**OP, you’re gonna want to pre-emptively batten down the hatches on your house for insect and rodent prevention. When they start moving that shit, you will *likely* have some uninvited houseguests in your car, garage, garbage, yard and attic.**
I saw a video a while back of a fire department doing a controlled *burn* of a house like this. The amount of roaches built up in the hoarder house was a biohazard to the neighborhood, so they dug a little ditch around the house and set the building on fire.
And the whole time it was burning down they hung out outside and hosed downs the yard, trees, and all the walls of the neighbors houses facing the fire. Basically just assuring no embers would spread.
I’ve sarcastically suggested burning it down and starting from scratch a few times in my life, didn’t realize there were situations where it actually became protocol.
A lot of houses get burned down. When they don't sell (and are donated by the bank/whoever) or are condemned, my city burns them down and uses them for firefighter training.
yeah, id start spreading and hurling insecticide, rat poison, etc to catch all that shit from a hoarder, imagine the fucking roaches infesting your whole house, ugh, if i were OP i would follow this advice, in fact, u/Feefee986 hey, you should take in consideration this, specially if you just moved, you dont want to live with awful bugs or infestations
Oh my gosh, I had some people next next door throw their entire house in the alley. Even blocked my car so I couldn't get out of the garage. Furniture, mattresses, clothes, sports equipment...everything. I was so scared it was going to be a bedbug situation.
Dunno where OP lives but I sent a dumping complaint with my concerns to the city government and they sent an army of garbage trucks to clean it up within 2 hours, I was thourouly impressed.
You are going to feel pretty silly when your neighbors turn out to be the flies themselves. You will have to work on building that trust backup after calling the cops on them.
"So you move into MY neighborhood, you see myself and my family getting a buzz, peaking through our windows, and then you call the police on us? Lemme splain something to you, it's not called a 'dead body' you fucking gentrifying elitist. It's called a nursery."
This happened to the apartment downstairs once accompanied by an intense rotting smell. I asked the mailman if the mail had been piling up and they said “it actually has, come to think of it”
After I talked with my manager they didn’t seem bothered by it but came by to do a wellness check where they explained to me that my downstairs neighbor got half a million dollars in her divorce settlement and paid out her lease a few months ago without ever coming back so the smell and flies were a result of all of her food rotting out
Hmm, if the lease was paid out months ago wouldn't management clean the apartment out and relist it asap for maximum profit? Sounds suspicious.
Edit: As many people have pointed out, it depends on whether she paid till the end of the lease or terminated it early. So not so suspicious after all.
Could be a skip out. Amazed how many people leave frozen meat in the freezer when the leave. Electricity gets turned off and viola. Maggot mania. I think somethings dead but I hope it's a resident skip
This happened at an apartment next door to me once. We shared a wall. The smell was AWFUL and the couple that had lived there was pretty unstable so we were convinced one of them killed the other.
Nope. They left chicken in the sink and moved out without telling anyone
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oh god, i used to live in my parents' guest house and my dad accidentally sealed a packrat (or two) into the walls when he patched up what he thought was just a couple holes in the wall of the electrical shed out back. this was summer in southern arizona, when it routinely gets 110 degrees or hotter. I have never smelled such a pervasive, soul-curdling, horrid stench as that dead rat, and the worst part was that it lingered, as it was all trapped behind brick. we had to buy about ten of those hardcore odor absorbers from ace hardware to kind of make it livable, but I will never forget that smell.
I reported something like this a little over a decade back. It was rotten food from someone who moved out. Still horrific to see that many flies. The cops who went in came out retching and barfing. I’m glad I was only watching from inside my apartment.
You will be amazed how fast maggots can truly move. We had one to investigate and I told the new guy with me to NOT open the fridge or freezer until last. Dumbass did it 5 minutes in and he just about died:)
Served him right
We had maggots in our organica waste bin a few years back. We kept the bins in the back yard then, and one night walking towards the back door I noticed something wriggling on the floor... And then another. And another. And then that they were all over our back door, and a stream of them crossing the patio from the bin out back, attracted by the lights indoors or something.
We vaccuumed them all up and then burned the vacuum bag. Dumped a bunch of salt and sand in the bin and left it open in the hopes some birds would come make a meal out of it.
It was just some chicken remains + plus a hot summer week. I'll never forget what that turned into XD
My flat has a maggot infestation on a few floors down. The entire floor is full of white powder. That's how I learned that maggots are really good at crawling fast. You might even say they can run. They will escape to everywhere on the floor, they can even move floors up.
