Dear Lord, Please Let This Be Viral

Ostensibly footage from a sewer cam under “Cameron Village”, Raleigh, North Carolina. I’m desperately hoping this is a viral video, intended to promote some sci-fi or horror film, because if these twitching, pulsating blobs of flesh are real, I may never sit on a toilet again.

Update: The bad news is, this video is apparently quite real. The good news is, it’s not flesh-eating brain-sucking mutant aliens, but clumps of worms. Worms?? Yes, according to Dr. Timothy Wood, freshwater bryozoa expert:

Thanks for the video – I had not see it before. No, these are not bryozoans! They are clumps of annelid worms, almost certainly tubificids (Naididae, probably genus Tubifex). Normally these occur in soil and sediment, especially at the bottom and edges of polluted streams. In the photo they have apparently entered a pipeline somehow, and in the absence of soil they are coiling around each other. The contractions you see are the result of a single worm contracting and then stimulating all the others to do the same almost simultaneously, so it looks like a single big muscle contracting. Interesting video.

Thanks to Geekologie for the follow-up. And I still say ick.