Real Horror Stories of Rat Attacks

Oh no, Michelle. I know you're gonna hate this topic. I know you're gonna hate what is it now? I'm nervous. I'm sorry. Sorry in advance, I was thinking the best way to tell you about it, and oh god, Michael Jackson, are you sure it's not Michael? Because I sent you that one video? Did you get that? It was while you were in I don't know what country you were in, but it was just someone going Welcome to Scary Mystery Surprise, where we talk about scary things that surprised us around the Internet. I'm Edwin, I'm Michelle anyway, So Michael Jackson, I do have to ruin this surprise though, because we need to give a warning. If you are afraid of rats. Oh you shit, please give the episode. We will see you in the next one, or listen to her previous one. I guess I'll be skipping this episode of You Need to Stay fuck Okay, I guess I'm here. The location the second floor apartment on Pacific Street in Brooklyn, New York. The person involved a graphic designer. She was having a regular night doing the dishes, taking care of some stuff around the house. She lifted the kitchen garbage bag when suddenly a rat leaped out and quote par cord off her legs and disappeared by the oven. No. Oh, I can visualize that too. Well, it's just a nightmare. Location one hundred and twelfth Street in Manhattan, a woman, a public health analyst, watched a rat flip while stuck to a glue track, try itself out and run away. Those glue traps, man like, they're just not effective. I think I cried about something like that when I was a kid because they got stuck to my shoe. What a glue trap? Yeah, I stepped on one. Anyway. These stories are on an article on the New York Times all about rat horror stories, believe it or not, which is what we'll be talking about today. Oh, I'm happy Halloween to me. There was a movie that I watched. It's not a movie, it's a short series by on It's on Netflix. I think it's Called's Cabinet of Curiosities. There's a story on there about rats, and I was like, yeah, rats are pretty scary, and then I remember you're afraid of rats. And then I started looking into this and then I'm like, oh, I shouldn't make fun of Michelle for being afraid of rats, because this is pretty terrible, pretty terrible stuff. Thank you. I told you. Next it'll be everyone figuring out how terrifying Michael Jackson is. It was a little afternoon on a Saturday when a man named Leonard walked up to a bus stop in a neighborhood of the Bronx when a hole opened up on the sidewalk and Lenny fell straight down. I don't know if he goes by Lenny, I just say, you know, it's a familiarity, you're taking a liberty, but that's okay. People were freaking out running toward him, and they saw him twelve to fifteen feet deep in this hole in the ground full of rats. No yeah, rats were crawling on him and he didn't want to yell because he was afraid that they were going to be rats inside of his mouth. Oh my god. Also, rats are so greasy. Oh they shine. They were just wearing like they have gel all the time. It's just like this. No, yeah, well they leave little they leave grease marks when they walk, so like if they're running around your walls, they leave like a a trail of body grease. Anyway, continue, we're back with Lenny in the hole for half an hour. He was in there until firefighters got him out. His head and arm were injured, but the guy refused to talk to the news outlets, directing everything to a lawyer. Good on him. Those streets need to get fixed, Lenny. I hope you get fifty million dollars off your thing. Just I hope so too. I'm scary, mystery, surprised, nightmarish thing that I would not recover from anyway. I don't know if you remember that video of the rat taking the slice of pizzash. Yeah, of course pizza rat, like, yeah, of course everybody knows pizza rat. Well, I don't know. Some generations don't, but yeah, I looked it up again, generations. I don't think it's been around long enough to be a total It came out in twenty fifteen, right, Yeah, but that's not like gen Z knows what pizza rat is. Okay, okay, I'll take your word for it. If you're gen Z, please write in if you tell us scary mystery surprise. If you know what pizza rat is, thank you. There are some people that study stuff like this. I didn't know. There's this one guy, Bobby Corrigan, who is an urban rodentologist with the pH d and a master's degree in pest management. You, although I feel like I should probably marry him because I hate this so much that it would like guarantee that I'd never have to deal with it again ever Unlessie collects specimens. So yes, which he might, which you might, and that would lead to a divorce. This guy said that when restaurants and therefore trash were becoming less frequent on the streets in New York because of the shutdowns, rats were actually turning on each other like cannibals, like wars against like they were just eating each other. It was weird. They would eat their own babies and stuff, and yeah, it was intense. An exterminator in Manhattan and Brooklyn had noticed an astronomical increase in rats, saying that they were healthier than ever and that they're big, either fat or pregnant, so they're doing well by US standards. Location, Indiana, Evansville medics were called to a home on September thirteenth. A father had called saying that he woke up and found his baby covered in blood. Oh my god. When they went inside, they found the place completely messed up, trash all over, poop on the floor, Oh god, and rats. The baby, six months old had been bitten by rats more than fifty times. Oh my god, multiple fingers, almost bitten completely off. What the fuck? Eventually the baby died. The other four children were taken from those people, which you know, both the parents and the mom's sister who were living there were arrested on child charges. Goodness, that just is nasty, Like just the rats eating somebody. It's just stuff of movies, like it just shouldn't. I don't know, rats are opportunists, but I don't get why baby fingers are like an opportunity, you know. Oh jeez, disgusting. In twenty seventeen, an article came out about a French girl with disabilities that was I think she was. Was it a