The Lambton Worm — a real English family curse that supposedly lasted nine gener

County Durham, north-east England. The Lambton Worm is half ballad half local-history-with-receipts. Story: young John Lambton skips church to fish in the River Wear, catches a small ugly worm-thing, chucks it down a well in disgust. He goes off to the Crusades. While he's gone the worm grows enormo……