I know there is a lot going on in this country and I’m concerned about a lot of issues all at once. But I stumbled upon a study today that horrified me to the point where I’m definitely never visiting the Amazon River Basin and I might never go in any water again. Ever.

Electric. Eels. Somehow I had forgotten these abominations from God. Like, just blocked it out of my mind entirely. But they exist – they’re a thing. 860 volts and 1 amp is what they create. And while Wikipedia claims that amount of electricity is “extremely unlikely to be deadly to an adult human,” it doesn’t say “impossible.”   And let’s not overlook the fact that it’s basically a snake that lives in water – gross.

Setting those disturbing facts aside, the article gave me one more bit information guarantees to cause a near fatal case of the heebie jeebies. These damn slimy eels will actually jump out of the water to attack a predator if they feel no escape routes exist. Yeah, that’s what I need – an airborne nightmare fish coming to shock me to death because I accidentally startled it while walking by on the shore.
To finalize my decision to never enter the water again, I found a YouTube video of an alligator getting killed by an electric eel. Yup. Never going in the water again.

Warning: Loud obnoxious laugh at the beginning from the guy who posted this video. Annoying, but way less creepy than the rest of the video.