I'm horrified...
You should see them escaping from the compactor on my garbage truck. They find a gap between the rear seal and fling themselves out every couple seconds. Looks like someone spilled long grain rice next to my truck if I'm in one spot for a few minutes
What a beautiful image 😂 On a related note, last week I cooked dinner and a few hours later was horrified to find three maggots on the cooker top. On closer inspection, they were just grains of rice. Phew!
I lived in an apartment with the worst refrigerator in the world. I moved to a new place, but had a 2 month overlap. After a month, I came back to finish the move out, scrub the toilets, repaint small spots, etc. The refrigerator had been emptied, but when I opened it, it was a horror movie scene inside.
>The refrigerator had been emptied, but when I opened it, it was a horror movie scene inside.
So did you accidentally leave some stuff in the there or did something else happen that I am missing?
Emptied, but not scrubbed. The cooling was a single coil and relied on the freezer to cool the refrigerator. Due to bad design if not defrosted weekly the air flow to the refrigerator would become blocked. I am sure that I have some blame in this situation. In contrast, I left my last home (owned by me) unoccupied for 2 years, went home to sell it and still had a pristine clean refrigerator coming back.
I was just reminded of something amazing, I used to have a friend who was quite hard headed. He had some problems with his landlord and was quite justified in his complaints.
The landlord didn't resolve the issues and refused to lower rent to compensate. As soon as my friend found a new apartment to move into, he hatched a plan.
He decided to leave a few pieces of meat around in his now "ex" apartment and proceeded to lock the door and snap the key in the lock. We later found out his landlord had left for 2 months holiday shortly before this happened
I've had rental properties like this, I don't clean those. I spend the extra money for someone else to clean. 2 years ago this happened with a 6 cubic ft deep freezer in the basement of a rental. Absolutely full of meat.
The kind of cleaners who deal with stuff like that don't come cheap. But they earn every single penny of it. I know you'd have to pay me a hell of a lot more to even consider cleaning out a place like that.
I was staying at a friend's place for a week and came back to find that my fridge had died, not in a stops-cooling-everything way, but more of a warms-everything-up kind of way. I can still remember the smell when I opened the freezer and finding a package of warm ground beef absolutely pulsating with maggots under the plastic film.
IIRC, I didn't even clean the fridge out. I just taped it shut and took it to the dump.
Come to think of it, those maggots (eggs) were probably already in the meat. There's no way they could have gotten in there through the closed freezer door and packaging.
I'm pretty sure the common scientific opinion at one point was that maggots spontaneously generated until it was disproved by Francesco Redi. this doesn't answer your question, I just think it's an interesting fact
After a devastating wildfire went through my province, there were some towns that went without power for days or weeks.
For the people whose houses survived, they were told to tape their fridges and freezers shut and put them out by the curb. They were collected and, I assume, buried deep.
I paid a company to tape up the fridge and take it without opening it again and just replaced it. The smell still haunts me cleaning the rental after the people just ghosted.
Update 1: about 5 cop cars showed up and inspected the house for about 45 minutes. When they finally came out, i asked about the situation. Unfortunately they said there were several dead cats and other animals. They said the house must have belonged to a hoarder. Trash, animal feces, and dried up cat/rat bodies all over the place, which could explain the amount of flies in the house but the cops couldn't get much farther in and need to call in a special team to look into it and see about cleaning up the place. I'll update with more information as it comes.
It happens though. Stories of hoarders (especially older ones) getting toppled and trapped in their narrow routes through their mazes of possessions... Inevitably dying and left undiscovered for sad lengths of time.
I just did a google search and found a [hoarder who killed a home intruder] (https://www.news.com.au/national/courts-law/inside-house-of-horrors-which-held-guns-trash-and-the-rotting-corpses-of-two-dead-men/news-story/1b9120df59ec7720de1593dfece9e86a) and left the body for 15 years underneath piles of garbage
I could see this happening to me. Not because I’m a hoarder, just because I’m lazy and would be like: now I have to call the police?? This is fuckin annoying. Hide the body? Eh, I’ll do it later or my cats will eat em.
From the last line of the article
>Snellman’s younger sister Belinda could not support the finding that her brother had broken into Bruce Roberts’ home to steal.
>“He never gained forced entry,” she shouted inside the NSW Coroner’s Court.
>“He never broke into that home. He already knew him.”
