re: What's the worst smell in the world?

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There is a lot of catfish farming around my hometown in West AL. The farm behind my grandad's house had 3 ponds really close to the property line not far from the house. I don't remember what cause it, but they lost every single fish in those 3 ponds one summer. It was one of those smells like ammonia that you can feel penetrate straight to your lungs

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Cat food producers used to lease a cold storage facility for menhaden (pogies) on premises from the State Port in Gulfport. During Hurricane Camille in 1969, the facility got flooded and the State Port took the spoilt fish out of it and buried on the premises there and covered it with clay.

Fast forward about 30 years, some construction at the State Port accidentally broke into the fish vault there.

The smell of rotting fish stunk so bad that folks working in office buildings all over downtown Gulfport had to go home for days.

I've smelt burning human after a car wreck and fished a body out of the Mississippi River after it being in there a while and those were both pretty bad.

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