Huge Snake Slithers Out Of Toilet At Colorado Apartment, Leaving Woman 'Terrified'

A woman was terrified after she found a snake slithering out of her toilet. The incident took place at a home in Fort Collins, Colorado, last week.

The woman, identified as Miranda Stewart, woke up from sleep and entered her restroom where she was greeted by a 4-foot corn snake, which is a North American species of rat snake.

"I used the restroom, like went to flush and everything and it wasn’t going down. I looked and leaned in closer and a snake head slithered up. I was terrified," she told KDVR on Monday, Aug 3.

She screamed and alerted her boyfriend who immediately called the maintenance man of the apartment complex. Wesley Sanford arrived and found the reptile coiled up in the back of the toilet. He took the entire toilet apart, and, after almost 40 minutes, was able to rescue the snake.

Speaking about how the reptile might have got in there, Stewart told the channel, "We’re thinking it was a possible pet from one of the tenants from our apartment complex. If the snake got in their toilet and slithered to ours."

The snake has now been adopted by the maintenance man and is living on his ranch.

"I took him home and my wife was very happy with me and we named him Boots. He’s our little guard snake on the property," Sanford told the channel.

Meanwhile, Stewart said this has been one of her biggest fears since she was a child.

"Now I’m just traumatized by a toilet," she told the channel.

In a similar incident earlier this year, a homeowner was shocked after she found a huge snake slithering in the bathroom of her apartment in England. The woman found the eight-foot-long boa constrictor curling up between her bathtub and sink. She immediately called the police, and one of the cops managed to remove the snake.

"He was able to calmly approach the reptile, which had wrapped itself around the bathroom sinks and taps, and after giving it a drink of water was able to coax it to unravel itself so that he could put it into a large, safe container," a police spokesperson said.