The Mystery of the Disappearing Rats
September 4, 2017
Paula Hsiao
On August 26, at around 8 pm Saturday, a rat was spotted running up the stairs before disappearing beneath the TV set and refrigerator. Witnesses at the scene say the rat was fairly small, compared to the other rats they’ve seen, but very quick. However, people at the scene during the incident say they could not find the rat after it’d ran under the TV, and that they are still searching.
According to the witnesses at the scene, they were just enjoying their dinner in front of the TV when the rat first appeared. One of the family members who first saw the ray way that the rat had been running up the stairs very fast when she’d seen it. That was supposedly when she screamed, which grabbed the attention of the others who were also there at the time. The screamed is said to have startled the rat, who ran underneath the television before any bystanders were able to catch it or hit it with a broom.
The family member who first say the rat says that “this is the 2nd time this has happened, so I think there must be a hole in the back door. There was another ray that had gotten in somehow a couple months ago and had run up the stairs the same way. So there must be a hole or something somewhere if they were able to climb up the same way.” The family is not too sure about where the rats were coming from though because they make sure to check that all their doors are closed every day.
“We waited so long for the rat to come out and we had even moved everything near the television away, but the TV set is right under the staircase so it’s a snug fit for humans. The rats have no trouble hiding there though,” claimed another family member at the scene. The rat was not able to be found despite their best efforts, so the family, who have said they’re going to set traps, says they have to take extra precautions with leaving doors open now.