Tree Car Scent

The Midnight Article, "IS YOUR TREE CAR SCENT POISONOUS?" was written by u/YourLichKing and posted on r/Midnight Paper.

The text of the Article was as follows:

IS YOUR TREE CAR SCENT POISONOUS? San Diego, California - Fast food fries, wrappers, cigarette butts, empty plastic cups that use to hold your pumpkin spice latte are just some of the things that you can find in an average car. Some just clean the mess and move on with their lives, but as for others they want to just cover up the smell that is being produced.

That's the situation one resident took when he bought one of those cheap car scents in the shape of a tree to hang in his car. After days of no shows at work and family not being able to get a hold of him, his Mother had to finally call the police because 'A Mom just knows'. Later that evening police were tipped off to an abandoned car filled with leaves. When the Police finally showed up to the car to have it towed, one officer looked inside through the window only to turn and vomit from the gruesome display inside. "It was as if [the tree] it grew from within him, his mouth was stretched to the point it ripped open as tree branches were coming out. There were vines trailing under his skin down his arms til they had pushed out of his wrists, knuckles, and from his fingertips. The worse of it all was his eyes were looking directly at me for help." is what the officer had to report, shortly there after though the victim had suffered a heart attack from what authorities reported.

After a thorough investigation forensics reported that the tree shape car scent had small little pockets that "held something, like eggs, or seeds" but no seeds could be found on the car scent or inside the vehicle. The authorities are trying to find out the company responsible for creating this product but are now preparing for more cases like this one to surface soon.

Description:

The Tree Car Scent is an Object-Type Oddity in the form of a tree-shaped air freshener meant to be used in one's car.

It has the anomalous quality of causing the occupant (or occupants, as it's unknown how it affects groups) of the car it's housed in to grow a tree inside their bodies. Several vines were growing underneath the skin, until they pushed out through the hands (at the wrists, knuckles, and fingertips).

The article does not mention what kind of tree this was specifically, but, given the fact that the most famous tree-shaped air freshener is pine-scented, it may have been a pine tree.

The growth seemed to have happened slowly, as the occupant's eyes had a helpless expression.