The sound that Gary Revell makes is otherworldly. Somewhere between a rusted door creaking open and a bullfrog with a sore throat. The simple materials he uses to create the sound – a strip of metal ...

He stuck a microphone in the ground to record the noise the stob makes and also measured how fast worms crawled away after reaching the surface. Flags represent places where earthworms have emerged ...

That’s the conclusion of the first scientific study of the old art called worm grunting. In the southeastern United States, bait collectors hunt earthworms by rubbing a piece of iron across a stake in ...

It sounds a little like snake charming. You drive a wooden stake into the ground and draw a flat metal rod across the top, creating an bullfrog-like grunting sound. Within minutes, hundreds of ...

TATE’S HELL, Fla.— Gary Revell gets up every morning before sunrise, heads into the woods and grunts. Not because it’s so early. It’s the term for coaxing worms from the ground by the hundreds to be ...

Some of us are natural-born worm grunters. Guess I fall into the category of worm groaner. Groaning, as in complaining, is all I did while trying to grunt a few earthworms a couple of weeks ago in my ...