longest a snake went missing?

i just came home tonight and like normal went down to the snake room just to check on things then out the corner of my eye i see what i thought was my motley corn first thing i thought was damn snake got out ,well i went to get her and nope wasn't her it was my creamscile corn between to tanks laying on the heat ,talk about shocked i pretty much gave up on her ,she went missing 6/20/06 and decides to show up tonight ,it was a good surprise I'm glad shes fine but she actually grew alot and her color looks better ,do you think she has eaten since the last time i fed her which was 6/18/06 ? she doesn't look skinny one bit and she still has her mean attitude ,so i was wondering how long was the longest one of your snakes were gone and then showed back up?

For me, it was about 2 months, she was hiding somewhere and showed up sitting on top of the rat tank trying to figure out how she would fit a jumbo rat into her hopper size body. She was dehydrated and a bit skinny, but not too bad.

I had a juvie green tree python that exited his enclosure when I left it open accidentally after feeding. After a couple weeks of looking what I thought was everywhere we pretty much wrote him off as a goner.

It was 4.5 months later when late at night I was walking up the hall to go to bed and was blown away to find this boy crawling right along the baseboard!! He was a little bit slimmer than he was at escape time but did just fine back in his enclosure again!!

I've had a few other random escapes over the years, the interesting thing is that ALL have been found, and most of them were fairly close in distance to their enclosures! We don't spend a lot of time looking over the whole house now, just all the nooks and crannies close by.

My longest escape was a little over 8 months. It was a yearling cal king I had held back as a future breeder.
I don't know what she fed on, or where she got water during those 8 months, but she turned back up in the snake room in close proximity to a basking light. She was about the same size as some others I held back that were hatched at the same time and not dehydrated at all.