Creatures from the Sewer
The latest viral video is from the sewer under Cameron Village in Raleigh, NC. The mysterious creatures found are nothing short of disgusting and spectacular. This video has made its way to Video Sift and various cryptozoology sites. Speculations on the nature of this creature run from bryozoans, cnidarians, slime molds, and some mysterious alien creature here to suck out our brains. Well let me say first that it is none of the above. I can think of no freshwater Cnidarian that looks anything like this. It lacks the characteristic delineations that would indicate individual zooids in the colony and frankly the retracting of finger-like tentacles doesn’t seem like a bryozan characteristic (see the pictures at this site). In fact, I have poked a lot of invertebrates as lab instructor for invertebrate zoology and as a graduate student just for shits and giggles and none of the mentioned candidates would respond like this. So back to square one…
You shouldn’t trust me however…you should trust an expert in one of the aforementioned groups. Enter stage right Dr. Timothy S. Wood who is an expert on freshwater bryozoa and an officer with the International Bryozoology Association. I sent along the video and this was his reponse…
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.
More video of Tubifex
Date Posted: June 30, 2009 at 4:36 PM
June 30, 2009 at 5:18 PMThere’s a WHAT is the sewer system?! – My Les Paul Forums
[...] Originally Posted by Luke122 WTF is that? Creatures from the Sewer | Deep Sea News [...]
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June 30, 2009 at 5:23 PMwtf are they? – Order of the Blue Gartr
[...] Creatures from the Sewer | Deep Sea News They're big blobs of worms. [...]
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June 30, 2009 at 5:34 PMJason R
The first video is giving me an error saying it is not publicly available.
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June 30, 2009 at 5:59 PMMegan
Here is a new link to that video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELoqZiamr4E
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June 30, 2009 at 6:17 PMCaleb
here is the mirrored version
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcKpx2DxGwY
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June 30, 2009 at 6:22 PMDr. M
Fixed video, should be up now. Thanks for the heads up
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June 30, 2009 at 7:13 PMKill it with fire. – SECTalk Forums
[...] A lot of people are agreeing with this aquatic specialist, but there are some conflicting reports. Creatures from the Sewer | Deep Sea News [...]
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June 30, 2009 at 7:29 PMWeird Sewer Creature | Up Till One
[...] Full article Share/Save [...]
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June 30, 2009 at 8:32 PMChris
HA you can’t figure out what it is because its COLONOSCOPY film! DUH!
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July 1, 2009 at 2:29 AMchnceg
It’s not a colonoscopy film. There are concrete walls in the video. I don’t think it’s Tubifax worms either, but I haven’t really looked.
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July 1, 2009 at 2:41 AMMare Magnum | La criatura de las alcantarillas de Carolina del Norte
[...] Deep-Sea News se han puesto en contacto con el doctor Timothy S. Wood del departamento de Ciencias Biológicas de [...]
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July 1, 2009 at 5:21 AMTriangle Roundup – July 1, 2009 | Reinventing Yourself…
[...] Creatures from the Sewer! …Deep Sea News A story like this was bound to spread beyond Cameron Village. [...]
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July 1, 2009 at 7:13 AMMr Magoo
Erm, does anybody else find this mildly erotic or am I in the minority?
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July 1, 2009 at 8:45 AMsewer rat
Yikes, hopefully Mr Magoo is in the minority
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July 1, 2009 at 9:07 AM57States
The minority. Which is probably still large enough to sell videos to for a nice profit.
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July 1, 2009 at 9:16 AMspaceghetto
if they are not 2 different species in these videos, they are in different stages of life. the sewer blob looks like a slimy hive. you can see it contracting and expanding with the whole blob.explain the barb looking “nail”. very interesting indeed
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July 1, 2009 at 11:57 AMJim Lemire
Clearly the videographer here is not trained in zoology – otherwise we’d have images of the whole blob in a jar of formalin! Identification would then be much easier.
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July 1, 2009 at 12:07 PMLes
Doesn’t look the same to me. It seems like they would prefer to be under the water as opposed to being just above the water line. The clump in the top video seems to be very solid or is it covered with a layer of slime?
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July 1, 2009 at 12:22 PMCthulhu
I’m still gonna go with shoggoth spawn.
