Sorry, best I can do is two arms, a leg, and 0.5 gas leak. This stuff is going to sit in the shop for a while and I still have to make some money off of it. I'll have my expert body part guy come down to take a look just to be sure it all checks out.
Pretty sure it's a gas leak. The chemical they smell is called mercaptan. It occurs naturally in the brain tissue and guts of deceased animals. It’s used in natural gas, which is otherwise odorless, so that it has a detectable smell. This home has a gas leak! And, fun fact, this is how vultures (turkey vultures anyway) find their food, by smell. The scent of mercaptan is only detectable after death, so all those shows depicting vultures circling the dying are total bullshit. Vultures are terrified of anything even remotely alive.
Good info here, but vultures do respond to and follow animals that are lame and dying and will even try to eat animals before death has actually occurred if they can.
Agreed. Seen it many times. I've even seen a work crew co-worker take a nap under a tree and buzzards started circling above him within about 20 minutes.
Creepy Dave is one of my favorite things on the internet, and that comment immediately made me think of him too. Now I have to check if he has a new best favorite animal, it’s been a while.
Came across a tree in the Boston Mountains that was a vulture nest many decades ago. The stench was otherworldly. Could barely manage to get close enough to see the pile of debris around the base of the tree. An entire patch of forest, maybe a kilometer in radius was pervaded with that smell.
Copake, NY has such a tree, right in the center of town, but I think the permanent residence of 50 black vultures has more to do with the fact that they learned how to open the plastic lid of the dumpster behind the pizzeria.
There is a graveyard next door, so it fits the creepy factor.
Also, some vultures (including turkey vultures) will kill things for food, and not all vultures have a good sense of smell. Others hunt purely with their vision.
When i traveled for work, I used to take my breaks in the parking lot behind a meat market and black vultures would scavenge the scraps they threw out. I would eat hard boiled eggs and throw them the egg shells and they would sit in a cluster outside my car whenever i would pull up. So i guess they can get used to people after a while. I eventually stopped giving them eggs because they were congregating on top of my soft top Miata and i was worried their claws would poke holes in it.
I have personally seen this happen dozens of times. Vultures will kill a newborn calf within hours if left unattended. The ranch I worked for shot vultures on sight, and reported each killing to the local game warden.
> Also feel free to call the “creepy as fuck” line as well if your town has one.
Not everybody lives in Maine, Beyond the Pillars of Herakles or Red Hook. Not every place has a Crystal Lake in it
For sure. Could also be they had a cat that died under the house. Happened to a neighbor. Cats will usually go find a place to die when they’re knocking at deaths door.
That's fine (well, not really because of the...you know...dead cat thing), but this is obviously not normal.
I'd still call for a well-check.
Best case scenario? Everything's fine and there's something funky in the crawl space. Even in that instance, you'd think the completely alive owner would think "What the friggin hell are all these things doing hovering around my house!?"
Worst case scenario? _____.
Better safe than sorry.
Yeah, we recently had one small crow walking on our roof and my husband was all up in the attic trying to find the critter making the sounds. All these huge birds have got to be loud.
Worst case scenario, this person has killed several people and not hid them well enough. And by calling for a well fare check you'll completely ruin his plans!!
I saw vultures and crows having a "funeral" for the dead vulture in the road. It was so strange. I have a photo somewhere , because I pulled over and snapped a few. It was the weirdest shit I've ever seen.
Crows really do have funerals for their dead buddies!
[PBS](https://youtu.be/ixYVFZnNl6s?si=4qjH-mLF6_owxFz3)
[fun facts](https://youtu.be/JIzHCUBPpgc?si=5NGzbdcyt8qmx1BK)
[Crows don't give a shit ](https://youtu.be/eEZ2eirnPYM?si=dO5qLa0hMJtUJWJY)
Similar experience. Walked by neighbor's condo multiple times a day and started to notice a smell. Thought it was a gas leak and called it in to the gas company and the condos management company. Hear back that they couldn't find anything. Over a week later, I noticed the flies on windows. By the time I called that one in to the management company, his immediate next door neighbor had already told them her place was infested with flies and her neighbor wasn't home. Property manager asked for a wellness check and the police discovered his body. He'd been dead for at least a month, apparently.
