- A beekeeper found tens of thousands of bees above his son’s room.
- He initially told his mother that there were “monsters on the wall.”
- The family has been posting TikTok videos of the bees and their aftermath since last week.
What appeared to be a little girl’s imagination was actually something that led to a shocking discovery in her North Carolina home.
A beekeeper found around 60,000 bees after three-year-old Saylor Class insisted there were “monsters on the wall” of her Charlotte home.
According to the bbcHer mother Ashley Massis Class thought nothing of what her daughter said and even gave her a bottle of water so she could ‘spray any of the monsters at night.’
The family has since gone viral on TikTok after Ashley posted a video of the discovery last week and clips of the aftermath of the last few days.
“They just came out like a horror movie,” Class told the BBC.
The class claimed that the bees damaged the home’s electrical wiring and that the damage will cost more than $20,000.
Her three-year-old daughter Saylor repeatedly told Ashley Massis Class and her husband that there were ‘monsters on the wall.’
Ashley Class didn’t think about her daughter’s statements until she and her husband found swarms of bees in their chimney and attic.
Saylor had repeatedly told her parents about the “monsters in the wall” for a few months before the discovery.
Ashley and her husband began to realize those monsters might be bees after she discovered clusters in her chimney and attic.
Saylor’s parents began to believe that the three-year-old girl was hearing bees buzzing near the ceiling of her room. They called a pest control company, which confirmed the existence of “monsters.”
The couple then contacted a beekeeper named Curtis, who found bees heading toward the attic floorboards. Curtis confirmed the thousands of infestations by using a thermal camera to scan the walls.
The camera “lit up like a Christmas tree” and the beekeeper concluded that the bugs have been living in his house for about eight months.
He later told the BBC that he had never seen a beehive sink so far into a wall.
Curtis, whom Saylor calls ‘the monster hunter,’ had his work cut out for him and Ashley posted a tiktok video of some of the work he has done to eliminate the bees.
Ashley contacted a pest control company who confirmed there were bees in the walls. She then contacted a beekeeper named Curtis, who used a thermal camera to find the bees.
The Class family has gone viral on TikTok since Ashley posted a video of thermal camera footage and clips of Curtis doing the bee extractions.
According to Ashley, Curtis removed 20,000 bees and more than 100 pounds of honeycomb from the wall one day after the creature’s discovery.
He managed to find the queen bee in the walls and moved her to another hive to make it her ‘new home’.
Saylor couldn’t help but look at the bees that Curtis had collected so far and apparently didn’t seem to be afraid of them.
ashley posted another tiktok video of the third bee extraction yesterday, which showed a hole in Saylor’s bedroom wall.
Curtis found the queen bee during the first extraction along with more than 20,000 bees that have since been placed in a new hive at a sanctuary.
Since then, Curtis has removed between 55,000 and 65,000 bees and about 100 pounds of honeycomb.
By the third extraction, Curtis had eliminated between 55,000 and 65,000 bees. Like the queen bee, they have all been safely relocated to a hive at a bee sanctuary.
“Curtis has been a blessing in helping us through this entire process,” Class wrote in the video.
Ashley stated in a tiktok video The family must wait two weeks before the hole in Saylor’s room can be sealed.
“Consider this one of the items I didn’t think I’d have to deal with while I was 10 weeks postpartum,” she added in the video’s description.
