A simulation showing the terrifying fate of a woman who was swallowed whole by a python has left social media users shocked.

Back in 2018, Jahrah Tiba, 54, suddenly went missing while checking on her vegetable garden on Muna island in Sulawesi province, Indonesia.

After a search was deployed by the locals in the area, Jahrah's sandals, jacket, headscarf and knife were discovered on the forest floor, with a 23-foot python just metres away.

There was a large bulge in the beast's stomach which prompted the search team to kill the reptile and slice it open, and they were shocked to discover the 54-year-old's remains completely intact.

A python swallowed a woman whole in Indonesia. Credit: Anup Shah/Getty

According to the Washington Post, the local police released a statement with the details at the time of the harrowing discovery.

"During the search the team found a giant python, measuring 7 meters [22 feet] in length, which we suspected had preyed on the victim," the local police said. "The team captured the snake."

They continued: "The victim’s body was not destroyed when we found her inside the snake, meaning that she had only been recently swallowed whole," the police added.

Unfortunately, Jahrah had passed before her body was found.

While there was video footage of the gruesome discovery circulating at the time, a recent simulation of the events have left social media users stunned.

The animation, which was posted to Instagram by @ZackDFilms, shows a simulation of how the events of that dreaded night would have unfolded, with many leaving comments about the ordeal.

Have a look at the video below:

"Definitely traumatized button," wrote one user, while another added: "This is the reason why i dont like hiking. I am terrified of cobra[s] and other venomous insects. My eye[s are] just bad at detecting this, they blend very well with nature."

A third wondered: "I'm still convinced these snakes aren't that strong and id easily body a snake this size."

Well, you don't want to take your chances against pythons, let me assure you.

They will typically strike at and bite their prey of choice to gain hold of it; they then must use physical strength to constrict their prey, by coiling their muscular bodies around the animal, effectively suffocating it before swallowing it whole.

Pythons swallow their victims whole due to their expanding mouths. Credit: Christophe Lehenaff/Getty

A study showed that the reptile's grip can be strong enough to crush the internal organs of any living creature, including some humans, though they tend to attack smaller animals to consume.

They kill by suffocation or cardiac arrest which can occur within minutes of being gripped.

However, there is seemingly a limit to the size of their prey as in 2005 a Burmese python tried to swallow an alligator whole in Florida.

It reportedly "burst" in the process, killing both animals, whose bodies were discovered by rangers days later.

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This weekend, a 54-year-old woman was tragically killed after encountering a 23-foot-long python in her native Indonesia. Wa Tiba, who lived on Muna Island, Southeast Sulawesi, went missing on Thursday last week after apparently leaving to tend to her vegetable garden.

At first, nobody could have guessed what had happened to her, but the alarm was raised after she did not return from her garden at the usual time. Then, after some other villagers discovered a reticulated python near to where Tiba was last known to have been, plus some evidence of her belongings having been abandoned in the area, they began to fear the worst.

The snake was discovered at around 9.30am by a search party on Friday morning, according to The Jakarta Post, and was observed to have a noticeably swollen belly. About 50 feet away were a pair of slippers, a flashlight, and an abandoned machete, as well as a set of footprints that were presumed to be Tiba's.

The victim's sister, who was not named, was the first to alert other locals about the suspicious scene.

Once the snake was located, it was promptly killed, and its body was laid on the ground in front of dozens of onlookers and sliced open. Horrifyingly, the woman's body was found fully still whole inside the reptile, and it was evident that she was dead before being consumed.

"When they cut open the snake’s belly they found Tiba’s body still intact with all her clothes," said the village chief, who only went by the name Faris. "She was swallowed first from her head."

A video of the snake being sliced open soon garnered thousands of views after being posted to social media.

"Residents were suspicious the snake swallowed the victim, so they killed it, then carried it out of the garden," said local police chief, Hamka. "The snake’s belly was cut open and the body of the victim was found inside."

While it is uncommon for this breed of snake to take on human prey, this is not the first time a person has been killed by a python on the island. Just last year, in fact, a 25-year-old man named Akbar Salubiro was cut out of a snake measuring 23 feet in length.

"When the snake was captured, the boots Akbar was wearing were clearly visible in the stomach of the snake," village secretary Salubiro Junaidi told the Jakarta Post. "Resident[s] cut open the belly of the snake and Akbar was lifeless [inside]."

Reticulated pythons are the largest non-venomous breed of snake in the world, and hunt their prey by grabbing onto it with razor sharp teeth and crushing it by wrapping their body around it. Most often, the cause of death is either suffocation or a cardiac arrest.

The giant creatures are fairly common in Indonesia and the Philippines but are not often considered a huge threat by locals. However, they are understood to dwell in caves - and Tiba's garden was located near a rocky area which was known to be inhabited by the snakes.

What happened here was clearly a tragic incident, but hopefully will not happen again now that villagers are more aware of the danger around them.

