The basement smelled like dust and old books. Maggie looked at the floor next to the freezer, but couldn’t see any secret hatch. Picking up a flashlight, she looked more closely, poking and prodding the floorboards until she found a small piece that was loose. Removing it revealed a finger-sized hole in the wood underneath. Maggie put a finger into the hole and easily lifted a small section of the floor up.
In the small space underneath was a dusty nylon laptop bag. Maggie lifted it out and put it on the floor next to the hole before leaning down to see if there was anything else hidden under the floorboards. She found nothing but dust.
At least there aren’t any skeletons hidden under there.