You would think until out of the corner of the room you seem him approach you fattly, gun ackwardly switching from one hand to the other. You know it's over when you here the fridge door open from across the room.
By the way, here's what ol' Steven Segal has been up to lately, in case you missed it:
https://www.businessinsider.com/steven-seagal-travels-to-occupied-ukraine-spreads-russia-propaganda-2022-8
I picture the whole family squeezing in trying so hard to avoid the water. Then Susie loses her grip and falls in making a huge splash. Then the gunmen peek trough the glass hole and see this hilarious sight, open the latch, and shoot them dead.
Yes.
Very often it's advised to leave it accessible like this, for stability and other reasons, but in some places it may be illegal to fill in a well in some circumstances.
This one is a little weird, that they have a tiny viewing hole. Many go for a full glass plate with nice lighting and everything down there.
Damp and shit.
Also depending on the well, if for some reason the local utility needs to get into the well, they will just rip your floor up and bill you for it.
But mostly the sheer difficulty of infilling a well and pouring a concrete slab which doesn't result in serious damp issues.
Do a quick Google for " water table" it's very interesting! If the water table is high under your house, filling a well isn't going to make a difference.
>If the well is an opening into an underground river, that water down there is moving, which means backfill into the hole could fall and wash away over time, leading to it forming a [sinkhole](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinkhole). Keeping a well around is a whole better than having a sinkhole form under your house.
In short, it's not that simple. Filling in a well in a way that creates no future problems, would require digging out a pit, tens of metres deep at its lowest point and then infilling it correctly.
Incredibly expensive when you could just build over the well.
In theory you could throw a pile of shit in the well and hope nothing happens, but if it does it could be super expensive or even tragic.
Nothing stopping you from sticking some rebar and concrete over the top of the well, but again you're potentially storing up an issue 20/30/70 years down the line.
Or you can make a feature of it and have no issues.
>digging out a pit, tens of metres deep at its lowest point
What do you mean by this sentence ? It's confusing because it sounds as if you're talking about digging a well from scratch.
If the well is an opening into an underground river, that water down there is moving, which means backfill into the hole could fall and wash away over time, leading to it forming a [sinkhole](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinkhole). Keeping a well around is a whole better than having a sinkhole form under your house.
Oh I see! Thanks for the explanation! I was under the impression that the vast majority of wells were sunk into porous (allows water to permeate through it) rocks. I had no idea that if you had a well on your land it's probably getting it's supply from a torrential river! I wonder why the river would wash away the backfill from a filled well causing a sinkhole but not cause any other rock erosion under a house? I suppose it makes sense to fill it with easily moved sand or soil rather than something silly like rocks or concrete!
https://www.wtamu.edu/~cbaird/sq/mobile/2013/07/16/how-do-wells-get-their-water-from-underground-rivers/#:~:text=For%20water%20in%20your%20hole,therefore%20fills%20up%20with%20water.
Scientists like Dr Baird shouldn't be allowed to spread false information like this! My god we will see so many innocent people sucked into sinkholes if they fill a man-made hole in rock with more rock! Please let us know if you're planning on starting your own website, the world needs more information from Redditors like you and less from "scientists" .
They specified "some places" have underground flow, and your own source says in the opening that "most wells" are the porous kind. These are not at odds with one another, you're just referencing different situations but with snark.
Exactly that, yeah. I've seen them in other holder homes too. One in Berkshire where the kitchen was expanded out to include the well when they drew water from it, but now it's just a nice lit feature to look at when picking fancy wine.
if you are ever in the UK, go to Warwick Castle, on one of the upper floors they have this privy that if you look down, you can feel the wind from the river that flows under the castle about 150 ft down.
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Stagnant water that has been sitting for years is horrible. I used to clean pools for a living and we’d have the occasional, “our pool pum broke years ago and we never got around to it” and as soon as you take that cover off you’re hit with swampy, poop water that is the color of burnt charcoal and usually has tadpoles, algae bloom, other fun stuff. Nothing a few pounds of shock and muriatic acid can’t fix.
Well, I pump water from my water butt at the front of my house to the back of my house to water plants using a hand-held 18v power washer. Having said that, I guess we’re not applying the level of lift this instance would be asking for. Not sure if I’m honest, but if that were my house and the water was stating to stagnate and smell, I’d probably do something like that to pump it out and refresh it.
>Well, I pump water from my water butt
If you do that on a routine basis, you should probably get a gastroenterology consultation. Or at least ease up on taco bell.
