HOLLOWAYS Beach resident Kyle Reeve says he is waiting for baby snakes to fall from his roof.

It might sound like a scene from a movie, but Mr Reeve says it happens every year when the 6m-long python, which lives in his roof, finds a mate.

"It's been up there for about nine years," he said.

"It happens every year ... There's a rustling in the roof and little baby ones fall out of the roof three months later."

The 37-year-old said he had never seen the snake but finds the skins shed by the reptile each year.

"Every year we get two or three skins. It doesn't bother me - I'm a nature freak," he said.

"It's a mystery pet, it's pretty unique. A lot of people have snakes in their roof but not as big as six metres.

"It lives in the roof, we live inside. We have a treaty going on there."

Read more at the Cairns Post.