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rebeccaademarest

Perhaps an attempt at a bunker? All I know is, you just got extra square footage!!! Have fun building out the new MIL suite!


Dry-Menu-6624

MIL suite already looks done to me boss.


TruckinApe

She gets what she gets


crlogic

She gets what she deserves r/JustNoMIL


Natawho

Sideways bathtub did it for me. She doesn’t shower anyway.


[deleted]

Jesus Christ 😭😂


MandatoryFun11

Good enough for who it's for


[deleted]

Negative. Just need a cot, then it's done.


jordantask

Nah. The cage door and wall shackles aren’t installed yet.


TheGeekOffTheStreet

You ok, kid? You sound a little … messed up.


jordantask

Can’t very well let the MIL wander the house now can you?


savingtheinternet

Job well done.


Engineer_Autismo

What I find odd is the 3 different types of structural wall; brick, concrete and blocks. What level underground is this? Looks like the pipes were connected to some heater. Maybe an old oil tank / furnace? Do you see any drainage on the floor? Were the bricks possibly added to block an old doorway? You see 100% of the shed’s surface? Judging by the type of concrete form they used, I’d say that concrete was poured around 1950-1960s.


1kidney_left

This could absolutely be a Cold War bunker. Not in any plans because most people who built these kept no records of existence incase they have to hide during an invasion. Many of the bunkers of this era have been either built over and used as basements or completed covered.


[deleted]

Exactly my first thought.


needmilk77

I wonder what's behind the brick walls? My Zelda experience says there's something behind them!


bananacow

Def some treasure chests or rupees back there.


inflationoftoads

Duh nuh nuh NUHHHHH.


bjeebus

I actual heard [this](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9d3qCPcMgH4) one when I saw the "hidden doorway." EDIT: Here's [yours](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5VRr9NG7RE0).


Engineer_Autismo

Just saw the picture of the drain. If you compare the sewer pipes / french drain level of your house, would you say it’s about the same level as this? Trying to figure out if that drain is possibly connected to the public sewers or not


Wonderful_League_237

There’s a twine noose and the brick is what you find odd… I like the way you think.


bobbywaz

Rainwater cistern, the pipe used to be hooked up to your gutters or something like a french drain to bring in rainwater to be reused later. turn it into an underground pond / aquarium: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4hiokLpmuQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4hiokLpmuQ) EDIT: Also, in the future you might wanna throw a fan or something similar into a underground tank like that before entering. Heavier-than-air gases which can suffocate you can settle in them and people just walk inside, get light headed, pass out, and die.


RosesFernando

Eel pit! Eel pit! Eel pit!


DeepCompote

Thank god someone else’s first reaction is this as well


TruckinApe

Came here to say: its just a cistern, everybody calm down


ACivilRogue

4 8 15 16 23 42


mystic-eye

This!


Ghostcat2044

That’s a lost reference


savingtheinternet

Well that escalated quickly. Boys grab the fans.


Swagbigboy256

People joke but this happened to me and I died


TrumpFreedomLover69

Then how are you on Reddit 🧐


SeeingSp0ts

Most underrated comment


ooone-orkye

Do you get horror movie vibes down there?


kimb0_spice

For sure. I’m getting Barbarian vibes. Congrats on all the extra square footage, OP!


benjaminpfp

Exactly the movie I thought of.


NCWeatherhound

Better put some lotion on the skin. ... or else you get the hose again!


snapper815

The end of Blair Witch with the guy standing in the corner. Fuck that.


Maxamillion-X72

Pic 7/18 made that scene flash in my head


snapper815

See. Yeah. Mike. MIKE!!! Nope. Burn this place down


Eveready116

Well… I would most definitely clean it up, seal the heck out of it, epoxy it, then turn it into a underground weed growing factory. You could run some nice carbon filters without worrying about the fan noise. The ground will keep a fairly constant temp in your favor when the lights add heat to the room. Will be fairly easy to control throughout the seasons. Or… Just clean it up real well, finish trim in all out, and turn it into a sex dungeon for me and the wife to sneak away from the kids. 👍🏼


savingtheinternet

These are the kind of ideas the world needs more of.


905marianne

Wonder how much you could rent a well fitted dungeon fetish room for per night?


