Odd query about an odd experience

I keep being drawn back to this thread like a moth to a flame. The horror!

In my experience mice don't chirp, so if the mattress has been invaded by vermin it is much more likely to be a cricket or some kind of beetle.

I would definitely follow the advice to fumigate it and the storeroom where you keep it as well.

Cant offer any advice really that hasn't already been said but i am ding to know so please open it and give us the verdict.

I’d have to get a new mattress!!!

Probably your smoke alarm battery.

Maybe it was just the foam degrading? Some foam goes hard in time and any weight on it would cause it to break up. I’m sure if you opened it up it would be all powdery and only fit for the tip.

Yes, open the mattress!

Whatever it is do you want to risk it hatching? In your house? I’m so intrigued ? keep us posted we have to get to the bottom of this .....

Perhaps it was just the springs needing oiling!

I would need to know what it was. If it was some form of insect/mice, you may have the same problem again with another bed if you keep it in the same place.

I would investigate in the daytime.

Crickets! They are absolutely harmless. Ignore them and put the bed back in storage when you have finished with it and forget them.

I would be on my way to the local tip now I wouldn't be happy with it in the house and even less happy to have my DGS sleeping on it trust your instincts

We had a similar problem... it was kept in a garage and we brought it out and set it up and loads of larvae were present. Binned thewhole thing....

Bluebelle Hopefully not but why couldn't it be mice ? Just another family moving in when the others have moved out ?

Oh that does sound worrying, my mind is in overdrive as to what the creatures were.
I once found the most enormous cockroach on the study floor, so big it sent shudders down my spine, and I have worked night shift in old buildings. I googled to find a picture of the cockroach and it said it was of Chinese origin, I think it must have been carried in a large box that surrounded a dolls house, sadly an expensive toy that I believed had been made in Britain.

My son had a lizard when he was young. He fed it crickets among other things. The inevitable happened and some escaped. We would lie in bed at night listening to the chirping,it drove us mad. We would hunt the house for these crickets and only find them when we weren't looking.
Some had went through floorboards and fallen down between wall. Horrendous!

I’ve had the best giggle with this thread. Made my morning!!

Day6 that was Take Your Pick, with Michael Miles. Hughie Green hosted Double Your Money. Gosh, that was a long time ago - I used to love both programmes

Chewbacca . Not sure I could have been as brave as you!!!

Jane10 it would be a block buster

Day6 Christmas presents are supposed to be nice or at least acceptable! Maybe 'The Mystery of the Chirruping Mattress' could be the next best selling thriller? In the film of it I'd want me to be played by Meryl Streep (or Jo Brand) DH would have to be played by Charles Dance (or Mr Pastry) DGS by Prince George of course. The detective could be that chap from 'Shetland'. He always seems so kind yet competent. Oh no. I've got carried away again. Dratted mattress!

at three days in a kiln.

We used to get huge cockroaches when we lived abroad. They give me the screaming abdabs.

Well, at least tell us where the dump is!

Do you remember that programme where contestants were urged to "Open the Box!" and see what was in there?(Can't think of the name of it right now...compered by Hughie Green, or Michael Miles?)

This is the "Open the Mattress" equivalent!

I can understand your getting rid of it Jane but for a moment there it was like we all had the suspense of an extra mystery/surprise Christmas present to open

Bathsheba...... Large black plastic rubble sack, shaken wide open. Loosen the top of the dust box, but definitely not opened fully. Put dust box into the rubble sack, holding it through the sack itself, with one hand. With the other hand, snatch off the lid of dust box, shake dust box violently to shake contents to the bottom of the sack and whip out both the box and the lid as quick as you can. Grab the sack around the middle, knot it and throw it in the bin as quick as possible. Don't use the dustbin again until its been emptied. Just in case.shudder

But Chewbacca, I meant to ask, what did you do with the four that were inside your Dyson? You said the first one was still flying around inside the drum , so presumably the three others survived the journey up the tube and into the drum as well. Did they just beat each other to death inside the small space? I can scarcely bear to think about it, ugh

Oh good grief Chewbacca, I'd have died a thousand deaths

Jane10 I would definitely be inclined to bin the mattress, but please have a look inside first - we are all itching (literally!) to know what's there!