Olgoi-khorkhoy (animal). Olgoi-khorkhoi is a giant worm! The Horror of the Mongolian Desert (Unidentified) The Disappearance of an American Research Team

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 photograph) the Olgoi-Khorkhoi, this mysterious inhabitant of the Mongolian deserts long 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. Traditions say that these half-meter worms live in waterless and inaccessible areas of the desert and most they spend their time in hibernation - in holes that they make in the sands. These creatures come to the surface only in the hottest summer months- and then woe to the people they met on the way. The olgoy-khorkhoy easily kills its prey from a decent distance by shooting at it deadly poison, or strikes on contact with an electric discharge. 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-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 Dalandzadgad, who claimed that the Olgoi-Khorkhoi live 130 km southeast of the region Aimak. 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. 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 creature completely unknown to science. Quite convincing is the version that we are talking about annelids, which in harsh conditions Mongolian desert well adapted, 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 ...

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?"

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.

Explanation 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, which possesses Olgoi-Khorkhoy, no one knows. Maybe it is a huge electric discharge or poison sprayed by an animal.

Tales of a mysterious creature that lives in the waterless deserts Central Asia have existed 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. October revolution one of the workers was injured. 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, near a heating main, while digging a hole on the estate in the Artemovsky district of Lugansk, a strange creature that emitted during the attack similar sound. 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.

Olgoy-khorkhoy (Mong. "intestinal worm, worm resembling the large intestine")- legendary creature, headless worm, thicker and longer arms living in the deserted deserts of Mongolia. The Mongols are afraid of this worm, and many of them believe that even the mere mention of his name will entail a lot of trouble. According to eyewitnesses, the mysterious creature looks like a stump of a dark red colon, from 50 cm to 1.5 meters long. There is no particular difference between the head and tail parts of this creature. At both ends of this giant worm there are some kind of small outgrowths or spikes; eyewitnesses did not notice any eyes or teeth in the Olgoi-Khorkhoi. He is extremely dangerous, as he can kill animals and people at close contact (presumably with an electrical discharge), as well as spraying the victim with poison from a distance. There is also a variety of "shar-khorkhoy" (yellow worm) - a similar creature, but yellow.

The existence of the Olgoi-Khorkhoi has not yet been proven by science. No traces of his vital activity were found, it is not even known what he eats. It is believed that the Olgoi-Khorkhoi appears in the dunes only in the hottest months, and spends the rest of the year in hibernation. Apparently, due to the fact that the creature hides in the sand most of the time, it has not yet been seen by any of the scientists.

Europeans learned about the olgoi-khorkhoi only in the second half of the 19th century, when the well-known traveler and scientist Nikolai Mikhailovich Przhevalsky mentioned this monster in his notes. More detailed information about the Olgoi-Khorkhoi appeared in the book of the American zoologist Roy Andrews "In the footsteps of ancient man". In 1922, the scientist led a well-equipped and numerous expedition of the American Museum natural history, she worked in Mongolia for three years and devoted a lot of time to research in the Gobi desert.

Perhaps, in our country, the name of this mysterious monster was first heard in the story of Ivan Efremov " Olgoi-khorkhoy", which was one of his first literary experiments. Ivan Efremov himself participated in a paleontological expedition and probably himself believed in the existence of this monster.

“According to very ancient beliefs of the Mongols, in the most deserted and lifeless deserts there lives an animal called “Olgoi-Khorhoi”.<…>Olgoi-Khorkhoi did not fall into the hands of any of the researchers, partly because he lives in waterless sands, partly because of the fear that the Mongols have for him.

In the afterword to the story, Efremov notes:

“During my travels in the Mongolian Gobi desert, I met many people who told me about a terrible worm that lives in the most inaccessible, waterless and sandy corners of the Gobi desert. This is a legend, but it is so widespread among the Gobis that in the most diverse regions the mysterious worm is described everywhere in the same way and with great detail; one should think that there is truth in the basis of the legend. Apparently, in fact, a strange creature still unknown to science lives in the Gobi Desert, perhaps a relic of the ancient, extinct population of the Earth.

Not only forests and undersea world conceal mysteries and hide unusual creatures. It turns out that hot deserts have also become a haven for unusual inhabitants.

The hero of Mongolian legends and legends - olgoy-khorkhoy - a giant terrible worm will be the topic of today's article.

For the first time, the public heard the name of this monster thanks to the story of I. Efremov with the same name. But, despite the fact that many years have passed, the Olgoi-Khorkhoy remains just a character in a fantastic story: it has not yet been possible to prove his existence.

Appearance

Why was the worm given this unusual name- olgoy-khorkhoy?

If these words are translated from Mongolian, then everything becomes extremely clear: “olgoy” is a large intestine, “khorkhoi” is a worm. This name is quite consistent with the appearance of the monster.

A few eyewitness accounts say that he is a stump of intestine or sausage.

The body has a dark red color, and its length is from 50 cm to 1.5 meters. Visible difference between the ends of the body is not noticeable: the head and tail parts look approximately the same, and have small processes or spikes.

The worm has no eyes or teeth. However, it is considered extremely dangerous even without these organs. The inhabitants of Mongolia are sure that the Olgoi-Khorkhoy is capable of killing at a distance. But how does he do it?

There are 2 versions:

1. Poison. The monster releases a jet of potent substance, hitting its victims.
2. Electric current discharge.

It is possible that the killer worm is able to use both options, alternating them or using them simultaneously, enhancing the effect.

The mysterious creature lives in the sand dunes, appearing on the surface only in the hottest months after the rain, when the ground becomes wet.

Obviously, he spends the rest of the time in hibernation.

