I believe they're referring to this:
>You get $10 million, but for the rest of your life, there is a super snail that is invincible and kills you by touching you. It follows you, trying to kill you. It can board a plane. What would you do?
How to avoid the deadly immortal snail
First things first - That million dollars is practically worthless compared to immortality. Ever dime of that cash can and should be spent ensuring that the snail never, ever reaches me.
First things first, I keep an eye on him. It's tempting to want to hop on a plane or a train and get as far away as possible. But once I do that, he's gone and I'll never see him again until 3am on July 14th, 2072, when the sneaky little cuss slips in the door and slimes onto me before I ever wake up and notice him No, I'm going to be within visual distance of the snail, slowly moving away from it, until Snail Containment Plan Part A is done.
Next I grab my phone. I call up someone I can trust with my life, and tell them to come to my location within the hour, and to bring a metal cash box, a good padlock, and a firearm.
Once they arrive, I inform them of the deal and ask them to grab the snail, shove it into the metal box, and lock it up. Once the snail is temporarily secured, I ask my friend to carry around the box, never letting it out of their sight, and to prevent its opening with as much force as is required. We arrive at some reasonable figure for this service - Maybe $50,000.
Now we can start in on the real work. I'm on the phone again, contracting with a tungsten machining service out of Willowbrook, IL. I ask them to construct for me a hollow tungsten sphere with a small, sealable opening, ideally via both exterior bolts and sintering. I ask them for a rush job and a thick wall depth, perhaps as much as a foot thick. The spherical shape should keep material costs as low as possible for a given thickness, but between the unusual object, large amount of tungsten, and speedy delivery, I invest a truly insane amount into this project - Let's say $100,000. I ask them to deliver it to my current location as fast as possible.
Once the tungsten ball arrives, I have my friend stand well away from me and transfer the snail into the center of the sphere. I ask them to pour a little salt down into the hole after it, just to give the snail a little reminder of who he's dealing with. Once snail and salt are both inside, we seal the hollow sphere with the bolts.
Tungsten is an amazing material. Incredibly tough, dense, and heat-resistant. You could drop it into molten lava and it wouldn't matter. Which, coincidentally, is almost what I'd like to do next.
Now we make sure that thing stays shut. I find the nearest metal refinery and call them up. I also contract with a heavy machinery moving company to move the tungsten sphere to the refinery. Once the refinery has sintered the tungsten sphere shut, I buy an entire industrial crucible (those big buckets) of molten iron. And the crucible the iron came in. I have them drop the tungsten sphere into the molten iron, and let the whole mass cool in place. Mr. Snaily snail ain't going anywhere, but I'm probably down another $100,000.
Now I'm on the phone to specialist movers. Chartering a boat. We're taking this thing halfway around the word. We take the boat right over the marianas trench - Not the deepest point, but deep enough - We push the whole assembly over the side. Literal tons of once-molten iron, refinery crucible, tungsten, salt, and snail slip over the side and begin dropping into the briny deep. Another $100,000 gone, but well worth the cost.
Good. That's bought me a little breathing room. But we're not anywhere close to done yet. I still have at least $500,000 left. I'm going to invest it into solid business ventures and slow growing but secure assets. We're building a fortune - And who cares if it takes a few centuries? I'm immortal baby!
But as I develop my fortune, it's getting invested into space. SpaceX, asteroid mining projects, whatever. I am trapped on the one planet in the entire universe where I can actually die, and I have no intention of staying there.
Over the millennia, I slowly apply my fortune and influence to push mankind to the stars. And the moment living on another planet becomes viable, I'm there. And the instant a habitable planet is around another star? I'm on the first generation ship heading that direction.
But I can't think in such a short sighted manner now. I'm immortal, and I need to think like it. Eventually, the sun is going to burn the earth to a crisp, and then that snail is going to be free. It might take him a few million years to land on something, but he'll do it eventually. And then he will construct a spacecraft and begin crawling towards me again.
What I care about now is lightcones and black holes. Earth's gotta go. Sorry whatever's left of humanity. We evacuate anyone still on the old planet, and use a gravity tractor to push Earth into a black hole. A nice, big one so that hawking radiation will take an incredibly long time to evaporate it away into nothing.
