Mollie Hemingway, Ed.: Check Out This Freakish Snake!

You have got to be kidding me. Check out the picture there. Larger version here. Yep, that's just a terrifying serpent of nightmare-inducing length.

"The Cajun Boy" who posted the picture says it's the result of the Mississippi River being more swollen than it's been in decades. The Army Corps of Engineers, aiming to prevent flooding in New Orleans and Baton Rouge, has opened a couple of floodgates thereby diverting waters to the swamps of rural South Louisiana.

"And now it appears as though we've had the first sighting of something crawling out of the swamp that is positively freakish," The Cajun Boy writes.

I'll say. This snake was supposedly just out for a slither on the Morganza spillway. What is it? Why wasn't I told that the United States had snakes this long? And can this snake travel to Virginia? Please tell me no.

UPDATE: This image was uploaded a few days ago by someone claiming it was found in Australia. I'm now just hoping it's a complete Photoshop.