Couple find a cat-sized rat in their holiday suite doing something 'horrendous'
The couple was horrified to stumble upon a mammoth rat had broken into their room in the dead of night with the man thinking his girlfriend was 'just imagining things'
A British doctor on holiday in Sri Lanka was "horrified" when his girlfriend woke him in the middle of the night convinced something was inside their room.
When he turned on the lights to reality was disgusting - a rat the size of a small cat was in their luxury hotel room.
Kiran Morjaria, a doctor and Youtuber, shared a truly horrifying story with his 32,000 TikTok followers that will leave anyone wanting to sleep with the lights on during your next getaway.
Explaining his girlfriend is 'terrified of insects' Kiran told his partner she was just imagining things when she woke him up in the middle of the night. However, what he later found was much worse than a noisy cricket or rogue mosquito.
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.''
However, 10 minutes later his girlfriend woke him up again - certain there was something in the suite with them. Kiran continued: '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.''
It is at this point Kiran saw the enormous rat that has been with them all along. He said: '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 the mammoth rat was doing was even more 'horrendous'. Kiran said the rodent was 'nibbling on our clothes inside the room.'
Kiran asked his followers to share their own horror stories in the comments - and some of them were gruesome.
One described the severe embarrassment she experienced at the hands of her kids' nappy mishap. 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 story was explosive in a different way. He shared: '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.'
Meanwhile Katy barely made it out of the airport before her holiday was turned upside down - narrowly escaping death. She said: '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!'
One commenter chimed in regarding Kiran's tale saying they would have struggled to get back to sleep. They said: 'Arrrrrhhh (not even scared of rats normally but I'd have screamed and not slept.'
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