Fine. I warned you.
A truly odd — and more than a little gross — viral video came over the Internet at me today, called “Unknown Life Form In N. Carolina Sewer.”
I can’t resist something with a title like that. So I checked it out. At first, I had the nagging suspicion I’d been duped into viewing a video of a colonoscopy, but it does show something slimy oozing around in what appears to be a sewer.
Just what is it? Well, the candidates are UFO creature, hoax/publicity stunt, or bryozoan — “colonial animals … superficially similar to coral … known to occur worldwide … [and] observed to exist in sewer systems, examples being Denver and North Carolina.” (Emphasis added. And thanks, Wikipedia.)
It’s always tempting to leap to the flying saucer explanation, especially when something looks as weird and horrible as this. But real-life science has plenty of weird and horrible things in it. For some reason, however, saying “colony organism that has the ability to move on its own power and lives in sewers” just doesn’t carry the same thrill as saying “UFO creature! RUN!”
After my exhaustive five-minute research, I’m going to have to vote for bryozoan.
Then again, it could be a C.H.U.D. Yeah, scratch that. Now I’m voting for C.H.U.D.
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July 7, 2009 at 9:38 am
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