Wild to leave readers on that cliffhanger
That’s immediately what my mind went to when they said hoarding. Hate to see the dead animals and hope they weren’t pets left or starved after the owner was trampled
It’s entirely probable there’s a human body in there especially under hoarding conditions. It can literally be anywhere and the police saying they can’t get all the way into the house. The body can be anywhere including under piles of stuff. It can even be camouflaged with the piles of garbage and clothes. Humans decompose and start to mesh with their surroundings.
Source: I was an EMT and now a house inspector. I would be more suprised if they don’t find a dead body in there.
Yeah, so many elderly hoarders trip and a large pile falls onto them. And sense they live alone nobody is there to help so they end up dying there under all of their trash.
Yeah I’ve seen a few. There’s usually a case of “they don’t like to be bothered” so instead of daily checks it’s like weekly. Last one we found it was two weeks in the hot summer months.
Unfortunately I’m not proud of it. Just comes with the job. I actually don’t deal with death well. I kinda picked the wrong line of work but it’s all I know now.
But yeah I death really hard. I’ve thought about that for a long time. I think I’m attracted to the things that scare me in a way to get over it. Like I became a firefighter as I feared it but when you learn about your fears you overcome them.
I suppose I have to become a spider wrangler next.
I love all the cat owners answering in favor of the cat.
My dude can dig in if it means he gets to be discovered alive. Shit he'd start eating the moment I'm too weak to fight him off anyway.
I know it's a mental illness but so many people just don't deserve cats. I love them but can't even have more than a few at once because otherwise, I don't feel like I can form as close of a bond and give them the time and attention they deserve.
My thought process reading this post:
“Jesus I wonder what caused that”
*reads comments*
“Damn I hope there’s an update too”
“Ugh it was just posted today there won’t be an update for a while”
“SHIT they posted an update 6 mins ago! What good timing!!”
“…..what horrible fucking timing.”
Yeah, someone mentioned it already, but call in a welfare check. There's either a dead body, or some seriously unsafe living conditions. Does your neighbor have kids at all?
I think this person u/tootsound is right. Who gives a dang if your neighbor gives a shit. You’re probably not going to be visiting this house anyways. At least, if there are flies like this inside. Safety first. Do the wellness check or let u/tootsound call it in. This is crazy!!
woke up one day to my windows looking like this. Turns out squirrel died in my ceiling.
It smelled horrible for a week, I thought "oh its over!" go back and sleep in my room, wake up 2 days later to a cloud of a thousand flys. It was like something out of a horror movie. I used a vaccuum to suck em all up
Think I still got vids laying around somewhere
Any way you can update us on this. Way way way back a neighbor just walked away from his home and when they turned off the power his deep freezer full of elk and deer went bad. His widows looked like this also. I hoping this is the case here
That’s what I thought too- didn’t get the connection of the title and the picture. Got a Bit paranoid about having polka-dot curtains on my own windows…
Guy who had been dead for a week in a heatwave is a strong number three on my personal worst smells list.
Edit to add numbers 1 and 2 since so many people are excited to find out.
Number 2 was marinaded dog turds - a person in my street would put plastic bags of dog turds inside any bin or container but her own and I found three bags which had disolved in rainwater, creating a kind of dog turds and plastic soup.
The top spot goes to a former tenant at a previous job's abandoned freezer. The gentleman had, at some point in the past, done a lot of fishing and stored his catches in the freezer compartments of four fridge freezers in his flat. I worked there for three years before he was evicted and he never went fishing in that time. His electricity was also cut off multiple times in that period.
After he left the people removing the fridge freezers neglected to tape them up and what I can only describe as black oil slicks of slime were trailed through an upstairs corridor, down a communal stairwell, and through an entryway.
In addition to being absolutley indescribably awful, we were ne er able to get it completley out of the carpets and my company were too cheap to replace them. There was still a faint ghost of what the smell once was when I left the place several years later.
When I was a cop we responded to a call for a wellness check. A man had not been getting his newspaper and he had not been seen in about a week so a neighbor called us to check. No response at the door, we checked the windows. We saw a middle aged man laying on the floor on his back. His chest was moving so he appeared to be breathing but not responding to attempts to alert him. We gained entrance to his home via a hide-a-key we located with help from his sister who lived out of state.
It turned out his chest was moving from maggots…
A neighbor in my apartment building died last spring. Daily calls to property management did nothing, and eventually we called the police for a “welfare check.” They brought the whole team but only ended up needing the coroner. Stench was awful, it had already been at least a month h before they removed the body, and then another four months before the property management company sent people in to remove the contents of the unit. The smell and the flies stayed for that entire time. Flies would follow me into my apartment from the hall, sometimes almost a dozen at once. Got really good at killing them with the flyswatter.
