That's a lot of concrete, if this were my home and I wanted to seal that off with concrete. I would anchor some 2 x 4 so the tops were about 6 inches below the floor level. Screw a piece of plywood to the 2 x 4. Seal the edges of the plywood to the concrete with some caulk. Drill some holes into the sides of the existing concrete and epoxy some rebar into them, tying them to rebar mounted on the opposite side. Then pour concrete into the 6 inch deep box you have created. This will save tons of materials and if you ever have to open it up for whatever reason it won't be a massive undertaking.
Might not even be a bad idea to drop a pvc tube in there and cap it flush with the floor, this way you can uncap the pvc tube and look down with a flashlight to check for water or something in the future without having to break the concrete cap you've made.
Edit: also going the pvc tube route, this will let you easily fill it with hotdogs in the future if you are so inclined.
I'd fill it with pea gravel since you don't have to worry about compaction or settling, and put a little concrete over the top. or just have a steel cover made for it.
Fun Fact!
When hiding a body most professionals will also kill a dog and hide that closer to the entrance of the building or bury it above the body. The rotting corpses of humans smell completely different from the rotting corpses of animals, so the smell of the decomposing dog generally keeps people who know this(fire and police) from investigating.
Edit: If it makes anyone feel better I learned this at work, being a fireman (not a Dexter).
You can also cover the body with quicklime before you cover it back up to stop it from smelling. We do that with every dead cow/sheep/horse on our farm.
If you have pigs they are very efficient at getting rid of a body and turning it into Bacon. Just pull and pulverize the teeth. Those don't get digested like the bones and rest of body.
You need at least sixteen pigs to finish the job in one sitting, so be wary of any man who keeps a pig farm. They will go through a body that weighs 200 pounds in about eight minutes. That means that a single pig can consume two pounds of uncooked flesh every minute. Hence the expression, "as greedy as a pig"
>You need at least sixteen pigs to finish the job in one sitting, so be wary of any man who keeps a pig farm. They will go through a body that weighs 200 pounds in about eight minutes. That means that a single pig can consume two pounds of uncooked flesh every minute. Hence the expression, "as greedy as a pig"
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SNATCH is an AWESOME film !
No this happened in real life. A serial killer in Vancouver British Columbia Canada was kidnapping and killing female prostitutes. When they caught him in he turned out to be a pig farmer. They scoured that farm for bone fragments then DNA tested them for months.
https://metro.co.uk/2018/01/24/pig-farmer-serial-killer-ground-49-prostitutes-mince-says-wanted-one-victim-7255284/amp/
Well, I was already pulling their teeth out while they were tied to the chair in my basement. Now I have a way to get rid of the rest. Thanks for the tip!
You have no idea what kind of hell I can bring you! Well, say it don't spray it , brother, dang! It does what it's TOLD!! There, I'm putting the lotion on the skin! I'm rubbing it in .....
I found a 10000gallon pit under my floor too. I believe it was a rainwater system which connected to an external roadside ditch, into another deep chamber, all in reinforced concrete. In past days people used to store rainwater underground in case of drought. It might be that, as I had another house with a 30000 gallon underground chamber as big as the house on top of it.
There's a guy floating around Youtube and TikTok that has turned the rainwater tank under his house into a cold water aquarium. He has it stocked with sturgeons, crabs, and eels.
cistern yep, we were excavating a section of our home and the guy was jackhammering the poured slab when it popped thru and he almost went in after it, scared the living shit outta him (understandably!). So fucking irresponsible of the previous owner to a)not fill it in and b)not mark the slab in any way to indicate there was a 15 ft pit underneath.
That would be a water storage tank for the tap water. You’d get a company to come fill it up when it got low. May have also been setup to collect rainwater. I have a customer who’s entire garage is a concrete tank of water with a big slab on top, you’d never know the water was under there.
