15+ Weird Things The Internet Had Little Difficulty Identifying

You would think that you would know what's attached to your own shower head, but for renters, sometimes previous tenants leave odd things behind.

In this case, it turned out to be an attachment that supposedly infuses the water with vitamin C for some reason.

Woah, that's quite the mystery. And yet, even the charred remains of a truck explosion could be identified by the community, who informed alorew that it's the inside of a former catalytic converter.

This intricately designed object might have been standard issue for soldiers in a certain time and place, as it's an Ottoman gunpowder flask.

As a couple of people were able to identify, it's the horn button from the British car maker Austin. Kind of a random thing to find in the woods of BC.

Those with some Scandinavian ancestry might recognize this: the symbol in the middle is a valknut, and it's surrounded by the letters/runes in the Elder Futhark alphabet.

The specific symbolism behind the valknut has been lost to time, but it's theorized to be associated with mental binds and death.

Actually, this person's guess was pretty close! This device is a short hand spectroscope, which is used to visualize the light spectrum of substances.

Looks kind of like those old school wooden ice cream paddles, except for the one end with the little tines. Someone managed to identify this as a "novelty bean spoon." The idea is that you put the solid end into the bean pot, and all the farts climb up the ladder and out of the pot. No, really.

It's not an air raid shelter, but the old ice house at Clifton Hall in Nottingham, U.K. I wonder if it could be used as an air raid shelter in a pinch, though?

You probably wouldn't recognize this incredibly specific tool unless you've had cause to use one before: It's a cleaning tool for record player needles. That little mirror has a magnifying effect too make sure you don't miss a spot.

Without the blade, it's easy to miss that this is an exacto knife. It just has a pin vise attachment in it rather than a blade.

Okay, I would have thought this was some kind of nutcracker or hammer, but I would have been wrong. It's a bottle opener.

You might think you'd see this truck at an Easter parade, but nope, it has a useful purpose beyond that. It contains equipment to test soil for things like water content, soil type, seismic activity, and so on.

The cross on top contains a testing rod and the machinery, often hydraulic, that pushes it down into the ground.

Sorry, ProfessorWednesday, but Reddit has bad news for you: that's evidence of termites.

Still, better to know so you can do something about them rather than letting them go about destroying your home for who knows how long.

This is some understandable confusion. This person's downstairs neighbor has some exercise equipment that straps around a door.

It's just that usually you use an inside door, not one that opens onto the world where anybody could just unbuckle a strap and ruin your day.

Well at least it's something that belongs near the ocean - this is a clutch of whelk eggs, which is not nearly as gross as it could have been.

Welcome to Australia, where you can find random clusters of spider eggs like these. Yum.

The only good part is that the spider that laid them, the Bird-dropping Spider, isn't deadly to humans.

Well, that's not entirely wrong, it does look like something out of Star Wars, but it must have been ahead of its time, because this is a vintage electric hot washing machine.

Okay, that seems like an alarming thing to discover in your son's bed, but it's thankfully harmless.

You know how some stuffed toys have speakers that can play voices, Teddy Ruxpin style? Yeah, it's from one of those.

Good question, as the beach, at water level, seems like a slightly odd place to situate a concrete building, for rather obvious reasons. When it was operational and upright, this building would have been a military defense point known as a blockhouse or pillbox.

Well, if you have Turkish ancestry, you might be able to recognize this tool for delivering deliciousness: it's a vintage Turkish coffee grinder. Mmmm.

While the object does look mysterious and magical, it was identified pretty quickly. It's called a ceremonial chonta, used in energy healing. Probably a replica, though, as they're pretty common in souvenir shops.

To me it looks like the beach version of a crop circle, but no. This is the aftermath of a scientific clam survey, where clams are dug up for research and study.

Spoiler alert: it's not a kettle. Please don't drink anything that would come out of this.

It's actually a portable male urinal, usually used by bedbound patients. Hope it's sanitized if you plan on keeping it.

No, this is not a new evil god that's come to destroy us, it's actually a form of caterpillar!

Known as a monkey slug, this little horrific buddy will turn into a hag moth. This one is actually stuck on its back though, and instead of helping, they took a picture, how rude!

It really doesn't look like you wanna be on the bad end of the thing, but it's actually harmless! Just an old tool for removing the tops of soft boiled eggs.

Now this one is kind of spooky regardless of its purpose just due to it being made out of teeth, but it's interesting all the same.

That being said, its origin is rather mundane. A dentist popped into the thread and said these are almost definitely denture teeth, not real teeth, due to them being embedded in acrylic used for making dentures. It was just a piece of art made by a bored dentist. They need to let out their creativity sometimes too!

These are actually really pretty, but they're not some sort of mystery currency. They're novelty coins you can get from some Catholic charities or relief agencies, usually as a thank you for donating.

I'm glad this person asked this question, because I think if I saw this I'd automatically assume it was a prop or something, but apparently it's totally functional! Wrenches this big were used on bolts for towers or for farm machinery repair, among other things.

Finding this just randomly by the ocean would feel like either an omen or a blessing, depending on your outlook. This item does have a rich history thought, it's a statue of Olokun, who is an orisha spirit of the Yoruba religion. These statues are almost exclusively kept in the water as a part of ceremonies, which is why they'll sometimes wash up elsewhere.

What an ominous thing to say without any elaboration, grandpa. It's not a cursed artifact like the warning would make you believe, it's an Aztec calendar! It's likely just important to the guy, which is why he didn't want anyone messing with it.

I can only imagine how strange it must be to find a mystery contraption in your home. Will this thing hurt you? Probably not, but it's in your space and that's enough to feel weird. Luckily, this one is actually helpful. It's a termite indicator, meant to help identify and eliminate termites before they become a problem.

Now off the bat this looks like the inside of some nightmare creature's mouth, but actually it's...well, it kind of is that. This is the fossil of a black drum fish's mouth, a fish that does still exist today. And yes, the inside of their mouths are filled with so many teeth. Too many teeth, one might say.