Is the 'Giant Lawn Worm' from TikTok real?
By Ava Barnes
A video of a guy pulling a ‘giant lawn worm’ from someone’s drain has gone viral on TikTok, but is it real or fake?
It comes as a picture of a magnificent creature called a Lynx Owl had the internet in awe but turned out to be made using artificial intelligence.
Misinformation is a huge issue in 2023 and it’s difficult to know what you should believe on social media. Here’s the truth about the worm…
Guy pulls ‘Giant Lawn Worm’ from drain
The video was posted by a TikTok user called Tim The Lawnmower Man who is a gardener and films himself transforming people’s lawns.
He filmed another user called The Unblocker Aus who unclogs drains for a living pulling something sickening from beneath the grass.
“This client’s been complaining about the lawn losing all its color,” he says before stopping and saying: “Oh my god look at that.”
“Rodney’s just pulling this out. This is a giant lawn worm. They eat away at the roots of the plant,” he continues – adding it’s one of the “biggest ones” he’s seen.
The other guy uses all his strength to pull out a long, brown worm-shaped object from the drain, waking out into the road as it’s so big.
Is the ‘Giant Lawn Worm’ from TikTok real?
No, the giant lawn worm from the viral video is not real.
The guy wasn’t pulling out a worm, he was just removing a long line of tree roots which had grown into the sewer pipe.
However, there is a real species called the Giant Gippsland earthworm, which are commonly nicknamed giant earthworms.
They average at around one metre long and two centimetres in diameter, although their body can expand which makes them appear even larger.
The worms live deep in the soil along stream banks and on hills in the Australian area of Gippsland, Victoria and rarely come to the surface.
Video fools people on TikTok
The clip was shared back in March and continues to trick people in May, with a whopping 36.8 million views in total.
One person wrote: “Australia was never meant for civilization.”
“New fear unlocked,” said another.
A third person added: “IS THAT ALIVE???”
“Animals in Australia be like,” someone else said.
Another wrote: “Only in Australia.”
