I think I have some of these worms living in me but they are not showing up in my stool, X-rays or CT. I feel all different species all over my body under my skin, the long ones feels the worst. What you may not know is that they control you with their stingers on their antenna that hurts so bad and they join their bodies to make a tight rope around their host body, neck and ears. They work well together at every stage of their life cycle to help the large worm kill squeeze the life out of it’s host and exit there body. They can enter humans and cause terrible pain and agony. I got them from newly dug whale water. Pray for me and help me if you can please. Doctors can’t find them; thus will not treat me. Please contact if you can help me!!😢
I thought he was going to reassure us by saying " dont worry our stomach acids will kill it " but nah he said it will literally just come out my nose . This made it 100× worse .
_". . . . you don't have to really worry. In fact, if you accidentally swallowed an adult horse hair worm, it would likely crawl out your nose or mouth."_ *THAT'S NOT HELPING!!!!*
Clearly you've never had to deal with a dog being de-wormed. Dogs have much stongerr stomach acids than we humans do, because of what they eat, and how their digestive tract is set up. I once had to rescue a female Dachshund, and took her to the vet to get her checked out and vermifuged. Doc gave me a pill to give to he with some food, and within about an hour, she threw up. The bit that chilled my blood was watching several worms come up, each writing animatedly in the puddle. They died within a few seconds, but clearly stomach acid strong enough to dissolve bone had no effect on them.
I really appreciate you covering the Horsehair Worm. Several years ago I killed a beetle or a cricket, I can’t remember exactly but it was one or the other, and immediately after I killed it a thin worm like creature crawled out of it. The entire experience totally creeped me out and at the time I didn’t know what I had just witnessed. Thanks to this video I now know what it was.
Dude, I'm sitting here going "oh, that's what they were" too. No cracked beetle, for me tho. I was in a hotel in S.E. Asia and saw a BUNCH of these Lil bastards coming up out of a drain in the shower. Freak show shit. I dumped boiling water down the drain then ran the shower a while. I waited and...... more started coming out. I went and got a room at a different hotel. Never knew what they were til now and that was in 2008.
had a similar experience once in my early childhood (somewhere around 5 or 6) and it gave me nightmares until i figured out what they actually were nearly 4 years later
I don't know how much ecology and evolution you understand, but that is in fact quite literally the reason why they do that. space/shelter is one of the most valuable resources animals compete for.
They process crickets by infecting them. To make cricket voluntary kill themselves by jumping in the water. Then they strain the crickets out of the water, to make Acheta powder.
don't worry if you eat one, it will come out of your mouth or nose! I imagine sitting down at dinner and a long strand coming out of my nose/mouth. I understand nature works in strange ways and there is a place for everything but parasitoids and these types of parasites are gross.
“Horsehair worms are harmless to vertebrates, because they can't parasitize people, livestock, pets, or birds. They also don't infect plants. If humans ingest the worms, they may encounter some mild discomfort of the intestinal tract, but infection never occurs.”
@@blackcitadel37 Imagine you go to bed, your girlfriend is already sleeping... Before closing your eyes you contemplate her beautiful face, and you see this, coming out of her nose... D:
Thank you. When I was younger, I used to see a lot of horse hair worms in mud puddles. My dad always called him horse hair worms but I wasn’t sure if that was the official name for them.
I remember finding one of these when I was like 8. I was out camping and I found a cool blue praying mantis that was moving sluggishly and wasn’t aggressive. I sprayed some water on it just to see what it would do (because I was a dumb kid and had a bit of a mean streak for bugs) and it falls to the ground and starts convulsing, and lets out this massive wriggling brown thing. No one believed me and I eventually thought I had dreamt it up so it’s nice to have that experience validated
That reminds me of the first time I managed to touch a butterfly on a flower as a child but then realised that it was sitting still because a spider was eating it My life never was the same)
I have seen these in puddles and leaf litter around here (and I also have horses) and these worms do indeed look and feel just like a horse’s thick tail hair. The big difference is they MOVE. Heebee jeebee factor of 10!
@@eddee4806 They are worms from nature. The myth was that they came from actual horse hair. So other than their name, they are not related to horse hair at all.
This is horror material. I feel icky with worms a lot but horsehair worms make earthworms look cute and touchable. I also can't imagine some worm suddenly came out of the nose. I wouldn't sleep for days.
