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If you're not sure, let me tell you about them:</p><div id="inarticle-1"></div><ul class="article__unordered-list"><li><span>They look like most snakes but have stingers on their notched tails, which sometimes leads to the nickname "horn snake."</span></li><li><span>They will grasp their tails in their mouths and roll toward their prey, like a Hula Hoop on its side, reaching speeds of 60 mph.</span></li><li><span>If a hoop snake strikes a tree while chasing prey, the tree will wither and die within minutes.</span></li><li><span>They typically come out of hibernation on April 1 each year.</span></li><li><span>Oh, and the most important thing: They're fictional. Or at least they have never been proven to exist.</span></li></ul><div id="inarticle-2"></div><div class="excoVideoPlayer article__paragraph"><div id="649e4aaf-616d-49eb-b16e-44ce0a01e1c7" data-exs-config=""></div></div><p class="article__paragraph article__paragraph--left" id="CT2IHBYQCRCKBIEUYZTZQPZYUI">Like most legends, though, the tale of the hoop snake refuses to die. From an early mention of a hoop snake in the 1784 book, "<a href="https://books.google.com/books/about/A_Tour_in_the_United_States_of_America_C.html?id=-UV9QwAACAAJ" target="_blank">A Tour in the United States of America"</a> by Londoner J.F.D. Smyth, to the <a href="http://americanfolklore.net/folklore/pecos-bill/" target="_blank">Pecos Bill </a>stories of the 1900s, to a series of Alabama newspaper articles in the 1950s, the legend continues to fascinate.</p><div class="InContent_Center_Background"><div class="InContent_Center_Padding"><div class="ad-observer"></div></div></div><div id="inarticle-3"></div><p class="article__paragraph article__paragraph--left" id="ZRME67YHHVHLTJZYITGEG6WPKY"><strong>Why we're talking about the hoop snake</strong></p><div class="InContent_Center_Background"><div class="InContent_Center_Padding"><div class="ad-observer"></div></div></div><div id="inarticle-4"></div><p class="article__paragraph article__paragraph--left" id="CQ3UMKEV25A3JBZISHG7RKR764">As I've written before, I get some really unusual emails in my line of work as weird news reporter and author of the Odd Travels series. Click <a href="http://www.al.com/living/index.ssf/2016/01/theres_a_frog_on_my_toe_and_ot.html" target="_blank">here</a> for examples.</p><div class="InContent_Center_Background"><div class="InContent_Center_Padding"><div class="ad-observer"></div></div></div><div id="inarticle-5"></div><p class="article__paragraph article__paragraph--left" id="JBG5UICYHZC53JLQL7AJYFRC7E">On Monday, I got a fun email from P.J. Gossett of Winston County, who was researching in some old newspapers when he came across an interesting series of articles. He told me: "I came across another legendary creature and thought you would like to know about it. I have typed several pages of articles directly out of the newspaper from 1957 concerning hoop snakes."</p><div class="InContent_Center_Background"><div class="InContent_Center_Padding"><div class="ad-observer"></div></div></div><div id="inarticle-6"></div><p class="article__paragraph article__paragraph--left" id="7LMRE6K5TRBWLJYF23FJ2ZXFJY">Color me intrigued.</p><div class="InContent_Center_Background"><div class="InContent_Center_Padding"><div class="ad-observer"></div></div></div><div id="inarticle-7"></div><p class="article__paragraph article__paragraph--left" id="6T5GF3ES3FCGPI3IQ2COJ24ESA">I read P.J.'s transcribed accounts and immediately took to the inter-webs. I found lots of information about how the legend may have originated, such as an account from <a href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Hoop_snake" target="_blank">RationalWiki.org</a> that says the stories may have begun with mud snakes, which have pointy tails and prod their prey, although they are not poisonous. RationalWiki concluded: "Despite attempts to find real-life sources, the most likely explanation is not mistaken identity but bare-faced lying by bored cowpokes."</p><div class="InContent_Center_Background"><div class="InContent_Center_Padding"><div class="ad-observer"></div></div></div><div id="inarticle-8"></div><div class="InContent_Center_Background"><div class="InContent_Center_Padding"><div class="ad-observer"></div></div></div><div id="inarticle-9"></div><p class="article__paragraph article__paragraph--left" id="ZVSYYGVTAVFONC5R6C4FZPMG5U"><strong>What Haleyville residents reported in 1957</strong></p><div class="InContent_Center_Background"><div class="InContent_Center_Padding"><div class="ad-observer"></div></div></div><div id="inarticle-10" class="middleParagraph"></div><p class="article__paragraph article__paragraph--left" id="SGPJ2KDVU5GADORPGVL5EXR2QY">Gossett said he was transcribing from The Advertiser, which was published in Haleyville from 1954-1961 (from 1945-54, it was known as The Haleyville Advertiser) and came across columns called Curbside Comment, written by a man named Smitty. In a 1957 edition, Smitty mentioned hoop snakes. "Before he knew it, the paper was inundated with stories of the supposedly legendary reptile," Gossett said.