A Swedish family actually lived what is probably many
people’s worst nightmare after they discovered that a 15-inch monster rat had
chewed through the wood and cement into their home and burrowed itself behind
their kitchen sink.
This “Viking rat” was discovered by the Bengtsson-Korsås
family at their Solna home after their cat Enok refused to enter the kitchen.
The family already had suspicions that there was a mouse in their home after
hearing noises, so when they went to empty the trash bin, they were shocked to
find that a monster rat had made itself a home.
“It was right there in our rubbish bin, a mighty monster. I
was petrified. I couldn't believe such a big rat could exist,” said Signe
Bengtsson-Korsås. “I couldn't help but do the old classic and jump on the
kitchen table and scream.”
Signe’s husband Eric said he didn’t believe his wife at
first, but when he finally came in contact with the rat himself, he was
horrified by how large it was.
“It was quite a shocking experience,” said Eric
Bengtsson-Korsås. “By the time I got home, the rat was so domesticated that it
just sat under the kitchen table.”
The family quickly realized that the rat had actually came
in through the basement, chewed through the wood and cement, and then made its
way into the kitchen to chew through the pipes under the sink, ultimately
causing a flood in the home.
Exterminators were called to kill the monster rat, and a
day after putting three giant rat traps down, one of them went off. Shockingly,
the rat wasn’t immediately killed. It ran around with the rat trap around its
neck for some time before it eventually died.
"In the end we managed to find it dead, it had slowly
strangled," said Eric. "Then we felt a bit sorry for it."
