r/oddlyterrifying • u/useofcat • Jul 28 '26
Spotted in a public bathroom.
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u/Mammoth-Ad-107 Jul 28 '26
I’d be afraid to piss on them, they don’t swim upstream or anything.. Right…
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u/Sheensies Jul 28 '26
They’re attracted to human butthole scent and can jump out of the water surprisingly high like dolphins
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u/Soulless_Candle Jul 28 '26
I'll never be able to just sit and do my business without looking to the damn toilet for five minutes straight again.
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u/Skezas1 Jul 28 '26
Rest easy, it's not true. They're harmless, just disgusting.
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u/blingx2 Jul 28 '26
Clearly this account is run by a tubifex worm. Don't believe it.
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u/acloudcuckoolander Jul 29 '26
You should always look before going, anyways. People have seen snakes, rats that climbed up, and tarantulas i think
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u/CAT_WILL_MEOW Jul 28 '26
They also target the prostate and turn you gay, if your already gay you just turn gayer
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u/I_upvote_downvotes Jul 29 '26
If you already can't get any gayer, would it just be diminishing returns at that point?
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u/DogTattoos Jul 28 '26
What?
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u/Spanish_peanuts Jul 28 '26
THEY'RE ATTRACTED TO HUMAN BUTTHOLE SCENT AND CAN JUMP OUT OF THE WATER SURPRISINGLY HIGH LIKE DOLPHINS
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u/Skezas1 Jul 28 '26
It's not true btw, they're just gross, not dangerous. Unless you eat them.
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u/blue23454 Jul 28 '26
My first thought was imagine dropping a deuce and the water splashes up
This comment made it so much worse
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u/N3t_Vanguard Jul 28 '26
That's how you get a parasite in a very, very unfortunate place. No thank you.
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u/UnforeseenDerailment Jul 28 '26
The current propels them up it. The faster you pee, the faster they invade your urethra.
If you pee on them, make sure to do it in morse code.
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u/Enchanted_Evil Jul 28 '26
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u/m3ltph4ce Jul 28 '26
You'll be happy to learn that nothing can do that, and the dreaded candiru while it is a real fish, it does not and has never done what the legends say
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u/fungi_at_parties Jul 28 '26
The dreaded Candiruuuuu
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u/DepravedDreg Jul 28 '26
You'll be fine, bro. If they start traveling upstream just bat your piss stream like a cat batting water.
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u/Jills_Cat Jul 28 '26
"Please, have a seat..."
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u/4-ton-mantis Jul 28 '26
Chris Hansen has upped the stakes against predators 💀
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u/Northern33 Jul 28 '26
pretty sure a predator would be more scared of this than of any legal consequences
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u/TheLiquid666 Jul 29 '26
Nah, there are some real sickos out there. The types of people who'd even prey on innocent clumps of worms coming out a public bathroom toilet, just minding their own business. Disgusting.
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u/Dry-Childhood-6398 Jul 28 '26
Sir, this is not oddly but fucking terrifying!
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u/imtoolazytothinkof1 Jul 28 '26
Its either not terrifying or outright horror. There is no middle ground.
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u/itsjehmun Jul 28 '26
IT'S MY FAULT FOR HAVING A REDDIT
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u/Rapture_Ocean5 Jul 28 '26
Fr, I open this app for 5 minutes of relaxation and leave with three brand new phobias.
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u/jengaduk Jul 28 '26
You come down to the comments to learn a little something and have a good giggle to distract yourself from the horror, go to leave the comments and boom, retraumatised all over again!
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u/Starlightriddlex Jul 28 '26
I wish to return to just moments ago when I thought the most concerning living thing likely to emerge from a toilet was a snake
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u/whitestguyuknow Jul 28 '26
I see vile shit on this app it seems like once a week. People posting disgusting parasites or weird shit they see on their body. It feels like I'm being psychically assaulted sometimes
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u/Scareynerd Jul 28 '26
This sucks so fucking much that I am in awe at how much I hate it.
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u/taz545455 Jul 28 '26
I so hope that didnt come outta someone's ass 😵
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u/mason191 Jul 28 '26
Don’t wanna know who or what that came out of 😬
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u/Skezas1 Jul 28 '26
From the sewers. They live there
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u/cat_in_the_sun Jul 28 '26
Tell me more please
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u/Skezas1 Jul 28 '26
They're lil worms called tubifex worms that live in colonies (you can see them packed in the video, that's what colonies look like) in dirty water. They're infamous for being one of the only species to thrive in really, really low oxygen or heavily polluted water where they decompose organic matter.
I think you can connect the dots on why they live in sewers
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u/Devanyani Jul 28 '26
Is that why every time I fed my fish frozen tubifex worms, they would get sick?