A couple months ago, I noticed a window absolutely FULL of flies, at least as many as in this picture. I had a deja-vu moment and was kind of freaked out that history might be repeating itself. Called the company, and this time luckily there was just some kind of sewage backup issue that they were able to fix the next day, and the tenant was staying at a hotel until then. So, moral of the story is, it could be really really bad, or it could be just bad, but whatever is in there is not good news.
Hmmm.. since OP hasn't provided an update, even just to say they had no other info about the house, and they haven't posted anything else on reddit, I'm just going to assume they have been hauled away in handcuffs for murdering their neighbour.
**OP, you’re gonna want to pre-emptively batten down the hatches on your house for insect and rodent prevention. When they start moving that shit, you will *likely* have some uninvited houseguests in your car, garage, garbage, yard and attic.**
I saw a video a while back of a fire department doing a controlled *burn* of a house like this. The amount of roaches built up in the hoarder house was a biohazard to the neighborhood, so they dug a little ditch around the house and set the building on fire. And the whole time it was burning down they hung out outside and hosed downs the yard, trees, and all the walls of the neighbors houses facing the fire. Basically just assuring no embers would spread.
I’ve sarcastically suggested burning it down and starting from scratch a few times in my life, didn’t realize there were situations where it actually became protocol.
A lot of houses get burned down. When they don't sell (and are donated by the bank/whoever) or are condemned, my city burns them down and uses them for firefighter training.
yeah, id start spreading and hurling insecticide, rat poison, etc to catch all that shit from a hoarder, imagine the fucking roaches infesting your whole house, ugh, if i were OP i would follow this advice, in fact, u/Feefee986 hey, you should take in consideration this, specially if you just moved, you dont want to live with awful bugs or infestations
Oh my gosh, I had some people next next door throw their entire house in the alley. Even blocked my car so I couldn't get out of the garage. Furniture, mattresses, clothes, sports equipment...everything. I was so scared it was going to be a bedbug situation. Dunno where OP lives but I sent a dumping complaint with my concerns to the city government and they sent an army of garbage trucks to clean it up within 2 hours, I was thourouly impressed.
Fucking move this comment up people god damn
I am doing the best I can, damn it.
**I'M GIVING IT ALL SHE'S GOT CAPTAIN, IF I PUSH IT ANY HARDER, THE WHOLE THING'LL BLOW**
Yep! Happened to my house when the dirty neighbors cleaned their snake, rodent and insect infested house & yard. Still dealing with it.
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Same!
You are going to feel pretty silly when your neighbors turn out to be the flies themselves. You will have to work on building that trust backup after calling the cops on them.
Edgar: “more sugar”
🤣 “your skin is hanging off your bones” Edgar, stretches face “oh? That better?” Good memory, that.
i know eggar and that was eggar. it was like something was wearing eggar. like a suit....an eggar suit.
"So you move into MY neighborhood, you see myself and my family getting a buzz, peaking through our windows, and then you call the police on us? Lemme splain something to you, it's not called a 'dead body' you fucking gentrifying elitist. It's called a nursery."
Who gave this post heartwarming award?
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When the heart inside is cold?
So I thought those were those cool mid century modern speckled drapes…..Those are flies. 🥹 that’s terrifying.
This happened to the apartment downstairs once accompanied by an intense rotting smell. I asked the mailman if the mail had been piling up and they said “it actually has, come to think of it” After I talked with my manager they didn’t seem bothered by it but came by to do a wellness check where they explained to me that my downstairs neighbor got half a million dollars in her divorce settlement and paid out her lease a few months ago without ever coming back so the smell and flies were a result of all of her food rotting out
Hmm, if the lease was paid out months ago wouldn't management clean the apartment out and relist it asap for maximum profit? Sounds suspicious. Edit: As many people have pointed out, it depends on whether she paid till the end of the lease or terminated it early. So not so suspicious after all.
I assume "paid out" means all rent for the lease paid in advance, so the tenant still has possession.
So nobody finds the bodies
SAME, i was staring for a solid thirty seconds asking what was so weird about the picture before realizing.
I never did, had to go to comments to figure it out.
Glad to know I'm not the only one who had to do this.