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July 1, 2009 at 12:47 PMDisgusting Sewer Creature Update: IT’S F#$%ING REAL! [Science] | MyElectronicsGuide
[...] crew at DeepSeaNews.com sent the video over to Dr. Timothy S. Wood, an expert on freshwater bryozoa and an officer with the [...]
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July 1, 2009 at 12:48 PMCharleton Heston
Someone needs to remove one of these clumps and dig into it with a knife so that we can get another video. Or better yet, go down there and cut into it “in situ”. Now that would be fun to see.
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July 1, 2009 at 1:01 PMSteph
Chris, it’s definitely not a colonoscopy. Have you ever seen one of those before? Just look at google it and look at the images, it looks NOTHING like this video.
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July 1, 2009 at 1:58 PMNew Life Form found in Sewer? – MONTREALRACING
[...] same almost simultaneously, so it looks like a single big muscle contracting. Interesting video. Creatures from the Sewer | Deep Sea News __________________ And you're watching http://www.PCMTL.com : Driftmania : On Fire Buy PCMTL.com [...]
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July 1, 2009 at 2:11 PMFreaky in Raleigh! « jimcofer.com
[...] thanks to this site for the [...]
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July 1, 2009 at 2:12 PMslongo
Chris
It is certainly NOT a colonoscopy film. I hope you were joking and we just didn’t get your humor. Otherwise duh.
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July 1, 2009 at 2:25 PMBunkerBill
Take no chances! Send R.J. MacReady down there with a flamethrower.
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July 1, 2009 at 2:27 PMDesayunando en la alcantarilla con tubifex – Ojo Cientifico
[...] Norte nos dirigimos, concretamente a Cameron Village, donde en una alcantarilla han aparecido unas formas de vida singularmente extrañas, húmedas y fundamentalmente asquerosas que (obviamente) han sido confundidas con formas de vida [...]
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July 1, 2009 at 3:31 PMScotty A
Jim Lemire
Make your own smegging video, then!
sheesh.
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July 1, 2009 at 3:49 PMUnknown Lifeform in North Carolina Sewer – AionSource.com
[...] Bryozoa Work ? The Blogs at HowStuffWorks I'll see your Bryozoans and raise you Tubifex worms. Creatures from the Sewer | Deep Sea News __________________ Follow me through the doors of [...]
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July 1, 2009 at 4:34 PMEthan Stroup
Has anyone considered a mutated variety of sea slug? That would explain the existence in the sewers, and the wierd brain-ishness. It’s possible it was exposed to air and evolved to undergo this strange mutation.
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July 1, 2009 at 4:36 PMUpdate: Sewer Monster is Not Viral Marketing, Still Creepy. | HorrorsNotDead.com — My favorite Horror Movie blog for OVER NINE THOUSAND years running.
[...] camp believes it to be slime mold, the second believes it/them to be fresh water bryozoan. The third camp believe it is a species of Tubifex worm that have taken to living in a [...]
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July 1, 2009 at 4:50 PMDisgusting sewer monster in NC- we’re all doomed. – Cadillac Owners Group
[...] they bunch together in colonies and feed with tiny tentacles. Case closed again? Nope. Deep Sea News weighs in on that theory and says "No way". [...]
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July 1, 2009 at 6:48 PMTwitted by PinkTentacle
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July 1, 2009 at 6:49 PMDisgusting Sewer Creature Update: IT’S F#$%ING REAL! | Gizmodo Australia
[...] crew at DeepSeaNews.com sent the video over to Dr. Timothy S. Wood, an expert on freshwater bryozoa and an officer with the [...]
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July 1, 2009 at 6:54 PMAlien ?
[...] Creatures from the Sewer | Deep Sea News wait….maybe it IS an alien… Mgalekgolo – Halopedia, the Halo Wiki – Halo, Halo 2, Halo 3, and more [...]
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July 1, 2009 at 7:48 PMAdopting Two July Webkinz! :D | Webkinz Ganz World
[...] Creatures from the Sewer | Deep Sea News [...]
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July 1, 2009 at 8:37 PMDisgusting Sewer Creature Update: IT’S F#$%ING REAL! [Science] | Today News, Technology, Wordpres
[...] crew at DeepSeaNews.com sent the video over to Dr. Timothy S. Wood, an expert on [...]
