indeed.

Not only has it huge satellite dishes inside the campus, but there's a dark area inside Intel Folsom which you can walk around but which apparently has no entrance or exit. One of the entrances might be a bookcase which revolves, or one of those other devices used by Jesuit priests during their hunting down in Olde England in the reign of the Faerie Queen, Elizabeth I.

But what's inside this dark area, to which, it appears even Intel employees cannot gain ingress? We think we should be told.

In the meantime, here's a pic of a cool INQ journalist giving the world two thumbs, up.

Sutter's mill in Gold Country, Coloma. The inside of this building is perfectly transparent.