‘Crazy noises’ heard in family’s attic were big snakes fighting, Australia video shows

It’s easy to make jokes about ghosts when strange bumps are heard in the attic, but the situation proved to be much worse for one Australian family.

“The family was hearing some crazy noises in the roof,” Sunshine Coast Snake Catchers 24/7 reported in a Facebook post.

“Turns out it was two male snakes fighting up there, and wow they weren’t holding back!”

It happened the night of Sept. 14 at a home in South East Queensland, and the family said the scary sounds made it tough to sleep.

Video shows the snakes were carpet pythons and were tying themselves in knots and slamming each other against the rafters and insulation. In between the crashes, the snakes hissed at each other.

It was a fight over mating rights, Sunshine Coast said, but the males didn’t realize the female was no longer around.

“We actually got a snake out of this roof 2 or 3 days earlier. So we believe that was the female and then these two males have come in after her after we relocated her out of the roof,” Sunshine Coast said.

It didn’t stop there, however.

Another snake catching agency reports it visited the same home Sept. 21 and found two more pythons, bringing the total to five captured in the attic in just over a week. “Just crazy!” Brisbane North Snake Catcher wrote on Facebook.

Carpet pythons are nonvenomous but big, averaging about 10 feet, according to Queensland Museum. The two fighting in the attic appeared to be in the 6 to 8 foot range, the video shows. Both were freed in a wilderness area after being removed.

The video has been viewed tens of thousands of times and gotten more than 1,000 reactions on social media, including people noted the snakes could easily have fallen through the ceiling.

“Raining snakes ... my worst nightmare!” one man wrote on Facebook.

This story was originally published September 21, 2022 at 3:20 PM with the headline "‘Crazy noises’ heard in family’s attic were big snakes fighting, Australia video shows."