“It is so huge and … it looks to me in the photo pretty spring, which is pretty gross. "He didn't take any videos or anything, (he) wasn't overly excited by it … which I just can't believe because as soon as I saw the photo, I just, you know, wanted to be sick in my mouth. "I think it was already deceased when he came across it, so sort of just bobbing on the on the edge of the water there and he dug the stuck in and pulled it up and then my husband took the photo. He got it out with the stick, didn't want to touch it, but was pretty delighted to find it. He was outside in the yard - we've got a bit of an abandoned river bed on the edge of our property - and that's where he was digging around and stumbled upon – in the water - this giant, disgusting room. "I thought of it as like an amazing discovery and I could not believe my eyes.” “I think it's because adults don't really enjoy giant worms in their houses.
“I tried to convince my dad to keep it in a plastic bag, but he wasn't really in on that idea. It looked like it was “slimy and squishy and stuff like that”. He did not touch as he was not sure if had bacteria on it – but it did not smell. He said it’s length was “a metre probably”. “I kind of thought it would have been a worm because it had the shape of a worm, but not the size.” Nine-year-old Barnaby Domigan told RNZ he found the worm in a riverbed which still had some water in it. Barnaby Domigan discovered a giant earthworm in his back yard in Christchurch. Photo: SuppliedA Christchurch boy has discovered a giant earthworm - potentially up to a metre long - in his back yard.
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