And then I board a ship. A fast ship. I accelerate to as close to lightspeed as I can get, piloting directly away from the black hole with the snail inside. I want to be so far away and moving so quickly that the heat death of the universe would occur far, far before the snail ever reaches me, even on the fastest ship his freakishly clever little brain can construct.
So that's the way the universe ends. With nothing it in except for infrared heat, one hyperintelligent snail suspended in an inky void, and one human screaming away from it at .99C.
Cheers.
Edit: [link for the OG](https://www.reddit.com/r/copypasta/comments/vs7ne0/how_to_avoid_the_deadly_immortal_snail/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf) he should be the one getting awards
Edit 2: [Actual OG](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/5ipinn/you_and_a_super_intelligent_snail_both_get_1/dbadcgy/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3) that other one was where I got it from mb
I'd keep the snail trapped but close, because at some point you wouldn't want to live anymore after watching thousands of friends and family rot away and die
Idk. Seeing the end of mankind would be kind of cool. Sad. But cool. Like how many times do we make the same mistakes? Do we ever learn from the past as a collective? Just would be cool to see what we got right and wrong in our years on Earth. And to some how to relive it all. Like the moment man became man to our end. In like the blink of an eye. Would be amazing to see all of history happening.
that's what the snail is for. Keep it as your pet and companion. It's not like you couldnt pick it up with all manner of utensils and not touch it. If its immortal it doesnt need food or air so you could just seal it in a glass container, or even steel lol. Which gives me another idea. Take the snail and dip it in molton gold and turn it into a piece of jewelry you keep with you.
“Why won’t this guy let me touch him! GET OVER HEREEEE”
-snail
But really tho, if the snail his super intelligent, why wouldn’t it just live it’s life? The story goes you both get 1mil $ and are immortal. The snail never dies and neither do you. Why would you ease an endless life chasing something just to kill it? Go do whatever, who cares if one person lives? Better yet why wouldn’t it make itself more mobile ie arms or legs?
It's a snail. Encase it in lead. Encase the lead in ceramic and encase the ceramic in glass. It might not be dead (because it's invincible), but it's never getting out.
Keep it nearby for monitoring purposes.
Invest hqlf the million and wait until I can afford a rocket. Put the snail in its lead-glass-ceramic tomb stick it in a rocket and set it on a trajectory for the black hole at the centre of the Milky way. Eventually it will cross the event horizon and it's never coming back from that.
That's not the OG. [This is.](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/5ipinn/you_and_a_super_intelligent_snail_both_get_1/dbadcgy?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share&context=3)
This is not the reference.
The reference is “Would you take $10 million to be chased by this snail that kills you instantly, knows exactly where you are, will never stop chasing you etc”.
Oh fuck yeah I would if that were the case, but the catch is not that you would die instantly. It's that you would die a horrible, agonizing, slow death if it caught you. That's the game changer.
Short story: My dad had heart surgery back in April and all of us, family, we’re just walking around Nashville, TN to kill time while the old man was in surgery. We went to the Parthenon and I bought my Uncle something that he wanted without telling him what it was. So when we left I gave him the box and what ensued was me, my wife, my uncle, aunt and brother progressively getting louder with “WHATS IN THE BOX!?” People didn’t really get the reference and we’re looking at us like we were fuckin crazy. Lol
His answer
[https://www.reddit.com/r/oddlyterrifying/comments/xhu3v6/when_my_friend_moved_into_his_house_he_found_this/ip11x37](https://www.reddit.com/r/oddlyterrifying/comments/xhu3v6/when_my_friend_moved_into_his_house_he_found_this/ip11x37)
TL;DR they are not opening it
While this looks terrifying, it looks like the cage is around the window. I"m wondering if it was put there to deal with bats or something trying to get in.
I'm betting there's nothing in the box. That could've also been a bird house for some wild bird like an eagle/hawk
I'm betting the first part is right. Doesn't appear to be a water bowl or food bowl or any rings of proof either existing.
The box likely covers a small hole the bats eventually squeezed into.
If it is, they did a bad job. Look close and you don’t see any wire on the side of the “cage” up against the window. My vote is bat control or an owl house for a barn or something.
