A Kentucky family’s dream of owning their first home quickly turned into a frightening and costly experience after they discovered at least 25 snakes living inside the property, including dozens hiding in the basement.
Jessica and Johnathan Perry bought their home in Salvisa, Mercer County, Kentucky, in August 2026. However, just three weeks after moving in, the couple began finding snakes throughout the property.
What initially appeared to be a few unwanted visitors soon became a much bigger problem, with the family uncovering what they believe was a snake den that had existed for several years beneath their front porch.
The discovery has already cost the family thousands of dollars in cleanup and repair efforts. Despite hiring an exterminator and bringing in a contractor to investigate the problem, snakes continue to appear inside the house, per Local 12.
What started as a dream home for a Mercer County couple quickly turned into what they describe as a living nightmare after they began finding snakes throughout the property and a several-year-old den under the deck.Homeowner Jessica Perry says they’ve spent thousands to get rid pic.twitter.com/wHVGweZohj
— LEX News (@LEX18News) November 7, 2026Jessica said the couple had no idea about the property’s history when they purchased it. She later learned that the home had once been known in the neighborhood as “the snake house.”
The situation has become especially stressful for the family because they have a young son living in the home. They are now facing more repairs that could cost thousands of dollars, with one contractor estimating that fixing part of the basement could cost between $4,000 and $5,000.
According to Lex18, Jessica first spotted the property on Zillow during the summer and immediately fell in love with it. She and her husband decided to make an offer after seeing the house.
“When I walked in the home, I immediately fell in love with it,” Perry said. “It’s every woman’s cottage-core dream house, so we put in an offer that day.”
The couple closed on the property on Aug. 5. For the first few weeks, everything seemed normal. Then, the snakes started appearing.
Jessica recalled finding the first snake while taking out the trash. She was home with her son when she noticed it on the porch and immediately contacted her husband and father for help.
“I was actually taking out the trash. My son and I were home alone, and I walked out the door, and there was a snake on the porch. I immediately called my husband and then my dad to try to get somebody to come out here to get it,” said Jessica, according to WKYT.
The discoveries did not stop there. A few days later, the family found another snake, followed by another one shortly afterward.
About a week after the first discovery, Johnathan and a friend went down to the basement and found two adult snakes and several younger ones.
As the weeks passed, the number of snakes continued to grow. Jessica said they had found at least 25 snakes inside the property within just a few months.
The snakes were identified as rat snakes, which are nonvenomous constrictors. They mainly feed on rodents, birds and eggs. Although they are not venomous, their presence inside the family’s living space has made everyday life difficult.
“At this point in just a few months, that’s an infestation,” Jessica said.
The family also worries about the possibility of the snakes reaching the upper levels of the house, especially the bedroom where their 5-year-old son sleeps.
“Not necessarily that we’d be scared that they’d bite him. Snakes like warmth. So, if they were to get in the upper level and get in the bed or whatever, they could curl up around his neck, per se,” Johnathan said.
After discovering multiple snakes, the Perrys hired an exterminator to place traps around the house and in the basement. They also contacted a contractor to investigate where the animals were entering the property.
Multiple home inspections before closing had not revealed the snake den beneath the front porch.
The contractor eventually removed part of the porch and broke through its concrete structure to investigate the area underneath. What they found raised even more concerns for the family.
According to Jessica, the contractor discovered snake skin sheds leading into the home’s foundation, along with numerous snake eggs. Some of the eggs appeared to be new, while others looked several years old.
“We found snake skin sheds going into the foundation of it,” Perry said. “He busted out the middle and then found multiple, multiple snake eggs that had made a den for what looked like several years.”
The discovery led Jessica to believe that the property had been dealing with a snake problem long before her family moved in.
The family also began asking neighbors about the home’s history. One neighbor reportedly told Jessica that they were surprised the previous owners had not warned the couple about the snakes.
Jessica later contacted a former owner, who told her that the property had been nicknamed “the snake house” when he was a child.
She also learned that someone whose family member had owned the property had grown up in the house and remembered finding snakes in the basement.
For the Perrys, these stories raised another concern: the possibility that more than one snake den could exist within the home’s foundation.
“Now that we have found out that it’s a decades-old problem, what worries us now is that there are multiple dens within the foundation of the home,” she said. “And in order to eradicate and mitigate that, you essentially have to bust down the entire home. But that’s our worst fear.”
Although the family has already taken steps to address the problem, the snakes have not completely disappeared.
The couple has also made other changes around the property. They have brought in more cats and cleared brush near a nearby creek. They plan to continue working on the property in the spring, including checking the back porch for another possible den and addressing potential foundation problems.
In the meantime, checking the basement has become part of their daily routine.
“It’s sad to say on a new home we just bought that it’s become a chore, I guess, that every evening we get home, we ask each other, have you gone to the basement yet to check for snakes?” Johnathan added.
A friend of the Perrys has started a GoFundMe campaign to help raise money for the additional repairs and snake-removal work.
Despite everything that has happened, Jessica said the family still hopes to make the house a safe and comfortable place to raise their son.
“We believe that God put us in this situation for a reason. He blessed us with this home, and we’re going to do everything that we can to mitigate the issue,” she said. “We want to raise our son here, and this is a good community. We love our neighbors, and we’re just hoping that we can get it under control.”
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