Sewer Creatures

Posted by Miss Cellania in Animal, Video Clips on July 1, 2009 at 9:07 am



(YouTube link)

This sewer-cam video from Raleigh, North Carolina has been inspiring nausea all over the web. Deep Sea News contacted experts to find out what kind of creature this could be.

They are clumps of annelid worms, almost certainly tubificids (Naididae, probably genus Tubifex). Normally these occur in soil and sediment, especially at the bottom and edges of polluted streams. In the photo they have apparently entered a pipeline somehow, and in the absence of soil they are coiling around each other.

Read more about annelid worms and see more videos, if you have the stomach for it. Link -via a comment at Digg


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26 comments to "Sewer Creatures"

  1. Sadie
    July 1st, 2009 at 9:53 am

    Why aren't I grossed out that much? Dunno. I do wonder why they all spasm at once. It looks like a beating alien heart.

  2. Namowal
    July 1st, 2009 at 9:55 am

    Yep, looks like clumps of annelid worms.
    When I worked at a tropical fish shop we'd sell them by the ounce for live food. Rumor was that they were harvested from sewers. They certainly smelled that way.
    We stored them in a litter box full of water in a refrigerator. They clumped together into a carpet of sorts, which tightened when disturbed. Part of the day's work included scooping them up with a NyQuil cup into little baggies for sale.
    Heaven forbid we'd get a bad batch that died. It smelled even worse and the water turned blood red.

  3. neo
    July 1st, 2009 at 10:09 am

    It looks mutated, lol..

  4. Simon_Says
    July 1st, 2009 at 10:16 am

    Hmmmm.... looks yummy!

    Just put some catchup on them and there you are: the solution to world hunger.

  5. health
    July 1st, 2009 at 10:44 am

    First it was in NYC, then Denver, now NC?

    My god, doctor. The only thing that could spread that far in 48 hours is... Viral marketing!

  6. DannyArcher
    July 1st, 2009 at 10:58 am

    looks like Swedish meatballs in Ikea.... yummy. Taste like Chicken!

  7. TerraByte
    July 1st, 2009 at 11:42 am

    That reminds me, my doctor wants me to get a colonoscopy.

  8. Gail Pink
    July 1st, 2009 at 12:40 pm

    Without even playing it I'd say it looks like somebody's scrotum. Pretty scary!

  9. Dude
    July 1st, 2009 at 1:47 pm

    Barnacles in development like from HL?

  10. dbond
    July 1st, 2009 at 2:00 pm

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tubifex_tubifex

  11. Evangeline
    July 1st, 2009 at 2:04 pm

    that does not look pleasant

  12. LisaL
    July 1st, 2009 at 2:16 pm

    BLEH

  13. Mince
    July 1st, 2009 at 2:19 pm

    That's just some old fashioned bath time fun. Someone splashing cold water on grandpa's testicles.

  14. What...?!
    July 1st, 2009 at 3:52 pm

    Would you eat an entire clump for $1,000,000?

  15. J.Mo
    July 1st, 2009 at 3:54 pm

    Are they in a membrane? do they create their own membrane?

  16. dooflotchie
    July 1st, 2009 at 5:20 pm

    A sewer-cam...how elegant!

  17. anony
    July 1st, 2009 at 7:14 pm

    For some reason this joke came to mind...

    Little Johnnie's teacher asked him how his weekend was.

    "Horribly, a car hit my dog in the ass," he said.

    She said, "Rectum."

    "Wrecked him?" Johnnie said. "Damn near killed him!"

  18. Gorf
    July 1st, 2009 at 10:43 pm

    And we couldn't let this one go without saying:
    "I, for one, welcome our new tubificid overlords"! :D

  19. poopballs
    July 2nd, 2009 at 12:23 am

    ew, that is completely disgusting...
    and to think that it's where i live.
    i was completely shocked when i started reading the description that it was in NC. gag.

  20. Ali S.
    July 2nd, 2009 at 12:33 am

    I love the fact that just a few days ago every YouTube "professor" and "scientist" out there was screaming that they know it's fake because they can see the "strings".

  21. Robolasse
    July 2nd, 2009 at 2:38 am

    It would be cool if they formed a human face.

  22. Absent
    July 2nd, 2009 at 4:38 am

    They are in fact CHUD embryos.

  23. ted
    July 2nd, 2009 at 7:16 am

    Someone posted their vasectomy?

  24. Shurik
    July 2nd, 2009 at 3:44 pm

    BURN IT WITH FIRE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  25. taliesyn30
    July 2nd, 2009 at 4:29 pm

    Errrhwhehehaychchchchhch, yeeeurrrughhhhhawupsy, kajagooggogogogogoogsplurgh

    Oo, that's better....

  26. RaveDodgers
    July 2nd, 2009 at 4:49 pm

    How has nobody called this yet?

    It's clearly a viral, a very good viral but a viral none the less. surely the holding page gave the game away?

    It's promoting the sequel of a Japanese horror flick called The Host.

    Did nobody else spot the wiki links all updated the day the video appeared?

    Check out this cached page here:

    http://209.85.229.132/search?q=cache:VIEpv-zUAqwJ:blog.steventroughton smith.com/+The+website+it+links+to+in+the+description+%28http://www.uf oradar.com/%29+is+a+placeholder.+So+I+investigated:+The+same+user%27s+ favourited+videos+on+YouTube+are&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk&client=firef ox-a

    Which was obviously taken down at the studios request, but none the less it's a nice bit of work!


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