The Unintentionally Puzzling Giant Worm

So in Moscow, Idaho people are searching for a giant worm. They swear it exists and they want to find it. It is supposedly an ancient indigenous type, a real western hemisphere worm not like the common earthworm which apparently was an unintended import from Europe perhaps first arriving in a rotten apple on the Mayflower or maybe surviving the Atlantic crossing stuck to a Viking's shoe.


This summer a professor from the university of Idaho is leading a team of graduate students to get a look at a real live giant Palouse worm. The group will spend the summer searching in fields of a university research farm, hoping for a glimpse of the possibly 3 foot long phylum.


The worm's apparent desire for seclusion and peace, evident from the only 4 substantiated sightings since the 1890s and the fact that it lives fifteen feet below the surface of the planet, is not dampening the Idahoian university team's desire or efforts to force it above ground. Three methods are being employed in the hopes of glimpsing, capturing (-which comes first?- ) killing, and disecting the creature - digging, digging and pouring noxious doses of mustard and vinegar down the holes, and shoving 3 foot long metal rods inducting 320 volts into the ground.