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A "serpent-handling" West Virginia pastor died after his rattlesnake bit him during a church ritual, just as the man had apparently watched a snake kill his father years before. Pentecostal pastor Mark Wolford, 44, hosted an outdoor service at the Panther Wildlife Management Area in West Virginia Sunday, which he touted on his Facebook page prior to the event. "I am looking for a great time this Sunday," Wolford wrote May 22, according to the Washington Post. "It is going to be a homecoming like the old days. Good 'ole raised in the holler or mountain ridge running, Holy Ghost-filled...

i live on a lake in deltona florida and today i watched an otter kill and eat a large water moccasin .it appeared to me that the otter got bit several time can anybody tell me if the otter has a natural immunity to snake bites or will it be paying for its snake steak later. thanks for replying.

Alicia Bailey was bitten by what appeared to have been a large water moccasin that had been hiding in the bowl in the middle of the night. The snake bit her thigh after she lifted the lid, sending her to the hospital for three days. "We're currently very uncomfortable in our home," Alicia Bailey said. "And toilet shy, I would say."