I was shocked by my discovery after lifting my floorboards – people joke it looks like something out of Stranger Things
A woman was shocked when she tore up her floorboards and discovered a gruesome discovery.
Hannah Sycamore from Melbourne quickly got to work on it Facebook to ask for help figuring out what the black web-like growth is.
After posting the disturbing footage on the Australia & New Zealand Fungus Identification page, even experts were baffled by a joke that said it looked like it came straight out of Stranger Things.
Hanna said Yahoo News that she had shared the photos of the growth on behalf of her friend.
The unnerving images, which look like something out of a horror movie, show the floors covered in a strange black web that resembled tree roots.
Hannah Sycamore from Melbourne, Australia, was shocked when she tore up her floorboards and found a gruesome discovery
She captioned the photos: “Found under recently lifted wet floorboards – any idea what this is?”
However, it is no surprise that many wondered what could have caused it and were terrified by the images.
One person wrote: ‘I’m absolutely terrified.’
Some users of the group suggested it could be ‘mycelium’, ‘slime mould’ or some kind of tree roots, but the community could not come to a unanimous conclusion.
While another person joked: ‘Stranger Things season 5?’
This was said by an expert from the state herbarium in Brisbane Yahoo News: ‘It’s new for me too. It certainly doesn’t look like traditional mold.”
‘The only thing I know that even remotely resembles that is the rhizomorphs of Armillaria (honey fungi), but that doesn’t make sense.’
She quickly took to Facebook and asked for help discovering the gross black web-like growth under her floorboards
However, it is no surprise that many wondered what could have caused it and were left terrified by the images.
A rhizomorph is a thread-like or cord-like structure in fungi, consisting of parallel hyphae, branched tubular filaments that form the body of a typical fungus.
Elizabeth Aitken, professor of plant pathology at the University of Queensland, also agreed that it “resembles the rhizomorphs of a wood rot fungus.”
She explained: ‘Whether this is the wood rot fungus or something else, they should take samples or consult a wood specialist.’
Dr. Heike Neumeister-Kemp, chief mycologist at Mycolab’s general manager, said it is definitely a “fungal mycelium.”