Curious driver’s sickening find sparks alarm

It’s the find that has horrified social media and drawn chilling comparisons to hit zombie series The Last of Us.

A curious Reddit user has recounted the nasty shock they received when they finally looked into the window of an apparently abandoned vehicle in the underground parking garage of his apartment building.

“Car parked in spot next to mine, hasn’t moved in months, thought they had some funky upholstery covers …” they wrote.

It turns out those “funky” car seat covers were actually a thick carpet of revolting mould that had taken over the vehicle’s interior.

The Redditor said the car was an old Pontiac parked in a garage in Toronto in the middle of winter and joked: “This is how The Last of Us starts.”

The Last of Us is a post-apocalyptic drama series set in the midst of a global pandemic caused by a mass fungal infection.

“I wiped the dust off the windows to take a better pic but if you look at the other windows on the passenger side, that’s not fog, it’s a solid layer of dust,” the Redditor added.

They went on to reassure those following along that the car had been reported to building management.

“Not sure what they’re (sic) policy is or what action they’ll take but yeah, I definitely don’t want it to be anywhere near my spot when someone finally cracks open that biohazard,” they wrote.

The post has inspired nearly 1000 comments — and nightmares — since it went live three days ago.

One person wrote: “My bet is there is a body in the trunk.” The Redditor responded: “Ngl the thought crossed my mind ????”

Jokes also abounded: “That makes me want to PontiYak”, “Hell yeah, pulling up in that Pontiac penicillin”, and “At least they have hand sanitizer in the back for when they return to it.”

While another saw the potential to earn some money from the gross discovery: “You should have sold it to the set designers for The Last of Us.”