SOURCES: "Lenninagen Versus the Ants" by Carl Stephenson (Esquire, December 1938)

DESCRIPTION: “The hostile army was approaching in perfect formation; no human battalions, however well-drilled, could ever hope to rival the precision of that advance. Along a front that moved forward as uniformly as a straight line, the ants drew nearer and nearer to the water ditch. Then, when they learned through their scouts the nature of the obstacle, the two outlying wings of the army detached themselves from the main body and marched down the western and eastern sides of the ditch.” ("Lenninagen Versus the Ants" by Carl Stephenson)

NOTES: The army ants come from the jungle and one man decides to stand against them.

HISTORY: Unlike H. G. Wells's "Empire of the Ants", the ants in this story are natural, not super-ants. This classic tale was filmed in 1954 as The Naked Jungle with Charleton Heston (who was not naked).

Hey, let's get naked!