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July 1, 2009 at 10:31 PMMeeeeekon
I want it’s babies , i don’t care how…
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July 2, 2009 at 12:52 AMdeeply disturbed
I hope your colonoscopy doesn’t look like this chris.. but if it does, i suppose you could always profit off it through folks like mr magoo…
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July 2, 2009 at 5:23 AMJ.C. Denton
Unfortunately the video material isn’t of high quality, but it seems like these “things” are not individual Worms moving. I’m a computer science student and have NO clue about biology at all. The only thing I can do is perform an analysis on the video material itself. As much as I’ve seen yet (with bare eyes) the surface structure stays relatively intact before and after contractions. In that Tubifex video above I saw individual worms slowly “breaking out of the formation” at times though. Further I didn’t see that much slime in the Tubifex video. That slime must be of protective nature I think. Guess one species cannot adapt so fast (produce slime the next day)…
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July 2, 2009 at 6:01 AMTwitted by dek_1
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July 2, 2009 at 7:24 AMSewer Monster Turns Out To Be Tubifex tubifex | Doodie Pants
[...] Timothy S. Wood from DeepSeaNews.com says this: Thanks for the video – I had not see it before. No, these are not bryozoans! They are [...]
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July 2, 2009 at 8:34 AMlapsap
OMG!! ZERGLINGS ARE MAKING THEIR NEST!! PREPARE FOR A STARCRAFT INVASION!!
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July 2, 2009 at 9:02 AMCaptain Skellett
Woah, freaky stuff. Very cool. It’s spooky the way it all contracts, and it totally reminds me of those brain sucker things from… some old video game… I can’t remember. But the screen used to go green and it would suck your health out when they jumped on you.
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July 2, 2009 at 9:09 AMMutant Goo in the Sewers | A Schooner of Science
[...] Deep Sea News posted the video above the other day – very cool, very disturbing stuff. Basically it’s like a gob of goo found in a sewer which contracts and has tentacle-like things all over the place – but if you want a technical discussion on what it actually is you should click through to them. Gross, but cool. I noticed Sci at Neurotopia picked it up too Definitely worth a look. [...]
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July 2, 2009 at 10:30 AMcleek » Throbbing Underground Monsters
[...] But, sadly for Apparently, they’re not alien or unknown, they’re Tubifex worms. [...]
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July 2, 2009 at 10:43 AMUna colonia de anélidos en el desagüe | eleZeta – Blog personal de Lucas Zallio
[...] unos días se publicaba un video de una criatura desconocida en una alcantarilla en el estado de Carolina del Norte. Se trataba de una masa viscosa que parecía [...]
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July 2, 2009 at 11:19 AMConfusion In The Sewers! « What’s All This, Then?
[...] another scientist said no way to bryozoans. DeepSeaNews interviewed Dr. Timothy S. Wood, an expert on freshwater bryozoa and an officer with the [...]
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July 2, 2009 at 11:33 AMCalling the SyFy Network (again)…. « The B-Masters Cabal
[...] Creatures from the Sewer [...]
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July 2, 2009 at 11:34 AMJABOOTU the bad movie dimension » Blog Archive » [UPDATE] Calling the SyFy network!
[...] Creatures from the Sewer [...]
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July 2, 2009 at 11:36 AMSweet Uncle Lou’s Thursday Roundup: The “Procrastinate Like It’s Friday” Edition
[...] In case you were wondering what it’s like to share a bathroom with Rothschild, now there’s video out there. [...]
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July 2, 2009 at 12:30 PMzer0nix
i don’t see how these could be tubifex worms; how do you explain all the slime?
also, notice how the whole mass is still until it suddenly contracts when the camera is centered on the mass. the masses always contract in a similar pattern and somehow these ‘constricting worms’ are sucking up the slime around them instead of pushing slime away.
i’m not saying this can’t be real -it would be a delight to find these are worms growing and harvesting bacterial sludge (? -actually it looks more like a slime mold) for food. however, the more likely answer is that this is a viral video for some special effects company looking to make a minor splash.
it should be relatively simple to construct a prop like this. it is some sort of soft, gelatinous material -such as silicone or latex- resting in slime or liquid contained within a latex skin that is either molded or sprayed onto the construct. a pump at the back suctions material out to make the whole mass constrict. put a fake eye in the middle with mechanically operated eyelids for maximum gross out effect.
