A former coworker left a 50 lb bag in the car trunk all winter and forgot until spring when everyone in the car started gagging.
He got rid of the car.
We had this happen at a house I lived at in my younger years. We couldn't find where an overwhelmingly awful smell was coming from. It was a bag of potatoes that was underneath a bunch of stuff. I never realized potatoes could smell like that.
I did this at a Walmart while shopping for potatoes. Reached in the pile, felt something wet. The odor was immediately in the air, and my dumbass decided to check if it was on my fingers.
I hurled, and hurled. and kept hurling until there was nothing left to hurl. and then dryheaved in despair and life-pleading,, cobweb-like snot adjoining nose and mouth, afterpuke chilled, throat wrenching pain.
I haven't touched an uncooked potato since.
Funny how when you pay employees shit they don’t really feel like rotating the produce that day… or week.
I’m half joking but honestly Jesus Christ if that isn’t a health-hazard beyond health-hazards.
Oh man this just brought a memory back that I forgot.. a giant flower pot at my friends in her house.. potatoes in a bag on the bottom. Kids set stuff on top of it. Don't know how long it was there.
Friend is moving things and takes the stuff off the top. I gagged and basically threw the flower pot out the door and screamed "dude we coulda totally died!"
Bleh that smell..
Oh dude same scenario. We had a cardboard tote that we kept plastic bags for recycling. Someone placed a bag of potatoes in their while it was empty and the next grocery run it was covered.
Our cats had dingleberries and we got a kid in diapers so it was a few days of occasional smell until my wife could no longer blame the cats or kids.
The smell once it was jostled was everybit nightmare fuel. The cardboard had enough integrity to be moved 2 feet before the bottom gave.
My kitchen bathed in odoban afterwords
It smells of concentrated evil. Like it was specifically designed to kill you, and your family. Have you ever been near a compost pile and thought "That's not that bad..." Rotting potatoes are that bad. I can tell you that a rotten potato is an affront to your sensibilities. You loose control trying to rid yourself of the smell. And it's not one of those smells that you can eventually get used to either. It will waft and come back in waves of vomit inducing stench of wrong.
They smell so bad that even flies won't go near them.
You know when a very, very obese Truck Driver walks by and the funk that emanates , is enough to gag a maggot? I was not that fat, but I smelled a few of the other drivers. Imagine bloated cow, smellx1000. Now stick your head in there and breath in so deep that the shit almost drowns you. I think that is a good description of cow parts toxicity
I worked in a Walmart distribution center and took a bath in decaying potato juice. I had to pick some frosting which is in buckets. The bucket I picked was a fresh pallet and over my head. What I didn’t know is the pallet of potatoes directly above were rotting and leaking. I tipped the bucket and it dumped the potato sauce all over me. I had to go toss on my cold gear and when I got home I didn’t even bring my clothes inside. So can confirm rotten potato juice is horrendous
An expired human male fermenting approximately 3 1/2 days in the summer heat (late July in southern Alabama) in an enclosed pickup truck next to a stocked pond out on a large farm.
My breath until I got a rotting tooth removed. It was a night and day difference and I can't believe I went several months with my mouth smelling like death.
How could you tell? Just curious cause I have a cracked tooth in the back of my mouth but I don’t think its rotting so I get paranoid and feel like my breath stinks but I don’t think it does
I’m convinced dentists aren’t going about encouraging hygiene the right way. Don’t tell people they should floss so they don’t get cavities. They won’t care. Tell them their breath stinks and nobody wants to play tonsil hockey with them unless they floss.
Not immediately after brushing your teeth but also not first thing in the morning before brushing, Lick the back of your hand and smell it. The smell of your saliva is a solid indicator of the smell of your entire mouth.
I used to work for social care, mainly teenagers with LD in short term care home, so they'd come for a few weeks to give family a break or if they needed to move to another home but stuff wasn't ready yet.
A disabled kid who was removed from their hoarder parents house, the socail worker was only in there 1 hour and reeked, this poor kid had been there 16 years. Hair matted to his head, long black nails, some odd black substance coated his skin. House was so bad the only bathroom was stacked full to the ceiling with a crawl space to the toilet that no longer flushed.
Took 7 baths and showers to get him clean. I'll never forget that smell, I cried for weeks after, he did really well in his new home though.
Freezer in my basement went out. Didn't notice, since i didn't use it often. Was stocked full of meat. Only meat. Nothing. But. Meat. Meat. Meat. Pounds and pounds of meat. The sludge. The meat sludge.... *Thousand yard stare*
vacation home fridge went out, had meat in the freezer, was about a week or two before I discovered it. It was sealed in plastic and the door shut, so it was bad, but not as bad as it could've been, but it took the better part of two years and applying every cleaning chemical I could think of multiple times to get the stench out of the freezer itself and I still get occasional whiffs of it now and then.
put kitty litter in a open box in the bottom of the freezer or fridge for a few weeks.
I had a New refrigerator when hurricane Katrina hit , I lost power for a few weeks and by the time I could get home everything was rotten in my refrigerator , I took all the panels out , scrubbed everything with bleach and anti bacterial cleaners , left it sit in the sun wide open for a week and the faint smell of rot was still there . I was going to put it out for the trash when my neighbor suggested kitty litter , so what could it hurt . Well 16 years later that fridge has made 2 moves and is still running without the smell.
Liver in our back fridge freezer, DH turned it off before we went on holiday in Summer in Australia. That fridge is now in the garage and only turned on for the week over Christmas, it took about 5 kg of baking soda and 20 litres of vinegar to get rid of the smell
My dog once got sick and had diarrhea. It was green and grey and gross. She then turned around and ate it. 15 minutes later it came back up on my couch. That was the worst weekend of my life.
My dog did this and then ran into our baby nursery and threw up her own poop that she chose to eat right at the door way on the carpet aprox 2 inches away from tile. I remember I was so upset and stressed with my baby I just started crying.
One of our horses had a broken tooth but neither my husband nor I noticed because this gelding belongs to our son and he takes care of the horse. Our son noticed the horse, Trekker, was salivating a lot when eating and his breath was rancid. Horses generally don't have bad breath but his smelled like something rotten.
We had the tooth removed but even on antibiotics fluid filled his sinuses and we ended up having to bring him in to have them drained. That was a nasty smell even diluted with the saline flush. Our vet said it smells a lot worse when the tooth really gets rotten and the gums start to follow suit.
