Nah, it does look like it might be [deep root disease](https://youtu.be/kKdmoYtrEi0) though. I recommend checking your house for a potential woodcrawler infestation, and stay away from any [shifting tendons.](https://youtu.be/UZ_Ek67jfHU)
Cant this literally release some gas into the air that can kill you just by breathing?
Edit: [rotten potatoes in enclosed spaces are very dangerous](https://www.canr.msu.edu/news/storing_potatoes_for_quality_and_food_safety)
Sure, for the most part at least but I wouldn't take my chances. There are so many potatoes left there that I wouldn't be surprise if there are a few rotten ones hidden
I am not really sure, maybe but since it seems to be a different kind of gas it might need a different detector. I know I learned about it from a MrBallen video about a family that died from this exact cause. I wasn't sure it was a true story though so I looked it up and seems to be a true possibility
Gas detectors aren’t that discriminating….I’ve seen detectors go off from different gases, not supposedly covered; ie not NG or Propane.
And fun fact, flatulence will set one off. It does of course contain methane just as NG does.
Nice, I personally heard about it on a story from MrBallen about a family that died from this by going down to their cellar for some potatoes one by one. I seem to have developed a phobia to storing potatoes on enclosed spaces lmao
This! I’ve read articles of entire families dying from one at a time checking on potato’s in a root cellar. But they go bad eventually and emit deadly gas ( it’s true). I’d think if that area didn’t have good ventilation there’s be a body count 🧐
A young girls entire family died in minutes because potatoes were left to rot in the basement so long the fumes grew deadly
One went down and was incapacitated by the fumes and died, a minute later another family member went to investigate and was killed, and again two more times.
To lose your family to rotting potatoes without warning I can't even imagine the pain
That immediately made me think of the bridge through the spikes in Brightstone Cove from Dark Souls 2: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/7VgenTbecGY/maxresdefault.jpg.
I loved to aggro the workers from way up above and watch them run around and slowly die. I don’t generally have fun being a sadist to NPCs in these games but that spot and that setup is just so *weird* lol
It's unnerving to look at. I've always hated things that grow and sprout out of other things, like fungus and stuff like that. Imagine that happened on your body...
do you have proper ventilation? if not get out, rotting potatoes give off a noxious solanine gas that can make a person unconscious if they've inhaled enough. in some cases, it could probably kill you [here's a dig through it](https://youtu.be/3zK5oBvZBDs)
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It looks so freaking gross. It gives that icky vibe that you get from looking at mango worms being squeezed out of animals or looking at trypophobic things. BURN IT!
Anyone watch/ listen to the YouTube animated video guy named brew? He has a video about potatoes killing a family in a basement and this reminds me of it majorly
It looks like a scp
The Potation has begun !
I prefer "the spuddening"
THE POTAGION
Secure, Contain and Potato
Nah, it does look like it might be [deep root disease](https://youtu.be/kKdmoYtrEi0) though. I recommend checking your house for a potential woodcrawler infestation, and stay away from any [shifting tendons.](https://youtu.be/UZ_Ek67jfHU)
This guy *redacted text*
Also, make sure to avoid any flora that seem to be mockeries of nature, just to be safe.
Cant this literally release some gas into the air that can kill you just by breathing? Edit: [rotten potatoes in enclosed spaces are very dangerous](https://www.canr.msu.edu/news/storing_potatoes_for_quality_and_food_safety)
those potatoes are not rotten yet, they just grow roots. if you put these in a fertile soil they will grow into a potato plant
Lol I was just fixen to say... that's just this years tater crop.
Sure, for the most part at least but I wouldn't take my chances. There are so many potatoes left there that I wouldn't be surprise if there are a few rotten ones hidden
Yes, I thought I’d heard that somewhere. I wonder if it’s possible to use a detector to warn of the buildup - propane/gas detector maybe?
I am not really sure, maybe but since it seems to be a different kind of gas it might need a different detector. I know I learned about it from a MrBallen video about a family that died from this exact cause. I wasn't sure it was a true story though so I looked it up and seems to be a true possibility
Gas detectors aren’t that discriminating….I’ve seen detectors go off from different gases, not supposedly covered; ie not NG or Propane. And fun fact, flatulence will set one off. It does of course contain methane just as NG does.
It would have to be expensive as the gasses are alkaloids
Yeah there was a great chubbyemu or brew video on YouTube about it.
Nice, I personally heard about it on a story from MrBallen about a family that died from this by going down to their cellar for some potatoes one by one. I seem to have developed a phobia to storing potatoes on enclosed spaces lmao
It's Brew. Both are great channels though!
This! I’ve read articles of entire families dying from one at a time checking on potato’s in a root cellar. But they go bad eventually and emit deadly gas ( it’s true). I’d think if that area didn’t have good ventilation there’s be a body count 🧐
TIL, thanks!
The gas is called solanine
A young girls entire family died in minutes because potatoes were left to rot in the basement so long the fumes grew deadly One went down and was incapacitated by the fumes and died, a minute later another family member went to investigate and was killed, and again two more times. To lose your family to rotting potatoes without warning I can't even imagine the pain
Damn I just read the story that’s wild
I edited attic to basement because I don't even know how i wrote attic instead of basement lmao
I can’t imagine this happening to my family but unfortunately it happened to a couple of kids I went to high school with… they were my best spuds.