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July 2, 2009 at 12:50 PMDr Serizawa
Aliens don’t come here to suck out our brains. They come here to mate with our women. Please keep this straight in the future. Thank you.
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July 2, 2009 at 1:03 PMPatrick Haverkamp (alphakamp) ’s status on Thursday, 02-Jul-09 18:03:16 UTC – Identi.ca
[...] http://deepseanews.com/2009/06/creatures-from-the-sewer/ [...]
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July 2, 2009 at 1:12 PMN.C. Sewer Monster is the Summer’s Susan Boyle
[...] theory was disputed by DeepSeaNews which said that no, it is not bryozans, instead it is “clumps of annelid worms, almost [...]
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July 2, 2009 at 1:49 PMp4limpsest
@Captain Skellett. I’m pretty sure you’re thinking of the Metroid game in one of it’s incarnations.
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July 2, 2009 at 2:43 PMtyujikorf
J.C. Denton: It might be that the worms aren’t strong enough to “break formation” unless they are in water.
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July 2, 2009 at 2:47 PMtyujikorf
Also you can see a lot of wiggling around if you watch it in full screen
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July 2, 2009 at 3:04 PMAnatoli
Haha, Raleigh, NC? R’lyeh, anyone?
No connection, obviously, but it’s still a cool coincidence.
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July 2, 2009 at 3:07 PMUnknown life form caught on this video (inside a sewer). What the hell is this? – Page 2 – Ajarn Forum – Living and Teaching In Thailand
[...] same almost simultaneously, so it looks like a single big muscle contracting. Interesting video. Creatures from the Sewer | Deep Sea News __________________ We must not confuse statistical probability with some transcendental and [...]
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July 2, 2009 at 3:40 PMKeal
I don’t see anywhere where anyone has retrieved a specimen and verified what exactly it is yet. It seems that they haven’t even been verified yet that they are even biological.
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July 2, 2009 at 3:43 PMTwitted by sfishe
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July 2, 2009 at 4:07 PM¿Qué es esa horrible masa palpitante que hay en el alcantarillado? (ING)
[...] alienígenas: "Es un grupos de anélidos, casi con toda seguridad tubifícidos" -> deepseanews.com/2009/06/creatures-from-the-sewer/ Más: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/5723019/Video-Pulsatil sin comentarios [...]
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July 2, 2009 at 5:55 PMScience in Society Blog
So That’s What Grows in the Sewer……
Have a look at this video showing some not-so-everyday-lifeforms from the bowels of the Raleigh, NC sewer:
The Deep Sea News blog contacted an expert in invertebrates, who offered his opinion – they’re annelid worms, also known as the sl…
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July 2, 2009 at 6:06 PMMoon
I owned a lot of tubifex worms in my life. They all ball up like the third video. I’ve never seen them do anything like the first video.
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July 2, 2009 at 6:07 PMUnknown Lifeform in North Carolina Sewer! – Beast Toast
[...] worms. But, I'm just going off the website linked at the bottom. YouTube – Tubifex tubifex [...]
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July 2, 2009 at 7:24 PML’orologiaio miope » La “Cosa” da un’altra fogna
[...] ipotesi interessante viene dal Dr Timothy Wood (Fonte: qui, ripresa da [...]
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July 2, 2009 at 7:58 PMkfoster
Hello–Seeing the video and reading the comments regarding the Cameron Village video reminded me of a strange encounter my family had several years ago in Duck, NC. I hope that the Deep Sea News Team can help us determine what it was that we saw. One evening after a major storm we went out to do a little beach combing. Midway down the shore we saw a softball sized pod propted up on a dune. My husband knocked it down and we examined it closely. It was dark brown with the texture of a leathery orange, in fact we thought it might have been one discarded into the ocean and petrified. We were convinced it was old fruit and just to prove it my husband pierced with his pocket knife. It oozed a bright orange liquid, almost like a yolk. Then something inside it moved. We all screamed a little and kicked it back into the ocean.
