Olgoi Horhoi is a mysterious worm of the sands. Olgoi-Khorkhoi is the mystery of the Mongolian desert. The disappearance of the American research team

The researcher Nikolai Nepomniachtchi wrote the following about him: “What else do they have there,” the driver Grigory said with annoyance, but suddenly he braked sharply and shouted to me: “Look quickly! What's happened?"

The cockpit window was blocked by a radio operator who had jumped down from above. With a gun in his hand, he rushed towards a large dune. Something alive was moving across its surface. This creature had no visible legs, not even a mouth or eyes. Most of all, it looked like a stump of a thick sausage about a meter long. A large and fat worm, an unknown inhabitant of the desert, wriggled on the purple sand. Not being a connoisseur of zoology, I nevertheless immediately realized that we were facing an unknown animal. There were two of them."

This is a fragment from the story of the famous paleontologist and writer I.A. Efremov, written by him after an expedition to the Gobi desert. Further, Efremov talks about how people ran up to mysterious creatures that looked like worms. Suddenly, each worm curled into a ring. Their coloration turned from yellow-gray to violet-blue, and at the ends - bright blue. Suddenly, the radio operator collapsed face down on the sand and remained motionless. The driver ran up to the radio operator, who was lying four meters from the worms, and suddenly, strangely twisted, fell on his side ... The worms disappeared somewhere.

The explanation of the mysterious death of his comrades, which the hero of the story received from the guide and all other experts in Mongolia, was that an animal called the olgoi-khorkha lives in the lifeless deserts. It has never fallen into the hands of any person, partly because it lives in waterless sands, partly because of the fear that the Mongols feel before it. This fear is quite understandable: the animal kills at a distance. What is this mysterious power possessed by the olgoy-khorkhoy, no one knows. Maybe it is a huge electric discharge or poison sprayed by an animal.

Stories about a mysterious creature living in the waterless deserts of Central Asia have been around for a long time. It is mentioned, in particular, by the famous Russian researcher and traveler N.M. Przhevalsky. In the 1950s, the American A. Nisbet went in search of the Olgoi-Khorkhoi to Inner Mongolia. For a long time, the authorities of the Mongolian People's Republic did not give him permission to enter, believing that the American might have other interests besides zoological ones.

In 1954, having received permission, the expedition on two Land Rovers left the village of Sainshand and disappeared. A few months later, at the request of the US government, the authorities of the Mongolian People's Republic organized a search for her. The vehicles were found in a remote area of ​​the desert in perfect working order, not far from them lay the bodies of five members of the expedition and a little further away - the sixth. The bodies of the Americans lay in the sun for a long time, and the cause of death could not be determined.

Some scientists, analyzing reports of olgoe-horhoi, are inclined to the hypothesis that it kills with a potent poison, such as hydrocyanic acid. Creatures are known in nature, in particular the centipede kiwisyak, which kills its victims at a distance with a stream of hydrocyanic acid. However, there is a more exotic hypothesis: the Olgoi-Khorkhoy kills with the help of small ball lightning, which is formed during a powerful electric discharge.

In the summer of 1988, the newspapers "Semilukskaya Zhizn" and "Left Bank" reported on strange events that took place in the city of Lugansk. On May 16, during earthworks in the area of ​​​​the town of the plant. The October Revolution suffered one of the workers. He was taken to the hospital unconscious, with a snake-shaped burn on his left arm. Waking up, the victim explained that he felt an electric shock, although there were no electric cables nearby.

Two months later, six-year-old Dima G. died. The cause of death was an electric shock from an unknown source. Several more similar cases were recorded in 1989 and 1990. All cases are associated with earthworks or with fresh earth delivered from another place. One of the victims said that before losing consciousness, he heard a strange sound, similar to the sobbing of a child.

Finally, in winter, when digging a hole on the territory of an estate in the Artyomovsky district of Luhansk, near a heating main, a strange creature was caught that made a similar sound when attacked. Fortunately for himself, the man who dug the hole was wearing thick gloves and was not injured. He grabbed the creature, put it in a plastic bag and took it to show to a neighbor who worked in a biological laboratory.

So an animal unknown to science ended up in a metal box in a laboratory behind thick armored glass. It looks like a thick lilac worm about half a meter long. Head of the Laboratory Candidate of Biological Sciences V.M. Kulikov claims that this is most likely an unknown mutant. But a certain resemblance to the mysterious Olgoi-Khorkhoi is undoubted.

Deadly worm olgoi-khorkhoi

Many people claim to have seen them. We are talking about giant worms that can kill at a distance, throwing out deadly poison or battling their prey with an electric discharge on contact. For a long time, this animal was considered part of Mongolian folklore, but recent expeditions to the desert regions of the south of the Gobi seem to have found confirmation that this mysterious creature really exists.

