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Baby on a Blanket
FOUND by Hannah Wheeler
in Cedar Rapids, Iowa
I found this while playing in a makeshift club I created in my crawl space. Other old postcards were also discovered.
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We collect FOUND stuff: love letters, birthday cards, kids' homework,
to-do lists, ticket stubs, poetry on napkins, telephone bills, doodles -
anything that gives a glimpse into someone
else's life. Anything goes...
This photo must have been taken at the Roswell crash site, as you can tell by the flexible, metallic material on which the baby is laid upon. This picture alone proves that there is life on other planets. No more comments are need for this Find, I have cracked it and shared it's secret with you.
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Hannah - what is a 'crawl space'? A place where you can regress to babyhood? In which case this was an appropriate find.
Nice (and expensive looking) counterpane by the way.
Also I feel sad when I see babies holding heavy bottles they can't lift and drink from.
Blanket or new George Foreman Solar Baby Grill? You decide.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basement#Crawl_Space
:D
It looks pretty malevolent - those eyes! Is your crawlspace in Midwich?
A crawl space is the space between the walls that allows access to pipes, wiring etc. and also keeps those things hidden from view and protects them from damp (that's the theory). It's only big enough to crawl through.
So how old is Hannah, if she's still inventing clubs in the wall? Or is she really spying on the whole condo complex?
WAHAHAHA! (evil laugh)
Wombles have lived in crawl spaces for years. You never wondered where that last cookie or slice of pie went?
What I think is very interesting is the club in the crawl space. Was there any room to drag stuff in there? How did you decorate? Is it a dark club or is there lighting? So many questions. And the fact that someone else had hung out there before!
And in Cackalacky , a crawl space is UNDER the house, not in the walls.
Oh! I remember the days when those traveling sandwich trucks use to deliver babies! Good times.
This baby was obviously sent from the future in a spacepod to change the course of history forever.
Is this crawlspace hangout a kid's club or a music club for adults? methinks the latter. Although When I was young we built clubhouses whereever we could to try and take over the adults.
Martian baby! or the first pic of clark kent...
p.s- a crawl space is a mid-west thing. It's like a basement but there is only a tiny place, you have to crawl to fit. Most people use it for storage or storm cellars.
Crawlspaces are also common in the south were the limestone is too close to the surface to build a basement. But the mid-west probably has the most infamous crawlspace since that's where John Wayne Gayce buried his victims.
When I see pictures like this, I wish I was there just to play with the baby's toes. Then promptly give the little scudder back to Mama.
It couldn't have been a very big club. How many people can squeeze into a crawl space at one time?
this is just a PICTURE of a baby in a crawl space. Anyone hear about that guy in Toronto, who was doing renovations, and found an ACTUAL baby in the floorboards???? Now, that's creepy.
Actual, true story.
A baby in a crawlspace! What a find! Or is it really a baby or a tiny gnome living under the house?
Sardines, most crawlspaces are the same square-footage as the base of the house, they just have limited vertical clearance.
Centipedes and tarantulas be damned! I am making a club in my crawlspace too. I will look for space babies too.
Some crawl spaces here in the Midwest are actually deep enough to stand up in. Mine isn't, but a relative's house had one like that. So I can see where you could make a "club" in that space. I am mostly wondering why those pictures and things were in that space. Perhaps the previous resident used the space for storage, and somehow the pictures fell out of the storage box. Not the best place to archive photos, IMHO, since they are quite often damp places. That could account for the eerie nature of the patina on this photo.
A craw space is where John Wayne Gacy hid his victims.
I was thinking the picture looked like it was taken in the fortress of solitude, and cn't a crawl space be either in the walls of the top floor or below the house?
shhh!! i cant belive you told about how we take all the last pieces of pie...geez...x.x
now how ami gonna be the mysterios ninja?
nice one kiki, and the extruded fat collects in convenient catch (diaper), for easy clean up
I don't know. Everytime I look at this, I just think someone is about to wrap this kid up and stick it in the back of the U-haul.
Also, does the kid have a bow in its hair or is that a shadow that looks like a poofy 'fro?
Ah, the ingenious of mad inventors—I do believe this was a prototype for Jiffy self popping baby in a bag. Unfortunately there was a high incidence of scorching.
Nope Turbo, No Bow. This baby has a perfectly round head. I thought so at first too, but it's just the reflective space material that makes it look this way.
It could be one of those sleeping bags made from space age material. I would like to know what the infant is lying on and what Hannah had in mind for a club when she unearthed these artifacts of years past.
Centipedes and tarantulas sound pretty creepy, but the ones I worry about are the brown recluse spiders. Not sure if we have them here, but I won't set foot in our crawl space, but have considered storing wine, as it's a nice cool spot.
I keep laughing about finding a baby photo in a CRAWL space.
