(tense music) - Oh, it wants to bite me. (sighs loudly) I'm actually going to get chomped. Ready? One. Two. Three. (tense music) (yelling loudly) Ah, he's biting me! He's got me good. (groaning loudly) Oh, he's latched. He's latched. He won't let go. He won't let go. (dramatic music) Oh, got one. Oh yeah. Woo, yeah! This, believe it or not, is one of the most famous creatures ever featured on the
Brave Wilderness channel. That's right, the original bloodworm video
now has over 73 million views, but in that original adventure, we did leave a few things on the table that are definitely worth revisiting. Namely the venomous bite of this creature. Actually, did Coyote take a bite? (Coyote yelling loudly) - [Host] Did he bite you? - He got me! - [Host] (laughs loudly) I got that! - He got me, I felt it. It was a little pinch. - [Host] Let me see, where'd he get you? - [Coyote] Right there. Right in the crux of my finger. - I think we can do
better than just a pinch from one of the world's
only venomous worms. In fact, we learned something very
important about this creature between the last adventure and today that's going to help us
achieve a bite on camera, but before I go getting myself chomped for this new bloodworm experiment, we need to find a whole lot
more worms than just this one. Let's keep digging. Bloodworms hunt for prey
in the tidal mud flats of both the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of the United States and Canada. They have also earned
the nickname sludgeworm, since their habitat consists of thick mud and quicksand that can easily
swallow your boots whole. To find these slimy predators, worm diggers use special rakes to quickly peel back mud and reveal worms on the move that could be sold as prize fishing bait. And while they can be difficult to find, some of the best worm diggers in Maine could collect up to 1000 worms a day, with the largest ones
growing up to 15 inches long. After hours of digging, and covered head to toe in mud and sweat, we filled the bucket and set the stage for one of the worst
bites we've ever filmed. Welcome to the bloodworm bite table. What I have in front of me here are five very large bloodworms. No, these are not your granddad's
night crawlers, folks. These are natural-born killers. Armed with four venomous fangs
and an appetite to match, we have been told that these
worms pack one heck of a bite. Some people say that
it's like a bee sting, and locals have even told us
that they've seen worm diggers crawling out of the
mud flats in near tears from being bitten by
these carnivorous worms. But there is one key piece of information that we learned from the original
bloodworm video to today, and that is you can
actually head a bloodworm. Similar to how a herpetologist would head a venomous snake to keep
it from biting them, I will actually attempt to grab the proboscis once it shoots out, and then intentionally
inflict my first bite. And yes, I said first bite. There's gonna be more than one. Now what I'm going to try
to do is head the proboscis, and while I'm attempting to do this, let's review some of the most interesting facts about this bizarre marine oddity. The bloodworm is a venomous segmented worm that hunts invertebrates
and other marine creatures. Armed with four razor sharp fangs and a projectile mouth called a proboscis, they are voracious predators, and are as aggressive as they are bizarre. One of the most shocking
things about these worms is how normal they can appear, and then in a split second, transformed into one of the most alien-looking life forms you've ever seen. And as if this wasn't creepy
enough, things get even worse. Once the blood worm has its prey ensnared in those hook jaws, it will inject it with a paralyzing venom that incapacitates the victim so it can be digested and eaten alive. This venom is chemically
similar to that of a scorpion and is known to cause
severe reactions in humans, including burning, tissue damage, and anaphylactic shock. Please do not attempt
what you're about to see. Oh, almost got it. Ah, I missed it. Oh, oh! Come on. All right. I've got it. Oh, wants to bite me. That is the proboscis
of one of the biggest bloodworms I have ever seen. Holy moly. That's over a foot, for sure. Okay, time to get bitten by one of the only venomous worms on the planet, the bloodworm. We've got a good hold on it. Here we go. One. Two. Three. Ah! (grunting loudly) Oh, look at that. Ah, he won't let go. He won't let go. (grunting loudly) Oh, he's in. He's really on there, guys. I can't get him off. He's biting me, he's got me good. Yeah, he got me. Oh man, it didn't break the skin. It was definitely latched into me, but it's fangs I don't
think are long enough to break the skin of my finger. I wonder if I try on a softer part. Let's try my wrist. It's a little bit thinner
there, a little bit softer. All right, here we go. Let's go in for the second bite on three. One. Two. Three. Oh yeah, see him tug on the skin? He's in, he's latched. He's latched! Yeah!
