davidkaneda:

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danhacker:

Those alien-like blob creatures growing in the sewers of Raleigh, NC that I posted about yesterday, they are in fact real. Scary, right?

DeepSeaNews.com sent the video to Dr. Timothy S. Wood, an expert on freshwater bryozoa and an officer with the International Bryozoology Association  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.”

(via:gizmodo)

The blobs are real, and sadly they are not of alien origin. They are however one of the most repulsive things I’ve ever seen outside of a Sci-fi movie. Good thing someone else discovered these, because my first reaction would be to kill them before they could destroy humanity as we know it. The fact these things are real and inhabiting the Raleigh, NC sewer system makes them even more disgusting. Time to filter that tap water people.