Strange smell in my room
 

One day i came home, walked up into my room and remarked a weird smell... it smelled a lot like feces, diahrea even. I had a bit of a cold so i just ignored it, figuring that i either passed gas or was just hallucinating. The next morning i woke up (having forgotten about the smell, to which i just got used to and ceased noticing) and i smelled it again. It smelled like shit, not very potent, but like shit.

This continued for a few days, every day i would spend atleast 30 minutes searching my room, sniffing everything trying to figure out where it was coming from... I never found anything that smelled funny, except for the air itself... i checked the basement, the attic, the bathroom, everything.

I later remarked that the smell seemed to be strongest near the CENTER OF MY ROOM. the absolute center, as if there were some spirit hovering around in my room making it smell.

People told me it was probably a dead mouse, but i found that to be a stupid suggestion, especially since the walls didn't smell. Over the course of a few days the smell got a little more rancid and irritated my nose a bit, it was starting to smell a little more like sewage or something rotting.

all the sudden this morning it went away... completely. still don't know what it's from.

the scary part is, last year around this time my grandmother died of intestinal cancer. During her last months she was bed ridden and was losing control of her bowels which often carried the same odor.

Whenever i think of this in combination with the smell, my eyes start to water and i have this inexplicable impulse to cry.

Another thing that was interesting is, the smell seemed to decrease and increase in severity over the course of the few days, and a few times it was actually stronger near my bed than near the center of the room. This was generally in the morning.

now, near the center of the room is where i usually sit all day (infront of my computer). and quite obviously i spend my nights in bed.

My quick cure......stop jerking off so much?..or ummm get some air freshaners!

weird man. did anyone else ever smell it? if it ever comes back again i would ask someone else to try and smell to make sure it isnt just you. having a cold, i thought you would loose your sense of smell. maybe it just your town fertilizing. when my town fertilizes i have to close my window because the horse shit smell drifts into my room.

Hmm, I was in a similar situation once.

I woke up very early in the morning and smelled something terribly nasty and wonderd what it was. I approached my desk lamp to turn on the light and felt something wet and squishy under my feet on the carpet.

I found out the cat took a shit there.

Then I spent the rest of my morning soaking my foot in hydrogen peroxide.

Hmm. Have you been wiping your ass regularly?
Hey, it's more parsimonius than a constantly shitting granny-ghost coming to visit you. I mean, c'mon. Clean your room! :crazy:

i understand how you would think that, but my room is perfectly clean, i'm very neat like that. and the smell is back a little bit.

i'm tellin you, the chair or bed don't smell, so don't tell me i farted.

and yes, everyone smells it

Maybe you just need some Febreeze.

I had something like this happen in an office. It was an overheating UPS battery, which was venting sulfur gas. Took several days to track that one down!

OMG that is happening in my office now and its a pain in the ass.....it took us about 3 days to figure it out and track that crap down to....I say try some febreeze or something, or try burning some incense(however you spell the sucker) GL on that one dude

we had the same thing in our office....it was a dead squirrel

lol.. hmm, what's a UPS battery?

i've had a lightbulb break at school one time - it smelled like sulfur... i recall it being different, but it can't hurt to try...

since i don't know what a ups batter is though..

Uninterrupted Power Supply

its like a power strip (but way larger) and it also stores power so when the electricity goes out your comp doesnt suddenly turn off on you and you loose everything

ah, well i don't have one of those, i just have a surge protector that i've had for 8 years

yeah.....my electrical wires burnt once....very bad smell

Or you could have a poltergeist visiting

I farted in your room while you were at school. Sorry.

I hate when that happens.

could be the last moments of your dying relative with the most vivid sense you have of him... the smell of shit

It happened to me once, it's from the wet laundry I left in the washing machine for two days...
Even though the laundry was properly washed, rinsed and EVENTUALLY dried, it still generates a really nasty smell AFTER it's dried...
My father actually told me my room smells like shit literally.. :p
I only got rid of the smell after I used some really powerful laundry booster.

Now, I would never leave my wet laundry for more than a day again.

I've heard that in Asia, disembodied sickly sweet or putrid smells are often associated with the presence of evil spirits...
(no offence to your granma though; I'm sure she was a lovely person :) )

Cheers

All I can tell you is look for built up greese anywhere in pipes or by the window. Check next door if you got a cow living there ;).

All I can say is ya, check for a pipe leak of even a little hole in the wall somewhere letting air from outside which could be smelly. If you really can't find anything wrong I would suggest you get the old sovel get the to basement and dig, dig, dig, never know if theres a body under there ;). I remeber when I use to live in a house where some guy got assassinated. Didn't find out till years later... Thank goodness.

If you have a dog look under your bed, long time ago found a little gift there, that explained the smell of shit. :P Wish you the best of luck on finding the source.

Jeez.. that's strange.

Did you find the problem yet?

The cure is . . . stop eating so damn many beans.

..umm..just ..and here i'm going to have to go all 4th grade..groooosss! but seriosly..what was it?

Are there any drains in/near your room or by heating vents?

I think it is likely that some sort of pipe or wiring system is present under your floor. If a septic pipe has a slight leak in the center of your room, that would definitely explain the smell. If the leak was clogged and the crap dried, it would cause a stoppage of the smell, and then if part of the crap broke off and it leaked a little more, that would also provide a less smelly recurrence of the odor.

I'm no plumber or anything, but that's my take on it.

I have heard that a sewage vent pipe will do that. Some houses have these and they can even be in the wall where you can't see tham.

Don't they make electronic odor identifiers?
You could look around for one of those.

Yeah, they do, but those are really, really expensive... :\

It could be from your computer, which is from the center of your room. If something has burned out, or overheating, it could make a bad smell.

Sounds like a shit demon to me.. :hmm:

hiro..why do you want us to buy dogma dvds?

weird smell in room= unwashed skidmarked boxers. Smells like feces? that should really narrow it down some.

I woke up one morning after a big night and the smell of shit was strong in the room. Yes, folks, I'd shit the bed during my drug induced coma. Shit was everywhere. I just threw the sheets away and had a couple of showers. That got rid of most of the smell.

Well my suggestion for your rancid washing is to clean the filter on the washing machine. its quite obvious its not draining properly during the rinse cycle, and therefore it quite literally is covered in old shit, and reeks.

Back to the point of the thread, I think if it were supernatural, then your grandma coming back to visit you could be accepted if you believe in the spirit world, but I hardly think she'd come back to shit the bed - I think she'd prefer for you not to remember her for her last days - perhaps the mafia built your house and buried someone in the concrete? perhaps your computer has developed some kind of smellavision and, as the internet is full of shit, is mimicking the pungent odour of cack....

or perhaps i'm stark raving BONKERS!?

I had this happen in my room and in the end it was the switch. Untill the day I fixed it everyone kept saying it was me or my feet.

gotta hate the unexplained smell of shit in your room, thats wierd about the coincidence though

Maybe you need to brush your teeth? I don't know what it could be.

Thats freaky, one time it smelled terrible in my dad's office, we searched and finally under one of the file cabnets there was a big brown spot, we have pets, but how would they take a shit under the heavy file cabnet, funny, a little wierd but not much.