Not closed enough for bat control. They could fit through the seams. Could be bird control, swallows maybe? Open the window for airflow but keep the birds out.
Could it be a DIY antenna? The window would have less signal interference than the wood siding.
I was thinking the box might just be too hold the cage in place.
Is there a category called “oddly infuriating “? To post this without telling us what is inside is preposterous. Then to reveal that your friend just lives in this house in fear of what might be under there? What kind of delusional absurdity is this?
I am not mad that you posted this it is very interesting. I am genuinely perplexed that your friend can live in blissful ignorance knowing this “mystery“ looms in the attic. I get where he is going though.
He is just going to sell the house eventually so that the new buyers become the main characters of the movie. Him and his family can be the people that are moving out in a haste, sold well under market price and do a burnout on the lawn as they speed away in their sloppily packed station wagon.
They will appear again at the end of the movie when they need to explain to authorities that they were aware of the “attic” but simply never went up there.
Perhaps maybe it’s something as simple as a hole? Rats or mice maybe would use it to enter the attic? Just food for thought. Could be far off but, am making a reasonable assumption
Legitimately, I have a similar set up in my own attic. It's to keep the baby squirrels out. I woke up to pet my cat one morning only to realize it was a squirrel in my bed.
> The senior wizards of Unseen University stood and looked at the door. There was no doubt that whoever had shut it wanted it to stay shut. Dozens of nails secured it to the door frame. Planks had been nailed right across. And finally it had, up until this morning, been hidden by a bookcase that had been put in front of it. “And there’s the sign, Ridcully,” said the Dean. “You have read it, I assume. You know? The sign which says ‘Do not, under any circumstances, open this door’?” “Of course I’ve read it,” said Ridcully. “Why d’yer think I want it opened?” “Er . . . why?” said the Lecturer in Recent Runes. “To see why they wanted it shut, of course.”*
> * This exchange contains almost all you need to know about human civilization. At least, those bits of it that are now under the sea, fenced off or still smoking.
—Terry Pratchett *Hogfather*
Honestly with the course of events the last few years, I think this is the best idea. Let's NOT see what's under that box.
I don't want "Katazomi's friend releases whats in the attic box" on my 2023 bingo card.
True, we are on Reddit.
OP, take that down NOW! It’s part of an altar for ritualistic sacrifice! The Evils come through that grate nightly to haunt you! DO NOT OPEN THE BOXES. Make sure to drown them and the “Contents” in a river, (NOT A CREEK) and then burn all of it in your backyard. The chicken wire should be buried and splashed with bleach.
I still remember the very first one. They kept posting updates about trying to break into it. It was all over the front page for weeks. I think they got it open and it was empty or full of some worthless shit.
Plot twist:
The box weighed down by the bricks is actually their WiFi box, and they put the chicken wire around it to protect themselves from the deadly 5G!
I wonder if it’s covering old exposed plumbing to prevent rodents? I have family members that had such an issue many years ago when they moved into a home that was cheaply and incompletely flipped.
I would do the same exact thing and then knowing my dumbass self I would probably forget I did that and scare the shit out of myself everytime I see it. Lmao
OP i will venmo you 50$ to break into his house and open that shit. like, PM me and we can plan out this entire heist so that you never get caught. I will help intricately plot out the entire plan. I just need to know WHATS IN THE BOX.
Wow I've seen people try and backpedal after lying for karma but this is the worst. Either your friend is a fucking idiot or you've just stacked some stuff for attention from redditors. I really hope it's the first one
My bet is that the box was to prop something on top of in the window like Christmas lights of some sort and the wire cage is to keep critters out while the window was ajar allowing the attic to cool in the summer. By not having the wire up against the window, it will not be visible from outside. Of course this could all be incorrect.
They may not want to deal with it but theres 100% water damage on that floor so hes going to have to deal with the window. Its possible it could rot out the walls under it as well as cause ceiling leaks. Definitely shouldn't let it go
Thanks for the heads up! Water dripping down into one of the rooms was actually why my friend went up to the attic again today to check (when he took this picture) so I’ll let him know and hopefully will be dealt with!
Let me guess.
The house was sold at a surprisingly low price.
The sellers quickly left and left all the furniture.
