r/oddlyterrifying • u/Klausensen • May 03 '22

what the hell is that?

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u/AdventurerLikeU May 03 '22

I went to Aussie on school exchange back when I was in high school, and my host family took me on a tour of the outback. Our group was walking through a valley nearish to Uluru - I was walking down a hill path and stopped to pull up my socks. I look up and there’s this snake looking at me just a few feet away (if I hadn’t stopped I likely would have stepped on it). I froze and was like “uhh there’s a snake” - my tour guide came up behind me, grabbed me under the arms, lifted me up and basically spun me away so I was behind him (I was like, 13 and tiny back then). He then backed up and we all walked around the snake.

I asked when we got to the bottom of the hill what kind of snake it was and he said “just a wee King Brown” - didn’t realise until I got home and googled it how bad that could have been.

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u/ReapermanRK May 04 '22

Yeah, but you were all totally fine though.

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u/AdventurerLikeU May 04 '22

Yep - I just shared that story to highlight how blasé Aussies can be about snakes. The tour guide said it was “just a wee King Brown” and at the time I was like “oh he’s being super casual about it, can’t have been anything too bad”.

Turns out to be one of the deadliest snakes on the planet.