IamA man who has just found a secret building on my property. AMA!

Does anybody else think of the guy in that secrets thread who still lives in the bunker of a house he sold to someone...?

Edit: Okay, okay, apparently I haven't posted the link enough times! http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/t0ynr/throwaway_time_whats_your_secret_that_could/c4zrenn

That is literally the first thing that came to my mind when i opened this thread up.

i hoped it was him.

If it's him, you'll know. Oh you'll know for sure.

Are you him?

No, not him. Unless it's a Tyler Durden thing.

I am Hunter Davis' secret house.

Want to buy some soap?

You're him aren't you?

Damn you caught me!

By which, I assume, we can rest assured that OP will actually deliver?

yep!

hahah I hadn't heard that but I love the idea a guy is going to jump out. Waaay better than spiders.

http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/t0ynr/throwaway_time_whats_your_secret_that_could/c4zrenn

oh snap that makes me wonder....

Ah snap be careful, you should dust the door handle for prints to see if its been used recently.

Yeah op. Just dust the handle for prints. Head down to your local bag of dust and tiny brush warehouse if you dont have your own already. Tell them Jimmie sent you and he wants his coochie back. They'll know what it means.

Not sure if buying anything from a local bag of dust warehouse is ever a good idea. Tiny brushes though...

Or telling someone's associate they want their... coochie back.

Yes, was it ... loaned out?

Modern fingerprint dusting is performed using copier toner and a magnet on the end of a stick!

The magnet attracts a tuft of iron dust (that's included in all copier toner,) so it acts like infinitely small bristles. And ...this is exactly the way that copiers deposit the black dust onto the paper, the only difference being that the paper has little spots of electric charge rather than little spots of skin oil.

I've seen one fingerprint kit with that magnet thingie. They used little bottles of magenta and cyan toner from a color copier! I guess that's best for showing up prints on dark uncolored surfaces. You can also get a mixture of iron dust and UV-fluorescent powder.

TIL how modern fingerprint dusting works! Thanks!

It'll be spiders. It will be just like the Well of Souls in Raiders, but full of goddamned spiders. Just you watch.

Definitely why I'll let someone else try and pull the door open first :)

Nice of you to whore it out over 2 parts. Was interested until i read stay tuned for part 2, eh no thanks.

Let me know if you decide to check it out once the second part is up :)

Same here ... my first thought was so much for living rent free.

I wouldn't kick him out, I'd ask if he wanted to live there and landscape in exchange for rent.

This thread, also known as "How to DDoS Your Own Webserver".

I had a front page article like a year ago, ended with roughly 400,000 hits (just by Google Analytics count, so more when you count the people blocking GA) in the period of 4 hours.

Piece of shit VPS, 512mb RAM, and it never skipped a beat.

tl;dr people need to learn to use varnish cache and/or Wordpress caching plugins and/or cloudflare.

He also appears to be on Bluehost hosting (most likely just the a shared account) which is limited to 15 simultaneous database connections per user. Super easy to hit that limit if you have a substantial amount of traffic and your queries aren't optimized.

Yup, good call.

good call, I'll definitely look into varnish cache.

Ha actually laughed out loud when I read this.

I only have one question:

How the hell can you be patient enough to wait until tomorrow to open up that secret hut?! I wouldnt be able to sleep knowing there was a likely bomb shelter/ strip club/ gangster gun shack/ underground tunnel to the batcave/ vault filled with gold in my back yard

It's hard, really hard! But If it collapses on me or I get bit by something I'd prefer it happens in broad daylight and I'm surround by people who can rush me to the hospital. Plus I can dangle it like a carrot to get certain less helpful friends to move boxes.

What do you think it is?? Seriously

It has a flat roof, not a slanted roof like a typical shed. Sturdy door and walls. My honest guess is some sort of shelter.

Seriously, I'm wondering if it's either a canning shed or it's holding some old lawn equipment. The other side of that is the highway was built around the same time, and is not far away, it could lead to an old access tunnel? Trying not to get my hopes up..

Get off reddit, grab a flashlight, go outside and show us what the fuck is in there, or you're a motherfucker. Officially, I said it.

I'm sorry, but you're a motherfucker for doing this to us.

Appropriate username.

Nah I am kind of a motherfucker for splitting this up into 2 parts...

It's only two days TSOR, you'll make it!

You're a smart guy, OP. I'm calling it now that OP will deliver.

thanks!

Phrasing...

I guess we're not doing that anymore.

Phrasing again!

So he has an opportunity to spam his website on reddit again tomorrow.

Here's hoping it'll be ready for the increased load this time...

DB Cooper, it has to be. A corpse wearing an old parachute, and a bunch of really old $100 bills. What would you do if it was DB Cooper?

Edit: apparently it was all $20s, not $100s

If it was DB Cooper, I'd call Anderson Cooper for the scoop and we'd have a hell of a catchy title for a story.

Tomorrow, OP finds a shitty old lawnmower and a mostly empty bag of topsoil.

Free topsoil! Hell yeah :)

Make sure you check the expiration date before you try to use it. It may have gone bad.

good call!

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Yep, karma. That and I wasn't ballsy enough to open it up myself tonight.

Karma whoring is only bad if there's nothing in return. A repost, shitty story, ugly cat, etc.

This is an ACTUAL story. A guy has something that is unique, meme-worthy (the safe) and that people are genuinely interested in.

As a reader, it's the 1 of 1000 posts around here that's actually worth talking about and the 1 out of 1000 of those that's actually worth remembering and following up on.

