The horror of the Mongolian desert - a giant worm! Olgoi-Khorkhoi is a giant worm! The horror of the Mongolian desert (unknown) Olgoi-Khorkhoi remains an unsolved mystery

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

The cockpit window was obscured by the radio operator who jumped from above. With a gun in his hand, he rushed towards the large dune. Something living was moving along its surface. This creature had no visible legs, or even a mouth or eyes. Most of all, it looked like a stump of thick sausage about a meter long. A large and thick worm, an unknown inhabitant of the desert, wriggled on the purple sand. Not being an expert in zoology, I still immediately realized that this was 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. Next, Efremov talks about how people ran up to mysterious creatures, resembled worms. Suddenly, each worm curled into a ring. Their color changed from yellow-gray to violet-blue, and at the ends - bright blue. Suddenly the radio operator fell 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, bending strangely, fell on his side... The worms disappeared somewhere.

Explanation mysterious death his comrades, which the hero of the story received from the guide and all other experts in Mongolia, was that in the lifeless deserts lives an animal called olga-khorkha. 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 have of it. This fear is understandable: the animal kills from a distance. What is this mysterious power, which the Olgoi-Khorkhoi possesses, no one knows. Maybe it's a huge electrical discharge or poison sprayed by an animal.

Stories about mysterious creature living in arid deserts Central Asia, have been around for a long time. In particular, the famous Russian explorer and traveler N.M. mentions him. Przhevalsky. In the 50s of the 20th century, the American A. Nisbet went in search of the Olgoi-Khorkhoi in Inner Mongolia. For a long time The MPR authorities 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 left the village of Sainshand in two Land Rovers and disappeared. A few months later, at the request of the US government, the MPR authorities organized a search for her. The cars were found in a remote area of ​​the desert in full 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 olgoy-khorkhoy, are inclined to the hypothesis that it kills with a potent poison, for example, hydrocyanic acid. There are creatures known in nature, in particular the nodding centipede, which kills its victims at a distance with a stream of hydrocyanic acid. However, there is a more exotic hypothesis: Olgoi-Khorkhoi kills with the help of small ball lightning, which are formed during a powerful electrical discharge.

In the summer of 1988, the newspapers “Semilukskaya Zhizn” and “Left Bank” reported strange events that occurred in Lugansk. On May 16, during excavation work in the area of ​​the plant’s town. October revolution one of the workers was injured. He was taken to hospital unconscious, with a snake-shaped burn on his left arm. When he woke up, the victim explained that he felt an electric shock, although there were no electrical cables nearby.

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

Finally, in winter, near a heating main, while digging a hole on the territory of an estate in the Artemovsky district of Lugansk, strange creature, which made a similar sound when attacked. Luckily for himself, the person digging 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 it to a neighbor who worked in a biology laboratory.

Not so known to science the animal ended up in a metal laboratory box behind thick armored glass. It looks like a thick lilac worm about half a meter long. Candidate Laboratory Head biological sciences V.M. Kulikov claims that this is most likely an unknown mutant. But a certain similarity with the mysterious Olgoy-Khorkhoy is undeniable.

In the desert regions of the Gobi lives the “hero” of Mongolian folk tales - a giant worm that resembles the insides of an animal. It is impossible to distinguish either eyes or even a head on his ugly body. The Mongols call this creature “olga-khorkha” and are most afraid of meeting it. Since none of the scientists had a chance to see (let alone film) the Olgoy-Khorkhoy, this mysterious inhabitant of the Mongolian deserts was considered for many years a fictitious monster, a purely folklore character...

At the beginning of the last century, researchers became interested in the fact that legends about the Olgoy-Khorkhoy in Mongolia can be heard everywhere. At the same time, in the most different corners countries they sound almost the same and are decorated with the same details. Scientists have concluded that the ancient legends are true and that 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 “large intestine” in Russian, and “khorkhoi” means a worm. Legends say 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 come to the surface only in the hottest summer months- and then woe to the people they met along the way. The Olga-Khorkhoi easily kills its prey from a decent distance by shooting at it deadly poison, or strikes upon contact with an electric discharge. In a word, it is impossible to leave him alive...

The policies 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 Olgoy-Khorkhoy. However, the book by American paleontologist Roy Chapman Andrews “In the Footsteps of the Earliest Man” (1926) tells about the author’s conversation with the Mongolian prime minister. He asked Andrews to catch the Olgoy-Khorkhoy. The minister pursued personal goals: one of his family members was once killed by desert worms. However, the American researcher was unable to even just see the mysterious worm...

