New Worm Like Creature or Hoax?
July 9, 2010 4 Comments
Today I was on a website called Cryptomundo, which is a site is dedicated to everything cryptozoologically related. I saw something that quickly caught my eye, a post titled Russian What-is-it? As soon as I opened the post I saw a couple photos of this possible “unknown” species.
The story goes that someone was walking through a meadow near a pond in Russia, when they encountered this creepy little armored worm looking creature. The claim is that it was about 5 centimeters long and had no noticeable eyes or head. The person thought it might be a severed lizard tail, but then witnessed it moving in a jerky fashion. So this individual touched it and it stopped moving. When the person removed their hand its continued moving in the same direction. Also the bottom of this “unknown” creature is darker and smoother then the top side.
Now, after reading this encounter story I noticed a few red flags to make me think this is a hoax. First of all this individual claims to have seen this weird possible unidentified worm like creature, this person didn’t think of , oh I don’t know, taking it with them? You know, keep it for to see if it’s identifiable or if not you have the body of a new specimen? This individual also claims to have seen this thing moving around and thought it may be a severed lizard tail. Now, you may think I am going make a criticism about the severed tail moving, but what I’m really thinking is why the hell would anyone want to touch a severed lizard tail? Now the individual claims its smoother on the bottom then the top, but makes no claim of picking it up, only touching the top. The account also states that this worm like creature went on moving in the same direction. If you look at the picture carefully the creature is turned around in the second picture, meaning it wasn’t moving in the same direction. To me this is a huge red flag and it means it was probably put there and hoaxed an individual. Also, there is no slithering like tracks in the loose soil.
I painstakingly read through the comments to the original post and saw the many claims that this creature may be the legendary Death Worm.
Figures, if you put “unknown” in the beginning of a picture, many people are going to assume it’s legit and start making ridiculous postulations. A couple people said it could possibly be firefly larva.
Now at least firefly larvae are real, but I was highly shocked that the majority of people commenting didn’t announce the obvious: THIS IS A HOAX.
Article and photographs can be seen here:
http://www.cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-news/ru-it/
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This is not a hoax. I have them on my carport in Louisiana. I first saw one when my cat was playing with it. I thought it looked prehistoric. I don’t know what it is and I was searching the web to find out when I stumbled on the pic you have on here. I can send pics of more like it, but it looks exactly like the pic you posted.
Absolutely, you can send me pictures at Bobbyisstrange@gmail.com
I do after school care and one of my students told me about this worm she wanted to show me. The student as well as teachers she asked during recess do not know the name of it but it also looks like this picture. I told my student I would try to do some research on it for her and this is the only page I have really come across. She found them on the school grounds living in mostly dry dirt. We are from Northwest Indiana. Would love to tell my student what it is so please if you hear anything else on this please let me know. thank you ozam88@gmail.com