What is this thing, WITT, Is a reddit page that exists so you can get a huge number of people to look at your mystery object, in hopes that someone around the world will see it and identify it

this thing was found near railroad tracks. That might mean it's related to something about trains and railroads, or it could just be something off of something that was on a train, or used while working on the railroad

https://www.reddit.com/r/whatisthisthing/comments/hpk6oo/a_rusty_hook_of_some_kind_found_by_a_railroad/