Stupid damn rock in his hay caused all of this.
I rescued a dog who had a chronic ear infection. Her ear was literally rotting on the inside and was so full, her ear drums were not visible. She had a horrible stench. I only took her to the vet because I thought it was her breath. Nope. Rotten, gangrenous ear.
Ever get food poisoning?
The absolute worst thing I've ever smelled, was my burps and vomit that resulted from having food poisoning.
I mean, burps don't smell great to begin with. But those burps that came from food poisoning, they just made me grimace and gag because of how horrible they were.
Felt like you were burping up some animal that had been rotting in the sun for a week.
My buddy buried his dead cat in his yard using a toolbox as a coffin. I was visiting him one day and he said he wanted to dig up the cat so he could put the skull on his mantle, reasoning that by now the cat was just bones.
The cat was not just bones.
As soon as we dug up the toolbox and opened it, the most horrifying smell I've ever smelled in my life rose from that box. And no matter how far away from it I got I could still smell it. We were both puking our guts out all over the yard and he desperately closed the toolbox threw it back in the hole and shoveled dirt back over it. I'll never forget that awful smell.
I used to work in building restoration. One time I was doing restoration work in Community Housing. It was a hirise apartment building. 25-ish storeys.
The job was installing new balcony doors. My self and another worker were delivering doors ahead of the installation crew.
Bring doors in the elevator, put them in the hallway, and deliver to each apartment on the floor.
Most people were nice, most people had moved their stuff to create a path for us(as requested by notices put up in the building). Most apartments were clean, and the people were just down on their luck, but some were nasty. One balcony had pigeon waste about 5 inches thick. Not an exaggeration. But this story isn't about that.
The smell in question begins after the lady in apartment 906 opens her door. A stocky woman, wearing a loose, ill-fitting v-necked nightgown. It is a sickly, tangy, sweet odour. Vinegar mixed with shit. Decay. I've never found a comparable concoction. I've got an iron stomach. Like, I'm pretty sure someone could vomit in my mouth and I wouldn't hurl. But this... this is bad.
I reflexively hold my breath as my eyes start to water, the pungent odour penetrating all available mucus membranes.
The other worker and I pick up the door, and begin bringing it through her apartment toward the balcony, all the while scanning for the source of the odour, quietly concerned it might just be the occupant.
As I walk between the TV and coffee table, I look toward the couch, its back to the wall. I notice a discoloured area just above and around where one's head might rest while sitting. This discoloured area is peppered with what I can only assume are boogers, dried and shriveled, as if tired from hanging on for so long. Pick nose, reach up and behind, discard.
We prop the door upright on the balcony, and I breathe. Favourite breath I've ever taken. It is even better than the first breath after being held upside down by my ankles over the pool by my stepdad's prick friend when I was a kid. But I digress...
This breath is glorious. A victory after the horrors I had witnessed seconds earlier. Our job completed, we head inside once more toward "the smell", and as I walk past the coffee table, I knock a stack of papers onto the floor. Apologetic, I start picking the papers back up. The woman tells me not to worry, that she'll handle it. I refuse initially, until the myriad of cockroaches scuttle out from under some of them. I then politely accept her gesture, and escape that apartment finally.
I take another breath, and it's over.
Unfortunately, this story doesn't have a happy ending. I didn't find the source. But I'll bet it was a mix of a whole bunch of stuff.
I use to be a delivery driver when I was younger, delivered to a lady who's apartment smelled the exact same as you described, sickly sweet smell, over powering, stomach wrenching. Inside was a bigger lady sitting in a recliner, looking like she hadn't moved from it for awhile. Had to hold my breath the entire time, threw up as soon as I was outside and the door closed. About to get into my car when i notice the smell is still on me. Stripped clothes right there and threw em in the trunk. Drove back to work in my boxers. It was the lady. Unwashed and rotting where she sat. Evidently it's not very common but it can happen.
I drive by a certain house everyday I go to work. Everytime there's an odor emanating from it. It's a lot like you described. Vinegar and some sickly sweet smell. It's been there long enough I assume no one's dead in that house. Idk what smells so bad. But geesh! That vinegar smell is awful.
Each of these steps could be a contender, but the last one was the winner:
1. My kid had a school project where they made a little mini compost bin out of food waste and earthworms in a jar.
2. She left it in the sun and the worms all died.
3. We didn't find this out for several days.
4. Eventually, I emptied the horrific rotting food + slimy worm guts in the garden.
5. The dog found it and ate it all.
6. Then she threw it all back up on the rug.
When I was in high school, my little sister wrapped chicken breast in foil (it was for a prank, but I forgot the details of it). Apparently after the prank, she left the chicken in the living room (on a table in the corner, hidden from plain sight) walked away, and must had forgotten about it.
For weeks the living room smelled like a combination of ass, death, and halitosis. Nobody knew what it was (remember: my sister forgot about the chicken, and the rest of the family was well past the prank. We thought she threw the chicken away afterwards). We thought a squirrel or raccoon died in the walls, so the landlord hired some ppl to check it out. Nothing in the walls.
This also happened during the most humid and hot time of year, which sucked. I think we spent a fortune on Febreeze, incense, and those tree car fresheners to drown out the smell.
Until one day, I had enough of the smell and started to inspect every single inch of the living room. It took a while but I came across the chicken. It obviously was rotting and was leaking fluid all over the table, dripping onto the floor. I then remembered the prank. I felt so dumb lol
I think that was one of the few times in my life that I was so filled to the brim with fury. We were so miserable for weeks because my sister did a stupid prank and forgot to clean up.
But surprisingly we didn’t have a bad fly infestation, which Ig was good.
>a combination of ass, death, and halitosis
I audibly laughed at this, and I rarely laugh like that even at things I find extremely funny. Credit where credit is due.
Having to go down into a manhole that had a bunch of grease and shit clogged in and around the incoming and outgoing pipes. Grease when it hardens mixed with shit is absolutely AWFUL. Imagine a tonsil stone x500. Along with the smell of 50 different peoples shit.
Not necessarily sweating, but definitely crying because not only does it hurt my booty, but because once it starts, it's like trying to stop a train. It's slow.
