A family believes it may have hitched a 6,000-mile trip from Kenya with a scorpion.
They found the 1.5-inch-long creature in the middle of the floor in their kitchen with its 'tail quivering, a UK publication Daily Mail reported.
The family, Liz Burrows, 50, and her husband Ian, 52, hails from King's Cliffe, Northamptonshire.
They believe it might have snuck back with Daisy, their 18-year-old daughter who had recently returned from a month-long trip in Kenya.
According to the publication, the family currently doesn't know the species.
However, after carrying out some online research have suggested it could be a stripped-back scorpion or a pygmy thick tail.
The venom in the stings from these types of scorpions is rarely deadly but can be very painful, and in some cases dangerous.
The Daily Mail reported that Daisy initially mistook the scorpion for a leaf, but her father then scooped it up with a bit of paper and plonked it in a jar with holes in the lid.
"We'd been out and got home and I went to the fridge and it was just in front of it on the floor. My daughter looked down thinking it was a leaf at first. It then became quite clear it was a scorpion. Its tail was quivering so it was still alive but it wasn't moving much, certainly not enough to send us running out of the room," Liz Burrows said.
"I wanted to get rid of it straight away but my husband thought it was quite interesting and wanted to keep it. I think my neighbours are quite anxious that we have a scorpion in the house."
Daisy recognised the scorpion from her travels, which led the couple to believe it caught an unwarranted lift back to the UK.
Her mother added: 'It must have hitched a lift with my daughter from Kenya because we've never had a scorpion in the house before.
'I'm just hoping it doesn't have any other friends.
Scorpions are predatory arachnids of the order Scorpiones.
They have eight legs and are easily recognized by a pair of grasping pincers and a narrow, segmented tail, often carried in a characteristic forward curve over the back and always ending with a stinger.
The evolutionary history of scorpions goes back 435 million years. They mainly live in deserts but have adapted to a wide range of environmental conditions.
There are over 2,500 described species, with 22 extant (living) families recognized to date.