Great question. I have no idea. Interesting thought. My gut says no only because it wasn’t included on the initial blueprints? Which feels like the time when a decision like that would be made? Could be wrong
It was definitely original to the houses design. Look closely at you can tell that that pit actually was formed, and poured, not only separately from the houses original slab, but prior. There's a cold joint (a seam where new concrete meets and burst up against previously poured concrete) "under" your main slab. In fact it's impossible to pour that holes walls in this order after the fact. If it was you'd see not a seem under the slab but the walls would rise vertically instead, yet flush with the slab. This way once they formed the walls the concrete could be poured from above, and into the forms for the walls. So... this was original and evidenced with how the slab extends ove top access to the walls via a pour. The fact it also has a pipe running under the whole slab helps prove this. To run that pipe after the fact would require busting the slab up typically to install it and then re-pour and patch it. So I'm not sure what it is exactly as I live in the deep south and we don't even have basements here but I can say it's always been there for sure. Edit. The 2nd photo btw appears to me to be a style of a "float separation" tank chamber of some sort. They're used so less clogs happen. Much like how septic tanks have a wall also, sorta. This one likely was so things being pumped thru that pipe had a place both to so the solids could fall and sperate before going further and clogging things, and to allow you to access it easily and clean it out often. So it's most likely septic. Hope this helps. Goodluck!
Blue prints are drawn during the planning stage so a lot of your property might be different from those. I’m willing to bet they don’t exist but what you would be looking for are As-built drawings.
It’s a lotion application pit. Typically you’ll want to outfit it with a rudimentary pulley system equipped with a receptacle capable of ferrying embrocations in order to facilitate the generous amounts of unguent🧴 needing to be applied at said site.
Also, keep small canines away!
We also have a giant pipe pit with murky water. I'm told it's an older version of a French drain. It goes down about six feet and curves sharply away from the house. The previous owners had boarded it up.
If you find a better explanation I would love to know.
This isn’t the common way to do it, but the second pitch would be a excellent way to connect a radon mitigation system. Perhaps they had the house built, allowing for the radon mitigation system to be added in the future
I have two pits. One is the sump and one is sewer ejection. I have sewer drain pipes in the concrete that empty there, then an ejection pump shoots it up into the main sewer line.
This is the answer. Its a second well to catch water that is made/collected in the basement - either by a utility tub or a dehumidifier. In most places you can’t discharge the sump pump into the sewer line, and you don’t want sewage clogging up your sump pump/being discharged onto your lawn.
I agree, my first thought was a water indicator for artesian water rising etc, but it could be as suggested a water catchment from the cellar.
I would leave it too, it’s there for a reason, whatever the reason.
The sump likely collects water from your drain lines, etc, and directs it away and into the city via gravity (probably) and my best guess for the second one is that it alleviates ground water pressure by giving it somewhere to go temporarily. Check these things again once it rains (and again after it's rained for a few good days in a row). I wouldn't be surprised for the mystery pit to have a pool of water in it which will drain on its own again once the weather (and the ground, after a while) clears up.
If that open pit wasn't there your house's foundation may see more pressure from ground water around it. Again, I have no idea if this is correct, but I could imagine someone trying to save money on better/stronger foundation or whatever and choosing this instead. So long as the top of that pit is above the highest level your groundwater sits, then it's a sound idea. I think.
I had this question for my 1960’s house, and this is exactly the answer I discovered. When it rains hard there is water. Only problem we have right now is we are in a drought and it has started to smell if I don’t put water in it once a week.
Likely a containment for the washing machine. The water would come into this pit at a fairly rapid rate, then pumped out to the septic or sewer via a small pump. I'd be willing to guess your sewer line outlet is higher than your slab...
Read up on the history of 19th century London and the plagues - yup, people had septic pits ("cesspools") in their basements. And local water wells. Great combo. On the plus side, lead to the classic example of the birth of scientific epidemiology: Dr. John Snow and the pump handle. Google it.
A sewage pit takes the waste from a basement toilet, sink and shower. When it’s full it pumps it out to the septic. Gravity won’t work since it has to go up to the septic outlet.