There's something about snakes which is just off-putting. Sorry to all you reptile-lovers who are the proud owners of a slinky danger noodle, but personally I think they're a bit creepy. I don't know how to explain it. Maybe it's the way they move, slithering and gliding across the floor; or maybe it's their cold, hard stare, and flicking tongue. Or it could be the fact that their sharp fangs could pierce the skin like a pair of daggers, and fill your veins with venom. Or perhaps it's the thought of being crushed within their loops of coiled, scaly muscle and slowly constricted to death.

Come to think of it, there are plenty of reasons to be scared of them. But for me, the big one is the fact that they can get absolutely anywhere. Seriously, they can get into every nook and cranny like that stretchy guy from The X-Files, and even wind their way into the confines of your own home. Just think of sleeping soundly in your bed, while a serpent crawls through a pipe or a crack in your wall, and makes its way into your house.

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One unfortunate woman learned this to her displeasure this week, after venturing into her attic, only to discover two gigantic pythons wrestling each other over a female. Terrified, she grabbed her phone and started filming the scrapping reptiles. Since pythons are a particularly deadly species, the woman in question was forced to call a snake catcher, who promptly appeared in the video himself.

The pest control expert stated: "It's coming into breeding season, so these two males have obviously caught the scent of a female. Yeah, they're competing to see which of them's the worthy lover. It's all just wrestling each other, and pushing each other down."

The two snakes appear to be members of the carpet python species. The carpet python, also known as the diamondback, boasts a range of natural habitats, including Australia, New Guinea, Bismarck Archipelago, and the northern Solomon Islands. The species is mostly nocturnal, and are adept at climbing trees and shrubs, and even at crossing open areas like forest floors, roads, and rock faces, which makes it easy for them to slither into someone's house. They are, however, a useful species, and devour pests such as rats, lizards or other vermin. However, they also make good pets and are relatively docile in their temperament.

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Unfortunately for the two warring snakes, the catcher was unable to find the female that they had been wrestling over - meaning that all of their efforts to win her affection had been for nothing. Ah well, better luck next time lads. I suppose guys out there could learn a lesson here. Dudes, if two of you are competing for the attention of one woman, then maybe consider resolving your differences amicably, instead of knocking lumps out of each other - it never works!

A group of Florida hunters have captured the second-largest snake to ever be caught in the state.

Conservationist Mike Elfenbein ventured out into Ochopee’s sprawling 729-acre Big Cypress National Park last week with his 17-year-old son, Cole, in an effort to capture predators that had been impacting the native wildlife.

That's when the father and son duo came across a gargantuan Burmese python - and a struggle between man and beast ensued.

As reported by WPLG 10, another local man in a pick-up truck had stopped in order to help Mike and Cole, but the huge beast soon started dragging the man towards a nearby canal. Fortunately, a group of hikers who were fortunate enough to be in the area also rushed to their aid, and the team battled the sizable snake for a further 45 minutes.

Elfenbein also told Field & Stream: "Even with five guys on top of her, she was able to lift us off the ground and keep moving."

"I grabbed [the snake] by the head, which was the size of a football," 45-year-old Elfenbein told WPLG 10. "I stretched her in one direction, my son stretched her in the other, and the other three guys jumped on top of her."

"If the five of us weren't here, we wouldn't have caught her," the father added. "We happened to be in the right place at the right time."

The group then posed for photos with the snake, with Elfenbein writing on Facebook: "A new personal best, Officially 17’2” & 198 pounds. This snake ate a lot of native wildlife to get this big. She ate her last meal! It took five of us to control her, glad to have removed her from our Everglades where she can no longer eat our wildlife."

The Florida Wildlife Commission has since confirmed that the giant Burmese python is the second largest to ever be caught in the state.

The longest snake to ever be caught in Florida measured 19 feet, but weighed just 125lbs. Meanwhile, the heaviest snake to ever be caught in the state weighed 215lbs - both of which were captured last year.

Snake hunters in Florida often venture into the wilderness in an attempt to capture creatures that pose a threat to the ecosystem and local wildlife. As Elfenbein explained: "A python this big likely consumed a lot of our deer and rabbits and all the other little furry critters we love to see here in Florida."

Speaking to CBS News, the dad described the python as "a monster”, adding: "It was more than a snake."

NBC 6 Miami has since reported that, after the python was autopsied, the remains of a deer was found in its stomach.

Elfenbein added that while much of the snake's carcass will be preserved for future scientific research, one of the men has opted to keep the beast's skull as a "trophy" of sorts.

A comprehensive review of pythons living in Florida was published last year, and showed that although little is known about how long Burmese pythons live in the Floridian wild or how often they reproduce, their hatchlings can be as long as two-feet. It also revealed that more and more of these pythons are migrating north.

The review also described the state's python issue as "one of the most intractable invasive-species management issues across the globe."

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