Rat the size of a cat gnaws on couple's clothes as they sleep in luxury hotel
Dr Kiran Morjaria was on holiday in Sri Lanka with his girlfriend when she woke him in the middle of the night
A British doctor holidaying in Sri Lanka was left aghast when his girlfriend roused him in the dead of night, convinced that an intruder was in their room. Upon illuminating their surroundings, the reality was revolting – a rat as large as a small cat had invaded their upscale hotel room.
Kiran Morjaria, a doctor and YouTuber, recounted the petrifying incident to his 32,000 TikTok followers, a tale sure to make anyone consider sleeping with the lights on during their next holiday. Kiran's partner, who is petrified of insects, alerted him in the night, but he initially dismissed her fears, assuring her she was just imagining things.
Yet, what they discovered later was far more alarming than any insect.
He said: "When I was in Sri Lanka last year my girlfriend is terrified of insects and that sort of thing. She got me up and said 'I can hear something' in the middle of the night. I said 'You are just imagining it - there is nothing here.'".
But mere minutes later, his girlfriend's insistence led to a startling discovery. Kiran added: "About ten minutes later she gets me up again and says 'I can definitely hear something in the room so I get up and turn the light on.'", reports the Mirror.
That's when Kiran came face-to-face with the colossal rodent that had been lurking in their suite. He exclaimed: "And there I see the biggest rat I have ever seen in my life. I'm talking literally the size of a small cat."
What Kiran encountered at his accommodation was even more alarming as he revealed the mammoth rat was "nibbling on our clothes inside the room."
Kiran then urged his followers to impart their own nightmare experiences in the comments, which yielded some grisly tales.
One recounted a mortifying situation involving her child's nappy fiasco at a swimming pool. She said: "We had the entire swimming pool closed off as our new-born baby pooped in his swim nappy and its was explosive upset tummy we was very embarrassed."
Euan's anecdote also featured an explosive element of a different nature. He narrated: "At Nantes airport my T-shirt got swabbed for explosives multiple times and came back and cause I was playing with cap guns the day before."
Katy, on the other hand, experienced a harrowing near-miss straight after leaving JFK airport. She recounted: "Leaving JFK airport for Manhattan, Taxi speeding, 60mph head on collision, Police said we're lucky not going home in a body bag, taken to Queens Hosp!".
In light of Kiran's initial story, another commenter voiced their opinion, surmising they would have found it difficult to fall asleep again. They remarked: "Arrrrrhhh (not even scared of rats normally but I'd have screamed and not slept."
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