<h1>SHOCKER: Girl Turned into Snake with Human Head in Warri</h1>

I was inundated earlier today about a story about this warri girl turning into a half snake at hotel Excel, a popular hotel on rifinery road which is close to the where my parents live in the city. Coming from a few friends in the city, i thought it was a good story and began talking about it on facebook and twitter,
immediately i got strong objection to the story being true from @iAMifeanyi who told me it was an old video; determined not to be a non-believer in Warri producing the unbelievable after i half-doubted the story that a boy was burnt to death for stealing for his valentine date, i told him i hear people are gathered at the hotel and they told me the video wasnt uploaded yet. Meanwhile, i went online but saw nothing tagged ‘Warri’ ‘snake’ or ‘hotel excel’ but saw a few half snake, half woman videos. I came to the conclusion that it was indeed most possibly true since they said they had not posted it online yet. But to my horror and chagrin, i got to discover that it was the same video that was later sent to me by @tundewoods.

I am not saying the story is false yet, all i am saying is that the video should be produced. It is expedient that at every point in time, especially with the volatile situation of our nation, we eschew ignorance and not jump on the bandwagon of being the first to share ‘the bad news’ or ‘the spectacular story’; we must be willing to investigate and not show arrogant ignorance as i discover a lot of people are still doing even after being confronted with the facts of this story, a la, youtube video. I have been guilty of being in that situation once or twice and i hope not to fall into this sort of childish scenario anymore. God has given us a mind to question, investigate and decipher; even when it is a choice between the devil and the red sea or between two good options, we can by wisdom come out unscathed.

Coming to the issue ofthe so-called girl turned into snake tale, Warri was awash with the story and for those who are waffarians in any way, the fact that people would be gathered(this was one of the major argument points) at the Hotel, is nothing new. People are always going to gather at the slightest instance of a ‘grand’ tale like that. Warri is conditioned to operate the spectacular!

Whether it is true or not, i have checked the story and tried to have all sides. From the youtube video (below), it is clear that it was uploaded in 3rd march, 2010 under the title “half snake, half woman” by someone with an Arab name or close. It is a spectacular sight but it isn’t unusual for us to see anomalies in birth of humans or animals happen in our day, but that is clearly not the case in point. Question is why would people circulate an old video, with a story as “girl turned into snake with human head at Hotel Excel in warri”.