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I've read about it on other sites so it wasn't made up by wikipedians. Also, 'Death Worm' is a nickname. You could call a rattlesnake 'death serpent' but that doesn't automaticly make it fake. --Bobman110 I agree, i am a true believer in the mongolian death worm. and the name death worm will be explained if you read the page. --WurmRider — Preceding unsigned comment added by WurmRider ( talk • contribs) 17:22, 5 December 2013 (UTC)
I don't see why this was reverted from "Deathworm" back to "Death Worm". As far as i can see, common concensus rests on "Deathworm" as the preferable spelling.
Could Frank Herbert have patterned the sandworms in the Dune novels from this legendary creature?
I'm decently certain that they served for inspiration for the Graboids in Tremors — Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.129.172.65 ( talk) 10:55, 30 November 2013 (UTC)
I tried to put something about arachas in the page, but it was deleted, i dont know why. --WurmRider — Preceding unsigned comment added by WurmRider ( talk • contribs) 17:24, 5 December 2013 (UTC)
I suggest removing the illustration. This shows a segmented worm, which the MDW certainly is not. All the eye-witness accounts describe a reptile-like creature: if you want an image, use a large salami. An artists impression was removed from the orang pendek article on the grounds that one person's imaginative view of a creature was not verifiable information: the same rule should apply more strongly to an inaccurate image. Incidentally, if the MDW is bogus, a great many Mongolians over a very wide area are consistent liars.
Perhaps we could just spell it either way?Peace out, dudes!
I agree with the hippie above me. If its that important of a matter, why can't someone just get a college English professor on here? Puhleeeeeze!
I am not a hippie, dude.I just believe in world peace! Anyway, why don't they just like, totally add up all the stories and get an illustration out of that? Huh?
Ahem, I do believe that at one point in either this talk page or the article itself that the illustration is the interpretation of the MDW by someone who's name I forget (if I remember it I'll edit this thing myself). And why don't you take you're own advice and draw up your own illustration based on the descriptions and post it on the site? Snick! ( talk) 23:15, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
Why does the spelling of such an arcane subject matter so much? Hey, my warranty didn't run out after all! 00:11, 24 December 2006 (UTC)
Why are we, like, actually discussing something that is so, totally irrelevant to the subject of the Mongolian death-worm? I mean, like, who cares about the spelling of something with the name of 'deathworm' when it isn't really a worm, although I do like some of the suggestions that that person made, like DethWurm being German or something.:)
Well, maybe the computer was like broken or the internet didn't work for about a year. Oh, and we still have a looooooooooooooooooooong way until 2008 comes. Snick! 00:41, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
Mind you, I'm also kind of lazy... Snick! 00:47, 2 October 2007 (UTC) Anyhow, CONGRATULATIONS!!!! If you see that again, you can tell the whole world about it!!! *jumps for joy* Snick! 23:42, 6 November 2007 (UTC) How many times did you use the word "like" talk about proper grammer --WurmRider — Preceding unsigned comment added by WurmRider ( talk • contribs) 17:27, 5 December 2013 (UTC)
I removed citation needed tag that was next to the claim that the worm is attracted to the color yellow, as it is said in Destination Truth. Maddra ( talk) 14:14, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
If "Mongolian Death Worm" is the alternate name of that novel - which is the explanation given for putting it in the very prominent "for ... see" link at the top of the article - then why doesn't it say that in the article about Spook Country? I still think that the "see also" link at the bottom is sufficient, but I won't change it again. - DavidWBrooks ( talk) 11:27, 5 April 2008 (UTC)
I read the article this morning, and from there already have found some more knowledge, apparently something important is how the sightings have all been in the gobi desert during the summer, it's possible it's all heatstroke. I usually like to believe in cryptids but a 5 foot worm that shoots poison and electrocutes people just seems to horrifying to be anything more than a mirage. Spinningfox ( talk) 19:44, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