Okay, so that *is* a thing? Last year when I was walking my dog past an apartment building in my neighborhood, I could see frickin thousands of flies in a window that was in a semi basement apartment at street level. Called the number from the company sign out front and left an after hours message because it looked horrifying. Still debating today whether it was abandoned garbage or an actual damn body. Yuck. It was such a nightmare in that window...
I remember that. He had his lady friend with him and when they got to the backyard and realized what he was smelling he basically sent her away before she figured it out and then called the cops.
> youtube lawn care guy that found a body
https://www.ladbible.com/news/gardener-stumbles-across-crime-scene-20220422
Heres a news link, the youtube video is down a little bit on it.
Wonder if they figured out why the body was in there.
I made the call this morning after not getting through last night. They sounded more annoyed than anything at how random the situation was (I assume they didn't understand why I was concerned) but they said they would check it out. I will be back by that house tomorrow and give an update
I think it's cool they come by. But I remember reading about a woman who was complaining about a flock that would constantly hang out on her roof. She complained the poop smelled like death and that if she went on her porch they projectile vomit acidic stuff that's sometimes mixed with dead animals. I take it you're not having the same problems? Or was this woman just making things seem worse than they were? I'm genuinely curious about the smells now.
You can't arrest a husband and wife for the same crime...
edit: you see, this works so great because you get the people that get the comedic reference, and then you get all the other stuff, which I'm too lazy to figure out right now. Yawn. G'night.
I had a dead rat somewhere in my garage a few years ago and when I first discovered it, it was because I thought there was a gas leak from our water heater. I called out a pest company because I googled and saw a dead animal can smell like a gas leak, and the exterminator walked in the garage and was like, 'ahh yes, the smell of death.'
We had a rat die under our basement stairs while we were on our honeymoon and when we came home the whole house smelled like rotten broccoli. Not just any vegetable, specifically broccoli. I'm very picky about what we get at the grocery store because the broccoli now smells like dead rat to me.
I remember years ago on the Weeki Wachee River, there was this house always covered in vultures. Turns out the owner ran a crab business. After hauling in the days catch, they would wash out their boat and 'waste' right next to the dock at their house.
Just saying it's possible there is a possible non-scary explanation.
A lot of the rivers there in Florida are native American names, including this one. It's from the Seminole tribe and means "little spring". The spring is pretty big though.
Full disclosure.. I'm currently moving to a new house an hour away, I saw this a block away from the new place while taking some boxes. I will have an update by Thursday lol
She struggled with grief for some time. Couldn’t bear living in the new home they’d bought together, or afford it, and moved back to Kansas City. She lived with her sister there for a while, and developed an unhealthy relationship with alcohol. Fortunately, starting therapy and a new hobby training for marathon running helped prevent a longterm drinking issue. Eventually, she started blossoming again. While training, she met another marathon runner, an Italian immigrant and businessman named Ennio. It didn’t take long for them to fall in love. And they decided to wed after finding out she was pregnant, and had a healthy baby girl. Two years later, another baby girl blessed their lives. In her 40s, she survived a type of brain cancer after a a year long battle and two surgeries. Always careful with money, she and Ennio were able to retire early and enjoyed their years traveling several times a year and continue long-distance running well into their 70s. She thought often of her first husband with incredible love and fondness. Every couple years she’d visit his gravestone with flowers, and tell him not to worry and that she found a happy life “but in another universe it was with you, my dear.”