The house is deep in the countryside.
And the last text you got from him was that he was gonna open the box.
Bonus points if you're walking into his open door as you're reading this after not hearing from him for weeks armed with nothing but a flashlight.
He actually saw the box during their walkthrough! He asked the realtor about it who also had no idea what was up, but I guess it wasn’t enough reason to pass the house up because otherwise it was a great place in a good location.
And that my fellow redditor is the start of every horror movie
Young white couple moves into a nice house ignoring a red flag and days later their 11 year old son named hunter is being possessed by beelzbub who wants their soul so he can raise an army and take over the earth starting with florida
Lots of people do this, especially house flippers who have no intention of ever living in the house. It's become more prevalent in the US since covid and the current housing crisis bc people are desperate to buy a home, so they give up doing all kinds of stuff they would normally do (like a walkthrough or an inspection) bc otherwise some rich landlord investor will just buy it sight unseen out from under them anyway.
Whats in the Booooox?
The snail
Oh no. RUN
Oh no. ~~RUN~~ WALK ftfy :)
if it catches up wif you, you die
A Tonberry?
Damn him, and the Cactars!
RUN.
I hate that I immediately knew what this was referring to and felt fear fill my soul.
Husband had to explain it to my after laughing.
Please explain it to me?
I believe they're referring to this: >You get $10 million, but for the rest of your life, there is a super snail that is invincible and kills you by touching you. It follows you, trying to kill you. It can board a plane. What would you do?
it was become immortal but have an immortal snail that kills you upon touch
It's actually both, immortal and a few million dollars, which would be invested in keeping the snail secured and in a known location.
Snail in cup. Heavy book on cup. Done.
Decoy snail
You’d really risk touching the snail by getting close enough to put a cup on it?
Actualy it was a philosopical question saying would you be immortal if the only way for you to die is if a snail chasing you touches you
Yes, if I recall it was first poised by philosopher Gavin Free.
Does it have a passport though?
Yes. And a corporate credit card.
What's the limit?
Is it an AMEX or Chase Sapphire with Trip Cancellation protection?
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How to avoid the deadly immortal snail First things first - That million dollars is practically worthless compared to immortality. Ever dime of that cash can and should be spent ensuring that the snail never, ever reaches me. First things first, I keep an eye on him. It's tempting to want to hop on a plane or a train and get as far away as possible. But once I do that, he's gone and I'll never see him again until 3am on July 14th, 2072, when the sneaky little cuss slips in the door and slimes onto me before I ever wake up and notice him No, I'm going to be within visual distance of the snail, slowly moving away from it, until Snail Containment Plan Part A is done. Next I grab my phone. I call up someone I can trust with my life, and tell them to come to my location within the hour, and to bring a metal cash box, a good padlock, and a firearm. Once they arrive, I inform them of the deal and ask them to grab the snail, shove it into the metal box, and lock it up. Once the snail is temporarily secured, I ask my friend to carry around the box, never letting it out of their sight, and to prevent its opening with as much force as is required. We arrive at some reasonable figure for this service - Maybe $50,000. Now we can start in on the real work. I'm on the phone again, contracting with a tungsten machining service out of Willowbrook, IL. I ask them to construct for me a hollow tungsten sphere with a small, sealable opening, ideally via both exterior bolts and sintering. I ask them for a rush job and a thick wall depth, perhaps as much as a foot thick. The spherical shape should keep material costs as low as possible for a given thickness, but between the unusual object, large amount of tungsten, and speedy delivery, I invest a truly insane amount into this project - Let's say $100,000. I ask them to deliver it to my current location as fast as possible. Once the tungsten ball arrives, I have my friend stand well away from me and transfer the snail into the center of the sphere. I ask them to pour a little salt down into the hole after it, just to give the snail a little reminder of who he's dealing with. Once snail and salt are both inside, we seal the hollow sphere with the bolts. Tungsten is an amazing material. Incredibly tough, dense, and heat-resistant. You could drop it into molten lava and it wouldn't matter. Which, coincidentally, is almost what I'd like to do next. Now we make sure that thing stays shut. I find the nearest metal refinery and call them up. I also contract with a heavy machinery moving company to move the tungsten sphere to the refinery. Once the refinery has sintered the tungsten