Blood Mushroom

Someone on the StrangeArk email list passed along the URL to a listener's photo on the C2C site, of a "blood mushroom," a fungus that looks like it is bleeding.

This is actually one of the Hydnellum fungi, probably Hydnellum peckii, sometimes called bleeding Hydnellum, or depending on region and species, "strawberries and cream." No aliens here, just normal (strange) fungi.

Another odd tidbit: historically, the secretions from these fungi have been used to dye wool.