It almost seems like something from a children’s story adventure, and unlike anything else found. But this supposively happened back in 1999 just outside a small town in Oregon.
Her name is Paula and she often will trudge through piles of trash in junkyards hoping to find that lost treasure. When she visits a junkyard, she will collect glass to recycle for cash, this is her daily routine.
This dumpsite is loaded with piles upon piles of discarded household items scattered around everywhere including furniture. There are large mounds of rusted pieces of metal around. The access point to this area is very quiet, with no one else really being there.
It is rather secluded and nestled by trees surrounding the dumpsite. There is grass which has grown up nearly everywhere in patches. The weeds are tall and a small stream sits at the bottom of the recess as water slowly pours about a foot deep.
One day Paula came to the site unlike any other day, however this time it was a bit different…
“As I was staking out the area,” she said. “I happened across some tunnel-like holes in the ground. The holes were of a peculiar size, which made me wonder what kind of animal possibly could have dug them.”
Paula then noticed about seven holes, each of them around two inches in diameter camouflaged by the sparse growth of the recessed area. The holes could have been made by any number of burrowing type creatures, Paula thought things over. She didn’t let it worry her.
Paula is quite experienced looking for lost junkyard treasures; she continued to sift through the trash for a while longer. Around half an hour passed, she found a good spot on the slant of a hillside. It was three-fourths away from the stream.
She then dropped to her knees with her trowel in hand and began to dig around the area. It was a good harvest as she found some old bottles embossed with lettering. About an hour has passed and she was getting tired so she started to head back when she noticed a large rumbling sound which seemed to come from everywhere.
Paula said: “While I was moving about at the bottom of the recess, I thought I saw, from the corner of my eye, a clump of dirt move. It was about the size of my fist.”
She turned to look squarely in the direction of the movement, trying to detect it again. But nothing moved. “Nah,” she thought, “it was nothing.”
Paula was about to return to her dig when she saw it again. About 10 feet away from her, the clump of dirt moved, like it was pushed out of the ground from beneath, and rolled down the hill. Paula began to get a little nervous.
Whatever had made those tunnel-like holes was apparently making another one. And she wasn’t particularly keen on watching a rat, a snake, or some other potentially dangerous animal come slithering out.
Then she saw it. Something living began to poke itself out of the ground! Her very first reaction was saying, “Oh, my God! What are you?”
She then stopped about five feet away from the creature. Only then she noticed it poking out of the ground. “At this point, I wasn’t sure what end of the animal I was looking at,” Paula said. “It was about two inches in diameter, and the end of it was perfectly smooth and round – like a cue ball.
It was light-brown in color, very much like the surrounding earth. It had a worm-like shape, but didn’t taper down at the end as worms do, and was firmer around looking. It had no distinguishing or familiar features to indicate to me what it was.”
Paula said, “While I was examining it, two big beautiful crystal blue eyes popped open! Now I knew what end of the animal I was looking at.” “The white of the eye surrounding its blue iris was the whitest I’d ever seen – a pure virgin white. The creature had rather large eyes, by proportion to its body size. I wondered if it were a juvenile.”
“I watched it until it finally pulled itself slowly back into its burrow. I looked into the hole after it, but it was so dark that I couldn’t see anything.”
“I am convinced that this animal still exists and lives there. It’s possible that it hibernates, so I will go back again in early to mid-summer and try and get another glimpse of it – and possibly capture it on film.”
Since her strange encounter, she has never seen this unusually strange worm creature again; it may be some new or ancient species living deep underground.