A woman in Australia was terrified after she found a venomous snake coiled up inside her nightgown. Cheryl Gilchrist was getting ready for bed when she put her hand into her pajama drawer and felt the red-bellied black snake.

"It didn't feel quite right so I've looked and touched it again and I thought 'oh my god, that's a snake," she told 7News.

Gilchrist was lucky as she didn't get bitten by the deadly snake, as any kind of "harassment" can cause the reptile to "lash out and deliver a rapid bite, and sometimes they may hang on and chew savagely," according to the Australian Museum.

After seeing the snake, the woman called snake catcher Tom Dunning, who relocated the snake to nearby bushland.

"This is my first encounter and hopefully my last," Gilchrist said, according to ABC News.

The deadly snake most likely slithered into the suburbs as a result of South Australia's recent Cherry Gardens bushfire. Dunning said there was a "good possibility" that the snake had been affected by the bushfire.

"Obviously, with the Cudlee Creek fires last year, we had a lot of callouts in and around the surrounding areas with animals flushed out of their natural habitat," he said. "We're seeing the same effect this year with the Cherry Gardens fire so obviously, with close proximity to that, it could have caused this animal to find somewhere to bunker down safely."

Recently, a family in Australia had a close encounter with an eastern brown snake after it was found slithering into the kids' bedroom in their house. Stu McKenzie of the Sunshine Coast Snake Catchers 24/7 posted a video on Facebook showing how the reptile was captured.

"When we arrived to the property in Wurtulla (Queensland), the residents had done the right thing by locking the snake in the room and watching its movements from the outside window but lost sight of it as we pulled up," McKenzie wrote alongside the video.

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A Red-bellied Black Snake showing its tongue. GETTY IMAGES
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