In a now viral TikTok video, Ashley Massis Class shared the shocking discovery she found in the walls of her 100-year-old farmhouse after her daughter claimed to hear "monsters" in the walls. "She was saying she heard monsters in her bedroom wall, but we'd been watching Monster's Inc.," Ashley told People. "She was a little speech delayed, so when she tried explaining it, we thought she meant there were monsters in her closet." Ashley and her husband tried everything to reassure their daughter that there was nothing there. "We told her, 'Nobody is in that closet.' We made jokes about fighting the monster. We gave her a spray bottle full of water that was her monster spray." Things got worse when their toddler started having nightmares, unable to sleep in her room. "She was just freaking out. She had to stay in our room, and she kept saying there were monsters. We thought, in part, that she was experiencing a little regression since I had just had a baby in February and was pregnant and tired before that."
Weeks later, Ashley and her husband started noticing a few bees in their attic. When they called pest control to come spray their house, they were informed that they were honeybees. The pest control company does not spray honeybees due to them being endangered, so Ashley decided to take a different approach. "The pest control company told us they were honeybees, probably just looking for a place to stay. They don't spray them because they are endangered, so that took me down this whole new path," she said. "Beekeeper after beekeeper was like, 'Nope, they're not in the house yet.' They drilled a hole up in our attic and said they didn't see anything. It wasn't until a beekeeper actually sat there and observed that he was like, 'Okay, so I see them going down into the floorboards of this unfinished part. Let's see where this wall runs down. Underneath there directly is my daughter's room." The beekeeper came prepared with a thermal camera, and no one could have prepared Ashley for what they would find. "At first, I thought it was a body. I was like, 'What is that?' And he says he thinks it's a hive. He didn't even have his bee gear on yet, but he took a hammer and knocked into the wall. Bees came swarming out like a horror movie." She continued, "There were streams of bees, and the wall where he hit was oozing honey. But it looked like blood because it was really, really dark, running down my daughter's pink walls. It looked really strange."
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Acting fast, the beekeeper shut the door and got into his gear and got to work assessing the extent of the situation. "He opened the wall and it was one of the biggest hives he's seen in his 40-year career," she shared. "Just 50,000 bees were swarming like crazy in my daughter's bedroom. It was a nightmare. They were dropping honey everywhere, all over all her stuff." That first day, the beekeeper removed over 20,000 bees and a 100 lb. chunk of honeycomb. The next day, he came and removed another 20,000 bees. "We sealed off the room and he came back the next day. He took out another 20,000 bees. Now the hole in the wall is covered by plastic and we still keep getting bees coming in. We think there are another 20,000 bees now, so he's coming back, anticipating removing another 20,000."
Ashley made sure to let her daughter know that the "monsters" in her wall wee being taken care of. "We told her, 'We found the monsters, you were right.' Then we introduced her to the beekeeper and she was like, 'No, he's a monster hunter.' So she called him Mr. Monster Hunter for the rest of the day, which was awesome." The beekeeper even took the time to show the toddler how not to be afraid of the bees. "He let himself get stung so he could let her hold one and not be scared. But she saw the huge bee box and heard the buzzing and was like, 'Absolutely not, I'll just look at it from over here.'" Ashley assured her followers on TikTok that the beekeeper "found the queen and were able to move [the surviving bees] to a bee sanctuary."
