I found this weird thing on the side of the road and immediately thought it was some animal’s brain . I gently poked it with a stick and looked closer. Inside — lots of little segments, rubbery in texture, and with a very strange smell . I was about to call the police when I suddenly realized what it was It turned out to be… (continued in the first comment ) I was walking along a country road, suspecting nothing, when out of the corner of my eye I saw something odd lying by the roadside. Grayish, slightly squashed, with winding grooves. Curiosity got the better of me — I carefully poked it with a stick and looked closely. Inside were many little sections, like a sliced-up brain. The texture was rubber-like. Awful. Honestly, I shuddered. I thought: “What if it’s a brain?.. Maybe from an animal? Or — terrifying to think — a human?” My heart started pounding. In fear and confusion, I took a picture of it and posted it online with the caption: “What is this? Found it on the road. Looks like a brain. Should I call the police?” The comments came in quickly. Some said it might be a mushroom. Others guessed it was the insides of a wild animal. But one woman — who, judging by her profile, had several dogs — cleared it all up. Her answer was simple and devastatingly accurate: “You found and opened dog poop. Someone’s dog ate a bunch of paper towels. Dogs can’t digest that — so it comes out as this… terrifying creation.” I felt both embarrassed and amused. Embarrassed — for my wild imagination. Amused — because I almost called the police over a poop stuffed with paper towels.