10 November 2023 , 11:37
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Most of us don't spare a second thought about what our homes might look like underneath our floorboards. Whether the thought simply never crosses your mind, or if you don't let yourself think about it because you'd rather not know what horrors lie beneath your feet, it's thankfully not something many of us ever have to face.
But one woman has made us all face our fears head-on, as she shared nightmarish images of what she found underneath her floorboards. The anonymous woman, from Australia, had to lift up the wooden panels in her home after they became wet, as she wanted to find out what the cause of the dampness was.
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Some said they looked like something out of Stranger Things (Facebook)And as soon as she did, she wished she hadn't, as she came face-to-face with what looked like thick black webs that covered her floor. Posting to a local group, she asked if people had "any ideas what this is", according to Yahoo News. Several people responded to give their theories, with some even joking it looked like her house had been transported to the upside down from the Netflix series Stranger Things.
Other commenters simply said they were "genuinely terrified" of whatever the mysterious black substance was, while some sleuths did their best to trawl the internet for an actual answer. However, many of them came up short and were unable to help the woman, although a couple suggested it could be mycelium, slime mould or tree roots of some sort.
Even experts have been stumped over the bizarre images. An expert from the state herbarium in Brisbane said it was "a new one" to them, as they pointed out it "certainly doesn't look like traditional mould". They added: "The only thing I know that looks remotely like that are the rhizomorphs (string-like structures in fungi) of Armillaria (honey fungi), but that doesn't make a lot of sense."
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Meanwhile Dr Heike Neumeister-Kemp, Principal Mycologist at Managing Director of Mycolab said: "This is definitely fungal mycelium most likely from a basidiomycetes." He added the fungus wasn't dangerous, although it could eventually sprout a toadstool or mushroom if it isn't taken care of and cleaned up.