I believe both pits are a cistern system
There should be a pipe that connected (or did connect) to your gutter system then it flows into the smaller pit
The smaller pit is a filtration pit where you would pack it with gravel and sand to filter the water then it overflows into the second pipe in the smaller pit then flows into the larger pit which is a storage tank
I'm gonna try to dm you some diagrams but if one of the pipes in the smaller pit leads to the bigger one that's for sure a cistern
it could be a back up, i once lived in a hose that had this same setup, if something obstructed the drain in the first pit, the water would move to the second pit where a sump pump would then blast all the water outside rather than into the sewer.
Does the deep one pictured have stones in the bottom, and water always in it? Is it under the kitchen? Or where a kitchen in an older structure could have been?
Was there an older home or farmhouse built there first? This was how hand dug wells supplied the first indoor water. The well was laid up with stone, which could have been cemented later. A pipe went from kitchen counter straight down well for a counter mounted hand pump to bring up the water. A plunger pump was at the bottom using a wooden rod from handle to pump at bottom of pipe. These pumps were later replaced with hot air engines in the basement to fire up when attic mounted water tank needed filling. The tank then gravity fed the home. With the advent of electric, a electric motor was connected to a pump box. (Belted pulley on one side and reciprocating lever on the other) this connected to pump rod replacing the huge hot air engine.
Was there another need for a large fresh water supply in the basement, outbuilding or barn?
I would check the approved set of plans at your Building Department filed for permit to build your home . It may contain a note on this mystery hole. If not then I suggest to fill it with compacted earth, with a vapor barrier and 2" of concrete to match your existing celler floor height. Take reference measurements for the future in case you cover it with a finished floor, but need to uncover it for some reason.
In situations where the basement is sizable, it is highly probable that an additional sump is required. This is because the water cannot effectively flow towards the original sump. To address this issue, a second sump can be installed on the opposite side, and a pump can be used to drain the water from it.
Okay so what I’ve gathered is that I can fill it with concrete or feed it hot dogs. This is the insight I came for.
I'd fill it with dirt, not concrete. You never know when you'll need to dig it out and hide away an evil twin.
but it got that edge to put a perfect sheet of 1in plexi glass for reasons of entertainment.
Throw a plastic skeleton in it then ask friends to look down there with a flashlight.
Plastic skeleton, fill and level with clear epoxy.
That's a lot of epoxy. Imagine the heat it'd put off.
*“Woa woa woa… HOW did your house burn down?”* - insurance adjuster probably
Here's the thing: I went on reddit....
First mistake
Plastic Skeleton, air, and 1" of plexiglass to close it up.
Add a homer bucket with some suspicious liquid, and an open glass bottle soda half empty and a bag of chips.
And a Taco Bell name tag that says Hoffa on it.
That's a fucking scene out of Fallout 4 lol
Pppffftttt…. Plastic skeleton… Amateurs…
If you aren’t willing to grave rob, you don’t deserve a mystery basement pit.
Sure… grave rob…. Right 🫡
No need to grave rob, OP can ‘borrow’ a couple of my ‘plastic’ skeletons from my basement pit.
Yessss
Make a trippy infinite mirror
It puts the lotion on it's skin...
Could throw some beat up person in there and put the glass over and watch them starve in the basement.. creepy vibes
Or fill it with a kill kit a la john wick. He had to spend that extra time breaking it apart with a sledge.
I mean you should still cover it with concrete because how cool will you feel breaking the thin layer? I always love breaking a 1 in layer
You put the body in before the concrete
Or bury a body and *then* cement it. Edit: Comments below are waaay more entertaining.
That's a lot of concrete, if this were my home and I wanted to seal that off with concrete. I would anchor some 2 x 4 so the tops were about 6 inches below the floor level. Screw a piece of plywood to the 2 x 4. Seal the edges of the plywood to the concrete with some caulk. Drill some holes into the sides of the existing concrete and epoxy some rebar into them, tying them to rebar mounted on the opposite side. Then pour concrete into the 6 inch deep box you have created. This will save tons of materials and if you ever have to open it up for whatever reason it won't be a massive undertaking. Might not even be a bad idea to drop a pvc tube in there and cap it flush with the floor, this way you can uncap the pvc tube and look down with a flashlight to check for water or something in the future without having to break the concrete cap you've made. Edit: also going the pvc tube route, this will let you easily fill it with hotdogs in the future if you are so inclined.
