Gold Coast local finds eastern brown snake in their bed hidden among the sheets

A snake catcher has warned Australians to ‘check their beds’ after a homeowner discovered a deadly six-foot-long brown snake hiding in the sheets.

Zachery from Zachery’s Snake and Reptile Relocation was called out to a home in Kalbar, 110km west of the Gold Coast, on Monday afternoon after the owner found the snake partially on top of the doona and beneath the sheets.

Brown snakes are considered one of Australia’s most dangerous snake breeds because of their fondness of living in populated areas. 

Eastern browns are the second deadliest snake breed in the world with their potent venom causing paralysis, uncontrollable bleeding and even death.

A southeast Queensland homeowner discovered a brown snake hiding in their bed (above) when they went to change their sheets

Photos showed the snake still half underneath the doona with one local saying they would ‘burn the bedding’ should such a freak event happen at their home.

‘Well, I’m never sleeping again,’ one person wrote.

‘I don’t think I’ll be going to bed now. I’ll sleep in my car,’ another said.

‘This is what nightmares are made of,’ a third commenter wrote. 

To make matters worse, Zachery said the snake was ‘fairly feisty’ when he tried to pick it up.

Still, the veteran snakecatcher managed to pluck the deadly reptile from the home and drop it off in the bush kilometres away from the home.

Snake catcher Zachery (above) relocated the brown snake several kilometres from the home