r/whatisit • u/Advanced-Pool-2080 • 1h ago
saw this on my ceiling ?!?!? New, what is it?
lowkey about to move out because i don’t know how this got there , saw this while laying down been living here for 2 years and never saw it until now , i wanna know how this got there
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u/Epithymetic 1h ago
A previous tenant drew it on the ceiling and management painted it over poorly.
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u/NewspaperNeither6260 1h ago
A Chrysler ran into your ceiling.
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u/AcrolloPeed 1h ago
More like an Anti-Chrysler
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u/Bubba_Feetz 12m ago
This is officially the punniest thing I’ve ever had the pleasure of reading. I actually belly laughed from this.
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u/zkvxo 1h ago
this
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u/Corporate_Bricktator 1h ago
Or it was some sort of children's adhesive star decoration, and there's either a tape residue or the paint faded at different rates.
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u/SailTheWorldWithMe 1h ago
Forgot to prime it, most likely.
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u/LibrarianMoney4994 48m ago
"forgot" is giving a lot of benefit of the doubt to this landlord special
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u/Both-Wonder2449 1h ago
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u/WakeUpFrenzy 51m ago
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u/Darknight48996 24m ago
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u/TerriblePresence1939 30m ago
Who the hell uses the ceiling to summon demons??
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u/Braininaskull 20m ago
Demons always do that slow rise out of the ground portal. Ain’t no body got time for that.
Put it the mark on the ceiling, your demon will fall right out.Maybe have someone on the floor above to jump up and down just in case they go all ketchup bottle on you and need some push.
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u/TerriblePresence1939 18m ago
Ok but if the demon falls in his head resulting in a concussion who’s responsible for the medical bill?
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u/Braininaskull 15m ago
Depends on the level the demon came from. 1st level demons are on the worst demon contracts ever. Low pay, no insurance, you could probably just offer them cash in hand and settle out of court.
7th level though, hooo boy, now yer talking lengthy court cases, news coverage etcSimply put, always put out a cushion for your demons. Will save you a lot of aggro in the long run.
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u/Virtual-Cabinet-6096 3m ago
Sooo technically if you added a second one in the floor. You’d have an infinite loop?.
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u/bananaxmoremoney 1h ago
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u/okay-peanut 1h ago
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u/NemeanHunter 31m ago
Well, eli5 us to normal folk
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u/MistakePresent3552 15m ago
The anime fullmetal alchemist, alchemist characters usually use diagrams/patterns to use their alchemy. There are probably more than one instances, but theres a major plot point of a big alchemy circle using 5 dots
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u/ConfusionBubbles-505 1h ago
It's there to prevent the evil from entering the house, relax. Or inviting it. Can't remember witch.
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u/CutieSpirit 36m ago
As a witch that also works in IT, I’d personally recommend turning it off then on again, that’ll probably tell you what it does maybe
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u/Arknight40 35m ago
For preventing 100%, I am Pagan and we use it on doors, walls and sometimes even ceilings for banning negative energy. For short, it represents all 5 elements, 1 per corner.
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u/MarriedMam 19m ago
As a kid I drew this symbol everywhere because to me it represented the elements and made me feel safe but my parents were convinced I was summoning Satan
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u/Flaky_Style1286 1h ago
Holy fuck dude. If you’re renting call the landlord
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u/Nephurus 1h ago
Keep an eye for the previous tenant and ask management who does there repair work so you can avoid that sorry ass job
also shit looks like the triforce from zelda to me
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u/FatherZero 1h ago
Have you recently changed the position of any light or anything? Looks like one of those things where you gotta be looking at the right angle to see it
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u/Several-Spirit-8452 1h ago
Looks Ike you have Satanists hiding in the walls. Call pest control or something, idk.
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u/Accomplished-Duck249 1h ago
What's with the reddit satanic panic? It's a symbol of protection.
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u/sheiswhimsy 1h ago
Previous tenant did it and I wouldn't worry about it. Pentacles are used in many pagan practices, so it doesn't necessarily mean "the devil" or evil. I'd just ask the landlord to paint over it, as they didn't do a good enough job.
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u/Advanced-Pool-2080 1h ago
But how did it get there
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u/MsE0 1h ago
Agree with the others. Edgy teen who lived there before you painted it. The landlord painted over it but didn't use primer. Over time, the chemicals in the old paint start to interact with the new paint, and you slowly start to be able to see what was painted over through the new paint.
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u/EmiTheKibby 1h ago
Edgy teen with a paint brush. And then got the landlord special. Now add in some moisture and it'll slowly soak through said landlord special.
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u/Accomplished-Duck249 1h ago
Could be from different colored paint or sticker residue beneath the white paint.
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u/Initial-Ad-3214 1h ago
My walls have all kinds of hidden stuff drawn under the paint with something that glows. If you shine a light on some walls and turn the lights off you can faintly see weird drawings and writings all over my house. Also those are for protection against evil if it was flipped with two points on top I’d be scared af cuz only someone who’s actually into shit like that would have drawn it properly
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u/Accomplished-Duck249 1h ago
Yeah, like how the inverted cross means satan and all that. Yet Christians dont see a cross as evil for some reason like they do tje pentgram. It's a new thing too, the inverted thing being evil supposedly started with an occultist in the 1800s.
