Originally Posted By Mickeymouseclub I live on the 9th floor of an old building and last night a real bat was flying around. Now this morning every light has been on all night. As if I could fool a bat into thinking it was daytime. Come trick or treating on Halloween! Too scary for me....
Originally Posted By Sport Goofy Aren't bats disturbing? A couple of weeks ago I strolled into the Post Office to pick up my mail . . . and there was a bat hanging from the ceiling directly above my P.O. Box!!! Of course, mail is more important than getting bit by a vampire bat, so I quickly unlocked my box, grabbed the bills there, and exited the building. The bat never noticed I was there.
Originally Posted By mickeymeg I remember when I was small I was at my Nana's house visiting. She lived in a really big old house with lots of great hiding places. One evening we were in the 'fancy' living room and a bat came flying out from the chimney. My Nana grabbed one of her tennis rackets and chased the poor little bat all over the place jumping over furniture and sliding down hallways while she was at it. Eventually one of my cousins who was also there found a kids butterfly net and caught the little guy unharmed and released him outside. Apparently this happened on a regular basis. This still remains one of my most vivid and funny memories of my Nana =)
Originally Posted By Mickeymouseclub I am sorry to announce that bat is dead.It was a fat bat killed by a broom. I hope it was not a Vampire Bat that will return to Haunt me on Halloween. No worries unless it follows me to DL/DCA on All Hallows Eve.If you are dressed as a bat or vampire be wary of any witches carrying a broom. You will meet your doom!
Originally Posted By Witches of Morva ORGOCH: Aw, heck!! 'Course yer gonna' find bats at the post awful!! That's how me an' my two looney sisters sends out mail--by carrir bats!! Bat's is good fer lot a other things, too! Ever had bat soup? Almost as good as fried frog legs, they is. So lighten up an' be glad the Good Lord gave us critters like that!!
Originally Posted By Witches of Morva ORWEN: And I resent that remark about witches with brooms making you meet your doom. I mean, that's just plain silly. A lot of you've been around us cauldron girls for YEARS and haven't met with any doom, yet! ORGOCH: Think agin, sister! By now ev'ry dang ducklin' swimmin' in the Laughin' Place Pond must be cursed--just 'cause they tangled with yerself at least once!
Originally Posted By RockyMtnMinnie When my son was four, I took him with me to Carlsbad and we worked with a biologist that evening to net, measure, band and weigh cave swallows as they returned to the caverns. We had to have a lookout for when the bats started to exit the cave so we could pull down the nets so we didn't start netting bats. We were inside the cavern entrance when the bats started flying out so we stayed in the cave. It was pretty cool, we had thousands of bats flying past us. My son thought that was the coolest thing ever so he started learning all about the bats and for halloween he wanted to be a bat, so I made him a bat costume. At pre-school the kids got to wear their costumes to school for their halloween parade. His teacher said to him "Oh, are you a bat?" DS said, "No I'm a Mexican Freetailed Bat." Here he is that halloween... <a href="http://home.att.net/~canyonz/H1.jpg" target="_blank">http://home.att.net/~canyonz/H1.jpg</a>
Originally Posted By Kira LOL! Bats are one of the few animals that seriously creep me out. But your story reminds me of one of my funniest and scariest encounters with Bats. The worst encounter I had with Bats was when I was around 13 or 14 and I went 'camping' at Lake Hemet with my best friend and her dad. Near the Lake is this little bait and tackle shop and above the store on the second floor is a mini apartment. My friends dad knew the owners of the shop and they offered to let us 'camp' there. My best friend and I started unloading all of our things and were told by her dad to take the stuff up into the apartment. The first creepy thing we encountered on the way up was one of those evil looking ventriliquist dummies sitting in the corner near the bottom of the stairs. That should have been our first clue to get the heck out of there, but we just kind of looked at eachother and shuddered and kept going up. We went wandering around the apartment in the dark and finally found the light switch and flipped it on. All hell broke loose. We saw LOADS of Bats flying around all crazy, running into walls trying to find places to 'rest'. They started swooping over our heads. Needless to say my best friend and I freaked out and went screaming bloody murder down the stairs out to where her dad was unloading the truck. Her dad thought we were nuts, but when he went up he encountered the same thing. I don't remember sleeping that night at all because we couldn't get the bats out. We ended up sleeping with the lights on with bats hanging out around the apartment and we all left early the next morning LOL. I have not been back to lake Hemet since then and I don't think I will ever go back into that little tackle shop. On the other hand, I'm glad you got your bat problem solved LOL. How did he manage to have death by brooming? That must have been one heck of a whack!
