I was shocked to find life growing behind my electric outlet

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Life, this internet denizen has learned the hard way, sometimes continues inside the walls of a home.

A TikTok creator has gone viral for unveiling the strange situation she discovered inside her electric socket.

“I wonder how much of our wall they will have to remove,” reads the caption on a 29-second clip by one Gina DeVivo, which has accrued over 1.7 million views since being posted last month.

“Why, why do you do this?” the video begins as Gina’s sidekick unscrews the cover on an innocuous-looking electrical outlet.

“Because I want to know,” Gina responds, while the other individual subsequently sings “I wanna know, are there plants there,” to the tune of Phil Collins’ hit song “Strangers Like Me” from Walt Disney’s hit 1999 animated motion picture “Tarzan.”

“Oh it is a plant, it is a plant,” Gina and the other voice begin screaming as the wall cover falls off to reveal what appear to be two young sprouts growing out of the outlet and up the wall.

I wonder how much of our wall they will have to remove🌿

“Why is there plants growing in our wall?” Gina says.

The comments section is full of “Jumanji” references and both serious and not-so-serious guesses about what sort of specimen has taken up residence in the walls of the TikTok poster’s abode.

“Did someone plant somewhere in a half mile radius?” reads the top-voted comment.

“It’s the infamous power plant,” offers another viewer.

Multiple watchers chimed in to guess that the unwanted wall garden is composed of Japanese knotweed, a herbaceous perennial plant native to East Asia and known for spreading fast and causing homeowners much strife.

Although a far-from-ideal situation likely to require professional assistance, it certainly could be worse, or at least more extreme: Gina might have discovered an enormous cache of cigarette and Viagra packages in there, or a never-ending stream of acorns.