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In the desert regions of the Gobi lives the “hero” of the Mongolian people of legends – a giant worm, reminiscent of its appearance inside animal. Neither eyes nor head at all can be discerned in its ugly the body is impossible. The Mongols call this creature “Olga Khorha” and most afraid to meet him. Since none of the scientists had a chance to see (not to mention remove) the Olga-Horha, this the mysterious inhabitant of the Mongolian deserts was considered for many years a fictional monster, a purely folkloric character …
Olgoy Horkh – far from fiction
At the beginning of the last century, researchers were interested in the circumstance that the tales of the olga-khorhe in Mongolia can hear everywhere. Moreover, in various parts of the country they sound almost the same and are decorated with the same details. Scientists concluded that ancient legends are true and a strange creature unknown to science lives in the sands of the Gobi. Perhaps this is the surviving representative of the long extinct earthly “population” …
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The Mongolian word “olgoy” means “colon” in Russian, and “Horhe” – a worm. Legends say that these half-meter worms live in waterless and inaccessible areas of the desert and most spend their time in hibernation – in the holes they make in the sand. To the surface, these creatures are selected only in the most hot summer months – and then woe to the people they met on the way. Olga Khorha easily kills her victim with decent distance, shooting deadly poison at it, or striking at contact with electric discharge. In a word, get away from him impossible to live …
The policy of the Mongolian power structures, as well as the isolated the situation of this country made its fauna inaccessible to all foreign zoologists. For this simple reason, scientific the public knows almost nothing about the terrible olga-jorha. However, in the book of American paleontologist Roy Chempen Andrews “Poe in the footsteps of an ancient man “(1926) tells about the conversation author with the Mongolian prime minister. He asked Andrews to catch Olga-Horha. The minister pursued personal goals: one of his family members were once killed by desert worms. However American researcher failed to even just see mysterious worm …
Science fiction writer and scientist Ivan Efremov and Olga Khorha
In 1958 Soviet geologist, famous paleontologist and even more famous in the USSR writer Ivan Efremov in a book called The Windy Road has published information regarding the Olga Holhorha, which he collected during expeditions to the Gobi Desert (1946-1949 years).
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Among other evidence, the author gives a story of the Mongolian old Tseven, a resident of the village of Dalandzadgad, who claimed that Olgoi Horkhoi live 130 km southeast of the Aimak region. Tseven with terrified of these disgusting and terrible creatures. These Efremov used stories when writing a fantastic story, which was originally called – “Allga-Horha.” In the story it was said that two Russians died from the poison of giant worms researchers. Despite the fact that the work was entirely invented, it was based solely on the Mongolian folklore.
No researcher was lucky enough to see creepy olgoy horkhoy
The next one to “hunt down” the desert monster was Czech journalist and writer, author of several works on intriguing mysteries of the Earth Ivan Makarle. In the 90s of the past century, he is accompanied by Dr. Yaroslav Prokopets, specialist in tropical medicine, and cameraman Jiri Skupen spent two research expeditions to the most remote corners of the Gobi. It was also not possible to catch a living worm, but they were received evidence of its real existence. This evidence was so much that Czech researchers did and launched television program about the “Mysterious Monster of the Mongol sand. ”
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The next attempt to solve the mystery of Olga-Horha in 1996. another group of Czech researchers led by Peter Gorky and Mirek Naplava. Scientists followed the trail of sand monsters a large part of the desert, however, alas, also to no avail.
Allga Horha remains an unsolved mystery
Today you rarely hear about the Mongolian giant worm; decision this cryptozoological rebus is occupied only by local researchers. One of them – Dondogizhin Tsevegmid – suggests that there are two varieties of the worm. To a similar conclusion pushed again folk traditions, which also speak about the so-called schar-jorhe – already a yellow worm.
In his book, the scientist gives a story about a camel driver, who met in the mountains of such schar-Horkhoi. The driver saw how from many yellow worms crawled out of the earth and crawled towards it. Unhappy in terror rushed away and managed to escape …
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So, today, researchers of this phenomenon adhere to opinions that the legendary olga-jorha is a real living creature, completely unknown to science. It seems quite convincing version that it is a ringworm, which is in harsh adapted to the conditions of the Mongolian desert, having acquired special, just unique protective skin. By the way, some of such worms can be sprayed with poison for self-defense …
But by the way, olga-jorha is an absolute zoological mystery, not yet received a single acceptable explanation. Although in everything this is something fantastic …
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