We have recently discovered bats roosting in our walls. Actually, they’ve been there for about two months now, only my husband and I are just realizing it. My four year old daughter, Gracie, on the other hand, has known about it the whole time. My sweet Gracie could hear the bats in the walls before my husband and I could even comprehend what was happening, of course she was too young to understand exactly what it was. The worst part was that we had let her watch the new Ghost Busters about two weeks before, so once noises started in her bedroom walls, she was convinced there was a ghost living in the walls. Knowing there was no such thing in the wall, I dismissed her claim as wind or noises from the furnace. Now that I know what it is, I feel very guilty about the whole thing.
If it wasn’t for Grace, I don’t know that we would have ever noticed the bats in the wall until it had gotten way out of hand. She woke me up about once a week, crying about the ghost haunting her room, (I feel terrible) but I continually told her that there was no such thing as ghosts and ushered her back to bed. After two months of this, I finally gave in and let her drag me into her bedroom to hear the ghost noises. The surprising thing was that I actually heard them. That’s when I made Rob (my husband), investigate the sounds.
It turns out that we had bats in the wall, I couldn’t believe it because it didn’t look like there was any way for a bat to access the inside of the wall anywhere! Well about a year ago, we had some small problems with a woodpecker that would occasionally wake us up by drilling at the east wall of the house, the same wall where Gracie’s room is now located. After the woodpecker had left our house, we thought nothing of it OR the holes that it had made. Now, a year later, the bats had used those holes to get inside of the walls! That’s the bad news, though. The good news is that I have a company coming out to inspect the house and hopefully will be able to get rid of the ‘ghost’ that has been haunting our house!