SEATTLE — A real-life monster under the bed created some trouble for a Seattle couple.
According to Vocativ.com, Brian and Bridget O’Neill returned home recently and discovered someone had been in their home. Their condo was trashed. A paint can was turned upside down in their toilet. Electronics were piled on top of their bed. The soles of their shoes had been removed.
But nothing had been stolen.
After a visit from police, the couple began to clean up their bedroom not knowing the intruder — high on meth — was still lurking in their home, under their bed.
After a few minutes, they heard a noise in their bedroom. Something began to stir.
“It was a noise coming from something alive,” Brian O’Neill said in an interview with Vocativ. “It sounded like a dying possum or raccoon. I had only heard wounded animals make that kind of noise before.”
At first they considered the possibility that one of their cats was hiding under the bed. But then the noise grew louder. Then a sound of fierce scratching came from under the bed. The O’Neill’s scrambled out of the room and called police — again.
They waited outside for officers to arrive. And stayed outside while officers went in. After a few minutes police returned with a “lanky, wild-eyed woman.”
“When I saw that it was a woman, my reality suddenly kind of shifted,” Brian O’Neill said. “My wife pretty much collapsed on the stairwell.”
The unidentified woman reportedly told police she had been on a “meth rampage” for several days. Brian described the woman about 5’7″ tall weighing about 90 pounds. Police reportedly stated they believed the woman hid under the bed during a bout of “drug-induced paranoia.”
See pictures and read what items the couple found in their bed after police left (for the second time) via Vocativ.com.