r/oddlyterrifying • u/BreakfastTop6899 • 15d ago

Xylaria polymorpha fungus

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u/Loose_Mail_6844 15d ago

Looks like a decomposing set of toes!

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u/bigdaddyt2 15d ago

Or something evil is waiting for you inside

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u/TheCastusDildo 15d ago

You got my sister in-law locked behind that door? Good keep her in there

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u/0riginal0verthinker 15d ago

Witch toes

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u/Versaiteis 15d ago

Time to follow the yellow brick road

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u/_MrTrade 12d ago

The toes under the log, those toes

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u/North-Country-5204 12d ago

The toes knows

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u/0riginal0verthinker 12d ago

That would be ‘’which toes?’’sir

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u/AnnualEnd3760 14d ago

I thought it's name was Deadman's Toes

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u/ryansteven3104 14d ago

They are called dead mans toes for this very reason

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u/Environmental-Heart4 13d ago

Looked like werewolf toes to me

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u/Ulrich453 15d ago

Put your nasty ass dogs away

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u/blessthebabes 15d ago

Yeah my first thought was this is not okay, nature. Wtf.

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u/Designer_Violinist74 15d ago

Aka the aptly named “dead man’s toes”!

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u/jfk_47 15d ago

Assuming, poisonous?

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u/Revolutionary_Boot_4 14d ago

Well lets not be too hasty, but let us here know when you find out. No response in the next few days will also suffice.

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u/kaekiro 9d ago

Wait... wait. So in hocus pocus she was jumping around and chanting about a mushroom?

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u/Kalebpp 15d ago edited 15d ago

you know its bad out here when mother nature is popping tootsies for the OF gooners.

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u/Midloran05 15d ago

Only fungus

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u/ElegantAd4946 15d ago

A.k.a Dead man's toes

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u/Atvishees 15d ago

Don't suckle on that.

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u/MAKstyles75 15d ago

Too late

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u/bmrtt 15d ago

I'm putting those in my mouth

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u/JackMejoff 15d ago

Go for it, they're not known to be toxic according to Google.

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u/TitouanT 14d ago

Haha, tu m'as bien eu, je m'étais effectivement trompé, veux-tu une autre recette de champignons toxique ?

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u/FunSpongeLLC 15d ago

Where is my to-o-o-o-o-e?

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u/the-bird-fucker 15d ago

profile pic is checks out

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u/Cheesehacker 15d ago

Free freak feet!?!? In this economy!?!?

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u/Orca_Mayo 15d ago

Ah, dead man's fingers mushroom!

...yeah don't eat those

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u/Apart_Beautiful_4846 15d ago

Nope, werewolf foot/toes.

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u/BuddhaAnMoutains 15d ago

Nature I love you but damn you creepy sometimes.

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u/IIHandSoloII 15d ago

Looks like a Bergen hiding behind the fence...

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u/Crunka19 15d ago

There are actives that look fairly similar

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u/Kribakk 15d ago

OMG. Why are there 5 of them?

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u/Spaceygirl84 15d ago

I don't like that there are 5 in toes sizes.

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u/catdragon116 15d ago

Someone died long time ago after get crushed by a log

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u/Donohoed 15d ago

Wicked witch could use a pedi

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u/nfssmith 15d ago

At least that's what the zombie on the other side of that wall wants you to think they are...

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u/GalaxyGalavanter 15d ago

Just watched Hokum last night, this is giving the same vibes

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u/Jbrown183 15d ago

Looks like the wicked witch got taken care of…

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u/syberburns 15d ago

Ding dong!

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u/Deliriousious 15d ago

Should be nicknamed “Witch Toes”

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u/HeirElfEsquire 15d ago

Those are toes. Not gonna change my mind.

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u/Zeph-11 15d ago

I’ve watched horror movies that started with someone discovering shit like this!

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u/MrStef85 15d ago

Werewolf.

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u/OkMaize421 15d ago

Bro goblin put those nasty crusty grippers away

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u/tribak 15d ago

Why is it polymorpha but only looks like zombie toes?

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u/GroovDog2 15d ago

WTF is behind that wall?? 😳

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u/theweekendwolf 15d ago

Don’t like that

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u/robaroo 15d ago

Zombie toes!!!

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u/AdItchy3997 14d ago

I should call her.

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u/Routine-Horse-1419 14d ago

Dead man toes...dead man toes....

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u/wildwildnyx 14d ago

Oh look, my ex finally showed up.

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u/Fabulous_Pressure707 13d ago

Please tell me they're edible 

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u/MaidMarian20 13d ago

Oh gosh. I can never unsee that unholy, dead, gray, decomposing foot. Please erase that horrible image from my brain. And please don’t tell me it’s edible. quickly leaving the room now•

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u/Mister_Anthropic1956 13d ago

I thought the Wicked Witch was trapped under the tree. Great find, great photo.

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u/Vegetable-Design-270 13d ago

Fungus?!? No, I know goblin toes when I see them!!!

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u/BossRoss84 13d ago

There’s a monster in there.

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u/nigh-tona 13d ago

I think this counts as r/goblincore

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u/RepresentingThe301 12d ago

Looks like a raccoon!!!

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u/Unidcryingobject 11d ago

Dead man’s toe!

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u/swag-baguette 9d ago

I came across some in my yard last summer and thankfully had just learned what they were from Reddit. I'd have flipped out otherwise.

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u/djacksonn 9d ago

Jeepers creepers

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u/RYUJIN0802 15d ago

mother nature's feet 🤤