White worms ‘rain from sky’ in India: bizarre video
It was like a ticker tape-worm parade.
Sure, “Sharknado” might be fake — but this “Worm-soon” has been caught on video.
Now-viral footage captured the retch-worthy moment that seemingly thousands of “white worms rained down from the sky” in India like some kind of bizarro biblical plague.
In the alarming clip — filmed Tuesday in Bihar, an East India state bordering Nepal — the creepy-crawlies can be seen hailing down until the road is carpeted with a “thick layer” of the unidentified critters, according to Reuters.
Horrified locals started shuttering their shops, like in a scene out of an old Western, to protect themselves from this spaghetti-esque confetti, which, thankfully, didn’t end up harming anyone, local media outlets reported.
The provenance of these worms is still unclear more than 24 hours later.
However, this isn’t the first time the weather has gone a bit, well, wriggly.
Citizens in Liaoning Province in China were warned to carry umbrellas after it started to rain “earthworms,” with videos showing the squiggly debris strewn across cars and streets.
The footage amassed millions of views before plant experts pointed out that that the so-called “wormy raindrops” were more likely “catkins” from a species of poplar tree that grows in the region.
Catkins “resemble caterpillars, and that is how they are often described, or as squiggly, worm-like structures,” said Claire Thomas Federici, a botanist with the University of California, Riverside.
“Thus, you can see how the untrained eye would refer to these as worms.”
While this may have been proven to be flora rather than fauna, flightless animals have been known to fall from the sky.
In February, a remote community in the Australian Outback was shocked after small, live fish began falling from the heavens.
Experts said that such marine life monsoons were likely caused by strong storms, like tornadoes, picking up the critters and dropping them off in other places.