This "worm" is also mentioned in issue 1074 of 2000AD (dated 23rd of December, 1997.) The story is called Vector 13 and it names the worm "Mongolian Death Worm" as well as "Allergorhai-Horhai". The story itself deals with Russians finding these things at the end of the Soviet-Afghan war. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 206.248.181.212 Trelard ( talk) 04:19, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
"Olgoi" is used to describe large tube shaped elastic hollow things. Appendix is called "olgoi". Inner rubber tubes of tires are also called "olgoi". Temur ( talk) 03:51, 8 May 2010 (UTC)
mn:Олгой хорхой? Newone ( talk) 08:35, 4 November 2010 (UTC)
No more comments — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.120.172.238 ( talk) 15:59, 25 February 2012 (UTC)
The Animal Planet cable television channel made a video about this cryptid, presumably in a series about cryptids. Here is the link: http://animal.discovery.com/tv-shows/other/videos/freak-encounters-mongolian-death-worm.htm — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:558:6014:1C:74CD:4FFE:CFE:2330 ( talk) 16:19, 8 September 2013 (UTC)
I watched it... it was very interesting! could we please also find the solution to the spelling argument. dethwurm or Deathworm or Death Worm. Jthekid15 ( talk) 13:26, 9 December 2013 (UTC)
Gaijin Goomba did a video where he suggests that Twinmold from Majora's Mask is based on the Death Worm. Nintendo haven't said anything about it either way though. I'm not sure if it warrents mentioning or not as a result. I'll post the video as well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Un1iv1Ws5XU 69.178.81.11 ( talk) 11:03, 25 December 2014 (UTC)
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Under 'Mentions, investigations', the second and third bulleted paragraphs refer to
and
respectively. Since Richard Freeman has long been a leading member of the CFZ, this must surely be a duplication of the same event – only one Mongolian expedition is listed on the CFZ website.
Re the clarification request about "E-Mongol" – Freeman in his 2005 Expedition Report ( http://www.cfz.org.uk/expeditions/dw/dwrep.htm here) describes e-mongol.com as ". . . the company with whom we were travelling." {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 90.220.212.253 ( talk) 20:57, 3 March 2018 (UTC)
The SYFY channel aired a made-for-television movie entitled Mongolian Death Worm in 2010. /info/en/?search=Mongolian_Death_Worm_(film) 2601:89:C701:9190:9089:70B3:33A7:F85D ( talk)
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I've read about it on other sites so it wasn't made up by wikipedians. Also, 'Death Worm' is a nickname. You could call a rattlesnake 'death serpent' but that doesn't automaticly make it fake. --Bobman110 I agree, i am a true believer in the mongolian death worm. and the name death worm will be explained if you read the page. --WurmRider — Preceding unsigned comment added by WurmRider ( talk • contribs) 17:22, 5 December 2013 (UTC)
I don't see why this was reverted from "Deathworm" back to "Death Worm". As far as i can see, common concensus rests on "Deathworm" as the preferable spelling.
Could Frank Herbert have patterned the sandworms in the Dune novels from this legendary creature?
I'm decently certain that they served for inspiration for the Graboids in Tremors — Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.129.172.65 ( talk) 10:55, 30 November 2013 (UTC)
I tried to put something about arachas in the page, but it was deleted, i dont know why. --WurmRider — Preceding unsigned comment added by WurmRider ( talk • contribs) 17:24, 5 December 2013 (UTC)
I suggest removing the illustration. This shows a segmented worm, which the MDW certainly is not. All the eye-witness accounts describe a reptile-like creature: if you want an image, use a large salami. An artists impression was removed from the orang pendek article on the grounds that one person's imaginative view of a creature was not verifiable information: the same rule should apply more strongly to an inaccurate image. Incidentally, if the MDW is bogus, a great many Mongolians over a very wide area are consistent liars.
Perhaps we could just spell it either way?Peace out, dudes!
I agree with the hippie above me. If its that important of a matter, why can't someone just get a college English professor on here? Puhleeeeeze!
I am not a hippie, dude.I just believe in world peace! Anyway, why don't they just like, totally add up all the stories and get an illustration out of that? Huh?
