Footage Of Snake Regurgitating Other Snake In East Texas May Haunt Your Dreams (VIDEO)

NEWTON, TX — This will surely haunt your dreams. Or at least make your skin crawl for the foreseeable future.

What began as an excursion to take footage of the rural landscape of far East Texas, just west of Louisiana, Texas artist/photographer Christopher Reynolds and his wife witnessed a circle-of-life scenario with a most unexpected twist. The couple had just left his mother's house when they came upon a snake seemingly enjoying its dinner along the side of the road and decided to film the reptilian encounter for posterity, as the Houston Chronicle noted.

Because in Texas, footage and pictures of snakes, armadillos, roadrunners, horned toads, buzzards and other quintessentially Texas critters is something of a pastime for us, trailing closely behind taking pictures of our loved ones amid fields of bluebonnets in the Texas Hill Country or posing in front of the Alamo with the most solemn expression we're able to muster.

"Just drove by this beautiful snake," Reynolds begins in his video narration, confirming this photographic penchant.

But then something completely unexpected happened that — if you choose to click on the video below — will stay burnished in your brain, quite possibly forever. After eating, the snake began to regurgitate its meal, although it wasn't immediately clear what the meal might've been.

"Oh, whoa, this is crazy," Reynolds says, hinting at the horror about to unfold. It was another, previously swallowed snake. And it was still alive. The video shows the swallowed snake slowly emerging from its mouth-agape predator, still seemingly very much alive though likely dazed from its ordeal.

Reynolds is heard on the video theorizing the regurgitation took place after the dining snake felt threatened by their presence, ejecting its meal in order to make a hasty escape unburdened by its stomach contents. A story in National Geographic attests to this tactic used as a defense mechanism among snakes.

"That is the other snake's super ultra lottery lucky day," Reynolds tells his wife as the previously swallowed snake slithers off, possibly while in the throes of a reptilian existential crisis or with vows of becoming a better snake given its second chance at life.

We had to watch the video in the interest of journalism and to confirm its veracity. But you have a choice to make here now, whether to click on the video below or not. Don't say we didn't warn you.

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