Mom Finds Venomous Snake Hiding in Son’s Underwear Drawer: ‘Not Something You See Every Day’

One of the world’s most venomous snakes was recently found in a shocking hiding place: a young boy’s underwear drawer.

The mother of a three-year-old boy discovered a five-foot-long eastern brown snake in her son’s drawer earlier this year in Australia after she went “to get some clothes for her son,” according to Mark Pelley, professionally known as “The ‘Snake’ Hunter.”

The video Pelley shared on Facebook shows him rummaging through a dresser before locating the brown snake in the top right-hand drawer.

You can see the snake curled up in the back corner of the drawer on top of some colorful underwear.

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“It’s here!” Pelley exclaimed in the video when he saw the brown snake, later adding, “It’s not something you see every day.”

In the video, the boy’s mother can be heard asking, “How could he get in?”

She later realized that the snake had crawled into a pile of stacked laundry while she was removing clothes from the line, Pelley’s post caption reads.

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The mother did not know that the bundle of clothes contained the second most poisonous snake in the world.

“That’s impressive, isn’t it?” Pelley said in the video, shortly after locating the snake.

Eastern brown snake.

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Brown snakes can be found from northern Queensland to South Australia in the eastern part of the country, according to the Australian Museum.

These snakes have “caused more than half” of all serious snakebites in Australia in recent decades, according to the University of Melbourne. Over the same period, more than 60% of snakebite deaths in Australia were caused by brown snakes.

In most fatal cases, victims collapse between 30 minutes and an hour after a brown snake bite as their cardiovascular system collapses, according to the university.

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