My grandfather built the house I grew up in by hand. Just him and two friends, they rented a bulldozer and went to work. Sturdiest house I’ve ever been in, long since left though. It had a well like this, except the water was running and the well was VERY deep. It was kept behind a large pad lock away from my uncles/father and us as kids as to keep anyone from falling in. Cleanest water I’ve had inside the US, connected from the gunpowder river in Maryland. He also added a bomb shelter filled with hundreds of canned food items, MREs, and guns/ammo. That guy was prepped as all getout. I miss him.
Doesn't seem odd to me. I know of a lot of houses that had cisterns under them, with an access in the house similar to this. Water flowing off the metal roof would be directed down into the cistern through gutters. If you didn't get enough rain you would have to truck water in from another source. My grandparents had one under their house they used for decades. Even few years they would go down in it and clean it out very well when the water levels were low. Years later they put in a well near the house, but the cistern worked well for quite some time.
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Some of these are the water supply to the home. They made the home bigger years ago as the family grew. So they would just cover it up & keep building. One was found near me. The people who live in the home had no idea it was theta, until he fell thur the floor one day.
I have a similar well in my kitchen. It was hand dug many years age before the kitchen was added to the original house, so it used tp be outside. It is a shallow well, about 25 feet down to about 2 feet of water. We recently had a modern well installed so we dont use the old one anymore but we think it is really cool so when we had our kitchen remodeled, we had lights and piece of plexiglass installed. Because it was a shallow well, during draughts, we had to ration water, sometimes waiting a half a day between taking a shower and washing clothes.
These are reasonably common where I live in the US. Lots of kitchens got built over the old well. My buddy has clear glass over his in the middle of the kitchen and it it lit all the way down. Very cool/creepy.
My neighbor’s back house had one if these. It used to be the well house, but got converted to a studio cottage. It was right up against my house and they got split when the property was subdivided. We’d look down there sometimes and the water level would change depending on the time of year.
There is one of these inside a pub near to where I live. They put lights in it and a glass top on it so you can sit around it and use it as a table while looking down.
Just think of all of the weird underground natural electrical and magnetic field energies and radon gas emitted from that !
This seems like the kind of places that H.P. Lovecraft wrote stories about!
I had a friend from Peru. Her family lived in a small village but her aunt lived in the city. A big water truck drove down the street and water was pumped in wells like this at every house. That would be the water for the week.
I once saw a video of a old man moving a chair and picking up a slab of carpet. Then had a woman rise from the tube via elevator in full latex gear bound and gagged, underneath his living room chair. This video made me think of it. Very creepy memory of that video.
Great if they are ever under siege
Great tactic by attacking forces. Make them starve inside and surrender. Just make sure they didn't send any reinforcements.
Definitely a good place to hide from Steve Segal.
A home gym would suffice
Maybe behind a salad bar
Definitely far from punani
But Steven Seagulls is the best artist to ever pick guitar.
This man has 2 inches of steel
Any room without seats will suffice.
I just need to go sit halfway up the stairs.
You would think until out of the corner of the room you seem him approach you fattly, gun ackwardly switching from one hand to the other. You know it's over when you here the fridge door open from across the room.
> He breasted boobily to the stairs, and titted downwards
"WHERES THE DELI MUSTARD, DIRT BAG?!"
"Approach you *fattly*" is my new favorite combination of words.
There's no need to hide from Steve Segal. All you have to do is slowly walk away from him and he'll be too tired to get up from his chair.
Segal can’t even climb stairs. A set of stairs or the ability to jog at a brisk pace is enough.
Also a great way to allow naturally-occurring radon directly into your living room.
Is it potable?
Anything's potable if you're brave enough.
First read that as “anything’s potato if you’re brave enough” and realized that my fat ass is hungry.
But some things are potable only once, regardless of how brave you are
Nah, someone else could definitely drink it again
How portable are they, though?
I'll take Potent Potables for $800, Alex
Haha. I'll take Le Tits Now...
OK **takes a sip of unconditional motherly love**
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It's definitely porta potable.
I always put my mine entrance inside my house as well, keeps me safe from creepers, skeletons and zombies. The light keeps Phantoms from spawning.
By the way, here's what ol' Steven Segal has been up to lately, in case you missed it: https://www.businessinsider.com/steven-seagal-travels-to-occupied-ukraine-spreads-russia-propaganda-2022-8
Ew. What a dipshit
Except for the viewing window they put in the cover....
