A Horrifying Experience (RobAce read this!!!)

So I decided to go visit my mom this past weekend since school starts in a few weeks. My mom's house is pretty old, about 120 years old. The upstairs has no air-conditioning due to the old wiring up there not having been replaced yet (the downstairs one has been replaced)...so an A/C unit would probably make the upstairs explode, Lol.

Anyway I had the ceiling fan on and the window open each night I slept in the guest room. The window had no screen on it, but I kept the lamp off so as to not attract mosquitoes. About three nights ago I was getting into bed around 1 in the morning and heard a squeaky noise and a rustling under the bed.....

I just figured it was a mouse and that it wouldn't bother me in the bed. My mom was asleep and I didn't feel like hunting for the mouse so I just rolled over and went to sleep.

At about 4 in the morning I woke up to hear the squeaking again and then I felt something caress my cheek real lightly. I heard some loud rustling coming from my left side, so I turned on the lamp...and could have died at what I saw x a gazillion!!!!!!

I saw:

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I FREAKED out (obviously) because it was flying around really low, swooping right over me on the bed and it's wing had been what touched my cheek X_X!

So I ran from the room screaming and my mom never woke up. I was petrified and had slammed the bedroom door behind me. The next day when I told my mom she was shocked and looked for the bat and never found it.

Suffice to say...I slept on the couch the last two nights I was there...I even refused to go in there yesterday to get my suitcase when I was packing to leave.

The phantom bat has disappeared...hopefully it flew out the window it came through.

I am still creeped out by it!

-Perse

LOL I used to deal with bats all the time when I was sacristan at my church. Every so often, one would be hanging on the peeling paint on the ceiling and the paint would let loose. The bat would then clunk down in one of the pews, knocked out temporarily. The fun times were when Mass was going on. All I'd have to do is look out to see which area folks were scrambling away from and I knew where it had landed. I'd just get a glass plate and a small flower pot to catch it and let it go outside. My years there taught me that they're much more freaked out by us than we are by them.

So, I'm guessing the image above is one you found online rather than your visitor? He's kinda cute! 😉

We've had four bats in our house over the years. None since my dad filled the attic with insulation because there's no room for them to nest in there anymore.

The first time I saw a bat, it was at night and this bat burst out of my closet. Scared the crap outta me. At first I thought it was a bird then realized, oh, it can't be a bird. It flew out of my room and my dad went after it with a baseball bat. Thankfully he chased it out of the house.

The other two times, essentially the same thing, my brothers chased them out of the house. The last time, my brother and I found a bat sleeping in the window. My brother crazily picked it up and set it in a tree outside.

I've also seen a bat inside the girls locker room in high school. We were the first class to enter the locker room and I swear, I've never heard screams like I heard coming from the girls in my class when they saw the bat sleeping on one of the lockers. I couldn't help but roll my eyes at them. It's asleep, it's not going to hurt you. 🙄

I'm sorry, but that picture of the bat you have there is so freakin' adorable! Look at its eyes!

but needless to say, that would not be something pleasant to wake up to.

Sorry you had that experience. Rodents are bad enough; flying rodents are scarier.
<=== don't want any in my living quarters

Plus, if you get bitten you will need a rabies shot.

paracarl44 said:

Plus, if you get bitten you will need a rabies shot.

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Well, not really. And a vaccine shot that will protect you is available.

http://www.batconservation.org/content/Batsrabies.html

http://www.vaccineinformation.org/rabies/qandavax.asp

paracarl44 said:

Plus, if you get bitten you will need a rabies shot.

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Not if you bring the bat that bit you with. If they can test the animal, then they can determine if it has rabies and whether you need the shots. But if you don't, like what happened to my brother, you'll have to get the rabies shot, but the shots aren't as scary or painful as they once were. My brother had one shot in the butt and one in the finger and a couple more shots through the finger over a span of a few weeks.

holyshit its the dark knight!!!

A couple of years ago on the 4th of July, I was on top of a parking garage at night so that a group of us could see fireworks going off in 3 nearby towns at the same time. There were lights on at the top of the garage where bugs of various sorts were swarming. My friends were trying to draw my attention to the fireworks around us, but I kept looking back at the lights because bats were gliding in to snatch bugs out of the air. A few perched nearby and watched us curiously before going back to feed. I thought they were cool.

That is the most horrible thing I have read today....and the most horrid thing I have seen today.

JUST NASTY!!!

Rob

Heh, I shouldn't laugh, but it kind of reminds me of back in my stoner days when I was about 18. Me and some friends went to the park on a balmy summers evening to spark up, and while he was rolling, a Pipistrelle flew into my friend Pete's face.
Looking back, in sober retrospect, it was still pretty damn funny.

When I was a kid, there were two separate occasions where a bat found its way inside the house. There was some sort of opening in the attic that dad was, fortunately, able to find and seal up. No bats from that point forward.

I love bats. I would not want to wake up with one in bed with me, but I love them.

The lady doesn't worry about a mouse in the house, but a bat is something else.

You had better not take up cave exploring.

I've never seen a bat in person but I think if I found one around me when I woke up I think I'd freak out too lol... bats seem like they're probably pretty scary in person lol

but um, I don't know if anyone told you but bats sleep during the day, lol. You couldhave got your luggage in the morning without worrying buddy but I'm sorry that happened.

Or perhaps...it only became a bat when you switched on the light?

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This is why I sleep with a sharpened stake concealed under my pillow.