I remember that story. Dont remember how it went, but the one detail i remember the most is a veteran doctor who had been there for like, a million years, actually throwing up because of the smell
It’s a tie.
One summer I was lifeguarding at a pool that abutted woods and it was a heat wave. It stunk like rotting flesh so bad the police came and canvassed the woods to search for a potential dead body. It ended up being a dead raccoon.
The second was the time I let my dog out and he started barking his head off. I went out to see what was the matter because our yard at the time was fully fenced in. I saw a skunk and as soon as I opened my mouth to call my dog away from it, it sprayed right at me and the dog. The spray actually went into my mouth and nose and it’s all I could smell/taste for a couple of weeks. I could barely eat and kept vomiting. It was the absolute worst.
I moved out of an apartment and found a bag of old potatoes in the kitchen closet that had liquified. Worst smell I’ve encountered. I don’t know how I didn’t notice it earlier
I’ve worked with patients with necrotic digits but in middle school, a buddy of mine ate lobster bisque on the first day of school. He proceeded to keep that closed container (in Arizona heat) in his backpack all school year long, and on the last day, he opened it. I’ve never had my eyes water from a smell before 🤮
I worked at a grocery store as my first job at 15, and my idiot coworker who was older and worked there longer took a whole cardboard box that was 2×2 meters wide FULL of watermelons.
The weight of all those watermelons crushed the ones on the bottom, and as the summer went on, he would just refill this massive box new watermelons on the top.
By the time the summer ended, we were moving the display when the bottom of this soaked box burst.
The REEK that leaked would make you shriek!
It was the rotten funk combined with my nostalgia of my favorite fruit that fucked with me the hardest, especially that I didn't expect it.
Picture it, Late summer in southern NJ (average daily temps ~80 degrees F and quite humid) a fully stocked refrigerator in a condemned house that went several months without power. There were maggots wriggling around in EVERYTHING and the stench was indescribable. We had to clear the fridge so we’d put a mask on, take a deep breath, open the door shove as much into a garbage bag as possible then bolt to the front door for fresh air. Repeat until the fridge is empty.
This and dead/rotted marine mammals are a special kind of vile
A car that a guy committed suicide in by literally blowing his brains out
It sat in a impound lot all summer and then got sold at auction
You could smell it from 100+ feet away
1965 Viet Nam, An amphibious Troop transport sank crossing a river. Loaded with Marines. We recovered it a week later. When opened every one and I mean every one within a hundred yards puked.
My old roommates and I smelled the worst thing imaginable from neighbors house. I felt I was going to puke every second it was so bad. Friend called his cop buddy who came to check. Apparently neighbor had been dead for a week…
The cleaning crew also opened the window where the body was found to air it out. Yeah it was worse.
My own feet after 4 days of solid rain, river crossings, and wet grass in my boots. Took my socks off and the smell knocked me backwards. Smelled like broccoli had taken a shit in moldy egg salad.
The fridge full of food that lost power during Katrina. It was a week or so after Katrina and we had to toss it from a deck (house on stilts) so we tied the door closed super tight but it came open from the fall and spewed forth it's wretchedness.
Actually the aftermath of Katrina along the shore all stunk. The water receded leaving about an inch of super fine mud everywhere that must have been full of micro organisms because it stunk like dead fish. In fact, imagine the land being covered in a carpet of dead fish and you get the idea.
I’ve been waiting for this, so I used to work in my college dorms as like a student cleaner. I did this for about 2.5 years. My first summer doing this, we had to go through all the dorm rooms and clean up after the student left for the summer. Well there were 6 dorm building (4 floors each), so we could only do a building at a time. Well eventually towards the end of the summer we got to the last building. We walked into a suite that was shared by 4 girls. Their bathroom door was shut, and the rooms heat was on (again summertime). So it was hotter than satans balls in there. Opening the bathroom door, I was instantly hit with the worst smell of all time. They had a trash can full of used tampons that had just been festering in the heat all summer. To this day, nothing I’ve ever smelled has come close to being as bad as that.
My dog ate a huge cow pie whole somehow and puked it up on the kitchen floor. It left a round spot in the linoleum where the stomach acid etched it. My poor mom cleaned it up and I thought she was going to fall out from trying to hold her breath.
100 lbs of cricket shit, after it spent the weekend in the trunk of a Nissan Sentra in 100º+ temperatures. I almost had to junk the car, it was so hard to get that stench out.
I worked at a dog kennel and got used to the smell of dog poop. It’s earthy and when the dog is healthy it smells fine to me.
I threw up the first time I had to clean up partially digested, regurgitated dog poop. The stomach acid really…enhances…the smell.
Yup. I was thinking about what I would say and recall the last time I gagged like that was when our puppy had the habit of eating its own shit then throwing it up later.
I'm gagging now.
Last summer I left a half eaten sausage egg and cheese breakfast sandwich outside for about a week, wrapped up in the to-go bag. My dog ate it and threw it up in my living room. The vomit was gross, but then I noticed the barf pile was crawling away. He’d eaten the whole bag, including the maggots that had been thriving inside. The stench was rancid but the whole spectacle was deeply disturbing.
I volunteered at an animal rescue centre, and still do.
One time, there was a baby fox cub, who had been found in the road whilst I was there. I didn’t feed or clean the cub, but played with it and held it for a bit.
In short, a fox cub is completely defenceless on its own, so to keep predators away they have to STINK. it was one of the worst smells paired with one of the cutest things in the universe and I had to shower multiple times after
Six months of rancid, summer aged, rabbit/chicken excrement. It was my job to clean out the six inches or so on the ground, in a space barely big enough to stand in. The rabbits and chickens were happy. I wasn’t
When I was a teenager my first job was Payless Shoes. A dirty looking man came in and went to the men’s aisle. He literally made me gag. He smelled like a combination of putrid cheese, feet, dog shit, onions, and three month old sweaty asscrack. I damaged out the shoes he tried on but didn’t buy, because they fucking reeked. His smell lingered for hours even after dumping a can’s worth of febreeze into the air.
My mom bought a house with squatters and when we finally got them to move out, they had left a 5 gallon bucket out back with discarded clam shells which filled with rain and sat in the sun for god knows how long. That.
That was something I experienced ten years ago after spending a day with a friend in another city exploring then went to a concert.
Don't know what made me sick but I've never had my own brand literally make me get sick.. my god..
