at the lower right hand corner, the wooden shelf is being held up by a large flat stone. Several years ago while cleaning the basement, my grandmother and I looked at the stone closely and realized that it is a tombstone marked with a B standing for baby. My grandma assumes that because the house is over 200 years old, a family lost their child and couldn't afford to bury it properly, therefore it resides under the house.
*Melankolly's Cyanide Asylum*
~melankolly~