Case file · Cryptid
Alaska ice worms
Worms said to live inside glaciers were a Klondike tall tale until they turned out to be real: small annelids found on Muir Glacier, Alaska, in 1887.
1887 CE · 58.95, -136.10 · status: explained
The account
Gold-rush newspapers and Robert Service's poem 'The Ballad of the Ice-Worm Cocktail' treated them as a joke. The real worms live in glacier ice and die if they warm much above freezing. Cordova holds an Ice Worm Festival.