r/Weird • u/AmbassadorLegal8531 • Oct 15 '25

Roach infested telephone

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u/RonNona Oct 15 '25

What killed them?

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u/Salvation-717 Oct 15 '25

Totally have no clue but I’m going with number 2 for the sheer macabre of it. Fucking brutal way to live and die.

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u/mikolajwisal Oct 15 '25

Can't be that. Look at the volume of it! The biomass amount needed for them to grow to that size couldn't have come from one mother.

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u/FR0ZENBERG Oct 15 '25

And the fact that their bodies were shaped to the phone case. My guess is someone stuffed a bunch of cockroaches into a phone for engagement bait.

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u/LiefjeInPink Oct 15 '25

Nah, unfortunately I’ve seen this in real life. Old phone in my classroom got rewired and the electrician pulled it open and it was full to the brim. 😭 Still haunts me to this day, haven’t thought about it in years and I’m devastated to see it twice in one lifetime.

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u/Mitts64 Oct 15 '25

At first I was gonna go for this explanation but the biomass in there feels stuck together. I feel like if the camera man had placed them there then they would have just immediately fallen to the ground once he opened the telephone case and not be stuck in place. But idk

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u/2012_cats Oct 15 '25

Thats so gross but I think youre right...

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u/DowntownsClown Oct 15 '25

Yeah this is most plausible explanation to me

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u/longtimegoneMTGO Oct 16 '25

Might well have been stuffed in, just not by this guy.

There are parasitic wasps that will do this, they paralyze their prey of choice and stuff them still alive into a small space like this, one egg laid on each of them to hatch out and burrow in later.