mongolian death worm
ARMED with explosives, two men are heading to Mongolia’s Gobi Desert to find the fabled acid-spitting and lightning-throwing Mongolian death worm.
The worm has never been documented but some Mongolians are convinced it exists. They call it Allghoi Khorkhoi, or “intestine worm” because it resembles a cow’s intestine and is about 1.5m long.The worm apparently jumps out of the sand and kills people by spitting concentrated acid or shooting lightning from its rectum over long distances, NZPA reports. (Seriously.)
New Zealand TV entertainment journalist David Farrier, who is organising the expedition, and cameraman Christie Douglas, leave this week to spend two weeks in the Gobi, trying to verify the worm’s existence and making a documentary about it.
news.com.au: Journalist hunts for acid-spitting Mongolian death worm
(via Post Atomic)
August 11, 2009 at 10:17 pm
This was discussed thoroughly, though perhaps not accurately, in Dr. Thackey T. Lambshead’s Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thackery_T._Lambshead_Pocket_Guide_to_Eccentric_&_Discredited_Diseases
August 11, 2009 at 11:23 pm
I shoot lightning out of my rectum and nobody’s making a documentary about me. Fair much?
August 12, 2009 at 4:29 am
Wrong planet. I believe the locals must have been hitting the spice a bit much.
August 12, 2009 at 1:44 pm
“I shoot lightning out of my rectum and nobody’s making a documentary about me” LOL! Oh, thanks for that 🙂