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Cody Coots is following in his father’s footsteps, serving as a pastor in a church. Like his father, Coots is a snake handler. And like his father, he was bitten by a rattlesnake while leading a ...

Strychnine, speaking in tongues and ramshackle rockabilly spits forth from West Virginia’s last remaining snake handling ...

The unwelcome guest found hiding under a refrigerator inside St. Thomas Catholic Church in Muskegon Township Monday probably wasn't there for "confession." The 4-foot blue racer snake was likely ...

LONDON, Ky. — A woman who was bitten by a snake at a church that neighbors say practices serpent handling died of her wounds hours later, a newspaper reported. Linda Long, 48, was bitten Sunday at ...

A black snake slithered out of a woman's handbag during a sermon at a church in Runyenjes township, Embu East. Mercy, a church usher, revealed that the service had been running smoothly before it was ...

Authorities say Pastor Brock was bitten on his left arm and refused medical treatment John David Brock, 60, of Stoney Fork, was handling the snake during a Sunday service at the Mossy Simpson ...

If you think you have seen it all from the Kenyan self-proclaimed men of the cloth, you have another surprise coming your way. Many African pastors have been in the limelight for all the wrong reasons ...

A screenshot of Pastor Cody Coots being attacked by a rattlesnake he is handling as part of a church service. YouTube Cody Coots is following in his father’s footsteps, serving as a pastor in a church ...