True...true.
Hence my question. How believable is their story?

But skin is like bacon. When it is fresh it will stretch, but after being "cooked" in the sun for a couple of weeks I observed it shrink at least 3 feet. It had already been cooking a couple of weeks before I got it. Also, this skin was never tacked out as is customary when tanning a skin to help it keep it's shape and prevent shrinkage. Personally I do believe it was a very large rock python, but who knows?