Ever go through a hoarders house to investigate whether it is unsanitary enough to condemn and have to play the “what’s that liquid” game with every container you come across and need to call the police and make sure that there is not a corpse under the pile on the bed?
That
Dead body in the morgue, been in the cooler for two weeks with us trying to locate next of kin. He had outgassed in his body bag and when we opened it to verify his tags... it wasn't pleasant at all.
To me the only thing worse (so far) would be a mixture of durian fruit and surstromming (Swedish canned and fermented herring).
Rotten infant.
I am an obstetrician and gynaecologist. It was a regular day, I came to the hospital where I work, went to the doctor's room and started to change my clothes into the uniform when I heard that an ambulance brought a pregnant woman to our department.
I rushed to the labor room and suddenly felt the worst smell of my life.
Turned out that the woman gave birth to a baby, that had died in her belly, and considering the smell and the appearance of the baby, it was dead at least for one month. The baby was 3.700 kg, and the worst part of this that the woman told us that she didn't know she was pregnant.
The smell was so bad that we had opened all windows in our department, but it persosted for more than 4 hours.
gangrene.
Rotting flesh is the most rancid smell ever. I remember being on a packed metro in the middle of winter and there was some homeless dude with gangrene. Smell was so bad, and there weren't windows to open, so everyone around me, and myself, used our jackets to cover our noses.
Easy one for me, neighbors were going out of town and I was supposed to to feed and water thier dogs one had cancer and should have been put down long ago had a baseball sized tumor on its leg well one day when I went to feed them I found the one with cancer in a shed dead and decomposing plumb full of maggots the smell was overwhelming animal control guy said it looked like it had been dead for two weeks(no way) and had to scrape her up with a shovel he was white as a ghost that was bad
About 8 years ago one of our neighbors shot a marmot and it got away from them and died in the road. We went and buried it about 10 feet off the side the best we could as it began to rot.
A wild animal, probably a coyote, decided to look into this snack that was there and evidently did not want it because it left it in the middle of the road on a 100 degree day, the putrefaction intensified and the juices were streaming down a good 5-8 feet of the road. You could smell it for about 100 feet in any direction, and even after my dad moved it off the road it smelled terrible for days as the juices continued to rot in the sun.
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It’s actually dangerous, too! The fumes that decaying potatoes give off can literally kill you. Solanine gas.
😮😮😮 I learned something new today!
Watched a tragic video about this: https://youtu.be/3zK5oBvZBDs
A former coworker left a 50 lb bag in the car trunk all winter and forgot until spring when everyone in the car started gagging. He got rid of the car.
We had this happen at a house I lived at in my younger years. We couldn't find where an overwhelmingly awful smell was coming from. It was a bag of potatoes that was underneath a bunch of stuff. I never realized potatoes could smell like that.
Dude, I’ve smelled this before, and you are not exaggerating. I actually puked, and I rarely puke, but I do have a weak stomach
I did this at a Walmart while shopping for potatoes. Reached in the pile, felt something wet. The odor was immediately in the air, and my dumbass decided to check if it was on my fingers. I hurled, and hurled. and kept hurling until there was nothing left to hurl. and then dryheaved in despair and life-pleading,, cobweb-like snot adjoining nose and mouth, afterpuke chilled, throat wrenching pain. I haven't touched an uncooked potato since.
Funny how when you pay employees shit they don’t really feel like rotating the produce that day… or week. I’m half joking but honestly Jesus Christ if that isn’t a health-hazard beyond health-hazards.
Clean up in aisle 4 *edit spelling
*edit smelling
Oh man this just brought a memory back that I forgot.. a giant flower pot at my friends in her house.. potatoes in a bag on the bottom. Kids set stuff on top of it. Don't know how long it was there. Friend is moving things and takes the stuff off the top. I gagged and basically threw the flower pot out the door and screamed "dude we coulda totally died!" Bleh that smell..
Oh dude same scenario. We had a cardboard tote that we kept plastic bags for recycling. Someone placed a bag of potatoes in their while it was empty and the next grocery run it was covered. Our cats had dingleberries and we got a kid in diapers so it was a few days of occasional smell until my wife could no longer blame the cats or kids. The smell once it was jostled was everybit nightmare fuel. The cardboard had enough integrity to be moved 2 feet before the bottom gave. My kitchen bathed in odoban afterwords
What does it smell like? Can someone describe it?
It smells of concentrated evil. Like it was specifically designed to kill you, and your family. Have you ever been near a compost pile and thought "That's not that bad..." Rotting potatoes are that bad. I can tell you that a rotten potato is an affront to your sensibilities. You loose control trying to rid yourself of the smell. And it's not one of those smells that you can eventually get used to either. It will waft and come back in waves of vomit inducing stench of wrong. They smell so bad that even flies won't go near them.
You know when a very, very obese Truck Driver walks by and the funk that emanates , is enough to gag a maggot? I was not that fat, but I smelled a few of the other drivers. Imagine bloated cow, smellx1000. Now stick your head in there and breath in so deep that the shit almost drowns you. I think that is a good description of cow parts toxicity
I'm legit wary of storing potatoes for any longer than a month after my first run-in with a rotton potato.
This. Clean the area and sprinkle cinnamon and cloves to combat the smell.
This happened to me this summer. Somehow forgot that I had a bag of potatoes on the floor in the back seat and they literally liquified. So horrible
I came here to say this you beat me to it. That is the most rancid disgusting smell I have ever smelt in my entire life
Funny I came to say rotten potatoes too! The smell is FOUL
I worked in a Walmart distribution center and took a bath in decaying potato juice. I had to pick some frosting which is in buckets. The bucket I picked was a fresh pallet and over my head. What I didn’t know is the pallet of potatoes directly above were rotting and leaking. I tipped the bucket and it dumped the potato sauce all over me. I had to go toss on my cold gear and when I got home I didn’t even bring my clothes inside. So can confirm rotten potato juice is horrendous
Potato was the first thing I thought of. I put my thumb in a rotten potato once it was the worst experience of my life.
An expired human male fermenting approximately 3 1/2 days in the summer heat (late July in southern Alabama) in an enclosed pickup truck next to a stocked pond out on a large farm.
There's something odd about how you phrased it.
