‘Monsters in wall’ in girl’s bedroom turn out to be hidden beehive

A three-year-old complained about “monsters in the wall” for months before 65,000 bees were discovered in her bedroom.

Ashley Class, Saylor Class’ mother, said the insects poured out “like a horror movie” after a beekeeper opened up the floor-to-ceiling hive at the family home in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Saylor had spent months insisting there were “monsters in the wall” – something her parents put down to the fact that she had recently watched the film Monsters Inc.

They sent her to bed with a bottle of water they said was “monster spray”, the BBC reported.

But mother Ashley Class eventually noticed bees swarming near the attic and chimney of their house. Even then, several pest control companies insisted the insects had not made their way inside.

However, another beekeeper noticed the bees were heading into the floorboard of the attic, and located a hive in the wall of Saylor’s room directly underneath. It resembled “a man in the wall by the shape of it”, Class said.

She posted a video to TikTok showing the orange glow emitted by the tens of thousands of bees teeming behind the plaster, with the caption: “What nightmares are made of.”

The clip then cut to a large hole the beekeeper had cut into the pink walls of her daughter’s bedroom, as the bees swarmed out of it.