I Felt Something Crawling on My Back in Bed — But the Truth Was Much Less TerrifyingThe Midnight Mystery: What Was In My Bed? (Plus, The Ultimate Candied Bacon Recipe!)I Felt Something Crawling on My Back in Bed — But the Truth Was Much Less Terrifying
I woke up feeling like something was biting my upper back. Above my mattress, I found this.
My whole family has been staring at it for an hour, but we still can’t figure out what it is. Does anyone know what this could be? We poked it, we prodded it, we even got out a magnifying glass to see if it had legs. My mind immediately went to the worst-case scenarios: Was it a weird parasite? Some kind of mutant spider? A piece of an alien spacecraft?
Check below for the answer…
The Hilarious Reveal
After an hour of absolute panic, my teenager walked into the room, squinted at the tiny, twisted brownish object on my mattress, and started dying of laughter.
“Mom… that’s not a bug.”
I looked at him, completely confused. “Then what is it?!”
“That’s a piece of the candied bacon we made yesterday!”
Sure enough, upon closer inspection (and a brave sniff), the terrifying “bed bug” was actually a tiny, over-caramelized, twisted scrap of bacon. It must have stuck to my pajama sleeve while I was cleaning the kitchen counters the night before and somehow migrated into my bed.
