Futility Closet

Cheese!

Posted in Oddities by Greg Ross on August 27th, 2005

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What is this? No one really knows. These servicemen captured it in Laos during the Vietnam War.

Laotians call it a phaya naga and claim it can breathe fireballs. In reality it’s probably an enormously overgrown giant mottled eel (Anguilla marmorata).