THIS bizarre creature baffled onlookers when it was spotted crawling across the ground in an unusual and creepy way.

Huang Meilan filmed the mysterious insect on rocks in Hsinchu, Taiwan, earlier this week.

2 The incredibly strange creature was seen on a street in Taiwan Credit: ViralPress

2 Some viewers think the creature is a number of 'horsehair worms' bunched together Credit: ViralPress

She said she was ''shocked'' by the strange creepy crawly and had ''never seen anything like it before''.

Huang said: "I found this on the ground and it caught my eye.

"It was so strange and people said different things about it. But I wanted to know what it actually was.''

Huang appealed online and many suggested the brittle looking insect appeared to be several nematomorpha - commonly called "horsehair worms" - tangled together.

In extreme cases they can grow up to two metres in length.

The parasitic creatures become entwined while they use a host to breed.

Others believed the creature was a ''mutant species'' of stick insect - or even a form of alien life.

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Miffy Chu said: ''It could be a new creature made from a genetic mutation that we've never seen before.

"It's a bit freaky watching it, it looks like an alien life form that has got lost on earth.''

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