The Jolo Serpent Handlers | Documentary about Serpent-Handling Church in West Virginia | Full Movie 

Their music is incredible! Like Rockabilly mixed with Psychedelic Garage

Say whatever one wants. Their Music was Slap Jamming...!

I’m from Logan WV. I used to work in Jolo back in the 90’s. These are the greatest people on Earth. The most honest and hardworking people you’ll ever meet. I recently moved to the state of New Jersey. I’d feel a million times safer in a church full of snakes with these people than in any public place in NJ. That’s the TRUTH.

I sure miss going to church . Hopefully God will make a way for me to get to a church . My situation was s keeping me from going. Please remember me in your prayers.

I find it interesting that one young lady said she had to give up rock-'n'-roll music......Dang! These folks got the boss rock-'n'-roll!!!! ✝️📿

I love these people and miss them terribly! They were wonderful and loving, Godly people with a heart of gold. They were the best folks to know! They were the salt of the earth! Most all of them are gone now including my grandparents. I sure miss them something awful.

Man, that's some great psychedelic rock music there!....I was expecting bluegrass, or "mountain music"...

That guy at the 3 min mark handles serpents alright!

Growing up in the 60’s and 70’s was the best ever. I was born in 55 and am 68 now. Of all the decades I have lived, the 60’s and 70’s was the best. Before technology took over young minds. Before they buried their faces in their phones, we ran around outside on bikes, in the woods and creeks. Kids miss so much now. Neighborhood kids…many many of them gathered in the street of the suberbs and we played all day until the street lights came on. We were social and knew how to play and laugh.

Wild and wonderful mcdowell county

I wonder how this practice would work if one were to use Black Mambas instead of rattlers and copperheads?....

Wow how strange this all is

Each year the congregation gets smaller for some strange reason

Wow, the music is just awesome. Hope I ´ll get the chance to see a serpent handling church service one day! Thanks for the upload, amazing...

Thanks for the upload. Just love the look and feel of this documentary. Ya know that 70’s thing. But ya know these people are crazy, God bless’em. And they’re still at it. Still at it in Appalachia. Just crazy.

These preachers spend lots of time playing Russian Roulette.

All of these snakes are highly venomous

The guitars and singing would make me want to immediately leave this earth for heaven. Can you imagine listening to this if you were seriously ill?

I've been an Atheist for decades. More on the Agnostic/Secular/Humanistic side rather than a devout Atheist since I can't prove that God doesn't exist, nor have I ever met anyone who can prove God's existence, but I will admit that some of you God believers can be really nice and awesome people. I just don't understand why anyone feels they need this God character at all?

They all say ... I quit drankin I quit cocaine. But this adrenaline i get with the snkaes and the local fame of being a "godly man/woman" is way better and people dont judge me cause im not drankin or doing my cocaine.

Looks like aunt pearl there! I am related to Randy Wolford tht passed

Bit 68 times? Holy snake handling Batman. Usually the more bit the worse it gets

Not only are they Gods people…some are very talented on instruments etc….these people seem GENUINE

I'm from Kentucky I have known snake worshippers but non in this video they told me I don't have the faith to pickup a snake but if I did I'd be blessed how.in the he'll would I blessed bit by.a snake these people need to be jailed for this and the snakes 🐍 taken away by the law

I know where Jolo is! Think they’d let me visit to observe? I’m a Traditional Catholic. I won’t be handling any snakes or drinking poison! I’ve got no problem praying for the sick, singing the old timey hymns, or shouting, but I wouldn’t be falling over and having convulsions! Their concept of worship is very different from the Catholic meaning, so dancing wouldn’t be a problem for me, either.

I grew up less than a mile from this church..never went though...my dad was terrified of snakes...lol

parseltongue dance party...yes the musicianship is great.

That church was having a good time whats the issue? Good music everyone is in the spirit.

test of faith try this with mamba or king cobra

This video is probably over 50 years old.

Snake handling is a wrong interpretation of Mark 16:18. Christians who purposefully and literally handle venomous snakes are in _disobedience to God's word._ This man has been bitten 68 times in 20 years. It should take only one snake bite to prove they are wrong about these verses, which say "it will not hurt them at all." Yet they have been hurt. Why aren't they also drinking deadly poison in church as verse 18 says? These verses are _metaphors_ promising God's protection in difficult circumstances. This church's approach to these verses is wrong on many levels. Verse 18 doesn't _ask_ or _command_ anyone to purposefully pick up "deadly serpents," it only says "and when they do." These people are deceived.

Stay away from the deadly trouser snake.

the more fringe the beliefs, the better the music.

Follow Jesus..... He never danced around with serpents ???? When he spoke of serpents he was refering to "evil" not literal snakes !

music was good

Something tells me the guy talking @2:52 aint just handled snakes with scales 😂.

Im a Christian but i aint holding no snakes or drinking poison,you dont have to go to such extremes to show faith in God.

