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Some of the creepiest places in the world are old caves and abandoned mines. You wouldn’t think ghosts and ghouls would enjoy hanging out in dark caves when there are plenty of houses ripe for haunting, but a wealth of photographic evidence suggests otherwise. I guess it makes sense when you consider how many people have lost their lives working in old, unsafe mines.

Over the summer, Redditor Ecocide and his friends unknowingly came across a cave-dwelling ghost. The group was preparing to explore an abandoned mine in Australia when they decided to snap some pictures.

At first glance, this photo looks completely ordinary.

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But take a closer look at the opening…

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Do you see what I see?

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If you ask me, there appear to be two eyes looking at the hikers from within the cave.

When the photo is enhanced, you can clearly see the shape of something hiding out down there.

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It’s looking right at you.

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Judging from the comments, Ecocide and his friends made it out of the mine alive…but what the heck was that thing? Maybe it was just a trick of the light, or some very skilled photo manipulation. Either way, I’m thoroughly creeped out.

Have you ever gone back to your childhood home and realized how different it was from what you remembered? Maybe the new owners put up a fence or repainted the house, which would explain it. The difference, however, usually just comes from us being older and wiser.

But what if you went back to visit your childhood home and discovered something that had been there all along, but that you had never noticed as a kid growing up. That’s exactly the situation that Redditor Elvecio found himself in earlier this week.

After not living there for 12 years, Elvecio returned to his childhood home to see it one more time before his parents sold it.

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While exploring the nearly empty house, he found his way to his parents’ old bedroom.

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“The old closet looks a lot bigger than I remember,” Elvecio thought.

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On the inside wall, however, was a door Elvecio didn’t remember being there. When he was a kid, it was just a regular wall.

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He had to open it and see what was behind.

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He found a creepy empty hallway.

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If the existence of a mystery hallway wasn’t bad enough, there were also a bunch of locked doors in it.

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Elvecio’s father was well aware of this secret passage and intentionally sealed it off before Elvecio was born. At least that’s the official story…

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(source Reddit)

That is terrifying on so many levels. Just imagine being a little kid and accidentally stumbling on a secret, creepy hallway in your own home. That would have been traumatic. Still, I think accidentally discovering it years later isn’t much better…

If you remember the old TV show House, you know that there are a lot of terrifying, obscure diseases floating around out there.The only good thing about them is that they’re pretty rare.

But sometimes, you’re the unlucky person who happens to catch one. That’s something Redditor gullibletrout and his wife learned the hard way back in 2010.

In 2010, these mysterious black spots began appearing on his wife’s hand.

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They started out small, but kept growing.

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At first, they thought that the growths were blood blisters.

They even started spreading to other parts of the hand.

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Wart remover didn’t do anything for them.

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Eventually, they decided to seek medical help from a plastic surgeon.

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The doctor promptly removed the growths.

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Here’s her hand after the procedure was done.

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The spots have not reappeared.

The physician believes that these were pyogenic granuloma.

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They can be caused by irritation, physical trauma, or hormonal imbalances. This woman’s case was likely caused by a switch in birth control pills. The good news is that they’re harmless, but in some cases, they have been known to grow back.

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Even though they turned out to be nothing, can you imagine how scared she must have been when these things started taking over her hand? It’s amazing (and completely unsettling) to think about what our bodies are capable of.