Backyard Urban Exploration

So we have a bomb shelter in our yard, or so i thought. Anyway i forgot about it for like 15 years, then when i was about to move back home it dawned on me that, duh beer seller!!! Anyway i brought it up to my dad and he was like, "Oh, it's actually an old wine celler. It used to have a wine press in it, but the neighbors stole it. Also it has electricity." And i was like, "WHAT we have a wine celler in our back yard and you never told me?? I'm never leaving,"and he was like, "That's why we never told you." I am so excited i'm about to pee my pants.


Anyway, this is what it looks like after decades of neglect. I was afraid when i opened it a snake was going to jump in my face, because oBviously that's what snakes do. Fortunately that did not happen, there was a small centipede city though.

This is when my neighbor stopped by and told us all kinds of interesting shit. Apparently up the street there's a horse farm that used to be a bootlegging distillery during prohibition, and they only found out about it because a horse fell through the floor into one of the stills, and they dug up like 50 of them (stills, not horses). Sooo cool. She says that's what ours was probably originally used for, and that most houses on the block have something similar. Coolest block ever.

I don't know if you can see, but the stairs are all rotted away, and you have to use the concrete bracers on the side.

I got about half way down when the ceiling started moving, fucking bats. So now we have to mothball it and shit to get ride of them and bugs. My dad was like, "just go down there, they won't hurt you," and i was like, "You go down then!" and he was like, "I'm not an idiot." Anyway the closest i got was stretching my arm around the corner.

And Whoa! Mystery door:

This sort of looks like a room where serial killers hide people/bury them. That's why i've created a five step process to de-sketchify the celler

1. Get Bat's and shit out.
2. Clean
3. Fix it up! (or as my dad says, "hire some Mexican's to pave the floor." (Really though, we're not bigots.))
4. Furnish
5. Create the greatest beer the world has ever seen.

So simple enough. If you're wondering where my next pay check is going the answer is bills, but the one after that is going to the most awesome beer celler/underground bar ever.