A pair of Northwest Texas pals found a new friend under the hood of their truck Monday, and their experience is resonating on social media with many calling their video the "stuff of nightmares."

  • The snake, who didn't offer to pay for gas, slithered out of the hood
  • 2 Texas men let out 'prepubescent screams' when they saw it

Swade Moyers and Zakary Wyatt told Spectrum News that they were driving to Levelland to check on a project, when Moyers spotted something poking out of the hood of his truck near the windshield.

"Swade froze up, placed the truck in cruise control, took his feet off the pedals and tucked them under him," Wyatt said. "I wasn't sure what was happening until he told me to look at it."

What the pair spotted was a very large snake slithering out from the engine onto the hood of the truck — as they were driving 75 mph down the highway.

 

"It was a crazy experience for sure," Moyers said.

"He's my boss and friend, but I had no clue he was as scared of snakes as I am. I've lived in Texas all my life, and yes, it was a non-lethal snake, but it was terrifying," Wyatt said.

Wyatt added that he immediately recalled a conversation he recently had with his wife, who told him a story about a co-worker of hers who had a snake slither out of her car's air conditioning vent.

"That's immediately what I thought of when I saw the snake move back under the hood — that it could come at us from anywhere inside the cab. I felt safer when it had its head poking out," said Wyatt with a laugh.

The guys said they aren't sure what kind of snake it was, but after about 20 to 30 minutes it got tired of staring at them and slithered off the truck, amid their "prepubescent screams."

"That scared the piss out of me," Moyers is heard saying in a second video.

Both said they were just glad that they didn't have to get out of the truck to remove it.

Although friends and coworkers have urged Moyers and Wyatt to give back their "man cards," the newly minted snake-wrangling duo say there is a silver lining to their ordeal.

"The best part is that maybe we brought a smile to someone on a crappy Monday, and even made them laugh at our misery — that's what makes it all worth it," Wyatt said.

But the question remains: Will they ever be able to ride in that truck again? Wyatt said it's going to be tough.

"On the way home we had Swade's brother check under the hood of the truck for more critters or eggs, because there was no way we were going to go through that again," he said.