A large cobra had taken refuge in a Malaysian home for three days without the residents noticing.

This footage from June 21 shows the moment when the animal got caught in the Batu Pahat District of Johor, Malaysia.

Derrick Koh, who on June 18 found the cobra and filmed it entering his house, said he only realised the cobra might still be around after he found fresh feces next to his desk and a crush mark on his suitcase. Members of the Fire and Rescue Department eventually pulled the animal from under a bed on June 21.

Koh told Storyful: “During the past three days and two nights, my family ate, watched movie, surfed the internet and slept as usual. We would never have thought this snake would stay in my room. It had many opportunities to kill us, but it didn’t. Now to think of it, I feel like I escaped hell.”

When the cobra was first seen, Koh told Malaysian newspaper The Star that he suspected it had left through the back windows – apparently not! Credit: Derrick Koh via Storyful