I was roughly 9 and was playing in the backyard with my older brother and two younger sisters. We had a stack of wood off to the side of the yard, and my brother and sister were moving planks around.

They found a worm which literally looked like a cartoon bookworm come to life. It was small, maybe two inches in length, but the head was abnormally large. It was blue/green in colour and had a tail that was ribbed. The strangest thing of all was its face. Its eyes were blue but they literally looked like they were painted on -- like a Barbie doll's eyes. The mouth looked to be similar to a painted on smile, like this --> ). Had the "bookworm" not been moving, we would have sworn it was a plastic toy, even though the texture was not hard (though it wasn't squishy, either).

It looked similar to this:

[link to blogtown.portlandmercury.com]

(Note that it didn't have arms or glasses lol, nor was it that long. The head was also quite a bit larger in proportion to its body, and it's body or tail was ribbed. The colour was blue/green, and it had no hair.)

My brother and sister passed it back and forth between their hands carefully; we thought it was the cutest thing we had seen (but also the STRANGEST, by far) and we intended to keep it as a pet. We had no clue what it ate or what it needed to survive, but that didn't really matter much, since it died in my brother's hands with a minute or two.

It lost it's blue/green tinge and turned grey after it died, so we buried it under our cherry tree. We felt so bad for the little guy; we didn't know if we had harmed him or what, but still...

We talk about our little bookworm every now and then, and I've done some snooping around to see if I could find an explanation as to what exactly it was...but we still have no answers.

Too bad, too. That little guy was adorable. Strange, but so cute. I wonder now if he was not "of this earth", or is maybe a part of the "hidden" reality of earth (of other races, creatures, etc.). So fascinating.