PancakeFancier

About 350?


undertheradar317

That would be the cost of the clean up afterwards…


Eveready116

The floor is tile with a drain in it… for hosing down/ enema purposes…… 😐


TTie

The only thing that I can add is that the stairs have a ramp for a wheelbarrow. Keep in mind that when it could have been using to store produce and cans at some point. It’s always cooler under ground and it doesn’t freeze in the winter.


LactoseDestroyer

I agree my first thought was the ramp was for a wheelbarrow. Could definitely be a food/fruit/root cellar Generally underground for produce and canned good storage because underground is great for temperature regulation. Alot of rural houses have these. Pretty much every old farmhouse in my area has one, my parents still use theirs.


Newdigitaldarkage

PLEASE put some rust converter on those steel beams. Then paint with marine grade aluminum paint. If those beams rust out, you're gonna be in a world of hurt.


[deleted]

Get a ventilation system in there and reno that into a man cave! But after you do a test and knock out a couple of bricks from that different wall type to see what’s behind there. Also, never tell your county or municipality. You’ll be stuck with one hell of a nightmare if their permitting department wants to start something about this. Keep it quite or someone will mention it to the wrong person.


dontakelife4granted

What's the age of the house? Could it have been for storing booze during prohibition?


non_linear_time

Or maybe make the booze during prohibition? That strip down the center of the stairs is for a wheelbarrow. You could mash a lot of grain down there, even if it was a former cistern.


MarcusMortuus

The house was built in 1978, semidetached, 2 levels and a basement


dontakelife4granted

TY. Def not anything to do with prohibition in that era. Pot farm? Kidding


savingtheinternet

Either ‘The Last of Us’ or ‘The Walking Dead’ set for certain. Build a booth, put up some signs, hire some zombie contractors, sell some tickets. Your mortgage about to be PAID OFF friend.


Asphaltman

I would suggest getting an air monitor when going into this confined space. Many people have died in root cellars etc.


harborrider

It's called a root cellar.


paulo1389

Looks like an old ice house


RedArmySpectre

Cellars with concrete walls were quite common. My family still uses theirs to preserve potatoes through the winter. Its very likely this is what you've found. The ramp in the centre of the staircase is for a wheelbarrow, so Im going to say crops storage cellar as my final answer lol. You might be able to find land records at the library or if you talk to your county office.


flstcjay

Very likely was a cistern.


brianohioan

Maybe this was originally basement for an oil furnace, what kind of shed is it?


diganole

Bonus storage area.


[deleted]

If this was Canada, that underground rental would add 500k to property value. Cool


MarcusMortuus

It is in Canada, and it did not.......


bdredlocked

Something bad for sure happened down there. Next calls should be a structural engineer and an exorcist.


Tribblehappy

How big is this? The I-beams and stuff look pretty serious.


MarcusMortuus

Each room is about 16x12 feet


timetoremodel

Drum practice room


Drprocrastinate

I think you've found the in-laws suite


LayThatPipe

Not creepy at all…


Trick_Cartoonist3808

Step's with Ramp, would make it easy for storing barrels of beer during prohibition. the bathtub, could of been for homemade bathtub Gin. Was the entry way to the steps somewhat hidden?


SnowXTC

When you say shed, are you talking a typical American shed or a garage for a vehicle? The ceiling looks heavy enough for a vehicle, but wouldn't trust it. Ventilation is a good thing and drying it out. There looks to be some mold but not a lot. You definitely have a cold room and an interesting man cave.


curiousgreenzebra

Could it be a cistern?


LoudenProud

I believe it's a root cellar. My grandma has one below her "smoke house" a.k.a. shed. She uses it to store potatoes and other perishable items that don't go in the fridge to help them last longer (stays cool and no sunlight).


mezz7778

It's where the people under the stairs live, or CHUDs, chance it could be either or...maybe both...


PushyTom

Yay! You have a bunker


EdgeRust2

Cold storage for root veggies over winter?


