Number 13 Giant Python Inside Car During a drive through South Africa’s Kruger
National Park, a couple inadvertently picked up a most unusual stowaway. Marlene Swart
and Leon Swanepoel, who’d been driving through the park looking for lions, started to experience
car trouble. As they went to check under the hood, they discovered a giant rock python
coiled around the engine block. Swart described her reaction as “totally shocked and terrified”.
Even though the find made the couple uneasy, they had to drive for a few more miles before
they could reach a ranger station, where the snake could be enticed out. According to the
couple, bystanders were more than surprised when they saw the 16-foot monster slithering
out of the vehicle. Number 12 Washing Machine
Shortly after moving from Connecticut to an apartment in West Palm Beach, a woman had
a rather unusual encounter with Florida’s wildlife. Emily Visnic was in the laundry
room when she noticed something with a textured pattern inside her washing machine. She reached
down and the intruder, a huge python, revealed itself by slithering on her arm. Visnic screamed
loudly before she quickly ran out of the room and contacted the building’s superintendent.
A maintenance crew removed the serpent. Prior to Visnic’s startling discovery, one of
her neighbors had complained to the building manager about hearing hissing. Pets are not
allowed in the apartment complex so it was unclear where the animal had come from since
it was considered too large to have crawled inside the washing machine through the pipes.
Number 11 Crashing through Roof When David Tait returned to his home, in the
Australian state of Queensland, he was quite surprised to find that a chunk of his ceiling
had collapsed onto the table in his kitchen. Tait’s initial shock would be overshadowed
by an even stranger find. He discovered two massive carpet pythons slithering through
his bedroom and living room respectively. The two serpents had a combined weight of
about 100 pounds, or about as much as a large dog. According to the snake catcher who removed
the pythons from Tait’s home, the serpents had likely been fighting for female attention.
As they wrestled, their weight led to the collapse of the roof.
Number 10 Inside Man’s Jeans This is a rather incredible report about an
Indian man and a deadly snake that found its way inside his jeans. Lovekesh Kumar was a
member of a team who was installing electricity wires in Mirzapur, in the Indian state of
Uttar Pradesh. The workers fell asleep after having dinner but Kumar woke up feeling uncomfortable.
He was then confronted with the nightmarish realization that a venomous cobra had slithered
up his jeans. He slowly and carefully got up to make sure that the serpent hadn’t
bitten him. Kumar then spent roughly seven agonizing hours leaning against a pillar as
other workers tried to find a snake catcher. He had to remain as still as possible so as
not to trigger an attack from the venomous reptile. Miraculously, he managed to avoid
getting bitten and help arrived in the early hours of the morning. The rescuers carefully
cut Kumar’s jeans and safely removed the cobra.
Number 9 Couch Snake One man’s search for his keys ended with
a startling discovery. The unnamed man, from Rose Hill, Kansas, was digging through his
couch when he stumbled upon a boa constrictor. Needless to say, the man didn’t own the
6-foot serpent and was understandably taken aback by finding its slithering body in his
couch cushion. He had no idea where the snake had come from or how it had gotten inside
the couch. The red-tailed boa constrictor was eventually removed by the county’s deputy
fire chief. The reptile was subsequently placed in a pet shop in case someone came forward
and claimed it. Number 8 Lunchbox Snake
Halfway through packing her child’s lunchbox, a woman from Adelaide, Australia, discovered
a baby brown snake. It was hidden in the plastic lip around the top of the lunchbox. The young
serpent is just as dangerous as an adult. In fact, the eastern brown snake is the second-most
venomous terrestrial snake in the world and so fast-moving that it can outpace a person
running at full speed. The venom is so potent that it can cause intracranial bleeding while
also severely damaging the kidneys. Worse still, because of their reduced size, baby
snakes can hide more easily. The Adelaide mother shut the lid to the lunchbox and called
a team of professional snake catchers. The young reptile was successfully removed. While
talking to a media outlet, one of the handlers said that, during hatching season, the team
gets tens of calls every day and almost all of them involve baby brown snakes.
Number 7 Snake in Bed While sleeping at a hotel in Memphis, Melinda
Major felt movement in bed but didn’t think much of it at first. The Nashville woman had
just assumed it was her husband getting into bed, but then she quickly realised he hadn’t
gone on the trip with her. She then discovered the intruder, a green snake, stretched across
her arm. Major threw the reptile against the headboard then got up on the desk in her room.