quadriplegic or she had issues in the mobility disabilities and was covered in rat bites after a pack of rats swarmed into her bedroom in northern France. No, while she was sleeping on the first floor. She had forty five facial lesions. Holy shit, that would be terrifying, one hundred and fifty bites on her hands and thirty on her feet. She survived. Yeah, this is when blood was coming out of the ears. Fingertips are missing. The the surgeon couldn't you know, they could have fixed that because they were missing. Just overall, just a terrible, terrible situation. Again, in this case, the father was suing the landlord because the trash in the front was overflowing, which is, you know, a way to track rats because they liked trash. I hope they won again. Fifty million dollars. A three month old baby was attacked and eaten alive by rats. What what? Oh? Yeah, I started off with the shaker ear. This is terrible. After her mom left right at home alone to go partying in twenty sixteen, geez, When the mom got back, she saw like the scene. It was again graphic, we're getting graphic here. The tongue, eyes, and fingers had all been eaten, according to the neighbor. The neighbor also said that this woman must rotten jahol, Yeah, big time. But I do want to show you a picture of the giant rat that they were referring to, though, Like, there's a bunch of giant rats and they're you're gonna want to vomit looking at this thing. How can I show you. Oh my god, it looks like a possum. So a bunch of those against the little baby. Oh, I'm getting like weird, like noxious? You know what are you gonna throw up now? Anyway? I saw an article on History dot com about investigations and a whole decade of documents, you know, being explored on evidence about this stuff on you know, in the thirteen forties, what happened? Michelle? Do you know you know what happened? Yes? I need you were gonna get that. There's not a not a lot of other events if in the thirteen forties or whatever that you could be like, what else happened? I don't know. The Crusades, I guess I remember this from back in the middle school. I had to look this up again, but I know that, you know, tens of millions of people died. A huge chunk of Europe's population died. They had fevers, they had chills, they had vomiting, they used blood, they used puss, and finally they died. So you kill all the cats that could actually kill the rats. Anyway, Sorry, I have some passions about the Black Death and the people of the Middle Ages. I have some thoughts and some passions. There was this article actually that mentioned something that you said right now. It's called I we have the link here. Stop blaming the rats. The real black death causes what they say, But it just says that humans were the ones that responsible for it and not the rats. Because of it's just a theory. I don't know if it's true, but but either way, we're trying to defend rats here, and rats are the enemy, so let's just not do that. Another solution, Yeah, why have we all of a sudden jumped camps and all all of a sudden rats are okay, Like, I'm not quite sure it literally ate a baby. I don't know if they caused a plug or not. I don't know. Another solution though, is to eat them. But you know, and when you're trying to survive out in the wild, they give you instructions on how to eat rats and to make a jerky out of them. You know that I'm less opposed to because a jungle rat feels better than a New York City baby eating rat, That's right, Like I don't want a pizza rat. I don't want to eat a pizza rat. I might be fine with eating an untouched rat. That's out in a jungle somewhere, you know what I mean, like grass fed or again grass fed organic rat. That's totally different. That's a totally different scenario. And I I am not saying no in a survival situation. You know, in the tunnels of New York, they might also do at meete burgers, those people that live in the tunnels in New York, or just the New York in general. Like you don't know what you're eating. Once again, hot dogs very questionable, always questionable. We don't know human rat could be at all. Have you heard of rat torture? Uh? No, but I have like a faint guess of what it is. I mean, I'm assuming they're using like rats to torture somebody. Yeah, you're not actually torturing a rat, but yeah, you're using rats to torture like criminals and stuff. I found a few. It's just you know, I was looking up all the creepy things about rats, and I found that these. Apparently, the Dungeon of the Rats was a feature of the Tower of London, alleged by the Roman Catholic writers from the Elizabethan era. A cell below high water mark and totally dark, would raw and rats were get in there as a tide float in from the river, flesh would be torn from their arms and legs. Oh god. There's also a method that where pottery. A pottery bowl would be filled with rats and was placed upside down on the naked body of a prisoner. Then hot charcoal would be piled on the bowl and rats that would be inside would knall into the very bowels of the victim and an attempt to escape the heat. Oh my god, oh my. This was during the Dutch Revolt anyway. Also, rat torture was used by several South American military dictatorships in Brazil, Uruguay, Chile, Argentina. Man, all these people there was one simple, so simple. The rat torture is so so yeah. God, I just read one that I didn't want. Okay, this is from a Wikipedia page and Argentina. God. Sorry. There the detail of the use of a torture method known as the rectoscope. No no, oh, no, yeah, which consisted of inserting living, living rats into a victim's rectum or vagina mytube, god, oh my god god. Okay, Well here on scary mystery surprise. We were not expecting that. Yeah, it's just I'm reading through him right now. This is this is bizarre. Like there was one about serial killer Richard Cook Glinsky. Oh, I've never heard of that one. Yeah, we got to look them up. Alleged in a series of interviews that one of his preferred methods of murder was to tie up a victim and leave them in a cave overnight so that they would be eaten alive by rats. He would also leave a Super eight camera in the cave to film the events, but this was disputed