It emerges from large cracks in the ground quite unexpectedly. With its unusual appearance, it resembles the insides of an animal. On the body of this creature, it is impossible to distinguish any head, mouth or eyes. But still - a living and deadly creature! We are talking about the olgoi-horhoi, the worm of death, an animal that has not yet been studied by science, but left its numerous traces on the path of several expeditions of scientists from the Czech Republic.

This is how it was portrayed by the Belgian artist Peter Dirks

Ivan Makarle, Czech writer and journalist, author of many works on the mysteries of the Earth, was one of those who followed the trail of this mysterious creature, so little known that most cryptozoologists and nature researchers still do not consider it to be something real.

In the 1990s Makarle, together with Dr. Jaroslav Prokopets, a specialist in tropical medicine, and cameraman Jiri Skupen, led two expeditions in the footsteps of the Olgoi-Khorkhoy. They did not manage to catch a single instance of the worm alive, but they received numerous proofs of its real existence, which even made it possible to conduct an entire program on Czech television called "The Mysterious Monster of the Sands."

That was not the only attempt to unravel the mystery of the existence of this creature; In the summer of 1996, another group, also Czechs, led by Petr Gorkiy and Mirek Naplava, followed in the footsteps of the Olgoi-Khorkhoi a good part of the Gobi Desert.

In 2003, the deadly worm was searched for by the British Adam Davis and Andrew Sanderson, who head the company Extreme Expeditions. Although none of them managed to catch the mysterious monster, numerous evidences of its existence have been collected.

Olgoi-khorkhoi in Mongolian means "intestinal worm", and this name indicates its appearance, very similar to intestines, dark red, a little more than half a meter long. Locals claim that he is able to kill at a distance, throwing out a caustic poison, as well as in direct contact with the unfortunate victim - with the help of an electric shock.

The Mongolian researcher Dondogizhin Tsevegmid even suggests that there is not one species of this worm, but at least two, since local residents often talk about shar-khorkhoi, a yellow worm.

In one of his books, this scientist mentions the story of a camel driver who met face to face with such shar-horkhoys in the mountains of Tost. Surprised rider. suddenly noticed with horror that yellow worms were climbing out of holes in the ground and crawling towards him. Mad with fear, he rushed to run and then found that almost fifty of these worm-like creatures were trying to surround him. Fortunately, the poor fellow still managed to escape from them.

The isolated position of Mongolia and the policy of its authorities made the fauna of this country practically inaccessible to foreign zoologists, except for Soviet ones, and therefore we know very little about this creature. Nevertheless, in 1926, the American paleontologist Roy Chapman Andrews told in the book "In the Footsteps of Ancient Man" about his conversation with the Prime Minister of Mongolia, who asked him to catch one Olgoi-Khorkhoi (which he called Allergokhai-Khokhai), because they killed one of the family members of this Eastern dignitary.

Many years later, in 1958, the Soviet science fiction writer, geologist and paleontologist Ivan Efremov returned to the theme of the olgoi-khorkhoi in his book The Road of the Winds. He recounted in it all the information that he had collected on this subject when he took part in geological exploration expeditions in the Gobi from 1946 to 1949. In his book, among other testimonies, Ivan Efremov cites the story of an old Mongol man from the village of Daland-zadgad named Tseven, who claimed that these creatures live 130 km southeast of the Aimak agricultural region. But you can see them in the dunes only in the hottest months of the year, because the rest of the time they are immersed in hibernation. “No one knows what they are, but olgoi-khorkhoy is a horror,” said the old Mongol.

However, another member of those expeditions, a close friend and colleague of I.A. Efremova, Maria Fedorovna Lukyanova, was skeptical about these stories: “Yes, the Mongols told, but I never saw him. Probably, these worms used to be electric ... electrified, and then died out. I saw other worms there - small ones. They do not crawl on the sand, but jump over. Spin and - jump, spin and - jump!

How can one not recall a line from a fantastic story by I.A. Efremov's "Olgoi-khorkhoi", written on the basis of the story of the monster of the sands: "It moved with some kind of convulsive jerks, then bending almost in half, then quickly straightening up." It tells about the death of two Russian explorers from the poison of these creatures. The plot of the story was fictitious, but was based on numerous testimonies of local Mongols about these mysterious creatures inhabiting the sandy areas of the desert.

