Mongolian Death Worm - Cultural References

Cultural References

• The worm's first literary appearance was in the short story "Olgoi-Khorkhoi" by Ivan Yefremov (1942–1943) based on Prof. Andrews' descriptions. The short story's first edition was called Allergorhai-Horhai, but later, after Yefremov's visit to Mongolia, he changed the name to the original Mongolian spelling "Olgoi-Khorkhoi".
• The 1990s film Tremors features a graboid based on the Mongolian death worm, a worm-like creature which attacks animals, and humans alike.
• The worm is the subject of a Vector 13 story in the British anthology comic 2000 AD.
• In 2009, the short-fiction podcast The Drabblecast presented a humorous, multi-part audio story called "In Search of the Mongolian Death Worm".
• The anime series Guin Saga has several incidents where an expeditionary force from "Monghol" is attacked by a giant red worm with a corrosive touch.
• In the TV show The Secret Saturdays, the main villain, V.V. Argost uses Mongolian death worm venom in many episodes.
• In the Nickelodeon TV Show, The Troop, the pilot episode, "Do the Worm," is about Mongolian death worms attacking the senior dance.
• A film, Mongolian Death Worm, was released by the SyFy network on May 8, 2010. It stars Sean Patrick Flanery as a treasure hunter who gets caught up in adventures and encounters numerous examples of the deadly creatures.
• Animal Planet has produced a docudrama show titled "Lost Tapes." Under Season 1., Episode 13 (first aired February 17, 2009), Titled "Death Worm," The show has purported actual footage (which is fictional) of two men who were attacked and killed, one of which was bitten, burned with a Corrosive Acid, and both were electrocuted. Their claim of the docudrama is that the bodies were never found, yet their equipment was recovered.
• A March 2011 episode of Beast Man on the National Geographic Channel featured a search for the worm in the Mongolian desert.
• In Christopher Farnsworth's book The President's Vampire, the vampire Nathaniel Cade keeps a live specimen of the Olgoi-Khorkhoi in his reliquary under the Smithsonian Castle in Washington D.C.
• Rapper MC Frontalot mentions the creature in the song Scare Goat, with the lines "Got a Mongolian Death Worm at my house, right next to Squonk and the Aqueous Mouse..."
• In the 9th Episode of the TNT TV series Franklin & Bash, Stanton Infeld told a reporter that he saw the Mongolian Death Worm, or at least he thought he did.
• Lost Girl (TV series) Season 2, episode 5 in 2011, revolves around a WMD named "Mongolian Death Worm", which reportedly can liquify anything by electricity.
• The 2011 book The Grave Robbers of Genghis Khan by P.B. Kerr mentions the worm and its electrical powers.
• In William Gibson's 2007 novel, Spook Country, the character Hollis Henry refers to the Mongolian Death Worm as a "mascot for her anxiety," using it to represent whatever she is most afraid of.
• In the 2012 novel, The Soft Exile by Eric Kiefer, the Mongolian Death Worm appears as a spirit animal.
• The worm is also referenced as the main character in the iOS game, Super Mega Worm.