In what may be the first incident ever recorded, a 53-year-old man from Prosser, Washington claims he was bitten by the decapitated head of a rattlesnake in his house and had to be hospitalized.

The incident took place on Monday when Danny Anderson and his son saw the five-foot snake while feeding horses. The pair immediately pinned it with a pipe and cut off its head with a shovel.

According to reports, Anderson claims that the moment he tried to reach down to pick the reptile, its head twisted around and bit his index finger causing him an immense burning sensation.

By the time Anderson was taken to the Prosser Memorial Hospital, the venom spread through his body and his tongue had already started to swell. The biologists are now speculating that the beheaded snake might have the heat-sensing ability to make one last attack or it "may have been just a reflex on the part of the snake."