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S8 Ep334: BRISBANE WOMAN WAKES TO FIND 8-FOOT PYTHON ON CHEST Colleague Jeremy Zakis. Zakis recounts a shocking story from Brisbane where a sleeping woman mistook an 8-foot python curled on her chest for her dog. Her husband alerted her, and a snake catcher removed

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🗓️ 18 January 2026

⏱️ 10 minutes

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BRISBANE WOMAN WAKES TO FIND 8-FOOT PYTHON ON CHEST Colleague Jeremy Zakis. Zakis recounts a shocking story from Brisbane where a sleeping woman mistook an 8-foot python curled on her chest for her dog. Her husband alerted her, and a snake catcher removed the heavy, non-venomous intruder, which likely entered the home through plantation shutters seeking warmth and comfort.

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I'm John Baxter in southern New England with lots of snow.

0:41.5

Jeremy Zakis is in New South Wales with lots of heat and storms, especially firestorms.

0:48.7

However, there is a story that I was delighted to see made the big time London papers,

0:55.9

made international papers as well.

0:58.9

There I was idly reading along, anticipating more twists and turns in Mexico and Tehran,

1:05.8

and up pops the headline that looked shocked, really shocked.

1:14.5

An eight-foot python. Where, Jeremy?

1:22.6

Well, John, it was curled up snug and tight on top of a sleeping lady in Brisbane. And this is truly an amazing story because not only first was the lady still sleeping with this,

1:28.0

and what Python killed snugly on her chest, but it was also in the middle of a house

1:33.2

and a bedroom in the middle of a house and her husband was sleeping alongside her

1:37.3

and didn't even know it was there to start with either.

1:40.3

So what the story is, John, and this is why I think it made such headlines was

1:43.6

this lady awoke during the night and felt this heavy thing on her chest. She was in. either. So what the story is, John, and this is why I think it made such headlines, was this

1:44.2

lady awoke during the night and felt this heavy thing on her chest. She was in Brisbane and figured,

1:49.6

you know, one of her Labradoodles, she has a couple of dogs, had jumped up on the bed because

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