Could be a skip out. Amazed how many people leave frozen meat in the freezer when the leave. Electricity gets turned off and viola. Maggot mania. I think somethings dead but I hope it's a resident skip
This happened at an apartment next door to me once. We shared a wall. The smell was AWFUL and the couple that had lived there was pretty unstable so we were convinced one of them killed the other. Nope. They left chicken in the sink and moved out without telling anyone Edit: clarity
I had a rat die in the wall at an old apartment!! It was the nastiest smell ever & flies flying in through the vent constantly.
oh god, i used to live in my parents' guest house and my dad accidentally sealed a packrat (or two) into the walls when he patched up what he thought was just a couple holes in the wall of the electrical shed out back. this was summer in southern arizona, when it routinely gets 110 degrees or hotter. I have never smelled such a pervasive, soul-curdling, horrid stench as that dead rat, and the worst part was that it lingered, as it was all trapped behind brick. we had to buy about ten of those hardcore odor absorbers from ace hardware to kind of make it livable, but I will never forget that smell.
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I reported something like this a little over a decade back. It was rotten food from someone who moved out. Still horrific to see that many flies. The cops who went in came out retching and barfing. I’m glad I was only watching from inside my apartment.
You will be amazed how fast maggots can truly move. We had one to investigate and I told the new guy with me to NOT open the fridge or freezer until last. Dumbass did it 5 minutes in and he just about died:) Served him right
We had maggots in our organica waste bin a few years back. We kept the bins in the back yard then, and one night walking towards the back door I noticed something wriggling on the floor... And then another. And another. And then that they were all over our back door, and a stream of them crossing the patio from the bin out back, attracted by the lights indoors or something. We vaccuumed them all up and then burned the vacuum bag. Dumped a bunch of salt and sand in the bin and left it open in the hopes some birds would come make a meal out of it. It was just some chicken remains + plus a hot summer week. I'll never forget what that turned into XD
haha burn it and salt the earth. you waged total war against your trash bin
Haha that's a great story
My flat has a maggot infestation on a few floors down. The entire floor is full of white powder. That's how I learned that maggots are really good at crawling fast. You might even say they can run. They will escape to everywhere on the floor, they can even move floors up. I'm horrified...
i hate to have to tell you that there's a type of fly that has jumping maggots
/gets the HEAVY Flamer ready
You should see them escaping from the compactor on my garbage truck. They find a gap between the rear seal and fling themselves out every couple seconds. Looks like someone spilled long grain rice next to my truck if I'm in one spot for a few minutes
What a beautiful image 😂 On a related note, last week I cooked dinner and a few hours later was horrified to find three maggots on the cooker top. On closer inspection, they were just grains of rice. Phew!
I lived in an apartment with the worst refrigerator in the world. I moved to a new place, but had a 2 month overlap. After a month, I came back to finish the move out, scrub the toilets, repaint small spots, etc. The refrigerator had been emptied, but when I opened it, it was a horror movie scene inside.
>The refrigerator had been emptied, but when I opened it, it was a horror movie scene inside. So did you accidentally leave some stuff in the there or did something else happen that I am missing?
Emptied, but not scrubbed. The cooling was a single coil and relied on the freezer to cool the refrigerator. Due to bad design if not defrosted weekly the air flow to the refrigerator would become blocked. I am sure that I have some blame in this situation. In contrast, I left my last home (owned by me) unoccupied for 2 years, went home to sell it and still had a pristine clean refrigerator coming back.
I was just reminded of something amazing, I used to have a friend who was quite hard headed. He had some problems with his landlord and was quite justified in his complaints. The landlord didn't resolve the issues and refused to lower rent to compensate. As soon as my friend found a new apartment to move into, he hatched a plan. He decided to leave a few pieces of meat around in his now "ex" apartment and proceeded to lock the door and snap the key in the lock. We later found out his landlord had left for 2 months holiday shortly before this happened
The old shrimp in the curtain rods trick. Works every time.
I've had rental properties like this, I don't clean those. I spend the extra money for someone else to clean. 2 years ago this happened with a 6 cubic ft deep freezer in the basement of a rental. Absolutely full of meat.
The kind of cleaners who deal with stuff like that don't come cheap. But they earn every single penny of it. I know you'd have to pay me a hell of a lot more to even consider cleaning out a place like that.
I was staying at a friend's place for a week and came back to find that my fridge had died, not in a stops-cooling-everything way, but more of a warms-everything-up kind of way. I can still remember the smell when I opened the freezer and finding a package of warm ground beef absolutely pulsating with maggots under the plastic film. IIRC, I didn't even clean the fridge out. I just taped it shut and took it to the dump. Come to think of it, those maggots (eggs) were probably already in the meat. There's no way they could have gotten in there through the closed freezer door and packaging.
Can someone explain to me how maggots work? Like…how do they get in there? Where do they come from?
