Story Highlights
- A beekeeper extracted a large number of bees and honeycomb from Saylor Class’s bedroom wall multiple times.
- The bees were relocated to a sanctuary for their protection.
Background
When three-year-old Saylor Class started expressing concerns about monsters in her bedroom, her parents initially dismissed it as a typical product of a child’s vivid imagination. However, their perspective shifted when a beekeeper found tens of thousands of honeybees above the girl’s bedroom.
Discovery of the Bees
Saylor had been mentioning “monsters in the wall” of her room at their farmhouse in Charlotte, North Carolina. Initially, her mother, Ashley Massis Class, and her husband didn’t pay much attention to it, considering they had recently watched the Pixar movie, Monsters, Inc. They even gave her a bottle of water and said it was monster spray so that she could spray away any of the monsters at night.
Investigation and Removal
In the following months, Saylor grew increasingly adamant about something being inside her closet. Massis Class started connecting the dots when she observed bees gathering in groups around the attic and chimney outside their century-old residence. They began to suspect that Saylor might have been hearing the buzzing noise near her bedroom ceiling.
After reaching out to a pest control company, it was determined that the winged insects were honeybees, a species protected in the US. Subsequently, a beekeeper was contacted, who found the bees moving towards the floorboards of the attic, directly above their daughter’s bedroom.
Removal Process
The beekeeper discovered a large honeycomb inside the wall, starting from a tiny hole in the attic vent’s corner. Around 55,000 to 65,000 bees and 100 pounds (45 kilograms) of honeycomb were removed in three separate instances. The bees were vacuumed out of the wall and relocated to a honeybee sanctuary.
Aftermath
Between the removals, Massis Class had to block off the room to prevent bees from flying around the house. The bees and their honey caused damage to the house’s electrical wiring, which was not covered by insurance due to it being deemed avoidable.
