Weekly News Round-up 4/27/11

This week in paranormal news...

Monstertacker.com posted an article about the Mineral Point vampire spotted around Wisconsin in the 1980's. You can read it here. It's a pretty amusing little story.

An article about the Mongolian Death Worm was posted on Aol News.

Paranormaldailynews has an article about SETI suspending the use of their radio dish scanners, designed to listen for alien signals, due to a lack of funding. You can find the article here.

Also, my blog is now available on Kindle. You can get the details here or click the little button on the sidebar if you want to know more about it.

Creature Feature: The Mongolian Death Worm

In the southern part of the Gobi desert, a monstrous worm is thought to live under the sand by many of the locals. It’s become the subject of many stories mostly because it sounds like something strait out of a science fiction novel.

The Mongolian Death Worm is thought to be 2-10 feet in length. It hibernates in the sand most of the year but emerges to feed on various local plants. The Mongolians say that it has strange projections on both ends, is a dark red color and has the ability to spew poisonous acid and deliver a deadly electric shock when threatened. Touching the Mongolian Death Worm means instant death because of its high level of toxicity.

While many people have gone looking for it, no one has come back with any evidence that it actually exists. Most of the Mongolian stories are based on legends and folklore passed down from previous generations. Of course, the desert is very large and there’s always the possibility that an undiscovered creature like this could be living away from the eye of humans. Real or legend, this is one monster I hope I never cross paths with.

Clark, Jerome and Coleman, Loren. Cryptozoology A-Z. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999. Pages 186-187