A guy made a stomach-churning surprise while cutting down trees when he found a large snake-like creature in a log.

In a video of the discovery, the bizarre black animal – which is clearly missing part of its body – can be seen wriggling out of the fallen tree.

As the beast worms its way out of the log and falls to the ground spasming the man recording the video, clearly in shock, can be heard shouting about his discovery.

He shouts:

Oh my god! Holy fck!’I accidentally sawed in half some sort of large snake inside of this log. It is backing itself out. What the fck?!

The logger then says: ‘Oh, here comes its head’ before running to the other half of the log and finding the other half of the poor bisected creature lying in the dirt.

The footage was posted to YouTube, where it was watched more than 2.8 million times but quite what the black beast was split those watching.

Some claimed that it was a snake (which it clearly is) but others thought it may be a slightly more esoteric creature like a woodworm or a shipworm.