I can't tell if the floor is solid or not. It does look like a water tank, but I've never seen one this wide, this kind of a location (relative to the house) or this kind of set-up. The pipe in the pictures is not connected to anything and when I lift it a few inches and drop it the floor almost sounds hollow. I am now thinking there could be another opening under the pile of dirt. As for the bones, I pulled a small skull out by joining 2 push broom handles and taping a hook on the end but the bones in the picture appear too large to be from the same animal. I just shot some video, let me take a look and see if it shows anything new.

Are you game to go down there? Bring a friend or family member over so they can help. :)

this whole thing doesn't make sence - not a septic, not shaped or sized like a well, strange opening, stranger trapdoor above opening that was floored over to conceal.

gonna find me a lucky volunteer tomorrow to go into the abyss....

Wow thats just mad how long have you lived in the house, before you realized that you had a trap door there , Is it shown in the any of the plans for the house

We have owned the house for about 10 years. My brother and I use it as a cottage when we are in Michigan. I have spent about 4 or 5 years total in it. As for plans, the house was built around 1900 - when I gutted the walls of the room with the trapdoor, I found where someone had written their name, the city, and Oct 28, 1914. This is one of the last rooms to be remodeled. It would figure this would happen as I was planning to knock this out quick. The room was added onto the side of the house I would assume to cover the "well" as I'm gonna call it. The strange part is that there is no cover to the "well" and why put a trap door in unless you are gonna use it. My mind is flying all over the place now. Gonna be a spooky night for sure :disgust

Maybe you could rent the "well" to silent knight.

Does sound strange and as you said they would normally fill the tanks in before buiding on top of it, Unless who ever knew it was there decided that it would make a good storage room or something, and the people who moved in after couldent be bothered to fill it in and just hid the door. Rather you than me going down there though..goodluck.

i would have totally dove down in there by now already. i wish i had a cool as spot like that in my house...

AA is a nice place, I'm about an hour or so from T.C in the "Golf Mecca" city lol

anyway, been staring at the first batch of photos and tons of questions fill my mind..... (yours to i'm sure heh)

http://www.finalcutmodels.com/1.jpg
In this photo (or at least at this angle) it seems this is NOT the full opening of the "well" as you only see a small portion of the 'entry', have you check around the surrounding tiles to see if more cover?

http://www.finalcutmodels.com/2.jpg
(1)how deep would you say this thing is? just going by scratch marks (seem to be 3 scratches per marking) it would have to be shallow if they were made by an animal.

(2) What is the small white looking thing at the bottom center? (I read mention of a pipe somewhere is that it?) and if so is that plastic? if so that tells me it was 'added' in the last 50 years or so (wonder why???)

(3) In the dead center I assume that is dirt, you said you tapped down there and it sounded hollow? thats a bit odd seeing as there seems to be stonework (cement) all around it, this now reminds me of that movie..... ehh nevermind lol

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One more thing, and call it a dumbass hunch lol

the very bottom cement it looks black in the photos, can you notice any SOOT or ASH anywhere around that area (mainly on the bottom)

and if so, check the "dirt" is it instead ash?

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it's 9ft deep - I can't tell how far up the wall the scratches are but I'd guess 4-5 ft?

The white thing is a piece of flooring that fell into the hole.

The pipe is iron and goes virtically into the hole. It is just sitting straight up and down, but I don't want to pull it out of the pile of whatever it is in until I get down there. It would make a good poking rod if someone was.....nevermind

that is bugging the shit out of me at the moment - the stuff on the floor is black - very black just like ash. It looks like baked mud in the sun -

Wasn't it Dahmer who buried his prey under his house?

I believe he kept the parts in the freezer....

wow thats very interesting, and kinda creepy too!!

I'd get another house... :1orglaugh:1orglaugh

it doesn't bother me - maybe I'll find Hoffa's wallet tomorrow :thumbsup

k i'm gonna have fucking nightmares now

I'm here alone tonight - wanna trade spaces :)

It may have been an entrance to an escape tunnel or a bomb shelter used used in ww1.

The tunnel may have been filled after the threat of the war was over

So did you call Sherlock Holmes yet?

wow that is weird and cool at the same time.

It's not possible for the fingernails to leave marks on the well..

At least in my own experience.. i mean i know for a fact that the last 7 girls i put in our well tried clawing their way out, but none of them were able to leave marks..

Have you gone down into the well yet?

i have two house cats that can jump 6 ft straight up.

those scratch marks were not made by a human. do not get carried away. human nails are flat and broad. something sharp, strong and pointed made the wall marks. feline nails are curved to increase strength and pressure on the point of the nail.

cats primarly use three claws. same with dogs i believe.

TRUST ME - I am hoping there is nothing down there. The last thing I want it to discover a crime scene under my house. Especially since that would lead to the house being torn apart by investigators. However, merely finding this chaimber under a trap door, hidden by flooring is not the only reason I believe there to be unanswered questions.

I have someone skinny coming over tonight or tomorrow and we are gonna get to the bottom of this, litteraly.

This is probably the most interesting thread I've ever read on GFY.

Dude you better tie a rope on your ass before you enter that hole.. Other wise in about 50 years some other dude will be posting on here asking about fingernail marks and bones in a hole that he found under his house. :warning:warning:warning

it puts the lotion on

lol - that is why I am waiting for my volunteer - he just doesn't know the whole story yet :winkwink:

btw, what city are you in now? i moved to livonia earlier this year.

I don't think there were a lot of bombers flying around between 1914 and 1918. :2 cents:

this was the golf course house, sw of AA

i'd be calling the police.. just tell them the deal and ask what you should do

but those scratch marks look like an animal

Looks like a cock fighting pit.

nothing new?

just about to build a ladder to crawl in, the opening is too small to fit a regular one through. I'll post when we get started.

yes, i think visible marks are possible
they found similar marks in the gaschambers after the second worldwar

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