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"I have never had the pleasure (if, indeed, you can call it that) of meeting one of these particular creatures. Sometime after the incidents in Perfection, Nevada, I was granted access to the diary of one Hiram Gummer, one of the town’s founders. Though I didn’t know anything about him, the government wanted me to read the diary and draw my own conclusions – as Mr. Gummer had given the diary to the government in his will. I was shocked to discover that, in 1889, Mr. Gummer and several of the other town founders had battled the subterranean carnivores known today as “Graboids”.

Even more incredibly, I found a sketch by Mr. Gummer within the diary, and a note describing the habits of a previously unknown stage of Graboid metamorphosis! This creature – which Hiram called a “Dirt Dragon” – is apparently something akin to a Graboid larva. They are just as fast as their larger cousins, but far lighter, and capable of leaping – literally, leaping – in and out of loose soil “Like some kind of Demonic Trout” as Hiram put it.

Apparently, there is a vast clutch of Graboid eggs somewhere around the old “Bottom Dollar Silver Mine” at the north end of the valley. Unfortunately, with no way to detect them, the inhabitants shall have to deal with them as they hatch out. Apparently, the eggs hatch when exposed to heat, as the group that hatched in 1889 was exposed to water from a diverted hot spring. Unfortunately, the hot spring’s location has been lost over the years, and thus it remains impossible for us to determine whether the current Graboid attacks are a result of this hot spring."

Reality Check: This is the “pre-Graboid” monster seen in Tremors 4. That movie caught a lot of flack, but it’s actually my second-favorite Tremors movie (after the first one, of course).

Description
"I have never had the pleasure (if, indeed, you can call it that) of meeting one of these particular creatures. Sometime after the incidents in Perfection, Nevada, I was granted access to the diary of one Hiram Gummer, one of the town’s founders. Though I didn’t know anything about him, the government wanted me to read the diary and draw my own conclusions – as Mr. Gummer had given the diary to the government in his will. I was shocked to discover that, in 1889, Mr. Gummer and several of the other town founders had battled the subterranean carnivores known today as “Graboids”.

Even more incredibly, I found a sketch by Mr. Gummer within the diary, and a note describing the habits of a previously unknown stage of Graboid metamorphosis! This creature – which Hiram called a “Dirt Dragon” – is apparently something akin to a Graboid larva. They are just as fast as their larger cousins, but far lighter, and capable of leaping – literally, leaping – in and out of loose soil “Like some kind of Demonic Trout” as Hiram put it.

Apparently, there is a vast clutch of Graboid eggs somewhere around the old “Bottom Dollar Silver Mine” at the north end of the valley. Unfortunately, with no way to detect them, the inhabitants shall have to deal with them as they hatch out. Apparently, the eggs hatch when exposed to heat, as the group that hatched in 1889 was exposed to water from a diverted hot spring. Unfortunately, the hot spring’s location has been lost over the years, and thus it remains impossible for us to determine whether the current Graboid attacks are a result of this hot spring."

Reality Check: This is the “pre-Graboid” monster seen in Tremors 4. That movie caught a lot of flack, but it’s actually my second-favorite Tremors movie (after the first one, of course).