Secret Tunnel from Willie's Suite (Pankot Palace) / Hidden Stone Tunnel Behind Ganesha Statue

Terrestrial passage in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (Episode 2), accessed via a loose baseboard panel behind a Ganesha statue in Willie's Pankot Palace suite. Features rough stone walls with Sanskrit inscriptions, musty air, and echoes leading to the Thuggee cult's lair. Thematically tied to ancient curses and supernatural dread. Captain Blumburtt raises an oil lamp to reveal the tunnel's dark mouth behind the secret door, where Indiana Jones steps out unexpectedly. Willie points into its depths, describing it as burrowing to the Thuggee temple's sacrificial heart, where Short Round vanished amid screams and blood rites.