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• Ashley Class of Charlotte, North Carolina, was stumped by her toddler's reports of monsters in the wall of her bedroom, NPR reported.
For months, Saylor told her mom she could hear something, but Class chalked it up to the stress of a new baby in the house. She and her husband deployed "monster spray" (water) and pretended to look for the monsters.
But finally, Class called a pest control specialist, who went into Saylor's room with a thermal camera. "It lit up like Christmas," Class said. "It was floor to ceiling."
Behind Saylor's wall was a 100-pound honeycomb and about 50,000 bees, which the beekeeper removed. But not before the bees had done tens of thousands of dollars in damage.
"It's been a nightmare," Class said. [NPR, 4/30/2024]