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Mashable - The Social Media Guide: Unknown Lifeform in North Carolina Sewer: A Monstrous YouTube Hit

  • Nina · 5 months ago
    As disgusting as this is, I can't look away!
  • adamhirsch · 5 months ago
    Haha! I feel the exact same way!
  • Mokshaman · 5 months ago
    Okay ... so you know it's "just worms" ... and I know it's "just worms" ..... but do the "worms" know it's "just worms?? (As In: I dunno .... that one blob seemed quite "reacting as a single entity". I'm just sayin ....)
  • Zac Johnson · 5 months ago
    I wish it was an alien...
  • mway · 5 months ago
    Suddenly Resident Evil 5 doesn't seem that far-fetched. ;)
  • Paul Dubois · 5 months ago
    Looks like the pink slime from Ghostbusters II.. Nasty!
  • Noah Thomas · 5 months ago
    Let's assume for a moment this was actually some sort of "alien life form", or simply, "unidentified life form." I'm pretty sure the media, gov't, and scientific community at large would do everything in their power to convince us otherwise.

    Call me a conspiracy theorist, but it's the truth.
  • asdfasdf · 5 months ago
    And thats why your a retard
  • Hi · 5 months ago
    I think I love you. <3
  • markfinch · 5 months ago
    <sarcasm rel="nothing personal ;-)">
    This is why conspiracy fans are never believed. They go X-Files on a pile of worms in a sewer pipe. Although you guys make for great water cooler entertainment, so keep telling us all about those conspiracies. Every now and then you get to say I told you so like the fool who kept editing the Wikipedia entry about David Rohde.

    The morale is: Too much American TV rots your brains so you will start believing the Government *really is watching YOU!*
    </sarcasm>
  • Noah Thomas · 5 months ago
    Actually, I think it's healthy to question pretty much any idea, belief system, or institution without proper evidence or knowledge behind it. The problem is, people accept most of what is presented to them without much (if any) critical thought or rationalization. If you ask me, television actually promotes this type of thinking, not the other way around, as you suggest.

    I'm not saying I believe this is some sort of alien life form, I'm merely making a point that if it was such a life form, we would be led to believe otherwise.
  • Michael Thomas Hill · 5 months ago
    I would be inclined to believe the exact same sentiments. I believe most of what society believes as a whole is what I call "The norm factor". If it is not normal or falling in line then it becomes radical or (cough) (cough) "water cooler entertainment" as so elequently put.

    I would be less inclined to believe it was an Alien life form or even an unidentified life form if such a factor did not affect almost every society since socieites were formed.

    In either case I would venture to say if this was some kind of "life form" unknown to us and it posed any danger we would probably be told of such events.. or at least we hope. (Just another weather balloon, eh') Totally Priceless!!
  • Maxwell Hurley · 5 months ago
    Yeah that's what I was thinking the whole time. If it indeed was an unknown or alien lifeform I don't think they would go right out and say it. I think that they are trying to cover it up, because I looked up Tubifex worms and it sure ain't that. What it IS I have no idea.
  • lisa · 5 months ago
    ok who is dumd enought to stand down there an film this crap!!! what is it turns out like ALIEN an stick to your face grossssssss!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!gives me the chills...
  • Jay Cuthrell · 5 months ago
    I'd just like to see those sewer pipes contain (more) fiber optics.
  • SixQs · 5 months ago
    a remix has already emerged: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtllMTJMnlg
  • Ami · 5 months ago
    Looks like something from Invasion of the Body Snatchers!!
  • gab · 5 months ago
    looks like a busted up clit:D
  • gab · 5 months ago
    looks like a busted up clit:D
  • Dominic · 5 months ago
    What if its not tubeworms and something else? Probaly scientists use that kind of excuse to hide the fact that its something else... DUN DUN DUN
  • cheap_kaspersky · 5 months ago
    what if this is shit that evolve to life haha...from logical point of view that is the highest possibilities i can think of about life in sewer system.
  • ssrichardmontgomery · 5 months ago
    There is probably a BIGGER one or more in the sewer below where you live, waiting for the right time to come up through your toilet.
  • ssrichardmontgomery · 5 months ago
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  • Robert MacEwan · 5 months ago
    It's Gov. Beverly Purdue sucking the funding from services like Beaufort County Developmental Center. You are witnessing her soul turn black as she cuts services to people with disabilities.
  • Robert MacEwan · 5 months ago
    Could be Bryozoans.
  • Anon · 5 months ago
    I'd like to know why this is just now surfacing when the date on the video is April? Hmm.
  • Kent Leonhart · 5 months ago
    Wow! That's pretty weird and nasty looking.
    That looks like you're in some sort of alien colony like the movies. LOL.
    Hopefully it won't overrun us. ROFL.
  • Ethan · 5 months ago
    They're called tubifex worms. Gross but not alien. Not even mutated...
  • Daniel · 5 months ago
    This is intersting, Aline? NO WAY, why and how an alien form got to sewer? Tubiflex worm colony? Anyone who belive it's that as never seen tubilflex worms, it looks nothing even close to that. Any sewer contains enough protein, water and other nutriences to substain life under various forms. This is either somthing that mutated or a new form of life in it's self. If you don't belive that new lifeform can be created, juste study the Galapagos Islands.
  • Phil · 5 months ago
    This only happen in a society of lots of lazy people who doesn't clean the sewers.
  • zzlentz · 5 months ago
    I thought only queers and child molestors lived there
  • anonimus · 5 months ago
    This video is better!!!! just see it!!!.....http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2oHNj1zbeQ
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  • scottmunc · 5 months ago
    HELLO! It's C.H.U.D.
  • ceoa · 5 months ago
    geeezz!! thats hideous and disgusting..just couldnt stop gawking at it, with chills up my spine..ugh!!almost felt like it was crawling all over me...eeeeeeeeeeck!!
  • Dave Jackson · 4 months ago
    Alien...Ghostbusters...Resident Evil...I don't know-pretty freaking weird!
  • Mike · 4 months ago
    I don't believe that it's 'just worms'. For this 'thing' to move in unison, it's got to be a single organism, in my non-biological opinion. It just doesn't look like a worm colony.

    I mean, after years of preservatives, anti-depressants, and microwaved food, something weird was bound to develop in the sewers of America!
  • Ryan · 4 months ago
    I will pay someone $5.00 to eat it!
  • wolflord · 3 months ago
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-VDk61ayz8&feat...
    here you go those worms do move in unison in response to vibrations!
  • mike · 2 months ago
    I'll say this. i looked up a bunch of pictures of tubifex worms and none of the pictures look quite like the things in the video. however, all the pictures I found were of the worms completely submerged in water (like at the bottom of a lake), not clinging to a wall at the surface of a body of water. Perhaps this is what makes them look so different in the video. In the third blob especially, you can see that there are strands (presumably worms) pulling into the center, but it's nearly impossible to see the individual worms. Are they covered in some sort of slime that makes them blend together visually? that's really the only thing that makes sense to me if I am going to stick with the theory that these are tubifex worms.