Amorphous blobs in the sewer under Raleigh, NC

**the_mango55** · July 02, 2009, 02:10 PM

Video taken under Cameron Village shopping center in Raleigh NC (where I spent 4.5 years in college)

Scientists believe it to be a collection of thousands of tiny worm like creatures working in unison.

Very weird looking, especially the first one. Looks almost like the pipe has a beating heart.

**CtrlAltDe1337** · July 02, 2009, 02:33 PM

Gross. I wish they would stick a knife in it and see whats inside.

**Playfishpaste** · July 02, 2009, 02:43 PM

The news says it's just a bunch of seafaring small things. However, do ya think it might be possible for pinworms on a massive scale to do this?

**il padrino** · July 02, 2009, 02:58 PM

Dear God,it almost seems as those Zerg eggs,you had in Starcraft,or even this

**the_mango55** · July 02, 2009, 03:13 PM

Crap I just noticed that other thread.

Merge this one with that.

**Markas** · July 02, 2009, 06:42 PM

This...isn't a fake?

**Thanatos** · July 02, 2009, 07:27 PM

It could quite literally be a mutation of a frog cluster egg.

See, what happens is that the babies are laid in these clusters of eggs, from which they eventually pop out of and live their lives as baby tadpoles.

However, given the amount of chemicals and waste products that pass by in the sewer, it's quite possible they mutated, thus having the eggs conjoined, and eventually merge into one big sac.

What's required is to take one of these back to some lab and watch it for a while. If nothing happens, grab a HAZMAT team, take it to a sterilized location, and dissect it. It's probably just a huge mutated tadpole.

**Don in the North** · July 02, 2009, 07:56 PM

im gonna be skeptical about the whole 'thousands of worms working in 'unison' " theory untill one of them is disected.
worms dont have eyes so why do they react to minor artificial light? sunlight i can understand but that light isnt nearly as bright as the torch i use at home

**C-Rob** · July 02, 2009, 08:08 PM

... disgusting. But crazy awesome! i want one.

**Markas** · July 02, 2009, 08:11 PM

It's the friggin' real-life sequel to Cloverfield. I still don't buy it.

**the_mango55** · July 02, 2009, 08:19 PM

I saw this quote. Not sure if it's real but it's not sensational enough to think it's fake.

The crew at DeepSeaNews.com sent the video over to Dr. Timothy S. Wood, an expert on freshwater bryozoa and an officer with the International Bryozoology Association (what fun parties they must have, eh?), and he had this to say about it:

Thanks for the video – I had not see it before. No, these are not bryozoans! 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. The contractions you see are the result of a single worm contracting and then stimulating all the others to do the same almost simultaneously, so it looks like a single big muscle contracting. Interesting video.