I once rented a place in the boonies of North Texas where I found dead snakes in the strangest places. The first one I ran across was - you guessed it - in the oven.
I guess it got in there during a cold winter, and someone turned the oven on one morning. No telling how long it had been there. I only found it because I had to do some repairs.
We rented a cottage on a river in the Hill Country of Texas near Fredericksburg one summer for a family vacation. There were scorpions in the pots and pans! I didn’t do much cooking.
I just remembered the name of the place — Kaehler Cottages — and it’s been 40 years.