While this footage hasn't been confirmed, the woman in the video reportedly visited a doctor after experiencing intense nausea. After undergoing some imaging tests, the medical staff discovered something profoundly disturbing coiled in her stomach.
Nevertheless, experts are debating whether the creature extracted from the woman's stomach was indeed a snake. It seems improbable that a creature of such size could have entered her throat, passed through the larynx and esophagus, all while she appeared to be asleep. Experts theorize that this creature is more likely a worm rather than a snake.
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You see, there are major questions to be answered here. The most important one being whether it is possible at all that a snake can slither in a person's mouth, travel down the throat, passing through the larynx, going down the esophagus, and finally cozily settle in the stomach (mind you, it's a very unwelcoming place with all the digestive acid floating around).
News outlet Inverse reached out to herpetologists (the subdiscipline of zoology relating to the study of amphibians and reptilians) to figure out what's going on.
We should advise once more that the content is pretty graphic, even the medical professional taking out the jumps back in disgust and abhorrence, so beware of what you're about to watch.
The first theory comes from Toby Hibbitts, a research scientist at Texas A&M University. He thinks it's not a snake at all. Probably a worm, he says.
Judged by its size, it is probably a member of the Ascaris genus. According to data from the World Health Organization, it's the most common type of gastrointestinal parasite found in humans. Different sources estimate that about 1 billion people on Earth are infected with Ascariasis.
California Polytechnic State University assistant professor Emily Taylor has the same impression as well. So probably not a snake.
It's not possible to come up with a surefire diagnosis of what's going on though, the video resolution is too low to see details of the loathsome creature clearly. Although, we should still note that the Dagestan region is known for its rich snake diversity.
So, what do you say? Do you think this could be a snake?
Or maybe it's a worm that crawled in, established a home, and gradually grew to this size.
In my opinion, either possibility is horrifying.
