Portal?
By BarBaraPrz
@BarBaraPrz (51811)
St. Catharines, Ontario
August 1, 2012 5:52pm CST
There may be a portal to my childhood underneath my house...
Let me explain. The previous owner had dug out under the backend intending (according to the neighbors) to put in a bit of a basement and furnace. He never finished and when I moved in the hole was still there. In it I found the head of a doll, a doll like one I had as a child.
I hired someone to shore up the structure and the hole was filled in. Fast forward 11 years to this summer. A friend is helping me fix the half-axe job previously mentioned. This involves digging around the (non-existent) foundation. And I keep finding interesting things, such as marbles and building blocks (yeah, I know, everyone had those) and coal (heating method of choice when I was a child). Lovely bits of linoleum and the top of a salt shaker, beads, a rubber ball...
Today, I dug up a red plastic belt, similar to one my mother bought me one time after being a good girl at the dentist's... That's what got me thinking there may be a portal to my childhood (or an alternate one) under my house.
Wonder what I'll find tomorrow...
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8 responses
@ANTIQUELADY (36440)
• United States
2 Aug 12
HOW NEAT. 
. I would love to help u look, that's right down my alley. I love old things.I once cleaned out a house that belonged to the mother of a friend of my mothers. It was hard work but i loved finding the treasures.
. I would love to help u look, that's right down my alley. I love old things.I once cleaned out a house that belonged to the mother of a friend of my mothers. It was hard work but i loved finding the treasures.@BarBaraPrz (51811)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
2 Aug 12
Still hoping to find a jar of pennies or something, but no luck so far. I did find a knife with a corroded handle and a hat with a neat patch on it of a donkey and cart, and I found a spine under there... maybe chicken.
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@ANTIQUELADY (36440)
• United States
2 Aug 12
I hope u find something REALLY GOOD'.
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@winterose (39887)
• Canada
5 Aug 12
wow that must be fun, your and archeologist digging for relics
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@BarBaraPrz (51811)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
5 Aug 12
Yes, my friend Juanita says I should have been one. 
@KrauseHome (36445)
• United States
4 Aug 12
Sounds like someone used this area to play in before you decided to cover the area up, and now with digging that area up, you are finding some interesting things they might have played with then there that were often left behind. Just quite amazing thing this is, and since you used to play with a lot of the same things it will bring back hopefully some good memories. Wonder what you will find next, and what good memories will they bring back to you as well?
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@BarBaraPrz (51811)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
4 Aug 12
The previous owner didn't have children, neither did the one before him.
@BarBaraPrz (51811)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
4 Aug 12
Not so far, maybe when we dig on the other side.
@BarBaraPrz (51811)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
2 Aug 12
I once rented a room to a fellow who (after he moved out) robbed a bank...
But not in this place. I could do with a few extra thou... to pay for this work.
@p1kef1sh (45681)
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2 Aug 12
A famous London doctor by name Crippen liked to bury things in his basement; he had a particular love of burying wives down there! I hope that your previous owner wasn't of the same persuasion. I think that it's kind of exciting to find all these old things. Imagine the stories they could tell.
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@BarBaraPrz (51811)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
2 Aug 12
Funny you should mention the previous owner's wife...
The neighbors never saw her so didn't know he was married until he moved out.