I think you are on to something with the thought of the 1976 Superman baby. My brain is telling me that the shot of the Superman baby just come to earth looked a lot like this setup - at least the futuristic foil blanket. But I could not find the image!!! Though I did find a 70s album called Baby Me Baby by a lady who had a skimpy Superman shirt on.
Baby! Get into my belly!
I worked on a construction job recently where the apt building was built on a slope. The crawlspace was very small at one end of the building, but by the other end of the building, it was about 8 feet high. Definitely prime space for a club. (and some of you are forgetting the young age of some of the Fans of Found.)
Crawl spaces also afford access to HVAC and plumbing systems.
I think this little bebby is adorable, and I'd love to see more of the pics and postcards Hannah found in there!
That looks like one of those fire-resistant blankets.
Also, I know that there isn't anything to base this on, but that baby seems really big to me.
I was thinking... How'd Hannah get all of the instruments down there, and the keg, and what did she use for sound proofing? It would be a cool venue for an upcomming underground band, though. Not a garage band, either, but a crawl space band! Rock on, Hannah!
This space baby is full of hate. In it's eyes, hate. In it's mouth, hate. In it's toes, hate. Hate in space.
a bottle full of hate. don't even try and love the hate-baby, he's got nothing to offer.
Good call Kiki - ain't the future beautiful?
The blanket reminds me of a solar blanket I use to use for tanning.
Remember tanning? Not self tanner, or the spray on crap!
I'm talking about a beat-up beach blankets in the yard or the shore, the smell of iodine and baby oil, a good trashy novel, and a partner in crime to share it with! I wouldn't give up the UV damage I've done to my skin if it included giving up my memories of days basking in the sun!
God, why is it everything I LOVE science now tells me is BAD for me?
Maybe the baby had a vision of what was to come, and that's why it looks so angry!
Awww Rex, ya big crab. Love,love,love,love,love,love,love.
I used to have a crawl space area in a house I lived at in college. It was off of my room upstairs. We strung christmas lights on the beams and swept it up and put cushions and blankets down to sit. It was dark, small and great.
Well, at least we called it a crawl space. I think that was because we had to crawl to get in it. Is there a proper name?
Honestly Alai, we called those attics! Upstairs, with a no ceiling between you and the roof? "Crawl space" we used for the 2 1/2 foot space under the floor, with dirt and pipes and spiderwebs. I hadn't heard it used for between the walls before.
Orinoco Womble, yours is the one name that bounces around in my head all day.
I think crawl spaces in walls are only found in older built homes. Nowadays, (at least around these parts) the electrical, cable, data, etc. wires are strung through holes drilled through the studs, joists, etc. In times of Ago, it wasn't so easy drilling all those holes to hide the wiring.
(I've always wanted an old house with crawl spaces between walls, and all those secret passageways! New homes are so boring)
Alai, "Crawl space" is the proper name, as long as the place you were was the tight space in the walls. But since it was upstairs off your room and there was enough room for several people.. sounds like someone was making storage space out of space that's quite often "dead" in a house (like under roof trusses or stairs) Sounds cozy!
Looks like an unfortunate experiment with a solar cooker. You're supposed to warm the *bottle*, not the baby!
The 'hole in the wall' clubs are ALWAYS the best ones. Some clubs in LA would kill for as much mystery and intrigue surrounding their locations...
Mona:
http://www.thestar.com/article/259775
thanks Bird, but i knew the story already, but those who don't can read it there. Apparently this contractor is still quite bothered by his find, and hey, who wouldn't be? Glad he didn't send that into Found dot com.
Hey, everyone, lets send Rex waves of love through cyberspace. He's sounding particularly bitter, today...
"all you need is love, da da da da da
all you need is love, da da da da da
all you need is love, love,
love is all you need,
love is all you need."
(c) Beatles.
Good grief people!
Just like this Found crowd to pick a word or words from the orginal poster's explaination of the find and fixate on that.
*rolls eyes*
The photo IS full of possibility as far as comments go...look up the definitions - pick one and move on.
Or, run that detail into the ground as always. Whatever.
Pepper, a craw space is where you dig sand out from.
Pepper, you don't want to see what's in my craw space!
I googled the finder and came up with squat.
http://72.14.205.104/search?q=cache:awbUGHCNBfgJ:ww
Yeah, I came accross that page too. I thought it was sad so I didn't mention it.
Viva La Carlos Wheeler!
Sand, I can't only imagine. Probably puppy and kitten fetuses
That's part of the charm of this comment board, goob. All part of the charm.
If the possibilities for comments on the photo are boundless, why did you not provide this Found Crowd with one? Because face it. All those possible comments? They've all been spent already.
In addition to centipedes and tarantulas, mice and rats can be found under the house too. I remember reading about some people getting sick after accessing the crawl space of some house, from breathing in mice pee.
Last winter, our pipes froze and my husband had to go under the house to fix them and found several frozen, mummified cats. Now I don't even want to open the hole.
Cute baby photo!
Tinfoil blanket... oven ready?
