AIBU?
I'm creeped out and don't think I'll be able to sleep
Millana · 24/01/2023 23:32
This happened about 1hr ago and I'm still creeped out.
I put on my clean pjs and got into bed. I'm by myself tonight so all the lights were off etc. My hip started itching/feeling a bit scratchy so I adjusted my trousers to move the label that seemed to be bothering me. A few minutes later, it was bothering me again so I thought maybe a feather was sticking into my trousers so had a feel about.
Not a label. Not a feather. There was something MOVING in my trousers. I jumped out of bed as fast as I could and pulled my trousers down. I managed to get it out of my trousers. I think it was a GIANT moth. It flew (possibly jumped?) off before I could properly look but it was MASSIVE. Seriously, it look up most of my cupped hand.
I think it was a moth. I'm sort of guessing it was because it felt fluttery or shaky and furry in my hand.
This giant fluttery furry thing that was IN my pjs is now somewhere in my house.
I'm all itchy and unsettled. Insects don't normally bother me but now I'm all itchy and had a thought about more moths in my bed/pjs climbing up my nose while I sleep.
On top of that... I'm freaked out but also sad now that the moth (if that's what it was) is going to die because there is no way that escapade didn't damage it's wings.
I mean, what is a giant moth doing in my pjs in January?!
Shudder. Check your pjs over folks.
Am I being unreasonable?
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SockGoddess · 25/01/2023 15:40
I was once stood on a chair fixing a curtain rail, and as I pulled the curtain back, a massive fat bobhowler (yes because that's we call big hairy moths in these parts) disturbed and flew straight at me at point blank range. All in the same split secong I gasped, it flew straight in my mouth and I stepped backwards off the chair and grabbed the curtains as I fell. In my sheer panic before I realised what had happened I chomped down on the bobhowler.
Aarrgh! I quite like moths but that's given me the willies!
LOVE the term "bobhowler" though!
WiddlinDiddlin · 25/01/2023 15:48
For a while... a really creepy thing was going on here.
One spring early morning, dawn really... I heard a wasp outside the window, trying to get in... the window was open, in it came.
I screamed blue murder and hid under the duvet... it tried to get under the duvet with me. DP told me I was talking bollocks... deaded it, shut window etc..
That spring, every fucking morning, a wasp tried to come in, we had to put up mesh. He still didn't believe me though.
Wasps moved on, next spring came.. SAME THING... up goes the mesh again, a few get in, i tell him they're trying to get under the covers with me, he tells me I am talking shite...
Next spring comes and this year, ONE GOT UNDER THE DUVET WITH ME... i woke up to find a reaaaaaaaally large wasp, dead, in the bed with me. Day after day the wasps kept coming, trying to get into my bed and snuggle up with me.
I am sure they wanted me to be their queen. He did eventually watch one, as I hid under the covers, and sure enough it bloody well WAS trying to get under there to get to me (or, well who knows, there is just me under there, I don't go to bed with a pot of jam) and after that believed me.
For some reason that was the last year but FML i could really have done with out it.
I am diabetic, I was at that point, untreated. I wonder if it was that, I was their sugary queen..
Fuckers.
Johnduttonsbuttocks · 25/01/2023 15:52
My cat once brought in a live mouse, and dropped it into my bed - under my duvet.
Another time, in trying to rescue a live mouse in my living room, it ran up my pyjama leg. I clamped my hand down onto it somewhere just above my knee. 😨
Jellybean23 · 25/01/2023 16:47
It might have found a place to overwinter in your home and then woken up too soon. At least moths can't bite.
sophs29 · 25/01/2023 22:00
Robyn847 · 25/01/2023 14:18
I was once stood on a chair fixing a curtain rail, and as I pulled the curtain back, a massive fat bobhowler (yes because that's we call big hairy moths in these parts) disturbed and flew straight at me at point blank range. All in the same split secong I gasped, it flew straight in my mouth and I stepped backwards off the chair and grabbed the curtains as I fell. In my sheer panic before I realised what had happened I chomped down on the bobhowler. Was coughing and spitting while lying on the floor with a mouth full of hairy fat moth dust. Honestly, they're just made of dust mixed together with a bit of sawdust. Nothing to them. There was nothing crunchy in there so they obviously can't bite. Don't worry, just don't try eating it if you find it.
😂😂😂😂😂
MeinKraft · 25/01/2023 22:05
Oh I regret opening this thread. Worse than the time I put my trainers on and felt a wriggling half an hour later. There was a big spider in there running around my foot.
Outwiththenorm · 25/01/2023 22:29
Took a big gulp of water in the middle of the night when I was a teenager and spat out a furry lump of drowned moth 🤢 Have drunk out a sealed water bottle at night ever since.
SicParvisMagna · 25/01/2023 22:37
As someone who is deathly afraid of moths this would actually cause me to die I think. Even now every hair on my body is standing up at the thought of it and it's made me feel all funny lol.