When we got back home I consulted some Oceanographers in Wilmington and they were able to tell me what it wasn’t: skate egg sac or turtle egg. So after this description can anyone tell me what it was? Thanks
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July 2, 2009 at 9:00 PMAndrew
if they are worms what’s with the disgusting walls around them those cannot be sewer pipes!
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July 3, 2009 at 11:09 AMTanneru
This is just another funny viral marketing gag to promote a new movie
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July 3, 2009 at 11:30 AMtim
its my personal opinion that it one of the very rare species of AHUWHWHHFAAAAAAAAAAAARHG!!!!!! RUN!!!!!!!!!
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July 3, 2009 at 2:30 PMLee
How do I get reid of them? I leave in a very old house and I need to change the leaking pipes but there is a puddle of water under the house with those things living there. Please someone help me.
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July 3, 2009 at 8:50 PME in MD
You will all become one with the Zerg.
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July 3, 2009 at 9:24 PMkittenkilla
you’s guys is dumb. wtf. of course they’re worms. sometimes things happen and people say stupid things about them, even if it’s not true. it happened now, and it happened with the bible.
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July 3, 2009 at 10:02 PMCriatura desconhecida filmada em esgoto | CeticismoAberto notícias
[...] de esgoto em Raleigh, Carolina do Norte, EUA.A identificação, feita pelo Dr. Timothy Wood a DeepSeaNews e também pelo biólogo brasileiro Roberto Takata ao Massa Crítica, já foi confirmada por Ed [...]
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July 3, 2009 at 10:37 PMUnknown lifeform in North Carolina sewer | forgetomori
[...] to the sewer pipes in Raleigh, North Carolina.The identification, made by Dr. Timothy Wood on DeepSeaNews and also by Brazilian biologist Roberto Takata on Massa Crítica, has been confirmed by Ed Buchan, [...]
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July 3, 2009 at 10:58 PMThe Alliterates » I, For One, Welcome Our New Insect Overlords
[...] weird as that seems, it turns out they’re just an ordinary (if gross) colony of freshwater bryozoans (try saying THAT ten times fast). Posted in Stan!’s [...]
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July 4, 2009 at 1:30 AMDarkWraith
ITS STARCRAFT !!!!!! RUN PEOPLE THE ZERGLINGS HAVE FOUND OUT WERE MAKEING A PART 2 TO STARCRAFT -.- WE HAVE 48 HOURS OF TACOS TO LIVE
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July 4, 2009 at 2:47 AMFunny Weird News
[...] aint no gator, but its still pretty weird! Unknown life form in North Carolina [...]
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July 4, 2009 at 2:55 AMmatthew
lol i realy want someone to videotape themselves kicking those and seeing what falls out
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July 4, 2009 at 1:10 PM…
Its a zerg infestation.
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July 4, 2009 at 5:44 PMZerg and Extragalactic Planet « IBY’s Island Universe
[...] cool stuffs. First, a cool video of a weird creature which I have no idea what it is. PZ suggests tubifex worms, [...]
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July 4, 2009 at 7:38 PMTwitted by Mehar
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July 5, 2009 at 1:08 AMZoology » Arts Council announces fall school programs – Corsicana Daily Sun
[...] Creatures from the Sewer | Deep Sea NewsIn fact, I have poked a lot of invertebrates as lab instructor for invertebrate zoology and as a graduate student just for shits and giggles and none of the mentioned candidates would respond like this. So back to square one… … [...]
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July 5, 2009 at 3:08 AMThe internets alphabet! « 冬眠中
[...] stands for viral tubifex worm colony vid. It’s pretty disgusting, but then turtle frogs are absolutely [...]
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July 5, 2009 at 4:30 AMCondensed Knowledge – July 5, 2009 – Lists – Raoul Pop
[...] Creatures from the Sewer | Deep Sea News [...]
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July 5, 2009 at 7:14 AMSunday brunch and your morning news at The Confluence: July 5, 2009 « The Confluence
[...] what the heck is that *thing* growing in the sewers of North Carolina? Man…they should pay better attention to whatever [...]
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July 5, 2009 at 8:46 AMlareth
I bet the Japanese are already figuring different ways to eat this.
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July 5, 2009 at 4:11 PMBeeTLe BeTHLeHeM NeuRoGRiLL » Blog Archive » In Diretta dalle Fogne
[...] seconda teoria nasce in diretta contrapposizione alle affermazioni di Thomas Kwak, e viene avanzata dal sito Deep Sea News, i cui autori riportano l’opinione del dottor Timothy S. Wood, della International [...]
