New Delhi: A viral clip shared widely on social media showed that it is raining worms, with the slimy creatures all over the cars parked on the side of the road. The video is reportedly from China's capital city Beijing. According to the New York Post, people in the Chinese province of Liaoning were told to find shelter after it looked like it started to rain worms.
In the video, shared by Insider Paper, people were seen walking with umbrellas to protect themselves from the worms.
While the reason behind the worm rain is not known yet, the scientific journal Mother Nature Network suggested that the animals were dropped after being swept up by heavy winds.
"According to the periodical also noted that this type of occurrence happens after a storm when insects are caught up in a whirlpool," the report added.
Another theory about this was that these aren’t worms at all! Instead, these were poplar flowers — a tulip tree whose blooms resemble the squirmy beasts, reported New York Post.
Different opinions have been shared on social media regarding the unusual video, while one said there were flower stalks, another said that the video was fake and a prank.
A Twitter user wrote, “If i was just minding my business on a casual day in China and it started raining worms ?? i’d just die.”
A Chinese journalist Shen Shiwei responded to The Rio Times tweet terming the video as fake and said Beijing had witnessed no rainfall in recent times. “I’m in Beijing and this video is fake. Beijing hasn’t got rainfall these days,” Shen Shiwei tweeted.