evidence: Residents in the Chinese province of Liaoning, near the North Korean border, were hit with a rain of worms on Sunday. [...] The Chinese media source Sina denied that China experienced raining worms, stressing that the worms were actually poplar flowers and that American hysteria was unnecessary. The report claimed that some people believed the apocalypse was coming as a result of the false reports. [...] While reports of worms raining down are contested, the phenomena of animal rain is not unheard of.