It seems that crawling out of some orifice in the human body is definitely better causing some mayhem from the inside out and taking over the brain turning you into a mindless titan
@@Charle_Z a little bit. I made the statement because people seem to be freaking about about it escaping from your body which I assume is a bit more harmless than people think lol it could DEFINITELY be worse. At least according to what is stated in the video it is trying to leave you alone 😬😅
Several years ago I was in WV and happened to see a cricket acting strangely outside in the rain. When I got closer I saw a horsehair worm crawling out of the cricket. It was bizarre, and I ended up keeping the worm in a jar
I caught a wasp once and trapped it in a jar I came back maybe a few hours later to find the wasp dead and a 4 inch parasitic worm crawling it’s way around I was both confused, fascinated and freaked out non the less
About a year ago, I kill a cricket that somehow found its way from my basement, up two flights of stairs, went down my hallway, into my bathtub in my master bedroom. I was super confused on why it specifically went to my tub. I killed it and out popped this 3 inch worm. I had zero idea what it was, but I knew it was using the cricket as a host. I balled the worm up in a tissue and set it on fire. I was worried it would somehow find a way to my pups. Thanks for the information.
when I was younger I would play in the irrigation ditch at my grandma's house looking for worms and I found one of these... I showed my mom and grandma and they looked it up and found out that it's a parasite... I haven't touched an irrigation ditch since.
Oh that was probably chilling to discover as a kid! Thankfully these are harmless to humans, though there are other parasites that could be found in irrigation ditches that DO use humans as hosts 😬
Our generation and generations back then: playing with bugs and critters,climbing trees and playing in ditches. Kids nowadays: barely leave the house and freak out when they see a moth
As a child from Québec, me, my brother and cousins find something really similar at the crystal beach. It was floating on the water and I remember that we place it in our hands and find it very strange to see it move ! ! We never saw this before ! After that day, my brother found out it was maybe a " cheveu de mer" in french.
They thrash around with a lot of force so they have a lot of muscle for their size. If you were a bug imagine how horrible it would be having something that strong and large thrashing around inside you. Edit: 😳👉👈
I had a video suggesting about velvet ants and that's how I discovered this channel! But glad I did! Love the short videos that pack so much interesting and informative facts about these creepy crawlies! I'm now a subscriber 😁
The way he said accidentally swallowed adult horse hairworm and finding its way to get out in mouth or nose making me think that horrible sci fi movie named "LIFE"😫
I use to work at a fish factory, the horsehair worms would get caught in the nets in spring time. During the spring/summer the fisherman would grab buckets and bail loads of them out back into the water. I shit you not there would be 20lbs of these things just wiggling around. Also they would put them in their water bottles for pranks
I’m 37 now but when I was six years old, I found one of these in my pool. I never knew what it was until right now. So glad the mystery was solved 30 years later 😹
I actually had a dream when I was a young teen that I was pulling these things out of my throat. I used to find them in the runoff drains buy the cow pastures I live near. I always knew them to be parasitic but didn't know what type of animal they were parasitic to. Thanks for creeping me out again.
Excellent video, thank you. A short while ago I found a couple of these writhing around in a puddle after heavy rain & didn't have a clue as to what they were.
I once saw one burrow into some soil in a garden, while I was digging up a small hole. Is this a common or rare phenomenon, or was it a similar looking animal of a different phylum?
@@jackalope_hunter Actually it did not resemble an earth worm at all. It was thin, very shiny, jet black, and it moved really quickly into the soil after I exposed it. I wasn't sure if it was an animal or if I was hallucinating.
Honestly I hate how my first encounter of them on the internet I had was of some art involving them. Thankfully, your video helped me overcome the anxiety the work induced in me
"....if you did ingest one it would, most likely, find its way out through your mouth or nose...." 😳 and now I have to figure out how to sleep tonight....
I have heard apocryphal stories of home remedies (for people who feeling sick and maybe infected with parasite) that saw worms coming out peoples noses. I always thought it was fake but wonder if there was something to it
When I was young I lived near a Beck and often saw these worms. About 3 inches and so thin they looked like hair. Thanks to this it’s finally made sense as these hairs were writhing about on my hand when I caught them 👍
I found seven of these swimming in a river. I took them to the rainger station and she said they were rare and found in that volume was extremely unlikely
Theres an epidemic of stray cats in my neighborhood that I keep an eye on. Take the hurt or sick cats to the vet, get every cat I can get my hands on fixed. I feed a couple who cant get food at the other places cause they get beat up. I spent the stim checks fixing 10 of these cats. Anyways, I see them eat grass every once in a while, and thats when they get worms. They all all do the same thing, eat some grass, then throw up the worms and I think they're these. There thin, white and long. The cats drink puddles and eat bugs so it makes sence. Right now I have a little black kitten who needs a home. Neighbors abuse these cats, hes in for a rough life if he doesn't make it put of here. His name is Sinna. He's liter trained. He's ready to be an indoor cat cause i trained him in my garage. He's all black with a white triangle on his chest. Him and his two siblings were abandoned by mama, and close to death when I found them. I found his two siblings a home. Sinna got the short end of the stick. I just recently took in another pregnant cat in too. She's not having the babies though unless I find a home for all for them too. Ive found 5 of these cats homes. I adopted 4 others. I'm doing all I can and it's still not enough. Story is much deeper than this. I'm facing charges for " threatening " an off duty cop I watched maim a kitten. My kitten, one of the 4 I adopted. I almost lost it and ended up in Prison. Instead I kept my cool and still face bogus charges😂 Feel like fucking Jon Snow. I'm just trying to do what's right and I somehow always end up punished for it.