And you have to understand although they are sincere in their beliefs, they can be sincerely wrong. The people in these communities are not well educated, and believe the pastors. They live in their sheltered lives, and have very little outside opinions about the Bible. It's like the people in Africa, who believe in witch doctors. They truly believe in this practice, but have no education to question the practices they see in their everyday life. If everyone around you practices a certain way, and you know nothing else, you will continue to live in this lifestyle. It's sad. They think if they question this practice, their salvation is in question.

Looks like a good party-- until they bring out the serpents and fire ! Lol 😮

The first mention of serpents in the Bible is in Genesis. It didn’t turn out well. Why would some one pick one up on purpose.

I saw Bucky, Deanna, and Violet.

I'm a Christian, and the way I read the book of Mark is they were talking to a particular person, or group of people at that time. To take up serpents. Not for every God fearing Christian to do that. I mean If that's your belief then that's fine. It's all your personnel relationship with God is what matters.

I live in southern wv. Knew most of these folks, though I never handled no snake!

I think I see Sister Barbara Elkins in this

pessoas loucas ou ate com certos problemas mentais ,..nao há outra forma de justificar tal acontecimento,.. e q por vezes acaba mal ,...

A black rattler is a dark version of a timber rattler as is a “ yellow “ rattler

they have twisted the scriptures and the music is definitely honky-tonkish, but i do believe that they believe they are doing right and really want to serve the lord. (sigh)

Been bitten by a rattlesnake (between the eyes!) and survived. I went to the hospital because of difficulty breathing but I survived. I’ve handled serpents since. I’m a Holiness Pentecostal pastor and I’m never giving up the tenets of my faith. The Five Signs ✝️

A fundamentalist rock concert, with serpents for a mosh pit.

These people believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water and all sorts of magical absurd and primitive stories!

thanks God for protecting me from everything

thank God I had level head parents that kept me away from things like this.

witchy had a friend got bit by a garter snake glory!

Kind to the late Harvey Payne...I did not take after my kin!!!

Oddly metal.

Snakes are not dirty and people who handle them are asking for trouble.

He didn’t have to through the snake up in the air.

It doesnt say venomous serpents

What year was this film made?

You play with fire u get burnt 😮

Before, and many years after the KJV was printed, the GENEVA BIBLE was the People's Choice, but an ungodly King (James) made it illegal to publish it any longer. These poor people are so misled. They should search the scriptures, starting with the English translation of the Bible that preceded King James.....the Geneva Bible, which was not influenced by Catholicism. Mark 16:18 "and they shall TAKE AWAY serpents"....Geneva Bible. How sad that many of their loved ones and friends have died because of the mistranslation of one word.

If I have to take up serpents in this flesh I guss I'm on the highway to hell.😮

I might go to church if they stopped bringing their damn snakes

from the music I say they are f up as hell.

snake minding its own business.

They must put the snakes in a freezer to make them lethargic or something. If those are wild caught snakes they'd be biting the hell out of them

Ei cred ca sunt intro biserica dar acolo sau adunat nebunii din tinut sa danseze .Saracii serpi mie mila de ei

This is pure craziness. These people are almost as nuts as the Scientologists.

Mark 16: 17-18 17. And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; 18. 18. They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover. First of all, signs follow believers not believers follow signs. Here’s my issue with the whole handling snakes / serpents thing these people are doing. 1. If it was literally us going out and finding snakes, why are they getting them particular kind of snakes, why do they get to pick what kind of snakes? Just get some black snakes and handle those, if that sort of a thing makes somebody a believer. Why they pick the kind of snake that poisonous. 2. Second, so you got to go on a snake hunt so you can bring them in the house of God to prove you’re a believer. I find that kind of ridiculous. To me Acts 28 shows us an example of a believer not being harmed by a snake, which wasn’t him taking up a serpent intentional but was bit by accident but no harm came to the son of God. Acts 28:1-5 1. And when they were escaped, then they knew that the island was called Melita. 2. And the barbarous people shewed us no little kindness: for they kindled a fire, and received us every one, because of the present rain, and because of the cold. 3. And when Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks, and laid them on the fire, there came a viper out of the heat, and fastened on his hand. 4. And when the barbarians saw the venomous beast hang on his hand, they said among themselves, No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he hath escaped the sea, yet vengeance suffereth not to live. 5. And he shook off the beast into the fire, and felt no harm. 6. Howbeit they looked when he should have swollen, or fallen down dead suddenly: but after they had looked a great while, and saw no harm come to him, they changed their minds, and said that he was a god. The Holy Ghost can protect from this kind of a thing. Also, about the drinking anything deadly, it’s the same issue, you never know when someone has tried to poison you or you drank something that was harmful and God protected you from it. That’s completely different than me or you going out and drinking strychnine then telling God He has to protect me to prove I’m a believer. Again that’s a bit ridiculous to me, plus the Bible says, “thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.” I will close with this, if I was bitten by a poisonous snake or I did happen to drink anything deadly I fully believe God almighty can protect, these signs do follow believer’s, but I don’t see me forcing the sign to happen, I find that a bit radical and just a religious spirit. To me it doesn’t bring a person closer to God it only looks cultish.

