Mongolian Death Worm
Q. What do you need to avoid meeting in the Gobi? A. A Mongolian death worm! Imagine a blood-red maggot. Magnify it a hundred times. Now imagine it inflating like an air bag until it finally bursts spraying poison in all directions. Or if you get close enough discharging enough electricity to kill a camel. It’s called a deathworm! No photograph exists. If anyone managed to snap a shot they never lived to tell the tale! So I have had to make do with this artist’s impression—which looks a bit like a giant chili . . . 
Fiction? Not according to dozens of witnesses, including a former Mongolian prime minister. Take a look at this video of an eyewitness account, recorded by investigators from the Department of Cryptozoology at Exeter University . . . What does the death worm look like?Mongolians call it the “alloni khorkhoi” which translates as “intestine worm” since the worm resembles a cow’s intestine. Witnesses describe a two-foot long, blood-red or gray, maggot-like creature, with no distinguishable eyes, mouth or head. Measuring about four inches thick it either rolls around or crawls like a caterpillar. One witness describes seeing electricity sparking across the worm’s body! 
A death worm or skink? Where does it live?All death worm sightings have taken place in June or July, the hottest season. The rest of the year it lives underground. What else do we know about the death worm?It’s strongly attracted to the color yellow—several accounts describe seeing it near the bright-yellow Goyo flower. One boy was killed when a death worm crawled into his yellow toy box. His parents followed the trail intending to kill it but became victims themselves! You’re kidding me!Hey, I’m just telling you what the nomads told me! What precautions should I take?
Return from Mongolian Death Worm to the Gobi desert
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