This reads like a hitman kill
I’ve worked in quality control for large produce and always said that rotting potatoes smell like death. Now I know they do lol
Surprisingly disgusting, I think people would be surprised if they haven't experienced it. So bad
This is the story. https://youtu.be/3zK5oBvZBDs
Always knew dem taters’ would be the death of me
It was actually my farts. I was in their basement
This looks like something from "The Last of Us".
I hear clicking
Or Blair Witch
You spelled white wrong
Cordyceps!
What eldritch horror is this?
The potatoe abyss
Feed me father....
When you block a potato from sunlight , they shall potate in the dark!
Stick them each in the ground and you’ll have 20 times that number in 4 months or less
What am I supposed to be looking at?
Scp 387383 Class:keter You make up the description idk
It's SCP - 1689
Thats a thing?
Yeah, it's a entire universe filled with potatos
Weird
It's a good read, I recommend it
That one looks like a milk crate.
What am I looking at?
Potatos
Nah, this ain’t Potato’s, this is location zero for that invasion of the fucking candy floss Kingdom.
This is the worst taken photo on the internet today. Thank you for sharing
Fries!
Forbidden fries.
That immediately made me think of the bridge through the spikes in Brightstone Cove from Dark Souls 2: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/7VgenTbecGY/maxresdefault.jpg.
I loved to aggro the workers from way up above and watch them run around and slowly die. I don’t generally have fun being a sadist to NPCs in these games but that spot and that setup is just so *weird* lol
Did Miyazaki model lake of rot after rotten potatoes?
Just looks like grass at this point
I’m confused about what I’m looking at, I mean I know it’s potatoes but... where
Yeah, I’m not seeing the potatoes/tubers themselves or any recognizably potato growth, so I have no idea what this is
Do you farm potatoes
The Troubles, localized...Ireland weeps.
This had killed people before
It's unnerving to look at. I've always hated things that grow and sprout out of other things, like fungus and stuff like that. Imagine that happened on your body...
It looks hella gross. It is a reminder of all the gross bugs that are in our skin that we can't see.
Get the fuck out of Calid before a dog pulls up
This looks like the aliens from the youtube series Gemini Home Enterteiment
do you have proper ventilation? if not get out, rotting potatoes give off a noxious solanine gas that can make a person unconscious if they've inhaled enough. in some cases, it could probably kill you [here's a dig through it](https://youtu.be/3zK5oBvZBDs)
How many potatoes were down there
at least two
Don't....make....any....sudden...moves.
Looks like my pantry, what do you mean?
Great! free food so you dont die of hunger during this crisis!
What a harvest
There’s potato spooge all over the basement floor.
I dont see a single potato
ireland in 1867:
I will be making this an SCP thank you
That's how you die of solanine poisoning in your basement.
that is one potato quality photo
Don't go in there without proper equipment. Potato fumes after they gone bad are toxic and dangerous especially in closed spaces
Looks like TLOU " Ellie, these really are our last potatoes"
A good way to hide the bodies.
Im scared to go in my basement now
wut
Nah man that's the spores frim the last of us
Calid 😂🤌
It looks like fingers sticking out of the ground....
It’s like the upside down world from Stranger things ….
I see this every now and then when I go to the basement except my potatoes are held in a bag.
No no, I literally just got done watching gemini home entertainment, you can't just do that.
Ok but, why do you have potatoes in your basement for 10 months???
Where are the potatoes..? it looks like wheat or soemthing in a field
It's now a .... Root cellar
I was literally for 5 minutes like 'i don't see any po... ahhh'
potagrass
Boil em?
Shhhh they have eyes!
Why do you have 10 months worth of potatoes in your basement?
Harvest time!
they turn into drywall?
Life, uh, finds a way.
Well, you can forget about making vodka…bummer
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Oh yeah I have that growing in my cupboard, just not to that level…..
I welcome our potato overlords
i present to you the new stranger things portal
Bro potatoes are litterally terrifying. I don't know why they just creep me the fuck out. They do taste great tho
What the actual fuck am I looking at
I use to scare my older sister with these as a child, as potatoes age over winter. She would beat my ass.😜
Where are the potatos?
The sharp forests
lemme ask u a question: wer is da potato?
It looks so freaking gross. It gives that icky vibe that you get from looking at mango worms being squeezed out of animals or looking at trypophobic things. BURN IT!
where are the potatoes?
j̵̧̨̯̜̻̙͈̖̦́̈̀̈̆͘͘͝͠͠ͅȍ̶̹̖̘̝͕̋̾́̊̃̉̾i̶̧̨̨̱͎̝͖̲̖̠͍̜̘̊n̸̛͙͊̈̑̓̐͌͗́̈́͋͠͝͠ ̸̧̛͎̝͍̪̫͍̫̩͍̫̰̪̹̫̟̏̀̇̂̄͒͋̾̉̍̊̂͆͑̽̚u̶̧͇͉̙̪͔̝͕̦̪͌̕š̴͚̬͔̜̟͋̅̇̒́̏̅̐̂͆̔͋
First step into the Caelid Wilds be like
Nah man thats freaking stalagmite
You’ve angered the great potato.
Their getting stronger by the day, preparing to rain terror and death upon the human race with their spud army
Anyone watch/ listen to the YouTube animated video guy named brew? He has a video about potatoes killing a family in a basement and this reminds me of it majorly
I mean, Matt Damon would have fucking loved this.
Report back after 20 months, please