Ever since I was a child I've always felt a sense of unease
sitting down on the toilet. What might come up through the hole at the bottom
and grab me by my most sensitive parts? Of course this is an irrational dark fantasy...
or at least it was. A story has emerged that makes me wonder what really lurks
in that hidden, lightless world filled with our most repulsive waste products.
Steve Ratcliffe, a plumber from Wales ,
was called out to unblock a toilet on a rural cattle farm. Such places are very
common in Wales
and some of them are so remote they have independent water supplies and sewage
systems. This might explain why when he looked into the bottom of the toilet
Steve found a huge and grotesque growth of something that neither he nor
scientists could identify. It was definitely alive, not just a chemical or
sedimentary residue. The most likely possibility is that it is a previously
unknown species of fungus; or a biofilm, a symbiotic mixture of fungus and
bacteria. Fungi and bacteria, unlike plants, do not need sunlight to live. They
love damp and dark habitats with an abundant food source and, believe it or
not, they eat animal excretions with gusto. Source: https://www.sciencetimes.com/articles/40929/20221115/giant-alien-fungi-discovered-blocked-toilet-wales.htm.
Despite its alarming appearance, there is currently no evidence to suggest that
this growth is in any way dangerous; or at least when Steve pulled it out it
didn't go for his face. There is also no reason right now to suppose it is
alien in the literal sense of the word, despite the use of that term in media
headlines. It's probably just done to get the reader's attention. However, I
suspect much of earth's biosphere does have an extraterrestrial origin via
panspermia, see: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2013/09/exopolitics-2013-astrobiology.html,
or carried here through more directed means by intelligent alien beings. The
sewage systems of civilization are a perfect place for some kinds of weird
creatures to live, in secret because humans avoid contact with that world for
reasons of hygiene and good taste. It is said that no city dwelling human being
is ever more than ten feet away from a brown rat; but I've rarely even seen a rat. I
wonder what else can be found in those pipes and septic tanks, so near, yet so
far. Maybe something much unexpected!
See here for more information: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2016/10/monster-in-sewer.html.
And: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2022/11/cryptozoology-portal.html.
See here for more information: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2016/10/monster-in-sewer.html.
And: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2022/11/cryptozoology-portal.html.
Bloody hell, It makes you think what could be lurking down there only inches away from one’s delicate underparts. Ben, maybe a livestream on fungus and toilet related anomalies could be in order. I suspect that fear of what could be lurking under the toilet seat is a much more common issue than one might initially suppose.
ReplyDeleteHi Rhiannon. It is probably a common phobia. However most phobias are fears of imaginary danger: spiders, which, with a few exceptions in places like Australia, cannot harm humans. traveling in aeroplanes which are safer than cars. Etc. But phobias of things in toilets could technically come true. Although in this case the fungus does not appear to be dangerous. As foir a livestream, I don't think therte's enough scope for one just yet, but the story might develop. I'll keep an eye out for it.
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