As horror fans, we're no strangers to tales of revenge from beyond the grave. While these stories are typically found within the confines of movies, one Australian man recently learned the hard way that they can sometimes occur in real life too.
Australia's Border Mail reports that retired railywayman Jake Thomas paid a visit to his daughter's gravesite at the Werris Creek cemetery this past holiday season, when he noticed a large snake caught in a vase in front of a nearby headstone. Though Thomas says he typically runs the other way when he sees snakes, this time around he was worried of it attacking fellow visitors to the cemetery, and so he decided to take matters into his own hands. With half of the snake's body sticking out of the vase, Thomas picked up a shovel and cut the slithering creature clean in half.
Nearly an hour later, when Thomas was finished tidying up his daughter's gravesite, he reached into the vase to extract the other half of the snake's lifeless body, and was shocked when its fangs sunk into his flesh. With two razor sharp bites to his ring finger, Thomas was sent to the hospital, where he recovered after two days of intensive care treatment.
Snake experts say that nerve reflexes allow snakes to deliver bites up to an hour after they're dead, which explains Thomas' horrifying ordeal.
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