Friday 18 November 2022

"Alien" Lifeform Found in Toilet

 
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.

2 comments:

Rhiannon said...

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.

Ben Emlyn-Jones said...

Hi 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.