WHHHHHAAAAAT? (Part 1)

This is the first of feature I am sure will contain many, many parts. There are some strange things about our house. Unsolved mysteries, curious solutions to unknown problems, and general thing that make us go WHHHHHHAAAT? Why did someone do that to our house?
A brief list, so you get the gist:
-- a lightswitch (kitchen) that does not seem to turn anything on or off
-- cloth stuffed into the side of chimney in the basement
[Also, said chimney appears to be load-bearing. -jb]
-- a beautiful wallpapering job in the bedroom, sadly marred by bright pink paint seeping through due to lack of primer
-- pipes in odd places, like the bathroom ceiling
-- mysteriously lowered ceilings (downstairs bathroom, I'm looking at you!)
-- holes in odd places in the wall (what could they have hung there?)

These are just a few; we are constantly finding more. Here is today's WHHHHHHHAAAAAT? moment:



Yes, that is a piece of a pencil jammed behind the outlet box. This outlet is in the kitchen. I had been annoyed that the little outlet cover didn't seem to quite fit in place, so I took it off to see if I could get it on a bit tighter. After seeing this, and realizing that the outlet sticks out because of the pencil, which I can only assume must have been put there for a reason (though unfathomable) I just put the outlet cover back on. No mystery solved.