US: Girl Fears 'Monsters' In Room, Parents Find 60,000 Bees Instead

When 3-year-old Saylor Class complained of 'monsters' living in the walls of her room, her parents initially dismissed it as a child's imagination running wild. That was until a beekeeper validated her concern, letting the family know there was a colony of over 60,000 bees nestled in the attic above the little girl's room. Speaking to BBC, the family from North Carolina, United States, said that this not only horrified the household but also cost more than $20,000 in damages.

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Like a lot of children, Saylor Class often told her parents about 'monsters' in her room. Her mother Ashley Massis Class told BBC that her family thought the child was imagining things, as they had recently watched the film Monsters Inc.

For months, the family ignored their daughter's concerns, thinking she was just being an innocent little girl. Saylor's father even played along and gave her a spray bottle filled with water, saying it was a monster repellant. 

However, on one night when Ashley, a home designer by profession, went to check on the noises her daughter was complaining of, she felt she could hear some buzzing sounds from the ceiling too. 

The Class family soon called a beekeeper, who found that there was a huge colony of bees nestled in their attic above the girl's room. The family was told that the monstrous hive had been there for about eight months. 

The beekeeper brought a thermal camera to scan the walls in Saylor's bedroom. "It lit up like Christmas," Ashley Class told BBC. The beekeeper said that he had never seen a hive so big it had entered the inside of the walls.

When the beekeeper opened the wall, the bees started flying out like in a horror movie, Ashley described. The beekeeper said that there were about 55,000 to 65,000 bees. Saylor now calls the beekeeper a 'monster hunter'.

To add to the family's distress, the bees had damaged their house's electrical wiring, Ashley told the outlet. Moreover, their homeowner's insurance does not cover pest-related damages.

The insects have been relocated to a honeybee sanctuary after they were removed in three extractions. The ordeal cost the family over $20,000 (about ₹16.7 lakh) in damages, Ashley estimated.