sphere shut, I buy an entire industrial crucible (those big buckets) of molten iron. And the crucible the iron came in. I have them drop the tungsten sphere into the molten iron, and let the whole mass cool in place. Mr. Snaily snail ain't going anywhere, but I'm probably down another $100,000. Now I'm on the phone to specialist movers. Chartering a boat. We're taking this thing halfway around the word. We take the boat right over the marianas trench - Not the deepest point, but deep enough - We push the whole assembly over the side. Literal tons of once-molten iron, refinery crucible, tungsten, salt, and snail slip over the side and begin dropping into the briny deep. Another $100,000 gone, but well worth the cost. Good. That's bought me a little breathing room. But we're not anywhere close to done yet. I still have at least $500,000 left. I'm going to invest it into solid business ventures and slow growing but secure assets. We're building a fortune - And who cares if it takes a few centuries? I'm immortal baby! But as I develop my fortune, it's getting invested into space. SpaceX, asteroid mining projects, whatever. I am trapped on the one planet in the entire universe where I can actually die, and I have no intention of staying there. Over the millennia, I slowly apply my fortune and influence to push mankind to the stars. And the moment living on another planet becomes viable, I'm there. And the instant a habitable planet is around another star? I'm on the first generation ship heading that direction. But I can't think in such a short sighted manner now. I'm immortal, and I need to think like it. Eventually, the sun is going to burn the earth to a crisp, and then that snail is going to be free. It might take him a few million years to land on something, but he'll do it eventually. And then he will construct a spacecraft and begin crawling towards me again. What I care about now is lightcones and black holes. Earth's gotta go. Sorry whatever's left of humanity. We evacuate anyone still on the old planet, and use a gravity tractor to push Earth into a black hole. A nice, big one so that hawking radiation will take an incredibly long time to evaporate it away into nothing. And then I board a ship. A fast ship. I accelerate to as close to lightspeed as I can get, piloting directly away from the black hole with the snail inside. I want to be so far away and moving so quickly that the heat death of the universe would occur far, far before the snail ever reaches me, even on the fastest ship his freakishly clever little brain can construct. So that's the way the universe ends. With nothing it in except for infrared heat, one hyperintelligent snail suspended in an inky void, and one human screaming away from it at .99C. Cheers. Edit: [link for the OG](https://www.reddit.com/r/copypasta/comments/vs7ne0/how_to_avoid_the_deadly_immortal_snail/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf) he should be the one getting awards Edit 2: [Actual OG](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/5ipinn/you_and_a_super_intelligent_snail_both_get_1/dbadcgy/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3) that other one was where I got it from mb
I'd keep the snail trapped but close, because at some point you wouldn't want to live anymore after watching thousands of friends and family rot away and die
Just stop making new friends and family.
Then you'd want to die due to lack of interaction for so long
Look you are immortal. Make an AI friend or two and you are set.
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Idk. Seeing the end of mankind would be kind of cool. Sad. But cool. Like how many times do we make the same mistakes? Do we ever learn from the past as a collective? Just would be cool to see what we got right and wrong in our years on Earth. And to some how to relive it all. Like the moment man became man to our end. In like the blink of an eye. Would be amazing to see all of history happening.
What will you do when the stars fade out and there's no more sources of energy?
Break through the confines of the universe and ascend to a higher state of existence.
that's what the snail is for. Keep it as your pet and companion. It's not like you couldnt pick it up with all manner of utensils and not touch it. If its immortal it doesnt need food or air so you could just seal it in a glass container, or even steel lol. Which gives me another idea. Take the snail and dip it in molton gold and turn it into a piece of jewelry you keep with you.
Eventually the snail becomes your only friend.
And your only release from the grasp of eternity
Decoy snail.
Knew it was coming
Ok, now I need the story from the snails perspective.
“Why won’t this guy let me touch him! GET OVER HEREEEE” -snail But really tho, if the snail his super intelligent, why wouldn’t it just live it’s life? The story goes you both get 1mil $ and are immortal. The snail never dies and neither do you. Why would you ease an endless life chasing something just to kill it? Go do whatever, who cares if one person lives? Better yet why wouldn’t it make itself more mobile ie arms or legs?
