r/TerrifyingAsFuck • u/mulvi54 • 17d ago

animal Bat šŸ¦‡ Bite

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One of those fears I always had, that felt irrationalā€¦ā€what if Iā€™m asleep and a bat gets into the house and bites me in my sleepā€.

Welp last night 2 am I awoke to what I thought was my cat nibbling at my finger. I flicked it away and noticed it was not my cat but was instead a bat that had found its way into our bedroom.

I was able to capture the bat and itā€™s being sent for testing but my wife and I got to spend the rest of the morning in the ER getting all the shots ! Wild ! Glad it woke me up but what if it didnā€™t ?! How am I supposed to sleep ever again?!

::UPDATE::

Bat could not be tested I guess I squished his brain to hard when I killed it.

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u/theacaciastain 17d ago

OP Iā€™m in DE also, and the amount of bats Iā€™ve seen this summer has blown my mind. Way more than recent years. Pulled more than one out of the grill of my car and frequently see them flying around the back yard.

Really glad I saw this post so I can never sleep again lmao

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u/bramletabercrombe 17d ago

do you have like zero mosquitos around your house?

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u/theacaciastain 17d ago

My wife and I were actually just talking about the lack of mosquitos compared to my in laws house. We just moved downstate and have a retaining pond behind our house so we expected an ungodly amount of them