Comments on: The Truth Behind the Mongolian Death Worm

By: Mattie

Mattie — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 08:47:33 +0000

When I was a child I was playing in my back yard with my sister and I was just standing there when a huge more like humongus… white worm with small black eyes and very sharp teeth (kind of like that picture up there with the worm thing…)came poping up out of the ground. only the head not the whole body the body was about maybe 1 foot in diameter if not more..well I was about 4 or 5 so I cant remember much of it..I was not even one inch away when it came poping up. It was like so wierd and scary but all of this happened in Athens Texas not anywhere near this place and there was trees and plants everywhere and ..snakes -shivers- also that place rained a lot.. I dont live there now so I have no problem saying where it happened…. :| yeah so anyways…I was wondering if anyone knows what it might be..I decided to post this because this happened to remind me of it. I would really like some answers. :|
Seriously.

By: knifey

knifey — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 05:13:38 +0000

Sure. ancient parchments were written in English, using Gothic script.

And there sure are a lot of Park Rangers in Mongolia.

Fail.

By: riyad

riyad — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 20:05:23 +0000

beautiful

By: Sutton Centre

Sutton Centre — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 10:29:02 +0000

As long as there aren’t any in my neck of the woods.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 01:49:32 +0000

It may be fruitful to evaluate the worm and it’s attributes next to a similar mythological counterpart, the Ouroboros.

By: Richard Freeman

Richard Freeman — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 19:18:53 +0000

rambaus, you are an under-educated bafoon. I led this expedition and i am a working zoologist with decades of experience. Why the hell would nomads living in the deep Gobi concot lies or make deathworms out of ‘condoms’. They have enough trouble just surviving.
You don’t have the balls or the backbone to do what i do. You sit behind a computer and spout arrogant rubbish on subjects you know nothing about. If you came on one of my expeditions you would soil yourself.
And by the way the model in the photo looks nothing like any eyewitness account of the deathworm.

By: Alan Abramowitz

Alan Abramowitz — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 16:21:19 +0000

Not only does the very name evoke the fictional sandworms from “Dune” or those vicious creatures from the movie “Tremors.” But the resemblance is so uncanny it makes you think the creators of those fictional worms must have known about this legend.

By: dj obiwan

dj obiwan — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 02:00:24 +0000

you might want toggogle the most basic simple facts before you embarrass yourself on teh intarweb
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snipe

“The difficulties involved in hunting snipe gave rise to the term “sniper”, referring to a skilled anti-personnel military sharpshooter. Colonial American snipe hunters used some of the earliest versions of a telescopic sight invented by American statesman and inventor Benjamin Franklin. This early version of the telescopic sight utilized two lenses affixed inside a tube made of hardened pigskin with cross hairs etched into the glass using acid.[2]”

A snipe is any of nearly 20 wading bird species in three genera in the family Scolopacidae. They are characterized by a very long, slender bill and cryptic plumage. The Gallinago snipes have a nearly worldwide distribution,

By: Kmuzu

Kmuzu — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 01:33:14 +0000

The whole thing is a Mongolian metaphor for penis. Look at the evidence. “in 1965 when he saw its head poking out of a hole in the sand”, “with the description of a two-foot long, reddish, worm-like creature lying in the desert” and “reddish-brown, a few feet in length, and shaped like a sausage”

I can imagine the locals all sitting around a campfire laughing at how they sent these idiot foreigners or a search for the Death Worm. It’s like our version of snipe hunting.

By: Brandon

Brandon — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 23:08:31 +0000

Whoa.. what a story. I hope is shows up. I love hearing about how modern humans don’t really have all the answers.

-B