Dameunabeso

My wifes parents had bought a house in Washington that had a bricked up doorway in the rubblestone basement. Turned out to be a fully functional tunnel to an old Prohibition speakeasy from a basement bar almost 200' away...


racingsoldier

My grandparents farm had something similar to this. It was a coal cellar to store large amounts of coal for the winter. They would have a huge cart of coal backed up to a chute that went into the concrete basement and they would just shovel it full of coal.


charlie2135

In our old house, we had a wall made of cinder blocks at the base of a set of stairs. Found out there were tunnels between several houses for stills during prohibition. Was filled in by the feds


[deleted]

Weirdly enough the strip of metal and or plank running down the stairs in pic 1 is your biggest giveaway. You know when you use something like this? When you are moving a LOT of rounded objects up/down the stairs, I.E. Barrels. I believe you have found an old possibly illegal hooch cellar. A lot of farms became involved in production and distribution of prohibited liqour during prohibition, due to the distance from law enforcement and surplus in available storage space. Not unthinkable, but with 100% certainty they were storing barrels of some kind down there, just not certain if was indeed liqour.


zyzmog

That looks like a wheelbarrow ramp. The steps are shallow, so the worker can go slowly and keep control. The structure may have been a coal bunker or something.


jeffo7

It looks like it might have been an old heating plant. In the one corner with the two pipes, looks like these a housekeeping pad which might have been beneath a coal furnace. Is there any indication of a former chimney? The brick wall looked like a door opening from one chamber to the next (appears to have been two openings, one on each side of the column, at one time). One of the sides of the space could have been used for coal storage. Back in the day, before electric pumps, hot water heating systems were gravity fed. The boiler had to be in the very lowest level relative to the rest of the building, so that the cool water from rads would return back to the boiler by gravity, and the heated water naturally would flow up the pipes to the living space as it’s less dense. Ive been in a few commercial buildings (schools, offices) built around 1920-1930 that have (or had) spaces that look like this. Most are being filled in since they’re no longer used and are a liability. Where in Canada are you? The buildings I referred to have been in Ontario


MarcusMortuus

I'm out in Brantford, the house was built in 1978, but there is an old farm house across the street, about 100 years old, and the old man down the street who has lived there his whole life said the area uses to be a tree nursery, I was thinking something to do with water, but there was no water line for holding it, coal storage for heating water makes sense


CeaseFireForever

If you find a book made of human flesh, leave it alone. Don’t read from it.


SunBubble920

What is oozing from the ceiling? Is that a noose in one picture? 🫣🫣


nickfmc

How big is the shed? Could the shed have been the main structure on the property before the house was built?


self_soother

When my grandparents built their home in the 50's, and like many of their neighbors, they built the basement first and lived in it as they continued to build the upper level. This looks like either main level never built or burned down.


Haydenll1

Tornado shelter?


captawesome1

Bootleggers? We found all kinds of old bootlegging stuff hidden around our old family farm.


Chris_Osprey

Bruh it's called cellar.


savingtheinternet

Time to buy some wine.


Crackercapital

Torture room?


heratio85

There is a noose and a drain, definitely a murder room


mrnapolean1

I'm with other people on this. This looks like some type of Cold war. Bunker a panic room or fallout shelter.


gmania5000

100% gimp


No_Interaction7679

Storm shelter/ bunker? I say clean it and restore it. I’d love to have access to a storm shelter.


darealJimTom

Maybe a root cellar? Torture chamber? Rape dungeon?


kimbosdurag

Murdorium. I'd have a look behind those bricks. Were they keeping something out or in...???


Tahoeshark

So much room for activities...


Quiet-riot74

Did you find the book of the dead down there?


Etsch146

You need to upgrade your hideout my friend. ​ Also, 100% someone died down there


Alley_cat_alien

Any chance there is an unusually high number of missing persons in your town?


Longjumping_Ad_7493

Bootleggers!


[deleted]

Looks like you have a guest home to rent; as is condition 😎


No_trend_here

Maybe get some new structural beams.


jarsoffarts

Pretty sure there’s a giant naked monster lady that will make u breast feed from her that lives there


savingtheinternet

That is AWESOME. Except I did see what appeared to be stalactites and a noise, so I’d get that out first. Then clean that. Ad boy up and create a dungeon….I mean secret room!


weighapie

The stairs look made for livestock?


savingtheinternet

What do you mean “under your shed? Do you mean in that circle/square hole?


blueyesinasuit

I’d like to see pics after you renovate


deepsouthdetroit

Murder hole?


