The video above shows some alien-like gelatinous blobs living in a sewer pipe. A sewer camera, inspecting pipes below Raleigh’s Cameron Village, took some video of what appears to be some type of blob pulsating into or sucking material from the pipe. However, the blob is nothing more than tubifex worms reacting to the camera’s light. Nonetheless, the video is still gross and fascinating. From News14.com:

Ed Buchan, environmental coordinator at the Raleigh Public Utilities Department, said staff biologists have confirmed that the “creature” is actually a colony of tubifex worms. The colonies attach themselves to roots that gradually work themselves into weak points in the pipes.
“They seem to respond to the light from the camera,” Buchan said. “That light is pretty hot.”

The worms naturally occur in sewage and pond sediment and are actually sold both live and dried as fish food in pet stores.

He said other staff members in the department have seen it before, although sightings aren’t particularly common.

“I’ve seen a lot of sewer TV before and I’ve never seen them,” he said. “We were surprised. We didn’t know immediately what it was.”

Buchan said the video appears to be legitimate, apparently taken when the owner of the sewer lines, York Properties, contracted a private company to inspect the pipes.

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