In the video, you can witness a raw slab of meat squirming around on a plate. Then, it abruptly launches itself off the dish, flops onto the table, and eventually crashes onto the floor.
Now, that's seriously eerie!
Watch the video:
It is unclear where the footage was filmed - although many viewers have noted chopsticks on the table. And it's even less clear how a very dead chicken has supposedly managed to 'reanimate.'
The footage was posted on Facebook by Rie Phillips, and it didn't take long before the comments section was full of theories. Some wondered whether it is possible for a freshly slaughtered chicken's severed parts to still be firing off nerve signals, as they made reference to the famous phrase "running around like a headless chicken".
It is commonly believed that headless chickens run because many of the birds' reflex movements are controlled by their brain stems, not their brains - meaning a chicken will sometimes continue to race about.
One person suggested: "Usually because the meat is so fresh the muscles can still move," but another didn't need any answers, writing: "Hell no! If my food is walking, I'm walking too." We slowed down the footage to show how the chicken appears to jerk unnaturally from one second to another. So without any scientists - or perhaps special effects experts - to enlighten us all, it was left to one Facebook commenter to sum up the internet's reaction: "What the actual #%*$?"
This is seriously disturbing and makes me hesitant to cook up a chicken breast in the near future.