One of these took control of a cricket once and it jumped into my pool. It freaked my mother out because she thought it was just a giant strand of cricket shit lol. One of the weirdest creatures out there.
@@AnimalFactFiles the medusa worm! They get into humans who eat tainted pork. After they fully mature the 3 foot long worms emerge from the human body! They _usually don't kill you, but they cause emotional instability and leave large soars that are easily infected when they leave!
The girls brought home a kitten they'd found. At supper time, that kitten puked up a pile of these under the table where I had begun to eat. I was suddenly finished eating, and that kitten suddenly found itself living outside. Thank God it wasn't a puppy, or I would have had to pay for a vet.
I love nature and I love science, but this was creepy. New diet plan you want to have appetite control watch videos like this right before you about to eat a meal,especially a meal that calls for angel hair pasta. 😹
Thanking God every day that I'm not an invertebrate. The parasites vertebrates get are so much milder. "Oooh you're gonna get big worms in your gut or brain if you don't clean and cook your food" compared to a literal xenomorph you get by basically spinning a roulette every time you eat
The horse hair thing remind me of a belief my Mixtec people believe in but its about human hair. My parents used to say if your hair falls off or you cut it and throw it in water after a while like days, it'll turn into a snake. As a kid that scared me but obviously as i got older I knew it was a myth of sort.
My Sister & I used to catch these worms down at the creek...our Dad said they were Horse Hairs that come alive in water...it wasn't until decades later when I remembered them & Googled...LOL!! I didn't think hair could come alive but when I was 5 🤷♂️ anything was possible!
This summer I killed a large Dock (warf) spider I found in my kitchen sink. After I gave it a good smack the abdomen popped off and there was this ball that looked like colloid intestines or a round brain. I sat there a few minutes looking at this stuff trying to wrap my head around what I was looking at and that when it started to move and wiggle. Then I finally figured it out. I've seen these parasite before emerging from grasshoppers and they were always long and wormy but I guess that this worm wasn't fully ready to leave its host just quit yet.
When I was a kid o scooped a bucket of water up from a lake and watched in amazement as this tiny thin as piece of hair swam around in it. I never knew what it was until just now, thank you.
i just somewhat recently tryed to keep a rollie pollie for the hell of it for a small spider a was keeping in a container. not knowing what or how to keep the rollie pollie I had it in a jello dish with wet newspaper with a lid on it. it was ok at first then died a day or two latter. when I went to look at rollie pollie closer I noticed a very small but very thin an long worm like thing coiled up at end of rollie pollie on dish. itcould only have come from rollie pollie, I guessed as pollie died the host was no longer suitable and left host ... I'm wondering if this was same worm (or family) using pollie as a host?
It's all fun and games until you realise that's not spaghetti stuck in your throat lol moments later you open your mouth in the mirror and see a black liquorice lace frantically wiggling like FREE MEEEEE
I was forced to learn about this when at school a cricket was stepped on and one of these demons twice the size of the insect climbed out of its corpse.
I found one of these in some water, crawling out of a bug once. I asked a vet what it was since it was a worm and vets deal with worms. She didn't know but took it to send to a university lab for IDing. I never heard back from her. I didn't know bugs got worms. I was thinking a whip worm but didn't think a bug was the intermediate host. So interesting. Now when I see the spiders and other bugs in my rain water I am going to wonder just unlucky or really, really unlucky. They must dehydrate the host to "make" it jump into water.
We found one a long time ago and we could not figure out what that damn thing was . we kept it in an airtight bottle and it lived for a year . unbelievable but true
Parasites wig me out, worm-types definitely are more aesthetically disturbing than other types. Despite that, I'm going to sit here and torture myself watching this, learning what these critters do and even when you say at the end, humans need not worry, I'm still going to be in the fetal position, trying not to sob in terror.
I remembered finding one of these creature under a rock I genuinely though it was a normal worms until it started wiggling like crazy it's honestly horrified me
Me: Staring at a bowl of water with strands of hair in it for the 10th day in a row. Friend: "Um, are you ok? Do I like need to call someone or-" Me: "Shhh! I'm doing science!"
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I found this in my dogs water bowl. what should I do?