I for one will GLADLY give him an upvote that costs and means nothing.

Thanks monsto, I like your attitude!

Do not go in there unless you want to be pushing buttons every 108 minutes for the rest of your life.

Wait so we're in purgatory? Ugh where is Hurley when we need him?

What if you open the safe...and find yourself in there?

Then it's a mirror?

That's some Dagobah system shit right there

Luke: "What's in there?" Yoda: "Only what you take with you." Hunter: Umm, doesn't that mean it's empty, and isn't that true for every damn empty room ever?

Wait a minute...

Hahah yeah a lot of people thought that apparently :)

How cool would a fully stocked bomb shelter be?

Seriously I can't even describe how cool that would be!

You realize this ama pretty much makes you a crack dealer and we are the crackheads who NEED to know what's inside.

The first post is always free...

No matter what you find, it will still be full of sweet sweet karma

Indeed it already has been and it's not even open yet!

My bro found a safe in a property he bought, it had krugerrands and silver dollars when he busted it open. Hope you fare well with yours as well.

Thanks I love old coins so that'd be incredible!

I'm guessing it's full of surplus Fleshlight liners.

Sounds like a business opportunity! Lot of tech workers here ;)

Dude I live in the area and I'm taking my kids to the science center tomorrow. What time do you want us over for the shed opening party?

Let's hope it's kid friendly....

Your house is Myst.

Ugh no wonder I have to click forward one room at a time!

Nice.

Thanks.

It's sad how excited I am about this

me too!

This is now going to be the highlight of my weekend...finding out what's in the shed.

Sorry to hear that.

That's ok @hmsmela, it's the highlight of my year so far!

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Don't worry, I rolled for initiative and got a natural 20...

Never forget: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mystery_of_Al_Capone%27s_Vault

I was a kid when that aired but I remember the letdown. Did Capone ever travel to Seattle?

Seattle? It could be a path to the original city under the current one.

I like this idea SO MUCH

You should Twitch your reveal . . . why? just cuz!

I'd fucking watch it.

edit: I've since learned that uStream is a better idea. FUCKING STREAM IT.

Hrmm interesting. Gaming related? Tomb raider?

Well, I'm just saying to use Twitch to do the live broadcast. Fuck a theme.

I just thought it'd be cool to see it opened up live. If it's just a shed, great. a :05 broadcast. But if it's something more, an actual video chronicle would be quite cool.

Good call, I may do the next post documentary video style.

1. How old is your house?
2. What part of the world are you in, as it may be an old military post if your on the eastern part of the U.S..

1. Built in early 1950s
2. Seattle

Question:

If this mystery shed is full of millions of dollars, do you plan to share with your coworkers?

If it is full if spiders or poop, no sharing would be necessary.

Answer:

Either way I'll be sure to share with my coworkers :) They get enough of my shit anyway. ba-dum-bum.

My short bio: I write software and post articles on hunterdavis.com

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[Huntergdavis]

If hidden_bunker = full_of_loot;

Then huntergdavis_comment_karma = huntergdavis_comment_karma + reddit_gold

Endif

If user_huntergdavis = Fail_to_deliver

Then huntergdavis_comment_karma = (huntergdavis_comment_karma - reddit_gold) + Fuck_you * suns^thousands

Endif

Loop [Huntergdavis]

Do you work for my hosting provider? Seems like there's quite a few of these unbounded loops without exit conditions running...

Pictures of the inside of that building?

They'll come with part 2 as soon as I crack it open this weekend!

What would make you most happy to find in there?

A 1950 Indian Chief Black Hawk that somehow hasn't rusted away

are you sure these photos weren't from the 1988 secret garden movie!?! uncanny! :)

is that you Colin???

/r/whatsinthisthing

They seem less interested... http://www.reddit.com/r/WhatsInThisThing/comments/2404ay/i_found_a_secret_building_on_my_property_and_a/

Have you informed the authorities about this?! And open the vault already!

Haha nah, they wouldn't care. Now if I find a body..... yeah....

Dead body.

really hoping it's not a 50 year old body of any kind.

You have found the necronomicon.

Next video will have me with a chainsaw arm :)

Dag yo! Now I'm all curious and shit.

word!

grow room

50 year old plants... seeds still good? mellow gold indeed.

Holy shit dude. Get a locksmith on that crap.

That's definitely the plan with the safe, after I try some drills on it. The "shed" though, I'm cracking that open this weekend!

Nah don't drill the safe, just get a locksmith. Odds are you won't be able to open it by drilling anyway, and you may damage the safe to the point where a locksmith can't really help you. Get a locksmith straight away and at least you'll end up with a functioning safe.

Good call, it's in there pretty good and so I may as well try and use it.

/r/whatsinthisthing

http://www.reddit.com/r/WhatsInThisThing/comments/2404ay/i_found_a_secret_building_on_my_property_and_a/

Did you find out what's inside yet, or what?

Nope, I literally took those photos a couple hours ago. I'm going to crack it open this weekend.

I am gong to be fairly disappointed if it's just lawn equipment. Unless that vintage lawn mower is worth hundreds on Pawn Stars.

Vintage lawn mower would be a big win. I'd chrome it up and show it off on reddit for even more karma :)

literally?

Yep, I took them!

Open it. Dope in it.

Succinct. Wise.

Is this an advertisement for hunterdavis.com?

Sure seems like one.

Are blog posts advertisements? Totally is if so.