When three-year-old Saylor Klaas started complaining about monsters in her bedroom, her parents thought it was just the result of a child’s overactive imagination.
But then a beekeeper saw thousands of bees above the girl’s bedroom.
Saylor complained of “monsters in the wall” of his room in his farmhouse in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Her mother, Ashley Massis Klass, and her husband thought nothing of it.
Eventually he introduced his daughter to the Pixar film, Monsters, Inc. Was shown.
“We also gave him a bottle of water and said it was monster spray so he could spray any monsters at night,” said home designer Ms. Macys Klaas.
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But over the next few months, Saylor became more and more insistent that she had something in her wardrobe.
It started to make more sense when Ms. Massis Klass noticed bees swarming in the attic and near the chimney outside her 100-year-old home.
They thought Saylor might be hearing a buzzing noise near her bedroom ceiling.
Ms. Massis Klaas called a pest control company, which discovered that the winged insects were bees, a protected species in the US.
She and her husband contacted a beekeeper, who noticed that the insects were moving toward the attic floorboards — right above her daughter’s bedroom.
The bees had spent eight months building the monstrous hive.
The beekeeper brought a thermal camera to scan the walls in a three-year-old boy’s bedroom.
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“It lit up like Christmas,” Ms. Massis’s class said.
The beekeeper said that he had never seen a hive go so far down the wall.
He discovered it in a coin-sized hole in the corner of an attic vent.
The beekeeper – whom Mysis Klaas’s daughter had started calling the monster hunter – opened the wall and saw a large hive.
“They just came out like a horror movie,” Ms. Massis’s class said.
The beekeeper removed 55,000 to 65,000 bees and 100 pounds (45 kg) of hive.
Three extractions were carried out by reverse vacuuming from the wall to put the insects into boxes. The insects are being transferred to a bee sanctuary.
Ms. Massis Klass had to close the room between evacuations to prevent bees from buzzing around her home.
Ms. Massis Klaas said the bees and their honey damaged the home’s electrical wiring.
He said his homeowner’s insurance won’t cover anything pest-related because he considers it preventable.
They estimate that the bees have caused more than $20,000 (£16,000) in damage.