Science fiction writer and scientist Ivan Efremov and Olgoi-Khorkhoi

In 1958 Soviet geologist, famous paleontologist and even more famous writer in the USSR Ivan Efremov, in a book called “The Road of the Winds,” published information regarding Olgoy-Khorkhoy, 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 Dalanzadgad, 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-Khorkhoi.” The story told how two Russian researchers died from the poison of giant worms. Although the work was entirely fictional, it was based solely on Mongolian folklore.

Not a single researcher was lucky enough to see the creepy Olgoy-Khorkhoy

The next person to “track 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. Jaroslav 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, but evidence was obtained of it real existence. 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 Olgoy-Khorkhoy in 1996. was undertaken by another group of Czech researchers led by Petr Gorky and Mirek Naplava. Scientists followed in the footsteps of the sand monster a significant part of the desert, but, alas, also to no avail.

Olgoy-Khorkhoi 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 such a conclusion by folk legends, which also speak of the so-called shar-khorkhoi - already a yellow worm.

In his book, the scientist gives a story about a camel driver who met such Shar-Khorkhoi in the mountains. The driver saw many yellow worms crawling out of the ground and crawling towards him. The unfortunate man rushed away in horror and managed to escape...

So, today researchers of this phenomenon are of the opinion that the legendary Olgoi-Khorkhoi is a real Living being, completely unknown to science. The version that we're talking about about the ringed worm, which harsh conditions Mongolian desert He adapted well, acquiring a special, simply unique protective skin. By the way, some of these worms can spray poison for self-defense...

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

Gobi Desert. Scorching heat, waterless sands. Czech researcher Ivan Mackerle carefully looks at his feet before taking the next step. He is looking for signs that under the monotonous surface of the dunes and hollows that barely change their outlines, a hostile creature lurks, ready at any moment to deliver a fatal blow by spewing out 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 life. But local residents firmly believe: “Olgoy-Khorkhoy”, Mongolian killer worm exists, he is hiding in these sands, waiting for his next victim

The general public first became aware of the deadly worm from the book “In the Footsteps” published in 1926. ancient man" It was written by the 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 “Olgoy-Khorkhoy”. 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 English cryptozoologists went to the Gobi Desert in search of a deadly creature. During the whole month of their stay there, they heard many terrifying stories about this monster, but no one was able to prove that they had encountered it themselves. Nevertheless, the researchers came to the conclusion that the “Olgoy-Khorkhoi” is not a fiction, but a real creature. Team leader Richard Freeman said that all the storytellers described it the same way: a red-brown snake-like worm approximately 60 centimeters long and 5 centimeters thick, and it is impossible to determine where its head is and where its tail is.

Now searching Mongolian worm is carried out by Ivan Matskerle, an amateur cryptozoologist who travels around the world trying to find scientific evidence of the existence of mysterious inhabitants like our planet loch ness monster and other similar wonders.

As Matzkerle says in an interview with Czech radio, as a child he read a story by Russian writer and paleontologist Ivan Efremov about a worm that lives in Mongolia, almost as tall as a person, who kills its victims from a distance using either poison or an electric discharge. “I thought it was just science fiction,” says Matzkerle. - But in the same group as me at the university there was a student from Mongolia. I asked him: “Have you heard anything about “Olgoy-Khorkhoy”?” I assumed he would laugh back and say it was all nonsense. However, he moved closer to me, as if sharing a big secret, and said in a low voice: “Of course, I heard. This is an amazing creature."

Here’s what else Ivan Matskerle said in his interview: “There, in Mongolia, one strange thing happened to me. We were thinking about how to lure a worm out of the sand and record it on camera. The idea was born to scare him with an explosion. I remember when we were illegally transporting explosives through Russia, hoping that the ground vibrations would make him show up, but nothing happened. Then I had a dream that I saw “Olgoi-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, as it happens in a dream. And the worm suddenly jumps up and jumps on my back. I felt terrible pain in my back, screamed and woke up from it. I realized that I was lying in a tent. But the pain did not go away. A friend lifted my T-shirt and shined a flashlight on my back. You have something similar to “olgoy-khorkhoy” there, he says. There was a bruise on my back, along the spine; there was subcutaneous bleeding, as I was told. The next day I had bruises all over my body and started having heart problems. I had to leave quickly. Since then, my friends have scolded me for not carrying any talisman with me to protect me from evil forces.”