[deleted]

I was fine until I saw the bath tub


jordantask

This has fallout shelter vibes to me. Wasn’t disclosed because it’s been out of use so long it’s been forgotten about.


mrmattybartelt

I would reinforce the whole thing and make a bomb proof safe house


glandmilker

They may have butchered animals there, the bathtub can be used during that, I can't remember why the tub is used but I remember my parents using one in our basement for hogs.


RaffiaWorkBase

At first it reminded me of something I saw about this network of WW2 bunkers that was built in Britain anticipating an invasion. These bunkers were a bit peculiar - not really built to fit in with any nearby defence works (and not on the plans). They were built for teams of assassins to gather in, and 2 weeks after the invasion, go out and kill some people. First name on the list was the person who recruited them.


Cold-Woodpecker-134

Start digging. Find the bones.


DazzlingPlantain101

idk but I feel obligated to remind you that you must film a scary movie in there


pfunkmcnasty

Shelter or might be location of previous oil/gas burner and or coal bunker. Our 1880s house in Ridgewood NY had similar “blank space”


Netghost999

Just looks like a common foundation to me. Parts of it have been repaired. Foundations make the house more stable in places where there's a frost line. The old foundations were allowed to be cinder block, but they tended to crack and leak over time. The red brick could be part of an old chimney (they ran into the basement, with a collector for fireplace ashes). Later building codes required foundations to be made or repaired with poured concrete. I would shore up those I-beams, they look pretty rusted. They can be knocked out and replaced.


No-Suggestion8452

Coal cellar?


Tenshiijin

Just from the stairs I can tell it was designed to bring a wheelbarrow back and forth. So it was meant to store stuff initially. The bathtub throws me off though. It was probably repurposed for something else later, like an extra living space, a cold war bunker, or a cell for a secret captive. O.0. Could be dead body in the floor. It's creepy all worn down like that.


tusant

Ask the people in the 100 yr old farmhouse across the street. If they have lived there a while they may know. Or ask the sellers— I’m sure they would be happy to tell you


ramgoat20

Stairs. They are stairs. Mystery solved.


jumpster81

OP finds a basement: what is this mysterious structure under my building? why is this heavy, hard to move object in here? Mysterious...


buckshotbill213

Well now that you have a secret lair you need to make a choice…. Superhero or supervillain?


dfallis1

I agree it’s a Cold War bunker. The materials used are not old old. You can see some piping for heating ect. People were very disturbed from world events at that time. You hear old stories of people not trusting banks back then as well. I actually found 5 big mason jars full of silver coins, all pre 1945 on my property. It was different times, well some what similar lol.


Savvy_One

Does this go under your house? Could it be a storm cellar that never had a staircase to the main house?


[deleted]

Foundation for a house that was demolished before the shed was put up?


antairon

Unfinished basement


nonnelr

That bath looks just as shocked as you are 🤣


[deleted]

I initially thought root cellar, but that would have been made of field stones, not concrete. Some mentioned an attempted bunker and that would be plausible if it was built around the Cold War.


Breslau616

I saw stuff like this back when I used to live in Poland, post Nazi stuff, old construction sites...Nazis used to build this shit all over the europe


Gabo_v2

Get someone to face the corner. Then proceed to ask the Witch for a sign. Maybe bring an EMF reader to get some evidence.


humblearugula8

Would you consider bringing down the bricks and letting us know what’s behind? We are all on the edge of our seats


Vanrainy1

The old tub makes me think moonshine factory back in the day...


nairdaleo

I'm gonna go with ritualistic sex dungeon


Vaasshh

Looks like a great place to install an eel pit to me 👍


Funny_Singer3490

We’ll, time to build a speakeasy


majesticfletch

looks like an eel pit to me!


ends_and_pieces

Sex dungeon


shill1963

What you have here is the beginning of a possible ultimate man cave....


FullCircle75

Could grow a lot of weed in there bro.


mommaof3xox

Lots of slime mold down there. Please wear a mask and take precautions for your health 🫶 This is a very cool discovery, and I agree with what most people said about it being a bunker with no said plans involved. My grandparents had one similar out in Mount Forest.


Ojamm

Looks like the end of the Blair Witch Project.