due to a lack of evidence. Yeah, I mean that's the thing. It's like, how does he know all those rats are going to be in the cave at once? And they're not like skittish rats. You know, a lot of rats are still skittish. Not the New York rights or aggressive, but other rats. Yeah, New York rats are evil, not they're their own thing. God. Anyway, that concludes all my rat info. Well, now I feel very validated in my fear. As someone who's had rats. You just never quite get over it. And then they sound like bowling balls in the attic, which I also think sometimes when people have haunted houses, sometimes there's stuff in this like it's rats and mice in the ceiling. Does this sound like a ball rolling or no? Yeah? Yeah, they sound like bowling balls up there. They like sound way bigger than they are, and it usually starts about dusk, and it's like at like that time where you start hearing them running around the ceiling. Jeez. Well, I've never had rats, but that's terrifying. I used to be like, what are they gonna do? They're so tiny, and then I started reading into it and then I saw how big they could get, and I'm like, no, they can actually attack people, if you know, if provoked, like I said, not provoked, but if they're hungry enough they will, they will, and if they feel attacked, they will. I've never been attacked by anything like that other than a roach, and I'm still kind of afraid of roaches. How road to Tech. Yeah, I've told this story and people don't believe me, and I'm like, this happened, and it's embarrassing to share it. So why would I even make this up? When I used to When I was working in Florida, I was staying at this condo. It was like a rental thing, imagine Airbnb or whatever. But I would hear noises every once in a while, like at night, I would hear like like a little tapping. She'd like, this is weird. I don't know what that is. And I used to have this box that was locked and it was in the bathroom, and I always wondered what was in there because I had like a set of keys. I had like maybe eight keys in there for everything, for the mail, for everything. But no key open that lock in the bathroom, and I used to think there was something in there. I'm thinking there's a rat, because I would clearly hear it. It would just be like anyway one after and I remember I ordered Chinese food that day. I clearly remember that. And I was in the living room. It was I was about to turn off the TV and just go to go to sleep. When I opened up the room, there was this roach on top of a mountain of blankets that I had made because I just forgot to fold everything, and it was just there with the santenna like just like like that. And I'm looking at it and I'm like, oh crap. So I was about to go and you know, get a broom to try to shake it off the bed and step on it or kill it, and instead it flew right at me, like right at my eyes, like right there. I like was able to do this last second where I kind of got part of it and it just felt like it just went. I didn't know they could fly. I really didn't know roaches could fly. And they they're terrible, like they sound terrible. They just flap like it's disgusting sound. Anyway, fell to the floor. It looked at me, and it just flew again right at me. I'm like, this thing is attacking. I was able to like it hit me, landed on my shoulder. I'm like trying to flick it off. It landed back on the floor. I closed the door and I slept in the living room that day I didn't and I put like a towel, like a hand towel from the kitchen. I put it on the end of the the door. I'm like, oh, yeah, I know that well, I know that I know that move and also prevents rats from coming to you. And yeah, like since then, I was just like the next morning, I remember I needed to get in there to change and shower and ever because the bathroom was in there and I didn't see it anymore, but still I was terrified of moving that mountain of blankets. That's when yeah, yeah, I wouldn't have been able to go to sleep if I had left out, like I would have spent the rest of the night hunting that roach. Like I would have been like, I can't sleep if you're alive, I don't know when you're going to jump out again, jeez. And that's when I realized those things can attack. Like I always wondered, like, oh, if you look at a spider, a spider is usually going to be afraid of you. Then I heard that spy. Some spiders can and will lunch at you and bite you just because they hate you. I didn't know roaches were like that. I thought they were just gonna, you know, freak out and run away, like all roaches had done all my life, even with just turning on the light. But this one just hated me. It just it was just like, you know, die. And and then I kept hearing that noise in the middle of the night, the little tapping, uh. And I always wondered like, is it gonna get me? Is it gonna get in my ear? Is it gonna Well, there was probably more than one in there. I mean, that's that's the thing is that there was definitely more than one. Geez. Anyway, that's my roach story. Yeah, that's funny. When I moved into la it was it was the day that I was moving into my spot, and I remember it was like one of my first days in l N. I'm wearing like shorts and I'm just like, you know, packing and you know, like it's hot, and I look down and there's a road like a massive roach just on my leg, my inner thigh, and I screamed, threw my shorts off, and then just ran up the door. No, I didn't run out the door. I ran up the stairs. But luckily none of my roommates at the time were home, so it was fine. But it was just like, I don't know, I just left my shorts in the middle of the floor. But it was like a huge like I'd never seen a roach that big, and it was on my inner leg. Like come on, come on, rats and cockroaches feel like they go hand in hand. Yeah, why has this episode been so scary? It's making the back of my neck. I got chills a couple of times, and I started getting like this nervousy cough. Yeah, I don't like it. I don't like it. Let's get out of here. Yeah, we're done. What are we going to talk about? What are we going to talk about next week, Edwin? I don't know. I think it'll be a surprise. I hope. So okay, bye guys,