It may be time for a new mattress.
15 years ago, I made a commitment. I vowed to love, appreciate, and care for my beloved mattress until…
…okay, well, that's about where my analogy breaks down.
I scrimped and saved from my minimum wage job at a flower shop until I had saved $699. That was a lot of money for a 16 year old (especially one earning about $7/hr). But I did it because I'm stubborn, and dangit, I wanted that pillow top mattress.
Pillow top mattresses were all the rage, ya know?
No? You don't know? Pillow top mattresses weren't on the top of your priority list when you were 16? Am I totally alone in this?
Irregardless.
The $699 pillow top mattress was delivered to my parents doorstep a few weeks later and since that day, I've been putting it to use each and every day. I did the math – it equates out to about 5,840 sleeps (minus a few vacations, etc.).
5,840 sleeps.
And if I'm being honest here, it was all great until about sleep #3000.
At about sleep #3000, the ‘ol girl just wasn't cutting the mustard. My neck ached. My back ached. My hips ached. The four pregnancies didn't help.
But I slapped a memory foam on top and made due for the next 2000 sleeps.
But then, it got even worse. And no, it wasn't just because of the body pains.
Are y'all even ready for what I'm about to tell you? Brace yourselves.
The mattress had a temporary home in the living room while it was being removed.
A few months back, as I was drifting off into sleep, I heard a weird chattering noise. Kind of like a squeak. And then a sort of funky thumping noise. It got weird. Weird enough that I woke Stuart up (who always manages to fall asleep before me, magically) and said “I think there's something under the bed.”
“Like what?” he growled back.
“A demon, I'm pretty sure.” I chattered back. “Yep, I'm pretty sure it's a demon.” Now, I'm no sissy, after all – we live in the middle of orchard country on a farm. Pests and nasties happen. But… you'll never guess what I found in my mattress that night.
He rolled over in bed and threw his head down to peek underneath.
A PACKRAT. A PACKRAT. A PACKRAT THE SIZE OF A CAT.
Time for a new mattress, perhaps?
Before we could even process the fact that there was (literally) a cat sized rodent IN OUR MATTRESS we had the whole thing flipped up on its side against the wall. Now what makes this even more humorous (or frightening) is that our bedroom is literally the size of most people's linen closets. We have about 2 feet of room on each side of our queen bed to move about, so to flip the mattress and box spring up, and then maneuver around the bed frame still left in place, was ridiculous. I'm stumbling and stammering about trying to simultaneously scare the rat out of our mattress with my shephard's crook while handing Stuart a box large enough to catch the critter.
This isn't the type of critter you squish. I'm not talking about a wasp or even a mouse, here people. This creature was huge.
Thirty minutes later, we'd yet to catch it, as it kept burrowing up into the mattress and dodging our eviction actions. Burrowing into my mattress, y'all.
I won't tell you how we eventually got the rodent out, because I know there are enough squeamish people reading this blog to warrant some discretion, but know this: the packrat was eventually removed from the bedframe.
I, in shock, could barely sleep. Did it have babies in there? Did it leave it's disgusting rodent poop to fill our mattress with toxins? Had it chewed up all the insides? Did it have friends?
Nasty chew marks in the mattress courtesy of the hobbit, circa 2014.
The next morning, I began to research new mattress. Mattresses that hadn't ever been home to rodents. But I, like most consumers, found myself completely overwhelmed. Too many choices left me at an absolute loss for what to choose. So instead of acting, I froze in fear that I'd make the wrong decision (as if somehow the entire world would come crashing down if I chose the wrong one). Consumer fear. It's a reality, man.
So I did what I always do.
I went to my dearest, crunchiest friends and say “Give me your best suggestion for non-toxic mattresses. Stat.“
Years ago, when I first began researching a new mattress (back around sleep #4500), I was exposed to way too much information on the “off-gasing” of new mattresses and the toxic-load that is brought into your home with one. Regulations dicatate that new mattresses must be treated with flame-retardants (read: harmful chemicals). Mattress toxicity sounds made up, but it's reality. But there are a few companies out there fighting the good fight and producing non-toxic mattresses that use natural flame repellents that still meet regulation standards.
Free of rodents. For our sleeping pleasure.
Every single friend I asked had the same answer: IntelliBED.
Use code ‘HOMESTEAD' if you also need a new mattress, sans rodents, and save some money, baby.
Our non-toxic mattress arrives today which means in a few short hours, I'll be removing the worn, broken, stained, God-only-knows mattress from our bedroom for good. And possibly lighting it on fire or running it over with my truck.
Will a good mattress make a big difference in our sleep? In our aches and pains? Lord, I hope so. I'll keep you posted. Because these ‘ol farming bones need a bit of relief!
Isn't this how your living room looks on any given weekday afternoon?
It's time for a new mattress. And today is the day. Celebrate in the small victories with me, won't you?
Small victories at the moment: no further rodents living in the bed.
And Amen.
Jess
I can’t believe you posted this today. Our mattress was a 10+ years old pillowtop that had 2 different pads and toppers to keep it in use. And today…. out of nowhere… we found bought and brought home our own brand new mattress. Of course I don’t have the pack rat story but it’s ironic none the less!
Naidia
How do I comment cause it feels like my matress is moving but not to look crazy I’m not going to cut it open
Karen
My pop n my son think I’m crazy when I said there are rats in my bed. They made me call my Drs about a chemical imbalance. Gotten mad at me for even saying rats or mice. Well she had babies in my mattress n they are big. Call exterminator n still they both called me crazy. Today I seen one of the babies n it scared me to no end. But if I say rat they want to take me to hospital. Mom your on chemo n they are taking alot of blood out of you. So I told my son to flip up bed so I can vaccum under it. All my little buddies just freaking out. I ran faster then my son. Be careful if u flip it they get mean
La Verne
Hi Karen,
Even night after I am ready to sleep or am asleep, my (Top padded) mattress begins to have movement under me, beside me and at the foot of the bed. I thought that Had restless leg syndrome, but my legs are OK, it’s the mattress, which is a pillow top on the top and bed springs on the bottom. I recently purchased moth balls and (placed bags )on the four corners of the bed and the movement stopped on one side of the bed, but something is still there. It’s scary. You say that the rats that you found were BIG. It guess it’s time tom call for help. I just purchased that mattress 3 years ago off the floor room floor display, and it was expensive. My cat who died expectantly in December was working after these critters, maybe they were too much for him. He just up and died under the bed. The movement at night in my bed seems big. GET THIS-I have mouse deterants, clickers all over the house, but I guess that’s why these companies have been sued. These clickers seem to work in my hot tub building, because I do not want to replace the wiring that’s been chewed through. Well,I guess outside help is needed, because I do not want to come FACE-TO-FACE with any large rodents. I hope that these ones do-not have rabies, since they are so brazen and bold to just take over my bed with me in it. Good luck to both of us. Thanks for sharing your story.
Faye
I had similar problems as La Verne. The exterminator was no help. He set traps and I purchased sticky poison pads and added peanut butter, then set them into a few floor vents, with NO TAKERS, so I adopted a 13 year old loud mouth cat. So far no movements are felt under me while I sleep. This all started when I had new air conditioning installed and the technician cleaned out ALL of the floor vents. Afterwards the cat that I had, seemed busy at night under the bed and at the foot of the bed. One day I found him dead with two Deer mice that were also dead. Maybe the new cat really does more than just eat, sleep and beg for more food. Time will tell.
Tonya Cabral
I have an air mattress, due to multiple hip surgeries of a bone eating disease, with no entry point, for 6 days or more there’s been a mouse in it, I can’t believe he is still alive, my caretaker thought I was going crazy, because there’s no opening, too my surprise this guy is still alive, and bothers me mainly at night, I deflated the bed and banging everywhere, to my surprise he didn’t die, they are annoying rodents, they want to be near you, like they are your friend, I’m creeped out by this. Omg.
Chritine
I am renting a room from my former neighbor. I used to own a cleaning company and have learned that my standards of clean are usually different than most others. Unfortunately, I am right now sleeping on a mattress listening toy new friendr mrs rodent settle in for the evening. . I am sleeping on my white sheets which have pencil black dots and orand shells indicating the presence of a bed bug gestation. Oh, one more thing, boring beetles. Exterminator (friend of owner) said I was wrong) shoes himy bites the rat poo I saved along with rat poop, bed bug m beetle. Nope. I was paranoid. Well I have very bad skin cancer that has spread to my lymph nodes and because I was told I would be dead by now.. but I am not.. I have sold everything I own. Still leaving. Rather be on a bench in
John
get this i,m ex BlackOops and this shit is crazy I whom lead many missions can’t figure this out I can jump out at 25000 feet at nite into water eith 300 pounds and not drown been all over world in enemy’s backyard without getting caught i,I, stumped Lol. I,m laughing cause it makes me so dam mad. I can’t shoot everything up my Sis would get a little upset. Lol
Maureen
I’m so glad to read that other people have this problem. I started to feel something in my mattress moving around you could see the bed covers move.
My family didn’t believe me I set traps for mice even home remedies. Nothing never caught anything however this moving in my mattress didn’t stop. I also started to itch so bad I had to go to doctors.
I got so mad I started to tear the mattress apart you could see something was inside the mattress but what was it?
So threw the bed out cleaned everything I wated a month before buying a new bed.
I had my new mattress about 2 weeks and I felt something in there it was moving. I know I’m not crazy
Wendy
After reading all of these comments, I have to say that I’m relieved knowing I’m not losing my mind, if I am at least I know I’m not alone in the way I’m losing it because I can relate to all of the comments and my husband thinks I’m nuts, at one point I was blaming him, thinking he installed some secret massager or something…it’s caused a lot of tension and stress arguments and depression. I never get any real sleep anymore. 🫥 thank you all for making me not feel alone and crazy
Joseph
I so feel your pain Karen, same experience and that’s what I keep telling my mom, my pillow top mattress was and is full of the devil rats and they burrowed in there in such a way as not to leave much sign , heck I even got committed over “imagining the rodents ” always trust your self and never let others stear you wrong
Margie
Since my Husband passed away in Nov. of 2021 and iam living with friends..I kept telling them there is something in my Mattress and they took the mattress and box springs off and checked but no critter.. when I went to bed that night there it was again..It is something with a bony backbone.. I will not tell them anymore, because they already think it’s because I’m grief stricken.. I wake up with a backache.. and I felt like I never slept.. I’am so upset because this bony creature is under my butt every night and I can’t say anything to anyone..I’am at a loss of what to do because that awful bony thing scares me to think some creature is in my mattress ..Oh and I have a pillowtop mattress..