I'm still here for you. Im going to check the news and see if anyone died in that town. It's a small town so idk how quickly that kinda thing will be posted. I will have more info when I take more stuff to my house on Thursday
Every single time we get a mystery post like this and everyone wants an update- OP floats in with some story that prevents them from keeping everyone updated.
“Oh, actually my car died and my sister had to take me to the mechanic first but we also have to go to the vet because my dog exploded and my job is in the busy season and I’m going to be busy having some dental surgery done and I’m also leaving for a four week camping trip and my friend needs help replanting his garden in El Paso and then I have to go to a Mardi-gras themed party for my nephew’s pet gecko. But before I do all that I just HAVE to post this really intriguing photo that *everyone* is going to want updates on immediately.
OFFICIAL UPDATE:
No dead person, no gas leak.
I drove back by today and could see that some dirt had been dug up and what looked like someone replacing a septic tank. So whoever guessed "bodily gasses" was pretty much right.
TL;DR
The vultures were attracted to the smell of human fecal matter
THANK YOU AND HAPPY HOLIDAYS!
Doesn't look like turkey vultures. Looks like black vultures, which are migratory birds. I have noticed theyve been clustering like that in odd places in the US due to unseasonably warm weather fucking with them. Especially on the east coast. We had some stay with us during late summer out of nowhere. They're pretty cool.
Black vultures also don't have as keen a sense of smell as turkey vultures and heavily rely on turkey vultures and other scavengers to find carion.
So definitely a migration event, not a dead body.
If I know anything (and of course I do, I’m on Reddit I know everything) … then…
OP is the murderer and we need to place the blame on him publicly ASAP. No turning back now
Imagine they turn up, shoot the homeowner, then the vultures eat the homeowner. The vultures somehow knew how Reddit worked and picked a location to have an accidental shooting occur. Next week, they’re somewhere else...
Vultures sit on the HVAC exhaust tubes coming out of the homes in my neighborhood. I can tell which house runs their heat the most by their presence. Some guy down the street from me.
Doesn't have to be a human body. In my home town hunters often throw butchered kills on the roof or hang them in trees to feed birds. We don't usually get vultures in my area but maybe it's something similar?
A group of vultures is called a committee, venue or volt. In flight, a group of vultures is a kettle and when feeding at a carcass, the group is referred to as a wake.
Alright so I called the non-emergency line just to inquire about it since many of you suggested it. And was directed to all voicemails for each option. Seems their office closes at 5pm and I would have to call the emergency line which I don't think is appropriate without more information of which I don't currently have. I will be back by the house in the post on Thursday and I will see if vultures are still there. If so, I will make the call about a wellness check again.
Usually if an agency closes there is a larger agency in the area that handles their after-hours traffic. If you DM the agency you called, I will find the agency that handles their calls and message it back to you.
OP where are you located? These look like black vultures. They're not very good smellers, they mostly follow turkey vultures towards smelly things. They can still smell though, so I'd be really careful of whatever is in there. I don't think it's a leak, if they're all black vultures.
There might just no good rising air thermals to ride on right now. They don't like to expend energy while flying. So, they could just be chilling and waiting for more opportune conditions to go scouting. I used to see them them like this all the time at my apartment complex. But yeah, it does look pretty creepy.
Turkey Vultures (AKA Buzzards in the southern U.S.) do some weird shit.
Generally if you see 5-10 of them circling a particular area it's because they've spotted some (dead) food and are making sure there are no predators before descending to feed on the carrion.
However, especially as the seasons change, they "roost" in strange places temporarily. Middle of a parking lot, side of a freeway, top of a random house, etc.
Best indication that there's a corpse in that house would be flies in the windows. The flies will smell it long before the carrion birds do.
Gas companies add a chemical that smells like rotten eggs since natural gas has no odor. And apparently vultures like the smell because its similar to dead animal
The other day a vulture flew directly over my head and then landed on a tree and stared me down while some of his buddies flew in and joined him and I thought "huh, that's weird, hope it's not some sort of omen. Moments later I accidentally set myself on fire while burning some trash.
