Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe July 30 (UPI) -- A Mississippi hiker captured video of his tense encounter with a huge rattlesnake that gave him a loud warning to back away. Joseph Hosey posted a video to Facebook showing the eastern diamondback rattlesnake he spotted while walking in the woods of Greene County. Advertisement Hosey said he never came closer than 8 feet from the large snake, but the volume of the rattling almost drowns out Hosey's own comments in the video. "And that is gonna be my sign to call it a day," Hosey wrote on Facebook. Read More Swimming rattlesnake slithers onto family's boat Dog alerts Florida family to rattlesnake behind the house Kayaker spots rattlesnake swimming in California river