After weeks of searching, Amber Hall believed she had finally found the perfect place to call home — a four-bedroom, two-bathroom house in Centennial, Colorado, complete with a backyard for her kids and dogs to play in. It was her first home, and she was excited to settle in and begin a new chapter.

But just days after moving in, Amber discovered that she wasn’t the only one living there.

It started while she was unpacking. One of her dogs began acting oddly, creeping toward a spot near the garage door with unusual caution. Thinking it might be a bug, Amber checked — and what she saw shocked her.

“There were two small holes in the wall,” she recalled. “I looked closer… and then I saw snakes slither up inside.”

Snakes — inside the walls of her new home.

Amber soon found out it wasn’t an isolated incident. The wall near the garage door was warm to the touch, suggesting more creatures were hiding within. So far, she has found a total of 10 snakes. A professional snake wrangler she hired suspects some of them may have been living there for years.