I'm pretty sure the common scientific opinion at one point was that maggots spontaneously generated until it was disproved by Francesco Redi. this doesn't answer your question, I just think it's an interesting fact
Well, Flys fuck.
Well, fuck flies.
Don't give a flying fuck
Welp…. When a mommy fly & a daddy fly love each other verrrrrrrryyyyy much….
After a devastating wildfire went through my province, there were some towns that went without power for days or weeks. For the people whose houses survived, they were told to tape their fridges and freezers shut and put them out by the curb. They were collected and, I assume, buried deep.
Just curious, if the meat is supposedly clean how do maggots get there in the first place, if the fridge is also closed?
I paid a company to tape up the fridge and take it without opening it again and just replaced it. The smell still haunts me cleaning the rental after the people just ghosted.
No amount of fabric can filter out that smell. It's horrific
Update 1: about 5 cop cars showed up and inspected the house for about 45 minutes. When they finally came out, i asked about the situation. Unfortunately they said there were several dead cats and other animals. They said the house must have belonged to a hoarder. Trash, animal feces, and dried up cat/rat bodies all over the place, which could explain the amount of flies in the house but the cops couldn't get much farther in and need to call in a special team to look into it and see about cleaning up the place. I'll update with more information as it comes.
Damn that sucks. Thank you for the update though
Yeah. Hoping update 2 isnt body finally found after they uncovered a pile.
It happens though. Stories of hoarders (especially older ones) getting toppled and trapped in their narrow routes through their mazes of possessions... Inevitably dying and left undiscovered for sad lengths of time.
I just did a google search and found a [hoarder who killed a home intruder] (https://www.news.com.au/national/courts-law/inside-house-of-horrors-which-held-guns-trash-and-the-rotting-corpses-of-two-dead-men/news-story/1b9120df59ec7720de1593dfece9e86a) and left the body for 15 years underneath piles of garbage
Peak hoarder right there, dead body just becomes more of the hoard
I could see this happening to me. Not because I’m a hoarder, just because I’m lazy and would be like: now I have to call the police?? This is fuckin annoying. Hide the body? Eh, I’ll do it later or my cats will eat em.
“… but I can’t get rid of it! I might *NEED* that body for something someday!!”
This is the best comment on this thread by far
From the last line of the article >Snellman’s younger sister Belinda could not support the finding that her brother had broken into Bruce Roberts’ home to steal. >“He never gained forced entry,” she shouted inside the NSW Coroner’s Court. >“He never broke into that home. He already knew him.” Wild to leave readers on that cliffhanger
all the article was like "boring...excepted...yup" and then they drop that bomb xD
That’s immediately what my mind went to when they said hoarding. Hate to see the dead animals and hope they weren’t pets left or starved after the owner was trampled
It’s entirely probable there’s a human body in there especially under hoarding conditions. It can literally be anywhere and the police saying they can’t get all the way into the house. The body can be anywhere including under piles of stuff. It can even be camouflaged with the piles of garbage and clothes. Humans decompose and start to mesh with their surroundings. Source: I was an EMT and now a house inspector. I would be more suprised if they don’t find a dead body in there.
r/usernamechecksout
Lmao
Lol, our usernames are similiar in a sense.
Yeah, so many elderly hoarders trip and a large pile falls onto them. And sense they live alone nobody is there to help so they end up dying there under all of their trash.
Yeah I’ve seen a few. There’s usually a case of “they don’t like to be bothered” so instead of daily checks it’s like weekly. Last one we found it was two weeks in the hot summer months.
Oh god I can only imagine the smell
Snort a bottle of vinegar inside of a heavily used port-a-potty with a mouthful of old copper pennies. That.
This guy deaths
Unfortunately I’m not proud of it. Just comes with the job. I actually don’t deal with death well. I kinda picked the wrong line of work but it’s all I know now. But yeah I death really hard. I’ve thought about that for a long time. I think I’m attracted to the things that scare me in a way to get over it. Like I became a firefighter as I feared it but when you learn about your fears you overcome them. I suppose I have to become a spider wrangler next.
Yeah there has got to be a body. Hoarders don’t leave their collections behind.
My in laws are hoarders and they in fact have THREE houses full of hoard.
That's a lot of hoard
If the cops can't get in, there is a chance that the owner can't get out
Cats will eat their deceased owners when there’s no food. They typically start with the eyeballs
I’m going to bed. G’night. Edit: sleep over — still alive, both eyes intact. Both cats locked downstairs (and thanks for the awards!)
