A woman has recalled her horror after discovering what appeared to be human hair hanging from and shoved deep inside the exhaust pipe of her car.
There was enough black, brunette, blonde, grey, and highlighted hair to fill up entire rubbish bag, and caused so much alarm that she called police in to investigate.
Deborah Lieber made the distressing discovery over the weekend, and watched on in panic as an officer removed the hair and kicked around the pipe in search of bones and other remains.
“We couldn’t tell if it was from a human, an animal, beast, a bunch of dolls, or if it was a wig,” Ms Lieber shared to Facebook.
“The officer kicked it around and found no bones or other parts that would indicate it was once alive.”
When suspicions of foul play were ruled out, the mysterious occurrence was chalked up by the officer to being a “weird prank”.
“He took a report and promised extra patrols in our neighbourhood. He said it was the weirdest prank he’d seen yet,” Ms Lieber said.
“Personally, my thoughts went straight to all the scary movies and crime podcasts I’ve ever experienced, but that’s just me.”
Still dumbfounded over the mortifying, she decided to take investigations into her own hands.
Soon after, she discovered the true cause of her car’s unsightly ponytail.
“After a little internet research, it turns out that it was actually MUFFLER HAIR,” she revealed.
“Apparently (rarely) when mufflers are about to break, some start to shed the material that muffles the sound and it comes out of the exhaust pipe looking like hair.
“So protruding muffler hair is a thing I guess? It’s the weirdest darn thing I’ve ever found, that’s for sure.”
Almost 2000 readers responded to the post, many shocked at how strikingly similar the muffler remnants were to human hair, and others saying they too learnt about it the hard way.
“This happened to us a couple years ago. we thought it was some idiot trying to mess with the car until we did a bit of research and talking to other car guys,” one comment read.
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“That is the creepiest thing I’ve ever seen, and I would’ve been so freaked out,” another wrote.
“I just can’t get past the way it looks like human hair! I would probably get that brown strand tested because I’d want to know if muffler manufacturers are using human hair,” a third said.
Countless others said they had contacted police after seeing what they thought was human hair protruding from a car’s exhaust, only to later realise the muffler was to blame.
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