The Mystery Square

[Karen]

How very odd - no one laid a tarp down there or anything?

[pomtzu]

How very odd - no one laid a tarp down there or anything?

Nope - nothing! That was my thought when I first noticed it and I asked my son if he put down any kind of lumber or a tarp. Nope! We are both wracking our brains on this one.....

I'm thinking of taking a soil sample over to Southern States (an ag store) to see if they can analyze it.

[Taz_Zoee]

My first thought was if it was sod and that section of sod died, but obviously that's not the case.
That is bizarre! And what makes it even more strange is how it is a perfect square.

[Alysser]

Very odd, I'm just gonna go with the Spaceship theory.

[Bonny]

Could there be some cement not to far under the square? Maybe an old cistern is under the ground in that spot?

[Asiel]

I was thinking your septic bed because it's so squareut usually the grass is always thicker and greener on there. Did you pour anything caustic down your toilet or sinks that could have cause some bubbling and affected the grass? Can't be cinch bugs, they don't cut a nice square patch like that. Does make you think that maybe something hovered just on top of the spot...

Spooky for sure but there has to be an answer.

[pomtzu]

This was really bugging us both, so son got a shovel out of the garage and started digging - carefully to avoid the live electric lines, even tho they are encased in PVC. About 6 inches down, he hit cement. I thought maybe it was just part of a broken cinder block, so he went to an entirely different location within the square and dug another hole - hits cement again. So we really had to reach back in time and search memories and put the pieces together.

Well - we found a partial answer and Bonny had it right to a point - but it still doesn't explain that this is the first time that it has ever happened. We got down to serious thinking, and remembered that there had been another shed in that area after the first one was demolished, and it sat on a cement pad. When that one got demolished and yet another bigger one put in, it was just installed over the old cement pad. That shed stood for many years when it ultimately got torn down when the garage went in. The cement pad was never broken up and hauled away, and soil was just piled on top, dozed level and grass planted.

So it seems there indeed is a cement pad under this square. But since it has been buried there for the past 6+ years, why didn't the grass die off 6 years ago?? Why now?? Every year it has been just as green as all the other grass around it, and it can't be said it's because of drought conditions, since we're far from that!!!

Well, at least now I know it wasn't a square space craft ~~~~~ was it?

Mystery half solved.