Watch as huge python uncoils from behind a sagging picture hanging in Australian home
In a scene straight out of a ghost story, a woman in eastern Australia saw one of the pictures on her wall moving by itself.
It was not her imagination.
Closer inspection revealed a python was hiding behind the picture, and video filmed by a snake catcher shows it was huge.
“So we got a call out to a lady’s house because their picture up on their wall was actually falling down,” Sunshine Coast Snake Catchers 24/7 reports.
“Then they noticed a snake was coming out of it, so quite a funny call. And we turned up and sure enough, there was a nice, big, beautiful carpet python sitting in behind the picture frame.”
The snake was about 5 feet long, and the situation was all the more surprising when taking into account the picture hung by just one nail.
It was only after the snake catcher gave the reptile “a bit of a tickle” that it began to show its lengthy body, uncoiling from two sides at once. The picture had to be removed when it became clear the snake was tangled up.
The snake was identified as a carpet python, a native species that can reach 13 feet in length. They bite when annoyed, but are not venomous, experts say.
Video of the capture has been viewed nearly 90,000 times on social media, and gotten 2,200 reactions and comments. Some noted it was a weird place for a snake to hide, while others pointed out it likely got there by wandering the house unnoticed for awhile.
“Now we will all be looking behind our wall frames,” Yvonne Fessler posted on Facebook.
“How’d (it) make its way in behind the painting with out been seen,” Jerome Rahiri Harris asked.
“That would be my last day in this house. I would be out that door so fast,” Cindy Johnson said.
Sunshine Coast Snake Catchers has a policy of releasing snakes into the wild, and the video shows the python was freed in a wilderness area.
Snake taunts homeowner by hiding in toilet for days. It was ‘a toilet diva,’ she says
Watch goofy rattlesnake ride pool floater in Arizona, then dive in for relaxing swim
Huge python wrestled by hunters at 1 a.m. sets Florida record. ‘It was a fight’
