PALM COAST, Fla. — The visitor knocking on the door of a Palm Coast's woman's home was definitely not invited nor wanted.

• Gator showed up on doorstep, knocked on door, window
• Woman began filming but stopped to get her dog to safety
• Trapper called in to remove alligator, which was put down
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Donna Heiss captured video of a large alligator recently banging on her window and front door.

“The thing that keeps going through my mind is I can’t believe I shot that video,” Heiss said Friday.

Heiss has lived at the home in Palm Coast for the past 13 years, so she didn't think much of it when her neighbors told her there was a gator underneath her window.

However, the reptile’s strange behavior made her decide to start recording.

“All of a sudden, he turned around, put his front paws or feet or whatever you call them up on the ledge, and started banging the glass window," Heiss said. "And then when it came to the front door, that’s when I was really afraid he was going to come through the glass, because he was banging that hard.”

Heiss said the banging eventually got so aggressive, she stopped recording so she could move her dog, Max, to another room. 

“It was very scary. I opened my back door, I locked him the bedroom. I figured I would have to run,” Heiss said.

Trappers came and removed the gator, which Heiss said measured about 6 or 7 feet. The animal left a few scratches on her door, but Heiss is grateful it wasn’t worse than that.

“Super, super thankful, but an experience I don’t want to go through again," Heiss said.