I think I have some of these worms living in me but they are not showing up in my stool, X-rays or CT. I feel all different species all over my body under my skin, the long ones feels the worst. What you may not know is that they control you with their stingers on their antenna that hurts so bad and they join their bodies to make a tight rope around their host body, neck and ears. They work well together at every stage of their life cycle to help the large worm kill squeeze the life out of it’s host and exit there body. They can enter humans and cause terrible pain and agony. I got them from newly dug whale water. Pray for me and help me if you can please. Doctors can’t find them; thus will not treat me. Please contact if you can help me!!😢
Sorry, well water.😢
I thought he was going to reassure us by saying " dont worry our stomach acids will kill it " but nah he said it will literally just come out my nose . This made it 100× worse .
Or MOUTH. Like OMG. Imagine something 3 foot long wriggling outta your face...god 🤢🤢🤢
Imagine having one of those tangled balls of mating worms inside of you 🤮
Omg same!!!!
That's okay I didn't want to leave my house ever again anyways 😷😷
@@SporadicKristal
Good news, bugs can bring them into your home.
_". . . . you don't have to really worry. In fact, if you accidentally swallowed an adult horse hair worm, it would likely crawl out your nose or mouth."_
*THAT'S NOT HELPING!!!!*
I totally agree with you, i thought he was going to say it would die in our stomach acid but NOPE!!!
Super gross but at least they wont want to be inside us!! Thinking about it wanting to multiply inside is even grosser
Clearly you've never had to deal with a dog being de-wormed. Dogs have much stongerr stomach acids than we humans do, because of what they eat, and how their digestive tract is set up.
I once had to rescue a female Dachshund, and took her to the vet to get her checked out and vermifuged. Doc gave me a pill to give to he with some food, and within about an hour, she threw up. The bit that chilled my blood was watching several worms come up, each writing animatedly in the puddle. They died within a few seconds, but clearly stomach acid strong enough to dissolve bone had no effect on them.
@@KawaiiEvoMii Or grow and filling up your entire body like it does to its definitive hosts
Ikr
I really appreciate you covering the Horsehair Worm. Several years ago I killed a beetle or a cricket, I can’t remember exactly but it was one or the other, and immediately after I killed it a thin worm like creature crawled out of it. The entire experience totally creeped me out and at the time I didn’t know what I had just witnessed. Thanks to this video I now know what it was.
That would be such a wierd sight to behold
Oh wow! What an experience! Glad we could help clear it up for you
Dude, I'm sitting here going "oh, that's what they were" too. No cracked beetle, for me tho. I was in a hotel in S.E. Asia and saw a BUNCH of these Lil bastards coming up out of a drain in the shower. Freak show shit. I dumped boiling water down the drain then ran the shower a while. I waited and...... more started coming out. I went and got a room at a different hotel. Never knew what they were til now and that was in 2008.
had a similar experience once in my early childhood (somewhere around 5 or 6) and it gave me nightmares until i figured out what they actually were nearly 4 years later
You're a bully
Gives “creepy pasta” a whole new meaning 😆
Lmao 🤣
Lol
Underrated
Lmaoooo
😂😂😂😂
nooooo
Praying mantis: *exists*
Horsehair worm: “it’s free real estate!”
I don't know how much ecology and evolution you understand, but that is in fact quite literally the reason why they do that. space/shelter is one of the most valuable resources animals compete for.
You ruined my obsession with praying mantis, thanks.
lol fr
@@-mizuko-5537 i agree
@@chimyshark You seem a bit aggravated over them making that joke
“Don‘t worry if you eat one, it will make its way out of you nose or mouth”. I am still worried
Maybe this will help to reduce your worries. If you crunch it first, it won't come out of your stomach later
@@myrmecii578 "it won't"? Wait, where does it go then...?
@@snowparody it’s just dead? But that’s just a theory! A---
I'd say oh screw it it'll come out one day
@@myrmecii578
I don't know if it survives the strength of our stomach acid. 🤔
Cricket: comes by
Hairworm:oh boy the u haul is finally here
BAHAHAHAHHAHAHSHABGAGAHAHA
They process crickets by infecting them. To make cricket voluntary kill themselves by jumping in the water. Then they strain the crickets out of the water, to make Acheta powder.
don't worry if you eat one, it will come out of your mouth or nose! I imagine sitting down at dinner and a long strand coming out of my nose/mouth. I understand nature works in strange ways and there is a place for everything but parasitoids and these types of parasites are gross.
I felt that
“Mmm yummy spaghetti, hey that’s nOT SPAGHETTI-“
imagine if you were lucky and got the 2 meter one
@@OhezzO I'm actually grateful I have Gerd, if I get one of these its not going to make it out.
