The Peninsula Python is a giant python said to inhabit Northeastern Ohio. It’s length ranges from 15–19 feet. It is dark, with brownish blotches, and can climb trees. The python rears up like a cobra, Raids henhouses, and has the width of an automobile tire. It is believed that it is of large size due to a mutation, as a chemical spill occurred where the snake resides, leaving all of its residents to leave, only now the snake remains where it slithers around the peninsula, nowhere to be sighted again.[1]
Significant sighting[]
Clarence Mitchell saw an 18-foot snake crawling across his cornfield near Peninsula, Ohio, on June 8, 1944. After several days of effort, a posse that had been formed on June 25 failed to find any evidence other than broken branches and trails leading to the Cuyahoga River. Reports of a large snake were made through August 1 by other residents of the valley, including Pauline Hopko, who said it slithered away from a willow tree in her yard and frightened her cows so much that they broke loose and ran away.[2]
Possible explanation[]
- An escaped snake from a carnival truck that supposedly crashed in the area around 1934.