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If snakes give you the creeps this video may not be for you. The writhing, rattling pit of snakes in the video above is the stuff nightmares are made of and it's hard not to flinch when the snakes strike the camera, as they do with such venom.

Youtuber Michael Delaney filmed this in the US state of Montana. Rattlesnakes make the distinctive noise they're named for as a form of warning. As the camera gets closer to the pit the sound gets louder. Three snakes then strike the camera, footage of which Delaney has looped in slow motion to show the speed with which the snakes lunge.

Even slowed down the strike is almost a blur. After the third time, the GoPro camera falls into the snake pit so you get an even closer view, but one which is a little less foreboding.

Delaney wrote on Facebook about retrieving the camera, "...fished it out with a hockey stick, just got done cleaning the venom off my GoPro." Snakes on a Plane's got nothing on this two-minute clip.