# 3 AM: why is there a hole in the ceiling and how did a guinea pig get in there? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 11, 2012, 9:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-am-why-is-there-a-hole-in-the-ceiling-and-how-did-a-guinea-pig-get-in-there/643694 "2012-12-11T09:54:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2012, 9:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-am-why-is-there-a-hole-in-the-ceiling-and-how-did-a-guinea-pig-get-in-there/643694/1 "2012-12-11T09:54:20Z")
mouseover space The “hole” was the shade of my hanging lamp and the “guinea pig” a CFL bulb. ---
**Author:** ![Motorgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e36b37/32.png) [@Motorgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Motorgirl)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2012, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-am-why-is-there-a-hole-in-the-ceiling-and-how-did-a-guinea-pig-get-in-there/643694/2 "2012-12-12T23:00:56Z")
Many years ago, I awoke to something similar - a large hole in the wall with shadowy people in it peering out at me!! It was my U2 Joshua Tree poster. After a couple of these incidents I moved the poster. My half asleep brain was obviously incapable of interpreting the poster correctly. ---
**Author:** ![Daylate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9dc877/32.png) [@Daylate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daylate)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2012, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-am-why-is-there-a-hole-in-the-ceiling-and-how-did-a-guinea-pig-get-in-there/643694/3 "2012-12-13T01:59:50Z")
A friend of ours was temporarily storing a full-sized cardboard cutout of Frankenstein’s monster at our house. That will startle you when getting up in the middle of the night to check on the bathroom! You Dopers out there who worry about such things will please note that I wrote “Frankenstein’s monster”, not “Frankenstein”. ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2012, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-am-why-is-there-a-hole-in-the-ceiling-and-how-did-a-guinea-pig-get-in-there/643694/4 "2012-12-13T02:33:44Z")
I must admit, this is the funniest thread title I’ve read in a while. ---
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2012, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-am-why-is-there-a-hole-in-the-ceiling-and-how-did-a-guinea-pig-get-in-there/643694/5 "2012-12-13T02:51:31Z")
\Freinds, help, a guinea pig tricked me! \ ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2012, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-am-why-is-there-a-hole-in-the-ceiling-and-how-did-a-guinea-pig-get-in-there/643694/6 "2012-12-13T04:01:05Z")
> [@Daylate](#): > > A friend of ours was temporarily storing a full-sized cardboard cutout of Frankenstein’s monster at our house. That will startle you when getting up in the middle of the night to check on the bathroom! Reminds me of the time my sister-in-law punched my mummy in the middle of the night. Knocked its head clear out of its wrappings.