I wonder if these people were/are Oneness or Trinitarian?

I wonder what those snakes are thinking

And satin said to Jesus, throw yourself off this mountain. And what did Jesus say???

West Virginia is the only place where is legal to practice curling serpents all the other states it’s illegal but they do it and people tend to look the other way and don’t ever tell him but if they get caught they get in a lot of trouble also in West Virginia you have to be 18 years old before you can handle a snake and you have to want to do it nobody will force you to do it

I wonder how many in this crowd would have pissed HOT on a drug test?!!!☝️🙄

This is a form of witchcraft

Don't temp the lord thy God

These people are nuts. None of this stuff they’re doing is of God. Also that passage about speaking in different tongues, I’m pretty sure the bible meant spreading the gospel in other legit languages, not just blah blah rah rah jah jah…

The original texts of Mark do not contain 16:18. The last 12 verses were added later, likely by a scribe. The language is clearly very different from the rest of the gospel.

They are taking that scripture out of context\ I can't believe that all these years SOMEONE didn't read the complete chapter. Those things were given to the few people who went out to preach the gossipal right after Jesus went back to heaven. There weren't a lot of people to go out so for a season Gon protected the few that went. It had nothing to do with their faith, it was just to protect them. God stopped this when more people became christains

Does anyone notice in 3:00 in the video there a guy is gay im very surprised the church except being gay back then i know because im gay back then it was taboo 😂😂

Poor ignorant people😢

A poorly fed snake kept in a cold bare box is unlikely to have the strength to attack anyone

These pastors don't go to a seminary to become pastors, they are ordained within the church community. There is no formal Bible education. New pastors are the sons of former pastors. They might have good intentions, but people need educated leaders.

The trick is that these snakes are never fed at all. They die in this churches care. By the time they "take up the serpent" these poor snakes are half dead. If you watch really close you can even see one that IS dead. It's head is flopped upside down. This is just animal abuse...

The poor children

I’ve been a devout Christian all my life and have read the Bible more times than I can remember. But this is insane. Get the congregation all pumped up on music and think it’s somehow God’s Devine spirit. Handling a venomous snake is simply idiotic. Not to be THAT guy but these people don’t strike me as being very smart.

As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction. [2 PETER 3.16;] (This is NOT Christian faith! - "Taking up serpents" means DEALING WITH LIARS /SLANDERERS/TRAITORS, okay, beloved brethren, Amen. DIVIDE RIGHTLY, henceforth, in JESUS CHRIST'S [the LORD] name, Amen; 1 CORINTHIANS 13.13; 14.12; EPHESIANS 4.12; 2 TIMOTHY 2.15; 13:16-17; JUDE 1.22-23; etc. HalleluYAH! Shalom! 💪💖🌈🙌🙏

Those verses in Mark do not say that every single believer will do everything listed. That's ridiculous. At any rate Jesus is Lord God Almighty clothed in unsinful humanity and He is the author of eternal life to all who trust Him alone for salvation. Jesus paid for all the sins of all the world at the cross (past, present, and future). That payment is put to your account when you have believed on Christ alone for salvation. *This means that saving repentance is realizing that you are a sinner deserving of God's just punishment in Hell and turn (repent) from whatever you trusted in before, if indeed you trusted in anything; to trusting in the person and finished work of Christ alone for salvation.*

Mark 16 WAS NEVER in the original manuscripts of the Synoptic Gospels of the Apostles. NEVER did Yeshua the Messiah ever tell ANYONE to do this stupid crazy demonic things. Anytime He spoke of serpents in the Gospels He spoke of the Pharisees as serpents and in people facing evil times and people. NEVER was this anything He said a Scribe centuries later added this to the gospels. GET EDUCATED PEOPLE!!! Stupidity is not a gift from ADONAI.

Naw just hillbillies

Lord have pity on those poor ignorant people.

PURE WITCHCRAFT!!!

We used to go West Virginia in the summers see the family i used to come back. With $4-$5 thousand one time i came home with $11.9 thousand. My cousin and I caught Rattle Snakes, Copperheads, sold them to the Snake Churches. They invited me, i didn’t go, i have only been in a church one time in my 55 years. They weren't very happy me asking why Invisible Skyman needed money.

Looks like the area out of the film, THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE, even down to the trailer homes where the big fat lady says, on my oh my. 😁😁😁

2000 years after Jesus and they started playing with snakes? So one guy says something according to Mark and its only in a small area of the South.... well shit ..where do i sign up to dance with poisonous snakes and drink poisons?