HORRORS OF THE MICROCOSM Pt.1 - "I GOT WYRMS!"

This one's got worms, wyrms, demonic parasites, slime gurus, super freaky fungi, and so much more! PLEASE TO ENJOY!Email us!:[email protected] music is license/copyright free from Pixaby.comSOURCES:- "Behavioral Manipulation by Toxoplasma gondii: Does Brain Residence Matter?" ScienceDirect, 2020. - "Brain parasite may strip away rodents' fear of predators—not just of cats." Science, AAAS. - "Mind-control' parasite Toxoplasma hides from the immune system with 2 key genes." Live Science, 2024.- "The role of parasite-produced dopamine in Toxoplasma gondii-altered host behavior." Nature Communications, 2025.- "Absurd Creature of the Week: The Parasitic Worm That Turns Crickets Into Suicidal Maniacs." Wired, 2014. - "Grasshoppers brainwashed into suicide by a worm." New Scientist, 2005.- "Behavioral manipulation in a grasshopper harboring hairworm: a proteomics approach." PMC, 2005.- "The brain worm that turns ants into zombies." Natural History Museum, London, 2018. - "Brain-altering parasite turns ants into zombies at dawn and dusk." Phys.org, 2023.- "3D virtual histology at the host/parasite interface: visualization of the master manipulator, Dicrocoelium dendriticum." Scientific Reports, 2018.- "How *Ophiocordyceps unilateralis* turns ants into 'zombies.'" National Geographic.- "The Zombie Fungus Takes Over Ants' Bodies to Control Their Minds." The Atlantic, 2017.- "Zombie ant brains left intact by fungal parasite." Penn State University, PNAS.- "Minakata Kumagusu and the Tale of the Mountain God." Library of Congress, 2018.- "The Multispecies Intellectual History of the Kumano Kodō: Minakata Kumagusu, Slime Moulds, and Shrine Merger, 1906–1914." Environment & Society Portal.- "Japan's Wild Scientific Genius: Minakata Kumagusu." Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus.- "Science Heroes: Minakata Kumagusu." The Ethogram, 2021.- "Minakata Kumagusu: The Meiji Polymath Who Broke the Mold." Nippon.com.- "Minakata Kumagusu: The first Japanese environmentalist." History of Education Quarterly, Taylor & Francis.- "Attuning to the webs of en: Ontography, Japanese spirit worlds, and the 'tact' of Minakata Kumagusu." HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, University of Chicago Press.- "How brainless slime molds redefine intelligence." Nature, 2012.- "Collective behavior and swarm intelligence in slime moulds." FEMS Microbiology Reviews, Oxford Academic.- "Hyphal and mycelial consciousness: the concept of the fungal mind." ScienceDirect, 2021.- "Thinking while Brainless: Slime Mold Gives Insight into the Intelligence of Neuron-Less Organisms." NJIT News.- "Paramecium Learning: New Insights and Modifications." bioRxiv- "Integrative Neuroscience of Paramecium, a 'Swimming Neuron.'" eNeuro & PMC- "Meet The Mushroom That Makes People Have The Exact Same Hallucination." Vice- "'It sounds so impossible': Student studying fungus that makes users hallucinate tiny people may be on the verge of a scientific breakthrough." Live Science, 2025.- "'They saw them on their dishes when eating': The mushroom making people hallucinate dozens of tiny humans." BBC Future, 2026.- "Hallucinogenic bolete mushroom." Wikipedia- "This Is Awkward: Mushrooms That Cause 'Tiny Human' Hallucinations Don't Contain Psychedelics." ScienceAlert- "A Mushroom Is Sending Hundreds of People to the Hospital. They're All Sharing the Same Bizarre Hallucination." Popular Mechanics, 2025.- "Little people hallucinations: 5 Questions with mushroom researcher Colin Domnauer." The Microdose, Substack.- "Edible mushroom in China causes consistent hallucinations of tiny marching figures." OregonLive, 2026.- "The parasite's long arm: a tapeworm parasite induces behavioral changes in uninfected group members of its social host." PMC, 2015. - "Tapeworm infection affects sleep-like behavior in three-spined sticklebacks." Scientific Reports, 2024.There's more but this is all I can fit. Boo.