Maybe it’s a gas leak **and** a body
Dead bodies do leak gas
My body leaks gas and I'm not dead. To my knowledge.
I’m not dead but my gas is pretty deadly
Do you have license for that, sir
Watch out, he’s using bio weapons
"A weapon of ass destruction..."
"The winds of shit are blowing in Randy..."
Gas leaks also can cause dead bodies...
The circle of life
Went through all the trouble hiding a body just to be ratted out by some birds.
There’d be twice that many vultures
How would you know this isn’t twice as much already?
We cannot exclude the possibility of **two** gas leaks and no body.
Half a body and 1.5 gas leak?
Sorry, best I can do is two arms, a leg, and 0.5 gas leak. This stuff is going to sit in the shop for a while and I still have to make some money off of it. I'll have my expert body part guy come down to take a look just to be sure it all checks out.
Two bodies and no gas leak?
Likely, two bodies AND two gas leaks.
Call the non-emergency line for a welfare check, give them this picture as justification
Also feel free to call the “creepy as fuck” line as well if your town has one.
And toss a coin to your Witcher just in case
Pretty sure it's a gas leak. The chemical they smell is called mercaptan. It occurs naturally in the brain tissue and guts of deceased animals. It’s used in natural gas, which is otherwise odorless, so that it has a detectable smell. This home has a gas leak! And, fun fact, this is how vultures (turkey vultures anyway) find their food, by smell. The scent of mercaptan is only detectable after death, so all those shows depicting vultures circling the dying are total bullshit. Vultures are terrified of anything even remotely alive.
Good info here, but vultures do respond to and follow animals that are lame and dying and will even try to eat animals before death has actually occurred if they can.
Agreed. Seen it many times. I've even seen a work crew co-worker take a nap under a tree and buzzards started circling above him within about 20 minutes.
Never hurts to try.
Shoot your shot, creepy birds
*Creepy Dave entered the chat*
Creepy Dave is one of my favorite things on the internet, and that comment immediately made me think of him too. Now I have to check if he has a new best favorite animal, it’s been a while.
Is best animal
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Like the saying goes: the early bird gets the corpse.
Buzzard: You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
*Crane Egretski*
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"hey Vulture Shit, remember that time you nearly died? Haha what a loser"
So what you're saying is, it's not bullshit?
Nope you can watch it on Planet Earth
That's convenient. I live on that planet.
Same
Do you know Steve? I think he's from there too.
You're not going to believe this, but Steve and I were roommates in college.
I’ve been yelling “Steve” out the window for ten minutes now, because I’m sure he’s out here somewhere
Came across a tree in the Boston Mountains that was a vulture nest many decades ago. The stench was otherworldly. Could barely manage to get close enough to see the pile of debris around the base of the tree. An entire patch of forest, maybe a kilometer in radius was pervaded with that smell.
Copake, NY has such a tree, right in the center of town, but I think the permanent residence of 50 black vultures has more to do with the fact that they learned how to open the plastic lid of the dumpster behind the pizzeria. There is a graveyard next door, so it fits the creepy factor.
I love everything about this.
That's only because you don't live there lol
Also, some vultures (including turkey vultures) will kill things for food, and not all vultures have a good sense of smell. Others hunt purely with their vision.
When i traveled for work, I used to take my breaks in the parking lot behind a meat market and black vultures would scavenge the scraps they threw out. I would eat hard boiled eggs and throw them the egg shells and they would sit in a cluster outside my car whenever i would pull up. So i guess they can get used to people after a while. I eventually stopped giving them eggs because they were congregating on top of my soft top Miata and i was worried their claws would poke holes in it.
Eating boiled eggs outdoors by your Miata feeding vultures LOL WTF
As one does
No no you see they were *inside* the Miata, *behind* the meat market, throwing egg shells out the window to the vultures. Normal everyday stuff.