(groans loudly) I can't get him off. Yeah, he's got me. You see that? Keep rolling, keep rolling. I'm gonna try to pry him off. Oh, he's really latched on. (groans loudly) Come on. Let go, let go. He won't let go, he won't let go. Gotta get him off. Oh yeah. That was a full on bloodworm bite. Boy, that burns. Gosh, you get that shot? His fangs were all the way latched in. Oh. Oh, that burns. Oh man, yes. You can see that there wasn't much blood produced in the bite, but I've got blisters forming, and that's likely due to all
the inflammation and swelling. I seal it in the nervous system. My wrist is screaming right now. Super painful burning sensation, a lot like a wasp or a bee sting. Those fangs are like little talons, and it just grabbed
right through the skin, and did not wanna let go. They were like barbs on a fishing hook. They were just in there. And really, I wasn't
able to get the worm off until it decided to relax a
little bit and I pried it back, but those fangs are
definitely sharp enough. Yikes, that hurt. Now that we've witnessed what a single bloodworm is capable of, let's see what happens when I submerge my hands in over a hundred of them. Do bloodworms hunt in packs? We're about to find out. Before I attempt to feed my hands to these four-fanged terrors, let's take a look at what they did to some normal prey from the wild. While related and very
similar looking to bloodworms, the sandworm is not nearly as formidable. And after a short time
in a small aquarium, we can see they are also
very much their food. The venomous bloodworms attacked and broke down the sandworms quickly, and what you're seeing now are signs of both chewing and dismemberment. A clear sign of active predation. If you thought one bloodworm bite was bad, check this out. Whoa! Look at all these worms. That is a container filled with over 100 bloodworms in this tank, and I'm going to attempt
to submerge my hands into this tank of
bloodworms for two minutes, all of that to figure out
do bloodworms hunt in packs. Ready? On three. One. Two. Three. Oh, that feels so weird. (tense music) (yells quickly) I just took my first bite. Hit me on the pinkie. It was a bite and release. Oh, I can feel 'em. Yeah, I can feel more proboscis going. It's like you can feel them tense up, and then boof, it fires out. It's killing me. You can see them wriggling, and they have their little sensory tips sensing their environment for anything that they can eat or get those jaws on. Oh, I can see a lot of them are shooting their proboscis out already. They sense something foreign
in their environment. I got to look away. This is like too much anxiety just looking at this container. This has got to be the creepiest thing I have ever done in my entire life. Just so disgusting feeling all those worms wriggling round my fingers. One thing that we noticed earlier is that as soon as one of them
fires their proboscis, it seems to create a rapid fire effect. They all do it at the same time. - [Coyote] They're going crazy. - They are, I feel them
wriggling around my fingers. Oh man, oh yeah. Ah! Got another one, mm. Oh my goodness, so creepy. All right, how much time left? - [Coyote] 30 seconds left. - All right. This has gotta be the longest
two minutes of my life. Two minutes feel like an eternity. Ah! Oh! Oh, the bloodworm bite tank. This is horrible! Give me a countdown. - [Coyote] Five, four-- - Ah, got me again! - [Coyote] Three, two, one! - Ah! Definitely got nailed on
the pinkie on this side, and I got two nips between my fingers, here and here. Definitely got nipped three times. Wow. That was weird. What a crazy day on the
Brave Wilderness channel. Well, I don't know if
we can definitively say that bloodworms like to hunt in packs, but I'll tell you this. They sure don't mind sharing a meal. But man, that original bite? That was a serious, serious
chomp from a bloodworm. It is absolutely swollen and
very tender to the touch. I have a feeling I'm gonna be in pain for quite a while on that one. (voiceover) And I was absolutely correct. The bite of a bloodworm was no joke, and ended up becoming one of the most painful experiences I've endured so far. Overnight the swelling
increased dramatically, and the burning around the bite spread through my hand and up my arm, nearly locking my wrist. Then days after the initial pain subsided, I had a secondary reaction, where the bite zone flared
up with an aggressive rash and itched at least twice
as much as poison ivy. In all it took three weeks to
heal from the bloodworm venom, and I am here to officially say the scary rumors of bloodworms are 100% true. So while these creatures
are an important part of the inner-tidal ecosystem and a valued resource for fishing towns across Maine, you absolutely want to avoid
their bite at all costs. Ouch, exclamation point! (mud squelching quietly) (animal howling loudly)
