Horrifying infestation found in walls of new home: ‘I panicked’

A homebuyer has been left terrified and afraid to go to sleep or use the toilet after her dog discovered a secret den hidden in the walls.

Amber Hall says her family cannot enjoy the new home and are afraid to use the bathroom. Picture: KMGH

A mum 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 of her dogs that made the skin-crawling discovery in the garage while she was unpacking her belongings during the move.

“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,” she said. “So, I panicked.”

One of Hall’s dogs made the skin-crawling discovery in the garage while she was unpacking. KMGH

“Shockingly big” snakes were living in the walls of Amber Hall’s newly-purchased home. Amber Hall via Denver7

The woman described the unwelcome house guests nesting in the walls as “shockingly big”.

“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 said.

Garter snakes are non-venomous but can strike and bite humans, sometimes causing an allergic reaction.

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.

Garter snakes are non-venomous but can strike and bite humans. KMGH

People suggested the snakes were garter snakes — but the reptiles were unusually large for the species. KMGH

“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,” she said.

The unlucky homeowner said that in less than two weeks, she has seen close to a dozen snakes in her home.

“I’m scared to death,” the woman said.

A pest control specialist told Hall the snakes may have been living at the home for at least 2 years. KMGH

A snake den could possibly be under the home. KMGH

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 $1000.

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.

Hall said she doubts that she is the first person to see the snakes at the house.

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.

This article was originally published by the New York Post and reproduced with permission