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OKINAWA, Japan (WJW) — If it’s a cone, leave it alone — that’s what Beckylee Rawls learned after she went to the beach and held death in her hand last week.

Rawls, a 29-year-old who lives in Okinawa, Japan, with her husband, was out looking at the colorful creatures at the beach’s shallow tidepools when she noticed a small spotted shell. She picked it up and shook it free of rocks, noticing something was inside — all while recording.

Looking up the shell soon after, she discovered the pretty thing was a marbled cone and that the snail living inside had a venomous sting, capable of killing an adult human.

Rawls soon took to social media to warn others.

“She doesn’t know it yet but she’s about to pick up the world’s deadliest shell that leads to full paralysis in minutes,” she wrote in a TikTok video of the incident, which has since amassed more than 800,000 likes.

In a follow-up video, which has garnered 1.3 million views, Rawls went into more detail about the sea creature.

“It’s even nicknamed the ‘Cigarette Snail’ because, according to urban legend, if it stings you, you won’t live long enough to finish a final cigarette,” she said in the video. “That chilling reputation really put things into perspective.”

She went on to say the fresh knowledge started playing with her mind.

“The more I researched about the venomous cone snail, the worse it got,” Rawls said in the video. “My brain kept convincing me that I had been stung and just didn’t realize it. By the fourth day of panic, my husband was sick of reassuring me I was indeed going to live.”

She also explained there is no antivenom for the snail.

“That’s the craziest part,” she said. “It’s a hope-and-pray situation.”