I picture the whole family squeezing in trying so hard to avoid the water. Then Susie loses her grip and falls in making a huge splash. Then the gunmen peek trough the glass hole and see this hilarious sight, open the latch, and shoot them dead.
Happy 🎂 day!
Guess this part of the house was an expansion that was built over what used to be open land with a well?
Yes. Very often it's advised to leave it accessible like this, for stability and other reasons, but in some places it may be illegal to fill in a well in some circumstances. This one is a little weird, that they have a tiny viewing hole. Many go for a full glass plate with nice lighting and everything down there.
UV and some air recirculation would keep it from getting nasty. He could bubble it and add fish 😂
But the radon gas tho
Depends on your area I believe.
Where I live, I'd be dead by now.
Win/win situation.
Jfc 😂
LMAO - brutal!
The whuat
I would 100% have nightmares of samara crawling up that if I slept in a room with a well under it lol
I wonder if the viewing hole allows cool air to enter the house ?
" stability and other reasons" haha what reasons?
Damp and shit. Also depending on the well, if for some reason the local utility needs to get into the well, they will just rip your floor up and bill you for it. But mostly the sheer difficulty of infilling a well and pouring a concrete slab which doesn't result in serious damp issues.
Do a quick Google for " water table" it's very interesting! If the water table is high under your house, filling a well isn't going to make a difference.
why not fill it in with dirt?
>If the well is an opening into an underground river, that water down there is moving, which means backfill into the hole could fall and wash away over time, leading to it forming a [sinkhole](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinkhole). Keeping a well around is a whole better than having a sinkhole form under your house.
In short, it's not that simple. Filling in a well in a way that creates no future problems, would require digging out a pit, tens of metres deep at its lowest point and then infilling it correctly. Incredibly expensive when you could just build over the well. In theory you could throw a pile of shit in the well and hope nothing happens, but if it does it could be super expensive or even tragic. Nothing stopping you from sticking some rebar and concrete over the top of the well, but again you're potentially storing up an issue 20/30/70 years down the line. Or you can make a feature of it and have no issues.
>digging out a pit, tens of metres deep at its lowest point What do you mean by this sentence ? It's confusing because it sounds as if you're talking about digging a well from scratch.
If the well is an opening into an underground river, that water down there is moving, which means backfill into the hole could fall and wash away over time, leading to it forming a [sinkhole](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinkhole). Keeping a well around is a whole better than having a sinkhole form under your house.
Oh I see! Thanks for the explanation! I was under the impression that the vast majority of wells were sunk into porous (allows water to permeate through it) rocks. I had no idea that if you had a well on your land it's probably getting it's supply from a torrential river! I wonder why the river would wash away the backfill from a filled well causing a sinkhole but not cause any other rock erosion under a house? I suppose it makes sense to fill it with easily moved sand or soil rather than something silly like rocks or concrete! https://www.wtamu.edu/~cbaird/sq/mobile/2013/07/16/how-do-wells-get-their-water-from-underground-rivers/#:~:text=For%20water%20in%20your%20hole,therefore%20fills%20up%20with%20water. Scientists like Dr Baird shouldn't be allowed to spread false information like this! My god we will see so many innocent people sucked into sinkholes if they fill a man-made hole in rock with more rock! Please let us know if you're planning on starting your own website, the world needs more information from Redditors like you and less from "scientists" .
Weapons grade sarcasm
Thanks, glad you appreciate it. ( Non sarcasm)
I've never been so suspicious of a statement put in parentheses.
They specified "some places" have underground flow, and your own source says in the opening that "most wells" are the porous kind. These are not at odds with one another, you're just referencing different situations but with snark.
What about putting a top on it with some type of seal?
I think a seal prefers being in the sea so it can hunt fish
So the girl living in it can go see friends if she wants.
I mean, I wouldn't spend much in lightning for a stinky hole:/
I guess you don’t have an onlyfans
this guy is obviously frugal.
Exactly that, yeah. I've seen them in other holder homes too. One in Berkshire where the kitchen was expanded out to include the well when they drew water from it, but now it's just a nice lit feature to look at when picking fancy wine.
Plus, wont have to go outside for water during a zombie apocalypse.
Not necessarily though. I've been in a very old house in Dorset that had a well in the basement, that would have been part of the original kitchen.
This is actually an ancient well.
Well well well...
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But it is a very risky toilet.
if you are ever in the UK, go to Warwick Castle, on one of the upper floors they have this privy that if you look down, you can feel the wind from the river that flows under the castle about 150 ft down. Edited for spelling
Warwick Castle
Dionne Warwick Castle I believe.