Ahem, I do believe that at one point in either this talk page or the article itself that the illustration is the interpretation of the MDW by someone who's name I forget (if I remember it I'll edit this thing myself). And why don't you take you're own advice and draw up your own illustration based on the descriptions and post it on the site? Snick! ( talk) 23:15, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
Why does the spelling of such an arcane subject matter so much? Hey, my warranty didn't run out after all! 00:11, 24 December 2006 (UTC)
Why are we, like, actually discussing something that is so, totally irrelevant to the subject of the Mongolian death-worm? I mean, like, who cares about the spelling of something with the name of 'deathworm' when it isn't really a worm, although I do like some of the suggestions that that person made, like DethWurm being German or something.:)
Well, maybe the computer was like broken or the internet didn't work for about a year. Oh, and we still have a looooooooooooooooooooong way until 2008 comes. Snick! 00:41, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
Mind you, I'm also kind of lazy... Snick! 00:47, 2 October 2007 (UTC) Anyhow, CONGRATULATIONS!!!! If you see that again, you can tell the whole world about it!!! *jumps for joy* Snick! 23:42, 6 November 2007 (UTC) How many times did you use the word "like" talk about proper grammer --WurmRider — Preceding unsigned comment added by WurmRider ( talk • contribs) 17:27, 5 December 2013 (UTC)
I removed citation needed tag that was next to the claim that the worm is attracted to the color yellow, as it is said in Destination Truth. Maddra ( talk) 14:14, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
If "Mongolian Death Worm" is the alternate name of that novel - which is the explanation given for putting it in the very prominent "for ... see" link at the top of the article - then why doesn't it say that in the article about Spook Country? I still think that the "see also" link at the bottom is sufficient, but I won't change it again. - DavidWBrooks ( talk) 11:27, 5 April 2008 (UTC)
I read the article this morning, and from there already have found some more knowledge, apparently something important is how the sightings have all been in the gobi desert during the summer, it's possible it's all heatstroke. I usually like to believe in cryptids but a 5 foot worm that shoots poison and electrocutes people just seems to horrifying to be anything more than a mirage. Spinningfox ( talk) 19:44, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
This "worm" is also mentioned in issue 1074 of 2000AD (dated 23rd of December, 1997.) The story is called Vector 13 and it names the worm "Mongolian Death Worm" as well as "Allergorhai-Horhai". The story itself deals with Russians finding these things at the end of the Soviet-Afghan war. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 206.248.181.212 Trelard ( talk) 04:19, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
"Olgoi" is used to describe large tube shaped elastic hollow things. Appendix is called "olgoi". Inner rubber tubes of tires are also called "olgoi". Temur ( talk) 03:51, 8 May 2010 (UTC)
mn:Олгой хорхой? Newone ( talk) 08:35, 4 November 2010 (UTC)
No more comments — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.120.172.238 ( talk) 15:59, 25 February 2012 (UTC)
The Animal Planet cable television channel made a video about this cryptid, presumably in a series about cryptids. Here is the link: http://animal.discovery.com/tv-shows/other/videos/freak-encounters-mongolian-death-worm.htm — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:558:6014:1C:74CD:4FFE:CFE:2330 ( talk) 16:19, 8 September 2013 (UTC)
I watched it... it was very interesting! could we please also find the solution to the spelling argument. dethwurm or Deathworm or Death Worm. Jthekid15 ( talk) 13:26, 9 December 2013 (UTC)
Gaijin Goomba did a video where he suggests that Twinmold from Majora's Mask is based on the Death Worm. Nintendo haven't said anything about it either way though. I'm not sure if it warrents mentioning or not as a result. I'll post the video as well.
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Under 'Mentions, investigations', the second and third bulleted paragraphs refer to
and
respectively. Since Richard Freeman has long been a leading member of the CFZ, this must surely be a duplication of the same event – only one Mongolian expedition is listed on the CFZ website.
Re the clarification request about "E-Mongol" – Freeman in his 2005 Expedition Report ( http://www.cfz.org.uk/expeditions/dw/dwrep.htm here) describes e-mongol.com as ". . . the company with whom we were travelling." {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 90.220.212.253 ( talk) 20:57, 3 March 2018 (UTC)
The SYFY channel aired a made-for-television movie entitled Mongolian Death Worm in 2010. /info/en/?search=Mongolian_Death_Worm_(film) 2601:89:C701:9190:9089:70B3:33A7:F85D ( talk)