Many researchers who have studied this evidence and data collected by various expeditions believe that we are talking about an animal completely unknown to science. The zoologist John L. Claudsey-Thompson, one of the specialists in the desert fauna, some features of the Olgoi-Khorkhoi led to the assumption that this is an unknown species of snake, which is clearly related to the vibora mortale australiana, a species of the Oceanian viper. Her appearance is similar to that of a creature from the Gobi desert, and, in addition, she, too, can kill her victims by spraying poison from a distance.

Another version, defended by the French cryptozoologist Michel Raynal and the Czech Jaroslav Mares, says that the olgoi-khorkhoy may refer to two-legged reptiles that lost their legs during evolution. These reptiles can be red or brown in color, and it is very difficult to distinguish between the head and neck. True, no one has heard that these reptiles were poisonous or had an organ capable of producing an electric current.

Another version admits that we are talking about an annelids, which has acquired a special protective function in the desert. Some of these earthworms are known to be capable of squirting venom in self-defense.

Be that as it may, the Olgoi-Khorkhoy remains a mystery to zoologists, which has not yet received a satisfactory explanation.

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Desert Gobi. Scorching heat, waterless sands. Czech explorer Ivan Matskerle, before taking the next step, carefully looks at his feet. He is looking for signs that under the monotonous surface of dunes and hollows that barely noticeably change their shape, a hostile creature is lurking, ready at any moment to deliver a mortal blow, spewing a stream of poisonous acid. This creature is so secretive that there is not a single reliable photograph, not a single material evidence of its vital activity. But the locals are firmly convinced: “Olgoi-Khorkhoi”, the Mongolian killer worm exists, it hides in these sands in anticipation of another victim.

The general public first became aware of the deadly worm from the book “In the footsteps of an ancient man” published in 1926. It was written by American paleontologist Professor Roy Chapman Andrews, who apparently served as the prototype for the popular movie character Indiana Jones. However, Andrews himself was not convinced of the reality of the Olgoi-Khorkhoi. According to him, "none of the local storytellers saw the worm with their own eyes, although they were all firmly convinced of its existence and described it in great detail."

In 2005, a group of British cryptozoologists set off in search of a deadly creature in the Gobi Desert. During the whole month of their stay there, they heard many horrific stories about this monster, but no one was able to prove that he had encountered him himself. Nevertheless, the researchers came to the conclusion that the "Olgoi-Khorkhoy" is still not a fiction, but a real creature. Team leader Richard Freeman stated that all the narrators described him in the same way: a red-brown snake-like worm about 60 long and 5 centimeters thick, and it was impossible to determine where his head was and where his tail was.

Now Ivan Matskerle, an amateur cryptozoologist who travels around the world, is looking for the Mongolian worm, trying to find scientific evidence for the existence of the mysterious inhabitants of our planet like the Loch Ness monster and other similar curiosities.

According to Matskerle in an interview with Czech radio, as a child, he read a story by Russian writer and paleontologist Ivan Efremov about a worm almost as long as a man living in Mongolia, who kills his victims at a distance using either poison or an electric discharge. “I thought it was just science fiction,” Mackerle says. - But a student from Mongolia studied in the same group with me at the university. I asked him: “Have you heard anything about “Olgoi-Khorkhoy”?” I assumed that he would laugh back and say that it was all nonsense. However, he moved closer to me, as if sharing a big secret, and said in an undertone: “Of course I heard. It's an amazing creation."

Here is what else Ivan Matskerle said in his interview: “There, in Mongolia, a strange thing happened to me. We thought about how to lure the worm out of the sand and record it on camera. The idea was born to scare him with an explosion. I remember how we illegally smuggled explosives through Russia, hoping that ground vibrations would make him show, but nothing came of it. Then I had a dream that I see "Olgoy-Khorkhoy", that he crawled out of the sand. I understand that I am in danger, I try to run away, but I run very slowly, you know how it happens in a dream. And the worm suddenly jumps up and jumps on my back. I felt a terrible pain in my back, screamed and woke up from it. I realized that I was in a tent. But the pain didn't go away. A friend pulled up my T-shirt and shone a flashlight on my back. You have something similar to “Olgoi-Khorkhoy” there, he says. On my back, along the spine, I had a bruise, there was subcutaneous bleeding, as I was told. The next day I had bruises all over my body, heart problems started. I had to leave quickly. Since then, my friends have scolded me for not carrying any talisman with me, protection from evil forces.

So does the Mongolian killer worm exist or not? The belief of local residents in its reality makes more and more new explorers and adventurers go in search of it. Maybe you will join them too? Then you should remember: when wandering through the Gobi desert, in no case do not wear yellow clothes. It is believed that this color excites the "olgoy-khorkhoy" and makes him send his deadly charge to an unsuspecting victim. So now you are forewarned, which means you are armed. Happy hunting!

