It’s a story that’s sure to make you second-guess ever using second-hand furniture again.

A woman who picked up a couch off the street in Grand Rapids, Michigan, was shocked to discover the furniture was home to a boa constrictor two months after she had been using it every day.

Holly Wright told ABC13 on Tuesday that she and her boyfriend had given the couch a good once-over before bringing it home, never suspecting that a snake lived inside.

It had a ‘for free’ sign on it outside someone’s house and was in pretty good condition.

‘We smelled it and everything– it looked OK,’ she said.

‘We peeled off the cushions, cleaned it up, never saw anything.’

But over the weekend the four-foot creature slithered out from the lounge.

‘It’s been living in the couch for like two months in my bedroom and I had no idea and it looks pretty big,’ Wright said.

She added that the snake wasn’t too menacing, and instead appeared ‘lethargic’ and likely hadn’t eaten in a long time.

‘It didn’t really react or hiss, but when we poked it with a coat hanger it coiled up a little bit, so at that point we flipped the couch over,’ she said.

Scary: Holly Wright could not believe there had been a snake inside her couch for so long

 

‘It was quite cold in the room, there was no food for the snake and I think it came out of the couch because it was dying.’

Indeed, the spooky reptile died before Wright could take it to an animal rehabilitator.

She buried it under a tree and put the couch back on the street — with “Do Not Pick Up” scrawled across it.

The creepy discovery was still sinking in.

The couch was often used by Holly Wright – who said she read ‘a few novels’ on it – and her dog. Luckily the snake did not harm either of them

 

‘Sometimes my dog would sit up there! I would drink a cup of coffee, check emails – I read a few novels on that couch,’ she said.

‘My room almost feels a little empty now. It’s been really sad actually to realize all this time I was in proximity to that animal (that) was probably suffering.’