Photos have emerged of a creepy wall filled with satanic messages as well as images of tombstones, dead bodies, and multiple references to death inside a former home of Victoria’s infamous mushroom chef.
A tradesman reportedly took the photos of the red, blue and black graffiti inside a Korumburra home previously owned by Erin Patterson.
“We started calling it the death wall,” the tradie who took the photo told news.com.au.
The wall included creative pieces of writing with lines saying: “You don’t long to live 1 hour exactly”, “Your dead from my sword” (sic) and “The words know you”.
Three tombstones had been drawn at the bottom of the artwork, with the inscriptions: “granma R.I.P” and “Me R.I.P”.
Two weeks ago, Ms Patterson invited her ex-Simon Patterson, his parents (her children’s grandmother) Gail and Don, as well as Gail’s sister Heather Wilkinson and her pastor husband Ian to her home for a “mediation” where she served a beef wellington.
Mr and Mrs Patterson and Mr and Mrs Wilkinson fell violently ill several hours after eating the meal, which police suspect contained poisonous death cap mushrooms.
Don, Gail and Heather died within days. Ian is in a critical condition in need of a kidney transplant.
Her ex-Simon Patterson did not attend the meal.
The trade claims he was called to the property to paint over the wall so the house could be sold.
“I’ve looked at it and gone, holy sh*t, what the hell’s going on here?” he said.
“I went, this is actually really scary for kids to do this inside the kitchen-dining room. I didn’t think it was right, it looked scary. It just didn’t look right to me as a parent.”
The 46-year-old said it was eerie and he was struck by the references to death.
It took him four coats of primer undercoat and two coats of wall paint to cover up.
Another tradesperson who saw the wall told news.com.au: “You’d think they’d be drawing flowers and unicorns, not gravestones and death. I was surprised, but at the time I didn’t think anything more of it. It’s a bit weird but I see weird sh*t every day.”
Ms Patterson told him she had left the house and the children, believed to be in years 7 and 5, created the artwork while she was out.
The 4 x 2 home was sold for $545,000 on August 2022 according to realestate.com.au.
Erin Patterson, in a statement sent to Victoria Police last week, said the mushrooms were a mixture of button mushrooms bought at a supermarket chain and dried mushrooms bought at an Asian grocery store.
“I am now wanting to clear up the record because I have become extremely stressed and overwhelmed by the deaths of my loved ones,” Ms Patterson said in the statement.
“I am hoping this statement might help in some way. I believe if people understood the background more, they would not be so quick to rush to judgement.
“I am now devastated to think that these mushrooms may have contributed to the illness suffered by my loved ones. I really want to repeat that I had absolutely no reason to hurt these people whom I loved.”
Ms Patterson said she was also hospitalised after the lunch with bad stomach pains and diarrhoea.
She said that she was put on a saline drip and given a “liver protective drug” before being taken by ambulance from the Leongatha Hospital to the Monash Medical Centre in Melbourne on July 31.
Her children were not at the lunch because they did not like mushrooms.