Margie sanders
I have had enough..I took my pillowtop mattress off my bed and I found a tear in the cover at the bottom of the mattress and my friend said oh it’s nothing..Well I put a piece of packing tape over it and I’m NOT going to sleep on it tonight..If I have to stay up all night I will catch what I believe is a Rat.. I’m tired of NO ONE believing me..They think because my husband passed that i’m nuts.. I have not been getting any rest at night I wake up exhausted… I’m not going to go another night fighting to find a comfortable spot on my mattress that doesn’t feel like a very large backbone stickin in my butt..
Margie
What did I do wrong? please tell me so I don’t do it again
Margie Sanders
I bought an Air Bed,it arrived today so,,,, I took my Pillowtop Mattress tore it up and there was nothing in there,,I don’t understand it Now I look like a fool because there was NOTHING in there.. I wanted to wait til tonight but someone insisted that we do it during the day….Well I’am so discouraged because now it seems to some that I’m just imagining all of it.. I’am so discouraged…
Gustavo
I 1000% believe you same thing happens to me I lay on my bed or sit on my bed and it feels like a mouse or something from uderneath goes straight between my butt cheeks i hate that and it has caused me a lot of back issues as well. When other people sit on my bed or lay they dont feel nothing and they say im on drugs and i put my hand on the bed and boom i feel it moving towards my hand and when i feel it i tell the other person look put your hand right there and there is no movement which had made me even second guess myself if i am going crazy but i un-zipped the mattress cover and sure eneough there was a big hole right in the middle of the mattress. I just bought me a new mattress and a steam cleaner maybe that will help from them getting in my bed again. You are not alone! Im going through the same dilema!!
Margie Sanders
This Morning I heard for the first time an actual growl and then I heard three little whimpering cries like from a baby SOMETHING.. FREAKED me out but no one believes me so I have to keep it to myself.. I’am at a loss at what to do…
Max
I’m probably to late to respond just last night I fell something moving in mind I have a pillow top I going crazy then I go get on my couch the same thing all my things comes from C. I think I am going to a hotel
Mike
Max does C. stand for?
I have a memory foam mattress. Have been having an issue with nice in apartment and feel movement in my bed. However, I do not see chew marks and exterminator did not think they were in bed. What else could it be. Please help
Rachel Griggs
Oh my gosh this seems to be going on in other peoples beds to ????
I was starting to feel crazy my family treats me like I’m crazy.
I feel and see my bed move but just dont understand either because the is no chew marks but does it mean that it’s not a possibility?
Gail
I am and have been having the same problem for over 2 years and people think i am acracy because there are no signs of anything
gail
Please when you get a answer let me know
Mercedes
Not too long ago I had a pillow top mattress I thought I was going crazy in my house because I started to see chew marks everywhere small holes in the apartment complex that I live in out of nowhere got a rat infestation outside so I freak out call the landlord have maintenance come to my house they tell me everything is fine they don’t see anything it could be from the renter before me I have a 12 month old baby so this point I am freaking out I almost felt like something was biting me through the mattress and I could fill a bunch of little bodies that were warm underneath me I didn’t have any other choice but to throw the mattress away no one believe me even my boyfriend said I was crazy long story short I threw the mattress away but kept the boxspring I just bought a brand new memory foam mattress not even a week ago last night I go to sleep and why do you know I’m tossing and turning filling little bites everywhere almost like pinches on my body mind you I do not have bedbugs I checked this is a body moving underneath of me I took the memory foam cover off check the mattress don’t see any chew marks any entry holes whatsoever this mattress is literally brand new I know I’m not going crazy because my son was up and down all night last night same marks as me I haven’t got any sleep and I am a mom I have a baby to take care of all day I didn’t sleep five minutes last night please help I don’t know what else to do I don’t wanna destroy my mattress and cut it open because I just got it but I also don’t want little bodies moving underneath of me all night and I feel like I’m being pinched everywhere if anyone has any advice please feel free to email me
gail
Hi, did you ever get your problem solved? I am still having mind can’t seem to find anyone that knows anything. Let me know please.
Thank
Gail
No, I have not got the problem solved and no one seem to know anything but takes.my money
gail
I have been having the same problem for years and no one can help me and say’s I’m crazy and that really pisses me off. Did you find anmy comfort yet, please share.
Margie Sanders
I had some friends come over tore my whole bed apart and we found nothing…Sooo where did the creature get to??? I’am at a loss at what to do now… It is worse now than ever and sometimes it gets really scary…
Summer Fletcher
I’m at the point now where everyone thinks I’m crazy and can’t get any type of help do you have any ideas on how to makes since of this horrible situation I’m reading all of these stories and it’s me I feel them they pinch which feels like a fast burn feeling and they scratch and move and it’s only from 1am to 9am that’s it really noticeable my husband has already gave up on helping me he thinks I need a doctor that I’m crazy PLEASE ANYONE THAT CAN HELP PLZ
Jas
Jas i am feeling the same thing and i did go to city furniture where i bought it and they looked at me like im crazy
Lisa She
my med woman wanted to put me on a new medication!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Teresa
I bought new mattress 3/5/23. I felt this vibration. I was think my legs were having spasms. Excuses. I have mice or something in my mattress. I flipped my mattress checked for holes on top,bottom,sides. Nothing. Took picks. I have to keep the bed for 30 days. I can only get credit. So cant wait till 4/5/23. But on top of that I have to pay additional $99 for redelivery fee and 20 for disposal. Personally I think the resale these matresses. The warn you not to spoil the mattress. Why? I want to cut it open so bad.i called my credit card company. So when i get my new bed we will dispute the redelivery fee. And cost of mattress if there is something inside. It could have gotten in during manufacturing. I check and took pictures to prove there were no entrance holes. So if it comes out i will know
I am so tired.
Patricia
Thats happening with mine aswell it feels as if something is inside the mattress ive only had it for 2 months i was searching myself to see why it does it and come across your comment did you work out what is causing it if so could you kindly let me know very stressful
Tanya Myers
I have been having the same issue for 3 months. I threw out my old mattress and purchased a new bamboo mattress. I got one good night sleep and now the same thing all over again!!! It is freaking me out!! I purchased mice and rat repellant and sprayed it all over my bedroom including my new mattress still having moment!
GLORI
I KNOW THIS IS THE TRUTH ALL OF YOU ARE CORRECT !! I REMEMBER MY BROTHER HAD A THATCH BAMBOO CEILING APARTMENT LIVED IN SOUTH FLORIDA HE HAD A HUGE RAT THAT WOULD RUN FROM ONE SIDE TO THE OTHER ! THEY MUST LOVE BAMBOO ALSO ! I BOUGHT ADJUSTABLE ABOUT $10,000.00 BED FROM ASHLEY FURNITURE SAME THING MOMENTS ALL THE TIME THE NOISE OF RAT WAKES ME UP IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT
Yvette
Looks like they imprint you because they are differently rats and their babies. I had a nerves break down . To the point of sleeping in lawn chairs. For some reason others don’t believe or feel them. So they was in couch also. Air from thrift ysame thing . Cinnamon work for a little bit black pepper. Habanero peppers for a moment stopped all movements. I think they feel heartbeat too . Im sitting on cardboard and hick
Pati v
For months I have been feeling something moving under me. My daughter sits on my bed and feels nothing. My son and grandsons picked up the mattress and there were no chew marks anywhere. But I still feel something every night. I can get a new mattress but who’s to say they won’t get in that too. Everyone thinks it’s my rls, but I know the difference and it’s driving me crazy and my kids think that I am. I’ve got traps and those plug ins but it hasn’t helped. I dont know what to do HELP
Sylvia
I just bought a new mattress, simply because I felt something moving inside the old one, and now I feel that same moving and gnawing in the new one as well, can’t even find any way a mice can get in. I told my daughter about it she even slept in my bed but said she didn’t feel anything all night. She told me that I was just stressed from this pandemic. No!!! I’m not, there is something wrong, I can feel something moving in couches and chairs when I go to other people’s house. 2020 has really brought in some weird SHIT!!!
Shelly
I believe I’m reaping what I’ve sowed. I FINALLY GOT A TEMPERPEDIC SN÷V
Mark
Same with me driving me crazy an I know I’m not. I actually cut hole in new mattress put my hand in an I got an electric shock now I keep getting something come close to me an even feels like it caresses me at times. Thinking of throwing my brand new mattress out any leeway on yours?
Gail
I am and have been having the same problem for over 2 years and people think i am crazy because there are no signs of anything. I want answer and i want to sleep in my bed again
gail
I have not been able to find out anything and I so tired and sleepy
Joan Blake
Rats or mice! They get in your mattresses and reproduce and they keep reproducing. I’m currently battling the same demons and it’s very unsettling feeling them move around beneath my thin mattress covering. I have tried peppermint oil and cayenne pepper, they deter them momentarily and then they return. Gonna wrap my new mattress in metal mesh, sold at Amazon. I also plan on trying to seal up holes in and around my home with mesh, cement or metal plates. Don’t give up, don’t be too afraid to fight their habitation within your homes
Yvette
Looks like they imprint you because they are differently rats and their babies. I had a nerves break down . To the point of sleeping in lawn chairs. For some reason others don’t believe or feel them. So they was in couch also. Air from thrift ysame thing . Cinnamon work for a little bit black pepper. Habanero peppers for a moment stopped all movements. I think they feel heartbeat too . Im sitting on cardboard and thick blanket Rubbermaid bath mat. They still moving I’ve stabbed my memory foam mattress to catch them they domesticated critter again I think they imprint your smell to get warmth. How comfy a metal mesh is I don’t know but it’s worth the ttry
Teresa L Ward
I just brought my mattress in May and it is now September there is rodents in my as soon as I get the courage up I will cut it open and see I think that’s my landlord’s problem 2 get rid of I feel that he has to reimburse me for a new mattress
Stevie Mills
Please help I’m having the same issue but with me and my two boys beds help please pest control isn’t and my family thinks I’m crazy and my doctor does too. Please please help
Jevon Place
Your not crazy. My mattress made by zinus moves and makes little rodent noises. I have cut a small hole and these rodents are in there. They go to the middle . Everybody thinks I’m crazy.!!!!! Your not crazy!!!!!! I mean in a little anyway but there are rodents in there. At night they go crazy.
