The mother of a teenager who found a massive python slithering around her bath this week has said that she is going to get someone to pull up all her floorboards to make sure there aren’t any more hiding underneath the floor.
Natasha Evans (17) found the reptile in her bathroom while her mother Trudi was at work and made a frantic phonecall to her mother, begging her to come home to their house in Hebburn, Tyne and Wear.
“Of course I didn’t believe her,” Trudi said. “Or I thought if anything, it was a little grass snake or a worm.”
How wrong she was though as the snake actually turned out to be an enormous python that had escaped from a neighbour’s private collection in July.
“She sounded really scared so I thought I had no choice but to leave work and go home. I think my boss thought I’d made up some kind of ridiculous excuse to get out of work,” Trudi continued. “When I got there, I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. There was a huge snake as long as my arm in the bath.
“Tasha said she had gone in the bathroom and without really looking, leaned down to put the plug in the bath and saw the snake out of the corner of her eye and ran out of the bathroom."
Natasha (17) made the terrifying discovery. (Pics North News)
“She wasn’t sure if she’d actually seen it or imagined it, so she opened the door and looked back in and there it was,” she said. “The family who used to live next door bred snakes and Tasha went on Facebook to message them and ask if they were missing a snake.
“They said it (the snake) had been missing since they moved house in July and they just thought it was dead so didn’t look for it,” Trudi continued.
“It must have got under the floorboards and worked its way over to our house…its terrifying,” she added. “I haven’t been in the bath since and I’m scared to even go into the bathroom. I know it is the kind of thing that makes people laugh because it’s so unusual, but it could have been really dangerous as well.
“I’m going to be straight on the phone to get someone to come round and pull all the floorboards up to check there aren’t any others.”
The royal python has since been removed from the house.
