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Bill Haast (December 30, 1910 – June 15, 2011 [1]) was the owner and operator, from 1947 until 1984, of the Miami Serpentarium, a tourist attraction south of Miami, Florida, where he entertained customers by performing live venom extraction from snakes. [2]
According to a first-person account published in Orlando Magazine in 2011 at the age of 67, when he was six years old he met Bill Haast who was the owner of the Miami Serpentarium and became his mentor, and the first snake he ever picked up was a rattlesnake which struck at him but hit his fingernail without penetrating the skin. [1]
In the "Serpentarium" (named in honor of Bill Haast's famed Miami Serpentarium), a wide spectrum of animals are presented from African penguins to alligator snapping turtles, boa constrictor snakes to lemurs. Various other animal feedings, keeper talks and casual presentations occur throughout the park daily.
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Bill Haast, owner and director of the Miami Serpentarium, injected himself with snake venom during most of his adult life, in an effort to build up an immunity to a broad array of venomous snakes, in a practice known as mithridatism. Haast lived to age 100, and survived a reported 172 snake bites.
Most are kept in the family’s garage-turned-serpentarium, which is a carefully regulated environment with special heat zones and cool zones in each enclosure for day and night variations, SWNS ...
Sssssss [i] is a 1973 American body horror film directed by Bernard L. Kowalski and starring Strother Martin, Dirk Benedict, and Heather Menzies. [4] Its plot follows a college student who becomes a laboratory assistant to a herpetologist who is covertly developing a serum that can transform human beings into snakes.
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