Vepa
I am just curious do you have any health issues such as cancer or any auto immune diseases. And I do believe you
Bobby
I can’t believe I’m not alone, I have 2 cats and they are very aware of these creatures. This one cat sits on the corner of my bed just waiting for this mattress bastard to slip up and she be dead on its ass while the other cats waiting in the hall just watching. I got a base ball glove I’m gonna take this rodent and slap a home run in its ass with this ugly stick. Feels like this things trying to eat a NYC subway system in my mattress. I’m gonna be in thee cocos nest while these free loaders live in my bed. I be in a straight jacket and they be eating cheese an crackers in my bed. Bastards.
Stevie Mills
I have lupus! I can smell them even I’m on my 3rd bed my mom came and felt nothing my family doesn’t believe me went to the doctor bc I’m scared it’s making me sick and he thought I need to stay off the internet. Termex and orkin didn’t believe me set traps with pb have clicky things I’ve tried Everything I just want a good night rest it’s been months please help me guys
Stevie Mills
I have lupus! Please help!
Stevie Mills
Thanks for your reply. Still happening 5 beds later I’ve now found carpet beetles!any one got any suggestions yet what to do? Has anyone got it to stop?
Stevie Mills
I have lupus
Gail
I am and have been having the same problem for over 2 years and people think i am crazy because there are no signs of anything. I want answer and i want to sleep in my bed again
Delores
My mattress is moving too. I can’t decide if I want to get a new one.
It just started moving about six months ago. I’ve had for about five years.
Joseph
DONT DOUBT YOURSELF, mattresses don’t move on their own unless you are in some kind of cheap motel, do yourself a favor and get rid of it unless you are brave enough to handle what’s in there
Kristi L O'Malley
It’s NOT you and you’re mental stability is precisely above normal if you’re able to even notice how slow these rotten homewreckers do what they love and that’s keeping us from a home and I have vid proving they aren’t seen,and it’s amazing how to make feel undefeated! I’m not sure what breed and know the pros are in denial cuz I was told to get a Exorcism done LOL! Ii tried to put an aircleaner and milk crate to block entrance but they bent the crate and started forcing the toilet floor bolts out and 2 sheriff’s saw. I just drizzled liquid laundry soap along the wall where my bed is and they’ve stopped pushing my matress on the floor intermission till I lay to sleep🤦
Stevie Mills
I also have it on video!
Amber
Can you share your video
Stephanie Z
Omgoodness I am super terrified as is about sleeping since I have seen mice in my house and I live in Baltimore City which is full of rats so I thought it actually was a win maybe that it was “just” mice even though the “just” mice really frighten me. I began seeing little droppings on end of my bed and mind you I do NOT eat in my room. I lifted the box spring and mattress for cleaning and noticed my box spring had cardboard under it and what looked like someone punch a little half hole …. I put tape on it thought maybe It had been there and got there when I moved in… Anyways droppings still came after deep clean and so did tiny teeny bugs making tiny teeny cocoon looking things all over so exterminator came after I at this point had remover every piece of fabric possible to clean and dry special… Tell me why exterminator that maintenance had sent, told me they did not see any bugs or evidence and even though I had three pics on phone, the pics were not “clear enough” and I also had bite marks just one on my cheek and couple around my hairline and one on my shoulder.. anyway they did nothing idk what more proof I could give them I wanted to say you stay here for two nights then and then have me tell you you must be dumb and making it up for no reason at all …
Ok point I took too long to get to lol – so when I have been sitting on my bed reading a few nights now I thought I too was crazy seeing little tiny movements on my pillow on other side of me like as if something was lightly bumping into in under it but when id lift pillow and jump the other way expecting something to attack, I’d see nothing… So I am officially more traumatized reading this that I specifically stupidly asked for literally (Google) .. I wanted to know was there signs of rodents prior to finding the rat?? Bc I have been sleeping the tiniest bit better thinking that if it was a rat that there would be no way I’d miss it … I am so squeamish now and literally considering sleeping on my children bunk bed during the time they aren’t with me. I can’t even with any of this and maintenance is beyond making me mad and lose sleep.. I have document each time, text, call, email, and pic I have sent them regarding needing immediate and serious pest control. I don’t want to spend couple hundred on a new bed with the actual real problem being still here ya know
Ricky
My mattress was moving like waves on a lake, sometimes bumping hard up under me . We lived in the country and had the mattress for a while so I bought another and took the old one out backyard. Myself, my Dad, my niece, we all tore into it down to nothing but the springs. To my surprise guess what we found? Absolutely nothing. I was sure there were mice under there, so I just don’t know. I’ve moved since and have had the new pillow top mattress for mabey 8-10 years. Now it’s starting to bump, not hard but enough to get your attention. I pray, take some swallows of bourbon and go back to sleep.
Pamela
340am i have a crow bar in my hands banging down inside My couch. There is a baby mouse F-N with me I’ve never been a animal lover but I’m so miserable I will grow to lovd animals because Im Getting a dam CAT asap.My partner is on the Couch right next to me but this annoying creature is F n with me while he sleeps like a baby I’m spraying pepper ment oil an slinging a dam crow bar oh an work is at noon.Thsnks for sharing so glad you get to sleep me don’t see it happening, why is this thing bothering me?damit it’s like a child playing keep running back smh
Margie sanders
Everyone I know thinks I’m crazy as a loon.. I cut my pillowtop and guess what I found???? NOTHING..So i go to bed that night and OMG there it is moving under me as I move around trying to find a comfortable spot and I can actually feel it slowly move right bk under me.. I’m so tired of trying to convince MY FRIENDS that I’m not delusional..
Tonya
OMG YESSSS! IM AM NEVER THE SAME. I FEEL THE BODY TEMPERATURE NOT TO METION A SCARED HEART BEAT…. IM JUST READY TO MOVE ALTOGETHER
John
This is crazy stuff I ve looked time and t I’ve sgsin been outside countless times checking on aramedellas. Killed s bunch but my room is a addition I can’t crawl under just had major surgery with I need help I can’t s leap it,s driving me ban a nas
Kathy
NO ONE BELIEVES ME! I feel them running around the edges of the bed! I hear them gnawing sounding like a saw on wood. I have laid glue traps, tried top cat (whatever the with th sneaky cat) and green bricks that are toxic? I have those little boxes everywhere, tried regular traps, have glue traps, spray, peppermint spray, AWW… but I see No droppings.
I did catch a mouse or two but now I intend to build a glue trap fort around the entire perimeter to see what happens. They follow me like baby chicks!! I left the bedroom for the couch. They came. I returned to new mattress, they came. Now how can I convience my landlord to buy me a mattress?? This is #3 but my evidence is scrace. So is my sanity>>
Margie
I told one of my friends that it is following me to the living room and they laughed at me… See if I tell her anything else…
Tita
My mattress is brand new it’s a pillow top and he’s got the sheet on it for it can’t get nothing unit bedbugs or nothing and there’s something in there and it lays right under my butt and it sounds like my stomach’s growling that’s what it sounds like it might like some crazy too but it’s the truth
La Verne
I forgot to mention that the mattress with the rats living in it is a Foster & Stern $3000. I want to include the note that I sent to the company below.
Hi,
I purchased a queen Sterns&Foster plush mattress from JC Penney ($3000.00)
two years ago , a floor model, as they were not going to sell mattresses any more. I want to mention that your pillow top with a box springs bottom attracts mice and rats to nest in the plush pillow top.
I so enjoyed my mattress at first, that is until my cat passed away recently and rats have moved into the pillow top portion of my mattress.
Your company might consider building a mattress that will not allow this happen. I gogled my problem on line and learned that this is a problem with other mattresses as well.
I am in the process of informing my 2,000 friends on facebook about my problem to warn then to reconsider purchasing pillow top mattresses without boxspring bottoms, even the most expensive, and comfortable.
Thank you for your time. Gosh I am going to miss my first experience with a Sterns &Foster mattress, because it’s got to go! Thank you, La Verne
Carol
The same thing happened to me. I had a king size Stern’s &Foster mattress I loved. I have worked myself to death to buy. At night it felt like I could feel movement at my feet. It felt like I could feel their heads under my feet and legs. My family lifted the mattress during the day and could find nothing. They too thought I was crazy. Maybe it is neuropathy. The strange this was I never saw any signs but did find a very small little split in the mattress top. Then I moved into the living room. I could not stand trying to sleep with whatever that was in my mattress. I tried to sleep on a five foot footstool and it began to move. I tried to sleep in the recliner and it began to move too. I could not place enough pillows under my legs to keep from feeling them when I tried to sleep. One day the smell was terrible and driving me crazy. I started spraying Fabreeze at the foot and began to wet the fabric as I emptied the bottle on to the chair. All of a sudden you could see them all moving up the chair. It was like it was breathing eight house later. No I was never going to try to sleep there again. I had filled it full of moth balls and rat poison. Still no signs until I strayed them. I had my family remove all the furniture and put it outside. I purchased some used hospital recliners from a guy and a chair from the hospital that makes into a bed. I bought a twin used bed and placed it in the back bedroom as I knew there were no mice in there. It was nice for three weeks to sleep in a real bed. Then one night I felt them but thought it was an imagination. It was not my imagination. Then the smell was back. It went outside too. When it did the horrific odor went away after a few days of airing out.