</p><div class="InContent_Center_Background"><div class="InContent_Center_Padding"><div class="ad-observer"></div></div></div><div id="inarticle-11"></div><p class="article__paragraph article__paragraph--left" id="XVV46IFB3VBG7C4TDAPWDTF5XE">Earlene Williams was quoted a 1957 edition of The Advertiser, saying: "If you see a snake rolling toward you, run like your life depended on it." Here are a few tidbits from Smitty's columns in subsequent 1957 editions, edited for space:</p><div class="InContent_Center_Background"><div class="InContent_Center_Padding"><div class="ad-observer"></div></div></div><div id="inarticle-12"></div><p class="article__paragraph article__paragraph--left" id="7LSNV4RV2VBSRINJ7TDNGLDQCU"><strong>May 22:</strong> A local resident brought a preserved reptile to the newspaper office that he said was a hoop snake. Smitty wrote: "Homer Jones has the reptile pickled in alcohol, and sure enough it has 'horns' at the end of his tail. We've accused Homer of making the horns with a razor blade, but he denies the charge. Now let's have some argument about whether or not there is such a thing as a hoop snake."</p><div class="InContent_Center_Background"><div class="InContent_Center_Padding"><div class="ad-observer"></div></div></div><div id="inarticle-13"></div><p class="article__paragraph article__paragraph--left" id="KADENHRKC5FLJHG2Y2FWWF7SNA"><strong>May 24</strong>: "We knew that comment about horn or hoop snakes would get results... Mrs. Maude Miller of Haleyville supports those who say there is such a thing as a hoop snake, and agrees that they 'roll like a barrel hoop.' She gave her experiences along this line in a letter to the Advertiser: 'I just finished reading about the hoop snake Mr. Phillips found. I have seen two hoop snakes in my life and I, being the oldest child in the family, had to take a boy's place. I was reared one and one-half miles this side of Guin on the road between Winfield and Guin. In plowing I have plowed up several of the horn snakes with a horn on the end of their tail. Now a hoop snake is much longer and black with yellow specks all over it ... I climbed a ten-rail fence to keep from being struck by it. Old people said one struck an oak tree at Old Pike Mill, and the tree was dead by night. I can't vouch for the truth of this, for I was just a little girl. But I do know I ran from the hoop snake and plowed up several horn snakes.'"</p><div class="InContent_Center_Background"><div class="InContent_Center_Padding"><div class="ad-observer"></div></div></div><div id="inarticle-14"></div><p class="article__paragraph article__paragraph--left" id="6LEZKE2QZBEXROV5NXLP7RZSHY"><strong>May 29:</strong> "Everyday there is a letter on my desk which he has marked to the attention of the "Hoop Snake Editor" ...One of the most interesting letters comes from Elvis Cochran of Rt. 2 Hamilton, who says that his grandad (sic) is probably the champion snake catcher in these parts. Elgin Cochran has ... killed several horn snakes and still has the horns."</p><div class="InContent_Center_Background"><div class="InContent_Center_Padding"><div class="ad-observer"></div></div></div><div id="inarticle-15"></div><p class="article__paragraph article__paragraph--left" id="3Q6WZZXEFZDZNFDW5STRDBFHOM"><strong>May 29:</strong> "Mrs. Earlene Williams of Rt. 5, Haleyville, also writes on the subject of hoop snakes: 'Once my dad, mother and I were working a piece of bottom land... All at once dad yelled 'watch out.' There was a snake rolling like a wheel just a few feet away from us. In its direction stood a big red oak tree. Just before it reached the tree it stretched itself out as though it were popping a whip. Its tail hit the tree and away it went in the same position. 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If you're not sure, let me tell you about them:"},{"_id":"MMXKNPLOJBHR7JW3LTFJWBE3BQ","type":"list","list_type":"unordered","items":[{"type":"text","content":"They look like most snakes but have stingers on their notched tails, which sometimes leads to the nickname \"horn snake.