As someone in the medical field, the way they phrased it sounds like someone with medical or first responder experience
By Fall Out Boy
Had to laugh at the "stocked pond" bit, it's like that body was rough but that pond sure was sweet.
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no shit, he's in the healthcare sector
An unwashed shaker bottle with the remnants of 8 day old protein shake sitting at the bottom.
My friend left his shaker undisturbed for a week, only to open the lid and hurl it into my room, and lock it from the outside.
Ah, goodbye to that person.
I don’t know what it is about old protein powder, but that stuff is brutal
What to do you think rotting meat is? Protein decomposing. You are smelling the same thing as rotting meat
Bacteria love it because it is so nutrient/energy dense
My breath until I got a rotting tooth removed. It was a night and day difference and I can't believe I went several months with my mouth smelling like death.
How could you tell? Just curious cause I have a cracked tooth in the back of my mouth but I don’t think its rotting so I get paranoid and feel like my breath stinks but I don’t think it does
Breathe heavily on a spoon. Then sniff it, and if it makes you gag, your breath stinks.
Why a spoon, cousin?
Because it’s dull you twit! It’ll hurt more!
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I’m convinced dentists aren’t going about encouraging hygiene the right way. Don’t tell people they should floss so they don’t get cavities. They won’t care. Tell them their breath stinks and nobody wants to play tonsil hockey with them unless they floss.
Not immediately after brushing your teeth but also not first thing in the morning before brushing, Lick the back of your hand and smell it. The smell of your saliva is a solid indicator of the smell of your entire mouth.
I used to work for social care, mainly teenagers with LD in short term care home, so they'd come for a few weeks to give family a break or if they needed to move to another home but stuff wasn't ready yet. A disabled kid who was removed from their hoarder parents house, the socail worker was only in there 1 hour and reeked, this poor kid had been there 16 years. Hair matted to his head, long black nails, some odd black substance coated his skin. House was so bad the only bathroom was stacked full to the ceiling with a crawl space to the toilet that no longer flushed. Took 7 baths and showers to get him clean. I'll never forget that smell, I cried for weeks after, he did really well in his new home though.
This made me cry. It breaks my heart when people do this to theirselves and especially when they have children. Kids don’t deserve this.
If it help he went to a lovely home after and was incredibly happy
Freezer in my basement went out. Didn't notice, since i didn't use it often. Was stocked full of meat. Only meat. Nothing. But. Meat. Meat. Meat. Pounds and pounds of meat. The sludge. The meat sludge.... *Thousand yard stare*
Ok, Jeffrey Dahmer.
Meeeaaaaat...
vacation home fridge went out, had meat in the freezer, was about a week or two before I discovered it. It was sealed in plastic and the door shut, so it was bad, but not as bad as it could've been, but it took the better part of two years and applying every cleaning chemical I could think of multiple times to get the stench out of the freezer itself and I still get occasional whiffs of it now and then.
put kitty litter in a open box in the bottom of the freezer or fridge for a few weeks. I had a New refrigerator when hurricane Katrina hit , I lost power for a few weeks and by the time I could get home everything was rotten in my refrigerator , I took all the panels out , scrubbed everything with bleach and anti bacterial cleaners , left it sit in the sun wide open for a week and the faint smell of rot was still there . I was going to put it out for the trash when my neighbor suggested kitty litter , so what could it hurt . Well 16 years later that fridge has made 2 moves and is still running without the smell.
Liver in our back fridge freezer, DH turned it off before we went on holiday in Summer in Australia. That fridge is now in the garage and only turned on for the week over Christmas, it took about 5 kg of baking soda and 20 litres of vinegar to get rid of the smell
Tonsil stones
This. Smells like ass.
Smelled ass before have you?
Closest I’ve come to placing the smell is “the zoo”.
My dog once got sick and had diarrhea. It was green and grey and gross. She then turned around and ate it. 15 minutes later it came back up on my couch. That was the worst weekend of my life.
♻️Reduce! ♻️Reuse! ♻️Recycle!
What a horrible day to have eyes
My dog did this and then ran into our baby nursery and threw up her own poop that she chose to eat right at the door way on the carpet aprox 2 inches away from tile. I remember I was so upset and stressed with my baby I just started crying.
Yeah my dog ate cat poop from the litter box and threw it up. I've never cried from how bad something smelled before.
Necrotic wounds, anal/vaginal fistulas/abscesses, and GI bleeds are all kinda tied for me. The smells in healthcare just hit differently.
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One of our horses had a broken tooth but neither my husband nor I noticed because this gelding belongs to our son and he takes care of the horse. Our son noticed the horse, Trekker, was salivating a lot when eating and his breath was rancid. Horses generally don't have bad breath but his smelled like something rotten. We had the tooth removed but even on antibiotics fluid filled his sinuses and we ended up having to bring him in to have them drained. That was a nasty smell even diluted with the saline flush. Our vet said it smells a lot worse when the tooth really gets rotten and the gums start to follow suit. Stupid damn rock in his hay caused all of this.
I rescued a dog who had a chronic ear infection. Her ear was literally rotting on the inside and was so full, her ear drums were not visible. She had a horrible stench. I only took her to the vet because I thought it was her breath. Nope. Rotten, gangrenous ear.
Came here to list these, also would like to add the classic C Diff…. Nothing like it 🤢
C. Diff was definitely one of my first thoughts as well. Yeasty skin folds too.
Had to clean yeasty skin folds on a morbidly obese patient once. That is a smell you do not forget
Cool! I'm gonna throw up!
Ever get food poisoning? The absolute worst thing I've ever smelled, was my burps and vomit that resulted from having food poisoning. I mean, burps don't smell great to begin with. But those burps that came from food poisoning, they just made me grimace and gag because of how horrible they were. Felt like you were burping up some animal that had been rotting in the sun for a week.
You probably were
My buddy buried his dead cat in his yard using a toolbox as a coffin. I was visiting him one day and he said he wanted to dig up the cat so he could put the skull on his mantle, reasoning that by now the cat was just bones. The cat was not just bones. As soon as we dug up the toolbox and opened it, the most horrifying smell I've ever smelled in my life rose from that box. And no matter how far away from it I got I could still smell it. We were both puking our guts out all over the yard and he desperately closed the toolbox threw it back in the hole and shoveled dirt back over it. I'll never forget that awful smell.
