Arghhh! How can the pictures end there? What happens next? WHAT HAPPENS NEXT?
Found by: Sarah K
Loveliest comment, by Xay: Feed it a dentist and see what happens.
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OMG how can those people sleep with that THING creeping through their house?!
WOW! I have 2 similar plants, but they are mush smaller, about 3 metres each.
Feed it a dentist and see what happens.
Or your boss….
Can’t believe the photographer was brave enough to turn his back to the thing.
And I’m thinking maybe that’s why the pictures end there…
son- be a deeentist! Well done- my fav comment!
I actually love plants and have some in every room that gets natural light.
But having one huge, monster plant with freakin’ TENTACLES that crawl all over the walls and ceiling…that’s just wrong.
Click on the “found by” link to look at all the photos. No more pics of the Killer Plant, but there is a LOVELY airbrushed painting of a unicorn nuzzling her baby unicorn in the dining room.. Pinks and lavenders dominate (as you’d expect).
damn…I was hoping for a mural!
I would be tempted to ask if there had been reports of strange lights in the sky, meteorites or craters in the ground and if any neighbors had disappeared reappeared and started to act strangely. Then again, maybe the realtor is one of the pod-people as well.
Are these stills from M. Night Shyamalan’s new movie? If you thought trees were scary, now face the tentacle plant!
It will kill us allllllllll! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!!!
I knew a guy that had a plant like that. It spread out all over the walls and ceiling. He introduced it as ‘Dad’ because when is dad died and was cremated, part of the ashes were put into the soil.
Oh, now I’m not gonna be able to sleep in MY house.
Thanks for that! I’ll have nightmares!
My parents once had plants like this that climbed the wall. Once they got to the ceiling, though, they decided enough was enough and took them out.
The plants took your parents out?
I am telling you — we are writing M. Night Shyamalan’s next movie right here!
Quick, what’s the twist ending?!?!
*bursts out laughing*
The listing says “motivated seller.” Uh, they’re taking that plant with them, right? RIGHT?
How? I can’t see how you would take it without damaging it, or the house. Maybe you could wind it round a great big cotton reel. We had a cheeseplant in the house I grew up in that wasn’t that huge, but had wound itself round the tv cable and a pipe so it stayed with the house when we moved. I have no idea whether the next people kept it or killed the poor thing
you can cut plants like this and they keep growing. so if you want to move it you can cut it wherever you want and put it elsehere. It will be shorter but that’s probably for the best anyway =D
Wow, this reminds me of one of my favorite episodes of Stargate SG-1, “Zero Hour” near the beginning of Season 8. (Is it scary I can remember that??). The team brings back a mystery plant from another planet that quickly begins to grow and take over the base… it messes with the electrical circuitry and causes a base blackout, among various other problems, as it grows from room to room. The science team studying the thing was reduced to keeping it in check with blow torches for a while, til they finally figured out how to kill it. Of course that’s just one of several plot lines going on through the episode, including the alleged kidnapping of SG-1 by Ba’al and a planned visit by the President to Cheyenne Mountain.
Did I mention I really love this show and this episode?
Just so you know, you aren’t the only person who immediately said, “Hey! It’s like the SG1 where Felger…”
But my favorite from season eight was Avatar
Geeks represent!
I’m more an Atlantis type, myself, but it’s all good. Even SGU.
I tried to get into SGU, but the first few episodes just didn’t grab me and I gave up.
Of course I resisted SG-1 for a while, until one night when Margaret* had a bad day, I watched with her to cheer her up. I got hooked after a couple of episodes and ended up buying season after season. Then I resisted Atlantis for a while because I thought Rodney McKay was too obnoxious to make any series bearable. Now I’m a fangurl who stalks David Hewlett on Twitter. *blush* So maybe I’ll come around on SGU eventually.
* For those who didn’t know, Margaret’s my sister. She got me started on Lovely Listing too.
The only thing skeevier than owning a mirrored headboard is admitting to the world, via your real estate listing, that you own one.
Gotta say, I was sold on the whole place as soon as I saw that superbly rendered Spencer Gifts-style unicorn painting. Tentacle plant is just icing on that cake.
Is it actually a real plant, or just creepy decor? Anyway, they’ve definitely got a theme going, as the shower curtain echoes the calming vines. Love the laundry as well. And the newspaper ON the toilet.
I have enough trouble trying to keep up with my yard. I can’t handle raking up fallen leaves inside the house as well.