Expeditions

The broad masses were able to learn about olgoi-khorkhoi only in the second half of the 19th century after the famous traveler and scientist N. M. Przhevalsky mentioned the worm in his works.

But curious scientists and researchers different countries could not pass by an unusual creature. Therefore, several expeditions were undertaken, not all of which ended successfully.

Roy Andrews

In 1922, Andrews led an excellently equipped numerous expedition, which worked for 3 years in Mongolia, devoting much time to exploring the Gobi Desert.

Roy's memoir tells how the Prime Minister of Mongolia once approached him with an unusual request. He wanted Andrews to catch the killer worm, giving it to the government of the country.

Later it turned out that the prime minister had his own motives: a monster from the desert once killed one of his family members.

And, despite the fact that it is not possible to prove the reality of this underground inhabitant, almost the entire country unquestioningly believes in its existence.

Unfortunately, the expedition was not successful: Andrews did not manage to catch or see the worm.

Ivan Efremov and Tseven's story

The Soviet geologist and writer, I. Efremov, also published some information about the Olgoi-Khorkhoi in the book “The Road of the Winds”, collected during expeditions to the Gobi Desert in 1946-1949.

In addition to standard descriptions and attempts to prove the existence underground monster, Efremov cites the story of the Mongolian old man Tseven, who lived in the village of Dalandzadgad.

Tseven argued that such creatures are real, and you can find them by heading 130 km southeast of the Aimak region.

Talking about the Horkhoi, the old man described them as the most disgusting and creepy creatures.

It was these stories that formed the basis of a fantastic story, originally called "Olgoi-Khorkhoi", about Russian explorers who died from the poison of giant worms.

The work is a fiction from beginning to end, and it is based only on Mongolian folklore.

Ivan Makarle

The next researcher who wanted to find the monster of the Gobi Desert was Ivan Makarle, a Czech journalist, writer, author of works about the mysteries of the Earth.

In the early 90s of the 20th century, together with Dr. J. Prokopets, a specialist in tropical medicine, and cameraman I. Skupen, he made 2 research expeditions to remote corners of the desert.

Oddly enough, they failed to catch the worm, like previous scientists, but Makarla was lucky enough to get solid evidence of the monster's existence.

There was so much data that Czech scientists launched a television program, calling it "The Mysterious Monster of the Mongolian Sands."

Describing appearance olgoy-khorkhoy, I. Makarle said that the worm looks like a sausage or an intestine. The body length is 0.5 m, and the thickness is about the size of a human hand. It is difficult to determine where the head is and where the tail is due to the lack of eyes and mouth.

The monster moved in an unusual way: rolled around its axis or wriggled from side to side, while moving forward.

It is amazing how the legends and myths of the peoples of Mongolia coincided with the description of Czech researchers!

Expedition of Pyotr Gorky and Mirek Naplava

In 1996, another attempt was made to unravel the mystery of the Olgoi-Khorkhoi. Czech researchers led by Petr Gorky and Mirek Naplava followed the trail of the mysterious desert dweller, but, alas, to no avail.

The disappearance of the American research team

A. Nisbet, an American scientist, like his colleague R. Andrews, set himself the goal of finding the killer worm at all costs.

In 1954, he nevertheless received permission from the Mongolian government to conduct the expedition. Two jeeps with team members who went to the desert disappeared.

Illustration for Ivan Efremov's story "Olgoi-khorkhoy"

Later they were discovered in one of the remote and little explored regions of the country. All employees, including Nisbet, were dead.

But the mystery of their death still worries the compatriots of the team. The fact is that 6 people were lying next to the cars. And no, the cars weren't broken, they were in perfect working order.

All belongings of the group members were intact, there were also no injuries or any injuries on the body.

But because the body long time were in the sun, set true reason death, unfortunately, failed.

So what happened to scientists? Versions with poisoning, illness or lack of water are excluded, and no notes were found.

Some experts believe that the entire team died almost instantly.

Could the Nisbet expedition have been able to find the Olgoi-Khorkhoi who had killed them? This question will remain unanswered.

Versions of scientists

Of course science community all over the world have been studying this phenomenon. But to consensus, what kind of creature, scientists failed to come.

There are several versions of who the Olgoy-Khorkhoy is.

• mythical animal
• John L. Cloudsey-Thompson, a zoologist, believes that the killer worm is a type of snake that can infect its victims with poison.
• Michel Raynal, a French cryptozoologist, and Jaroslav Mares, a Czech scientist, believe that a surviving two-legged reptile is hiding in the desert, which, in the course of evolution, has lost its legs.
• Dondogizhin Tsevegmid, Mongolian explorer, there are 2 varieties of the sand monster. He came to such conclusions because of the stories of some eyewitnesses who claimed that they had seen a yellow worm - a shar-khorkhoy.

To date, the Olgoi-Khorkhoy remains a mystical creature, the existence of which has not been proven. Therefore, all these theories will remain theories until the researchers manage to get a photo or the sandworm itself from the Gobi Desert.

Deadly worm olgoi-khorkhoi

Many people claim to have seen them. This is about giant worms, capable of killing from a distance, ejecting deadly poison or blasting their prey with an electrical blast 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. His unusual view 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-khorkhoi, 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 evidence 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 in color, 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 locals often they talk about shar-khorhoy, 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 have made the fauna of this country practically inaccessible to foreign zoologists, except for Soviet ones, and therefore we know very little about this creature. But nevertheless, in 1926, the American paleontologist Roy Chapman Andrews told in the book “In the Footsteps of an 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, close friend and colleague 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 "Olgoi-khorkhoy", 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-khorkhoi 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 desert conditions. It is known that some of these earthworms able to squirt poison 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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