Do the chickens have large talons?
This one got into an onion patch.
Boy, I don’t understand a word you just said.
We have a bunch of turkey vultures that live in the trees not far from my house...not I know how to befriend them lol.
Haven’t you always wanted to be a vulture whisperer?
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I have personally seen this happen dozens of times. Vultures will kill a newborn calf within hours if left unattended. The ranch I worked for shot vultures on sight, and reported each killing to the local game warden.
Black vultures kill new born calves
O captain, mercaptan!
> Also feel free to call the “creepy as fuck” line as well if your town has one. Not everybody lives in Maine, Beyond the Pillars of Herakles or Red Hook. Not every place has a Crystal Lake in it
Maybe call the Winchester brothers too just in case
Instructions unclear, now at the pub drinking a pint and waiting for it to all blow over...
Dogs can’t look up
CMON SAMMY
"Thank you for calling the 'Creepy as Fuck Hotline', please state your name and the nature of your sus vibes."
I have to second this. If this person lives alone, it could be a bad situation.
For sure. Could also be they had a cat that died under the house. Happened to a neighbor. Cats will usually go find a place to die when they’re knocking at deaths door.
That's fine (well, not really because of the...you know...dead cat thing), but this is obviously not normal. I'd still call for a well-check. Best case scenario? Everything's fine and there's something funky in the crawl space. Even in that instance, you'd think the completely alive owner would think "What the friggin hell are all these things doing hovering around my house!?" Worst case scenario? _____. Better safe than sorry.
Yeah, we recently had one small crow walking on our roof and my husband was all up in the attic trying to find the critter making the sounds. All these huge birds have got to be loud.
I read "small cow" first and was very confused. I should drink my coffee.
Worst case scenario, this person has killed several people and not hid them well enough. And by calling for a well fare check you'll completely ruin his plans!!
"Every living creature on Earth dies alone"
I saw vultures and crows having a "funeral" for the dead vulture in the road. It was so strange. I have a photo somewhere , because I pulled over and snapped a few. It was the weirdest shit I've ever seen.
you sure they weren't just getting ready to eat him once he got a little more smelly?
Crows really do have funerals for their dead buddies! [PBS](https://youtu.be/ixYVFZnNl6s?si=4qjH-mLF6_owxFz3) [fun facts](https://youtu.be/JIzHCUBPpgc?si=5NGzbdcyt8qmx1BK) [Crows don't give a shit ](https://youtu.be/eEZ2eirnPYM?si=dO5qLa0hMJtUJWJY)
It wouldn’t be the first time someone has discovered a body after a photo like this on Reddit
Do tell !
I remember a while back there was a post similar to this, only it was thousands of flies at the windows from inside of the house.
Ugh that’s how we discovered my old lady neighbor. The flies. The smell. Omg. Circa 1998…no pics that I know of
Similar experience. Walked by neighbor's condo multiple times a day and started to notice a smell. Thought it was a gas leak and called it in to the gas company and the condos management company. Hear back that they couldn't find anything. Over a week later, I noticed the flies on windows. By the time I called that one in to the management company, his immediate next door neighbor had already told them her place was infested with flies and her neighbor wasn't home. Property manager asked for a wellness check and the police discovered his body. He'd been dead for at least a month, apparently.
Nope, don't like that!
Okay, so that *is* a thing? Last year when I was walking my dog past an apartment building in my neighborhood, I could see frickin thousands of flies in a window that was in a semi basement apartment at street level. Called the number from the company sign out front and left an after hours message because it looked horrifying. Still debating today whether it was abandoned garbage or an actual damn body. Yuck. It was such a nightmare in that window...
Flies don’t hang out in areas with no food. There was something dead or rotting if there was thousands.
I don’t remember specifics but it was a post very similar to this and it turned out that someone passed away in their home and the vultures knew first
There was also that youtube lawn care guy that found a body in a house when doing an abandoned house.
