No one will be bitten by a deadly viper in one Southern California neighborhood, that’s because the snake never existed.

Santa Ana Police responded to a report of a suspected Gaboon viper in the backyard of a home along Cypress Ave Monday.

Reptile experts were called in to help and searched for it in the Santa Ana area, but they didn’t find a snake, or any indication that the one described to them had ever been there.

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Investigators followed up Tuesday with the person who said they saw the snake and provided the original photo of it.

That’s when the story…

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