Now I am back in my living room trying to sleep on the chair that makes the bed. I didn’t think they could get inside it. The chair has a heave plastic and a wood bottom. But I am crazy again .one person even tried to tell me it was evil spirits. Yep sure is. I know they will have four legs. I am at the end if my rope. It’s not as bad as all the other furniture but I feel them moving at times and the smell is terrible. I have called an exterminator and was told to throw all the rat poison outside. The poison draws them to the poison. I have never even seen where they have eaten on it anyway. I think there should be platform beds that the bottom is made of steel. I am also thinking the next mattress should be a high density firm foam mattress. I have all the places I think they can get in stopped up. The exterminator said they set traps outside at a cost of $27.50 each. They are still in the house or they would not get in my furniture. I think doors should be made to close tightly with steel and magnets. i have been terrorized by these rodents for four months. My family and friends think it’s my imagination or spiritual evil forces at work because I am not praying enough or reading my bible enough….REALLY? I guess I am crazy but smelling rodent excrement is not in my mind and moving under my feet legs is real. I am crazy because they have made me that way. I need a cement house a steel flat frame and magnetic sealing doors. Thing is I am 68 years old and should not be having to live like this. I have no answers but maybe a hammock would be better than this.
Larissa
My brother is pretty tall & swears that he gets the best night’s sleep ever in a hammock. He has a large hammock on a metal hammock stand in his bedroom where his bed used to be. I’m considering a hammock also because of rodents or whatever it is moving in my bed at night. I don’t know how a hammock would possibly work for 2 people sleeping together unless I can find a wide 1 that’s made to stay open on its own 🤷♀️
Gail
I am and have been having the same problem for over 2 years and people think i am crazy because there are no signs of anything. I want answer and i want to sleep in my bed again.
I understand people even told me that they are spirits and that I am crazy and start laughing and that pisses me off
Jenn
I have the same thing going on in my mattress. I am on my third mattress. I don’t know how these f-ers got in there. No holes anywhere. But apparently they can enter without making a tear. I am on my fifth exterminator. I even called The CDC (Center for Disease Control). None, NONE of these people can figure out this problem. Every night I climb in bed it’s a damn rollercoaster ride. I am definitely not imagining anything. These rats( I think) get used to who subsides in your home. So when you try to have someone(an outsider) experience the same thing you do every night, they stop. They don’t like strangers. So, they make you look crazy. I’m crazy, but not THAT crazy. I can feel them digging thru my bed and I can hear them. These idiot pest control services who advertise FALSE BULLSHIT have not even come close to conquering my problem and I don’t expect them to. I wish I had their piece of cake job. Come in throw down a few traps and poison and leave with a pocket full of money. Easy peasey ! Such crap! I am determined to find out what the hell is in my mattress and destroy them! Aliens? Come on people, that’s not happening! Be realistic. It’s more like an infestation of some type of rodent who is resilient to poison and too smart for traps. Sleep..??? Hahaha! Slim to none mostly! I have tried EVERYTHING to kill these disgusting rodents. Vinegar, peppermint, garlic, onions, peppers, ammonia , cloves, etc…. all deterrents. I have two chihuahuas, a Border Collie and three cats. Not doing any good to scare these f-ers off. Really, I would like to set it all on fire.!! Unfortunately, that would cause me nothing but trouble. If anyone knows of anyway to get rid of these, PLEASE PLEASE HELP! I think one of the only procedures that may be effective would be to tent your house and fog/smoke them out. Which is very costly. This just sucks. Big time!
Vepa
Sorry to tell you La Verne be prepared for your new mattress to suffer the same fate. I don’t care what you spend. Unfortunately I’ve been there and done that even tried an air mattress.
Tonja Penn
I am having a similar problem and need to get rid of my mattresses. In the Spring something moving in my mattress every morning. I can’t sleep in that bed.
Mindy
How did it get in there?! About a year ago we found a dead rat in the bottom drawer of our china hutch. We had a house FULL of company when it happened. Oh, the joys of country living!!
Ryan
I have been tormented with the feeling of something in assumed were mice coming out at night in my bedroom, and taking up residence in my mattress and pillow as well as my chest of drawers that hold all my clothing. At night I heard the squeaking periodically. The scratches on the wall, window blinds shifting from lfmeft to right while the window was closed, the feeling like something is hanging on the some clothes I have on. Never been able to find droppings so everyone assumes I am crazy. Hut this is been on going for some time now exacerbated by recent rains. I eve. Tried taking xanax to calm me down enought to sleep but that didnt work.
I asked a dr. How likely it is for a hallucination include auditory, olfactory, tactile all at once and he told me that would be more than 3x of rare, so IMO there is really only one conclusion to come to.
WHAT CA N I DO???
More than anything I just want some insight from others. Nobody believes me but I know in my heart this is real.
Deb
I’ve had a similar experience. When I started to fall asleep, it felt like something was moving in my bed. It usually started by my feet but eventually moved all over the bed. This went on for 2 months. I inspected my mattress & box springs several times for holes but didn’t find any. I set out mouse traps, bait & electronic devices but never caught anything. I did not find droppings or any other signs of mice in my entire house, but the movement persisted. I even felt it in my guest room mattress. I had an exterminator inspect my house & attic & he found no signs of mice. He told me to set out crackers in the areas I thought where there may be mice to see if they would eat the crackers. Nothing!
The movement did not stop until after the exterminator assured me he found nothing & after reading about others having the same experience.
Thankfully, I have only felt the movement a couple of times now. I can’t explain why this happened but I truly believed it stopped when I found out other people felt the same thing. I realized I was not crazy.
Christopher A Coyne
Little Tunnels and a laughing squeak when the light is shined their way, immune to traps sound emitters and invisible practically? I take 3 mg Clonazepam a night and if lucky I sleep when the sun comes up kind of.
Roof Rats and Hypothyroidism….You arent alone.
Karen
I hear a growl now and then in bed at night in the dark like it’s beside me, I sleep with now flash light and turn it on to see, I have one lamp in room so I need a light for other side, I ended up broken out with body mights, and I don’t have any close relationship and I had rat trouble but in other room I thought, I taken meds for mites 3 times and big tube of cream cleared up and now bites on body 2to3 places it’s from rats, It started not many months ago after buying a new mattress and it is a pillow top with springs. I could have rats living in it but no open area’s in move sometimes and I hear a growl, it scares me. I’m 65 never been through this ever untill purchasing this queen size pillow top mattress with springs, I forgot what it’s like to have a good night sleep I feel like I’m possessed, after searching and I came across this article on your experiences I don’t feel like I’m this crazy as I thought. I have done research roof rats carry scabies and if they get under your mattress or up in your attic and I have attic vents they can drop scabies and if I got a rat living in my mattress and I think I do and it’s new was new, I don’t know how I’m going to buy another one this one here tells me too much money I’ve had it up on its side cleaning under the bed looking and checking for areas where rats might have cute hoes I can’t find nothing nothing now I’m questioning what is going on and your article that’s pretty much told me this has been terrible it’s been a nightmare I’ve not had a good night sleep since I bought this mattress, regretting getting rid of the old one it didn’t have springs it might have been broken in areas but I slept very well considering what I’m sleeping now. I don’t know what I’m going to do it’s just taking my whole body down and I’ve not been happy and I’ve not slept good I’ve been miserable and sick literally sick. So if you’re sleeping on a pillow top with springs and you live in an area that’s infested with rats around you around your house because of other houses so close beware first time in my life I’ve ever been through so much hell trying to get one good night sleep, been taking sleeping pills nerve pills that’s not helping so I had to throw them out. But all you people have helped me realize I’m not as crazy as I began to believe,. I just want to thank you all for using my mind now I’m going to drag this mattress out and I’m going to cut it up
Marvallene Lapp
Ryan,i agree with you. My mattress moves. I pulled it off the bed to clean everything but can find no holes. Everything is intact. Am I paranoid? I don’t think so. Whatever it is doesn’t,ake an appearance. It was so bad last week, i woke up seeing a huge snake in my room. I went to my sofa but couldn’t sleep. I never found evidence!
Kathy
I am glad to see so many responses to this. I have had this problem I’m going for at least a year and 3 mattresses a go. I had a pillow top that I moved into my current apartment. After sometime I began to feel movement and also to see movement and my mattress. I began stabbing at work knives in places I thought there might the movement. Each time the knife came out clear which left me dumbfounded. Because I know there was something moving in my mattress. I bought a new one and for some reason the same problem occurred. So at this point I began to wonder was there an infestation in the or where are the critters inside the mattress when it was delivered. Frustrated I bought another mattress this time it was a mattress with box spring included. That brings me to the present time. I am experiencing extreme movement in this mattress. I have seen where there is evidence I’m breakthrough and there is a space between the are Jane and the mattress filler
Tina Kranitz
Omg
All this time I thought I was crazy, when I got the courage to mention this to my sister she looked at me like I had lost my mind
I might be crazy because I also feel this in my couch
I’ve learned to live with it but I have many sleepless nights
I have no holes or anything in my mattress or my couch so how did they get in there??
Well I’m just glad to know I haven’t lost my mind 🥳
Thank ya’ll
If anyone finds out it’s aliens please let me know
Rick
Hi Kathy, I read your message & had to chuckle, I am on my living room floor because I have been stabbingy mattress with a pointed 18″ steel poker tool I made. I’ve been stabbing for a while and the poker comes out clean.
I usually don’t sleep on my bed anymore due to the creepy feelings it gives.
I have a desk in my room that I sometimes spend a couple hours at. No radio, tv nothing, very quiet. Every so often about 15 to 20 mins or so.
I hear my bed make a little sound like a small critter is in it. My couch is the same way & it’s so creepy to think about it.
I think my next step is to take the bed & couch to the dump.
I hope you have resolved your problem with the little critters.
Margie Sanders
Iam wearing myself out trying to convince people that there is something that moves with me as i try to find a comfortable spot..No matter where I lay it moves right back under me..It is taking a toll on my physical health.. I hesitate to ask anyone to come get the creature out,because I don’t want anyone to get bit or worse so I tell them nevermind..
Margie Sanders
Do these dang creatures leave during the day because I tore my whole mattress apart and nothing was in there..
