It was a squeak show. Things got freaky on a Manhattan-bound train when a funky rat flaunted its moves on a subway pole — shimmying up, down and around like an extra from “Showgirls.” ...

The footage shows a likely disease-riddled rodent that shocked commuters when it climbed the vertical rail impressively on a New York subway with people scrambling to get away ...

The rodent climbed a vertical rail on a subway train, inciting stripper comparisons and evoking health concerns Bailey Richards is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since ...

What really happened? Joshi told fellow commuters he spotted something moving under the train seats. He revealed that he had seen something resembling a rat scurrying near the seat corners.