For weeks, we heard soft rustling in the walls — the kind of sound you try to ignore. But it kept getting louder every morning.

One day, I traced it to the guest bedroom. Pressing my ear to the wall, I felt movement inside. That was enough for my husband.
“We’re opening the wall,” he said.

He swung an axe, and the noise grew louder with each hit. I stepped back, heart racing.

When the drywall finally cracked, we froze. Behind it was a massive wasp nest — hundreds of them swarming together.

We later learned wasps love hidden, warm spaces and can grow a colony of thousands in a single season. Their stings can be dangerous, especially for anyone allergic.

The scariest part? We’d been sleeping just feet away — and if the nest had grown bigger, they might’ve broken through on their own.