CRYPTID FOUND: Palouse Giant Worm

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The Giant Palouse Earthworm has long been a mystery of North Idaho.  Reports from the 1890's claimed the presence of an enormous worm under the prarie grasses, three feet long and shock white, with the ability to spit mucus in self defense and shrouded with the strange smell of lillies.  Isolated to the Palouse (a prairie region in north Idaho) the worm was claimed to be abundant in the 1890s, but no specimens were ever presented.


A summer research project at the University of Idaho changed all that. In 2010 their quest for the white worm was rewarded when two of these strange white worms were pulled from the hills outside Moscow.  They are being studied at the University, but so far the real article doesn't quite live up to the legend, being somewhat ordinary, if a little large.


Their presence presents a dilemma for local farmers, who fear the worm achieving protective status and making them unable to till their fields.  It's presence is denoted by deep smooth holes, about the width of a penny, that can go down a depth of 15 ft.

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