Tuesday, July 07, 2009

North Carolina Sewer Monster

I'll be sure to have nightmares about this one. More evidence of the impending apocalypse!

DO NOT WATCH if you have a heart condition or slightly squeamish.

You have been warned.

From the bowels of io9:

[The] city of Raleigh, North Carolina, is responding as the viral video of a seething blob in the city sewers made its way across the internet yesterday. Marti Gibson is the Environmental/EMS Coordinator for Public Utilities in the city of Raleigh, North Carolina, and she has been as confused as the rest of us. When she first looked at the video, she emailed our anonymous source to say it was a slime mold that was in the phase of its lifecycle where it looks like a throbbing, breathing animal (see io9's report on slime molds from a few weeks ago where we talked about this exact thing).

She assured our tipster that any water passing by this slime would pass through a treatment plant and be thoroughly cleansed. But then, a few hours later, Gibson retracted her statement in an email...



3 comments:

neni said...

could be the ninja turtles!?! :P

m9dhatter said...

Holy crap, you might be on to something! I'd still want to call Fox Mulder. You have his number?

donna said...

it looks like a blob to me. *scurries to the shotgun cabinet*