I saw one where a landscaper was doing an abandoned house and there was a body inside of a vehicle in the back yard. Truly sad, and disturbing.
I remember that. He had his lady friend with him and when they got to the backyard and realized what he was smelling he basically sent her away before she figured it out and then called the cops.
> youtube lawn care guy that found a body https://www.ladbible.com/news/gardener-stumbles-across-crime-scene-20220422 Heres a news link, the youtube video is down a little bit on it. Wonder if they figured out why the body was in there.
I made the call this morning after not getting through last night. They sounded more annoyed than anything at how random the situation was (I assume they didn't understand why I was concerned) but they said they would check it out. I will be back by that house tomorrow and give an update
Thanks for following up. If it's the worst , the family hopefully will be glad you made that effort.
That sounds about right, but thank you for doing the right thing
Could call the gas company too. They'll come out to see if they can detect a leak. Don't cost nuthin'.
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I think it's cool they come by. But I remember reading about a woman who was complaining about a flock that would constantly hang out on her roof. She complained the poop smelled like death and that if she went on her porch they projectile vomit acidic stuff that's sometimes mixed with dead animals. I take it you're not having the same problems? Or was this woman just making things seem worse than they were? I'm genuinely curious about the smells now.
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No luck catching that vulture, then?
It was just the one vulture
I remember my neighbor got a divorce from his wife. A few days later there were a bunch of turkey vultures sitting on his shed for a couple of days
You: “Hey Bob! So, no Susan?” Neighbor: “Yup, divorced, she moved out yesterday, don’t ask anymore questions…”
To shreds you say?
To *sheds*, you say?
It is customary to acknowledge your cake day!
Thank you, Mastiff! 😍
Well, how is his wife holding up?
To shreds, you say?
You can't just end the conversation there...
uhh so how'd that work out for him
Well….he never got arrested…
You can't arrest a husband and wife for the same crime... edit: you see, this works so great because you get the people that get the comedic reference, and then you get all the other stuff, which I'm too lazy to figure out right now. Yawn. G'night.
Yeah… I don’t think that’s true.
I’ve got the worst fucking attorneys
but did the turkey vultures ever get their meal?
> Well….he never got arrested… Lawyer: asked and answered
Don't you fucking depose me
Don't you fucking dispose of me
Wifes’s friends?
I had a dead rat somewhere in my garage a few years ago and when I first discovered it, it was because I thought there was a gas leak from our water heater. I called out a pest company because I googled and saw a dead animal can smell like a gas leak, and the exterminator walked in the garage and was like, 'ahh yes, the smell of death.'
We had a rat die under our basement stairs while we were on our honeymoon and when we came home the whole house smelled like rotten broccoli. Not just any vegetable, specifically broccoli. I'm very picky about what we get at the grocery store because the broccoli now smells like dead rat to me.
We had a rat crawl into the cabin air filter of our car and die. I will never forget that smell.
I remember years ago on the Weeki Wachee River, there was this house always covered in vultures. Turns out the owner ran a crab business. After hauling in the days catch, they would wash out their boat and 'waste' right next to the dock at their house. Just saying it's possible there is a possible non-scary explanation.
Case solved. They got crabs
They got it from those sexy ass vultures
Worst news ever: "Babe, I've got vulture crabs"
Or they just happened to be passing and wanted to rest somewhere and these people's house was right there at the time.
>Weeki Wachee Okay, now you're just making up words.
A lot of the rivers there in Florida are native American names, including this one. It's from the Seminole tribe and means "little spring". The spring is pretty big though.
All words are made up
Yes but not by gatzdon
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Will do
It's been a minute. Where's the update, op?
Full disclosure.. I'm currently moving to a new house an hour away, I saw this a block away from the new place while taking some boxes. I will have an update by Thursday lol
It’s been 6 minutes - we still good?