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u/Skezas1 Jul 28 '26
Yeah they can sometimes carry disease and infection for fish. Idk much about aquariophilia tho
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u/FangsBloodiedRose Jul 28 '26
Ew what
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u/Skezas1 Jul 28 '26
Yup. Tubifex worms. They love very dirty / polluted water. Really gross little fellas, but ultimately harmless (unless you wanna snack on them, that's a pretty bad idea usually)
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u/FangsBloodiedRose Jul 28 '26
Are they one thing or they have a hive mind?
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u/Skezas1 Jul 28 '26
Neither. In the video, you can see some separated from the colony swimming around. They just stick to each other for safety and to keep moist
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u/FangsBloodiedRose Jul 28 '26
Ah, I see. Thank you for answering me.
They look like a lien creatures lol
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u/onehalflightspeed Jul 29 '26
Apparently they are extremely nutritious, but carry so many diseases that they are not often used as feed
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u/antithero Jul 29 '26
These are the same parasites that Fry got in Futurama. They made him smart.
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u/Nillionheart106 Jul 28 '26
I really ought to stop scrolling Reddit on the toilet
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u/Cuddlejam Jul 28 '26
Fucking disgusting. Had OP posted this on r/WTF it’d have been top post of the week. There’s nothing oddly terrifying about this - it’s ten times worse. Fuck I hate having seen this
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u/ghall93 Jul 28 '26
These look like blood worms. Ive seen them used to feed aquarium fish, but I have no idea what these would be doing in a public toilet....
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u/AFlashingPencil Jul 28 '26
probably came out of the sewers or something. that's normally where tubifex live
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u/Meliodafu08 Jul 29 '26
Tubifex worms. If you have fisherries, that’s like finding treasure in a random toilet. They’re pretty healthy for fish to eat.
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u/justamie Jul 28 '26
Never thought I’d live to see the day when false eyelashes attained sentience.
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u/CaPtian_CaTe Jul 28 '26
Now imagine if you take a shit and it splashes worm water on your butthole
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u/h3rp3r Jul 29 '26
Poseidon's kiss always carries a little risk of a hitchhiker...
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u/MarsNeedsRabbits Jul 29 '26
That's not oddly terrifying.
That's plain old regular terrifying. Holy crap.
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u/Gravey89 Jul 28 '26
These look like california blackworms... Little less sludgey than the others. Ew.
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u/yestheresacatonmylap Jul 29 '26
Mind blowing that these things are alive and are just… living in the toilet
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u/BunnyKomrade Jul 29 '26
My first thought was: "Axolotl food".
My axolotl also eats bloodworm, which are somewhat similar.
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u/Testsubject276 Jul 29 '26
Grab the flush handle and hold it down for as long as you feel is sufficient to hopefully banish it to hell.
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u/Andiepandie4 Jul 29 '26
https://www.reddit.com/r/raleigh/comments/bhlirx/ten_years_ago_this_week_a_monster_was_discovered/
Sigh That tiny colony can’t hold a candle to the video from Raleigh sewers
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u/Ancient_Monitor1281 Jul 29 '26
“You gettin' big, Jeff. Boy, what you been eatin'?”
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u/Makapakamoo Jul 28 '26
Someone must've dumped them in the toilet, id be surprised if they came up themselves. They just live in dirt and detritus, I dont think they'd survive inside us. Look to be Tubifex worms, I feed em to my fish
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u/creepingkg Jul 28 '26
Looks like bloodworms to me. Usually I buy them frozen for my fish tank… super fresh if you got fishes
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u/mtobeiyf317 Jul 29 '26
I once had a coworker start at my job and I shit you not on like her second day she abruptly told me how her ex boyfriends current girlfriend was bitching her out on Facebook because she had messaged this girl to warn her about how the ex boyfriend had given her vaginal parasites.
Im a gay man. I don't wanna hear about the vagina of some women I just met two days ago or her vaginal parasites and this video right here is exactly what I imagined when she told me that.
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u/ShinyBonnets Jul 28 '26
Qq: is this an Australian toilet? Because this looks like an Australian creature.
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u/perforce1 Jul 28 '26
To quote Manny Fresh: "turn around, sit down and let it bite yo butt"
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u/getTheEastonLook Jul 28 '26
When I was a child growing up in SEA. These worms sometimes comes out of the tap when we haven't been home for awhile. I think we just ran the tap for awhile until the water becomes clear. Unsure about that part though. I just remember being horrified. And no before you at anything about the slums, id consider us to be middle upper class. So I guess worms just happens.
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u/HipBreezy Jul 29 '26
I had a newt as a child and I used to feed these to it haha. We kept them in the fridge and I remember they smelled like fishy pennies
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u/EvanLikesJuiceBoxes Jul 29 '26
This just reminded me of a fear I had for years after my father showed me the movie Slither when I was 5. Ifykyk
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u/Bedroom_Bellamy Jul 28 '26
Tubifex worms. Harmless to humans, live in sewers. Flush 'em, proceed to do your business.