So does the Mongolian killer worm exist or not? The conviction of local residents in its reality forces more and more researchers and adventure lovers to go in search of it. Maybe you will join them too? Then you should remember: when traveling through the Gobi Desert, under no circumstances wear clothes yellow color. It is believed that this color excites the “olgoi-khorkhoi” and forces him to send his deadly charge at an unsuspecting victim. So now you are forewarned and therefore forearmed. Happy hunting!

The hero of Mongolian folklore - a giant worm - lives in the desert sandy areas of the Gobi. to his appearance it most closely resembles the insides of an animal. It is impossible to distinguish either a head or eyes on his body. The Mongols call him olga-khorkha, and more than anything else they are afraid of meeting him.
Not a single scientist in the world had a chance to see with his own eyes mysterious inhabitant Mongolian deserts. And therefore, for many years, the Olgoi-Khorkhoi was considered exclusively a folklore character - a fictitious monster.
However, at the beginning of the 20th century, researchers drew attention to the fact that legends about the Olgoi-Khorkhoi are told everywhere in Mongolia, and in the most different and remote corners of the country, legends about the giant worm are repeated word for word and are replete with the same details. And therefore, scientists decided that the truth lies at the heart of the ancient legends. It may very well be that a strange creature unknown to science lives in the Gobi Desert, perhaps a miraculously surviving representative of the ancient, long-extinct “population” of the Earth.
Translated from Mongolian, “olgoy” means “large intestine”, and “khorkhoi” means worm. According to legend, the half-meter worm lives in inaccessible waterless areas of the Gobi Desert. The Olgoi-Khorkhoi spends almost all of its time in hibernation - it sleeps in burrows made in the sand. The worm comes to the surface only in the hottest months of summer, and woe to the person who meets it on the way: the olgoi-khorkhoi kills the victim from a distance, throwing out deadly poison, or kills with an electric discharge upon contact. In a word, you can’t escape him alive...
The isolated position of Mongolia and the policies of its authorities have made the fauna of this country practically inaccessible to foreign zoologists. Therefore, the scientific community knows practically nothing about Olgoy-Khorkhoy. However, in 1926, the American paleontologist Roy Chapman Andrews, in his book “In the Footsteps of Ancient Man,” talked about his conversation with the Prime Minister of Mongolia. The latter asked the paleontologist to catch the Olgoi-Khorkhoi. At the same time, the minister pursued personal goals: desert worms once killed one of his family members. But, to Andrews’ great regret, he was never able to not only catch, but even just see mysterious worm. Many years later, in 1958, the Soviet science fiction writer, geologist and paleontologist Ivan Efremov returned to the theme of the Olgoi-Khorkhoy in the book “The Road of the Winds.” In it, he recounted all the information that he collected on this matter during reconnaissance expeditions to the Gobi from 1946 to 1949.
In his book, among other evidence, Ivan Efremov cites the story of an old Mongolian named Tseven from the village of Dalandzadgad, who claimed that the Olgoi-Khorkhoi live 130 kilometers southeast of the agricultural region of Aimak. “Nobody knows what they are, but olgoy-khorkhoi is terrible,” said the old Mongol. Efremov used these stories about the sand monster in his fantasy story, which was originally entitled “Olgoy-Khorkhoi.” It tells about the death of two Russian explorers who died from the poison of desert worms. The story was entirely fictitious, but it was based solely on Mongol folklore.
Ivan Makarle, Czech writer and the journalist, the author of many works about the mysteries of the Earth, was the next to follow the trail of the mysterious inhabitant of the Asian desert. In the 1990s, Makarle, together with Dr. Jaroslav Prokopets, a specialist in tropical medicine, and cameraman Jiri Skupen, led two expeditions into the most remote corners of the Gobi Desert. Unfortunately, they also failed to catch a single specimen of the worm alive. However, they received evidence of its real existence. Moreover, this evidence was so numerous that it allowed Czech researchers to make and launch a program on television, which was called: “The Mysterious Monster of the Sands.”
It was far from last try unravel the mystery of the existence of the Olgoy-Khorkhoy. In the summer of 1996, another group of researchers - also Czechs - led by Petr Gorky and Mirek Naplava followed the worm's tracks through a good half of the Gobi Desert. Alas, also to no avail.
Today almost nothing is heard about Olgoy-Khorkhoy. For now, this Mongolian cryptozoological puzzle is being solved by Mongolian researchers. One of them, the scientist Dondogizhin Tsevegmid, suggests that there is not one type of worm, but at least two. He was again forced to make a similar conclusion by folk legends: local residents often talk about the shar-khorkhoi - that is, the yellow worm.
In one of his books, Dondogizhin Tsevegmid mentions the story of a camel driver who came face to face with such Shar-Khorkhoi in the mountains. At one far from wonderful moment, the driver noticed that yellow worms were crawling out of holes in the ground and crawling towards him. Mad with fear, he rushed to run, and then discovered that almost fifty of these disgusting creatures were trying to surround him. The poor fellow was lucky: he still managed to escape...
So, today, researchers of the Mongolian phenomenon are inclined to believe that we are talking about a living creature completely unknown to science. However, zoologist John L. Cloudsey-Thompson, one of the renowned specialists in desert fauna, suspected the Olgoi-Khorkhoy to be a species of snake that the scientific community had yet to become acquainted with. Cloudsey-Thompson himself is confident that the unknown desert worm is related to the Oceanic viper. The latter is distinguished by an equally “attractive” appearance. In addition, like the olgoi-khorkhoi, the viper is capable of destroying its victims at a distance, spraying poison.
A completely different version is shared by French cryptozoologist Michel Raynal and Czech Jaroslav Mares. Scientists classify the Mongolian desert dweller as a two-walker reptile that lost its legs during evolution. These reptiles, like desert worms, can be red or brown in color. In addition, it is extremely difficult for them to distinguish between their head and neck. Opponents of this version, however, rightly point out: no one has heard of these reptiles being poisonous or having an organ capable of producing electric current.
According to the third version, Olgoy-Khorkhoy is ringworm, who acquired special protective skin in desert conditions. It is known that some of these earthworms capable of spraying poison in self-defense.
Be that as it may, Olgoi-Khorkhoi remains a mystery for zoologists, which has not yet received a single satisfactory explanation.