In the desert regions of the Gobi lives the "hero" of Mongolian folk tales - a giant worm, resembling the insides of an animal in its appearance. Neither the eyes nor the head at all can be distinguished on his ugly body. The Mongols call this creature "Olgoi-Khorkhoi" and are most afraid of meeting him. Since none of the scientists had a chance to see (let alone film) the olgoi-khorkhoi, this mysterious inhabitant of the Mongolian deserts for many years was considered a fictional monster, a purely folklore character...

At the beginning of the last century, researchers were interested in the fact that legends about the Olgoi-Khorkhoi in Mongolia can be heard everywhere. At the same time, in various parts of the country, they sound almost the same and are decorated with the same details. Scientists have concluded that the ancient legends are true and a strange creature unknown to science lives in the sands of the Gobi. Perhaps this is a surviving representative of a long-extinct earthly "population" ...

The Mongolian word "olgoy" means in Russian "colon", and "khorkhoy" - a worm. Tradition says that these half-meter worms live in waterless and inaccessible areas of the desert and spend most of their time hibernating - in burrows that they make in the sand. These creatures get to the surface only in the hottest summer months - and then woe to the people who met them on the way. The olgoi-khorkhoy easily kills its prey from a decent distance, shooting it with a deadly poison, or strikes it with an electric discharge upon contact. In a word, it is impossible to leave him alive ...

The policy of the Mongolian authorities, as well as the isolated position of this country, made its fauna inaccessible to all foreign zoologists. For this simple reason, the scientific community knows practically nothing about the terrible olgoi-khorkhoi. However, in the book of the American paleontologist Roy Chapman Andrews "In the footsteps of the most ancient man" (1926), the author tells about the conversation of the author with the Mongolian Prime Minister. He asked Andrews to catch the olgoi-khorkhoi. At the same time, the minister pursued personal goals: one of his family members was once killed by desert worms. However, the American researcher failed to even see the mysterious worm...

Fantast and scientist Ivan Efremov and Olgoy-Khorkhoy

In 1958 Soviet geologist, well-known paleontologist and even more famous writer in the USSR Ivan Efremov, in a book called “The Road of the Winds”, published information on the Olgoi-Khorkhoi, which he collected during expeditions to the Gobi Desert (1946-1949).

Among other evidence, the author cites the story of the Mongolian old man Tseven, a resident of the village of Dalandzadgad, who claimed that the Olgoi-Khorkhoi live 130 km southeast of the Aimak region. Tseven spoke with horror about these disgusting and terrible creatures. Efremov used these stories when writing a fantastic story, which was originally called “Olgoi-Khorhoi”. The story told how two Russian researchers died from the poison of giant worms. Despite the fact that the work was entirely fictional, it was based solely on Mongolian folklore.

Not a single researcher was lucky enough to see the creepy Olgoi-Khorkhoi

The next person to “hunt down” the desert monster was the Czech journalist and writer, author of a number of works about the intriguing mysteries of the Earth, Ivan Makarle. In the 90s of the last century, he, accompanied by Dr. Yaroslav Prokopets, a specialist in tropical medicine, and cameraman Jiri Skupen, conducted two research expeditions to the most remote corners of the Gobi. It was also not possible to catch a live worm then, however, evidence of its real existence was obtained. There was so much of this evidence that Czech researchers made and launched a television program about the “Mysterious Monster of the Mongolian Sands”.

The next attempt to unravel the mystery of the Olgoi-Khorkhoy in 1996. undertaken by another group of Czech researchers led by Petr Gorky and Mirek Naplava. Scientists have followed in the footsteps of the sand monster a significant part of the desert, but, alas, also to no avail.

Olgoi-Khorkhoy remains an unsolved mystery

Today you rarely hear about the Mongolian giant worm; only local researchers are involved in solving this cryptozoological puzzle. One of them - Dondogizhin Tsevegmid - suggests that there are two varieties of the worm. He was again prompted to a similar conclusion by folk legends, which also speak of the so-called shar-khorkhoy - already a yellow worm.

In his book, the scientist cites a story about a camel driver who met such Shar-Khorkhoys in the mountains. The driver saw a lot of yellow worms crawl out of the ground and crawl towards him. The unfortunate man rushed away in horror and managed to save himself ...

So, today, researchers of this phenomenon are of the opinion that the legendary Olgoi-Khorkhoy is a real living creature, completely unknown to science. Quite convincing is the version that we are talking about an annelids, which adapted well to the harsh conditions of the Mongolian desert, acquiring a special, simply unique protective skin. By the way, some of these worms can spray poison for self-defense ...

And yet, Olgoi-Khorkhoy is an absolute zoological mystery that has not yet received a single acceptable explanation. Although there is something fantastic in all this ...