Woman spooked as walls start leaking ‘blood’ – with some convinced it’s ghosts

Lexy Chidester was left horrified when she noticed red liquid dripping down her bathroom walls – and people online are convinced it’s ‘blood’ and the work of ghosts

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TikToker finds blood-like ‘goo’ leaking from her walls

A woman was left creeped out after she discovered her bathroom walls were leaking a strange red liquid that people online are convinced must be “blood” – with some saying it must be the work of ghosts.

Lexy Chidester, 30, first noticed the liquid trickling down her wall when it appeared next to her bathroom cabinet and trailed over the nearby plug sockets. And while she initially dismissed the bizarre finding as a stain made by her “messy” brother, the woman became more concerned the following day when the red mark doubled in size – making the wall look as though it was “bleeding”.

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Baffled by what she was seeing, Lexy took to her Instagram account (@lexyraye) and shared a video of her wall which has since been viewed over 6.2 million times – with commenters telling her it’s “time to move” as her house must be haunted.

One person said: “Time to move.”

As another added: “You need to leave, Satan is coming for you.”

And after posting the viral clip, Lexy made it her mission to discover exactly what was happening to her bathroom, and even ordered an at-home mould test kit to make sure the red liquid wasn’t a health concern.

The college counsellor from California, US, said: “I filmed the video to get someone’s opinion on what it was, and what to do because I didn’t understand what it was. I spoke with a plumber who talked me through what I was looking for in the pipe system if it was a leak.

“I climbed into the attic and looked for similar coloured goo or wet areas. I got an at-home mould kit to test for mould. There was a discussion of cutting into the wall, but that was the absolute last resort! I am not a handy person to know how to fix leaks, cut into walls, and check house wiring.

“After talking with my family, and ruling out everything it couldn’t be using deductive reasoning, the only place really unexplored more closely was the cabinet itself. It was the only thing that made sense.

“There weren’t pipes in that wall, the wood wasn’t ‘bleeding’ that same liquid, there was no trace of it in the wood frame, the attic was dry, the cabinet was the only place that made sense. My brother got pliers and helped me pull the metal back to see if there was anything under where the metal sheets overlapped.”

Thankfully for Lexy, the mystery was solved when several commenters on her Instagram video told her that they had experienced similar issues with their walls – and the root of the problem was rust, not blood.

She added: “It was explained to me that condensation mixed with years of rust and no ventilation – my bathroom doesn’t have a fan – can cause rust in cold metal to liquefy; something I did not know before all this!”

And although the “blood” has been explained by science, some people online aren’t happy with the sensible answer – as they’re still convinced there’s something supernatural going on.

Someone commented: “Still doesn’t rule out ghosts.”

As someone else said: “Well, I’m sticking around! Now we need to know if your bedroom is haunted.”

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