I found a basement in my house that I don't remember

Let me start off by saying that the house I live in is not a new house. My family moved here when I was about five years old and it has been the only actual house that I have ever lived in. I think my parents might have lived in an apartment or something like that when they were younger. Anyway they say that they bought the house new from the contractor that made it. <br><br>Now I have been living in the house for about 30 years, I'm forty five and I don't remember anything unusual happening in the house. Just the usual growing up stuff. <br><br>Anyway last week on Thursday afternoon I was at home alone. My wife was at work and kids at school. I'm an accountant so I can work from home and I choose to do so because I can easily look after the kids after school when my wife is still at work. <br><br>I think it was a couple of hours after lunch and I was walking down the hallway in my office towards the main front door. It's not everyday that I walk down the hallway but when I do, I always notice this door. <br><br>I don't know if anyone else has noticed it, but in my house the dry wall was complete before the hardwood floors went in. <br><br>So the original builder and contractor for our neighborhood installed the drywall and painted and finished all the walls and the ceilings before they installed the hardwood floors. <br><br>So what this means is that the base boards on the walls go all the way down to the concrete slab that they built the house on. And if you look closely you can see a small little lip at the bottom of the baseboards where it covers the slab. <br><br>Anyway as I was walking down the hall I noticed that the baseboard was missing. It was maybe about two feet long and just above the front door. <br><br>So I squatted down to check it out. I didn't remember ever seeing it missing before. <br><br>And when I went to grab it I noticed something weird. <br><br>When I lifted the baseboard I saw that under it was concrete. Like it should be. But there was a tiny little piece of carpet sort of plastered down on the concrete. <br><br>I pulled on it and there was a piece of old carpet that had been wedged down in there. <br><br>I looked around a little bit to see if I could find the base board but it was nowhere to be found. <br><br>I'm not sure what made me do it. But I decided to see how far the carpet went under the wall. <br><br>I got a screwdriver and I used it to pull the carpet out from under the drywall. <br><br>And it went quite far back. <br><br>I decided to keep going. I went and got a pair of needle nose pliers and I got down on the ground as close as I could to the wall and I used the pliers to keep pulling it out. <br><br>It took some work but eventually I pulled enough out that I was able to grab it with my hands. <br><br>I pulled and pulled and sort of rolled it up as I went. <br><br>I was kind of curious as to how far it went. Because I was pretty sure that the wall was a foundation wall. Because I remembered the builders talking about it when I was a kid and they were finishing up all the work on our house and the other houses in the neighborhood. I didn't remember them insulating the floor when I was a kid. But I was pretty sure that they did. <br><br>After what felt like ten feet or so, I could see the end of the carpet and I realized that it wasn't carpet. <br><br>It was a piece of flooring. It was a piece of laminate flooring like I had in the majority of my house. But this piece was older than the rest of the floors in my house. <br><br>I was confused. Why would they leave a piece of flooring under the baseboards? <br><br>So I decided to look to see where the flooring went. <br><br>I followed it down the hallway as far as I could and I couldn't see where it ended. <br><br>The next morning I got up early and decided to keep following it. <br><br>I have a boarded up door at the end of the hallway. I think everybody's houses have them. It's just a door that they board up and cover with drywall. It's not a functioning door. <br><br>The flooring went all the way to the door. <br><br>I always thought that the door was for access to the crawl space. <br><br>But when I started moving the drywall that was covering the door I realized that it wasn't the sort of drywall that they typically use. <br><br>Instead of being like a paper product on the outside it was sort of like particle board. <br><br>So I decided that it would be easy enough to pull off. <br><br>I broke it off in pieces and threw the pieces in the garbage bag. <br><br>As I got closer to the door, I realized that it wasn't a boarded up door it was an actual door. <br><br>I was sort of surprised at that because I didn't know that doors made out of drywall existed. <br><br>So I grabbed the knob on the door and it opened up. <br><br>When I looked inside I couldn't believe what I was seeing. <br><br>It was a basement. <br><br>So I grabbed a flashlight and turned it on and I started making my way down the stairs. <br><br>The stairs were made of concrete. They weren't wooden like the stairs that go to the second floor. <br><br>I reached the bottom of the stairs and I realized that it was a pretty good sized room. It was as big as the rest of the house. <br><br>I sort of thought that it would be smaller than the house, but it was just as big. <br><br>As I was walking around the room I realized that there was no insulation in the ceiling. The insulation was on the cement slab above me. <br><br>I walked around the entire basement. There was a furnace in one corner, a water heater in another and a sink. There was nothing else. <br><br>I didn't even see any wires or plumbing. Everything had been removed. <br><br>So I made my way back upstairs and grabbed my phone. <br><br>I called my neighbor. <br><br>My neighbor is about my age and lived in the neighborhood his whole life. <br><br>I asked him if he remembered anything odd about the houses when they were being built. <br><br>He didn't really remember anything except that there was a problem with the crawl spaces. <br><br>Apparently some of the crawl spaces had issues with leaking. <br><br>But they had fixed the problem years ago. <br><br>Then he asked me why I was asking. <br><br>I told him about the basement in my house. <br><br>There was a long pause. <br><br>I was starting to think that the call had been disconnected. <br><br>And then I heard a voice, but it wasn't a voice. <br><br>It sounded like static. <br><br>It sounded like tv static. <br><br>It was a voice but it wasn't a voice. <br><br>It was like something was talking through the static. <br><br>It said "do not remember, forget that you remember, do not remember, forget that you remember" <br><br>I hung up the phone. <br><br>I don't know what's going on. I don't know if you can be influenced through a phone call. But I think I might have been. <br><br>I'm writing this on paper. I don't know if I'll ever actually post it. <br><br>I don't think anyone will believe me. And I'm starting to think that maybe I should forget that I ever found it. <br><br>I don't know what's going on. But I don't think it's good.