My room had a crawlspace with two doors -- one on each side of the room -- so you could go in one door, crawl around the outside of the room in the crawlspace, and go out the other door. It was awesome. I had a fort in there at one point, and the area just inside one of the doors was big enough to fit at least four or five children easily. You could even stand up. I brought a bunch of blankets in there to make it nice and comfy and put several flashlights in for lighting. Pretty cool!
I thought it was one of those metal space blankets for wearing in a tent in the arctic. But then I decided it was just the light on a soft satiny blanket in this faded photo.
Never mind Rex, he's just having a hard day.
Chrome, you getting broody?? "I think this little bebby is adorable"... ahhh... bless!
I wonder how old the picture is and where this kid is now??
Oh, I think it IS Rex.
I think you're right, Jonathan, how else would he know about the baby's hatred? Awww, bless, Rex is such a sweet baby.
I only pinch babies that can't talk yet.
totally off topic, but is Alai (in Space) from the Ender's Game? I Love that series!
LOL @ Herve
OKAY- so many questions! well, for starters, the crawl space (we call it THE CLUB) is very large but not quite tall enough for anyone to stand up. Our house is around 2100 sq. feet above ground, and the crawl space is consumes about 3/4 of it. I had always known it was there since I moved in this house 7 years ago, but just 2 ago did I venture down there. I found old antiques and this was one of the best pictures I discovered. There could be more, I'll look again! All of my close friends are allowed in there- and everyone that sets foot in has to sign their name on the rafters. We write inside jokes, crushes, and really anything we want on the walls.
There are no rats (yet) but sometimes we find bugs. It's really musty!! We have old sleeping bags, carpets, etc laid out so we are comfortable, and use flashlights and lanterns to see.
any more questions???
by the way, i'm 15. haha. you all seem like adults!
Wisconsin Death Trip-a morbid book that this pic reminds me of, especially the eyes. Check it out.
oh - and yes, that's about my grandpa on the link someone posted :(
Thanks for the additional info Hannah!
Your club sounds like a lot of fun; I wish I'd had one at 15! Years from now, I hope you'll be able to go back into the crawl space, and look at all the things written on the rafters. Not only do you have a neat place for a club, you're building a time capsule full of memories you'll enjoy in the future!
Yes, although we don't always act like it, most of the people here are adults. You will be too before you know it, so enjoy being a kid while you can!
Go back in there and see what can be FOUND!
Hannah's dad weighing in here... one of the first comments is the most likely... I lived in Roswell NM as a child and the baby was our family's alien foster child, you know, after the crash and all. She went home with ET in the early 80's....
thanks dad.
I was gonna write something kind of crass, but now I can't. But it involved Grace Jones and where babies come from.
Come on Turbo, you've got to tell us now!
Thanks cassisu. I guess the attic had been converted into livable space except that one area. That's what everyone called it, and coming from a state where homes don't have cellars, I just figured that it was a local thing.
Hannah,
Thanks for sending this photo to Found! I googled your name this morning and saw you on the program for your High School's production of "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown". Was that you? I didn't want to say anything earlier since you are a teen, and maybe you wanted to retain some anonymity. (I was feeling protective.)
Your club sounds cool. What I think you should do is leave some photos of you and your friends, or a Found Magazine, or even this day's comments printed out and a story explaining the day your Find was posted. Even if you refind it yourself when you're 30, or with your own kids when they're teens, it would be a real hoot for you and a great story to share.
(Turbo, thanks for being a gentleman.)
Yep, Hannah was Sally Brown in "You're a Good Man Charlie Brown"
She's an aspiring singer and actress. :]
I wish Found had an individual written & pic found each day! Personally I love the written ones, not too crazy about the found pics!
Yeah, Hannah. Some of us might seem like adults, but we're really very immature.
Thanks to the Wheeler family for weighing in on this find. Too bad about your foster child returning to space. Perhaps he/she could have turned this world around..
sorry about your grampa, Hannah, and the rest of the family.
"you all seem like adults!" is my new favorite line. I love the surprise and wonder expressed in the exclamation point.
Good luck with your musical theater career, Hannah :)
I would like to send a special thank you to the Wheeler Family for their input. It really adds something special when the finder sheds light on the circumstances of the find. Plus, we get a more personal, first hand encounter with the person behind the mystery, in this case a space baby. You guys Rock!
...Not knowing that his given name was Kal-El the Kent family took him into their bosom and he came to be called Clark Kent...
why are you making a club in your crawl space?
Why the heck not?? It sounds like fun.
I have one question for hannah: It's really musty in there, as in having a lot of must?
Exactly how many enraged elephants does your club share a crawl space with? Do they sign the rafters with names of their crushes as well?
I myself have hosted many a club in forgotten spaces; I applaud you. To me it looks like the baby is being cooked, perhaps in a large microave. Would that be a macrowave?
*Gasp*
You CANNOT feed a baby, baby dolls!