Surprised woman wakes up to an 8-foot python on her chest after it came in through the bedroom window: ‘Baby, don’t move’

Unexpected Visitor: Python Surprises Brisbane Woman

Rachel Bloor couldn’t quite believe what had happened. One night in Brisbane, she woke up to a startling surprise: an 8-foot python resting on her chest after making its way through her bedroom window.

Thinking initially it was her dog, she felt a weight on her husband before turning on the bedside light. Bloor recounted the moment, “He said, ‘Hey, don’t move. It’s like there’s an 8-foot python on top of you.’”

After the shocking revelation, and amid some colorful language, Bloor swiftly ushered her dog out of the room. “I thought if my Dalmatian found out there was a snake… there would be a massacre,” she remarked.

As she tried to collect her thoughts, Bloor described her bewilderment. “I was just trying to crawl out of the shadows… in my mind I was thinking, ‘Is this really happening? This is so weird.’”

She suspects the nonvenomous carpet python squeezed through the window shutters. Bloor and her husband even took a few pictures of their unexpected guest.

When she tried to help the snake out, she noticed its size was quite remarkable. “He was so big that even when he curled against me, part of his tail was sticking out of the shutter. I grabbed him. [but] Still, he didn’t seem all that flustered. He was just a little wobbly in my hands,” she shared.

Carpet pythons are fairly common in coastal Australia, mostly preying on small mammals, birds, and lizards. They can grow to lengths of up to 13 feet, occasionally even taking domestic cats or dogs as prey.

Reflecting on the incident, Bloor attributed her calm response to her rural upbringing, contrasting with her husband, who seemed quite shaken. “If you’re calm, I think they’re calm,” she added, though she acknowledged things might have turned out differently if it had been a cane toad. This invasive species has caused quite a bit of trouble across Australia.