A Gold Coast mum was shocked to find the world's second-deadliest snake lounging in her baby's cot.
Aleisha Mitchley told 9NEWS her four-month-old daughter Sophie had been sleeping in the cot just an hour earlier.
"It was up around the bassinet, in her cot, it was all over," Ms Mitchley said.
"It was petrifying, I was very scared, I didn't know what to do."
It was an eastern brown snake - a highly venomous snake found widely throughout the eastern half of Australia.
Ms Mitchley was also shocked and alarmed to see that the snake was quite able to climb vertical objects.
"I couldn't believe it can climb, so it was climbing on through the window," she said.
"I'm trying to reach for my phone and stop my son from trying to go see the snake.
"It was very scary."
Brown snake venom is one of the most potent known, causing paralysis or muscle weakness, excessive bleeding, and brown snakes are the leading cause of snakebite deaths in Australia.
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