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July 5, 2009 at 6:17 PMCreatures from the Sewer | Deep Sea News | Geeker
[...] via Creatures from the Sewer | Deep Sea News. [...]
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July 5, 2009 at 7:10 PMCBRNMarine
ill give you $20 to lick that
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July 6, 2009 at 2:03 AMAHHH!!! SEWER MONSTERS!!! » Fist of Blog- the shiny guy always worries
[...] to Dr. Timothy S. Wood, scientist guy: I had not see it before. No, these are not bryozoans! They are clumps of annelid [...]
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July 6, 2009 at 8:19 AMlareth
20 bucks to lick that? Too many choices to go down the two-minded road on that my friend.
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July 6, 2009 at 11:37 AMLee
Note the “tendrils” where the organism(s) meet the water. They look a great deal like a filter feeder’s “mouth.” I can’t imagine a colony having a shared system. Regardless of their function it seems unlikely they are a shared physiology.
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July 6, 2009 at 5:39 PMjlew
So after searching around on the matter it’s my opinion that tubiflex sounds the most viable explanation, however I also haven’t seen any pics/videos of tubiflex worms that look any thing like that. Possibly pure coincidence but not too far away on Ashe st, I noticed a plumbing crew with a robot camera as well working today (7/06)
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July 6, 2009 at 10:07 PMThe Creature(s) from the North Carolina Sewer
[...] experts queried by both Deep Sea News (where I found this gem) and ABC News (lots of good reporting here) seem to be agreeing that this [...]
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July 7, 2009 at 1:47 PMEduardo
Are you kidding me? The texture of the thing itself does look like it could be made of those tubiflex worms, but hell, not ONE is blatantly out of the whole. NOT ONE in probably thousands. If you see any video on tubiflex they look like worms in every single piece. There is nothing in these creatures that looks like a worm, not a single clue in all four (?) lumps we see. The last one in particular shows how not only the stuff around it looks more muscle like than worm like, but also how it works as a whole, and not a chaotic bulb of worms. The expert’s theory on tubiflex makes sense for the protuberance to move (they all react), but not for the ones on the wall actively holding and strengthening the rest.
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July 8, 2009 at 1:32 AMRSS_ AOB
LET IT GROW INTO A SUPER BLOB IT WILL EAT OUR SHIT!! GREAT FOR OUR ENVIRONMENT!!!
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July 8, 2009 at 7:36 AMCreature discomfort in the sewer – Front Page News – NewsSpotz
[...] called Cameron in North Carolina.It has certainly got the world of cryptozoology all a flutter. Deep Sea News has even sought the opinion of Dr Timothy S Wood, an expert on freshwater bryozoa and an officer [...]
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July 8, 2009 at 9:11 PMOdhinn
Could this be a colony of extremophiles? Such as subsurface endoliths?
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July 9, 2009 at 3:55 AMEine neue Lebensform? – Seite 2 – Forum des Virtual Racing. e.V.
[...] Deep Sea News has even sought the opinion of Dr Timothy S Wood, an expert on freshwater bryozoa and an officer with the International Bryozoology Association, who said: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 [video] 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. __________________ SF-Motorport Hochzeits- und USA-Reise-Blog 2009 [...]
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July 9, 2009 at 11:23 AMGeorge K
I’ve read/viewed just about every zoological book and forteana and/or text (in English, mainly) that has been published in the last 50 years or so or even later (this being my only claim to scholarship). There is no record of such an animal (or organism) as this that I can ever recall seeing or reading. This thing is very definitely new – and (worse?) it does not appear to be faked. One of the commentators on this video is definitely right – had the videographer been a biologist, they should have/would have ‘captured’ a specimen in a jar or container of formalin. Even a professional fisherman would have done that. Just send this video to a professional biologist, zoologist, paleontologist, zookeeper, museum person, fisherman or the like for their review and follow-up. A definite follow-up is strongly recommended for the professional! Again, this thing(s) does not appear in the records (to my knowledge) and needs further recording and study – preferentially by the professionals. No alarm is suggested until the results come back on this specimen. Further circulation of this video and images to non-professionals may be harmful to this study. In the meanwhile, if you are not one of the professionals studying this specimen, please do stay away if you possibly can…
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July 10, 2009 at 12:15 AMBeth
That just doesn’t make any sense, the pictures of the worms look completely different than the ones in the video… You could actually distinguish the worms in the picture, this is all over the wall! Like a slime, the worms in the pictures look nothing like slime when they are in blobs. Also in the other videos, the worms didn’t look like they moved all at the same instant…This is too confusing!
