When Knoxville, Tennessee, resident, Jesse Hodge, noticed an unusual smell coming from his car over the course of several days, he scheduled a maintenance checkup. But before he got around to his appointment, he decided to take a look under the hood and see if he could identify the problem on his own.
The problem ended up being much easier to identify than he expected.
Hodge told WBIR,
I raised the hood on the car … I could not believe what I was seeing.
Lo and behold, once I pulled it up and propped the hood, there he lay.
He, being a giant yellow python, coiled up on his battery.
Hodge called the Young-Williams Animal Center to come remove the snake. The exotic pet was discovered to be dead, thankfully, if you ask Hodge, likely dying from exposure to the cold temperatures.
In case you weren't aware, the python is not native to the Great Smoky Mountains.
Hodge says that he's just glad it looked for refuge in his car, instead of his house, telling reporters,
I've got a doggy door that goes outside, and I kind of thought, 'that thing could have gone through the doggy door and been right in the house with me.
The snake was likely an escaped or released pet that slithered into the car's engine for warmth, but where exactly it came from and how it got to Hodge's engine remains a mystery.
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