A family was horrified to discover that their house was actually a snake den. They live in Montana.
Speaking with People, homeowner Callie says that she never expected her house to be full of snakes. Her mother-in-law came across the first of many snakes.
"She came across it," Callie told the outlet. "It came from the entryway in our house. We had that one in 2020, and then in the fall of 2020, we had another one, and it was my mom who found it."
"I was going to go get my daughter out of her pack and play. She was about 6 months old at the time, and I turned around, and it was really small, but it was right on the floor in the living room, which totally caught me off guard with it being December," she explained. "Things were really bad last summer when we realized this is just not just a scenario of a snake getting in the house on random because it's an old farmhouse. The house is a den."
Snake Den
As in a snake den.
"The foundation for the house is cinder block, so we have an entryway that goes down into our basement and everything, and that's lined with the cinder blocks of the foundation," she explained. "Right now, we have our front door sealed and completely shut."
"They're just garter snakes, and they eat lots of bugs. People tell me all the time, 'Don't worry about them, they're harmless,' but there's still my irrational fear," she shared. "I would never touch them. I don't want them in my house."
"We get a lot of people who are like, 'Why don't you just move?' or 'How do you sleep at night?'" she shares. "People are usually pretty horrified. A lot of people kind of overlook that it's the reality of rural living."
"It's just wild because I never knew. We've definitely heard of people having snakes in their house in Montana before, because there are so many areas where it's just so remote, but I've never heard of so many people having true infestations like this, and I've got tons of DMs from people who have," she says.