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July 10, 2009 at 12:16 AMBeth
Also, what do they eat? Do they not need any sunlight to live at all???
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July 10, 2009 at 10:47 AMsrmuerte
I know exactly what they are. Nice video Dr. M.
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July 10, 2009 at 2:25 PMGregory
You require more Vespine Gas…
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July 10, 2009 at 7:42 PMAMY
WOW.. ok first of all how can you not look past the slime and see the balls of white looking worms moving around.. I live in raleigh, and STATE STAFF BIOLOGIST comfirmed they were clumps of tubifex worms.. And yes such organisms exist. Alot think it’s bryozoans (which are known to clog pipes), but it isn’t. The only strange thing about it is how they somehow got into our sewer pipes..
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July 11, 2009 at 7:29 AMJohn
So your saying tubifex worms can create a thik slimey sack around the colony, thats has muscle reactive contractions to a hot light? Look closely at the edges of the slimey membrane that clings to the wall. Thats not tubifex worms hidden beneath making it move, but the membrane itself reacting. So your suggesting a ton of tubifex worms in fact created a living membrane (aka another lifeform) to surround themselves and hold them up against the pipe wall? Also, why hasn’t anyone collected one of these weird pods, and posted a video of an autopsy on one of them? That would be the quickest way to not only find out what it is, but to also dismiss the crazy alien theories. I mean come on people. Seriously? An alien lifeform come to earth and is easily found in a sewer pipe?
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July 11, 2009 at 7:31 AMJohn
MUST BUILD ADDITIONAL PYLONS!
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July 11, 2009 at 12:57 PMMark Ames
As a Manager for Roto Rooter Plumbing in San Diego and a Master Plumber for over 20 years, I have seen THOUSANDS of sewer videos for private sewers and municipal mains. This video appears to be made inside a municipal line using a remote crawler with a pan and tilt camera in a clay tile pipe (unsure of the size, but it looks to be 8″ inside diameter, if that helps with your perspective).
I have repaired hundereds of sewers of various sizes up to 16″.
I have NEVER seen anything like this. REALLY SCARY! Please positivly identify these blobs, or I may have to go into early retirement, and you civilians will be on your own!
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July 11, 2009 at 1:08 PMMark Ames
Sorry; I looked at it again. The video has an imprint text from the computer software for the municipality says the pipe is 6″ clay pipe and was taken from manhole #9. The video begins about 4 feet in from the manhole entry.
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July 11, 2009 at 6:11 PMDavid
This was posted on June 30th, 2009 and it’s july 11th 2009. Why hasn’t anyone ripped one open and see? I mean, it’s not to hard to remove one from the wall. If it is warms, just by removing one from the wall you will be able to see what it is. Once someone cuts it up, all this would be settled.
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July 11, 2009 at 7:07 PMAndrew
Man, i bet the government is trying to cover this up. That’s why they made a guy say it’s just tubifex worms when mutation is causing these things OR they could be aliens/parasites.
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July 11, 2009 at 7:41 PMLee A. Williamson
To expand upon my previous post…
I grew up in Raleigh and have crawled through culverts, waded through creeks, rolled over rocks, and have seen just about every creature that is to be found in the area. Never have I come across anything that comes close in appearance/behavior/etc to this organism. In fact it does not come close to ANY organism that I have seen ANYWHERE during my tenure an outdoors-man cum armchair biologist. This thing has multiple, discreet organ systems. While colonies (such as coral and bee hives) may share supporting elements, nothing like the systems( reactive epidermis/musculature, submerged filter feeder tendrils and antenna) present in the vid could be of a communal manufacture.
My new question are these: Where is the rest of the footage? Where is the crew that made the discovery. Where may I find some of these on my own?
