Terrifying Video of Hideous Pulsating Diarrhea Sewer Beast Is Very Real

Sick video I found, guys!  Sick, as in, literally disgusting.  As in, giant bulging bulbous pustule oozing with feces that is living in our very sewers disgusting.  As in, hideous soul-wart of Satan growing and leeching and feeding on the flesh of dead rats and hobos though it sort of also looks like a big avocado seed disgusting.

On the ‘ternet yesterday, some speculated that this video of a festering, writhing, excrement-sucking herpefied-demon-womb-creature in a North Carolina sewer was some crappy stealth viral promotion for a movie or video game.  Today, scientists over at Gizmodo have confirmed it is very real.  Lock your doors, bar your windows, and never, ever stick your arm down into the flushy drain part of your toilet, kids.  Video and description, ATJ:  

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.

It starts out focused on the baby blob, but partway through the camera roves to the much bigger mother blob.  Then, at 1:36, the cameraman pans back across the sewer and down and what’s that on my leg?… oh God, OH GOD it’s on me!!  Die, pulsating zombie prolapsed anus, DIE!  [Agonized scream, camera feed cuts.]

Source: Gizmodo.