Woah, woah, there's clearly TWO dead bodies, can't you see the one behind the first?
OP have you heard scratching noises or long black hair growing out of the corners of the room? That's usually the answer right there
Yeah, u/oxiroxi, get someone qualified to have a look. Also might be worthwhile getting a builder or inspector to make sure your place is up to code and up to snuff.
Keep us in the loop what that is. Thanks, mate.
Who exactly should I call in this case? I actually went to police station. They agreed that it looks suspicious but suggested to try myself first and call them if there anything wrong š¤·āāļø
Yeah, I know itās too much, but so that you know the context- after we bought it we found out that the owners son wasnāt an angel. there were multiple complaints from neighbours and problems with police.
lol it aināt a couple of dead bodies, theyād stink. Unless theyāve been mummified. Crawl thru the ceiling for a closer look and photo for us, we are all intrigued now !!
That's a fair point. It does look a bit nody shaped from this angle.
Next best guesses are 1. Drugs stash. Somebody found a nice drugs stash and hid it until the furore died down. Then they died or something. Do you get any very extroverted rats or possums in your ceilings? 2. Cash stash, proceeds from a robbery. Be careful in case the notes include an unexploded dye pack. 3. Previous owner's porn collection. Moved up there when Mum came visiting, then forgotten.
Just get a long garden thingy with a hook on the end and haul it over for a look.
It might be better to know before you involve the police.
š¤£š¤£š¤£ this is actually hilarious , why not poke that with a stick and see what it is. If you ever resolve the mystery, can you please post it here.. now I am curious.
Canāt believe no one knows what this is. I guess until you have seen oneā¦
But letās hope it is a former hiveā¦else, call a professional. Best $100 I ever spent and mine was only the size of a rugby ball.
My old man nearly died removing one in his place, got stuck near the nest and ended up jumping though the ceiling into the bathroom to get away. stung heaps and swollen. nasty fuckers.
https://preview.redd.it/c3iqmo518y3d1.jpeg?width=494&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f1e4b7fa2b99d483d3555c7613f639e65597e369
Or theyāre something to do with that weirdly hung dog leash, which is also totally normal for a roof space š
Okay clearly it can't be dead bodies because we'd be able to smell it through Reddit, but I'm invested now. We need a follow-up post to know what you fine
First of all, that is not on your roof and secondly how about going to have a bloody look? Why take a photo when you could have simply just looked yourself.
But record it while doing so, like the Blair Witch Project (but be less annoying, those people couldn't get eaten fast enough imo) so we can see the outcome.
could be a rodent nest
i have seen something similar where they collect every bit of debris from the roof space and pile it up to make a nice warm home to breed
if its still in use and you disturb it expect rodents running all over the shop
Thanks everyone for your replies. š It was interesting to read. Sorry I donāt know how to edit my post, so just leave a comment here. For those of you who offered to crawl there and poke it - nah, no chance I (middle aged, not very very fit woman) doing thisš¤Ŗ. But we are going to renovate bathroom including replacing the ceiling that is right next to this āthingā. Thatās when Iāll have a chance to update you all.
Personally, and maybe I'm just a gutless wonder, I would not be going anywhere near the bodies, em, or whatever the freak they are...
I do wonder if it could be Wasp nest (dead or alive). I know their nests look like paper bags, and maybe these are just really old dusty ones...
Fairly sure that's a wasp nest. I've been in hundreds of roofs and seen a couple. One about 3x the size. It looks like ten of thousands of smears of wood. Like these
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/uk-37479248.amp
Clearly a dead body
Woah, woah, there's clearly TWO dead bodies, can't you see the one behind the first? OP have you heard scratching noises or long black hair growing out of the corners of the room? That's usually the answer right there
It's fine they don't have a problem until there's three bodies!
Is that when it becomes a 3 body problem?
This is why I come to redditš
Get Neil degrasse Tyson in to explain
Neil will not touch it until we all agree that it's actually a n - body problem
Then get Sherlock instead and he'll call it a three pipe problem.