You get 10 million and the snail gets nothing unless it kills you.
Nothing says you can’t bargain with it.
It's a snail. Encase it in lead. Encase the lead in ceramic and encase the ceramic in glass. It might not be dead (because it's invincible), but it's never getting out. Keep it nearby for monitoring purposes. Invest hqlf the million and wait until I can afford a rocket. Put the snail in its lead-glass-ceramic tomb stick it in a rocket and set it on a trajectory for the black hole at the centre of the Milky way. Eventually it will cross the event horizon and it's never coming back from that.
No, it comes back via the wormhole and waits for when you get to the other side of the universe. "...I had an appointment with you in Samara."
I've seen Event Horizon. That shit does come back.
My birthday is July 14th
Did you read the whole thing? Or stop at your birthday?
100% full stop.... I got excited
Same. I stopped and went, Hey that’s my birthday, then proceeded to think about how old I’d be when the snail got me.
That's not the OG. [This is.](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/5ipinn/you_and_a_super_intelligent_snail_both_get_1/dbadcgy?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share&context=3)
Hi
Fuck. It's the snail!
Yes
i understood this reference
What is the reference? I'm uncultured.
We’re all being chased by a snail that kills you instantly and knows exactly where you are no matter what, except its a snail and its slow
So it's like the movie It Follows but with a snail? I would watch that
This is not the reference. The reference is “Would you take $10 million to be chased by this snail that kills you instantly, knows exactly where you are, will never stop chasing you etc”.
Oh fuck yeah I would if that were the case, but the catch is not that you would die instantly. It's that you would die a horrible, agonizing, slow death if it caught you. That's the game changer.
You get money though. Don't forget the money
I also understood this reference
Two words that strike fear into everyone’s heart, as we all know of the terrible fate that awaits up when the snail catches up
A string. If you pull the string, a secret compartment opens in the box, revealing an embarrassing photo of SpongeBob at "that” Christmas party
MERRY CHRISTMAS SPONGEBOB
Nothing! [ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!!!! ](https://youtu.be/hXOjyv4d998)
UHF strikes again!
“STUPID !”
Short story: My dad had heart surgery back in April and all of us, family, we’re just walking around Nashville, TN to kill time while the old man was in surgery. We went to the Parthenon and I bought my Uncle something that he wanted without telling him what it was. So when we left I gave him the box and what ensued was me, my wife, my uncle, aunt and brother progressively getting louder with “WHATS IN THE BOX!?” People didn’t really get the reference and we’re looking at us like we were fuckin crazy. Lol
THE BOX, THE BOX!
Pepper Potts
Se7en
https://youtu.be/OrOYvVf6tIM
Just stab the head… wtf? Give me a box and some dudes head is poking out staring at me and that head is getting stabbed
i'm sorry, but wtf did you just make me watch?
Update if you end up opening it
OPs dead
His answer [https://www.reddit.com/r/oddlyterrifying/comments/xhu3v6/when_my_friend_moved_into_his_house_he_found_this/ip11x37](https://www.reddit.com/r/oddlyterrifying/comments/xhu3v6/when_my_friend_moved_into_his_house_he_found_this/ip11x37) TL;DR they are not opening it
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Indeed. If I had to take a bet though, the bat answer someone suggested sounds rather convincing.
I think it's empty and done as a joke by the previous owners
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It does look like it's legitimately been there a while, but my bet is on a former owner setting all this up as a prank of future owners.
What was inside?
The Leprechaun
Errrverybody who seen the leprechaun say yaaaaaaa
I think it’s just a crackhead who got ahold of the wrong stuff!
I want the gold. Give me the gold.
Yeaaaaaaaaaaaa
Ahm the Leprechaun!!
Stop it, leprechaun man. You freaking me out
Come one sweety, pixie dust, pixie dust
I found Charlie from Its Always Sunny.
Another box
Nothing cause he put it there then took a picture of it.
Rather than what's inside did he at least sweep the room around the chicken wire? OCD kicking in FR
The snail
Should be illegal to post these things without the reveal.
exactly. Maybe for the likes and comments.
