Unknown Life Form in North Carolina Sewer – Photo and Youtube Video

Aliens in North Carolina Sewer??

Above is a picture of  the “Unknown Life Form” in North Carolina Sewer.  This is one of the yuckiest thing I’ve ever saw.  And check out the youtube video below.  Totally  gross!  Disgusting little creatures.

Many are speculating that it could be a new life form, to a pulsating animal brain, to aliens.   But upon searching the net and doing research, it could well be a thing called “Tubifex tubifex” which is a sludge or sewer worm.

Here’s an excerpt from wikipedia

Tubifex tubifex, also called the sludge worm, sewage worm, or lime snake; is a species of tubificid segmented worm that inhabits the sediments of lakes and rivers on several continents. T. tubifex probably includes several species, but distinguishing between them is difficult because reproductive organs, commonly used in species identification, are resorbed after mating, and because external characteristics of the worm vary with changes in salinity. These worms ingest sediments and gain nutrition by selectively digesting bacteria and absorbing molecules through the body wall. The worms can survive with little oxygen through the use of their hemoglobin rich tail-ends, which they wave in order to absorb what little oxygen they can. They can also survive in areas so heavily polluted with organic matter that almost no other species can endure. By forming a protective cyst and lowering its metabolic rate, T. tubifex can survive drought and food shortage. Encystment may also function in dispersal of the worm.

Here’s another youtube video of Tubifex Tubifex.    It does have some resemblance.  If you take out the water, I think it will look exactly like the “Unknown Life Form” in NC sewer.

Nevertheless, it is still yucky!