In the kind of nightmare scenario dreaded by anyone contemplating a visit to Australia, a woman in Brisbane woke up with a heavy weight on her chest, only to find that it was an 8ft-long python.

A Brisbane woman calmly removed an 8-foot carpet python from her bedroom after waking to find the non-venomous snake on top of her chest Monday night.

Py don’t believe it. A stunned woman woke up to find an 8-foot python on her chest after it slithered through the bedroom window of her home in Australia. Rachel Bloor thought her pet dog had curled ...

SANTA ANA, Calif. (KABC) -- A Santa Ana woman was petrified when she woke up to find a python in her bathroom. Maria Chan woke up around 1 a.m. Saturday to go to the bathroom. That's when she saw it - ...

Australian Woman Wakes With 8-Foot Python Coiled on Her Chest in Bed ...

A sleeping woman thought her dog had curled up atop her when feeling some weight, but her husband gave the shocking news with a warning, “Don’t move.” ...

When Brisbane resident Rachel Bloor felt something heavy on her, she initially thought it was her labradoodle - it was a 2.5m snake.

If they reach the ecosystem's carrying capacity in the Everglades, the pythons will spread, and that likely means into backyards.

An Australian woman found an 8-foot carpet python curled on her chest during the night, initially mistaking it for her pet dogs.