Rachel Griggs
Your not alone im having the exact same problem. Im at a loss for sleep all the time. It’s has me so worn down and im a emotional wreck. If you find out anything please let me in on it . I’ll do the same . Thanks and I’m sorry your freaking with the same thing and your not crazy. Take care
Tiffiny Howell
OMG!! Your not alone! How come all these posts it’s only ever ONE person who feels it. I feel the movement all the time in my mattress..I live in Oakland, Ca. I can’t find any mouse/rat droppings either. And I’ve left bacon and peanuts out under my bed and it’s still there….can they be stuck in the mattress? Maybe they breed and the new babies can’t find the way out and the mommy dies but I don’t smell nothing funky and nothing dead! I mean when I’m outa the house for a bit I’ll come in room and smell something..but not horrifyingly gross..usually like dirty laundry and hubby’s trash or all his nasty work clothes!! Eeww. Anyways…any updates on how to make others believe us or how to get rid of them. I NEED a full night’s sleep!!! I believe you Ryan!
Carol
You bet it’s real and so is the rodent excrement that nothing will take out of your clothes. Five gallons of OdorBan has not washed out after five washing and even soaking 24 hours in the stuff. Not vinegar, baking soda, lemon Pine-sol. I gave up and threw over half my clothes away.
Dri Marie
Glad to know I’m not insane …. It’s so weird I’ll be sitting there on my bed and just feel like something is on the bed with me or moving all around me it DRIVES ME CRAZY There’s no telling what’s going on anymore
Anon Omus
Your not crazy. Im sitting up against the wall side of my bed now at 4:39am can’t sleep cause there are rats that are huge in my mattress and whats worse, they are the black roof rats and they have babies so they are subject to attack if feel threatened. When my husband leaves the room i also leave… Ive been around pet mice and rats and would love them as pets… But i feel like these wild black rats are making me lose my mind. The babies climb up the wall and literally sit on the bed next to me til i move or realize they are there. My dog sleeps with us and even he is jumpy due to these rodents.
Jennifer
Im experiencing exactly the same and my boyfriend says im crazy and hes had it cause he dont feel it
Gail
I am and have been having the same problem for over 2 years and people think i am crazy because there are no signs of anything. I want answer and i want to sleep in my bed again.
I understand people even told me that they are spirits and that I am crazy and start laughing and that pisses me off.
I believe you
Margie Sanders
I think I’am losing my mind.. When I wake up at usually 4 in the morning,I get up and move to the living room after tearing everything off my bed for the umpteenth time and still found NOTHING,soooo I move to the living room and I sit down… well guess what it’s now in the chair that I have been sitting in for months now..I try telling my friends that there’s something in the chair too but of course I’m nuts.. What the hay?? does it follow me every morning to the living room.. I want to run away,and noone believes me..They say it is demonic… well I guess demons have bones… I even had some friend’s come over and tore down the whole bed had me look inside and there was nothing..I felt like a fool.. Bujt they are still in my bed and follow me to the living room chair… I want to run away…
Angelica
Did this get resolved? I’m going thru exact same thing! It follows me downstairs but everyone says I’m crazy. Someone told me it could be a “voulse*., half mouse half vole super tiny black and furry????
Meghan Birt
I don’t know where to start. Congratulate you on your Intellibed… or tell you I’m grossed out by your rodents ????
I’m so glad you got an Intellibed!! Do you love it x1000?? We sure do!
Peacock Orchard
I commend you for getting back on that bed. I must admit I probably would have taken one of the kids.
Cori
Consumer fear IS real!! I was paranoid about toxins and mold growing on our mattress and so we threw it away 3 months ago when I couldn’t stand the thought of our newborn sleeping on it with us! So we’ve been sleeping on two thick sleeping bags stacked ever since. We need a new one but intellibed is expensive for us right now as we’re paying off student loans! Someday 🙂 Soon I hope!
Beverly
I REALLY want to know how you got the sucker out now! I think I would have just chucked the whole mattress out the front door and slept on the couch for the night. Bravo to you and your husband for eliciting him and having the guts to lay back down on it.
Sierra
Wow fun times! I have my own rat-in-the-bedroom story from when I was a teenager. My brother ended up “evicting” it with his blow dart gun.
Kevin Gilmartin
Come on
Teach
Joy
The timing of this post couldn’t be better! In fact, we might have purchased the SAME pillow-top type mattress- about 17+ years ago! It’s time to replace that sucker. These old middle-aged bones need something softer!!! A couple of questions for you: 1 ) How is your new mattress working out for you? 2) Which model did you choose of the three that this company makes? 3) How long will your HOMESTEAD promo code be good? Thanks!
Taralee Home
This past winter when the mice moved in for warmer weather- in the house- one night I heard a similar sound- as you described- behind my head. I got up, looked fluffed and shook everything, then went back to sleep. Fast forward a few days and I lay down to go to sleep and smell the awful, highly distinct smell of death. I’m searching everywhere, but I can only smell it when I lay down….and then I find it: a dead mouse in my pillowcase!!! Needless to say that pillow and pillowcase went straight into the trash and I spent the next day fumigating my mattress. I completely understand your story!
Nicholas Petrick
There is one in my mattress in my college dorm and no-one believes me, because the thing only moves at night. Please tell me how you got it out. I have tried everything.
JJ
Glad to read that a mattress can have rats in them. I feel like mines has something in it. Exterminator is coming in 2 days. I can’t look.
Tanner Brown
I definitely have somthing.. started in my mattress then moved that outside far away .. blew up air mattress one was in there cant find him still kicking tho but bought a huge 8ft beanbag and now they are in it and idk how there is no hole to get in .. fml
Pauline
So was there a jole in the nattress. I have movement in my bed like something noring away inside the mattress. Someone please tell me what at to do
Veronica
I have that same problem now please can somebody help me by telling me how to get it out of my mattress please help
G.Montoya
Did anyone answer your question on how to get rid of them. Please pass the tips.
Maxine Minton
Need to know how to get rid of rats…exterminator did not get rid of them…
Tracy
What do I do?? It feels like my pillows, bed, and pretty much everything at this point is vibrating and moving around
Teresa Marshall
Thank you for your story. I first noticed some weird motion in the mattress an thought, it’s my cat walking on the bed. I raise up an yep, No Cat nowhere. Dismissed it. It keeps happening. Im not crazy but thought maybe i am. Now the thumping is stronger an in different spots. Im gonna get a new mattress an get this one gone before i wake up with some giant critter in my face. I know something is in this thing. Sadly my mattress is only hum 7 years old. Thank you for your story an letting me know this can really happen. 😖😩
Tanner Brown
I definitely have somthing.. started in my mattress then moved that outside far away .. blew up air mattress one was in there cant find him still kicking tho but bought a huge 8ft beanbag and now they are in it and idk how there is no hole to get in .. fml
Tina Kranitz
Omg
All this time I thought I was crazy, when I got the courage to mention this to my sister she looked at me like I had lost my mind
I might be crazy because I also feel this in my couch
I’ve learned to live with it but I have many sleepless nights
I have no holes or anything in my mattress or my couch so how did they get in there??
Well I’m just glad to know I haven’t lost my mind 🥳
Thank ya’ll
If anyone finds out it’s aliens please let me know
By the way does anyone feel little bites or like something is stinging you? I do! Sometimes I feel as if my legs are going to sleep until I get up and walk around? All of this makes me crazy! Help!!!!
Karen
Roof rats another regular rats carry mites and these mites bite you make you itch and they’re called scabies roof rats carries scabies and they get up in your mattress when the mattress is being made apparently and they nest because I can’t get out I’ve had three bouts of medications three rounds of it I’ve been a clear up every time I go to bed I wake up with bites on me, they say you can get them only through skin to skin contact I’m 65 I don’t have no excitement there I haven’t been with anyone in years my husband is sleeping separate rooms I’m ready to go back and join him in his bed mine’s acting up my name is Karen I left the last post, I’ve also heard growl at night not every night certain times I move around and it scares me I have one left in my room so I keep a flashlight on the other side of the bed I have a pest control service coming out has been for over a year I have treated my mattress with lie scabies spray poison under my mattress and box springs I don’t have no tears or hoes it’s a new mattress so if you’re getting bit that’s probably what it is so I don’t know other than to tell you to get treated for it my husband and I had a fight over it I thought he was bringing something in it has really caused some serious problems for a while. Until I found out roof rats Carrie scabies, roof rats can live in your mattress because they’re not on the floor and I don’t know how they get there unless they’re made in the mattress the mattress runs through a machine and before it’s put together rats get in there in bed I think they must feed off each other. Good luck God bless it’s really a bad feeling I forgot what a good night sleep is
Dia
Tina YES! I feel little bites or stings and actually see my mattress moving like a snake is slivering through my mattress! I also hear an occasional growl which snakes also make to get their point across! My family thinks I’ve lost my mind! It’s a Stearns and Foster. I’m considering calling the company. If anyone has a suggestion for how to get it out please let me know!
Shante
I see this post is old but in case someone is reading this after March 2020, I want to caution you before you purchase your new mattress. Make sure you have gotten rid of the mice. My issue started the end of December with roof rats in my detached garage, who moved into my townhome once the exterminator got rid of them in the garage. I am in the middle unit yet neither of my neighbors are having issues. So, the roof rats got in and so did the mice. I noticed my bed moving but what freaked me out was when I realized they were burrowing under me to get warm. So I threw out that mattress, waited a month, still having roof rats decided to finally get a new mattress.Needless to say, the mice beat me there. No one believed me when I showed them the puncture marks, they said rats chew. Finally the second exterminator saw the mice droppings under my bed. Needless to say, I still have mice, roof rats as well as rats burrowing under my home. I have been here 5 years with no issues until now. So please, make sure they are gone before you purchase a new mattress. The unfortunate part is I haven’t even made a payment and after two weeks they have burrowed through the pillow top mattress and are sleeping right under me. Needless to say, I tossed it out this morning as I couldn’t do another night.
Best regards.
May
Wow, I was just wondering if it was possible to have multiple rodents, as I put flour on my bedroom floor a couple weeks ago in hopes of identifying what is in my bedroom. It appeared that I had every kind of rodent (well 3) and something in my mattress does the same thing, seeking heat. I use a heat pad regularly and right underneath the heat, is movement! I’m terrified.
