PHOTOS: Man Finds 6ft Snake Curled Up Inside His Toilet After It Started 'Flushing By Itself'

A man, who awoke in the night to the sound of his toilet continuously flushing, was left horrified after investigating the cause.

The anonymous man, who lives in the town of Breitenfurt, near Austria’s capital Vienna, climbed out of bed and headed to the bathroom to check out the mystery flusher, only to discover an extremely unwelcome guest in his toilet, causing it to continuously flush.

Lurking inside the loo, the terrified man discovered a ginormous six-foot-long snake, which had made itself more than comfortable, like something straight out of a horror movie.

The man called the emergency services at around 1 am on Saturday, August 7, and firefighters rushed to his home to get rid of the Aesculapian snake.

On arrival, the firefighters were, fortunately, able to free the snake from its rather unusual habitat, before releasing it back into the forest.

Lukas Derkits, a spokesperson for Modeling District Fire Brigade, told the Sun that the species of snake discovered in the toilet is native to Europe, and is in fact one of the biggest reptiles on the continent, often growing up to two meters long in size.