Ben and Amber Sessions soon realized
the dream home they'd purchased for their growing family in 2009 was infested
with hundreds upon hundreds of garter snakes. The ground surrounding the home
appeared to move at times, it was so thick with snakes. Throngs of snakes
crawled beneath the home's siding. At night, the young couple said they would
lie awake and listen to slithering inside the walls. "It was like living
in one of those horror movies," said Ben Sessions, 31.
The family would
frequently eat out because their well water carried the foul smelling musk that
the snakes release as a warning to predators. Each day, before his pregnant
wife and two small boys got out of bed, Sessions said he would do a
"morning sweep" through the house to make sure none of the snakes had
made it inside. That didn't always work. One day, he heard his wife scream from
the laundry room, where she had almost stepped on a snake. He rushed into the
room to find that she'd jumped onto a counter. "I was terrified she was
going to miscarry," he said.