How tf does it even get into your nose from your mouth
“Horsehair worms are harmless to vertebrates, because they can't parasitize people, livestock, pets, or birds. They also don't infect plants. If humans ingest the worms, they may encounter some mild discomfort of the intestinal tract, but infection never occurs.”
@PS1 Hagrid yes
@PS1 Hagrid 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
YET
…yet
Thanks for that ! Makes me feel a little better. 😌
So if they were eatan by humans, they... literally find their own way out of our mouths....?
My god thats like something from a body horror movie
Yeah... That's very reassuring! lol
"well idk how the hell I got here but boy you bet I will get out" - horse hair wormy
@@blackcitadel37
Imagine you go to bed, your girlfriend is already sleeping... Before closing your eyes you contemplate her beautiful face, and you see this, coming out of her nose...
D:
Actually that's more reassuring than scary. I rather it come out than stay I'm and multiply
way better than having it stay inside you
Thank you. When I was younger, I used to see a lot of horse hair worms in mud puddles. My dad always called him horse hair worms but I wasn’t sure if that was the official name for them.
Glad this helped!
turns out some dads actually know their shit huh
@@thetraveler4493 lol
I have never seen one and you see alot of them? Where do you live?
I remember finding one of these when I was like 8. I was out camping and I found a cool blue praying mantis that was moving sluggishly and wasn’t aggressive. I sprayed some water on it just to see what it would do (because I was a dumb kid and had a bit of a mean streak for bugs) and it falls to the ground and starts convulsing, and lets out this massive wriggling brown thing. No one believed me and I eventually thought I had dreamt it up so it’s nice to have that experience validated
That reminds me of the first time I managed to touch a butterfly on a flower as a child but then realised that it was sitting still because a spider was eating it
My life never was the same)
@@ОлександраЛукянчук-т3в this is hilariously dark
@@ОлександраЛукянчук-т3в same
69th like and awesome story.
You potentially saved it's life
I watched this video while eating a bowl of spaghetti, because I'm a crazy asshole.
U genuinely scare me😩
I will never look at spaghetti the same again😳
God bless you, you magnificent lunatic!
You are one brave soul.
Did any of the noodles find their way out via your nose or mouth?
Horse hair that becomes them after being exposed to water. Sounds like a yokai.
Mushi lore, for sure
Never thought gonna see fellow mushi shi fan
I have seen these in puddles and leaf litter around here (and I also have horses) and these worms do indeed look and feel just like a horse’s thick tail hair. The big difference is they MOVE. Heebee jeebee factor of 10!
wwwwwhat do you mean they FEEL like horse hair.... eewwewewewew
Do they actually came from a horse hair tail or was that just a myth?
@@eddee4806 Are you actually genuinely asking this?
@@tossover6490 well I'm curious! did they really came from a horse hair or did they evolve from nature?
@@eddee4806 They are worms from nature. The myth was that they came from actual horse hair. So other than their name, they are not related to horse hair at all.
"Dont worrry, itt'll escape your body trough your nose"
Oh geeeee, thanks.
How hair raising...
We've been missing your punny sense of humor. 😉😉
I hate you 😆
How gross.
I encountered 1 I’m my garden a while back.
“ ah, ah , ah” 🤣
Calm matpat telling me if I eat this, it will jump back out of my mouth or nose. Thanks.
Thanks! I hate it.
This is horror material. I feel icky with worms a lot but horsehair worms make earthworms look cute and touchable. I also can't imagine some worm suddenly came out of the nose. I wouldn't sleep for days.
lol at the scientist looking at a veil full of horse butt
Why did the horses butt have a veil on
It seems that crawling out of some orifice in the human body is definitely better causing some mayhem from the inside out and taking over the brain turning you into a mindless titan
Is that an AOT reference?
Neh it is Zombie titan
@@Charle_Z a little bit. I made the statement because people seem to be freaking about about it escaping from your body which I assume is a bit more harmless than people think lol it could DEFINITELY be worse. At least according to what is stated in the video it is trying to leave you alone 😬😅
Several years ago I was in WV and happened to see a cricket acting strangely outside in the rain. When I got closer I saw a horsehair worm crawling out of the cricket. It was bizarre, and I ended up keeping the worm in a jar
Eat it 😈
Snort it😈
I caught a wasp once and trapped it in a jar
I came back maybe a few hours later to find the wasp dead and a 4 inch parasitic worm crawling it’s way around
I was both confused, fascinated and freaked out non the less
So was the worm
About a year ago, I kill a cricket that somehow found its way from my basement, up two flights of stairs, went down my hallway, into my bathtub in my master bedroom. I was super confused on why it specifically went to my tub. I killed it and out popped this 3 inch worm. I had zero idea what it was, but I knew it was using the cricket as a host. I balled the worm up in a tissue and set it on fire. I was worried it would somehow find a way to my pups.