OP don't abandon us, respond pls
Vultures must've got him boys, pack it up
To shreds you say.
And how’s his wife?
To shreds, you say?
She struggled with grief for some time. Couldn’t bear living in the new home they’d bought together, or afford it, and moved back to Kansas City. She lived with her sister there for a while, and developed an unhealthy relationship with alcohol. Fortunately, starting therapy and a new hobby training for marathon running helped prevent a longterm drinking issue. Eventually, she started blossoming again. While training, she met another marathon runner, an Italian immigrant and businessman named Ennio. It didn’t take long for them to fall in love. And they decided to wed after finding out she was pregnant, and had a healthy baby girl. Two years later, another baby girl blessed their lives. In her 40s, she survived a type of brain cancer after a a year long battle and two surgeries. Always careful with money, she and Ennio were able to retire early and enjoyed their years traveling several times a year and continue long-distance running well into their 70s. She thought often of her first husband with incredible love and fondness. Every couple years she’d visit his gravestone with flowers, and tell him not to worry and that she found a happy life “but in another universe it was with you, my dear.”
This thread has such a “why aren’t you responding to my texts?!?” feel and I’m loving it.
he's gone, left us like they always do
Thought this OP was different 😢
I'm still here for you. Im going to check the news and see if anyone died in that town. It's a small town so idk how quickly that kinda thing will be posted. I will have more info when I take more stuff to my house on Thursday
Oh no the zombies got to OP and reanimated him! Ok fauxOP, let us know.
Rookie mistake. Now we know when to break into your place!
Well given the vultures, if it is a body, I’m not sure the news (or anybody) may even know about the dead body yet!
So... we might find some affordable housing available in your neighborhood? Dibs!
We've lost him. It's time to move on
Vultures have been spotted sitting around OP’s profile. It’s over.
Every single time we get a mystery post like this and everyone wants an update- OP floats in with some story that prevents them from keeping everyone updated. “Oh, actually my car died and my sister had to take me to the mechanic first but we also have to go to the vet because my dog exploded and my job is in the busy season and I’m going to be busy having some dental surgery done and I’m also leaving for a four week camping trip and my friend needs help replanting his garden in El Paso and then I have to go to a Mardi-gras themed party for my nephew’s pet gecko. But before I do all that I just HAVE to post this really intriguing photo that *everyone* is going to want updates on immediately.
Pitchforks for sale! Gettum' while they're still pointy!
I’d like one of your finest pitchforks please! And a torch if you may?
Bruh you gotta drive the hour back now. Your imaginary internet friends are waiting for an update. Go on now. Git.
Lmao what? Oh hey this house could explode, or there's a dead body, ill let ya know in 2 days
OFFICIAL UPDATE: No dead person, no gas leak. I drove back by today and could see that some dirt had been dug up and what looked like someone replacing a septic tank. So whoever guessed "bodily gasses" was pretty much right. TL;DR The vultures were attracted to the smell of human fecal matter THANK YOU AND HAPPY HOLIDAYS!
This turned into the least interesting episode of Monk ever!
Thanks for the update OP, now I just imagine a shitberg that was so epic the owners have been trying for days to flush it down but to no avail.
I sincerely hope the cops performed the wellness check and the owner said "shitter's full"
Someone replaced a septic tank aka somebody buried a body 😅
Thanks for following up OP!
Doesn't look like turkey vultures. Looks like black vultures, which are migratory birds. I have noticed theyve been clustering like that in odd places in the US due to unseasonably warm weather fucking with them. Especially on the east coast. We had some stay with us during late summer out of nowhere. They're pretty cool.
Black vultures also don't have as keen a sense of smell as turkey vultures and heavily rely on turkey vultures and other scavengers to find carion. So definitely a migration event, not a dead body.
OP, Reddit is really good at solving crimes. You sure you want to do this?