At my old house we had we had English ivy in the standard dark green color that got in through a gap in the frame around the garage door (not a big gap–the plant was enterprising). It grew long WHITE tendrils 10 or 15 feet into the attic.
My husband had one of those plants above the cabinets in the kitchen. I climbed up there one day to clean and realized that the plant had been growing into the wall… literally it was creating dents into the drywall so it could climb… I told hubby it was me or the plant.
XD
Sara, what happens next is the clipping that is being started in the bathroom (pic 7) starts the other way back down the hall.
And then they meet in the hallway and… fight? kiss?
My daughter looked over my shoulder and exclaimed “Hey, it’s Poison Ivy’s house!”
You know the seller will want the buyer to keep that Heart leaf Philodendron plant! One, I think of spiders and two, I think of a nicely oxygenated home. Those plants are great for air purification, fyi. NASA even considered houseplants for the space shuttle trips. Still the thought of spiders will win out! Creep creep crawl crawl!
I just checked those pictures. I can see that chair and a friend are seeking sanctuary in the front of the house leaving table to fend for itself. Meanwhile rug is just staying cool in the middle of the hallway.
and Laundry Basket is cowering on the hearth, looking for an escape…..
…as is poor little pitiful Bamboo Plant on the mantel, but
Creepy Crawly Ivy blocks all escape attempts!
How does one even start that as a hobby?
No offense to the current owners but my first thought upon seeing the house was, “Yeah, someone smokes a lot of pot.” Seeing the unicorn painting did not exactly dissuade me from this belief.
I know, this is sort of a boring comment but I can’t help but comment on the dirty towels hanging over the shower rod and the door to the etagiere above the toilet SWUNG open to reveal all the lovely little bottles of ointments and creams and such. Why do these listings show all of this crap?
I noticed that, too. “Motivated seller,” huh? Not motivated enough to clean up a little. Those things actually do make a huge difference in selling your house quickly and for close to your asking price. If people walk in and are immediately skeeved out, even though they know your mess will be gone with you, they can’t see past it. Usually they’ll just leave as soon as possible.
And they should have closed the door on the closet at the end of the hallway, too.
Jumanji?
I immediately thought of Jumanji when I saw this! Too much, just really too much!
me too!
I’ve got one of those things. Considering how bad I am at keeping plants I’m surprised its still alive. And yeah I have to trim it back every so often.
We need time lapse footage of this thing.
I think it’s awesome… just wish my own plant would grow faster..
I put this on Facebook and my friend comments:
THIS is what happens next! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fR9vFEcC7aQ
There’s ivy on my new house and imagine my horror when I noticed it was coming in THROUGH A GAP IN THE WINDOW FRAME!!!! I think it must be related to this thing. It’s a long way from California to the West Midlands but they’ll make it… oh yes… and the whole world will be choked in it! NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!
My outside ivy tries to come in sometimes, too, especially since my front windows don’t have screens.
Just so it’s not kudzu. That stuff can literally grow at the rate of one foot per day. Anyone who has visited Georgia has respect and fear for its awesome power.
It’ll do that. I posted above about ivy coming in and turning white, long white vines with white leaves… creeped me out.
Sounds like lack of light. But very creepy.
Feed me Seymour, FEED ME NOW!!!
The lot is only 5,000 sq ft (1/9 of an acre), which means the neighbors can probably see right into the windows of this place. The plant is a security measure to scare them off.
the plant eats burglars, leaving nothing behind but old sneakers and a flashlight……
At night, the mutant plant battles the Picture Unicorn for dominance. Alas, the Unicorn is losing the battle, and nuzzles her last living kin in consolation as the fearful tendrils close in for the kill. Soon the house will be a monkeyvine-infested wasteland, and the sad remnants of an empty frame will quickly be buried in a leafy grave. Such is the way of life…
This is a desperate attempt to cover up the hideousness known as the popcorn ceiling.
It’s like that movie, The Ruins.
Good thing the previous owner of my new place left a bottle of Roundup and another of some other type of weed killer! If anything like that starts growing at my place, it’s getting the whole bottle of Roundup. Undiluted…Then, it’s getting burned. It’s possessed I tell ya, possessed!
Why are they keeping KUDZU indoors? o_o That house is gunna DIE.
“My philodendron!!!!”
(Katharine Hepburn as Bunny Watson in “Desk Set”, 1957)
This seriously looks like the set from Jumanji
It would be a great place to keep a chameleon. They don’t do very well if confined – this would give the little lizards lots of space.