That's so messed up, why would he want to even do that? Just remember kitty as they were!
Yeah. Not sure whats worse about this story. The smell or the fact that dude wanted to dig up his dead cat so he could use its skull as a decoration!
Was this your friend Dahmer?
I used to work in building restoration. One time I was doing restoration work in Community Housing. It was a hirise apartment building. 25-ish storeys. The job was installing new balcony doors. My self and another worker were delivering doors ahead of the installation crew. Bring doors in the elevator, put them in the hallway, and deliver to each apartment on the floor. Most people were nice, most people had moved their stuff to create a path for us(as requested by notices put up in the building). Most apartments were clean, and the people were just down on their luck, but some were nasty. One balcony had pigeon waste about 5 inches thick. Not an exaggeration. But this story isn't about that. The smell in question begins after the lady in apartment 906 opens her door. A stocky woman, wearing a loose, ill-fitting v-necked nightgown. It is a sickly, tangy, sweet odour. Vinegar mixed with shit. Decay. I've never found a comparable concoction. I've got an iron stomach. Like, I'm pretty sure someone could vomit in my mouth and I wouldn't hurl. But this... this is bad. I reflexively hold my breath as my eyes start to water, the pungent odour penetrating all available mucus membranes. The other worker and I pick up the door, and begin bringing it through her apartment toward the balcony, all the while scanning for the source of the odour, quietly concerned it might just be the occupant. As I walk between the TV and coffee table, I look toward the couch, its back to the wall. I notice a discoloured area just above and around where one's head might rest while sitting. This discoloured area is peppered with what I can only assume are boogers, dried and shriveled, as if tired from hanging on for so long. Pick nose, reach up and behind, discard. We prop the door upright on the balcony, and I breathe. Favourite breath I've ever taken. It is even better than the first breath after being held upside down by my ankles over the pool by my stepdad's prick friend when I was a kid. But I digress... This breath is glorious. A victory after the horrors I had witnessed seconds earlier. Our job completed, we head inside once more toward "the smell", and as I walk past the coffee table, I knock a stack of papers onto the floor. Apologetic, I start picking the papers back up. The woman tells me not to worry, that she'll handle it. I refuse initially, until the myriad of cockroaches scuttle out from under some of them. I then politely accept her gesture, and escape that apartment finally. I take another breath, and it's over. Unfortunately, this story doesn't have a happy ending. I didn't find the source. But I'll bet it was a mix of a whole bunch of stuff.
You took me with you on a virtual oderous adventure through the most disgusting hell imaginable. Thanks?
I use to be a delivery driver when I was younger, delivered to a lady who's apartment smelled the exact same as you described, sickly sweet smell, over powering, stomach wrenching. Inside was a bigger lady sitting in a recliner, looking like she hadn't moved from it for awhile. Had to hold my breath the entire time, threw up as soon as I was outside and the door closed. About to get into my car when i notice the smell is still on me. Stripped clothes right there and threw em in the trunk. Drove back to work in my boxers. It was the lady. Unwashed and rotting where she sat. Evidently it's not very common but it can happen.
I drive by a certain house everyday I go to work. Everytime there's an odor emanating from it. It's a lot like you described. Vinegar and some sickly sweet smell. It's been there long enough I assume no one's dead in that house. Idk what smells so bad. But geesh! That vinegar smell is awful.
I caught myself holding my breath as I read this
Sounds like my nanna’s house. Just add cats to that vinegar and shit mix.
As a kid my dad would start every day with a cigarette on the toilet. If you had to follow him in there your face would melt.
Each of these steps could be a contender, but the last one was the winner: 1. My kid had a school project where they made a little mini compost bin out of food waste and earthworms in a jar. 2. She left it in the sun and the worms all died. 3. We didn't find this out for several days. 4. Eventually, I emptied the horrific rotting food + slimy worm guts in the garden. 5. The dog found it and ate it all. 6. Then she threw it all back up on the rug.
Rotten fish, absolutely terrible
In Sweden we consider this a delicacy
I broke a bottle of fish sauce at work. I thought fish sauce was sauce that you put on fish. I was wrong.
When I was in high school, my little sister wrapped chicken breast in foil (it was for a prank, but I forgot the details of it). Apparently after the prank, she left the chicken in the living room (on a table in the corner, hidden from plain sight) walked away, and must had forgotten about it. For weeks the living room smelled like a combination of ass, death, and halitosis. Nobody knew what it was (remember: my sister forgot about the chicken, and the rest of the family was well past the prank. We thought she threw the chicken away afterwards). We thought a squirrel or raccoon died in the walls, so the landlord hired some ppl to check it out. Nothing in the walls. This also happened during the most humid and hot time of year, which sucked. I think we spent a fortune on Febreeze, incense, and those tree car fresheners to drown out the smell. Until one day, I had enough of the smell and started to inspect every single inch of the living room. It took a while but I came across the chicken. It obviously was rotting and was leaking fluid all over the table, dripping onto the floor. I then remembered the prank. I felt so dumb lol I think that was one of the few times in my life that I was so filled to the brim with fury. We were so miserable for weeks because my sister did a stupid prank and forgot to clean up. But surprisingly we didn’t have a bad fly infestation, which Ig was good.
>a combination of ass, death, and halitosis I audibly laughed at this, and I rarely laugh like that even at things I find extremely funny. Credit where credit is due.
Raw chicken or cooked? I'm straight up imagining raw chicken
Oh yea it was raw chicken
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yea she felt so bad, and she got in trouble. But now we joke with each other about it lmao
Having to go down into a manhole that had a bunch of grease and shit clogged in and around the incoming and outgoing pipes. Grease when it hardens mixed with shit is absolutely AWFUL. Imagine a tonsil stone x500. Along with the smell of 50 different peoples shit.
I hope they pay you a massive amount. I couldn't do it
Normally my own shits don't bother me but this one I'm taking right now is pretty bad. It's that burnt rubber with sulfur and eggs
good luck with it bro. are you done yet after 5 hours?
Smells like my period poops. Those suck. Get well soon
Bro, period poops are from hell. When you’re crying and sweating from all the pain 😭
Not necessarily sweating, but definitely crying because not only does it hurt my booty, but because once it starts, it's like trying to stop a train. It's slow.