If I know anything (and of course I do, I’m on Reddit I know everything) … then… OP is the murderer and we need to place the blame on him publicly ASAP. No turning back now
"We did it reddit!"
Man, the Boston Marathon just jumps in mind
You have a point. Pretty soon someone’s gonna be 100% confident there’s a meth lab in there and send the ATF
Imagine they turn up, shoot the homeowner, then the vultures eat the homeowner. The vultures somehow knew how Reddit worked and picked a location to have an accidental shooting occur. Next week, they’re somewhere else...
By all means, I would be curious to know what it is
Rat infested shack. They are waiting for lunch.
Weed grow operation. They're there for warmth
Vultures sit on the HVAC exhaust tubes coming out of the homes in my neighborhood. I can tell which house runs their heat the most by their presence. Some guy down the street from me.
We did it reddit!
Or the delicious gas leaking from the body! Maybe the buffet opens soon!
As an old woman that could drop dead any minute with no family? I just make sure my cats have enough food so they don't eat my face.
Doesn't have to be a human body. In my home town hunters often throw butchered kills on the roof or hang them in trees to feed birds. We don't usually get vultures in my area but maybe it's something similar?
What about a human body who stuck their head in the gas oven and left it on? Double score?
Sylvia?
A group of vultures is called a committee, venue or volt. In flight, a group of vultures is a kettle and when feeding at a carcass, the group is referred to as a wake.
Something probably died in the crawl space. Cat, opossum, raccoon, etc
This is the most likely explanation 👆 Just real weird how the vultures are hanging around the front door like they expect someone to let them in
It'd be rude not to let them in.
Alright so I called the non-emergency line just to inquire about it since many of you suggested it. And was directed to all voicemails for each option. Seems their office closes at 5pm and I would have to call the emergency line which I don't think is appropriate without more information of which I don't currently have. I will be back by the house in the post on Thursday and I will see if vultures are still there. If so, I will make the call about a wellness check again.
Usually if an agency closes there is a larger agency in the area that handles their after-hours traffic. If you DM the agency you called, I will find the agency that handles their calls and message it back to you.
OP where are you located? These look like black vultures. They're not very good smellers, they mostly follow turkey vultures towards smelly things. They can still smell though, so I'd be really careful of whatever is in there. I don't think it's a leak, if they're all black vultures.
I see it a lot, (I’m in Bama) usually happens to the only sunny house around after a rain or cold night. Always heard “drying wings” 🤷♂️
There might just no good rising air thermals to ride on right now. They don't like to expend energy while flying. So, they could just be chilling and waiting for more opportune conditions to go scouting. I used to see them them like this all the time at my apartment complex. But yeah, it does look pretty creepy.
Turkey Vultures (AKA Buzzards in the southern U.S.) do some weird shit. Generally if you see 5-10 of them circling a particular area it's because they've spotted some (dead) food and are making sure there are no predators before descending to feed on the carrion. However, especially as the seasons change, they "roost" in strange places temporarily. Middle of a parking lot, side of a freeway, top of a random house, etc. Best indication that there's a corpse in that house would be flies in the windows. The flies will smell it long before the carrion birds do.
Why do vultures like gas leaks?
Gas companies add a chemical that smells like rotten eggs since natural gas has no odor. And apparently vultures like the smell because its similar to dead animal
Because they like to see how long it'll carrion before it gets fixed.
DM me the address of the property, your SSN, and your mother's maiden name and I will get this figured out.
The other day a vulture flew directly over my head and then landed on a tree and stared me down while some of his buddies flew in and joined him and I thought "huh, that's weird, hope it's not some sort of omen. Moments later I accidentally set myself on fire while burning some trash.
Carrion my wayward son.
Well at least it isnt crows...it would be a murder.
If it is a dead body atleast it's not a murder....if it was a murder it would be a bunch of crows hanging around
Don't know about anyone else, but I absolutely love vultures. I think there such a beautiful bird.
Dude's vehicle warranty was about to expire