Screaming tree looks like something from your worst nightmares

 By 
Sam Haysom
 on 
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LONDON -- There's something deeply unnerving about non-human things that have disturbingly human features.

The creepy tree pictured below stands outside a retirement home in Sussex according to damienslash, the Reddit user who shared the image on Thursday.

Now, imagine being a resident in that home and peeking out of your curtains to see this.

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Not too bad, right?

WRONG.

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If we had to guess, we'd say the tree probably slipped through from a significantly darker alternate dimension. Or maybe it was beamed down to our planet by aliens in order to keep watch over the human race.

Either way, it's seen things.

Horrible, horrible things.

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