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The death worm told to Roy Chapman Andrews

In Urga (Ulaanbaatar) in 1922 the Mongolian prime minister described the olgoi-khorkhoi, a deadly sausage-shaped worm of the Gobi, to the American explorer.

1922 CE · 47.92, 106.92 · status: legend

The account

Andrews printed it in On the Trail of Ancient Man (1926), noting that none of the officials present had seen it.

The sceptical view

Andrews himself did not believe in it; a 1983 test suggested locals' 'worm' was the Tartar sand boa.

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Sources

  1. Wikipedia: Mongolian death worm
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