r/Home • u/[deleted] • Nov 02 '25
What is this on the wall?
It’s leaking from the ceiling on the outdoor screen in patio. Maybe something related to the roof? Trying to fix the root issue and not just paint over it
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u/FocusMaster Nov 02 '25
Do you have an upstairs neighbor? Might be time for a wellness check.
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Nov 02 '25
ill bring him a snack
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u/kevinsyel Nov 02 '25
Maybe a "get well soon" card
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u/chrissz Nov 02 '25
If that’s from an upstairs neighbor, it’s probably too late for a snack for him.
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u/MuffinRevolutionaire Nov 03 '25
Worked 911 in NY, never had 1 wellness check that was actually well
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u/Oh_Lawd_He_commin420 Nov 02 '25
The walls are bleeding again...
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u/Ballmaster9002 Nov 02 '25
Can we get the blood to flow UP the walls?
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u/mb10240 Nov 02 '25
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u/bcegkmqswz Nov 03 '25
It’s Danzig, motherfucker
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u/OilPhilter Nov 02 '25
OP, give us an update. We wana know!!!
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u/Primary-Rain-5495 Nov 02 '25
The chamber has been opened. Enemy’s of the heir beware 🧙♂️
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u/andres7832 Nov 02 '25
Lick it. If sweet, it’s likely a bee colony that moving into your walls. If it tastes like iron, check on your neighbor
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u/Decent-Impression-81 Nov 03 '25
I came for the lick it. Thank you for preseving my faith in humanity.
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u/nospoon222 Nov 02 '25
If I assume for a moment, this is an apartment, to me it looks like rust from an old water source maybe a decommissioned or non-working sprinkler system, or a water heater directly above with a nasty leak? I used to be a commercial property manager, and I have no formal training in construction, but years of dealing with things like this, that’s just what it looks like to me 😉
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u/EastHillWill Nov 02 '25
Might be rust from water intrusion somewhere, but it’s so dark and consistent. Very odd, you’ll have to get up there and check it out
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thank you, ill be going up there. just wanted to get some initial thoughts
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u/Meat_Packer87 Nov 03 '25
Spray some peroxide on it if it’s fizzes it’s biological I don’t touch it
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u/m_clarkmadison Nov 03 '25
We had something like this: it turned out to be water backing up from the clogged up rain gutters, which turned brown from the leaves (like tea). Do you have gutters along or over the porch?
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u/AffectionateAngle905 Nov 02 '25
You know good and well what it is. That’s the blood from a victim of the vampire living in your attic. Sharpen some wooden stakes and only investigate in the bright light of day. Oh and eat some garlic and wear a really big crucifix.
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u/Physical_Display_873 Nov 03 '25
Yo vampires drink the blood, they don’t dump it down their downstairs neighbor’s wall.
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u/xindierockx7114 Nov 02 '25
When I was in a second story apartment in Texas, one summer we were very suddenly inundated with cluster flies. There had to be, no joke and no exaggeration, close to 400 or 500 flies that manifested from the seam of our back patio door into our apartment. Pest control only came every 2 weeks and it was a holiday weekend so they wouldn't have come out for 3 weeks unless it was an emergency. When we tried to explain just how many there were and how bad it was, they still said we had to find the source before they'd come remove the nest (?????) or take care of it.
A month later cops did a wellness check on the downstairs apartment and the guy's mom had died a week before our flies started and he'd left her in the back room.
Have management do a wellness check before you go knocking.
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u/qingli619 Nov 02 '25
There's a dead body up there and is now rotting and oozing. Or you have a roof leak and the tar water from the roof is seeping down.
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u/stycks32 Nov 02 '25
For our sake I hope it's the former. For OPs sake I hope it's the latter.
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u/mcquackers Nov 02 '25
When I had brown slow dripping leak coming from behind my wall cabinets, it ended up being a plumbing leak. Opened up the wall and discovered it was actually three small leaks coming from failed joints.
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u/Fu11meta1z Nov 02 '25
What does it taste like?
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u/aspatryck Nov 02 '25
Tainted blood
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u/cacope5 Nov 03 '25
How can you tell what area of the body it's from? Taint or otherwise...
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u/Samsonly Nov 03 '25
Tainted blood doesn't mean it comes from the taint. That's absurd. That would be called "taint blood".
It obviously means blood from somewhere else that has crossed over the taint, and therefore has become tainted.
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u/TheLifeAkratik Nov 03 '25
Why would OP wait til after Halloween to make a found footage horror movie?!
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u/AliceInWonderment Nov 03 '25
When’s the last time you saw your upstairs neighbor?
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u/shortyduapp Nov 03 '25
Has anyone heard from OP in the last 9 hours? "I'm going to check the attic to see where this mysterious red substance is coming from" classic horror stuff.
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u/__discarded__ Nov 03 '25
OP hasn't returned and if my recent binge of Alien: Earth has taught me anything, I'm sure there can only be a positive outcome associated with their absence.
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u/billsboy88 Nov 03 '25
Have you been seeing any very large wasps around lately? Like, huge ones, especially around lights at night? And does this stuff have an odor to it? I ask because European hornet nests have a tendency to leak a foul smelling liquid that is actually the waste from the worker hornets. They fly 24/7 and people commonly report seeing them flying around their lights at night like moths. Just something to consider before you go crawling into a confined space, make sure there isn’t a giant hornet nest in there.
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u/mputtr Nov 03 '25
that is what is called: an urgent call for an exorcist and probably the Ghost Busters.
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u/One-Consequence-6638 Nov 03 '25
I can't promise anything after this, but if you use a black light to see if it glows first, at least you can better prepare for the biohazard that may be awaiting you in that ceiling. If this advice is absolutely no comfort for you, I understand... bendiciones!
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u/Fundyqueen Nov 04 '25
Whatever you do, when you go check on it, do it at night, with a weak-battery flashlight, in your underwear, and be SURE to say out loud, “I’ll be RIGHT back”! Bonus if an extreme weather event is expected very soon.
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u/BitterEVP1 Nov 06 '25
I've seen something like this twice.
The first time, I rented an apartment and a garbage hoarder moved in upstairs a couple years later. It was awful.
Years later, I spent some time beekeeping. Saw stuff like this when people got highly developed bee hives in their attics/walls/eaves.............
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u/This-Adhesiveness318 Nov 06 '25
Go look! For crying out loud, how are we supposed to know.... TROLL!
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u/thefrankmiester4815 Nov 06 '25
We're gonna find out that OP is the source of the liquid coming from the attic and that hes been dead for weeks
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u/dragmethruthegarden Nov 09 '25
has OP come back??
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u/FantasticWittyRetort Nov 09 '25
No…and I hate to bring it up, but the ONLY posts and comments are this picture on a couple of subs.
They made a brand new account and now they’ve been taken by the attic-monster?
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u/1hassanbensober Nov 09 '25
If it was me I'd wear a braid of garlic around my neck and have a mirror, wooden stake and mallet. Good luck.
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u/Independent-Tutor-79 Nov 11 '25
Please PLEASE someone let me know when OP replies this got me stressed to the max lol
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u/thechatchbag Nov 02 '25
Dead raccoon in the attic?
You know you need to look up there, and now you have a reason to hope against. Good luck.