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Skeptoid #344: Olgoi-Khorkhoi: The Mongolian Death Worm

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Brian Dunning

Skeptic, Social Sciences, Skepticism, Paranormal, Conspiracy Theories, Urban Legends, Science, History

4.63K Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2013

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Mongolian tradition holds that a strange and deadly worm lives beneath the sands of the Gobi desert.

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Some decades ago, you might have had the opportunity to see Ivan Macrily, an independent investigator,

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driving his amphibious Volkswagen-Schrimvagen across the Mongolian desert, searching for

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perhaps the most fearsome creature from all of cryptozoological lore, the Mongolian death

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worm.

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Did he find it?

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Did he find evidence that others might have found it first?

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We'll see.

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Orgai Horkoi, the Mongolian death worm.

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Few creatures from the annals of cryptozoology are as dramatically named as the Mongolian

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death worm, or as it's known to the locals, the Olgai Horkoi.

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It is said to cruise the sands of Asia's vast goby desert, unseen and unknown to all

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