Video: Raleigh Sewer Blob is Tubifex Worm Colony

Posted on July 2, 2009



Wired reports that the viral video reportedly of an "unknown lifeform" that was recorded in a sewer in Raleigh, North Carolina is a colony of tuibifex worms.

"They seem to respond to the light from the camera," says Ed Buchan, environmental coordinator at the Raleigh Public Utilities Department. "That light is pretty hot." Buchan also said, "We were surprised. We didn't know immediately what it was."

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