A viral Reddit post sent the internet buzzing after a user spotted something strange dangling from their ceiling. On April 15, Redditor Takuraiii_ shared a photo in the “What is it?” subreddit, showing a thin, hairless object poking through a ceiling panel. The simple caption — “Noticed this sticking out from my ceiling – what is it?” — was enough to spark chaos.
The post blew up with over 35,000 upvotes, as users rushed in to identify the mystery. When OP added that the object “moves,” the thread erupted with jokes, theories, and dramatic warnings. Many insisted it looked like a rat’s tail, but others offered wilder guesses: a possum, a giant lizard, even a harmless shadow.