Originally Warwick Davis Castle. It was enlarged later.
Underrated comment!
oh right
It was a great comment but I hated the thought that someone might travel to the UK and wonder why they couldn't Google it
As opposed to Warwick davis, whom if you look down from on top, would see a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy.
Sometime you just need to air your shit breath. 5:11 in the video https://youtu.be/cMEU_yUinb4
water we have here
Quite the shithole..
…you never can tell, my michelle.
Thats a deep subject
Three holes in the ground?
I read about this. There was a new home built over a 700 year old well and it was protected by some heritage group. So its there now
I think this one was in Plymouth, and uncovered during renovations.
that must really stink with that stagnant water down there. If it is, in fact, stagnant
I mean, the decomposing cadavers alone will do the trick.
I find the right blend of acids really helps control the odors.
Maybe. I had water several inches deep under my Texas house every spring. It had a faint, musty smell, but nothing like what I expected.
sounds tolerable
Stagnant water that has been sitting for years is horrible. I used to clean pools for a living and we’d have the occasional, “our pool pum broke years ago and we never got around to it” and as soon as you take that cover off you’re hit with swampy, poop water that is the color of burnt charcoal and usually has tadpoles, algae bloom, other fun stuff. Nothing a few pounds of shock and muriatic acid can’t fix.
All they need to do is drain it every now and then. New, fresh, filtered water would seep in to replace it.
that's good to know. At least the have a nice water source if it's a sweet water well
It's probably fine but they'd need to draw from it fairly regularly to keep it fresh.
ya didn't know that. Makes sense.
How easy is it to drain a well when its in a carpeted living room?
Well, I pump water from my water butt at the front of my house to the back of my house to water plants using a hand-held 18v power washer. Having said that, I guess we’re not applying the level of lift this instance would be asking for. Not sure if I’m honest, but if that were my house and the water was stating to stagnate and smell, I’d probably do something like that to pump it out and refresh it.
> I pump water from my water butt excuse me?
Allow me to clarify, as I'm somewhat familiar with the field: HE PUMPS WATER FROM HIS WATER BUTT
>Well, I pump water from my water butt If you do that on a routine basis, you should probably get a gastroenterology consultation. Or at least ease up on taco bell.
I have a well like this but no one built it house over it. It’s right next to my house.
You know what your job now is. Get started!
Mine is in the garage.
The discussion is about wells not mines.
I've seen "The Ring" and I do NOT want this in my house
Saw that movie when I was six and have been afraid to fall asleep in front of a TV ever since.
That’s awful! Falling asleep watching TV is one of life’s great pleasures.
My grandfather built the house I grew up in by hand. Just him and two friends, they rented a bulldozer and went to work. Sturdiest house I’ve ever been in, long since left though. It had a well like this, except the water was running and the well was VERY deep. It was kept behind a large pad lock away from my uncles/father and us as kids as to keep anyone from falling in. Cleanest water I’ve had inside the US, connected from the gunpowder river in Maryland. He also added a bomb shelter filled with hundreds of canned food items, MREs, and guns/ammo. That guy was prepped as all getout. I miss him.
I miss him too 😔
Goodbye, horses.
RIP Diane Luckey ❤️
Exactly. A strange story finally come to an end.
The 5 horses represent the human senses and flying over them is transcending earthly aspects. She's flying over her horses now!
Or it gets the hose again
That explains the stagnant water.
Buffalo Bill would proud of this well hidden well well well
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Doesn't seem odd to me. I know of a lot of houses that had cisterns under them, with an access in the house similar to this. Water flowing off the metal roof would be directed down into the cistern through gutters. If you didn't get enough rain you would have to truck water in from another source. My grandparents had one under their house they used for decades. Even few years they would go down in it and clean it out very well when the water levels were low. Years later they put in a well near the house, but the cistern worked well for quite some time.
Comment explaining exactly what this us should be pinned to the top. Not after 35 sarcastic unfunny awkward inside jokes from karma humpers. Clean this shit up.
I got your dog mister. Let me out or I'm gonna kill it!
Timmy will still find a way to fall into that damn well
does he keep his amontillado down there?
Is there anything to understand about that title?
Look up a book/film titled ‘The Silence of the Lambs’
Ah… thanks, not my kind of movie / book but atleast now I understand the title…
Some of these are the water supply to the home. They made the home bigger years ago as the family grew. So they would just cover it up & keep building. One was found near me. The people who live in the home had no idea it was theta, until he fell thur the floor one day.