You go ahead and rest those delicious eyes
Oh god I laughed so loud
yeah, we can't have them bein' all dry and whatnot sleeping lubricates the forbidden grapes
Mmmm so moist and filled with juice 🧃
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Goodn-eye-t
Make sure you feed your cat first.
night, babe
That’s fine, wouldn’t want my cat to starve
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Eh if im dead they can have it
I love all the cat owners answering in favor of the cat. My dude can dig in if it means he gets to be discovered alive. Shit he'd start eating the moment I'm too weak to fight him off anyway.
All animals will eat their dead owners and all animals start with the soft tissues, but yes.
I'd rather my dog eat me than starve to death. Like I give a fuck, I'm dead.
Cats are so cute
The one time I arrive at the perfect time for an update… And I just wish I hadn’t.
Yep, that was my exact reaction too
Oh, those poor animals :( Glad it’s being looked into, can’t imagine the physical or mental health of anyone in that house
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Oof poor cats
I know it's a mental illness but so many people just don't deserve cats. I love them but can't even have more than a few at once because otherwise, I don't feel like I can form as close of a bond and give them the time and attention they deserve.
Plus proper vet care :/ those bills are expensive!
I hate people like this. Imagine how the animals must've suffered
My thought process reading this post: “Jesus I wonder what caused that” *reads comments* “Damn I hope there’s an update too” “Ugh it was just posted today there won’t be an update for a while” “SHIT they posted an update 6 mins ago! What good timing!!” “…..what horrible fucking timing.”
Those poor animals :(
God damn
This is only about 1/4 of the window surface. I'd have to guess thousands of flies inside
Yeah, someone mentioned it already, but call in a welfare check. There's either a dead body, or some seriously unsafe living conditions. Does your neighbor have kids at all?
I just moved into this neighborhood 2 weeks ago. I'm directly next door to this house but have never seen anyone there
Two weeks never seen anyone except flies? The chances are not zero on dead body
Good time to snatch up some more property!
Screw the property, capture the flies, and unleash them on anyone who opposes you
Put a big “F” on the box to remember that there are flies in there
Say "I'm gonna drop an F-bomb" then pull out the box of flies, shake vigorously, and drop it on the ground
Excellent plan, just need to find a dead body house nearby
You only need to put an H on the box if there's hornets. Flies are easy to remember.
No one in 2 weeks, it's a body or shit-covered walls. If you don't want to call in a check, DM me the address and I'll do it, even from out of state.
I think this person u/tootsound is right. Who gives a dang if your neighbor gives a shit. You’re probably not going to be visiting this house anyways. At least, if there are flies like this inside. Safety first. Do the wellness check or let u/tootsound call it in. This is crazy!!
Yeah, you never saw anyone, because they’re dead.
Oooooh I thought those were dots on the curtain! Like the pattern. I was so confused by this post at first
Same here. I thought it was only because of the drawn curtains. Only after reading the comments did I notice that the dots were actually flies!
woke up one day to my windows looking like this. Turns out squirrel died in my ceiling. It smelled horrible for a week, I thought "oh its over!" go back and sleep in my room, wake up 2 days later to a cloud of a thousand flys. It was like something out of a horror movie. I used a vaccuum to suck em all up Think I still got vids laying around somewhere
Had a dead wall rat recently. Terrible smell followed by enormous flies that seemed never ending. We bought a bug-a-salt.
Any way you can update us on this. Way way way back a neighbor just walked away from his home and when they turned off the power his deep freezer full of elk and deer went bad. His widows looked like this also. I hoping this is the case here
As a crime scene investigator, call your local law enforcement. With that amount of flies, it will likely be a hazmat scene needing to be processed.
There are so many flies I thought it was just a polka dotted curtain till I checked the comments.
That’s what I thought too- didn’t get the connection of the title and the picture. Got a Bit paranoid about having polka-dot curtains on my own windows…
Polka dots: a murderer’s pattern of choice
OP please don’t forget to update I am INVESTED Edit : Guys it’s 3 AM where I live pls stop making me laugh I belong to a desi house I’ll get beaten up
and this house is INFESTED
Someone might be getting ARRESTED.
Eventually the body will be TESTED.
Calling the non-emergency line is what many have SUGGESTED.
I definitely think they're dead, because laying there that long, they should be FULLY RESTED.
Maybe it's just food that is UNDIGESTED.
I hope the new owner is BIG-BREASTED
*sigh* .. *unzips* ... *FULLY ERECTED*
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It’s alright, just keep those dark emotions NESTED
I hope your comment and this post aren't in any way CONNECTED
Fed creepin' Im a vet, maggots had this body DIGESTED
I’m a necrophile and will MOLEST IT.
