Welcome to another entry in our new column, The Week's Weirdest World News. The world, you might have noticed, is a very strange place — so every seven days, we'll be rounding up the most bizarre things that have happened across the globe, purely for your enjoyment.

From a monstrous hive of bees in a kid's bedroom to a yakuza member committing an unexpected crime, these stories are sure to inspire wonder — or, at the very least, befuddlement — at the weird ol' world around us.

'Monsters' in child's bedroom turn out to be 60,000 bees

@classashley What nighthmares are made of #bees #toddlersoftiktok #toddlers ♬ Oh No - Kreepa

A North Carolina family recently discovered that the "monsters in the wall" that their child had been complaining about were actually tens of thousands of bees.

Ashley Class, who lives with her family in a 100-year-old farmhouse, said her young daughter Saylor had been talking about monsters in her bedroom wall for months, but it was dismissed as a figment of the 3-year-old's overactive imagination.

Class eventually noticed bees clustered around areas of the old home, and contacted a beekeeper who used a thermal camera to examine the walls in Saylor's bedroom.

It was revealed that as many as 55,000 to 65,000 bees had spent eight months building a giant hive in the wall, and the beekeeper removed 100lbs of honeycomb along with the insects. The damage caused by the winged creatures amounts to an estimated $20,000.

The bees removed from Class's home are honeybees, a protected species in the US, and are being relocated to a sanctuary.

Japanese town blocks out Mount Fuji to fend off tourists

A Japanese town known for its impressive Mount Fuji views is so tired of misbehaving tourists that it's installing a giant screen to block out the attraction.

Fujikawaguchiko, a town in Japan's Yamanashi Prefecture, boasts several scenic points that provide Instagram-worthy shots of the mountain — but troublesome tourists have driven officials to erect a 20-meter-long black mesh net that will obstruct the popular photo spot.

According to the Associated Press, locals say littering, trespassing and ignoring traffic lights are some of the problems brought to the town by tourists eager to get snaps of Mount Fuji.

When the mesh barrier is completed in mid-May, it will cover the view of the mountain almost completely.

Beekeeper saves Dodgers-Diamondbacks game, throws first pitch

A gigantic swarm of bees had delayed an LA Dodgers-Arizona Diamondbacks game by nearly two hours on Tuesday before a beekeeper came to save the day.

Local pest control expert Matt Hilton arrived at Phoenix's Chase Stadium after receiving a call about the bees, which had clustered on top of the protective netting above the home plate in their thousands.

Dressed in a beekeeper suit, Hilton was lifted towards the bee colony using a scissor lift, where he sprayed a non-pesticide spray on the swarm and vacuumed it up.

"It was a little nerve-racking, I'm not going to lie," Hilton told the press. "A lot of pressure to get this game going. But I was happy to come and take care of it."

To show their appreciation to Hilton, organizers let him take to the mound — still in his beekeeper garb — to throw out the game's ceremonial first pitch.

And don't worry about the bees — they were later set free away from the stadium.

Yakuza lieutenant arrested for stealing Pokémon cards

A high-ranking member of the yakuza was arrested in Tokyo this week on suspicion of stealing Pokémon cards, SoraNews24 has reported.

The Tachikawa Precinct of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police announced that they had arrested Keita Saito — a 39-year-old lieutenant within Japan's second-largest organized crime syndicate, Sumiyoshi-kai — in relation to a theft that took place in December 2022.

Twenty-nine items with a total value of around 252,000 yen were stolen during the break-in at an office in Ogano, Saitama Prefecture — including 25 Pokémon cards.

Saito has admitted to the break-in and theft, while another man arrested in connection with the robbery, 56-year-old Hidefumi Kuboshita, denies involvement. Police are also seeking two other men in relation to the crime.

Not had your fill of weird news just yet? Check out last week's roundup.

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