Rattlesnake Attack: Jeremy

April 27, 2022

Rattlesnake Attack: Jeremy

Do you have an irrational fear? #StillHere Podcast host Amanda reveals that she has an insane fear of snakes. At the start of this episode, she shares a few examples of her crazy behaviors resulting from this fear. (Cue Amanda knocking her baby sister over in an effort to flee a potential snake... that wasn't even there.)

Given this fear, when Amanda discovered the story of a man who was bitten by the severed head of a rattlesnake, she had to share it.

Listen now.

In May of 2018, Jeremy Sutcliffe and his wife Jennifer were doing yardwork at their Texas home. Jennifer was working in a flowerbed and she reached down to pull out some grass growing around her flowers and she almost grabbed a four-foot-long Western Diamondback Rattlesnake. He reared up and she screamed. Jeremy grabbed a shovel and beheaded the snake.

About 10 minutes later, he bent down to dispose of the severed head, it reared up and bit him on the hand.

Apparently, rattlesnakes can attack for more than an hour after they’ve been beheaded. Their metabolisms are much slower than those of humans and their internal organs can stay alive for longer than ours. They become aggressive in the throes of death and fight in a last-ditch effort to survive.

By the time he was life-flighted to the hospital, Jeremy was going into septic shock. He survived a little worse for wear, but his story can serve as an important warning for others. However, experts say that people shouldn’t attempt to kill rattlesnakes on their own.

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About Cynthia Vigil Jarmillo

Cynthia Vigil Jaramillo was a sex worker in Albuquerque, New Mexico when she was lured into an RV by the Toy Box Killer. She escaped her kidnapper and torturer wearing nothing but a metal slave collar and chains. She was lucky! And she is the main reason he was convicted and stopped prowling the streets. He took her to his trailer near Elephant Butte Reservoir and Elephant Butte Lake State Park.