Posted on 02/19/2014 7:12:56 PM PST by Straight Vermonter
There was a great story from the old tv show “Night Gallery” about “earwigs”.
from http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0660818/reviews
However, one of the true gems that came out of Night Gallery (I think I can count them all on the fingers of one hand) is a second season screenplay called “The Caterpillar” starring Laurence Harvey. In fact, I’d venture to opine that this is the best remembered episode of Night Gallery, for its sheer horror...
To be brief, a nasty little carnivorous insect crawls into Laurence Harvey’s ear as he sleeps; it proceeds to burrow through his middle and inner ears and into his brain. Harvey is tied down to his bed and writhes in screaming, tortured, insane agony for days, as the bug EATS its way through his head and emerges through his other ear. The attending physician is amazed -— he’s never even heard of anyone surviving this ordeal, and yet Laurence Harvey somehow manages to pull through it. Until, that is, the earwig is identified as a female, and the doctor solemnly informs Harvey that the thing apparently LAID EGGS on its way through his brains. ARRRRGGHHHH!!!
I mean, if THIS episode of Night Gallery doesn’t make you squirm, nothing will. It’s creepy, it’s sick, it’s horrifying... After viewing it, you WILL inspect your bed for insects, you WILL wear earplugs for a few nights, and you WILL NEVER forget this episode (even if you see it only once).
I think cops used to use different types of maggots to figure how long a body had been rotting... they all eat flesh at a different stage of decomposition.
read post 61
obama picked up his maggots in Indokneeshuh and Chicago!
“I think cops used to use different types of maggots “
That’s the basis for forensic entomology.
If you start to waiver, read the Hot Pockets thread until you get through the inverted boneless pork rectum discussion.
Our little calico cat that my wife found by the side of the road had warbles. I think they are the cow type. Huge lumps on her neck. She was the worst smelling living animal that I have ever encountered.
Poor little thing.
Probably Bot fly, Cuterebra.
She must have been a dead head because maggots only eat dead tissue.
You said it!!
The maggots would die, they can't exist in a vacuum!
Well, she is fine now! She is the most strikingly pretty cat. Her fur is luxurious. Her attitude is the sweetest for a female cat I have ever known. She is my little shadow when I am home.
Seems like there was an episode on TV about
something like this , it was called The Earwig?
Maybe Twilight Zone. Not sure.
Also remember an early Life or Look magazine with
an article about some guy coming back from South
American who had a BIG moth emerge from a swelling
on his arm.
Ick. I remember a conversation with someone in a
crowded resturant, she had just returned from Colombia
or some where in South America and she was saying,
“Hey man! Fraking mushrooms were growing out of my SKIN. Fraking MUSHROOMS MAN!!!”
Everybody moved away from us in the resturant.
Aaaaacccccckkkkkkk....no snack for me now.
Hey, that’s the one!
Pretty scary.
RIP Eddie Hazel.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGGVy4RkUs0
Yep. It was narrated by Tom Hanks and played at the 2012 Democrat National Convention.
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