One of the most persistent snake myths in the United States deals with reptiles known as the stinging snake or hoop snake. This snake, according to the belief, has a venomous stinger – in its tail that works like that of a wasp. The snake, it is said, forms itself into a,hoop by putting its tail in its mouth and rolls along like a wheel. It travels with incredible swiftness an,d when it gets close enough to a victim it lets go of its tail and drives the stinger into the object of its attack. If the victim dodges, according to the myth, and a tree is struck instead, the tree is sure to die. One version has it that the hoop snake is inflated and that it is luminous at night. Another version says the reptile squirts a venomous fluid from its tail. These pranks of the hoop snake are purely mythical, although believed in by thousands of people. In fact there are hundreds of persons who are willing to testify that they have seen hoop snakes perform these feats. There is no snake that rolls along like a hoop, and there is no species of snake with a stinger in its tail. The little snake known as hoop snake, or horn snake, is perfectly harmless. Similar stories are told of the wampum snake, which is also harmless. The real hoop snake is bluish-black with a few red bars across the belly, and its tail tapers to a fine point having the appearance of a horn or spike, but it is quite incapable of piercing or stinging anything. That any snake [475] could place its tail in its mouth and roll along like a wheel is manifestly absurd, and taking into consideration the anatomical peculiarities of the vertebral column it is clearly impossible. The earliest known report of the stinging snake was published more than two hundred and fifty years ago in a Report to the Lords Proprietors of tie Carolinas, in which it is stated that there lived in the Carolinas a snake the tail of which was a poisoned horn or spike. John Clayton also mentioned this myth in a letter, to the Royal Society of London in 1688. The locusts seen in the vision on Patmos by St. John the Divine, according to Revelation 9:10, “had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in their tails.”
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i cant say i seen on roll like a hoop but i did hit one with a lawn mower killed it was about 3 ft long light belly and a cream to brown on tot with rust color markings and head the tail looked just like a bulls horn not curved about 3 inches long and did have a hole in the end of it since was dead it didnt sting lol but my father told me about the being able to kill trees withit as fare as what it could do i dont know but i can swear it had a horn and was hard just like bull horn not black was light colored also this was early 70′s in flat rock alabama beside a coal pile
there really is a real snake in florida that is a hoop snake and rolls up in a hoop and rolls at you like a hoop. i lived down there for three years and was working at a horse stable down there and i saw one and it rolled up in a hoop and all the people who had been there for a long time told me to stay in the buildings until it left. i actually witnessed all this myself
There are in fact hoop snakes. I have seen several, growing up in the foothills of the Canadian Rockies, but the snakes are very rare.
Researchers at the University of Calgary in Alberta Canada have have a secret research program at the Canadian Rockies and Foothills Biogeoscience Institute at the Barrier Lake experimental station in the Kananaskis valley. (The G7 meetings were held in the valley several years ago, with world leaders in attendance, including George W. Bush. Hoop snakes were clandestinely used for back up security by the CIA during that conference.
This program must be kept secret, as the venom is so terribly poisonous and there is no known antidote. If it was to fall into the hands of terrorists, like Al Qeda or one of the weird militias or other such losers, it could be catastrophic for the planet. The institute staff are sworn to secrecy and will deny all knowledge of these rare snakes and this program.
Interestingly, this has nothing to do with the super poison venom. Alberta, a major energy producing area, funds energy research, and this is one of the projects. They want to unlock the secrets of how the hoop snake propels itself.
It appears there is a micro bio radiation nuclear reaction at the cellular level within the spine of the hoop snake. This splits atoms and changes mass to energy as predicted by Einstein’s equation of E=MC2. The snake continuously changes its center of gravity, thus being always lopsided, gravity causes it to roll forward.
In the future we may be riding in cars with no engine, just hoop snake derived tires.
The problem now is that the snakes specially bred to enhance this trait produce too much bio radiation, and self ignite, leaving radioactive remains about. This also happens in the wild, which is the reason the hoop snake is rare.
Scientists will find the answer though, if their funding is continued. This is a better use of our tax money than funding plastic coating turds as art. The University of Calgary is helping us get to the future, even if it is a top secret project. This has the possibility of solving our dependence on fossil fools in an organic green way.
Postcsript: How do I know so much about it if this is so secret? I used to be a janitor for the institute, and was friendly with the staff, and they let a few things slip, and I sorted through the garbage and found corroborating proof. This is real.
Posted by Clovis Righthand in Alberta Canada on Sat Dec 25, 2010 at 09:55 AM
See the links below to the university and this research center
And the G7 that was held in 1992 there.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/28th_G8_summit
http://www.ucalgary.ca/
http://bgs.ucalgary.ca
Just look for yourself. Idyllic spot. No one suspects what they are doing there.
I repeat this is real. HOOPSNAKES ARE REAL, and may hold the secrets of the salvation of the planet.
My dad was squirrel hunting once and seen one it rolled down a hill and stuck its tail in a tree ,this was in tenn,knox county 1967.