‘Nearly stood on him’: Man makes chilling discovery in laundry

A Northern Territory man has made a chilling discovery in his laundry after being woken by his dogs in the early hours of the morning.

A man has made a blood-chilling discovery in his laundry after his dogs raised the alarm in his Northern Territory home.

Vince Nathan was asleep about 1.30am on Tuesday when the sound of his dogs Boff and Bluey began echoing through the house, waking him up.

Curious to see what the dogs were making a fuss about, Mr Nathan got out of bed and walked around the corner, spotting something underneath his feet – a saltwater crocodile.

Vince Nathan and his wife Raylene found a crocodile in their laundry. Picture: Supplied

“As I came around the corner, I nearly stood on him,” he told 9News. “He was sitting there in the pathway.”

The crocodile, which was about 1m in length, wasn’t too impressed to see him, opening his mouth and hissing at Mr Nathan, prompting him to take off and wake up his wife, Raylene.

“I call my wife and said ‘Ray, come look, come look, there’s a croc here, mate’,” he said.

While the Northern Territory is known for its large crocodile population, Mr Nathan and his wife do not live close to waterways, leaving the couple scratching their heads about the crocodile’s origins.

“We’re not near any water to the west of us,” Mr Nathan said. “We’ve got a beach which is five kilometres away and we’ve got a creek that goes up there called crocodile creek.”

He tried calling a snake catcher but wasn’t expecting anyone to pick up the phone in the middle of the night. Picture: Supplied

The crocodile likely walked for kilometres to get to the couple’s house. Picture: Supplied

He then tried to call the local snake catcher, though was not expecting them to pick up the phone in the middle of the night.

“When you call them it goes to voicemail, it usually goes: ‘If there is a buffalo in the area or a dangerous dog please leave a message and I’ll get back to you’,” he explained.

“I’m thinking, ‘Well, it’s sort of a dangerous dog’.”

It was quite the surprise for the couple. Picture: Supplied

Thankfully, the snake catcher was able to take the metre-long reptile out of the house, though there isn’t an indication how the crocodile got there in the first place.

Mr Nathan believes it may have walked “two to three kilometres plus” to get to the house; the crocodile could have been there for weeks, hiding in the laundry while the occupants went on with daily life.

“Ray had been going there the last two weeks every day doing washing and not even half a metre away this croc was under the table,” Mr Nathan said.

Originally published as ‘Nearly stood on him’: Man makes chilling discovery in laundry