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“I thought to myself that she was just over exaggerating and told her not to worry until I got home," he said.

When he returned he discovered his wife Signe, 39, had banned their children from the kitchen and their pet cat had been attacked by the “monster” rat.

Bengtsson-Korsås soon realised the job was too big to tackle alone and called in pest control.

And this is where the tale gets truly terrifying…