{"id":86552,"date":"2024-10-25T10:40:07","date_gmt":"2024-10-25T03:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/?p=86552"},"modified":"2024-10-25T10:40:07","modified_gmt":"2024-10-25T03:40:07","slug":"hiker-discovers-creepy-alien-like-creature-that-smells-like-rotting-flesh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/hiker-discovers-creepy-alien-like-creature-that-smells-like-rotting-flesh\/","title":{"rendered":"Hiker Discovers Creepy Alien-Like Creature That \u201cSmells Like Rotting Fle:sh\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While on the trails of Queensland, an Australian hiker made an unexpected discovery . The man made a decision to take a photo and eventually posted it on the internet, saying that it actually smells like a d:ea:d person.\n</p><p>In a recent Reddit post, u\/aus556762 shared the photo and captioned it \u201cWTF is this? Smells like rotting fl:esh.\u201d It didn\u2019t take long before curious internet users started commenting.\n</p><p><img loading='\"lazy\"' decoding='\"async\"' class='\"alignnone' size-full wp-image-173540 src="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/timelesslife.info%5C/wp-content%5C/uploads%5C/2024%5C/10%5C/Screenshot_567.png%5C%22" sizes='\"auto,' srcset='\"https:\/\/timelesslife.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Screenshot_567.png' https: alt='\"\"' width='\"728\"' height='\"679\"' title='\"\"'>\n</p><p>The original poster (OP)\u00a0also added\u00a0that it was \u201chard to describe the sickly sweet smell of rotting corpses to those who don\u2019t have first hand experience already.\u201d In fact, he said he actually picked up the stench \u201cfrom about 1m out.\u201d\n</p><p>Netizens had mixed reactions about the mysterious creature, with one saying that it \u201clooks like something out of Resident Evil.\u201d Another commented that it \u201clooks like it belongs in the upside down,\u201d referencing the hit sci-fi horror Netflix series Stranger Things.\n</p><p><img loading='\"lazy\"' decoding='\"async\"' class='\"alignnone' size-full wp-image-173541 src="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/timelesslife.info%5C/wp-content%5C/uploads%5C/2024%5C/10%5C/Screenshot_568.png%5C%22" sizes='\"auto,' srcset='\"https:\/\/timelesslife.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Screenshot_568.png' https: alt='\"\"' width='\"729\"' height='\"705\"' data-adbro-processed='\"true\"' title='\"\"'>\n</p><p>In the mean time, there are others who immediately recognized the creature and wrote:\n</p><p>\u201cThat my friend is a Stinkhorn, a kind of mushroom. The smell is to attract flies for pollination.\u201d\n</p><p>Someone also shared:\n</p><p>\u201cHad one appear in my yard once. I thought it looked like a cool alien plant and wanted to keep it but the wife was not happy about it.\u201d\n</p><p>Eventually, Brett Summerel, Sydney Royal Botanic Gardens chief botanist and research director, confirmed that the creature is a \u2018starfish fungus\u2019 which has the scientific name Aseroe Rubra.\n</p><p><img loading='\"lazy\"' decoding='\"async\"' class='\"alignnone' size-full wp-image-173542 src="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/timelesslife.info%5C/wp-content%5C/uploads%5C/2024%5C/10%5C/Screenshot_569.png%5C%22" sizes='\"auto,' srcset='\"https:\/\/timelesslife.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Screenshot_569.png' https: alt='\"\"' width='\"726\"' height='\"554\"' title='\"\"'>\n</p><p>According to a\u00a0DailyMail article, the fungus can be commonly seen \u201cin south-east Queensland, eastern New South Wales, eastern Victoria, Tasmania and southeastern South Australia.\u201d\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"</p><p>While on the trails of Queensland, an Australian hiker made an unexpected discovery . The man made a decision to take a photo and eventually posted it on the internet, saying that it actually smells like a d:ea:d person. In a recent Reddit post, u\/aus556762 shared the photo and captioned it \u201cWTF is this? Smells &hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":86553,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[670],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86552"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86555,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86552\/revisions\/86555"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}</p>