Photo Credit: Paige Sorensen ’24

This is an actual picture of Room 207, collected from a cursed photo album found in the tunnel.

Not a single soul knows what happened to Room 207; it remains one of Rosary’s biggest mysteries. But why is Room 207 the only room missing? We have a very plausible theory.

Two plus seven equals nine, the ninth letter of the alphabet is i. “I” is the Roman numeral one, and the first Trinity League school to be founded was Mater Dei in 1950. Well, nine plus five is 14. What do two times seven equal? FOURTEEN. So, Room 207 does not exist because Mater Dei has been planning to take down the Trinity League since the beginning of time. 

We asked a few Royals about their conspiracy theories on what happened to Room 207:

Gianna Sorensen ‘26 has a similar theory to ours: “Seven plus two equals nine, and nine is an unlucky number.”

Sophomore Tahlia Jain said, “Before Rosary’s iconic math teacher, Mr. Clough, taught Royals how to count properly, the people who built the school simply forgot to include 207.”

Brooke Skipton ‘24 voices her theory, “I think one day it was there, but something really, really bad happened and they had to wall off some of it. It had to be a smaller room, and it was just left there until Mrs. Marquez made it into her office.”

Senior Caitlin Smith suggests, “It was a senior prank. They painted the numbers wrong to see how long the faculty and staff would go without realizing. They never found out.”

Mia Kennedy ‘24 explains our very own Ms. Barclay ‘94 had something to do with it: “Someone sent an email to Ms. Barclay addressing her as Mrs. Barclay instead of Ms. Barclay, and she went into a fit of rage, destroying Room 207 instead of her own room, 208.”

Mrs. Ward offers, “I think there is no 107 or 207 because they didn’t want any teachers to feel extra special for having the lucky number seven.”

Senior Shelby Devoy states, “It’s where they keep the people who break the dress code.”

Marissa Carbajal shares her take on the situation: “I think it did exist until one day the students and teachers in it went missing.” 

Mr. Pennix said, “Maybe it’s like how some elevators don’t have a 13th floor.”

Students refuse to believe teachers have lives and houses outside of Rosary, so maybe Room 207 is a teacher-Mojo-Dojo-Casa-House where the teachers can live their lives free of students. 

Lainey Goldstein ‘24 thinks Room 207 was a cafeteria. 

Senior Milan Smith says there is nothing wrong with not having Room 207: “THERE IS NO CONSPIRACY.” We’re not sure, but this sounds like she knows something we don’t. 

Maybe a UFO crashed in the Rosary lawn, which explains the uneven patches and dry grass, and an alien from another universe tried to spawn at Rosary. They might have confused Rosary for a motel and tried unlocking all the doors with their sticky hands. The only unlocked room happened to be Room 207, and the entire alien colony retreated into the room. 

Maybe Mr. Gangler was up all night setting up a Christmas tree, and it caught fire and sealed off the door to Room 207. That’s probably why he had to move back to Maryland; people were starting to get suspicious. It could have also been Mr. Gangler’s cursed Paddington mirror that he used to curse all of his Honors Pre-calculus victims.