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In 1944 a petroleum expedition in Columbia claimed to have measured an anaconda measuring 37.5 feet in length.

Some time after 1944 scientist Vincent Roth claimed to have killed a 34 foot long anaconda in British Guiana.

In 1907, Major Percy H. Fawcett reported shooting and killing an anaconda measuring 62 feet in length while traveling up the Rio
Negro River in South America.

In May 1925 Fawcett was entering an uncharted area of Brazil with his son Jack, and one of Jack’s friends. The three men were never seen again. Fawcett’s son Brian compiled his father’smemoirs. In a footnote with the above story, Brian wrote: “When this serpent was reported in London, my father was pronounced an utter liar!”

Snake eats Dentist

In mid-September, Dr. Jaekil Park, who serves as the Seminary’s medical doctor as well as being a Trustee, spent eight days in Brazil at the invitation of Reverend Moon. He joined an international medical team which treated the people of the area surrounding New Hope Farm. Dr. Park was one of three doctors from America and they were joined by twelve medical professionals from Korea and Japan. As members of the medical profession, they were fascinated by a local story concerning a dentist who disappeared while on a fishing trip in a nearby river two years ago. According to the story, the unfortunate dentist was later discovered in the belly of a huge anaconda. Having seen the skin of a snake which exceeded 30 feet in length and which was discovered eyeing New Hope Farm’s pigs, Dr. Park has reason to believe the tale!


Ben Kling - the world’s longest anaconda skin
This is the world’s longest anaconda skin. It belongs to my family.
(That’s me fourth from the left.)
My grandmother grew up in the Amazon, and one morning her family heard a “MNNNNFFGGHHRRRR” noise coming from the river, and when they got there, they saw an anaconda swallowing one of their cows whole.
My great grandfather shot it and then lassoed it to a tree so it wouldn’t thrash and flail away into the water and vanish, then he skinned it.
There are still two bullet holes, from the entry and exit, in the skin.
Whenever our seventeen first cousins and eleven aunts/uncles get together, we get a photo alongside/behind it. It’s longer than all of us lined up.

In Guyana in 1937, zoologist Alpheus Hyatt Verrill asked the expedition team he was with to estimate the length of a large, curled-up anaconda on a rock. The team's guesses ran from 6.1 to 18.3 m (20.0 to 60.0 ft); when measured, this specimen was found to be 5.9 m (19.4 ft).

Almost all specimens in excess of 6 m (19.7 ft), including a much publicized specimen of 11.36 m (37.3 ft) in length, have no voucher specimens, including skins or bones.

The skin of one specimen, stretched to 10 m (32.8 ft), has been preserved in the Instituto Butantan in São Paulo and is reported to have come from an anaconda of 7.6 m (24.9 ft) in length. In one of the most reliable accounts, a geologist killed a large anaconda and measured it using a four-meter rod, reporting it as three rods long (12 m (39.4 ft)); however, the information was not published until many years later, and the geologist later suggested he may have misremembered and the anaconda could have been only two rods long (8 m (26.2 ft)). While in Colombia in 1978, herpetologist William W. Lamar had an encounter with a large female specimen which measured 7.5 m (24.6 ft) and was estimated to weigh between 136 and 180 kg (300 and 397 lb). In 1962, W.L. Schurz claimed to have measured a snake in Brazil of 8.46 m (27.8 ft) with a maximum girth of 112 cm (3.67 ft). One female, reportedly measuring 7.9 m (25.9 ft) in length, shot in 1963 in Nariva Swamp, Trinidad, contained a 1.5-m caiman. A specimen of 7.3 m (24.0 ft), reportedly with a weight of 149 kg (328 lb), was caught at the mouth of the Kassikaityu River in Guyana, having been restrained by 13 local men, and was later air-lifted for a zoo collection in the United States, but died in ill health shortly thereafter. The largest size verified for E. murinus in captivity was for a specimen kept in Pittsburgh Zoo and PPG Aquarium, which grew to a length of 6.27 m (20.6 ft) by the time she died on July 20, 1960. When this specimen was 5.94 m (19.5 ft) long, she weighed 91 kg (201 lb). The estimated weight for an anaconda in the range of 8 m (26.2 ft) is at least 200 kg (440 lb). National Geographic has published a weight of up to 227 kg (500 lb) for E. murinus, but this is almost certainly a mere estimation. Weight can vary considerably in large Show less