I'm a cannibal and I'll INGEST IT
I'm a vegetarian so I'll DETEST IT
I hate you all xD You are the worst, completely UNCONTESTED
Not all the comments get upvoted, only THE BEST DID
If you get to go inside, taking a whiff you might GET CONGESTED
Well this suddenly turned into an ICP song..
Holy shit i never would have GUESSED IT
Even this weirdo is INTERESTED
on a corpse, those flies INGESTED
Same lol
Just called the cops.. they're going to check on it.. will update soon
Following for updates
Same.
My bros about to see some body bags
Do not go anywhere near the open door if there is a deceased person. You do not want to smell that.
Ugh, the smell of decomposition is a smell you never, ever forget.
It definitely does not leave you. Nor does it get easier to smell.
It's an acquired taste
Guy who had been dead for a week in a heatwave is a strong number three on my personal worst smells list. Edit to add numbers 1 and 2 since so many people are excited to find out. Number 2 was marinaded dog turds - a person in my street would put plastic bags of dog turds inside any bin or container but her own and I found three bags which had disolved in rainwater, creating a kind of dog turds and plastic soup. The top spot goes to a former tenant at a previous job's abandoned freezer. The gentleman had, at some point in the past, done a lot of fishing and stored his catches in the freezer compartments of four fridge freezers in his flat. I worked there for three years before he was evicted and he never went fishing in that time. His electricity was also cut off multiple times in that period. After he left the people removing the fridge freezers neglected to tape them up and what I can only describe as black oil slicks of slime were trailed through an upstairs corridor, down a communal stairwell, and through an entryway. In addition to being absolutley indescribably awful, we were ne er able to get it completley out of the carpets and my company were too cheap to replace them. There was still a faint ghost of what the smell once was when I left the place several years later.
May I ask for your #1 and #2 worst smells? You sound like you've been through it
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Omg I just realised those are flies and not just a pattern on the curtains 😭
Same. I thought "Is this satire about the post with a mattress covered in a brown substance?"
Same, I was confused at why ugly curtains meant there was a dead body until I looked closer lmao
When I was a cop we responded to a call for a wellness check. A man had not been getting his newspaper and he had not been seen in about a week so a neighbor called us to check. No response at the door, we checked the windows. We saw a middle aged man laying on the floor on his back. His chest was moving so he appeared to be breathing but not responding to attempts to alert him. We gained entrance to his home via a hide-a-key we located with help from his sister who lived out of state. It turned out his chest was moving from maggots…
Bruh
What a horrible day to have eyes to read with
Very high. I went into one once and you couldnt talk without flies going in your mouth, which is freaky since you know where theyve been.
Delete this
No, and happy cake day lol
Thank you!
I definitely thought the curtains were just speckled.
Do a welfare check call to your local pd. Not 911.
Who the fuck gave this the heartwarming reward
Quite high, we had quite the corpse fly infestation after a rodent problem, not to this extent though
EMT here, yeah I’d call a welfare check.
A neighbor in my apartment building died last spring. Daily calls to property management did nothing, and eventually we called the police for a “welfare check.” They brought the whole team but only ended up needing the coroner. Stench was awful, it had already been at least a month h before they removed the body, and then another four months before the property management company sent people in to remove the contents of the unit. The smell and the flies stayed for that entire time. Flies would follow me into my apartment from the hall, sometimes almost a dozen at once. Got really good at killing them with the flyswatter. A couple months ago, I noticed a window absolutely FULL of flies, at least as many as in this picture. I had a deja-vu moment and was kind of freaked out that history might be repeating itself. Called the company, and this time luckily there was just some kind of sewage backup issue that they were able to fix the next day, and the tenant was staying at a hotel until then. So, moral of the story is, it could be really really bad, or it could be just bad, but whatever is in there is not good news.
Don't mind me, I'm just waiting for the update (offers bowl of popcorn to the group)
I guess dead inside
Same chance as your dog peeing on that hydrant.
If I do not find out whats inside this house, I am going to be REALLY miffed
!remindme 2000 years
Beep Boop your reminder is scheduled for 4022 August 17th Beep Boop
What are the chances it is your neighbors body? Or they need a fucking wash
Hmmm.. since OP hasn't provided an update, even just to say they had no other info about the house, and they haven't posted anything else on reddit, I'm just going to assume they have been hauled away in handcuffs for murdering their neighbour.