Reminds me though, of a night on my honeymoon. We was in the Maldives and I awoke in the night to something tickling the inside of my leg right near my bits. I thought it was hubby felling a bit amorous. Until I heard the toilet flush and realised that it was not my new hubby trying to initiate some midnight sexy time, but a cockroach trying to nestle into my pubes.
Fuck me I flew out of that bed and probably woke the whole island with my screams and the sound of me splatting it with a shoe.
Still. Makes me laugh now and I imagine it as the sort of headline you'd get on the cover of Take A Break! I WAS RAPED H ON MY HONEYMOON WHILE HUBBY HAD A WEE! (By a cockroach).
RaininSummer · 25/01/2023 22:42
Having flashbacks to the earwig which came out if my sock when rolled it down to scratch my leg at primary school around 50 years ago. Never forgotten and can't stand them.
Luredbyapomegranate · 25/01/2023 22:46
Johnduttonsbuttocks · 25/01/2023 15:52
My cat once brought in a live mouse, and dropped it into my bed - under my duvet.
Another time, in trying to rescue a live mouse in my living room, it ran up my pyjama leg. I clamped my hand down onto it somewhere just above my knee. 😨
Ooh that is worse than when I opened a cupboard and a mouse took a flying leap and slammed into my crotch. Mercifully I was dressed..
Iamthewombat · 25/01/2023 23:06
This is the best thread I’ve read in ages but what I must know, OP, is your theory of how the giant moth or tiny bat got into your pyjamas. Have they been folded away since being line dried last summer? If not, how did the creature get into them? Like, if you last washed them three weeks ago or whatever. What was the ‘moth transit’?
Also, where has it laid its giant moth eggs????
I was slightly disturbed by the redback spider story from a PP but luckily we don’t get many of those in Cheadle, with them being confined to Australia.
stbrandonsboat · 25/01/2023 23:09
I was in bed and felt a tickle on my inside thigh once. I jumped out of the bed and a woodlouse fell out of my nightshirt 😳
uncomfortablydumb53 · 25/01/2023 23:11
Could it have been a Bat?
Sleep with a landing light on
Iamthewombat · 25/01/2023 23:13
Are bats mammals? It might have given birth to a brood! Living in your T shirt shelf.
Iamthewombat · 25/01/2023 23:14
aaacwildliferemoval.com/blog/bats/how-many-babies-do-bats-have/
Or in your sock drawer, as demonstrated by these baby bats in sleeping bags
frostyfours · 25/01/2023 23:17
I can't even finish this thread for laughing. Placemarking for tomorrow.
Please put this in classics 😂😂😂
CrazyBiscuits · 25/01/2023 23:28
Its probably in shock and laying bashed about in a corner by now. Moths can be quite big. Eventually it'll disintegrate if it doesn't go up the vacuum cleaner. I just shook with the thought that it could've been worse- one of those jimjam spiders, they're the worst! Brrr....!!
vaccinistatotebagchicbarista · 25/01/2023 23:39
My worry is if you’ve got moths where you’re keeping your clothes! Check the rest of your clothes aren’t looking nibbled OP….
larkstar · 25/01/2023 23:59
@vaccinistatotebagchicbarista - good point!
I once had a lovely light summery suit by Yves St. Laurent (from a time when I had money to waste in such things) - one year, hadn’t worn it in a while and it wasn’t In it’s suit bag for some reason - I found it covered in tiny holes - so sad! Moths! Nothing else has been eaten.
Iamthewombat · 26/01/2023 00:04
Doesn’t it have to be a special type of moth to eat clothes and carpets? Not the giant death’s head hawk moth variety.
FannyFifer · 26/01/2023 00:25
WiddlinDiddlin · 25/01/2023 15:48
For a while... a really creepy thing was going on here.
One spring early morning, dawn really... I heard a wasp outside the window, trying to get in... the window was open, in it came.
I screamed blue murder and hid under the duvet... it tried to get under the duvet with me. DP told me I was talking bollocks... deaded it, shut window etc..
That spring, every fucking morning, a wasp tried to come in, we had to put up mesh. He still didn't believe me though.
Wasps moved on, next spring came.. SAME THING... up goes the mesh again, a few get in, i tell him they're trying to get under the covers with me, he tells me I am talking shite...
Next spring comes and this year, ONE GOT UNDER THE DUVET WITH ME... i woke up to find a reaaaaaaaally large wasp, dead, in the bed with me. Day after day the wasps kept coming, trying to get into my bed and snuggle up with me.
I am sure they wanted me to be their queen. He did eventually watch one, as I hid under the covers, and sure enough it bloody well WAS trying to get under there to get to me (or, well who knows, there is just me under there, I don't go to bed with a pot of jam) and after that believed me.
For some reason that was the last year but FML i could really have done with out it.
I am diabetic, I was at that point, untreated. I wonder if it was that, I was their sugary queen..
Fuckers.
This made me laugh. Sugary Queen of the wasps. Brilliant!
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