Adults tell scared children there are no monsters under their beds, but that might not always be true.
A 61-year-old Florida woman is going to be having some trouble sleeping for the foreseeable future, as she discovered a burglar was hiding under her bed while she was searching for her cats last Tuesday.
The woman reached under the bed hoping to feel for one of the cats and instead found the burglar. The intruder, Christian Vatovec, then sprinted out of the home and jumped a fence while fleeing out of the Palm Springs neighborhood, according to the Sun Sentenial.
The direct account from the police report says the woman "felt she had touched human skin" as she was searching for the cats.
Prior to her discovery, the woman's neighbor called the police on the would-be burglar. The neighbor said the intruder was knocking on doors in the neighborhood and walking towards the back of a house.
The woman claims a gold ankle bracelet and digital camera were stolen.
Vatovec was found by police near a canal and later identified by the woman whose bed he was hiding under. He faces charges of burglary, grand theft and resisting arrest and is being held at the Palm Beach County Jail on $53,000 bail.
