When that new school year begins, a lot of students want to be captured on their first
day.
When Brooke, a 13-year-old girl from Auburn, Arizona, went back to class for the first
time.
On the morning of her return to school, she and her mother went out to the garden to take
some pictures.
But when her mother looked at the photo more closely, she noticed a detail and immediately
panicked.
The start of the school year is an important time for both children and their parents,
as it's a stepping-stone to a new chapter in their lives.
For Lauren, a mother of a girl, this becomes even more significant as she takes photos
during this period to commemorate the joys and moments that make up those first few weeks
back at school.
But it is also for her a way to see the evolution of her little girl.
But this year, when she took a picture of her daughter, she still didn't know that the
picture would go around the world, thanks to just one small detail.
This is the kind of photo that is often used in mobile and browser games, “Find The Intruder.”
It's difficult to find what's wrong with the photo at first glance.
But as soon as you see it, you will get goosebumps.
Brooke and her parents had just moved to a quiet little area of Auburn.
Before moving the small family lived in a luxury apartment in the city center, but now
they lived in a house in the suburb of Auburn.
Brooke always took her back to school photo inside her home, but this back-to-school time
she wanted to capture that moment in the garden.
Her mom always used to take a picture of her on the first day of school, but since the
weather was wonderful that day, they decided to take the picture outside.
They were both going to regret this decision, which was going to give them the fear of their
lives.
The young girl was very popular and had a lot of friends.
It was for this reason that her whole class immediately noticed her absence on her first
day of school.
Her friends were eager to find out what she did on vacation and couldn't understand why
she hadn't shown up on the first day of school.
They were starting to imagine the worst.
You should know that Brooke was a punctual student and was always one of the first to
arrive at school in the morning.
So when one of her best friends arrived, totally panicked running, they knew something bad
was going on.
She started screaming “quick, hurry, grab your phone and open Instagram.
Look at the pic Brooke just posted; you won’t believe it!
It is absolutely amazing!
Everyone expected anything, except what they were about to find out.
Some thought she had extended her vacation and posted a photo from another country.
The photo Brooke had just posted on social media was a pretty weird photo for a first
day of school photo.
The photo contained a detail that would make a lot of people shudder.
The other students in Brooke’s class were in shock when they saw what had happened to
her.
Indeed, Brooke and her mother had no idea that anything else was in the photo.
Her friends were worried because the intruder in the photo was very scary and they hoped
nothing bad had happened to Brooke.
The photo looked innocent, but on closer inspection, you could have a cardiac arrest.
But let's go back to the time of taking the photo.
Lauren, Brooke's mother was ready to take a picture of her daughter.
The photo shoot was going very well, but Brooke's mother thought she spotted something strange.
Indeed, when she took her eyes off the camera lens and saw something moving very close to
her daughter, she had the shock of her life.
She couldn't believe her eyes.
She was completely scared for her daughter, but also in the grip of her own fear.
She felt her heart beat at a thousand miles an hour.
The panic was beginning to invade her, but she must not give in for the safety of her
daughter.
What Brooke and her mom didn't notice in the regularly photos shoot was that, there was
a huge snake located on the tree just behind Brooke.
Lauren hadn't immediately noticed the snake.
She only noticed it after taking several photos and the snake started to move.
The snake got closer and closer to Brooke with each photo she took.
Then the fact that the snake was the same color as the tree made it difficult for her
to spot it early on.
She panicked immediately, but she knew she had to stay calm in order to save Brooke,
as she still hadn't noticed a thing.
The snake on her back was getting very menacing and any sudden movement could prompt it to
attack Brooke.
Lauren said, “I yelled at Brooke that she should come over to me immediately.
Once she was with me, I pointed at the snake and we both screamed.”
The two women then hurried home.
“My God, that was scary.”
The girl's mother told a newspaper.
She said, “she was trying to keep calm, but told her daughter to get away from the
tree.”
Once Brooke and her mother were safe inside the house and she began to realize how it
could have ended.
She collapsed in tears, but it was not over.
The snake that was on the tree was a rattlesnake and extremely dangerous species of snake.
If you are a bitten by one of these snakes, get to the hospital as quickly as possible
to get an antidote.
The teenager had almost been bitten by a rattlesnake.
If you take a closer look at the photo, you will notice that the snake is staring at the
girl.
You wonder what he was thinking?
Looks like he's been waiting for the right moment to attack Brooke.
If she had stayed there for a few more seconds, she wouldn't have escaped the bite of this
terrible beast, but the worst was luckily avoided.
“When she realized what was behind her, she was speechless.”
Lauren said.
“When we looked at the pictures on my phone, we couldn't believe how close it was.
And we had no idea.”
At first, Brooke didn't quite understand what was going on, she had been bitten by a snake
before when she was little.
So, she was really afraid of it.
Recalling the horror, started to panic.
She realized how lucky she was to get away safe and sound.
Fortunately, she had not backed down towards the tree and that her mother knew how to keep
her calm in this horrible situation.
Since she had been bitten by a snake in the past, she did not have a very good memory
of it.
This kind of experience does not leave us without consequence.
It can cause quite significant trauma.
After seeing the photo and realizing how lucky she had been.
Brooke began to panic, “She shouted, I won't go outside until this snake has gone.
I can't, it's not possible.”
Brooke refused to leave the house to go to class that day.
And she was going to miss the start of the school year.
Lauren tried to calm her daughter down and called an animal center.
So Brooke could confidently return outside and finally go to school.
But the situation did not end there.
When the men from the animal center arrived, the snake was already gone.
Brooke was panicking more and more and no one could calm her down.
The snake could be anywhere, but where had he gone?
She started screaming.
“I won't go outside until the snake is caught! he may have slipped somewhere!”
It was very important to find the snake so that it didn't bite someone.
They quickly got to work and looked for traces of the snake on and around the tree.
They had to be very careful because the snake could easily deceive them, because of its
color.
As the men from the animal center, stood in the yard, trying their best to get their hands
on the snake.
Brooke was a little calmer.
She realized that she had a slightly special back to school photo and decided to post it
on Instagram.
In just a few seconds, she got a lot of reactions from her classmates who are still in shock.
Comments and likes only kept increasing.
The snake has still not been found.
Brooke was very brave to overcome this event and still found some positivity in this story.
After combing the entire garden, the men at the animal center managed to find and catch
the snake.
Brooke was able to attend school on her first day, although she did get there a little later
than expected.
Most students take normal back to school photos, but thanks to this snake, Brooke may have
had the most interesting photo and story in all of her school.
While many immediately noticed the snake's presence in the photo.
Very few would have been able to recognize it and know that it was one of the most dangerous
species.
Did you know that most of us have no idea what the most dangerous animal species really
look like?
We very often mistakenly think that these are the largest species with large fangs and
well this is far from true.
The most dangerous creatures are often the cutest and appear harmless.