A wedding is something a woman dreams about her whole life.
She imagines her groom, the venue with twinkling lights, and the flowers she will hold as she walks down the aisle. What she doesn't imagine is a blood-sucking leech being stuck to her leg all night!
Usually, the only leeches are the people who attend weddings for the free bar!
That's the first problem right there — she lives in Australia, home of the worst creepy crawlies, like snakes, spiders, and blood-thirsty leeches. She was enjoying her first dance as a married woman.
While she got all that with her newlywed husband, Jayden, she also discovered a surprise: a blood-sucking leech had fastened to her leg.
This made it a prime condition for leeches. The same thing happened last year in Sydney when an army of leeches invaded backyards in Sydney.
The tricky thing about leeches is that they're good at hiding, much like other creatures like cockroaches, who are hard to kill.
The moment she discovered it was even captured in a video TikTok video that's been viewed more than 13.5 million times.
It certainly looked that way: blood had gotten all over the lining of her expensive white wedding dress. This only got worse after they were able to remove the thirsty leech.
That's because leeches release a painkilling chemical so that the host does not feel them drawing blood. Ugh, those pesky buggers!
That explains the photos in Madalyn's TikTok video, which showed her knee wrapped up.
Viewers also got to see a huge leech squirming around shudders. You can guess that her wedding night did not go as expected.
This included never, ever wanting to visit Australia. "Every day I open TikTok and just get another reason to not visit Australia," one woman joked in the comments. Same, sister.
"For a sec I was like worst day to have your period," one wrote. For some, it reminded them of something else. "this weirdly reminds me of stranger things," another wrote.
From us, we say NEW FEAR UNLOCKED.
