Flies In Next Door Vacant House

[Smokeahontas]

The house beside me has been lying empty for 2+ years now. No one has been near it to my knowledge.

Anyway, yesterday and today there’s been a sudden explosion of flies / bluebottles in the windows. Not just one or two - I mean buzzing with them.

Phoned the council who said ‘we’ll look into that’ but God knows when. The most obvious answer is a dead rodent of some kind, but what else could it be? I mean it’s quite random after so long.

We had this where I work, entire window covered in flies
Was indeed a dead body
Police did go and investigate once we reported it

Did the Council do anything Smokeahontas?

Just received a phone call from the council, they’re sending someon out to inspect the house this afternoon. Well, see what they can see from the outside. She’s going to ring me when she’s done.

Hopefully it's just a dead rat not anything worse

Friends of mine came home one day to find their flat filled with flies. Apparently they'd all suddenly hatched out of an old windowledge, due to appropriate weather etc. Hopefully just something like that.

Do let us know, I hope it's not a dead person or a pet.

I’m surprised the police weren’t more interested. But hopefully they will have alerted someone who can sort it for you.

Place marking.

It will be a dead animal, human or not. Hopefully, the larvae will have cleaned out most of the rotting flesh.
You could have just let the flies die out first.

Could they be cluster flies rather than bluebottles?

Placemarking!

My first thought was dead body but I watch a lot of grim programmes.

The lifecycle of bluebottles and other insects that feed on decomposing matter isn't that long. If you're sure your neighbour vacated the property and no one else has been in the house in two years it's extremely unlikely to be a dead body after this amount of time. You would have probably noticed it two years ago.

More likely to be dead rodents/birds that have got in or backed up sewage systems.

It’s worrying that I keep checking back for an update on this, as I hope it’s something interesting, but at the same time I hope it’s not a body found.

First thing I thought was dead body, but that's a gross overreaction. I'd call the council again.

Yikes.I hope it is just a dead rodent.

Maybe it was being used as a secret house for disgraced/turned spies or for surveillance and someone met a grim end. There's hoping.

Mysterious

I don’t think it’ll be a deceased person. I haven’t heard any noises etc next door to indicate anyone has been there. Some kind of dead rodent is my guess. Bird as an extreme. There’s def no smell permeating through the walls either.

So that all points to disgraced spies

Does the property have a chimney? We’ve recently had a bluebottle explosion in the living room after a bird obviously got stuck down our chimney and with all the hot weather produced a lovely crop of bluebottles.

I suppose it's not the right time for it to have been Santa...

Dead bird I reckon

As a pp said, one of my patients was discovered at home dead due to flies.

Again my first thought was how long it was not to be missed

They may have left bags of rubbish in there or food in the cupboards

My first though was a dead body, but that would be odd after 2 years.

Once I was part of an exercise group in the park, and there was a horrendous smell coming from an area of trees. A couple of the ladies were police officers and said it smelt like death, went to investigate and it was a rotting fox, complete with maggots I did not go to look!!

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