A Michigan workplace gave the internet quite the scare when an employee shared photos of the hallways, covered from top to bottom with bugs. This wasn’t an average infestation one would see in a dirty kitchen; the insects were everywhere, all over the ceilings and floors as well. Needless to say, the pictures had tens of thousands of online users’ skin crawling.
“I end up covered in them head to toe when I blow the outside of the building off!” exclaimed Reddit user Spectralcolors78, the worker who had the nightmare-ish pleasure of dealing with the hordes of bugs at his work. He continued: “Today I had to use a snow shovel to clear the 8-inch piles of them in front of the outside doors. Wish I was joking!”
A Lake Behind the Michigan Workplace Is the Cause for the All the Bugs
If the inside of Spectralcolors78’s workplace wasn’t icky enough, he claims that the outside has ten times as many bugs, swarms that allegedly appear in millions. “The lake behind the building is loaded with fish!” he wrote, which would explain why the local ecosystem has so many bugs.
A commenter remarked in agreement, “Sign of a healthy ecosystem/body of water nearby,” they wrote, identifying the insects as mayflies. Another Redditor added in response how these particular insects aren’t dangerous since they don’t bite; on the flip side, they’re objectively gross and allegedly smell like “dead fish” after dying.
Plenty of people were grossed out and appalled by the scene. “No, thank you. It would absolutely terrify me if they all started flying around,” exclaimed an understandably disturbed individual. “Bro’s working in Exit 8,” laughed another user, referring to a viral Japanese indie video involving a hallway of seemingly never-ending spine-chilling horrors.
“These things legit gave me PTSD when I worked at a gas station. They’re the reason for my bug phobia,” remarked a third. “That’s disgusting. This post made my skin crawl,” wrote a fourth.
This mayfly infestation wasn’t this Michigan employee’s first rodeo. “We had a severe spider infestation last year. Giant wolf spiders that could run across a ten-foot span in the blink of an eye! That was horrific,” he recalled. Considering how a wall of harmless mayflies terrified thousands of Redditors, a horde of spiders would surely cause many to “nope” out of there.