Gustavo
i did the same thing but the thing is why ould they be seeking heat in the middle of summer. sometimes its super hot and they still want to be heated?? i dont get it ivd bee feeling this for over a year 🙁
Julie labrado
I know.my husband says “im trippen!”! But im not! Yes vibrating, moving, squeaking, scary. , andyes! How do they get in??when u cant see a hole? And i try to take a video but can never catch them on film!!!ive tried to poke or stab them with a sharp metal rod and boy that ticks em off!! But nothing to prove they are there! They suretry to cuddle through the blankets material too! How to make them go?!!
Karen y
Julie thank you! They do vibrate don’t they? No one else feels them but I’ve had 3 beds and five yes five years later I still have rats in my mattress and I haven’t slept in five years either. Day or night night and day, and they tell all their rat buddies and sometimes it’s a party in my bed and I’m not having any fun
Rick
Hi Julie, I have tried to catch them on video, no luck.
I just tried again tonight to stab them with a pointed rod of 18″ long. Nothing seems like I work. My next step is taking the bed to the dump.
Geri Montoya
Your story sounds like mine. I just noticed my post isn’t here. I posted almost one week ago. Hmmm Here’s a tip that might help you with something. Rodents can’t chew through aluminum foil. I’ve tried it in holes under the bathroom sink and the aluminum foil has’nt been moved. I’m thinking when I get a new mattress to cover it with aluminum foil completely. Beats buying another one. Desparate? Yes!
Ren
I feel as if something is living within my mattress as well. The whole thing vibrates at night. I tried to lift the top portion of my mattress and I couldn’t find anything. There are no holes in the mattress whatsoever so is it possible that when this thing was bought that a rodent was already in it? This mattress is probably about 10 years old.
Nisey
Ren yes rats can come already in your mattress. I’ve purchased 4 mattresses from Amazon and they all had mice/rats in them. I also bought two futons that has memory foam in them and found rodents in them also. I got my money back on everything! Idk what’s going on?! You’re not alone!
Michelle
I have already gotten rid of a mattress that had mice or a rat making a home in it i had them open it up . Then my husband went down and bought me a new bed. The first night it was a good sleep but around the 3rd night something kept pushing on me i thought it was just me paranoid but then i heard noises . It usually start moving about around 5 pm and is always chewing i can feel the movement but my husband keeps telling me there is no way. And after reading all these i am completely freaked out i was going to call a shrink to try and fix my phobia ive stuck clove all over as a deterrant but i think i just pissed them off.. i have been tempted to just shoot a couple buck shots into the mattress ( with no one in the bed of course lol and only tempted not going to) but im so damn positive that im right that I’m not crazy but im sure disturbed by my unwanted guests.
Terry
WTH.
I KNEW it!! How do I even tell the company? I paid for a 10year warranty that expires in two years. They denied me a Allergen mattress cover but how do I even broach this? It’s a Macys pillowtop just under a grand. I avoided googling my thought but when I saw your title you won’t believe what I found in my mattress I frozed… I knew what you were going to say. I didn’t even read how you figured it out. Would hate for it to ‘come through’ as ‘Violet Chaki’ would say.
Please help! This absurd. I can’t even believe I’m writing this
April Vick
I keep feeling something in my mattresses! I spray peppermint & vinigar and it calms down but as I’m dozing back off it starts up again..what is it!! These are brand new! No holes! But I feel them moving around!! Sick of no sleep!HELP! I have to get sleep in daytime and sit up feeling them all night! I can’t afford another mattress.
T
Hi everyone I’m happy to see that I’m not crazy that it’s happening to other people who h is why I’m unhappy to see that it’s really happening…fml… so no one believes me… they think I’m imaginating it all… But I can see in and hear them.. I don’t know what to do. HELP
Nisey
Ren yes rats can come already in your mattress. I’ve purchased 4 mattresses from Amazon and they all had mice/rats in them. I also bought two futons that has memory foam in them and found rodents in them also. I got my money back on everything! Idk what’s going on?! You’re not alone!
Jas
but how are they in there and the mattress is brand new and has no holes in it
Cristal Rozier
I’m really loosing my mind. I have been feeling these same sort of movements and my roommate laughs at me and says, I need to get some sleep. I can’t because I really believe there is something. My great niece spent the weekend and basically confirmed it by saying my little pet friends were real cause she saw the eyes and didn’t want to sleep in her little tent pallet she makes everytime she visits & crawled up in the bed with me. When it moves, it makes me think my cat is jumping up on the bed, nope, not him cause he’s outside. Help!
Karen
Roof rats another regular rats carry mites and these mites bite you make you itch and they’re called scabies roof rats carries scabies and they get up in your mattress when the mattress is being made apparently and they nest because I can’t get out I’ve had three bouts of medications three rounds of it I’ve been a clear up every time I go to bed I wake up with bites on me, they say you can get them only through skin to skin contact I’m 65 I don’t have no excitement there I haven’t been with anyone in years my husband is sleeping separate rooms I’m ready to go back and join him in his bed mine’s acting up my name is Karen I left the last post, I’ve also heard growl at night not every night certain times I move around and it scares me I have one left in my room so I keep a flashlight on the other side of the bed I have a pest control service coming out has been for over a year I have treated my mattress with lie scabies spray poison under my mattress and box springs I don’t have no tears or hoes it’s a new mattress so if you’re getting bit that’s probably what it is so I don’t know other than to tell you to get treated for it my husband and I had a fight over it I thought he was bringing something in it has really caused some serious problems for a while. Until I found out roof rats Carrie scabies, roof rats can live in your mattress because they’re not on the floor and I don’t know how they get there unless they’re made in the mattress the mattress runs through a machine and before it’s put together rats get in there in bed I think they must feed off each other. Good luck God bless it’s really a bad feeling I forgot what a good night sleep is, I sleep better in the daytime I think they’re running the floors and other rooms in the daytime but I can’t figure out myself where they getting in and out of not unless they’re made in that mattress but that’s the best sleep I get is the daytime so it ruins my sleep at night and I’ve been up now awake since 1:30 and here I’m 65 years old this is crazy too I hear a growl sometimes it’s like I must have moved the wrong way and I heard it but it growls like something big and it’s also left me with my bites
Diane
Tina YES! I feel little bites or stings and actually see my mattress moving like a snake is slivering through my mattress! I also hear an occasional growl which snakes also make to get their point across! My family thinks I’ve lost my mind! It’s a Stearns and Foster. I’m considering calling the company. If anyone has a suggestion for how to get it out please let me know!
Jas
Dont know how it got in there cause theres no holes in the mattress
Jas
Does anyone have a smell. my matress is a month old and it has a toxic smell not real bad but every morning i wake up with this smell on my body.
Stacey
Yes! Have a temper Pedic, delivered in August and still stinks. It’s not me, I threw out my old mattress and ripped apart the box spring trying g to figure out what it is. I’d sleep on the couch and felt the same! Help. Literally everyone is telling me I’m crazy. I’ve had it.
Debra Evans
I bought a new mattress last November and about a week ago I can feel movement by my head and feet and feel something push up against me. My husband says he never feels anything and its so bad I moved to our new couch( bought same place as bed) and now the movement started there!!! I feel like I’m losing my mind and haven’t slept in a week!!! Help what can I do to make it dtop!!!!
Candace
Been feeling movement and vibration in my mattress mostly at night, which is when they say rodents are most active. At first I thought I was really hungover and had alcohol withdrawal. Even though I only drink every so often, but that particular hangover was brutal. Then I kept feeling it over the next couple weeks, dead sober. Can’t get a cat as I’m allergic & feel like my allergies have been set off by what’s living in the mattress. I can feel them gnawing and rolling around. I put my ear to it but I can’t determine if I’m imagining or there are really scratching sounds. No droppings but one hole that I’m too scared to probe. Everyone thinks I’m crazy even though we have a known rodent problem. Caught 3 in the kitchen. I was fed up and slept on the couch like a baby and had no issues there. I’ve bought a new mattress and am putting more traps in. Hopefully that’ll help.
Mary Dickie
In 2014 we decided to do some remodeling in our home. One of the new things was a memory-foam mattress. From that time on I have felt “something” moving around in the mattress. It is now 2020 and to this day my husband doesn’t believe me about something being in the mattress. He even went so far as to tell my doctor was having hallucinations. This was the last straw. I talked him into getting rid of that mattress. We purchased another one with springs and only a 2 inch layer of foam on the top. He washed, dried and put the mattress cover we had used on the old mattress on the new one ignoring my plea not to use that one. Oh well. Three nights into the new mattress and there it was……movement and a trembling in the mattress top. My husband still says I’m hallucinating. I am not. I have taken psychotic tests, brain scans, etc. ordered by my doctor and they all point to my being as normal as he is. So, what’s in my new mattress? I have seen a couple mice and a rat or two over the years inside my house and I have heard them chewing inside the bedroom wall. But because my husband has not seen any rodents he is yet to be convinced that there is something in the mattress and he could sleep through a tornado. Now my doctor thinks I’m hallucinating and without any real proof of it. I know there is something there and I am now so frustrated I could scream. What is it and what can I do about it?
Kristi L O'Malley
My landlord laughed at me, called me a druggie and had me committed and even the Docs told me I can go home when the right meds work. Get this!! A lady there had the exact issue and her husband took her kids, filed emergency custody and she was there when I left unreal! I thought something evil was casted upon me but so glad to research instead of meds or institutionalized! Thank all of you for sharing and I won’t cry myself to sleep now! Nextdoor psychotic abusers finally got evicted but packed up my trailer storage compartments with all of their garbage for 7 months, rotted meats and to they used to wipe their rears. I had no idea till the day after they were gone. These toxic beings devistated my life and tortured me or over 4 yrs so I’m kinda used to fear and destruction. All cuz of jealousy they said. They’re in the worst legal trouble and bragged what they stole from me😂 Imbisoles!!