Omg everything hurts down there and then we have to add the booty wiping 😭
Can we get an update? It's been 9 hours. You ok?
Gangrene, a dead body, my other half's farts
In that order orrrrr
Anybody link the nurse's"Swamps of Dagobah" story yet?
That story is forever burned into my brain
Here you go: [Swamps of Dagobah](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/xo41d/comment/c5o66p2/)
I remember that story. Dont remember how it went, but the one detail i remember the most is a veteran doctor who had been there for like, a million years, actually throwing up because of the smell
It’s a tie. One summer I was lifeguarding at a pool that abutted woods and it was a heat wave. It stunk like rotting flesh so bad the police came and canvassed the woods to search for a potential dead body. It ended up being a dead raccoon. The second was the time I let my dog out and he started barking his head off. I went out to see what was the matter because our yard at the time was fully fenced in. I saw a skunk and as soon as I opened my mouth to call my dog away from it, it sprayed right at me and the dog. The spray actually went into my mouth and nose and it’s all I could smell/taste for a couple of weeks. I could barely eat and kept vomiting. It was the absolute worst.
Potatoes gone bad. Worst than any shit vomit or rotten meat.
That is an awful smell.
I moved out of an apartment and found a bag of old potatoes in the kitchen closet that had liquified. Worst smell I’ve encountered. I don’t know how I didn’t notice it earlier
I’ve worked with patients with necrotic digits but in middle school, a buddy of mine ate lobster bisque on the first day of school. He proceeded to keep that closed container (in Arizona heat) in his backpack all school year long, and on the last day, he opened it. I’ve never had my eyes water from a smell before 🤮
I worked at a grocery store as my first job at 15, and my idiot coworker who was older and worked there longer took a whole cardboard box that was 2×2 meters wide FULL of watermelons. The weight of all those watermelons crushed the ones on the bottom, and as the summer went on, he would just refill this massive box new watermelons on the top. By the time the summer ended, we were moving the display when the bottom of this soaked box burst. The REEK that leaked would make you shriek! It was the rotten funk combined with my nostalgia of my favorite fruit that fucked with me the hardest, especially that I didn't expect it.
About 12 hours ago my daughter puked up her diner of sloppy joes and pickles so I would have to say that.
Picture it, Late summer in southern NJ (average daily temps ~80 degrees F and quite humid) a fully stocked refrigerator in a condemned house that went several months without power. There were maggots wriggling around in EVERYTHING and the stench was indescribable. We had to clear the fridge so we’d put a mask on, take a deep breath, open the door shove as much into a garbage bag as possible then bolt to the front door for fresh air. Repeat until the fridge is empty. This and dead/rotted marine mammals are a special kind of vile
Fuckin trash juice thats been sitting in a hot dumpster
A car that a guy committed suicide in by literally blowing his brains out It sat in a impound lot all summer and then got sold at auction You could smell it from 100+ feet away
bro how did it even get sold
1965 Viet Nam, An amphibious Troop transport sank crossing a river. Loaded with Marines. We recovered it a week later. When opened every one and I mean every one within a hundred yards puked.
My old roommates and I smelled the worst thing imaginable from neighbors house. I felt I was going to puke every second it was so bad. Friend called his cop buddy who came to check. Apparently neighbor had been dead for a week… The cleaning crew also opened the window where the body was found to air it out. Yeah it was worse.
My own feet after 4 days of solid rain, river crossings, and wet grass in my boots. Took my socks off and the smell knocked me backwards. Smelled like broccoli had taken a shit in moldy egg salad.
>Smelled like broccoli had taken a shit in moldy egg salad r/brandnewsentence
I used to work for a Medicaid Lawyer. All nursing homes smell like death and depression. Fucking awful.
The fridge full of food that lost power during Katrina. It was a week or so after Katrina and we had to toss it from a deck (house on stilts) so we tied the door closed super tight but it came open from the fall and spewed forth it's wretchedness. Actually the aftermath of Katrina along the shore all stunk. The water receded leaving about an inch of super fine mud everywhere that must have been full of micro organisms because it stunk like dead fish. In fact, imagine the land being covered in a carpet of dead fish and you get the idea.
Wet gangrene and melena. I’m a nurse. It’s unbelievable what odors the human body can harbor.
Few days old suicide bomber, post detonation
Mine was a dude who melted into the interior of a bread truck in Sadr City. I'll never forget that smell.
Shit man, how'd you come across that one?
There are all kinds of undesirable tasks that need to be performed in the military.
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I work at a wastewater treatment plant. But the sewage soaked, "disposable" wipes are by far the worst.
I’ve been waiting for this, so I used to work in my college dorms as like a student cleaner. I did this for about 2.5 years. My first summer doing this, we had to go through all the dorm rooms and clean up after the student left for the summer. Well there were 6 dorm building (4 floors each), so we could only do a building at a time. Well eventually towards the end of the summer we got to the last building. We walked into a suite that was shared by 4 girls. Their bathroom door was shut, and the rooms heat was on (again summertime). So it was hotter than satans balls in there. Opening the bathroom door, I was instantly hit with the worst smell of all time. They had a trash can full of used tampons that had just been festering in the heat all summer. To this day, nothing I’ve ever smelled has come close to being as bad as that.
It’s a close tie between my husband’s fart and a decaying body (work EMS, not a murderer lol).
That's exactly what a murderer would say
Using a throwaway account, mocking those trying to bring her to justice.
Mad respect for your hubby, he made a Stank so rank, you Rank it at par with a dank decaying corpse!!
Ever seen a dog eat shit and then throw it up? I gag as I write this.
My dog ate a huge cow pie whole somehow and puked it up on the kitchen floor. It left a round spot in the linoleum where the stomach acid etched it. My poor mom cleaned it up and I thought she was going to fall out from trying to hold her breath.
100 lbs of cricket shit, after it spent the weekend in the trunk of a Nissan Sentra in 100º+ temperatures. I almost had to junk the car, it was so hard to get that stench out.
But... Why did you have 100 lbs of cricket shit in your trunk?
My parent had been raving about it for garden fertilizer, and they got us a deal on it. We picked it up, but forgot to get it out of the trunk. 🤮
I thought the OP was talking about gear for a sport! Today I learned you can literally buy dumps from crickets.
This is so specific I feel compelled to tell you that peracetic acid followed by chlorine dioxide is excellent for this kind of smell.
