Death Worm

Death Worm is the thirteenth episode of the first season of the thriller horror docudrama found-footage television series Lost Tapes. It originally aired on Animal Planet on February 17th, 2009 and was directed by Douglas Segal.

Plot
In Summer 2008, two longtime friends and extreme sports enthusiasts Greg Cole and Benton Davis competed in a three-day, five-hundred-mile (310 km) ATV race across the Gobi Desert, following a tradition in which they pushed each other to new challenges each year. As they find they are in last place in the race, they agree on next year's challenges before continuing. They become thoroughly lost as night falls, but assume that they will be able to find their way once it becomes light again.

As they rest and joke around with each other, Greg is suddenly bitten by an unseen creature, and Benton's camera captures a trail of sand being pushed up by something under it. After sleeping for a short while, Greg suddenly wakes up screaming in pain, unable to feel his legs, with some kind of acid on his leg that has already melted part of his clothing. Benton tries to start Greg's ATV, but the engine has died. However, Benton's vehicle still works, and he tries to help Greg onto it, but panics as he sees another trail left by the creature in the sand, and finally manages to get Greg onto his ATV.

They drive for a while, but the vehicle runs out of gas, stranding them. Benton suddenly feels a sensation like static electricity and briefly sees the death worm appear under the ATV. Greg insists that Benton leave on his own for help while it is still cool out, and Benton promises that he will return. Shortly after leaving, Greg is suddenly attacked by at least one creature, apparently with electricity, and falls off the vehicle and is dragged under the sand. In desperation, Benton drops the camera and yells for help before suddenly being attacked by a worm which is seen only as a trail in the sand charging at him. He uses his last moments to send a message to whoever finds the camera about the worms before he is suddenly attacked by a group of them.

Their bodies were never found, but their vehicles and the camera were found. Their deaths were officially attributed to heat exposure, and the strange burrows found around their equipment were not investigated.