Snakes in courthouse of Jackson, Miss. have been turning up since April 8.

These non-venomous snakes poise no threats, but are creeping out the employees in the Hinds County circuit clerk's basement office. They are sometimes called earth snakes also known as DeKay's snakes as the snakes in courthouse. 

A deputy clerk, Kelly Phillips, told the Huffington Post Thursday that the largest circled around her finger and was a few inches long. She said the smallest looked like an overgrown earthworm as one of the snakes in courthouse in Mississippi. 

"It was trucking across the floor," Phillips told the Huffington Post, pointing in a diagonal toward rows of heavy rolling cabinets where paper files are stored.

Former zookeeper Percy King, who does reptile shows at local schools, went to the courthouse to identify the serpents, according to the Post. He said DeKay's eat lizards, worms, crickets and other small bugs. They have soft teeth that probably couldn't even break a human's skin, he said.

"A snake that size could squeeze through any little hole," Phillips said.

These snakes tend to make their way indoors when spring time arrives.

Phillips said she screamed when she saw one of the five snakes that have been found thus far. Another was accidently killed by a file cabinet and another was trapped on a sticky-trap that co-workers left there on purpose.