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# Huge Meter-Long Lizards Are Crawling Through the Bangkok Sewers and This Guy Caught One on Video

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by 

[Helen Regan](https://time.com/author/helen-regan/)


## Helen Regan


Jul 21, 2015 8:49 AM UTC

by 

[Helen Regan](https://time.com/author/helen-regan/)


## Helen Regan


Jul 21, 2015 8:49 AM UTC

One tourist got a nightmarish surprise during a recent trip to Bangkok when he filmed what he says was a “huge” Komodo dragon slithering through a storm drain.

“I was outside of a temple in downtown Bangkok and people were screaming and pointing into the sewer. There it was. I got the video to prove it!” said John Hernandez, who posted the video to [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0-Pe9mEN5c).

According to [UPI](http://www.upi.com/Odd%5FNews/2015/07/20/Purported-komodo-dragon-caught-on-camera-in-Bangkok-sewer/2671437418882/?spt=sec&or=on%5C), Hernandez said the locals told him the big lizards “rove in packs” looking for rats to eat.

Although fellow [Reddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/3dyphu/a%5Fhuge%5Fkomodo%5Fdragon%5Fin%5Fthe%5Fsewers%5Fof%5Fbangkok/) users were quick to point out that that the beast was unlikely to be a Komodo dragon, as these dangerous creatures only live on certain islands of Indonesia, can reach 3 m in [length](http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/reptiles/komodo-dragon/), and have been known to eat deer, pigs, water buffalo and even the [occasional](http://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/mar/24/man-mauled-death-komodo-dragon) human.

It’s much more likely to be a water [monitor](https://bangkokherps.wordpress.com/2011/09/20/water-monitor/) lizard, they said, which are commonly found throughout Asia.

Still, that is one big nope!

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