A shocked woman heard a strange noise coming from behind a window and discovered a colony of bats.
Carmen called the encounter with the flying mammals “traumatic.”
Her mother said she could hear something behind a wooden shutter on an outside upper-floor window.
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Carmen went to investigate with her sister and dad.
A clip of the incident shows family members using brooms to swing the shutter open.
Dozens of bats suddenly fly out and the two sisters run away in shock, screaming as they go.
The clip was filmed by Carmen at her home in Spain.
The video went viral on TikTok with 26 million views and thousands of comments, as reported on What’s the Jam.
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One local said: “If that happened to me I would teleport out of there!”
Another asked: “What was the purpose of the girl with the broom?”
Laura joked: “They were already blind, but now you deafened them with that ultrasonic scream!”
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Alfonso commented: “Bats can eat up to 1,200 mosquitoes per hour, they often consume their body weight in insects each night.”
Violet wrote: “Bats may be scary but they are pollinators just like bees, don’t kill them.”
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