In this CNN video piece, a couple of Carolina kids claim to have a snake with a head at each end. I can’t get audio here, but it looks for real. It prompts all sorts of questions, including how it goes to the bathroom.
It looks like that staple of Medieval bestiaries*, the Amphisbaena, the two-headed serpent. When T.H. White was translating and commenting on the Bestiatry in his Book of Beasts, he suggested that the amphisbaena might be inspired or sustained by hoaxes in which a false head was painted at the other end of a normal snake. He never considered possible real freaks of this sort.
*although, like many things in the Bestiary, it has deeper roots. The Amphisbaena is described by the Roman author Pliny.
They try to zoom in on it, but never get a clear picture for some reason, which makes me skeptical,. But I thought I could see a tongue flicker out of the second head.
Put your partisan joke here.
The same URL apparently goes to several CNN video stories. The two-headed snake is one of them.
