In the kind of nightmare scenario dreaded by anyone contemplating a visit to Australia, a woman in Brisbane woke up with a heavy weight on her chest, only to find that it was an 8ft-long python.

A Brisbane woman calmly removed an 8-foot carpet python from her bedroom after waking to find the non-venomous snake on top ...

Py don’t believe it. A stunned woman woke up to find an 8-foot python on her chest after it slithered through the bedroom ...

Ms Bloor suspects the carpet python, a non-venomous constrictor commonly found in Australia’s coastal areas, squeezed through the plantation shutters on her window and onto her bed and eventually ...

It's fair to say when a Brisbane resident woke up to discover a carpet python curled up on top of her, she was rattled.

A sleeping woman thought her dog had curled up atop her when feeling some weight, but her husband gave the shocking news with ...

A Brisbane woman has woken to a terrifying surprise after a 2.5-metre python slipped through her bedroom window and curled up ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ten days before Christmas, a distraught South Florida homeowner called Michael Ronquillo about a snake in her neighbor’s yard.

Rachel Bloor had assumed the heavy weight on her chest was her dog.

When Brisbane resident Rachel Bloor felt something heavy on her, she initially thought it was her labradoodle - it was a 2.5m snake.