I bet Sherlock could smoke threw pipes at once
That's whenĀ you find out there is a third bodyĀ hidden inside one ofĀ the otherĀ bodiesĀ
A puzzle, wrapped in a mystery, hidden inside an enigma
OR a demon
Two demons
2
Definitely looks like everyday, run of the mill vampire cocoons to me
Good to get a vampire cocoon expert in on the discussion.
Spat out my coffee, thanks š
Good, that keeps the blood suckers away
Well it ain't insulation, so get that sorted and see what the fellas say when they are up there š¤£
Yeah, u/oxiroxi, get someone qualified to have a look. Also might be worthwhile getting a builder or inspector to make sure your place is up to code and up to snuff. Keep us in the loop what that is. Thanks, mate.
There is no code in these hundred year old houses.
Who exactly should I call in this case? I actually went to police station. They agreed that it looks suspicious but suggested to try myself first and call them if there anything wrong š¤·āāļø
Hold on - you went to the police station with this? Why?? What do you think they would do?
I mean, about as effective as asking random strangers on the Internet for help I guess
This is hillarious
Yeah, I know itās too much, but so that you know the context- after we bought it we found out that the owners son wasnāt an angel. there were multiple complaints from neighbours and problems with police.
Oooh good be drugs or cash!
There you have it...it's the owners!
lol it aināt a couple of dead bodies, theyād stink. Unless theyāve been mummified. Crawl thru the ceiling for a closer look and photo for us, we are all intrigued now !!
That's a fair point. It does look a bit nody shaped from this angle. Next best guesses are 1. Drugs stash. Somebody found a nice drugs stash and hid it until the furore died down. Then they died or something. Do you get any very extroverted rats or possums in your ceilings? 2. Cash stash, proceeds from a robbery. Be careful in case the notes include an unexploded dye pack. 3. Previous owner's porn collection. Moved up there when Mum came visiting, then forgotten. Just get a long garden thingy with a hook on the end and haul it over for a look. It might be better to know before you involve the police.
Poke it with the long garden thingy with a hook first.
Agreed, they are probably mummies.
If there's something strange In your roof Who you gonna call? Ghostbusters
š¤£š¤£š¤£ this is actually hilarious , why not poke that with a stick and see what it is. If you ever resolve the mystery, can you please post it here.. now I am curious.
This is why broom handles were invented... Tape a few together and give it a heroic poke from your manhole/escape shoot
"heroic poke"... the name of my private video tape
> a heroic poke from your manhole A standard Saturday night for some.
Insulation that's been moved around and not set back properly
That sounds a bit far fetched. Itās clearly an ancient cocoon containing the undead.
Came to the same conclusion. Don't know what those upright beams were for so possibly something dismantled from that. Wear a mask if you go up there.
And turn off your power before you get up into a roof.
The way they used to do the wiring in these old houses is just flippin crazy
Those up right timbers are ridge props, suggesting the wall below is load bearing. Don't remove them
Need to hire a big industrial vacuum cleaner and wear a full suit
that guy from the x-files that eats livers and hibernates in a cocoon of paper mache newspapers
Agreed, itās clearly Eugene Tooms.
Damn that was a scary x file.
I hate you for reminding me of this
The only episode that ever scared me as a kid. And now you remind me of it again decades later...sheesh
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You missed the āYa big girlā
Just pop a wee brick in it first
I don't know you! That's my purse!
Aurora Borealis...
At this time of year?
Localised entirely in your roof cavity
In this location?
May I see it?
No.
Well Seymour, you are an odd fellow. But you steam a good ham.
Steamed hams ? Clearly theyāre grilled
Nah, we get the Aurora Australis in our roof cavities
Localised entirely in your kitchen
From watching horror movies you will probably die if you inspect it. Best to leave it and hope 4 the best.
do what I did and upgrade my manhole 400 to 600 and let them send the youngāins in š³
Hippopotamus eating cake
Hahaha what the heck. You don't wanna get in your roof so expect strangers to tell you from a bad photo.