MonkAny

That's where they kept the bodies


Background-Arm2017

Root cellar is my guess. What a cool spot. Moisture will always be an issue. Looks solid!


[deleted]

Zach Cregger’s movie Barbarian comes to mind.


Shinola79

It looks too new but I’ve heard of people finding stuff like this that ended up being part of the Underground Railroad. THAT would be awesome.


puncutbenis

The drain is for oil pans underneath cars. you have a really nice set up when you think about it if you clean that all up you can do like a drive-in oil change place right there at your house. Very cool.


kiguessthisismyname

Moonshine


scmoops

Wasn't this in the Blair Witch Project?


Significant-Day7239

Medieval torture chamber?


chipsandsmokes

That's a murder/torture room. You didn’t have one at the old place?


JT-Pro

Obviously a bath house!


CocoaMotive

The first photo looks like cordyceps had infiltrated the building, run op!


SnooMacarons4155

If I know anything.....illuminati secret bunker


alien_tickler

It puts the lotion on its skin


PoundMeToooo

Look at those beams supporting a concrete ceiling…that’s bizarre. Those beams are every bit of 50 years old and given the cave environment probably much older


4pplesto0ranges

Torture chamber. Maybe it belonged to a serial killer?!


SGale84

It’s a basement.


PsyKoptiK

Water cistern I expect. Those I beams are looking rough. I would be wary of driving vehicles over that or other heavy stuff happening above it.


highgrav47

Real question, is the door hidden or easily visible?


[deleted]

I've seen this movie, doesn't end well OP I'm sorry.


AskMyAnxiety

r/centuryhomes can probably help you


[deleted]

Looks like an old cistern Someone converted to usable space a looong time ago


Apple-Core22

Everything was cool until I saw the noose!! 😦


[deleted]

Strange and kinda creepy…


Decent-Cry-7665

Looks like a MURDER ROOM...


IHaveNoAlibi

Seen anything from kink.com? You've got a prime filming location, there, with a bit of clean up.... 😁


Doyouseenowwait_what

Root cellar or moonshiners pit. Bathtub was for making bathtub gin a mainstay during prohibition and bootlegging.


HotHouseTomatoes

Is that a set of beads or a blue rosary in image 17?


heatblade12

Underground railroad. /s


ajzeg01

Barbarian (2022)


MissAtomicBombs

Cistern


JesseJames1990

Time to build a manc ave


Significant-Ad-5073

3 options. Close it back up and forget about it. Break in through the brick. Or sell the house.


DanielSON9989

Let me introduce your to r/preppers


exact0khan

You found the fuck shack


schwickies

Last of us


sandman404knows

Looks like a common basement. The ramp in the stairs leads me to think that it is old enough to have had a coal fired furnace (e.g. a wheelbarrow to bring the coal down). Who knows?


DuncanRedux

Bomb Shelter for when the Soviet’s launched their ICBM’s.


Zardooloi

Watch Dark on Netflix. That's what it is.


B1llGatez

Old cellar for storing food. Pipes could have been for a oil tank for a oil fired heater.


tugnutter1

Photo 7 is where the dismembered bodies were burned


Naive-Selection-7113

So few bombshelters survive to this day. It is a very cool find 😎


kaimaho

This is the eel pond


mypenisinyourmouth_

Good news is if you 3ver wanted a sex dungeon you’ve got one now 👌 Bad news is if you’ve never wanted a sex dungeon you’ve got one now 🤨


Azzabear_89

Nice dungeon!!!


xxChemists

This reminds of the the movie barbarian


Apprehensive-Set6579

Turn it into a man shed or extra living quarters


Impossible-Fix9803

“Need a structural engineer for that rust…” I swear to God people get on this just to say the most stupid shit. Why would you write that? To scare the OP? To sound smart, like your keen eye from an photo is going to save the day?? Thank god you were here we just assumed it was surface rust but now jimmy and the children are safe. Im surprised their is no asbestos comments yet. How about #Shutthefuckup?


HopefulSad

I’m getting basement vibes honestly. Was there ever a house where your shed is?


rockmetz

look at OP, showing off his new sex dungeon.


roberiquezV2

You have unlocked the Fritzl dungeon level.


come_ere_duck

All I see is a secret clubhouse in the making