A mom from Colorado was in the process of moving into her new house when she discovered to her horror that her dream home was overrun with “shockingly big” slithery squatters.
Amber Hall told the channel Denver7 that when she closed on the four-bedroom, two-bathroom home in Centennial, she had no idea that the property doubled as a snake den.
Hall said that it was one her dogs that made the skin-crawling discovery in the garage while she was unpacking her belongings during the move.
Amber Hall
“I came over to see what he was looking at, thinking it was like a spider or something, and there were two little holes right here and I saw snakes slither up the wall. So, I panicked.”
The woman described the unwelcome house guests nesting in the walls as “shockingly big.”
Amber Hall
“Everybody’s saying they’re some form of garter snake. But they’re also giving the caveat that nobody’s ever seen their garter snake that big."
Hall, 42, said that she had spent her entire adult life saving up to buy her first home, and now she and her family cannot enjoy it — and are even afraid to use the bathroom for fear that a snake would emerge from the toilet.
Amber Hall
“It’s like you crawl into bed, and if the sheet brushes your foot or something, you immediately rip the covers off or jump out of bed to make sure nothing’s in there."
The unlucky homeowner said that in less than two weeks, she has seen close to a dozen snakes in her home.
Desperate to rid her property of the slithering menace, the woman has hired a snake wrangler to humanely remove the critters — an enterprise that has already set her back more than $1,000.
She said the pest control specialist told her that some of the snakes had been living on the property — possibly in a den hidden under the house — for at least two years, based on their massive size.
A representative of the real estate company Hall used to purchase the house told the news outlet that she would have been told about the snakes if anyone had seen them earlier.