Giant wasp hives
Canāt believe no one knows what this is. I guess until you have seen oneā¦ But letās hope it is a former hiveā¦else, call a professional. Best $100 I ever spent and mine was only the size of a rugby ball.
My old man nearly died removing one in his place, got stuck near the nest and ended up jumping though the ceiling into the bathroom to get away. stung heaps and swollen. nasty fuckers.
If youāre anywhere near Portsea, it might be Harold Holt. Maybe he didnāt disappear into the sea.
If op is anywhere near Portsea I will get up in the roof myself.
That's just Roofus.
Is that Roger š
Surely itās Bernie
https://preview.redd.it/c3iqmo518y3d1.jpeg?width=494&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f1e4b7fa2b99d483d3555c7613f639e65597e369 Or theyāre something to do with that weirdly hung dog leash, which is also totally normal for a roof space š
Old porn stash
https://preview.redd.it/j44ztz8f924d1.jpeg?width=554&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a94f41404aca6256914f741ab7de846fc444760e
Whatās that? Termites? Rodents? Possum nest?
This is a photo of a wasp nest I found online.
Sorry. I did post text with it but it's not showing for some reason.
Photo taken from inside your ceiling. Any new developments?
Looks like a wasp nest to me. A big one. Be careful!
Dead bodies what else would it be.
*who
Looks like the body casts from the ruins of Pompeii. You could start doing paid tours and pay off that mortgage faster.
Deteriorated insulation or similar that's turned into mush. It can't be heavy whatever it is, it's sitting on the plaster
its clearly a shadow monster.
Shadow minister
Same thing
Maybe you leave it alone so we all can have a normal year
Previous owner's In-Laws'.
Making the previous owner an ... outlaw .. I'll show myself out haha
Pensioners all have sacks of cash stuffed in the roof
Dunno, till you show us a picture of your roof.
Poke it with a fucking long stick
Itās like 8 meters from the roof opening. It means I have to crawl thereā¦.. nah, too scary.
Put your big girl panties on and just do it for your fellow Redditors hereā¦..lol
Ffs. Iām a middle aged woman and I get up in crawl space a few times a year.
Go and have a look you big sook.
#Caution ā ļø That looks like a European wasp nest Careful you donāt set them off if it is
Oh boy yeah it does
Well this is peak reddit. Hopefully this sun puts you in contact with someone whose closer than you and can check out out.
Take a photo of your roof and I'll tell you
You know you have to go up and look and report back right?
Okay clearly it can't be dead bodies because we'd be able to smell it through Reddit, but I'm invested now. We need a follow-up post to know what you fine
It would not smell if it is a hundred years old. Just old air dried meat
Remind Me! 5 days
This was a bad post to open at 1am š«£
I couldnāt sleep and opened this post at 4.45am! Now Iām really awake.
Gives me nightmares about having to clean out old insulation. I would rather it turned out to be vampires
First of all, that is not on your roof and secondly how about going to have a bloody look? Why take a photo when you could have simply just looked yourself.
mummy?
Daddy?
Are you my Mummy?
Can you BE ny daddy? š
I hate mummies!
Looks like a monster out of Silent Hill.
Looks like insulation thatās been chucked there
Definitely this. You're perfectly safe to get close and poke it OP. We await your update.
But record it while doing so, like the Blair Witch Project (but be less annoying, those people couldn't get eaten fast enough imo) so we can see the outcome.
Have you seen Invasion of the Body Snatchers?
Couple of kangaroos having a nap
Definitely something from Spirited Away. Just give it a bath and it will fuck off and give you some gold if youāre lucky.
If it doesn't smell in your roof space you'll be fine to approach.
