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Rachel Hagan

Disgusting moment WORMS rain from sky as public urged to carry umbrellas for protection

The moment thousands of white worms rain down from the sky, covering the road in a thick layer of bugs, has been caught on camera in India.

In the skin-crawling clip filmed on Tuesday in Bihar, an East India state bordering Nepal, the creepy-crawlies can be seen hailing down like confetti.

No one knows what caused them to rain down or where they came from.

Many locals reportedly closed their shopfronts in horror to protect themselves from the mini worm plague.

Local media reported that no one was harmed following the incident but that many people were horrified by the scenes.

Many locals reportedly closed their shopfronts in horror (WORMS)
No one knows what caused them to rain down or where they came from. (WORMS)

In Norway in 2015, thousands of live earthworms fell from the sky in a rare phenomenon which swept across the south of the country.

And it also happened across the globe, in China.

In the Liaoning Province in March, another video appeared to show what looked like earthworms raining down from the sky.

Residents were subsequently warned to carry umbrellas to protect themselves from the wiggly creatures.

The videos of China got more than 18million views online before an eagle-eyed viewer pointed out that the hail of worms was likely catkins, or flower spikes, from poplar trees in the region instead.

The NYPost reports that Catkins “resemble caterpillars, and that is how they are often described, or as squiggly, worm-like structures,” according to Claire Thomas Federici, a botanist with the University of California, Riverside.

She continued: “Thus, you can see how the untrained eye would refer to these as worms.”

In February, a remote community in the Australian Outback was shocked after small, live fish began falling from the sky.

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