I recently caught a 5 foot Black Snake in my shed. It's was kind of a funny story becasue not even 5 minutes before I found the snake, my oldest son who is 5 asked me "Dad, are snakes real?"
As he has never seen a snake before and we teach him things like, monsters are not real, ghosts are net real, etc. he wanted to know if snakes were real or not.
So a few minute after he asked this, I walk into my shed and the snake is sitting on a stack of junk staring right at me. I got to call my son over and show him first hand that snakes really are "real".
I eventually caught the snake after having to remove almost everything in my shed (snakes can squirm into the smallest of places) and both of my kids got a nice close up look of him.