She called the hotel’s management and told them about what had happened. Fortunately,
it was determined to have been a garter snake, which is harmless. Pest control arrived quickly
to remove the snake and the hotel compensated Major for her ordeal.
Number 6 In a Bike Helmet Teacher K.A. Ranjith rode his bike about 7
miles, without ever suspecting that one of India’s deadliest snakes was inside his
helmet. Luckily for him, Ranjith had unwittingly crushed the serpent with his head so it was
already dead when he found it. He went to get checked out by a doctor, and his snakebite
tests came back negative. Still, the man experienced such a fright that he immediately burned his
helmet. He believed that the snake, a common krait, had slithered into his headgear from
the pond near his home. Common kraits have neurotoxic venom that can cause respiratory
paralysis but not before taking away the victim’s ability to speak or even see.
Number 5 On a Plane While the film starring Samuel L. Jackson
was purely fictional, there have been a few real-life cases of snakes on a plane. During
an Aeromexico flight from Torreon to Mexico City, passengers were confronted with a green
serpent dangling overhead. The idea of being trapped with a snake several thousand feet
above the ground was terrifying, particularly since it wasn’t known at the time if it
was venomous or not. The plane was cleared for an immediate landing so that the proper
authorities could handle the serpent and no one was hurt. In a statement released by Aeromexico
the snake was described as non-venomous, although some snake enthusiasts argued to the contrary
online. Number 4 Under the Hood of a Car
In 2014, a New Mexico woman got the shock of her life upon realizing the source of her
car troubles. The woman, whose name wasn’t released, lifted the hood of her pickup truck
to find a 9-foot-long Burmese python. She called the police, who arrived to the scene
alongside animal control officers. They faced little difficulty in handling the animal,
since it wasn’t venomous, and ultimately placed it in a shelter. The python was a young
female which had probably crawled next to the engine searching for warmth.
Number 3 Inside a Shoe Finding a snake inside a shoe isn’t that
surprising but this serpent was discovered about 9,000 miles from its homeland. After
returning to Glasgow from a trip to Australia, Moira Boxall was unpacking her suitcase. The
serpent had hidden inside one of her shoes and had even started shedding during the long
flight. Boxall contacted an animal protection organization which took the snake, a spotted
python, into quarantine. The woman hadn’t been in any real danger as the snake was neither
venomous nor large enough to fatally constrict her.
Number 2 Inside Woman’s Stomach Many of us would cringe at the mere thought
of having even the smallest insect crawl into our mouths as we sleep. One Russian woman,
however, was forced to deal with an arguably more dangerous and terrifying situation. The
incident occurred at a village in Dagestan, Russia. A woman, who remained unidentified,
was feeling unwell and went to get checked out. Doctors decided to put her under general
anesthesia upon realizing that there was something in her stomach. Further analysis revealed
that it was a snake of about 4 feet, meaning it was about the size of a pool cue. Even
the doctors were shocked as they pulled the reptile out of the woman’s throat. Reactions
of the removal, which was filmed and posted online, were abundant with one user describing
the situation as their “worst nightmare”. Number 1 Inside Toilet Bowl
For anyone suffering from ophidiophobia, commonly known as the fear of snakes, finding one in
their toilet bowl is a highly gruesome perspective. Nevertheless, there have been several cases
of people finding a snake this way. While it seems to defy logic from our point of view,
it’s actually rather expected of a snake. They frequently slither through tight spaces
and they’re capable of swimming upward while also holding their breath for a long time.
Most victims of these snake intrusions will notice the serpents before they have a chance
to attack. Some, however, aren’t as fortunate. 59-year-old Helen Richards was using the bathroom
at a relative’s house in Brisbane, Australia. She jumped from the seat after she was bitten
by a carpet python that was in the toilet bowl. Richards had only sustained minor puncture
wounds and experts determined that the snake had attacked her because she’d blocked its
only exit point and it felt trapped. A Thai man suffered severe blood loss after a python
had bitten his penis. The creature had emerged from the squat toilet in the man’s home
and viciously latched on. When first responders arrived to the scene, they found blood splatter
across the floor and the snake’s head tied with a rope to the bathroom door while the
rest of its body was still lodged in the toilet pipe. It was a brutal and unusual encounter
but both the man and the python survived. Thanks for watching! Would you rather face
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