\"","_id":"46G46J3QEVDAFH7MGVTCUOYPTY"},{"type":"text","content":"They will grasp their tails in their mouths and roll toward their prey, like a Hula Hoop on its side, reaching speeds of 60 mph.","_id":"NZBECWG5KRDM7PU3EGSBSO7BCU"},{"type":"text","content":"If a hoop snake strikes a tree while chasing prey, the tree will wither and die within minutes.","_id":"IYPUMAWW5JHIZOTNQCYH5HKQ6I"},{"type":"text","content":"They typically come out of hibernation on April 1 each year.","_id":"XQWZVHDYZRE7HEPATYC73WZHUA"},{"type":"text","content":"Oh, and the most important thing: They're fictional. Or at least they have never been proven to exist.","_id":"MH4APSDULRFCDMTDXHMPZHGLDU"}]},{"_id":"CT2IHBYQCRCKBIEUYZTZQPZYUI","type":"text","content":"Like most legends, though, the tale of the hoop snake refuses to die. From an early mention of a hoop snake in the 1784 book, \"<a href=\"https://books.google.com/books/about/A_Tour_in_the_United_States_of_America_C.html?id=-UV9QwAACAAJ\" target=\"_blank\">A Tour in the United States of America\"</a> by Londoner J.F.D. Smyth, to the <a href=\"http://americanfolklore.net/folklore/pecos-bill/\" target=\"_blank\">Pecos Bill </a>stories of the 1900s, to a series of Alabama newspaper articles in the 1950s, the legend continues to fascinate."},{"_id":"ZRME67YHHVHLTJZYITGEG6WPKY","type":"text","content":"<strong>Why we're talking about the hoop snake</strong>"},{"_id":"CQ3UMKEV25A3JBZISHG7RKR764","type":"text","content":"As I've written before, I get some really unusual emails in my line of work as weird news reporter and author of the Odd Travels series. Click <a href=\"http://www.al.com/living/index.ssf/2016/01/theres_a_frog_on_my_toe_and_ot.html\" target=\"_blank\">here</a> for examples."},{"_id":"JBG5UICYHZC53JLQL7AJYFRC7E","type":"text","content":"On Monday, I got a fun email from P.J. Gossett of Winston County, who was researching in some old newspapers when he came across an interesting series of articles. He told me: \"I came across another legendary creature and thought you would like to know about it. I have typed several pages of articles directly out of the newspaper from 1957 concerning hoop snakes.\""},{"_id":"7LMRE6K5TRBWLJYF23FJ2ZXFJY","type":"text","content":"Color me intrigued."},{"_id":"6T5GF3ES3FCGPI3IQ2COJ24ESA","type":"text","content":"I read P.J.'s transcribed accounts and immediately took to the inter-webs. I found lots of information about how the legend may have originated, such as an account from <a href=\"http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Hoop_snake\" target=\"_blank\">RationalWiki.org</a> that says the stories may have begun with mud snakes, which have pointy tails and prod their prey, although they are not poisonous. RationalWiki concluded: \"Despite attempts to find real-life sources, the most likely explanation is not mistaken identity but bare-faced lying by bored cowpokes.\""},{"_id":"27G6UL5WWJBVXCJAJCLRTF662E","type":"interstitial_link","additional_properties":{"href":"http://www.al.com/outdoors/index.ssf/2015/06/50_snakes_in_alabama_you_shoul.html","data-enhanced":"small"},"url":"http://www.al.com/outdoors/index.ssf/2015/06/50_snakes_in_alabama_you_shoul.html","content":""},{"_id":"ZVSYYGVTAVFONC5R6C4FZPMG5U","type":"text","content":"<strong>What Haleyville residents reported in 1957</strong>"},{"_id":"SGPJ2KDVU5GADORPGVL5EXR2QY","type":"text","content":"Gossett said he was transcribing from The Advertiser, which was published in Haleyville from 1954-1961 (from 1945-54, it was known as The Haleyville Advertiser) and came across columns called Curbside Comment, written by a man named Smitty. 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Old people said one struck an oak tree at Old Pike Mill, and the tree was dead by night. I can't vouch for the truth of this, for I was just a little girl. But I do know I ran from the hoop snake and plowed up several horn snakes.'\""},{"_id":"6LEZKE2QZBEXROV5NXLP7RZSHY","type":"text","content":"<strong>May 29:</strong> \"Everyday there is a letter on my desk which he has marked to the attention of the \"Hoop Snake Editor\" ...One of the most interesting letters comes from Elvis Cochran of Rt. 2 Hamilton, who says that his grandad (sic) is probably the champion snake catcher in these parts. Elgin Cochran has ... killed several horn snakes and still has the horns.\""},{"_id":"3Q6WZZXEFZDZNFDW5STRDBFHOM","type":"text","content":"<strong>May 29:</strong> \"Mrs. Earlene Williams of Rt. 5, Haleyville, also writes on the subject of hoop snakes: 'Once my dad, mother and I were working a piece of bottom land... All at once dad yelled 'watch out.' There was a snake rolling like a wheel just a few feet away from us. In its direction stood a big red oak tree. Just before it reached the tree it stretched itself out as though it were popping a whip. Its tail hit the tree and away it went in the same position. A few days later the tree was dead.'\""},{"_id":"4BS4D73ZA5CHJFURFIH75EKTBA","type":"text","content":"<strong>May 29:</strong> Lucien Phillips wrote: \"Years back while hunting with a friend, who's now deceased, a large hoop snake made for us, we barely got out of his path to keep from being hit. He was rolling like a hoop. Many people now living can verify that they have seen a hoop snake strike a tree with the horn and the tree will wilt and die with in twenty four hours.\""},{"_id":"BDV3PRFYY5AEVPYO4NBUZPIYC4","type":"text","content":"<strong>May 31:</strong> W.L. 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