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July 12, 2009 at 12:08 AMsrmuerte
Ok, Prepare to feel stupid all you people who think you know what these creatures are.
Its a complete FAKE.
Besides the clean water running in the sewer and the fact that the camera only looks one way down the pipe that could be setup anywhere.
Look at the last “Creature”. You can clearly see a white string on the top that changes angle from the person pulling it.
You can see it on the first one as well.
Look again people.
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July 13, 2009 at 5:56 AMJonny
AAH QUICK!!
KILL IT WITH FIRE BEFORE IS TOO LATE!!
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July 13, 2009 at 11:33 PMMatt C.
srmuerte, you have no idea what you’re talking about and unless someone comes forth to claim that they perpetrated a hoax and explain how they did it, your asinine assumption means nothing. The matter has already been investigated by the local news. http://news14.com/Default.aspx?ArID=611427
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July 18, 2009 at 6:05 PMSarah
First off it looks to me like some type of cocoon from the alien movie. I mean it doesnt look to me at all like those worms. These worms in the other two videos are actually moving around and breaking off a little from each other. Now on the other hand the video in the sewer they do not get seperated and it seems to be one thing by itself.It’s dumb that all those people on youtube are saying it’s a colonoscopy so sad for people that think everything can be explained. This is definitely something that I think needs to be looked into. If these are just worms then why isn’t there footage of these worms in other sewers?
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July 21, 2009 at 5:18 PMtony
its just a close up under parses Hilton’s skirt god
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July 25, 2009 at 11:19 PMdlinqent
This is in response to the guy who says it is setup. #1 Sewer water is 99.9 percent clean water, from showers, dishwashers washing machines, and if you knew anything that is what a typical video assessment of a sewer survey looks like exactly…..
And how exactly would you fake something like that?????
If you want to debunk it try harder and make some sense at least…
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July 29, 2009 at 5:53 PMCharlie
I agree that these are Tubifex or Blackworms, which are used to feed tropical fish. I have raised them for fish food and they consume bacteria and other pollution for their food and likely are beneficial, being the first stage of water treatment in this instance. Pet stores sell them in small portions and ordering them in bulk can range from $13. to $20. per pound.
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October 28, 2009 at 10:49 PMChris V
i dont get it tho if there worms then when the sac moves it pulls the outside of it back in so why is that it contracts the goo holding it on the wall and releases so how do worms control the outside sac?
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November 3, 2009 at 5:48 PMAmada
I’ve watched all three of the videos, AND also viewed another tubifex worm video called, Tubifex on a plate. In that video, there was a large pile of tubifex in one clumpy mass, looking kind of like a piece of liver. When the guy poked it, the whole mass contracted at once, like the masses in the video. He then took a bunch of the worms and put them in a glass of water, where they behaved normally, with worms floating around individually.
I also READ a little bit about the worms, and they actually DO develop protective cysts. They love polluted areas, and though it is unusual that they should be in a sewer, until there is definitive proof that there is something else, I personally am going to have to agree with diagnosis: Tubifex.
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November 5, 2009 at 5:27 PMTINA
thankyou for your post! I just came across this video and was so disturbed by it! Glad to know theres an explanation..though its still DISGUSTING
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December 3, 2009 at 4:40 AMSenyu
as much as I would want it to be some new species. Check this link out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-VDk61ayz8
they look pretty much the same as first vid
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December 22, 2009 at 8:39 PMmy remote control planes
amazing video, god only knows what this is and where it evolved from, ill take that back, there is no such thing as god, just wondering what evolution tracks this organism has taken, amazing video
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December 30, 2009 at 3:09 AMradz nguyen
I don’t see anywhere where anyone has retrieved a specimen and verified what exactly it is yet. It seems that they haven’t even been verified yet that they are even biological.
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January 30, 2010 at 6:50 AMGenre Slur
I’ll respond that, reasonably, those ‘nodes’ may be tubifex swarms — only if others will admit the possibility that we may understand such nodes as being ethologically comparable to the aemobea that are also slime mold… you see?….
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February 5, 2010 at 12:27 AMTechDaring
Like thriller movies. I’m afraid with it, really it.
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Yesterday at 11:43 PMmy jewelry beads
i have seen this video on youtube, very interesting in deed, a bit eerie but its nature at its best
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