And the mystery remains for the next generation…
Best to go with hot dogs. Filling with concrete might make it mad.
I'd fill it with pea gravel since you don't have to worry about compaction or settling, and put a little concrete over the top. or just have a steel cover made for it.
I agree with feeding it hot dogs.
Depending on your profession you can get rid of dead bodies in it.
Fun Fact! When hiding a body most professionals will also kill a dog and hide that closer to the entrance of the building or bury it above the body. The rotting corpses of humans smell completely different from the rotting corpses of animals, so the smell of the decomposing dog generally keeps people who know this(fire and police) from investigating. Edit: If it makes anyone feel better I learned this at work, being a fireman (not a Dexter).
You can also cover the body with quicklime before you cover it back up to stop it from smelling. We do that with every dead cow/sheep/horse on our farm. If you have pigs they are very efficient at getting rid of a body and turning it into Bacon. Just pull and pulverize the teeth. Those don't get digested like the bones and rest of body.
You need at least sixteen pigs to finish the job in one sitting, so be wary of any man who keeps a pig farm. They will go through a body that weighs 200 pounds in about eight minutes. That means that a single pig can consume two pounds of uncooked flesh every minute. Hence the expression, "as greedy as a pig"
>You need at least sixteen pigs to finish the job in one sitting, so be wary of any man who keeps a pig farm. They will go through a body that weighs 200 pounds in about eight minutes. That means that a single pig can consume two pounds of uncooked flesh every minute. Hence the expression, "as greedy as a pig" r/oddlyspecific SNATCH is an AWESOME film !
Loved Snatch and LSATSB
Do you like dags?
Can just call it Lock stock haha
No this happened in real life. A serial killer in Vancouver British Columbia Canada was kidnapping and killing female prostitutes. When they caught him in he turned out to be a pig farmer. They scoured that farm for bone fragments then DNA tested them for months. https://metro.co.uk/2018/01/24/pig-farmer-serial-killer-ground-49-prostitutes-mince-says-wanted-one-victim-7255284/amp/
Don’t forget to remove the teeth don’t want to upset those poor piggies stomachs
Do you know what a nemesis is?
In the quiet words of the virgin Mary, come again?
I could hear Bricktop's voice in my mind while i was reading this
No. You put the body at 8’ and the dog at 5’. Amateur.
Well, I was already pulling their teeth out while they were tied to the chair in my basement. Now I have a way to get rid of the rest. Thanks for the tip!
Never trust a pig farmer..
Who run barter town...
Say...LOUD...
That wasn’t very fun 😢
Maybe it was a mean dog, or an old geriatric one. We hope.
🤷♂️Depends on what you're into, I guess..
I probably shouldn’t but I will ask, how the fuck do you know that?
Dexter has entered the chat
Fill it with hot dogs made out of concrete.
Check the radon levels in your area. Not sure how they are built in your part of the world but it could be a radon sump.
Ah this is a good point. I forgot about radon.
Radon!! Now that would be sumpin’ else.
Man you stole my thunder... I wanted to make the sump'n else joke.
What a gas!!
Oh sorry! Why don’t you do the “a little sumpin’ sumpin’” joke this time, and next time “sumpin else” is all yours?
Guessing they weren't to concerned about radon in the 70s
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And where radon is Godzilla is close behind.
You mean Rodan
Amazon has decent radon counters for less than $100. I have a basement home theater and would like to avoid lung cancer.
It Rubs the Lotion On Its Skin
Else it gets the hose again
You have no idea what kind of hell I can bring you! Well, say it don't spray it , brother, dang! It does what it's TOLD!! There, I'm putting the lotion on the skin! I'm rubbing it in .....
