We were moving furniture in the finished basement of our dream home, but a bookshelf fell against the drywall and made a huge crack in the wall. Investigating further, it was apparent that the previous owner had walled off some sort of doorway in the concrete block behind the drywall with plywood. Behind the plywood was a crudely cut hole in the concrete block doorway to a small rough hewn room beneath the concrete slab foundation of our kitchen nook. The room even had electric lights installed with primitive wiring.
Within the room was a strange intoxicationg ammonia like odor, and within the room were all kinds of "scientific devices" and chemicals. The room contained what looked like a whole bunch of computers connected together by a bunch of wires. Below the computers on the desk there was a whole bunch of books on cyber security and s bunch of stuff about "pick up artist tactics".
On the other side of the room, there was a workbench with all kinds of beakers and test tubes. Below the workbench was what looked like a grill tank. The only actual chemicals I found was a canning jar full of little red pills, a drawer filled with white crystals and all kinds of pills, a strange ameythest like gemstone, Pharmacy bottles containing Adderall, Risperdone, Fluvoxamine, and "generic oxytocin injection", a small camping propane cylinder with out a label, but marked, "Hydrazine" with sharpie, a jar full of what smelled like baby oil with a bunch of strange coiled metal foil floating in it, a bunch of dark purple crystals in another jar. I also found about fifty vitamin bottles filled with a strange bright red liquid that had a bleach/gasoline/alcoholic smell to it, and all kinds of electronic curcuit boards, a soldering iron, and what looked like a blow torch.
I took the gem, thinking it was a valuble gem and placed it in my jewelry box, but i corroded my juicy couture charm bracelets just by sitting in the drawer. After hearing this, my husband turned on the power to the lab and started experimentng and trying to figure out what the previous owner used the laboratory for. When I found out what he was doing, I saw that he dropped the ametheyst like stone into the bottle of strange red liquid, and that the mixture was bublling and changing color.and then burned rapidly, leaving behind an orange powder on the inside of the flask as well as a yellowish white crystal in the bottom of the flask, while leaving the ameythest like gem unchanged.
As soon as I saw this, I told him to stop experimenting, but he had already started another reaction, he apparently put a bunch of white crystals, ammonia, half the jar of red pills, a bunch of the pharmaceuticals, the purple crystals, all the results from the previous reaction, and a random handfull of a bunch of different pills from the draw in some strang flask with a bunch of tube attached to it. The resulting reaction got extremely hot once he threw in half the metal from the baby oil jar. The reaction started emitting strange green fumes, and we ran from the lab. We had to ventillate the basement, and once we returned, we saw that the gem was unchanged, but the flask was full of a bunch more crystals as well as a bunch of other powders, and fumes that had a sickeningly sweet odor, and seemed to put us in a stupor.
I finally got it through him to stop messing with the lab, and told him that he was not a scientist and shouldnt be messing with these things. He then said that he tried to check the computer systems for information, but everything was encrypted with some sort of 8192 bit private key encryption.
What the heck was the previous owner doing down here, and how do we clean this up, does this crudely constructed room present a risk to the house above it, could the concrete slab under this part of our house crack. What do I do about this lab, and what was the prevous owner using this lab for? Can you possibly identify eack of the chemicals that I listed above, what were the strange pills and crystals I described? What are those pharmaceuticals meant for?
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