A child's imagination is an incredible thing. They need very little prompting to come up with an entire narrative story with a plot, characters, and motivations — even if none of it makes sense to us adults.
It's kind of sad that we lose that as we grow up.
As adults, we know that there's nothing in the closet. There's never been anything in the closet besides clothes and whatever junk we hid last time our mom came to visit.
See also: the monster under the bed.
Some install a night light, some let the kid sleep in their bed, and some go through the pantomime of checking each shadow for the monster.
The girls are six and ten, and described the creature as looking like a big rat.
The parents checked the bedroom, but weren't able to find anything. They let the 7-year-old sleep in the guest room that night.
They live in a rural area of Ohio, just north of Columbus, so mice wouldn't be out of the question. She set up some traps in the room and they went back to their normal lives.
Bryan went to check again and this time he found a possum chilling in the girls' closet. At the time he discovered it, it had slipped down into a dress and was peaking out of the sleeve.
With hindsight, they realized that things like missing dog food and knocked over toys had been a sign that the possum had been wandering around.
Yes, they have a dog. Apparently, it is not a very good guard dog.
It was just a funny family story, until Caitlin decided to share it in a comment for a tweet by Chrissy Teigen, whose family hamster had gone AWOL.
When the comment went viral, Caitlin shared the whole story of how her daughters got to enjoy an epic "I Told You So." If I were those girls, I'd be milking it every time my parents questioned me.
h/t: BuzzFeed