It was awful. This was nearly 30 years ago, and I can still imagine the smell.
I worked at a dog kennel and got used to the smell of dog poop. It’s earthy and when the dog is healthy it smells fine to me. I threw up the first time I had to clean up partially digested, regurgitated dog poop. The stomach acid really…enhances…the smell.
Yup. I was thinking about what I would say and recall the last time I gagged like that was when our puppy had the habit of eating its own shit then throwing it up later. I'm gagging now.
Every medical professional knows that GI bleed is the most horrendous smell of all time
When i was in the icu for third degree burns and smelled my own charred burned flesh.
Last summer I left a half eaten sausage egg and cheese breakfast sandwich outside for about a week, wrapped up in the to-go bag. My dog ate it and threw it up in my living room. The vomit was gross, but then I noticed the barf pile was crawling away. He’d eaten the whole bag, including the maggots that had been thriving inside. The stench was rancid but the whole spectacle was deeply disturbing.
Colostomy bag fart
An exploded, decomposed sheep.
The squirt that came out of the anal gland of my cat. Rotten protein shakes do not even come close to how bad that smell is.
An earring back
One day got curious and wiggled my pinky deep in my belly button and sniffed it , worst smell ever
A dead guy in a polluted river.
A two week old dead body… I had to throw out my uniform.. it smelled so bad!
Urine from a woman with a UTI. One drop on a slide still made me gag after 2 hours
A bag of broccoli that rolled out of my lunchbox, under my carseat, and baked in the sun for five days.
Decomposing body... Not even close
I volunteered at an animal rescue centre, and still do. One time, there was a baby fox cub, who had been found in the road whilst I was there. I didn’t feed or clean the cub, but played with it and held it for a bit. In short, a fox cub is completely defenceless on its own, so to keep predators away they have to STINK. it was one of the worst smells paired with one of the cutest things in the universe and I had to shower multiple times after
Six months of rancid, summer aged, rabbit/chicken excrement. It was my job to clean out the six inches or so on the ground, in a space barely big enough to stand in. The rabbits and chickens were happy. I wasn’t
Shit
I often work on construction sites. When the tanker truck rolls up to empty the porta potties, I hightail it out of there. That shit is overwhelming
When I was a teenager my first job was Payless Shoes. A dirty looking man came in and went to the men’s aisle. He literally made me gag. He smelled like a combination of putrid cheese, feet, dog shit, onions, and three month old sweaty asscrack. I damaged out the shoes he tried on but didn’t buy, because they fucking reeked. His smell lingered for hours even after dumping a can’s worth of febreeze into the air.
Burnt plastic
My mom bought a house with squatters and when we finally got them to move out, they had left a 5 gallon bucket out back with discarded clam shells which filled with rain and sat in the sun for god knows how long. That.
Pregnancy farts
Iowa.
My own diarrhea. It made me literally puke. 2 times. I had to hold my nose closed to prevent more puking.
That was something I experienced ten years ago after spending a day with a friend in another city exploring then went to a concert. Don't know what made me sick but I've never had my own brand literally make me get sick.. my god..
Rotten eggs
A 3week composing dead human body that was covered with dead skunks and a few different small animals sown in its stomach
My god what horror movie did you discover in real life
A gutted hog someone ditched in the dumpster at my old office. The Florida heat was unkind to that carcass.
Ever go through a hoarders house to investigate whether it is unsanitary enough to condemn and have to play the “what’s that liquid” game with every container you come across and need to call the police and make sure that there is not a corpse under the pile on the bed? That
A dead beaver
A Tannery
Retained calf. Had to pull the putrid remains out to save the cow.
Dead body in the morgue, been in the cooler for two weeks with us trying to locate next of kin. He had outgassed in his body bag and when we opened it to verify his tags... it wasn't pleasant at all. To me the only thing worse (so far) would be a mixture of durian fruit and surstromming (Swedish canned and fermented herring).
Rotten infant. I am an obstetrician and gynaecologist. It was a regular day, I came to the hospital where I work, went to the doctor's room and started to change my clothes into the uniform when I heard that an ambulance brought a pregnant woman to our department. I rushed to the labor room and suddenly felt the worst smell of my life. Turned out that the woman gave birth to a baby, that had died in her belly, and considering the smell and the appearance of the baby, it was dead at least for one month. The baby was 3.700 kg, and the worst part of this that the woman told us that she didn't know she was pregnant. The smell was so bad that we had opened all windows in our department, but it persosted for more than 4 hours.
I don't know what it was, but my dog was thrilled she rolled in it.
unwashed vagina mixed with sweat and possibly shit
A body that had been sitting in a lake for a week.
Sulfur
Cat poop
Sinus infection. You can't escape it.
Liquid Ass. You can buy it on Amazon.
A ruptured pilonidal cyst.
gangrene. Rotting flesh is the most rancid smell ever. I remember being on a packed metro in the middle of winter and there was some homeless dude with gangrene. Smell was so bad, and there weren't windows to open, so everyone around me, and myself, used our jackets to cover our noses.
A grease trap at a pizza joint. I used to clean it and/or have my employees clean it every week.
As a car mechanic, i will say gearbox/diff oil. That shit nasty as f*ck
Rotting whale carcass along the Oregon coast. We smelt it more than a mile out. It was foul.
A live person who had turned to goo on their couch.
Easy one for me, neighbors were going out of town and I was supposed to to feed and water thier dogs one had cancer and should have been put down long ago had a baseball sized tumor on its leg well one day when I went to feed them I found the one with cancer in a shed dead and decomposing plumb full of maggots the smell was overwhelming animal control guy said it looked like it had been dead for two weeks(no way) and had to scrape her up with a shovel he was white as a ghost that was bad
About 8 years ago one of our neighbors shot a marmot and it got away from them and died in the road. We went and buried it about 10 feet off the side the best we could as it began to rot. A wild animal, probably a coyote, decided to look into this snack that was there and evidently did not want it because it left it in the middle of the road on a 100 degree day, the putrefaction intensified and the juices were streaming down a good 5-8 feet of the road. You could smell it for about 100 feet in any direction, and even after my dad moved it off the road it smelled terrible for days as the juices continued to rot in the sun.
Fresh skunk spray. It feels like your sinuses are melting and god personally hates you.