It sounds like you are describing a Nothern Red-bellied snake(Storeria occipitomaculata) pictured below, or an Eastern Worm Snake(Carphophis amoenus amoenus).

If it had large very glossy scales instead of keeled and rough like the ones pictured, and a stubby, pointed tail, it's a Worm Snake.


~Doug

Worm Snake link


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