{"id":68709,"date":"2023-11-16T16:46:21","date_gmt":"2023-11-16T16:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newcelebworld.com\/?p=68709"},"modified":"2023-11-16T16:46:21","modified_gmt":"2023-11-16T16:46:21","slug":"i-was-horrified-by-my-discovery-after-lifting-up-my-floorboards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newcelebworld.com\/lifestyle\/i-was-horrified-by-my-discovery-after-lifting-up-my-floorboards\/","title":{"rendered":"I was horrified by my discovery after lifting up my floorboards"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>I was horrified by my discovery after lifting up my floorboards &#8211; people joke it&#8217;s like something out of\u00a0Stranger Things<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Hannah Sycamore, from Melbourne,\u00a0was horrified after ripping up her floor<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Read More:\u00a0I threw away half my wardrobe after black mould ruined my clothes\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A woman was left\u00a0horrified after ripping up her floorboards only to find a gruesome discovery.<\/p>\n<p>Hannah Sycamore from Melbourne, quickly took to Facebook\u00a0to ask for help to find out what the black web-like growth.<\/p>\n<p>After posting the disturbing images on the Australia &amp; New Zealand Fungus Identification page, even experts were perplexed with some joking that it looked like something straight out of Stranger Things.<\/p>\n<p>Hannah\u00a0told Yahoo News that she&#8217;d shared the snaps of the growth on behalf of her friend.<\/p>\n<p>The unnerving snaps, which look like something out of a horror movie, show the floors covered in strange black web which resembled tree roots.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/13\/13\/77737281-12743019-Hannah_Sycamore_from_Melbourne_Australia_was_left_horrified_afte-a-12_1699881834114.jpg\" height=\"697\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Hannah Sycamore from Melbourne , Australia,\u00a0was left horrified after ripping up her floorboards only to find a gruesome discovery<\/p>\n<p>She captioned the snaps: &#8216;Found under recently lifted wet floor boards &#8211; any ideas what this is?&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>However, unsurprisingly, many were stumped as to what the cause could be and were left terrified by the images.<\/p>\n<p>One person wrote: &#8216;I&#8217;m genuinely terrified.&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Some users of the group suggested it could be &#8216;mycelium&#8217;, &#8216;slime mould&#8217; or tree roots of some sort&#8217;, but the community were unable to come to a unanimous conclusion.<\/p>\n<p>While another person quipped: &#8216;Stranger Things season 5?&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>One expert from the state herbarium in Brisbane told Yahoo News: &#8216;It&#8217;s a new one to me too. Certainly doesn&#8217;t look like traditional mould.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The only thing I know that looks remotely like that are the rhizomorphs of Armillaria (honey fungi), but that doesn&#8217;t make a lot of sense.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/13\/13\/77737287-12743019-She_quickly_took_to_Facebook_asking_for_help_in_discovering_what-a-14_1699881858477.jpg\" height=\"592\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>She quickly took to Facebook asking for help in discovering what the gross black web-like growth was under her floorboards<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/13\/13\/77737277-12743019-image-a-15_1699881882515.jpg\" height=\"118\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/13\/13\/77737283-12743019-image-a-16_1699881890169.jpg\" height=\"114\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/13\/13\/77737279-12743019-image-a-17_1699881897042.jpg\" height=\"114\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/13\/13\/77737285-12743019-image-a-18_1699881904208.jpg\" height=\"87\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>However, unsurprisingly, many were stumped as to what the cause could be and were left terrified by the images<\/p>\n<p>A rhizomorph is a threadlike or cordlike structure in fungi, made up of parallel hyphae, branched tubular filaments that make up the body of a typical fungus.<\/p>\n<p>Elizabeth Aitken, Professor in Plant Pathology at the University of Queensland, also agreed that it &#8216;looks like the rhizomorphs of a wood rot fungus&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>She explained: &#8216;Whether this is the dry rot fungus or something else they would need to take samples or ask a timber specialist.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Dr Heike Neumeister-Kemp, Principal Mycologist at Managing Director of Mycolab said it is definitely &#8216;fungal mycelium&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/femail\/article-12743019\/I-horrified-discovery-lifting-floorboards-people-joke-like-Stranger-Things.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was horrified by my discovery after lifting up my floorboards &#8211; 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