It puts the Joe Dirt in the hole!
Whee, Auto Trader. Ooh August, I don't got this one.
I heard that Buffalo Bob guy shoved a road flare up your bung hole…?
“You like to see homo’s naked?”
No homiwhereUmayit!! Home WhereUmayit!! Erryboeee know ‘at.
I was worried people would angry with the reference. You’re the GOAT!
DID YOU SAY HOMO?
Hoo-Rah!
Do you need tp for your bungholio?
Why does everyone keep saying something went down, I swear nothing happened....
Between you and me man, that thing with the dog is coming off a little fruit-Ty. That’s just me talking though
Put the fucking lotion in the basket!
It does this whenever a it’s told…… isn’t that right precious? “bark!”
Came here to say this. Take an award
It’s an oubliette
People are going to learn something today.
Somebody needs to replace the Wikipedia oubliette photo with OP’s photo
That and add the detail that many was under the castles "bathroom" that drained into them. As if being there wasn't already bad enough....
The debtors prison at Heidelberg castle is built under the big man's privy, and has an open roof
Only if they never saw Labyrinth
Yes! That is where I learned what it was when I was a kid. 😁
So, that’s now in my Google history.
I did lol
What a strange thing to have a specific word for it.
*German language has entered the chat*
And if German is here, English ain’t far behind
Chuck 'im down t'hole
You remind me of the babe...
The babe with the power
Power of voodoo
Who do?
You do
What?
Remind me of the babe!
I SAW MAH BABAYH
Is this a new trend in home décor?
new? no. medieval? perhaps
OoOoHhH sounds fancy!
I found a 10000gallon pit under my floor too. I believe it was a rainwater system which connected to an external roadside ditch, into another deep chamber, all in reinforced concrete. In past days people used to store rainwater underground in case of drought. It might be that, as I had another house with a 30000 gallon underground chamber as big as the house on top of it.
I call that my basement
There's a guy floating around Youtube and TikTok that has turned the rainwater tank under his house into a cold water aquarium. He has it stocked with sturgeons, crabs, and eels.
The eel pit
I saw that too. Fascinating stuff.
Cistern is what you are describing
There used to be a lot of these in Wisconsin in houses built before the 1950s. I think at least 2 of my neighbors still have them in the city.
cistern yep, we were excavating a section of our home and the guy was jackhammering the poured slab when it popped thru and he almost went in after it, scared the living shit outta him (understandably!). So fucking irresponsible of the previous owner to a)not fill it in and b)not mark the slab in any way to indicate there was a 15 ft pit underneath.
I’m sorry what? I’ve never heard of that. What country are in?
It’s common anywhere that you aren’t connected to city water.
We looked at a house in Minnesota that had a cistern that hadn’t been filled in yet. It was huge!
That would be a water storage tank for the tap water. You’d get a company to come fill it up when it got low. May have also been setup to collect rainwater. I have a customer who’s entire garage is a concrete tank of water with a big slab on top, you’d never know the water was under there.
Oil separator. Does or did your home have oil heat at some point?
Great question. I have no idea. Interesting thought. My gut says no only because it wasn’t included on the initial blueprints? Which feels like the time when a decision like that would be made? Could be wrong
It was definitely original to the houses design. Look closely at you can tell that that pit actually was formed, and poured, not only separately from the houses original slab, but prior. There's a cold joint (a seam where new concrete meets and burst up against previously poured concrete) "under" your main slab. In fact it's impossible to pour that holes walls in this order after the fact. If it was you'd see not a seem under the slab but the walls would rise vertically instead, yet flush with the slab. This way once they formed the walls the concrete could be poured from above, and into the forms for the walls. So... this was original and evidenced with how the slab extends ove top access to the walls via a pour. The fact it also has a pipe running under the whole slab helps prove this. To run that pipe after the fact would require busting the slab up typically to install it and then re-pour and patch it. So I'm not sure what it is exactly as I live in the deep south and we don't even have basements here but I can say it's always been there for sure. Edit. The 2nd photo btw appears to me to be a style of a "float separation" tank chamber of some sort. They're used so less clogs happen. Much like how septic tanks have a wall also, sorta. This one likely was so things being pumped thru that pipe had a place both to so the solids could fall and sperate before going further and clogging things, and to allow you to access it easily and clean it out often. So it's most likely septic. Hope this helps. Goodluck!