Thanks for the information.
when I was younger I would play in the irrigation ditch at my grandma's house looking for worms and I found one of these... I showed my mom and grandma and they looked it up and found out that it's a parasite... I haven't touched an irrigation ditch since.
Oh that was probably chilling to discover as a kid! Thankfully these are harmless to humans, though there are other parasites that could be found in irrigation ditches that DO use humans as hosts 😬
@@AnimalFactFiles like what??
Luckily they don't want humans
Our generation and generations back then: playing with bugs and critters,climbing trees and playing in ditches. Kids nowadays: barely leave the house and freak out when they see a moth
@@bssaassin1900 bAcK iN mY dAy
As a child from Québec, me, my brother and cousins find something really similar at the crystal beach. It was floating on the water and I remember that we place it in our hands and find it very strange to see it move ! ! We never saw this before ! After that day, my brother found out it was maybe a " cheveu de mer" in french.
J'adore trouver d'autres Québécois dans les commentaires des vidéos! Love from MTL!
@@guiguipop3658 Hey salut ! !! Moi aussi je trouves ça toujours pas mal cool ! ! Montréal, hein ? ! 😄☺ quel coin?
Je vais prendre ça comme un signe d’éviter la plage pendant quelque temps 😳
Who else felt uncomfortable near the rectal area when they saw the worms leaving the host
i think i might prefer that, vs the other route…i dunno…not a choice i was prepared to make in my life
You may need to check for pin worms if your having rectal discomfort.
"Boil your water, cook your food."
As my grandpa always said.
They thrash around with a lot of force so they have a lot of muscle for their size. If you were a bug imagine how horrible it would be having something that strong and large thrashing around inside you.
Edit: 😳👉👈
Something strong and large thrashing around inside me, you say?
@@kylerae9196 oh my god lmao
@@kylerae9196 HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA
@@kylerae9196 ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
@@kylerae9196 asl?
Thanks. Now every time a hair moves in my nose I think.. WORM!!!
I had a video suggesting about velvet ants and that's how I discovered this channel! But glad I did! Love the short videos that pack so much interesting and informative facts about these creepy crawlies! I'm now a subscriber 😁
I 100% knew this video was gonna be uncomfortable but I've decided to still watch this. I hate myself but this is a fascinating channel
And they want us to eat crickets!!!!!
Imagine going to Panda Express to get some noodles and as you eat, you see the noodles on your fork start to move around
Me: "Mom how's the spaghetti moving? Did you put a magic into it?"
noooooooooooooooooooo
The way he said accidentally swallowed adult horse hairworm and finding its way to get out in mouth or nose making me think that horrible sci fi movie named "LIFE"😫
I use to work at a fish factory, the horsehair worms would get caught in the nets in spring time. During the spring/summer the fisherman would grab buckets and bail loads of them out back into the water. I shit you not there would be 20lbs of these things just wiggling around. Also they would put them in their water bottles for pranks
What-da-FUUUUU?!! XD
Kill them and wtf dont drink them
Who the hell put spaghetti in my drinks
There is an entire movie dedicated to this freaking thing. I just discovered its existence through the movie...
Oh! What's the movie?
@@AnimalFactFiles its called Deranged. Its a Korean movie. I 100% recommend you to watch it!
@@flywithbees Sounds awesome! I love Korean films! Thanks for the recommendation!
I've just learned something new. Now I'd like to know how I can forget this...
Be hairy afraid! 😘 especially if you’re an arthropod! Thanks for making the parasite and host relationship easy to understand 💚🤙
just put em in your mouth🤣
they taste like chicken🤣
I’m 37 now but when I was six years old, I found one of these in my pool. I never knew what it was until right now. So glad the mystery was solved 30 years later 😹
Lucky it didn’t crawl up your ass
"dont worry they will only come out of your nose or mouth" IM NEVER GOING OUTSIDE AGAIN!!
I actually had a dream when I was a young teen that I was pulling these things out of my throat. I used to find them in the runoff drains buy the cow pastures I live near. I always knew them to be parasitic but didn't know what type of animal they were parasitic to. Thanks for creeping me out again.
Lol
Damn imagine eating something and suddenly a worm just starts coming out your nose 😱
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"It would likely make its way out of my mouth or nose". That doesn't make me feel any better.
me after seeing this video* never swimming in lakes again
Excellent video, thank you. A short while ago I found a couple of these writhing around in a puddle after heavy rain & didn't have a clue as to what they were.
Is anyone else awake at 3Am in a youtube binge
I once saw one burrow into some soil in a garden, while I was digging up a small hole. Is this a common or rare phenomenon, or was it a similar looking animal of a different phylum?