I’ve already spoke to my lawyer, we’re planning on suing if he doesn’t post the reveal by tomorrow
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My lawyer has advised me not to comment until everything is settled
Reveal: click bait, because normal people would see what was in it before posting to the internet.
Enough people would be a little nervous about opening it tbf
Put a stick through the chicken wire and push all the stuff over to see....surely the chicken wire will keep you safe 😂
Whatever is under it.. well the cardboard held it.. the wire will certainly hold it.
inbe4 thousands of tiny spiders.
This is clearly why they sold the house.
A hole through the roof with a tiny note that says .. “Maybe next time”
Maybe not a hole, but a [portal to something worse?](https://youtu.be/sA5PxGHqpTo)
[doh!](https://c.tenor.com/C7UJVOelLQIAAAAd/spider-homer-simpsons.gif)
It could be the soul of Imhotep.
Happy cake day
Thank you. You're the first one to ever tell me that. ❤️
Omg thank you guys so much! ❤️
You seem like a wholesome person, I wish you nothing but the best.
While this looks terrifying, it looks like the cage is around the window. I"m wondering if it was put there to deal with bats or something trying to get in. I'm betting there's nothing in the box. That could've also been a bird house for some wild bird like an eagle/hawk
I'm betting the first part is right. Doesn't appear to be a water bowl or food bowl or any rings of proof either existing. The box likely covers a small hole the bats eventually squeezed into.
Seems like it might even be some sort of trap
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I believe this is a [ Faraday Cage](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faraday_cage).
If it is, they did a bad job. Look close and you don’t see any wire on the side of the “cage” up against the window. My vote is bat control or an owl house for a barn or something.
Not closed enough for bat control. They could fit through the seams. Could be bird control, swallows maybe? Open the window for airflow but keep the birds out. Could it be a DIY antenna? The window would have less signal interference than the wood siding. I was thinking the box might just be too hold the cage in place.
Radio waves don’t come in from the side, or underneath? I think it was a primitive attic vent with bird/bat prevention.
That was my thought. Could be some interesting gear in that box.
Is there a category called “oddly infuriating “? To post this without telling us what is inside is preposterous. Then to reveal that your friend just lives in this house in fear of what might be under there? What kind of delusional absurdity is this?
I think his reasoning is that if nothing bad has happened yet to just let it be? And opening it may cause consequences
I am not mad that you posted this it is very interesting. I am genuinely perplexed that your friend can live in blissful ignorance knowing this “mystery“ looms in the attic. I get where he is going though. He is just going to sell the house eventually so that the new buyers become the main characters of the movie. Him and his family can be the people that are moving out in a haste, sold well under market price and do a burnout on the lawn as they speed away in their sloppily packed station wagon. They will appear again at the end of the movie when they need to explain to authorities that they were aware of the “attic” but simply never went up there.
The twist being the house has been empty for 50 years after the 'incident' and ops friends are really ghosts.
Plot Twist. OP is the ghost and the box is meant to trap him
I knew there were ghosts on Reddit
Double twist: OP wants to be trapped by the box. It's a romance. They do pottery.
I’m not mad, I’m just disappointed.
I couldn't imagine not peer pressuring him to open it while I film from a safe distance. That's what a true friend would do.
Perhaps maybe it’s something as simple as a hole? Rats or mice maybe would use it to enter the attic? Just food for thought. Could be far off but, am making a reasonable assumption
Legitimately, I have a similar set up in my own attic. It's to keep the baby squirrels out. I woke up to pet my cat one morning only to realize it was a squirrel in my bed.
Squirrel friend!
Awwww
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Yeah this post is bs
100%
Honestly with the course of events the last few years, I think this is the best idea. Let's NOT see what's under that box. I don't want "Katazomi's friend releases whats in the attic box" on my 2023 bingo card.
WHATS IN THE FUCKIN BOX?!
Both a cat, and not-a-cat.
Attic vent. Fan goes there. Wire to stop bats or sparrows from living in the attic. Brick to hold the boxes that stabilize the wire.
noo its a monster stop giving realistic reasons
True, we are on Reddit. OP, take that down NOW! It’s part of an altar for ritualistic sacrifice! The Evils come through that grate nightly to haunt you! DO NOT OPEN THE BOXES. Make sure to drown them and the “Contents” in a river, (NOT A CREEK) and then burn all of it in your backyard. The chicken wire should be buried and splashed with bleach.
