My uncle had a boa that was lost in his neighborhood for almost two years. He got a phone call one day out of the blue from neighbors who lived a couple of blocks away to tell him they found his pet.
A guy who used to have a reptile store locally moved from his parents’ house after losing his baby boa.
Couldn’t find it anywhere and assumed that it perished in the cold weather outside, somewhere.
Nine years later, he moved back in to care for his mom and found that his boa had been living in the attic all those years, existing on the starlings and mice up there.
It was huge.
:D