Huge Venomous Snake Found Resting On Sleeping Child's Pillow, Mother Left 'Trembling With Fear'

A woman was left “trembling with fear” after she found a six-feet-long venomous snake on her sleeping son’s pillow. The incident took place in the Indian state of Haryana on Monday morning.

Manjali, 39, woke up around 1 a.m. local time Monday, (3.30 p.m. EDT, Sunday) and found the reptile, a spectacled cobra, resting near her son’s pillow.

“My phone’s alarm had rung around 1 a.m. I got up and switched on the lights. I was shocked to find a snake on my son’s pillow,” the mother-of-two said.

She immediately phoned her husband, who was at work, and asked him to come home at the earliest as a snake had entered the bedroom. In the meantime, Manjali rushed outside her home and raised an alarm. However, none of the neighbors responded.

Her husband arrived and informed the wildlife officials. He also unsuccessfully tried to move the reptile.

“My wife was trembling with fear. We woke up my daughter and asked her to go to the drawing room. My son carefully rolled the quilt up, leaving the snake inside it. Our heartbeats stopped and we were unable to make any noise,” Rajesh Kumar, Manjali’s husband, said.

A wildlife official arrived and rescued the snake.

“The reptile had coiled up inside the blanket. The snake did not move. I picked it up and placed it in a sack,” the official said.

The incident comes less than a month after a teen died after a snake bit her while she was asleep. The incident took place in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Varsha, 14, alerted her friends about feeling sick, a few hours after a snake entered her hostel room and bit her. The friends and the hostel warden rushed to her the hospital after noticing froth coming out from her mouth but she was declared brought dead. School authorities searched the hostel following the death and found the snake hiding inside a box. The snake was beaten to death.