Ashley Klass
Appearances
Criminal
Turtle vs. Toilet, a Monster in the Closet, and a Surprise Possum
This was one of those unexpected situations that... It was not on my 2024 bingo bucket list. I'll tell you that.
Criminal
Turtle vs. Toilet, a Monster in the Closet, and a Surprise Possum
And she ended up, you know, starting to have night terrors. She kept saying, there's monsters in her closet.
Criminal
Turtle vs. Toilet, a Monster in the Closet, and a Surprise Possum
And for those that don't know, Monsters, Inc., the movie, is about monsters literally coming out of your closet. So we didn't really put... Too much into it because we thought, okay, a combination of she turned three, big feelings. You know, she loves this movie about monsters coming out of her closet. And I'm pregnant. Things are changing. She's starting to see us get ready for our third child.
Criminal
Turtle vs. Toilet, a Monster in the Closet, and a Surprise Possum
We actually, we got this, a water bottle that we called monster spray. And we just kept it by her bed and said, you know, if you were scared at night, just spray it. It's going to protect you. You know, and my husband got into the closet. She'd point where it was, got into the closet and said, there is monsters in there.
Criminal
Turtle vs. Toilet, a Monster in the Closet, and a Surprise Possum
And my husband would pretend to like karate kick and fight whatever monster and say, oh, I got him. We're good.
Criminal
Turtle vs. Toilet, a Monster in the Closet, and a Surprise Possum
But she would sleep instantly when she slept with us.
Criminal
Turtle vs. Toilet, a Monster in the Closet, and a Surprise Possum
Maybe, you know, we looked at all the different ductwork. We looked at all the different avenues of, you know, what could be making like a weird noise. And so I even, I even got the house blessed because I thought, could it be haunted? Yeah. I mean, because there was she was so adamant and I did not want to tell her it was in her mind.
Criminal
Turtle vs. Toilet, a Monster in the Closet, and a Surprise Possum
But at the same time, when you're watching a movie that coincides with what you're saying at night, you know, that was our first instinct was that there was monsters in her closet from Monsters, Inc. movie.
Criminal
Turtle vs. Toilet, a Monster in the Closet, and a Surprise Possum
And she was sleeping back to sleeping in her room, no issues whatsoever.
Criminal
Turtle vs. Toilet, a Monster in the Closet, and a Surprise Possum
And we had, again, we started off with my husband and I doing monster sprites. Started with my husband and I doing the ninjas kicking in the closet. We did all those things all over again to, you know, kind of alleviate some of her concerns.
Criminal
Turtle vs. Toilet, a Monster in the Closet, and a Surprise Possum
And I noticed a clump of bees. I pointed to my husband. I said, oh, my goodness, it looks like there's a wasp nest outside our attic vent.
Criminal
Turtle vs. Toilet, a Monster in the Closet, and a Surprise Possum
He ended up finding with my husband a, the size of a ballpoint pen cap in the corner of the attic vent. That's how small it was. And said, okay, they're coming into the house. Let me see where they're going. What's underneath the floorboards. And that's when my husband said, that's our daughter's room.
Criminal
Turtle vs. Toilet, a Monster in the Closet, and a Surprise Possum
We had a thermal imaging device that he just connected to his phone to show heat maps. And so bees, he says, they produce a lot of heat, especially if they're honeybees, because they're making honeycomb and they're producing honey. And then he went into my daughter's room and he went through each panel and he was like, nope, not here, not here. And then he went Oh, my God.
Criminal
Turtle vs. Toilet, a Monster in the Closet, and a Surprise Possum
And it my husband said it lit up like Christmas. It literally looked like a man was in the wall. And, you know, that's the first thing we thought, oh, my God, what is in there? The beekeeper said that that is the highest, tallest honey hive that he has ever seen in his 25 year career.
Criminal
Turtle vs. Toilet, a Monster in the Closet, and a Surprise Possum
And that's when my husband and I, we realized that that panel that he, my husband sent me that picture, it was right next to the closet.
Criminal
Turtle vs. Toilet, a Monster in the Closet, and a Surprise Possum
Yes, 100%. We were like, oh my gosh. And how did this happen? The beekeeper said because it was a 100-year-old house, it was just a freak accident because 100-year-old homes don't have insulation. It created this huge gap in between each of the wall panels, each of the studs, so that it created this huge, beautiful home for them.
Criminal
Turtle vs. Toilet, a Monster in the Closet, and a Surprise Possum
So we had him open the wall and it was like a horror movie. The bees just came pouring out. And they just started dropping honey everywhere in her room. Just imagine, like, if you're outside and it's raining, it would be if it's raining honey. And there was just droplets of honey all over her toys, her books, her clothing, her dresser, everywhere.
Criminal
Turtle vs. Toilet, a Monster in the Closet, and a Surprise Possum
There's thousands of bees pouring out of this wall.
Criminal
Turtle vs. Toilet, a Monster in the Closet, and a Surprise Possum
You know, we, you were right. That was the biggest thing is that we wanted to make sure we told her, you know, this is a, I was right for life. So we brought her home. We brought her to the bee box and we said, you know, are those, is that the, is that the sound that you were hearing? She looked straight at us in the eyes. Like, yep. Like you guys finally understand me. Yep. This is it.