WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT Jamie Coots, 42, was a pastor in Kentucky and starred in National Geographic's "Snake Salvation" ...

THIS is the nail-biting moment a pastor drinks fatal poison while holding up a deadly rattlesnake with his bare hands – and miraculously survives. As the deadly strychnine, which can cause muscle ...

SQUIRE: The tiny community of Squire, West Virginia, near a coal mine in the Appalachian mountains is made up of a few scattered houses, a car wash, and one of the few remaining Pentecostal Signs ...

Pentecostal congregants who take the Gospel of Mark literally and “pick up snakes with their hands” believe God will protect them, but does the United States Constitution? Earlier this month, ...

In autumn last year, I contacted Chris Wolford, the 52-year-old pastor of the House of the Lord Jesus in the village of Squire, West Virginia, to see if, as I had read, it was really the last church ...

JOLO, W.Va. — “When I die, I wanna snake-bit die.” Dewey Chafin’s voice is soft as gauze, but the sentiment is hammered iron. You can’t doubt a man’s sincerity when he’s standing at a pulpit in shirt ...

CHESAPEAKE, Ohio - It took six years, but veteran Chesapeake High School teacher Colleen Sexton finally turned her fascination about West Virginia snake handlers into a book. "West Virginia is the ...

A US pastor who was bitten by a deadly snake continues an archaic ritual in his blood-splattered shirt during a dramatic service captured on camera. Cody Coots is the pastor at the Full Gospel ...

When fundamentalist preacher Jamie Coots died after handling a snake during a church service four years ago, it led to a flurry of news reports about the circumstances surrounding his death and why he ...

The tiny community of Squire, West Virginia, near a coal mine in the Appalachian mountains is made up of a few scattered houses, a car wash, and one of the few remaining Pentecostal Signs churches.