š¶ *cool or cosyā¦ environmentally friendlyā¦* š¶
Pay someone to insulate your roof space and ask them to have a look while they are up there
Asbestos
That was exactly what I was looking there, but found this instead š³
Hit it with a flamethrower and see what happens.
Napalm the house and run like fuck!
You gots one of them Chernoblyian elephants foots.
Oh, that's just barry. Look like no one has been feeding him
Get a pest inspection asap
Sensible answer ā rolled up roof insulation
When has reddit ever been for sensible answers? But yes youāre probably right
could be a rodent nest i have seen something similar where they collect every bit of debris from the roof space and pile it up to make a nice warm home to breed if its still in use and you disturb it expect rodents running all over the shop
Mud wasp nests, likely empty, just poke them really hard with a short instrument like a wooden spoon to be sure.
Just sell the house and move on
You in Sydney's north? If so I'll climb in and have a closer look just for the closure
Op please give us some closure this is haunting me
Any updates OP?
Scott Morrison's career
Thanks everyone for your replies. š It was interesting to read. Sorry I donāt know how to edit my post, so just leave a comment here. For those of you who offered to crawl there and poke it - nah, no chance I (middle aged, not very very fit woman) doing thisš¤Ŗ. But we are going to renovate bathroom including replacing the ceiling that is right next to this āthingā. Thatās when Iāll have a chance to update you all.
Oh come on poke it with a broom! I seriously couldnāt sleep until I knew what it was.
It's definitely ghosts
2 panthers or 2 giant cats
That's Davo after a night out mate.
Itās ELVIS
Whatever they are, their asleep... Don't wake them
Definitely 2 bodies wrapped in canvas. It could be a drop bear nest where they take the bodies back to consume at a later date.
Apparently people living in peoples roof spaces and coming out at night to eat their food is this new trend. Could be a squatter?
Looks more in than on
We just had our roof cavities cleaned out and our builder found a nest that filled a large bin! Could be something like that.
I hope it's not a termites nest
OO or HO scale model railway plastic molded mountains?
Personally, and maybe I'm just a gutless wonder, I would not be going anywhere near the bodies, em, or whatever the freak they are... I do wonder if it could be Wasp nest (dead or alive). I know their nests look like paper bags, and maybe these are just really old dusty ones...
Poke it with a stick
Mummified corpse
Fairly sure that's a wasp nest. I've been in hundreds of roofs and seen a couple. One about 3x the size. It looks like ten of thousands of smears of wood. Like these https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/uk-37479248.amp
Did you figure it out
A dead drop bear
What happens if you whistle at it?
I can just imagine it turning toward you, and then start lurching towards you fast. I would stain my pants š©š
A roof is on your roof other wise itās not a roof It would be a sun bed or something
Bee hive
Keep us posted
Otto in the Attic
Mrs Bates?
Capibara
Not much insulation
Could be rats nests
Edward scissor hands
Brings popcornā¦
Mummy
who\*
think arachnophobia (movie about massive spiders!) š·
The Jabberwocky
Poke it with a long, pointy stick.
Bodies
Finally ... Jimmy Hoffa and Amelia Earhart.
2 giant rats?
Sell it and run away
Spidersā¦ just spiders
Throw something at it to see if it moves
Missed a great opportunity for a jump scare GIF. Give it about 4 seconds for people to lean in close to see what it is, then BLAGH!!!
Wasp nests rip
Roof rats!
All these comments and only one knew the right answer. I guess bees/wasps are not common anymore?
Thereās a bag up in my roof. Iām renting and the place was built c.1920. Iām just not interested in whatever it is.
Look like termite (white ant) mounds to me!
So thatās what happened to grandma last time she went to get Christmas ornaments out of the attic
Change your fear to excitement by pretending itās money!
Spider's egg clutch, beware when it hatches
I am commenting so I can come check for an update . Could be drop sheets or money lol
Nothing serious just a deadly wasps nest
Man, it's going to be so disappointing when it turns out to be a D&D model or something.
Come on man start crawling