J.Daniel
The same thing here. I gave an entire bedroom set away and it is still in my sofa. I can’t afford to replace them. My guess is this is two fold snakes and bugs. The neighbor next to me has made me a laughing stock but I notice she keeps changing beds and sleeper chairs. It is a nightmare. Strong scented soap helps but has not stopped the problem. Since this is so widespread it cannot all be by accident. My next question is where have these beds and sofas been manufactured and shipped from ??? ??? ??
G. Montoya
My heart truly goes out to all of you because I have the same movements in my pillowtop mattress. It was a traumatic experience when finally found the mouse dead in the sticky trap. I went and sealed up holes outside and inside to not have the bad experience again. Now that I’m aware of rats and mice suddenly I noticed my bed starts to move when I lay down on it. Mice gravitate to warmth. You can actually feel them under your body. It feels like a massager in your bed. I thought I lost my mind after the bad experience with the dead mouse in sticky. I followed someone’s instructions, they said black pepper is so disgusting to rats they’ll leave. Black pepper hits their nasals badly. I’ve been cutting holes in the top of my mattress making sure the pepper goes down deep so the rats can smell it and leave. The first time I did that I thought I was hallucinating because my mattress started moving and the hole I cut to put pepper inside started growing up out of the hole. They were all gathering around to eat the pepper. I got my video ready so I can show that I’m not crazy. I did it again with my phone sitting up there ready to make a video and nothing happened. I don’t know if they saw the phone there and were too scared to come out and eat pepper. Or maybe they’re so smart they know they hate pepper and this is another trap. I got 2 overstuffed pillows put them under my body so they can’t feel my warmth and start moving around when I’m sleeping. It’s expensive and difficult to buy a new mattress and I do have to sleep. What can I say? I will continue this process until they’re gone. BTW I sew the holes back together after things settle down. For those of you out there who asked for something to do about the problem, I have one more solution I read about and plan to do it someday soon. Ammonia kills rodents instantly. I’m willing to dump some in spots on the mattress and see what the outcome is. I hope this will help some of you and thanks to the person for allowing us to communicate this because it is a real problem and we need help.
Daniamarshall
I have something big that feels like it slither threw my bed matree it feels like something that pokes its head up and I feel this slithering movement .I think it’s a big ass snake needless to say I won’t sleep in my room anymore.
DeBorah
. I googled to find out what i had I have a Bambo Mattress and I kno something is in it but no one belives me. I feel the vibration and the movement and these uninvited things have been in my house for at least 6 months. Every piece of furniture I have 2 sofas 1 c the room was vibratingalif. king and a queen bed and my recliner there is one in.I have had 3 exterminators come out nd the are looking for mouse or rat droppings and because they didn’t find that they didn’t know and left me . The droppings that are being left is blood spots all over my carpet.It got so mad Monday night they doub le teamed me one at the head of the bed and one at the foot of the bed vibrating I got sick of it and went to the living room to sleep sitting straight up there is one there too.I.have not had a good night sleep in what seems like for ever and I have Checked into the Holiday Inn last night for a good night sleep when i got back after going home and carefully packing to make sure they were not following me.big as day as i unpacked.the room was vibrating I called the front desk thinking maybe I am above a generator room or something the lady came up and could NOT feel anything but where ever I stood I could feel it so whats up with that ?I feel like I am a target or something and it does like to get all up under me I have a marble inlay billyclub and every time ti moves I swing then I get scared that its gonna retaliate then I’M SCARED!!!! please help.
Pixie
Interesting tail….(sp intentional).
I have had pet rats for 17 years and none of them have ever burrowed into my mattress. I have had domesticated and non domesticated rats and nothing…
But i definitely believe you all. A few things that you can do to deter the rats are:
Soak cotton balls or moth balls in peppermint extract or oil. Add minty toothpaste. They dont really like those scents.
Orange peels also work wonders.
Dont use sticky pads. You know how long it takes for one to die when they get caught in one? google it.
https://www.google.com/search?q=how+long+does+it+take+for+a+rat+to+die+on+a+glue+trap&rlz=1C5CHFA_enCA925CA927&oq=how+long+does+it+take+for+a+rat+to+die+on+a+glue+trap&aqs=chrome..69i57.15327j0j1&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
Or better yet watch a you tube video with the sound turned up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9COP5xXUzQ
i hope that you all sleep well!
Pati v
For months I have been feeling something moving under me. My daughter sits on my bed and feels nothing. My son and grandsons picked up the mattress and there were no chew marks anywhere. But I still feel something every night. I can get a new mattress but who’s to say they won’t get in that too. Everyone thinks it’s my rls, but I know the difference and it’s driving me crazy and my kids think that I am. I’ve got traps and those plug ins but it hasn’t helped. I dont know what to do HELP
Billie H
I purchased my mattress from Amazon.I feel it moving under me and I want to run. Far far away .
I have been going CRAZY trying to figure out what it is.
I am praying it’s not rats OMG I am so shocked.
Thank you . I have been feeling so alone.
Joseph walker king
Your not crazy and you don’t wanna know what’s in your mattress, there is no getting them out and when I tried to convince my landlord/ parents I kid you not I got committed for “imaginary rodents”
Look bro they burrow in there and will never leave a mark I have no idea how rodents can get so big and go under noticed man the biggest one was the size of a cat and I still have tremendous trouble getting to sleep
Loose the dang thing , you can’t unknown what is in there
Debra Evans
I bought a new pillow top last November for a grand and things were great until about a week ago I feel movement around my head and feet and sometimes is pushing up against me!!! Needless to say I’m absolutely terrified every night and feel like I’m losing my mind!!! My husband lays there every night feeling nothing!! There is no holes in it and we never have had a mouse or rat in our townhouse!!! How can I find out whats in there and make it stop!! Please any suggestions so I can sleep again!!!!
Jennifer
Im experiencing exactly the same and my boyfriend says im crazy and hes had it cause he dont feel it
Pamela Bean
403 am 🤐still trying to get this mou,an I here them crawling inside the walls can anyone a ese to stay from. Under my sofa. I’ve never ever had such evil thoughts like I do now I just want to smash this dam thing an get some sleep Crow bar in one hand banging down inside the sofa, an ppeppermint oil in the other,smh why me, keep no trash in Apt no food sitting out why theze things keep running threw my apt.However I’m hearing these things inside the walls, what’s going on? SMH
Buggy
Me too
Karen
Roof rats another regular rats carry mites and these mites bite you make you itch and they’re called scabies roof rats carries scabies and they get up in your mattress when the mattress is being made apparently and they nest because I can’t get out I’ve had three bouts of medications three rounds of it I’ve been a clear up every time I go to bed I wake up with bites on me, they say you can get them only through skin to skin contact I’m 65 I don’t have no excitement there I haven’t been with anyone in years my husband is sleeping separate rooms I’m ready to go back and join him in his bed mine’s acting up my name is Karen I left the last post, I’ve also heard growl at night not every night certain times I move around and it scares me I have one left in my room so I keep a flashlight on the other side of the bed I have a pest control service coming out has been for over a year I have treated my mattress with lie scabies spray poison under my mattress and box springs I don’t have no tears or hoes it’s a new mattress so if you’re getting bit that’s probably what it is so I don’t know other than to tell you to get treated for it my husband and I had a fight over it I thought he was bringing something in it has really caused some serious problems for a while. Until I found out roof rats Carrie scabies, roof rats can live in your mattress because they’re not on the floor and I don’t know how they get there unless they’re made in the mattress the mattress runs through a machine and before it’s put together rats get in there in bed I think they must feed off each other. Good luck God bless it’s really a bad feeling I forgot what a good night sleep is, I sleep better in the daytime I think they’re running the floors and other rooms in the daytime but I can’t figure out myself where they getting in and out of not unless they’re made in that mattress but that’s the best sleep I get is the daytime so it ruins my sleep at night and I’ve been up now awake since 1:30 and here I’m 65 years old this is crazy too I hear a growl sometimes it’s like I must have moved the wrong way and I heard it but it growls like something big and it’s also left me with mite bites, I’ve had to take three rounds of pills a whole big tuba cream and I still get bit and the only thing I can find that causes these bites is roof rats. These spots are called scabies and they’re terrible they itch and they are spread if you.scratch. I’m with y’all I feel your feelings and I hope you don’t go to feeling what I felt other than not getting no sleep it causes your skin to itch all over and break out and I don’t have skin to skin contact, I’m 65 like I said and that urge has been gone so rats carry mites roof rats carries scoby mites and that’s the only thing that’s not going to live on the floor good luck.
Karen s
I have heard of snake’s in ppl. Mattress, I sure hope it’s not. bad to have rat’s, I pray we all can get rid of all that’s living in our mattress. I want a good night sleep through out the night. Please take your mattress out side and set it on wooden stands, and poor snake be gone or grandles on it for a day, it should burn the snake and snake should leave if it can get out. I would kill it, to use to mattress now and houses.
Karen
Roof rats another and other rats carry mites and these mites bite you make you itch and they’re called scabies, roof rats carries scabies.rats get up in your mattress when the mattress is being made apparently and they nest because they can’t get out. I’ve had three bouts of medications three rounds,I’ll a clear up every time I’ll go to bed I get up with bites on me, they say you can get them only through skin to skin contact, it’s not bed bugs it’s not bed bugs, made sure .I’m 65 I don’t have no excitement there I haven’t been with anyone in years my husband is sleeping separate rooms I’m ready to go back and join him in his bed mine’s acting up. I’ve also heard growl at night not every night certain times I move around and it scares me I have one lamp on night table in my room so I keep a flashlight on the other side of the bed, I have a pest control service coming out has been for over a year I have treated my mattress with lice and scabies spray, poison under my mattress and box springs. I don’t have no tears or hoes it’s a new mattress so if you’re getting bit that’s probably what it is.Until I found out roof rats Carrie scabies, roof rats can be traped in your mattress.I don’t know how they get there unless they’re traped when it’s made, mattress runs through a machine and before it’s put together sometime the mattress sets till the next day,rats get in there in bed while being put together. I think they must feed off each other, might be answers to smell. Good luck God bless it’s really a bad feeling, I forgot what a good night sleep is, I sleep better in the daytime. I think they’re running the floors in day and other rooms in the daytime but I can’t figure out myself where they getting in and out of not unless they’re made in that mattress but that’s the best sleep I get is the daytime so it ruins my sleep at night and I’ve been up now awake since 1:30 and it’s now 5 A.M. here I’m 65 years old this is has been hard on me.I hear a growl sometimes it’s like I must have. God bless y’all, hope y’all get the rat’s out or snakes.
