A confronting video slowly revealing a room with a seemingly countless number of snake skins hanging from the ceiling has shocked Aussies, with many describing it as “creepy”.
In what is the stuff of nightmares for many, the video, which was shared in the Snake Identification Australia group on Facebook by a snake catcher, shows footage of an upstairs room in a home which had stood vacant for a long time.
The property, located in mid west Western Australia, was recently purchased but the new owners had not ventured upstairs before buying it, the post said.
When they did this is what they found,” the post said. A snake catcher later relocated the snakes that had been living in the upstairs area. They were described as “numerous, very fat, south west carpet pythons”.
“No mouse or rat problem there,” the snake catcher joked.
‘Excellent and creepy at the same time’
Many Aussies were shocked by the disturbing video, with one user saying it would be safer to “burn the house down”. Another said it was “excellent and creepy at the same time”. A third said “This is like something out of a horror movie”.
This is so fantastic… what a shame they needed to be relocated. They were obviously living their best life right there,” another pointed out.
Despite the terrifying scene, a lot of people were fascinated to see so many snake skins in one area and wondered whether the snakes had used the beams above the ceiling to help them shed.
The snake catcher who posted the video said “they were all hanging out on top of the insulation and looks like they used the wire to help shed”.
West Australian snake catcher and wildlife expert Michelle Jones who has been working in the field for the past 15 years and said this snake season is the busiest she’s ever seen.
“This is the most smashed we’ve been ever I think. Normally I’d start catching them around September, but last year I was getting calls in the first week of August and relocating up to four venomous snakes a day,” Jones said.
“I had to wrap one snake up in a kangaroo pouch one morning, obviously it was empty, and tie it off with my hair tie because I had no bags left.”
(Yahoo News Australia)