And no matter how many expeditions were undertaken into the desert, not one of the scientists had ever seen a giant worm. Long years Horkhoi was considered a fictional character in ancient Mongolian legends.

However, the attention of researchers was attracted by the fact that all the legends about the giant worm are replete with the same details and facts. Scientists have come to the conclusion that the legends are based on quite probable events. It is quite possible that in the desert sands Gobi lives an ancient animal that miraculously did not become extinct.

Word " olgoy" translated from Mongolian means "large intestine", and " Horkhoi"translated as "worm". If you believe the legends of the Mongols, the half-meter worm lives in the waterless sandy areas of the Gobi Desert. Most for a year the worm sleeps in a hole it made in sandy soil. The animal crawls to the surface only in the summer months, when the sun furiously bakes, heating the earth. The Mongols, on pain of death, will not go into the desert in the summer: it is believed that Olgoy-Khorkhoy capable of killing prey from a distance. Throwing out deadly poison, the monster paralyzes a person or animal.

Today the giant worm is unheard of. There is an opinion that in the desert Gobi There are several varieties of worms. At least, Mongolian legends tell of one more specimen - the yellow worm.
One of the legends of the Mongolian people tells about a poor camel driver who happened to meet Horkhoi in a desert Gobi. “He was surrounded by fifty yellow worms, but the driver managed to avoid death, he spurred the animal and galloped away.”

Some scientists believe that the giant worm is nothing more than a snake - oceanic viper. She is also huge and unattractive. In addition, the viper can destroy its prey from a distance using venom, the vapors of which are deadly poisonous.

According to another version Olgoy-Khorkhoy- This is an ancient reptile-two-walker, deprived of legs during evolution. The color of this reptile, like the color of the giant worm, is red-brown. It is also difficult to distinguish their head. However, these animals cannot kill prey from a distance.


There is another version. According to her, giant monster Gobi Desert is an annelid worm. In harsh desert conditions, he acquired a strong shell and mutated to huge size. Known cases, when desert varieties of worms sprayed venom, killing the victim.

No matter how many versions there are, Olgoy-Khorkhoy still remains a mystery to zoologists and scary monster for the Mongols.