Roger
I’ve been thinking the same thing. Maybe a hammock. I got rid of them for a couple months and now my beds moving again.. I very been told I’m just crazy but I know its moving underneath me. Why cant anyone else feel them? It’s like they’re only attracted to me.
Margie sanders
I took a screen shot of it and it does look like a snake and then sometimes I see what looks like a big rat.. I’m scared to ask anyone to come get it out because if it is a snake they might get bit.. I’am at a loss of what to do..
Roger
I woke up one night and seen a snake go over my girlfriend’s hand right on top of our pillows. It was huge and mouth wide open. She thinks I’m crazy but I seen it and theres something in my mattress again and I’m scared to death of snakes. I hope I dont have another heart attack since I’ve had 2 already. Are they attracted to a certain blood type or certain smell of illness . Everyone thinks I’m crazy and I dont see how they cant feel them if they move under me every time I move
dave kruse
everybody listen, these are not rats, not mice, they are pretty much invisible and they are attracted to our body heat. They may be aliens of some sort, or, some kind of energy manifesting the way they do. There is one in my bed right now, and my bed is inflatable. I already took my memory foam, and two other standard beds to the dump along with two couch sets. so I got an inflatable thinking theres no way they could get in without making it go flat. Well they prov ed me wrong. I am a 55 yo normal guy,and this has turned my life upside down, unbelievable. I dont know what the hell they are. Sometimes it doesnt bother me too much and I can sleep but sometimes I get freaked out. If i’m lying on my side, it will slowly come up and snuggle against my back. they do create their own body heat, I can feel where its been lying when I come to my bed at night. Yowza! I’m in gilroy, ca.
Genetta
I believe the same thing they’re invisible aliens or interdimensonal beings.
dave kruse
they are not rats. They are invisible, and are attracted to your body heat. They are possibly alien life forms, or, some poltergeist thing. you cant get rid of them, there’s one in my bed right now, my bed is inflatable. I took my memory foam and two other beds to the dump, along with two couches. I dont think they are harmful, but I haven’t slept in two fucking years
dave kruse
they are not rats. I dont think they are harmful, but I haven’t slept in two fucking years
Lisa
I think you are right. I have a sleep number bed – it is inflatable- nothing for anything to chew threw without the bed going flat. No box spring either. I feel strange movements under my hips ( side sleeper), almost as if someone is touching my hip/butt cheek area. It is a king bed, my husband has been acting like i am imagining things because he doesn’t feel it… until i woke up this morning with a bruise on my hip. I am a smaller person, i only weigh about 108 lbs so it is not that the mattress is wrong, i have tried all settings, from squishy to firm but this is now happening every night. I really need a good nights sleep, i do not know what to do. There is no way for anything to be in my bed, like i said – its a sleep number bed, not a regular mattress. I do not know what to do, its not physical, i have no hip issues normally. Any help would be appreciated, i am exhausted.
Gail
I am and have been having the same problem for over 2 years and people think i am crazy because there are no signs of anything. I want answer and i want to sleep in my bed again.
I understand people even told me that they are spirits and that I am crazy and start laughing and that pisses me off.
I believe you
Brandon
Okay first you all are not crazy. It is mice living in your bed. But you can get rid of them easy. I bought my bed back in 2016 sealy posterpiedic caversham edition. But have had no problem up til about 2 months ago. So I took the bed out side on the porch, let me say they might not like peppermint oil but they hate ammonia. Yes go get some clear ammonia from Walmart, soak the bed in it bottom an top side. But mainly the bottom side . Then cut down the middle of the bottom side of the netted fabric get you a hose an spray that sucker out good. An keep treating it with ammonia . Trust me you will see the little suckers when blasting with the hose. Keep treating until you feel confident none are there. Allow to dry properly, while allowing to dry properly continue to lightly treat with clear ammonia, you mix in 1/2 gallon sprayer dill a 1/4 ammonia an the rest water. When its dry an all is clean get you a heavy duty zip up mattress cover before you put on the line you cut down the middle sow it up took me 30 mins I sow it back together then I put my heavy duty zip up mattress cover on . Buy new pillows an heavy duty zip up pillow covers on an of course solves all the entry holes. An mark my words shouldn’t have any more issues an sleep beautifully. Soak cotton ball in ammonia an put in your cabinets under your bed. Side of you headboard just about any where you think of. Spray ammonia all around the outside an inside your home base boards ect. Cut any high grass down around your home. An spray with ammonia. This all should help each an every one of you. It worked for me an hopefully yall too. My bed sleeps better then ever once again, walmart sells clear ammonia for under $2 for a half gallon. Get you a sprayer… God bless you all an happy trails…..
Legal
I have a new bed bought by Amazon, I’m still hearing a hissing sound during the day also. I’m super scared I live alone. Maintenance guy sucks, he drops a trap down like hello this is a family a rat and babies have you had any luck?
Tonya.
Sher
Dave Kruse, I agree with you. I am experiencing the same thing and can’t get rid of them. They are either spirits or aliens. Trust me I sleep with church service, gospel music turned on 24.7. They are still there and have been following me everywhere including friend’s house or hotels. When I fight back by binding it with prayers, it burns me from the inside like a microwave…and like Dave mentioned, it is attracted to our body heat. It’s impossible to sleep cause it vibrates so much and the energy it emits is harmful to us. One time I slept on my side, the energy of this entity went inside my right ear and my ear was partially deaf for a day. I now pad my bed with books, rubber padding, yoga mat, lots of books and I sleep on top of that pile of stuff. That reduces the vibration by quite a bit. So crazy.
Sher
This is a continuation of my last post. I forgot to mention that I have also heard growling and the entity popping in and out of the mattress. They can penetrate cloth and plastic, so if you change your bed to an inflatable one, it is still the same. You can either sleep on the floor or sleep on hard surfaces. But these things are spirits/demons and they can still engulf us wherever we sleep. From my experience, they are relentless and will do anything to feed off chaos and negative emotions. Ask yourself – have you recently experienced trauma and extreme depression, abused substance or anything like that. I am seriously considering setting up a support group for us so that we can share tips and vent. Know that you are not alone in this fight.
Natalie
I’ve been going through the same thing lately. Around a month ago we moved into our new house, and mind you it is in the country side. Anyways a few weeks ago we’ve found rats, and we’ve killed them. However when I sleep on my bed I feel movement, and I am a side sleeper, so it feels like something is sticking me, so I stripped my mattress, and I didn’t see anything, but at night I could still feel it moving, so I changed my mattress, but I still feel the thing, and it feels warm, and it moves around, and I have been checking for rat droppings and entry way, however I have found nothing. Anyways, I’m so tired of this, all of my family says that I’m being paranoid and it’s all in my head, because when they layed on my bed they felt nothing, but it feels so real to me, and I can’t sleep anywhere in the house because I feel like it follows me everywhere. I’m so over it. I wish this wasn’t real, I’m terrified of rats, and I don’t want to find one when I sleep, or else I’ll die of shock. And the worst thing is I can’t get a cat to scare it off, because I’m terrified of cats too. What have I done to deserve this!!! I need my sleep!!!!!
GLORI
GOD BLESS YOU ALL ! THIS IS REAL ! I FEEL MOVEMENTS WAKE UP TO SOMETHING MAKING NOISE LIKE A RAT NEAR ME MY CAT EVEN SLEEPS WITH ME ! UNDER THE BED IS ALWAYS DUST WITH THREADS OF MATTRESS ! I HAD BOUGHT ABOUT A $10,000.00 ADJUSTABLE BED FROM ASHLEY FURNITURE I REMEMBER THEM SAYING MY BEDROOM SET TOOK LONGER TO GET TO ME CAUSE THEY HAD TO GET IT FROM A WAREHOUSE IN CALIFORNIA (IM IN FLORIDA) WHERE IT HAD BEEN SITTING! I HAVE EVEN PUT A ZIPPER SEALED MATTRESS PROTECTER ON IT NOW I HAVE WHATEVER IT IS ALL OVER MY HOUSE I GET WOKE UP WHICHEVER BED I SLEEP IN MY DAUGHTER HAD GIVEN ME A MATTRESS. ALSO NEW REFRIGERATOR I BELIEVE THEY COME IN UNDER DRYERS, WASHNG MACHINES , REFRIGERATORS ,FURNITURE ETC FOUND PECANS ROLLING OUT DRYER VENT ON MY ROOF ! I PRAY YOU ALL FIND THE PEACE AND HAPPINESS YOU ALL DESERVE ! DONT YOU LET ANYONE EVER TELL YOU THAT YOU ARE CRAZY !!! YOU ARE NOT !!! YOU ARE JUST MORE ATTUNED THAN OTHER PEOPLE !!!! GOD BLESS YOU ALL !!! LOVE YOUR FRIEND, GLORI
Amber
I have the same problem no evidence of anything people can see I have hired 5 exterminators and non of them see anything. Waisted all kinds of money paying people to do nothing. All my friends think I have lost my mind. Sometimes I feel I have since I havnt slept in a year. I can see I have aged 10 years in 1 years time. I have also been thru 3 refrigerators. I am getting ready to toss everything and sleep on a cot. All chairs bed couch everything. I even feel mites biting me when they are around. Gives me a rash. I can’t believe this is happening and no one can help me. But yes they are living in my mattress and follow me everywhere. And go straight under my butt Everytime. I have even taken them with me when I leave the house to other places I go. Was sleeping at a friend and now they are in that bed as well. And their couch. I feel awful and now I can’t go anywhere to rest with risking my friends homes as well. I cant do that to them so I keep to myself in my hell I live in. Anyone figures this out please let us know how to fix it or even prove it is happening. God bless us all!
Genetta
I believe the same thing they’re invisible aliens or interdimensonal beings.