Sounds good Bill. When I was in S. IL. I used to collect all the worms I could find, some wigglers/earth worms, some crawlers and some gigantic snake like worms that the locals called river worms.
I mean these things were like 8"-12" easily, before stretching out.
Unfortunately these monsters didn't keep worth a darn, no matter what I did they would die/rot in a few days.

Any body have any idea what they were?

I've never seen anything like them back up north here.

Now that I'm back towards home I may have to check out an old girlfriends neighborhood. Years ago I was at her house during a rain and there were more juicy crawlers that I have ever seen in my life, normally up here all you find are earth worms.
IIRC I walked her to her house and then went back to the car and got a flash light and gatorade bottle and started collecting them.
I think I told her about it later and got the 'LOOK' then also.
Truth be told she was the crazy one. No loss there.

Matt