VA man catches giant Frankenfish that will haunt your dreams forever

Caleb Newton’s three-foot catch could be a world record fish.
By Nate Scott – June 10, 2013 at 4:56pm EDT



(AP Photo/Ed Wray)
A Virginia man hauled in a 17-pound, six-ounce Northern snakehead fish that could be a world-record fish, both in that it’s the largest Northern snakehead that’s ever been caught and it will also set the world record for most nightmares given to this reporter.
Snakehead fish are sometimes known as Frankenfish because they can walk on land. They’re known as snakehead fish because they have heads that look like snakes. So, basically, this guy caught a three-foot-long snake monster fish that can walk.

A striped snakehead walks to water in Vietnam.
Before I start a national panic, I should point out that…actually, no. I’m going to start a national panic. There are three-foot-long snake monsters LITERALLY WALKING out of the POTOMAC RIVER. EVERYBODY FREAK OUT.
The fisherman Caleb Newton was the man who wrangled in this hellspawn, and the fish was so big that he wasn’t able to fit it in his cooler. He submitted the fish as potentially being world-record size, as it weighs a couple ounces more than any Frankenfish ever caught before. We will report back if he wins the world record, assuming the fish haven’t eaten us all by then.