#44

You have just remembered me of one of my childhood traumas.

On our first family trip to France I ordered this dish in a restaurant, as my mum’s French phrase book translated “andouillette grillée” as “grilled sausage”, which sounded quite tasty.

Both the smell and the taste of what was being served was truly disgusting, and put everyone off their meal. The whole family did go hungry that night, and it was all my fault.

#45

I used to do a regular cycling route that went through quite a lot of moorland. Just over the top of one of the hills, at the side of the road, was a dead sheep that was slowly decomposing - by summer it was just horrendous. And as it was at the top of a hill I’d just cycled up I was gasping for breath by the time I got to it and no matter how much I tried to judge holding my breath for just a little bit I always fucked the timing up and got a lungful of dead sheep.

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#46

We gonna let this hang out here or what (suppose it’s not going anywhere!!!)

#47

ok, I’m interested - why were you smelling a dead body?

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#48

Fair warning: this is grim and involved slugs.

Summary

When we moved into our current place, there were a phenomenal amount of slugs in the garden. We bought a slug trap which, I later discovered, dissolved the slugs and was meant to be cleaned out weekly.

I cleaned it after six weeks. The slugs were totally dissolved and moldy. The smell was indescribable. I couldn’t actually clean it - I just dropped the whole thing in the wheely bin. The dissolved mess went into the bin and somehow stayed. Now, two years later, the bin occasionally smells of it in hot weather. We’ve paid for professional cleaning services but to no avail.

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#49

My young brother was meant to go around and look after my dad’s cat whilst he was away for two months. He fed it but elected not to change the litter tray, “because it never looked like it needed doing”. It was pretty small and in an airless utility room. I went around there with him after about a month and was like “What’s that smell”?

The litter was about an inch deep in cat piss, the litter itself a ratio of about 12 grains of gravel to 1 wet food turd. The ammonia reek was burnt into my nostrils for about an hour afterwards.

#50

Classic Nitesh

#51

My old man used to have a gardener over a few times a month to tidy the place up. One summer when I was a kid he came to mow the lawn while we were on holiday and plugged in the strimmer in the garage… only problem was he unplugged a chest freezer full of beef, lamb, chicken and left it unplugged.

We returned a fortnight later to an infernal stench which was rotting meat, flies, maggots coming from the garage. My dad had to dig a pit at the bottom of the garden to bury it in

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#52

Once had a housemate who left some tripe boiling in a pan and ended up burning it. The house reeked for weeks after

#53

Yaxley

#54

Good question @noise_ramones!

WARNING: VERY SAD AND HORRIBLE STORY FOLLOWS IVE BLURRED OUT GHE NASTY BITS

So my girlfriend at the time and I lived above this guy who lived alone with his dog. We rarely saw him but often heard him, every few nights or so having an absolute RAGER by himself I.e loud music, shouting to himself/dog, drinking heavily but then would go totally quiet for days.

Anyway we went down to London during the summer (me for a week or so, her for about a month as she had a placement) and when I went back up north, I generally hung out at my pals place rather than my own on my Todd. When I did come back to get a couple things/check the place I didn’t hear or notice anything.

When it came to the day my girlfriend was coming back from London I went to tidy up the place for her arrival and now noticed a weird smell but couldn’t find any obvious cause so just opened a window and went to pick her up from train station. When we get back she immediately noticed the smell, which had got worse, and was like “wtf is that?!” And I said I didn’t know.

Anyway, that same night we get a knock on the door and it’s the police and now we’re really confused/worried. They ask us:

“when was the last time you saw your downstairs neighbour”
“Not in a while but we’ve not really been here much recently”
“Ah, because that smell is what a dead body smells like”

So they go downstairs and proceed to bash the door in and yep, true as day, the man was dead. It unleashed and even mightier stench and a whole bunch of flies (which when I thought about it, I realised I had seen some flies hanging about earlier in the day but still didn’t think THAT) and most distressingly his dog, who survived somewhere between a week or two on its own (trigger) Quite possibly on the body and was freaking out on the stairs in the close just going up and down repeatedly for about 20 minutes before it could be calmed down.

So the forensics people came along later that night, which one of them dressed up in full gear asking if she could use out toilet and “to not worry, I haven’t touched him yet”. The verdict was during one of his rage nights, The guy tripped and smashed his head on the oven and bled out, dunno how quickly he perished but still :fearful:.

A week later, after the clean-up and statements and that, we get a knock on the door and a guy who looked just like our neighbour was there, who turned out to be his brother but initially seemed like an actual ghost. He was very shocked of course, but worse, very apologetic to us(!) he explained his brother had been cut out of the family due to his drug/alcohol abuse and mental issues, but apologised that we had to live with him.

We moved out a couple weeks after that.

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#55

edit - some friends bought a house and the wind must have been blowing in the other direction when they viewed it as the stench from the mushroom farm is a real doozy .

#56

yeah my answer isnt dead body so much as dying bodyparts. gf’s stepdad had circulation problems to the point where his toes died, the smell of that in his room when we were waiting for them to drop off was pure horror. like a weird sickly sweetness to it as well as the absolutely foul stench. sort of thing you never forget

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#57

FUCK

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#58

Once found a tin of open car food underneath we the cardboard compactor at work. It’d been there for about 5yrs. Absolutely writhing with maggots and mould. Fucking disgusting.

Also found a rotten mouse underneath a fridge. Smelt horrid and was a pile of watery mush and bones

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#59

That’s quite a story

Wow

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#60

yeah I still can’t quite believe it.

The smell was horrific, like if no one had cleaned out a rabbit hutch in months (also it was summer so…)

#61

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The poor dog :dog2:

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#62

I think I might have lived with the same guy.

#63

An actual rotten egg. Or the bin room in my building.