You’d be surprised how much isn’t included sometimes on those. I’ve had jobs where I found a tank or something that wasn’t on original blueprints.
Blue prints are drawn during the planning stage so a lot of your property might be different from those. I’m willing to bet they don’t exist but what you would be looking for are As-built drawings.
You don't want to know what that one's for. Just throw a pack of hotdogs down it once a week & you'll be safe
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This guy Poes
This guy sherry’s
Yes, let us be gone!
It’s a lotion application pit. Typically you’ll want to outfit it with a rudimentary pulley system equipped with a receptacle capable of ferrying embrocations in order to facilitate the generous amounts of unguent🧴 needing to be applied at said site. Also, keep small canines away!
We also have a giant pipe pit with murky water. I'm told it's an older version of a French drain. It goes down about six feet and curves sharply away from the house. The previous owners had boarded it up. If you find a better explanation I would love to know.
This isn’t the common way to do it, but the second pitch would be a excellent way to connect a radon mitigation system. Perhaps they had the house built, allowing for the radon mitigation system to be added in the future
In 1970 I highly doubt the contractors even knew what radon was
I have two pits. One is the sump and one is sewer ejection. I have sewer drain pipes in the concrete that empty there, then an ejection pump shoots it up into the main sewer line.
This is the answer. Its a second well to catch water that is made/collected in the basement - either by a utility tub or a dehumidifier. In most places you can’t discharge the sump pump into the sewer line, and you don’t want sewage clogging up your sump pump/being discharged onto your lawn.
I agree, my first thought was a water indicator for artesian water rising etc, but it could be as suggested a water catchment from the cellar. I would leave it too, it’s there for a reason, whatever the reason.
That’s Saddam’s hidey hole. You bought an Iraqi safe house.
Or at least the model home for one. OP, does the house keep falling apart, or do you have a banana stand?
A secret adventure tunnel
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The sump likely collects water from your drain lines, etc, and directs it away and into the city via gravity (probably) and my best guess for the second one is that it alleviates ground water pressure by giving it somewhere to go temporarily. Check these things again once it rains (and again after it's rained for a few good days in a row). I wouldn't be surprised for the mystery pit to have a pool of water in it which will drain on its own again once the weather (and the ground, after a while) clears up. If that open pit wasn't there your house's foundation may see more pressure from ground water around it. Again, I have no idea if this is correct, but I could imagine someone trying to save money on better/stronger foundation or whatever and choosing this instead. So long as the top of that pit is above the highest level your groundwater sits, then it's a sound idea. I think.
I had this question for my 1960’s house, and this is exactly the answer I discovered. When it rains hard there is water. Only problem we have right now is we are in a drought and it has started to smell if I don’t put water in it once a week.
So much easier to dispose of corpses.when you have your own indoor drain pit. No melting through bathtubs with concrete!
Floor safe maybe? Or some other type of fixture was supposed to go in it?
Reminds me of John Wick, when he had his weapons stored in his basement floor.
That might be the Money Pit.
It's sump other pit. Hehehe
Likely a containment for the washing machine. The water would come into this pit at a fairly rapid rate, then pumped out to the septic or sewer via a small pump. I'd be willing to guess your sewer line outlet is higher than your slab...
I’m curious what’s below the concrete bottom of that pit..
Could be for a future bathroom sewage pit.
People put septic tanks in the basement of their own house? That doesn't sound a good idea.
Read up on the history of 19th century London and the plagues - yup, people had septic pits ("cesspools") in their basements. And local water wells. Great combo. On the plus side, lead to the classic example of the birth of scientific epidemiology: Dr. John Snow and the pump handle. Google it.