That's called an earthworm.
@@hideousruin nah, it still couldve been a horse hair worm. It easily could have been the right size/thickness to be one.
it was an earthworm. they're common in soil and very beneficial to the environment. keep them in your lawn and/or garden!
@@jackalope_hunter Actually it did not resemble an earth worm at all. It was thin, very shiny, jet black, and it moved really quickly into the soil after I exposed it. I wasn't sure if it was an animal or if I was hallucinating.
Just read the troop, I am now unfazed by worms as nothing can compare to that terrifying book.
don't worry guys, if you swallow one its just gunna come out of your mouth or nose. No biggie see?
Honestly
I hate how my first encounter of them on the internet I had was of some art involving them.
Thankfully, your video helped me overcome the anxiety the work induced in me
"....if you did ingest one it would, most likely, find its way out through your mouth or nose...."
😳 and now I have to figure out how to sleep tonight....
so you ate one?
I have heard apocryphal stories of home remedies (for people who feeling sick and maybe infected with parasite) that saw worms coming out peoples noses. I always thought it was fake but wonder if there was something to it
Every time I slightly forget about this, A VIDEO POPS UP TO REMIND ME.
When I was young I lived near a Beck and often saw these worms. About 3 inches and so thin they looked like hair. Thanks to this it’s finally made sense as these hairs were writhing about on my hand when I caught them 👍
I found seven of these swimming in a river. I took them to the rainger station and she said they were rare and found in that volume was extremely unlikely
First time I saw 1 it was coming out of a cricket, over 2ft long! How and where did it all fit in a tiny cricket?!?
Me watching parasite absolutely butcher a grass hopper while silently shaking with my mouth open.
Theres an epidemic of stray cats in my neighborhood that I keep an eye on. Take the hurt or sick cats to the vet, get every cat I can get my hands on fixed. I feed a couple who cant get food at the other places cause they get beat up. I spent the stim checks fixing 10 of these cats. Anyways, I see them eat grass every once in a while, and thats when they get worms. They all all do the same thing, eat some grass, then throw up the worms and I think they're these. There thin, white and long. The cats drink puddles and eat bugs so it makes sence.
Right now I have a little black kitten who needs a home. Neighbors abuse these cats, hes in for a rough life if he doesn't make it put of here. His name is Sinna. He's liter trained. He's ready to be an indoor cat cause i trained him in my garage. He's all black with a white triangle on his chest. Him and his two siblings were abandoned by mama, and close to death when I found them. I found his two siblings a home. Sinna got the short end of the stick. I just recently took in another pregnant cat in too. She's not having the babies though unless I find a home for all for them too. Ive found 5 of these cats homes. I adopted 4 others. I'm doing all I can and it's still not enough. Story is much deeper than this. I'm facing charges for " threatening " an off duty cop I watched maim a kitten. My kitten, one of the 4 I adopted. I almost lost it and ended up in Prison. Instead I kept my cool and still face bogus charges😂 Feel like fucking Jon Snow. I'm just trying to do what's right and I somehow always end up punished for it.
God bless you.
wow
@@marks6663 thank you mark🙏
He already has, I'm alive🙏
I don’t know if this is a personal question to you but, what state are you in?
@@tyleenhawthorne5073 not at all. I'm in New Jersey
One of these took control of a cricket once and it jumped into my pool. It freaked my mother out because she thought it was just a giant strand of cricket shit lol. One of the weirdest creatures out there.
Now making a new enemy for my rpg :)
On no! Woe to your player characters!! 😆😆
@@AnimalFactFiles the medusa worm! They get into humans who eat tainted pork. After they fully mature the 3 foot long worms emerge from the human body!
They _usually don't kill you, but they cause emotional instability and leave large soars that are easily infected when they leave!
As a general rule of thumb, if you can see it, your stomach acid will destroy it. It's the little microbes that can get past the acid in your stomach.
Thanks, it's Halloween and I needed the nightmare fuel
Worm: I must grow inside you.
Bug: If you encyst.
Wont your stomach acid kill it?
The girls brought home a kitten they'd found. At supper time, that kitten puked up a pile of these under the table where I had begun to eat. I was suddenly finished eating, and that kitten suddenly found itself living outside.
Thank God it wasn't a puppy, or I would have had to pay for a vet.
I love nature and I love science, but this was creepy.
New diet plan you want to have appetite control watch videos like this right before you about to eat a meal,especially a meal that calls for angel hair pasta. 😹
Sometimes this worm call devil's hair 😈
Welp, guess I'll just start drinking acid, lava, melted metal... You know, stuff that isn't freaking water containing living nightmare fuel.
