Horrified hiker stumbles across alien creature that 'smells like rotting flesh'

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the Mirror reports.They also added that the smell - which they compared to 'death' - was eye-wateringly strong from a metre away, The user added that it was also attracting flies, and people said it reminded them of something from Resident Evil or Stranger Things.But one viewer was actually able to identify the bizarre being as aseroe rubra, a fungi more commonly known as a 'stinkhorn' in a nod to its foul smell.It's said to 'bear its spores in a brownish slime which smells of faeces' to attract flies for pollination.Many people agreed with the assessment, and another asked: "I have a couple of these f***ers in my yard, my question is can you burn them with fire or how else can you eradicate them? "Standard weed killer?