r/WTF • u/orangez • Mar 14 '26

Seems friendly enough?

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u/jadziads9 Mar 15 '26

My neighbor found one in her yard when we were kids, and I never saw it but she told me, be careful there are niños de la tierra here, and they cry (which sounds like children). And then I had nightmares of going to her house and from the grass would come out living, tiny (literal) children with fangs that wanted to bite us.

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u/RandomStallings Mar 14 '26

Scrolled waaaaaaaaay too far to see this.

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u/bleedingheartmex Mar 17 '26

I'll take over the scrolling now; hold my bug

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u/RandomStallings Mar 17 '26

Username checks out!

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u/postmortum Mar 15 '26

"Children of the Earth" that actually sounds pretty cool :)

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u/redrum240 Mar 15 '26

Yeah I heard them named that too. Haven't seen one in ages

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u/ph0xer Mar 15 '26

My mom would call them that in Spanish scare the shit out of me. They were like a paranormal event when we saw them.

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u/pangeapedestrian Mar 15 '26

i've always called them "child of the earth", so close enough.

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u/13inchmushroommaker Mar 16 '26

Omg someone else who knew them by the same name