Well, that's just creepy!
Thanks for the video.
How did they find and then differentiate 250 different types of worm
that was why I refused to eat any shellfish and snail. These are very very unclean food!
I found a horsehair worm in a puddle in our road(dirt), so I took it home & my mom freaked out & made me throw it away. I will always remember it.
I can only imagine the pain they go thru I kinda makes me think of the guy with the bomb in his stomach on Batman
At least it was in his stomach in "Man on fire" he had one in his rectum.
This worm created rumors that if you stepped on a cockroach lots of them will come out of it.
Could of gone on with my life happily without knowing the last fact in the video...
Fun game: take a drink every time he says horsehair worm(s).
time to move to antarctica
Thanking God every day that I'm not an invertebrate. The parasites vertebrates get are so much milder. "Oooh you're gonna get big worms in your gut or brain if you don't clean and cook your food" compared to a literal xenomorph you get by basically spinning a roulette every time you eat
The horse hair thing remind me of a belief my Mixtec people believe in but its about human hair. My parents used to say if your hair falls off or you cut it and throw it in water after a while like days, it'll turn into a snake. As a kid that scared me but obviously as i got older I knew it was a myth of sort.
Yea I’m gonna have to go with “kill it with fire”.
Yep... and terraform my yard to only host Dune Sandworms.
My Sister & I used to catch these worms down at the creek...our Dad said they were Horse Hairs that come alive in water...it wasn't until decades later when I remembered them & Googled...LOL!! I didn't think hair could come alive but when I was 5 🤷♂️ anything was possible!
I tried to sneeze so hard until I heard him say “ they will just crawl out of you nose or mouth” I don’t want to sneeze now
My dog pooped these out...tons of them...I burned them in the firepit just to make sure they were GONE!
What happens if you were to unknowingly consume their eggs?
This summer I killed a large Dock (warf) spider I found in my kitchen sink. After I gave it a good smack the abdomen popped off and there was this ball that looked like colloid intestines or a round brain. I sat there a few minutes looking at this stuff trying to wrap my head around what I was looking at and that when it started to move and wiggle. Then I finally figured it out. I've seen these parasite before emerging from grasshoppers and they were always long and wormy but I guess that this worm wasn't fully ready to leave its host just quit yet.
When I was a kid o scooped a bucket of water up from a lake and watched in amazement as this tiny thin as piece of hair swam around in it. I never knew what it was until just now, thank you.
“And because it’s freaking Antartica” 😂
i just somewhat recently tryed to keep a rollie pollie for the hell of it for a small spider a was keeping in a container. not knowing what or how to keep the rollie pollie I had it in a jello dish with wet newspaper with a lid on it. it was ok at first then died a day or two latter. when I went to look at rollie pollie closer I noticed a very small but very thin an long worm like thing coiled up at end of rollie pollie on dish. itcould only have come from rollie pollie, I guessed as pollie died the host was no longer suitable and left host ... I'm wondering if this was same worm (or family) using pollie as a host?
It's all fun and games until you realise that's not spaghetti stuck in your throat lol moments later you open your mouth in the mirror and see a black liquorice lace frantically wiggling like FREE MEEEEE
I was forced to learn about this when at school a cricket was stepped on and one of these demons twice the size of the insect climbed out of its corpse.
That last clip of the worm leaving the grasshoppers body... gross. 😂
I found one of these in some water, crawling out of a bug once. I asked a vet what it was since it was a worm and vets deal with worms. She didn't know but took it to send to a university lab for IDing. I never heard back from her. I didn't know bugs got worms. I was thinking a whip worm but didn't think a bug was the intermediate host. So interesting. Now when I see the spiders and other bugs in my rain water I am going to wonder just unlucky or really, really unlucky. They must dehydrate the host to "make" it jump into water.
"If you accidentally ingest a horsehair worm 🪱, don't worry, it sill find it's way out of your nose or mouth." Me: noooooo problem???!!!!
We found one a long time ago and we could not figure out what that damn thing was . we kept it in an airtight bottle and it lived for a year . unbelievable but true
Parasites wig me out, worm-types definitely are more aesthetically disturbing than other types. Despite that, I'm going to sit here and torture myself watching this, learning what these critters do and even when you say at the end, humans need not worry, I'm still going to be in the fetal position, trying not to sob in terror.
I remembered finding one of these creature under a rock I genuinely though it was a normal worms until it started wiggling like crazy it's honestly horrified me
Me: Staring at a bowl of water with strands of hair in it for the 10th day in a row.
Friend: "Um, are you ok? Do I like need to call someone or-"
Me: "Shhh! I'm doing science!"
SCIENCE! XD
These things are the reason why my dad told me to take a sip of beer as a child 💀💀💀