Door to crawl space
If you weren’t there when your home was designed, you’d undoubtedly have a ton of questions as to what things are and why they were designed the way they were. This guy had that question after popping out a few floorboards and discovering an empty space below his feet.
Sadly, it wasn’t an underground bunker built in the 1960s. The empty space you’re seeing is nothing other than a crawl space, which basically served as a buffer between the home and the moist soil underneath. We’re guessing the OP will probably find the remains of countless animals if he plucks up the courage to go crawl through the crawl space.