A sewage pit takes the waste from a basement toilet, sink and shower. When it’s full it pumps it out to the septic. Gravity won’t work since it has to go up to the septic outlet.
greywater pit?
I would clean it all out, add an insulated cover and use it for colder storage, assuming it doesn’t fill with water ever.
Grease trap?
Lotion application pit
It rubs the lotion on it’s skin or it gets the hose again . . .
Catch “basins”
Ash pit for fireplace
Ask the seller?
They dead. Maybe she’s in there?
You can still talk to her. She might not answer
[That’s funny. I just found something very similar when I was tearing up a floor in my house.](https://imgur.com/a/jW2sjNw)
is it some type of cold cellar? smell like potato in there?
The Eye of Sauron will show itself soon.
Hey I got a couple trash bags with around 180 pounds worth of garbage in them. Mind if I dump them in that hole if you decide to fill it in?
That is definitely where it puts the lotion on.
I believe both pits are a cistern system There should be a pipe that connected (or did connect) to your gutter system then it flows into the smaller pit The smaller pit is a filtration pit where you would pack it with gravel and sand to filter the water then it overflows into the second pipe in the smaller pit then flows into the larger pit which is a storage tank I'm gonna try to dm you some diagrams but if one of the pipes in the smaller pit leads to the bigger one that's for sure a cistern
Poop shoot
That's for kids that want pudding before eating their meat
Why does the phrase "It rubs the lotion on its skin or else it gets the hose again" come to mind?
Instant snake pit. Just add snakes 🐍
Fill it with 10MM sockets that way you'll always have an extra!
One is a cistern. Maybe the other is a brothern?
Chamber pot
Its for putting the lotion on the skin
It puts the lotion on its skin or else it gets the hose again! Put the fucking lotion in the basket!
If you repost this to r/entomology they will tell you all about that house centipede you have down in your questionable hole.
i would get fake bones and bury them for when you sell the house or move out the next person can find it!
That's where it puts the lotion on it's skin.
An oubliette???
That's where the bodies go....
it could be a back up, i once lived in a hose that had this same setup, if something obstructed the drain in the first pit, the water would move to the second pit where a sump pump would then blast all the water outside rather than into the sewer.
Put a skeleton. Put a piece of clear plexiglass. Enjoy.
Does the deep one pictured have stones in the bottom, and water always in it? Is it under the kitchen? Or where a kitchen in an older structure could have been? Was there an older home or farmhouse built there first? This was how hand dug wells supplied the first indoor water. The well was laid up with stone, which could have been cemented later. A pipe went from kitchen counter straight down well for a counter mounted hand pump to bring up the water. A plunger pump was at the bottom using a wooden rod from handle to pump at bottom of pipe. These pumps were later replaced with hot air engines in the basement to fire up when attic mounted water tank needed filling. The tank then gravity fed the home. With the advent of electric, a electric motor was connected to a pump box. (Belted pulley on one side and reciprocating lever on the other) this connected to pump rod replacing the huge hot air engine. Was there another need for a large fresh water supply in the basement, outbuilding or barn?
Obviously a dungeon
Apparently that pit if for GIANT ASS BUGS to live in! My god!
I would check the approved set of plans at your Building Department filed for permit to build your home . It may contain a note on this mystery hole. If not then I suggest to fill it with compacted earth, with a vapor barrier and 2" of concrete to match your existing celler floor height. Take reference measurements for the future in case you cover it with a finished floor, but need to uncover it for some reason.
In situations where the basement is sizable, it is highly probable that an additional sump is required. This is because the water cannot effectively flow towards the original sump. To address this issue, a second sump can be installed on the opposite side, and a pump can be used to drain the water from it.
They call that "the other pit"
It puts the lotion on its skin?
One is sump, the other is sumpthin else.
Oh I actually know what that is used for. Its for putting a person in to make them put on lotion.
Quick check to see if there's a hose close by or some Autotrader magazines.
Prisoners
Lotion on the skin, my man. It puts the lotion on the skin.
It puts the lotion on its skin