Originally Posted By Mrs ElderP We live in the woods and 4 or 5 times now I've had a bat in the house. The first couple of times it freaked me out, but now I know to open up all doors to the outside, close as many inside doors as possible, narrowing the place for the bat to go, and soon he will find his way out side all on his own. I do watch and make sure he doesn't stop anywhere, and to verify that the bat made it out, but he gets there on his own. The different thing about bats, if you've never been near a live, flying one is how silent they are! Birds make all sorts of ruckus when they get in the house accidentally, but the bats are perfectly silent!
Originally Posted By Mickeymouseclub Witches I apologize I was just trying to rhyme. You are too interesting to be full of gloom or doom! ANd the bat I can not figure out. I moved my Mickey Mouse suitcase by the front door because I needed to return it to the store because it was broken and the bat was not moving on the ground under the suitcase. I went downstairs to ask the maintenance to remove it cause I thought it was dead. Apparently it wasn't and he wacked it twice with the broom that was just inside the door,for that purpose. Now it is in the dumpster. I am now busy filling every little hole with steel wool so his friends won't come looking for him. Keep the bat stories coming they are great. Thanks all for the humor.
Originally Posted By DJ7K I was once put to the test of faith by God to not get rid of, what appeared to be, a daddy long leg spider in my closet. It was late at night so I didn't want to awaken my friend on the other side of the wall. The thing had somewhat of a silverish body to it, maybe legs too, so I wasn't too sure, but even though they can't do any harm to humans, those things can still drive me nuts. Slept through it just fine. But was certain to deal with it the following day - it was still there. But, something didn't set right. I just didn't have peace about disposing of it. And I've learned how to trust God when I get those feelings. I was so tempted to get rid of it. But, I felt I had to let it live. So another day and night went by, and it was gone. Glad you guys made it through the night, Kira! Interesting name of a place to associate such a story with, "Lake Hemet". Of course, with all due respect, that's nothing compared to the alligator story of Lake Placid.
Originally Posted By beamerdog Let me see, this year I've had snakes, mice, birds, racoons, deer, foxes, wasps, and carpenter bees. No bats yet. And I emphasize the word yet, lol. Bats don't creep me out. My friend had one a few years back in her porch where she set up her Christmas tree. It found its way out eventually with a lot of coaxing.
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo Kind of cool. I like bats (except for the rabies and fleas concern). But snakes, ewwwww, I hate snakes.
Originally Posted By Schmitty Good Vibes Don't mind snakes or bats at all. When we lived in Paso Robles we had huge oak trees all around us. At least one of the three in the front yard was home to several bats. If I was outside at night they'd often do fly-bys right past my head. One even brushed me with it's wings - that was creepy. I'd hear them coming at me because they'd chirp softly sending out their echoes. Now spiders? Brrrrrrrrr. I have a black widow nesting near my front door. I've got to go get rid of it this evening.
Originally Posted By mater4 I was reading news of the weird in yesterdays paper. A woman in england had a baby bat inside of her bra. She did not discover this until she had left the house and was wearing the bra. Apparently she felt a vibration on her chest and thought it was her cell phone in her coat pocket. She did end up setting the bat free.
Originally Posted By LuLu When I saw this topic I thought it was beamerdog's ;-) Funny stories here!!! :-D
Originally Posted By A Happy Haunt My college room mate had flying squirrels running around in her kitchen at night!! Turns out they were eating all of her Parrots food & returning to the attic at night!!!
