When her daughter started complaining about “monsters” in her room, Ashley Class didn’t think much of it, thinking that her three-year-old son was perhaps imagining things after watching Pixar’s Monsters, Inc..
The child was even given a bottle of water that she was told was a “monster spray,” said Class, an interior designer from Charlotte, North Carolina. he told the BBC.
But months later, and seeing swarms of bees circling around the chimney, Mrs Class called pest control and discovered “the stuff nightmares are made of” – a hive housing 50,000 bees.
Ms Class documented her ordeal on TikTokposting updates about her surprising situation that garnered millions of views.
“When your daughter hears ‘monsters’ in the walls,” Ms. Class described in her first clip. “It turned out there were 50,000 bees buzzing around.”
The clip showed a thermal camera lighting up “like Christmas” while pointing to the wall where the hive grew.
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Ms Class said the hive lasted eight months, with the honeycomb and honey produced by the industrious “colony” weighing 100 pounds (45.3 kg).
It is believed that the bees entered through the chimney and through a hole in a clay pipe that heated the rooms of the house.
But it wasn’t that. Several extractions later, a brand-new hive was discovered, bringing the total number of bees on Ms. Class’s farm to 60,000, she said on TikTok.
Beekeeper Curtis Collins, who has been removing hives from homes for six years, told Good Morning America: “I believe this might be the first one I’ve done that was floor to ceiling.”
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One of the clips posted by Ms. Class was captioned that the interior wall of her 100-year-old home “looks like something out of Stranger Things.”
Responding to one of the comments, the designer said: “The whole situation haunts me.”
Class said her home insurance will not cover the cost of the damage and she told the BBC she believes the bees resulted in around $20,000 (£16,000) out of pocket.
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