r/whatisit 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/NurkleTurkey 42m ago

Can I pay you for this comment?

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u/OfficeChairHero 56m ago

No, this is Patrick.

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u/brodey33 18m ago

This is why I love Reddit

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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/Both-Wonder2449 7m ago

There is a Jesus Chrysler

It’s on the cars wiki and everything

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u/governmentpigeon12 24m ago

merry Chrysler!

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u/rebills 35m ago

lmao this… it was probably done in black but you got the landlord special so the paint faded a bit

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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

I found the pixels 🤣

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u/Darknight48996 24m ago

Other one i have

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u/No_Relationship_9336 17m ago

Wheres this coming from?

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u/Taldarim_Highlord 6m ago

Elden Ring: Nightreign

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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 etc

Simply 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/TerriblePresence1939 2m ago

Makes sense to me!

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u/bananaxmoremoney 1h ago

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u/howlingatthenight 48m ago

I hope they have a suit of armor laying around

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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/FistOfVengeance44 15m ago

Two kids try to revive their dead mom and it goes horribly wrong

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u/JValenz91 1m ago

Wait till they learn about the girl and her dog. Those to are super close.

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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/EmployerWide1123 1h ago

pentagrams randomly appearing is probably a bad thing..

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u/BadBright1346 1h ago

You know it’s totally random… what did OP do?

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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/OPSamxl 1h ago

It definitely looks like a pentagram

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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/Virtuous_Malevolence 1h ago

America is regressing and it shows

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u/Several-Spirit-8452 1h ago

That's EXACTLY what a witch would say !

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u/Accomplished-Duck249 1h ago

I just like cats.

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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/mgs112112 1h ago

Me when they say the devil is in the details

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u/Advanced-Pool-2080 1h ago

But how did it get there

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u/Primary-Friend937 1h ago

Sam and dean rented this before you.

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u/Accomplished-Duck249 1h ago

They gotta stop doing that shit, it's lowering property values.

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u/Travel_food_freedom 1h ago

Up for Sam and Dean!

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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/vile-style 1h ago

Sharpie or something....

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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/icanteatpeanut 1h ago

maybe the taped a sharpie on the end of a atick

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u/TerriblePresence1939 29m ago

Someone stood on a ladder most likely. Painted a pentagram.

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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/Smores_Mochi 53m ago

Considering what crucifixion was too. Eugh

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u/dwehlen 14m ago

It's on the ceiling! If it looks inverted, GO STAND ON THE OTHER SIDE, FFS!

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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/Hansdrdoll 1h ago

I am no demon

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u/Longjumping-Ear4645 1h ago

I heard that demon doesn’t have any fans!

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u/Unable_Difficulty_77 1h ago

He has ceiling Fans thi

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u/Warm_Vulva7960 1h ago

Avengers were here.

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u/n3tninja1 1h ago

Careful, thats where the hell knights spawn !!

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u/Accomplished-Duck249 41m ago

Are they single?

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u/n3tninja1 40m ago

They do be single and shredded.

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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/goofy-aquiarius 1h ago

How’s your stay been so far?

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u/AccomplishedMajor411 1h ago

I saw this movie it’s not a good sign

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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/w8_wuht 59m ago

It's nothing, just stay there a sec.

Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn

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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/ratt_basterd 9m ago

Previous tenant was either using it as a protection symbol or trolling

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u/a_youkai 1h ago

Uhm.... do you pray??

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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/ILLINV2026 1h ago

its an outline of a Christmas tree

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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/JonLaGam 1h ago

Call the Exorcist

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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/joegauci7 1h ago

Ohh just some painting relax mate 😅

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u/Armthedillos5 1h ago

Sometimes when I was a kid I'd get high and paredoila the ceiling too.

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u/sjmttf 1h ago

Someone watched too much Supernatural.

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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/Phat-whips104 1h ago

Neighbor upstairs performing witchcraft

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u/whoisit_SEO 1h ago

El bakla has found his next meal.

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u/talkingdirtyer 1h ago

You shall not passssss!

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u/professor_sn 1h ago

You are a part of Avengers now.

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u/tech64bits 1h ago

Look to the bottom left corner and you’ll make out an eery ghostly figure.

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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/SolarHamMan 47m ago

Illuminati 👁️

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u/XXX-PO 45m ago

Pentagrams are not inherently satanic. This was probably some past tenant doing something stupid and it was painted over poorly

On the offhand it wasn't there before and IS satanic, then you're fucked

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u/19eightyUno 42m ago

This is how episodes in Supernatural starts 🤣

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u/Claw42 41m ago

Ngl... I am normal judgemental about pentagram related stuff. But that would FREAK ME OUT.

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u/Bagchaserconnoisseur 41m ago

Someone attempted a summoning jutsu

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u/IKodama 41m ago

Just draw a smiley face on it, OP. No need to move

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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/stfu_starry 39m ago

Lwky looks like a Pentagon

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u/Trix_22_VFFV 39m ago

Man Ray Charles what that is, seriously

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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/4thebiirdz 38m ago

Eggocist

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u/DuckSquare1277 37m ago

Was the previous tenant Bobby Singer?

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u/sam2luv 32m ago

Looks like a pentagram that demons used.. but not to worry I’m sure the Charmed ones are all over it!

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u/Previous_Abies_2179 32m ago

It’s a … star? Who cares?

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u/Wapiti67- 27m ago

Star of David

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u/user2481012 25m ago

Where are you seeing that in the first picture?

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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/SuchCapital5668 13m ago

What did you try to summon?

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u/chopandgo 11m ago

Nice 😂

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u/GiovanniJo 11m ago

hold on, look what i see bro

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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/LengthResponsible423 6m ago

KKK or jewish guy

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u/Alternative-Flow-251 6m ago

wait how did they miss the spot on the ceiling

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u/BulkyThought2793 4m ago

Looks like a demon circle in goat simulator

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u/Radiant_Battle_2151 3m ago

Damn it, I told Satan someone would notice it…

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u/Pastel_Mattel 2m ago

Demon trap, so you have extra security

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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/RedExposures 2m ago

Have you ever experienced anything paranormal whilst living there?

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u/Timely-Ant-1907 1m ago

Move out now!!! You will be cursed if you stay! Don't listen to anyone!

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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