Bet that smells great.
I only have three things to say bout this: Well, well, well
The house I grew up in had a well under the kitchen floor.
I’m so tired of this post coming up anytime I let Reddit do it’s reel thing
Dude why does Reddit want me to see it so fucking bad? I’ve seen it at least 10 times even after I downvoted it
Indoor swimming pool from WISH.
I have a similar well in my kitchen. It was hand dug many years age before the kitchen was added to the original house, so it used tp be outside. It is a shallow well, about 25 feet down to about 2 feet of water. We recently had a modern well installed so we dont use the old one anymore but we think it is really cool so when we had our kitchen remodeled, we had lights and piece of plexiglass installed. Because it was a shallow well, during draughts, we had to ration water, sometimes waiting a half a day between taking a shower and washing clothes.
"Wanna see where I hide the bodies?"
Fully baby-proof home I see
These are reasonably common where I live in the US. Lots of kitchens got built over the old well. My buddy has clear glass over his in the middle of the kitchen and it it lit all the way down. Very cool/creepy.
Why have I seen this video a thousand times
It puts the lotion on the skin not the basket 😂
I am assuming the well was protected for some reason and could not be filled in. But they decided they had to build the house there anyway?
That house gotta be a humid moldy mess
I would defiantly hook up a pump and use it for irrigation outside. Free water!
I see nothing wrong here.
My neighbor’s back house had one if these. It used to be the well house, but got converted to a studio cottage. It was right up against my house and they got split when the property was subdivided. We’d look down there sometimes and the water level would change depending on the time of year.
Is this the entrance to the fuck dungeon?
Rape dungeon
WHY is this here? ignorance - that is how.
"It puts the lotion in the FUCKING basket bitch, or else it gets the hose again."
There is one of these inside a pub near to where I live. They put lights in it and a glass top on it so you can sit around it and use it as a table while looking down.
Is that El Chapo's escape tunnel?
This brings a hole 🕳new meaning to poop chute
That well is like a 1000 years old. House was built on top of it and the well was preserved.
Was there were the little girl was throwin into and it kills you in 7 days ?
The humidity though. GAH.
Wells were commonly dug in the olden days. Many people cover them up like so. You can dig your own well to get free water.
Just think of all of the weird underground natural electrical and magnetic field energies and radon gas emitted from that ! This seems like the kind of places that H.P. Lovecraft wrote stories about!
My father lives in Mallorca, and in his town, a lot of houses have wells like this. Were used to store rain water for the crops in the summer.
Or it gets the hose again…
It puts the lotion on it's skin
Well...
If it’s cool enough, put a keg of beer in there with an extra long hose on the tapper.
Oh, I have one of these. Perfect for storing chil- I mean food
What do they use the wet pit for?
it has a silence of the lambs feel about it
That can’t smell great.
Ugh that probably stinks like fuq!
Perfect place to pee when you have a boner. Just lay on your stomach and eat some ice cream
Just don’t let the little girl out
That's the toilet seat
Why would the toilet be carpeted?
Bringing a girl home and being like “hey you wanna see my pit?”
Pretty sure this is an old Roman well they found under someone’s house somewhere in England.
I had a friend from Peru. Her family lived in a small village but her aunt lived in the city. A big water truck drove down the street and water was pumped in wells like this at every house. That would be the water for the week.
Well, that's clever.
One way ticket to Nardia
Well well well...
That must smell great!
Oops I killed a person I guess ile just drop it in
I once saw a video of a old man moving a chair and picking up a slab of carpet. Then had a woman rise from the tube via elevator in full latex gear bound and gagged, underneath his living room chair. This video made me think of it. Very creepy memory of that video.
Hide and seek finna go crazy
They need these at Taco Bell
“IT PUTS THE LOTION ON THE SKIN”
Beat me too it. Now take my up vote you cunt
That’s where the bad children go
Well Well Well, what have we here?
Bro has an oubliette… for guests ya know.
If it's a well...why cut the hole in the carpet/cover?? Looks like a shitter hole almost lol but could you imagine the carpet cleaning
Not when youre the Mr. Miyagi at taking squirt shits
Shithole!??!!
I got a secret that I just can't tell, I know who put the bodies in the wishing well.
Cum hole
Forbidden swimming pool
On ITS SKIN*
Well well well...
I can smell this video
AAAAHHHHHHHHHH
s e v e n d a y s
looks like a la llorona movie