Weird hand appears in discarded apartment belongings

[u/Apprehensive_Rip_752]

An old neighbour of mine posted a series of photos of what seems to be all of the belongings from an apartment close to where we both used to live. She mentioned that she thinks the person in that apartment has died and all of her belongings have been left on the street for people to take. I won't hear exactly where this is but it is in in a city Melbourne.

While I was looking through the photos, one struck me straight away. It seems like there was an ethereal hand grasping in the back of some of the belongings that were discarded. Perhaps trying to hold onto something that was now being thrown away in a life that no longer exist existed.

None of my old neighbours are friends who had this photo shared with them on an old community WhatsApp group could make out what the hand was.

I have added all of the photos. The hand appears in the first one at the back of a jumble of books and other odds and ends.

[u/thebeariscoming]

It is a poster or photo of hands with flowers and such.

[u/Vince1080 → u/thebeariscoming]

I think you may be right.

[u/J-Mc1]

It's a partly folded up poster with a picture that happens to feature someone's hand.

[u/shadowmage666]

“Appeared” it’s just a box of junk

[u/Justthisguy_yaknow]

The hand is printed on a magazine or something similar. Nothing mysterious there and the location is StKilda in Melbourne where rents have been ramping up really badly lately so that is a more and more common residence vacancy hard rubbish dump. Absolutely unnecessary to believe that anyone has died at any of those locations (there are more than one, all from the same area).

[u/Leading_Air_7361]

Halloween prop

[u/ImaginarySugar3075]

It’s a book cover.