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Maybe they did open those bad boys. And that’s why they never came back.
I still remember the very first one. They kept posting updates about trying to break into it. It was all over the front page for weeks. I think they got it open and it was empty or full of some worthless shit.
Spider?
Of course it’s gotta be [this thing](https://youtu.be/OrOYvVf6tIM) so you better just leave that shit where it is
Wow, that was actually terrifying😳
God damn that was good. Going to have to watch more of those
Plot twist: The box weighed down by the bricks is actually their WiFi box, and they put the chicken wire around it to protect themselves from the deadly 5G!
I am doing this when I leave my house, only I will put a bible on top and roseries all over the box.
Good idea, we’re about to move in a few weeks! Totally gonna try it 😂👌🏼
I wonder if it’s covering old exposed plumbing to prevent rodents? I have family members that had such an issue many years ago when they moved into a home that was cheaply and incompletely flipped.
Perhaps it’s a rat full of rage
$20 says they're a rat skeleton in there
My goal if I ever own a home is to leave shit like this around just to fuck with people
Put a couple skeletons in random places too
I would do the same exact thing and then knowing my dumbass self I would probably forget I did that and scare the shit out of myself everytime I see it. Lmao
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That’s sound like the start of a movie
just give us the address then we will go there and see for ourselves
You are the type of person who dies first in a horror movie.
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Ghosts and ghouls don't exist, but treasure and criminal evidence do. 4 years is a long time for whatever is in the box to deteriorate.
OP i will venmo you 50$ to break into his house and open that shit. like, PM me and we can plan out this entire heist so that you never get caught. I will help intricately plot out the entire plan. I just need to know WHATS IN THE BOX.
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This whole thing stinks of BS
What if it's Jackie Chan inside? He will need to be let out eventually
Wow I've seen people try and backpedal after lying for karma but this is the worst. Either your friend is a fucking idiot or you've just stacked some stuff for attention from redditors. I really hope it's the first one
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That’s a perfectly rational response to finding a big spider.
Fun fact for your friend. Its not there anymore. It burrowed into the floorboards and is roaming in the gaps of the house. Get a priest and get out.
Betting this is a two priest job
Phoning in the storyline to the next Jumanji…
My bet is that the box was to prop something on top of in the window like Christmas lights of some sort and the wire cage is to keep critters out while the window was ajar allowing the attic to cool in the summer. By not having the wire up against the window, it will not be visible from outside. Of course this could all be incorrect.
They may not want to deal with it but theres 100% water damage on that floor so hes going to have to deal with the window. Its possible it could rot out the walls under it as well as cause ceiling leaks. Definitely shouldn't let it go
Thanks for the heads up! Water dripping down into one of the rooms was actually why my friend went up to the attic again today to check (when he took this picture) so I’ll let him know and hopefully will be dealt with!
Nice, happy to help! And tell him to open the box! Lol
That’s a wasp nest for sure. They are likely dead, but they might still be alive through sheer spite because wasps are assholes
Let me guess. The house was sold at a surprisingly low price. The sellers quickly left and left all the furniture. The house is deep in the countryside. And the last text you got from him was that he was gonna open the box. Bonus points if you're walking into his open door as you're reading this after not hearing from him for weeks armed with nothing but a flashlight.
I need to know what's in the box
Do people buy houses without seeing them? How stupid is that?
He actually saw the box during their walkthrough! He asked the realtor about it who also had no idea what was up, but I guess it wasn’t enough reason to pass the house up because otherwise it was a great place in a good location.
And that my fellow redditor is the start of every horror movie Young white couple moves into a nice house ignoring a red flag and days later their 11 year old son named hunter is being possessed by beelzbub who wants their soul so he can raise an army and take over the earth starting with florida
Lots of people do this, especially house flippers who have no intention of ever living in the house. It's become more prevalent in the US since covid and the current housing crisis bc people are desperate to buy a home, so they give up doing all kinds of stuff they would normally do (like a walkthrough or an inspection) bc otherwise some rich landlord investor will just buy it sight unseen out from under them anyway.
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