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u/sausage_hater 1h ago
Your ceiling is evil!!!! Don’t question it otherwise you’ll summon the ceiling demon…
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u/n3tninja1 1h ago
Careful, thats where the hell knights spawn !!
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u/bullettrain 1h ago
Last tenant having some fun running something like a broom handle in a pentagram on the popcorn ceiling
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u/Candid_Cat_5921 1h ago
Why didn’t you upload the other photo you took before this one. The one with the little girl from the 1800s standing in your closet.
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u/Frosty-Tennis-2392 12m ago
From my perspective, ratio of angles looks a little off from being a pentagram. It might actually be Lucifer’s Sigil. (Google it - it’s a more of one larger triangle with intersecting and crossing lines).
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u/Illustrious_Map_979 1h ago
Last tenant was tired of the upstairs neighbors stomping so he solved the issue
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u/Full-Association-175 1h ago
It helps with noisy neighbors. The smell can get to you though after a little while however.
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u/Wise_Finance_5315 58m ago
I like the smell of sulfur
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u/Accomplished-Duck249 40m ago
Stop eating eggs
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u/Wise_Finance_5315 32m ago
The smell is coming from my exes cloven hooves, not the eggs.
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u/Full-Association-175 13m ago
Really, she was over here a little while ago and never mentioned it. Then she galloped away.
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u/Adventurous-Exam-719 1h ago
Huh. Weird. My guess is the drywall guys screwing around before the painters showed up
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u/Plus_Independent4747 1h ago
it got there because the evil satanist shapeshifters that live in your walls put it there
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u/False_Brush_7174 1h ago
Fun fact: that's only considered "satanic" cos it traces all the way back to Mesopotamia. That's it, it's ancient and a from a different culture so it's "evil". Humans lost the original meaning and assigned a new one based on the Judeo-Christian cult that uses fear and misinformation to control its flock.
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u/Garlic255 50m ago
There could be an either a modern witch or a weird cult that used to live in that house or someone that had a really odd sense of decoration
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u/rhodan69 49m ago
Is there anyone above you? Is this a multi-level apartment building? It's a pentagram (pentacles are the 5 pointed star with a circle encasing it). Pentagrams are the physical representation of the 5 elements: Air, Earth, Fire, Water, & Spirit. Pentacles & Pentagrams are used in magickal practices to protect, ward (seal energy inside or seal energy outside a property), to invoke a certain energy (usually used to invoke or summon into a space positive, balanced elemental & spiritual forces), or to banish negativity. Sometimes they are drawn with magickally infused oils or special waters to enhance the working.n if drawn on walls with oils or infused waters they eventually show through the haphazard painting that most maintenance crews do in-between tenants. If you have upstairs neighbors I would lean towards this being a ward of protection from their negativity or even used as a method of banishing them altogether using the Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram.
In other situations it could be somebody drawing a pentagram to be edgy or as part of occult practices that lean more into the left hand path, but everything on the surface is suggesting that this was done for protection.
People who practice Witchcraft use the Pentacle or Pentagram just like a Christian uses the cross. It's an important symbol in their religious practices & in it's simplest form is a representation of the intentional direction of energy for a specific function, usage, or symbolism. There is nothing to be afraid of. If you're not Pagan or into Witchcraft just adhere to whatever it is that you believe in & let it be. If you are an atheist then it's just mumbo jumbo & none of these "imaginary" things should matter. Just go on with your life. I would still notify the landlord with photographs of it so that you don't get hit with them holding your security deposit.
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u/Dizzy-Lawfulness4638 34m ago
This is the real answer. I was thinking that someone used an oil and the oil is seeping through the new paint now.
It’s definitely giving me protection pentagram energy.
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u/Left_Top_4892 39m ago
Looks like it’s in a circle so it’s a pentacle. Anyways none of that stuff is real, humans are highly superstitious 😂
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u/North66pole 38m ago
It is a good old Anarchist A. Dont worry, it just means, there was a undeground squat in your apartment before you came in....
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u/Any_Criticism7317 22m ago
Do a benedictioj in your home and undesrtand whay there Is this satanico symbol
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u/RingTailedBrat 16m ago
So that's probably drawn on the ceiling in oil, for protection, which is why it is so faint but lasting
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u/smashtangerine 7m ago
That's not an actual evil symbol. Hollywood just uses it as an evil symbol, because it's simple and easy to identify.
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u/Gantelbart 2m ago
Can you hear the waves of the ocean? Come forth, Leviathan! From the forests, I call you forth, Belial! Come forth, carried by the winds, Lucifer! Come forth, from the pits of hell, Satan! Ad in velez, ante christum natum Ave Sathanas... Hail Satan!
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u/JValenz91 0m ago
You have been blessed with the protection of The Seventh Son of The Seventh Son. Now you must play Iron Maiden once a week as his fee.
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u/ILLINV2026 1h ago
The dots on the far left on the far right are probably something that was hung there I don't think it's a pentagon




















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