“I’ll never go to the sea again’: Man lures “disgusting worm” out of hole in the sand. “Nothing could have prepared me for this,” one user commented in English under a viral TikTok video showing a “worm” hidden in the Sand.

The video has now been viewed 1.8 million times (as of January 31) and shared almost 40,000 times. The creature is actually a Pacific sea mussel, also known as a razor clam.