In a shocking turn of events, a man has been bitten by a bat in the ROM bat cave, a favourite Royal Ontario Museum attraction for high schoolers, children, and university students. The man, UofT pre-law student Jon H., was sticking his head into one of the crevices in the cave when he felt “a sharp pain just above his throat.” 

Jon’s friend Arthur noticed the mark on his throat. “It was really dark in the Bat Cave so we couldn’t tell what went on, but when we got out I saw two bloody marks on Jon’s throat. It looked like something might have bit him.”

Jon’s other friend, Morris, who also witnessed the events in the Bat Cave, said, “Jon was definitely bitten by a vampire [bat]. It’s the only thing I know of that would leave a mark like that.”

ROM staff maintain that “the bats in the Bat Cave are models of bats, and there are no live bats in the bat cave. Any appearance of real, moving bats is from the visual effects in the cave and some moving animatronics. Not real bats.”

Jon’s friends then took him to the cafeteria at the ROM to get an early lunch, since he was feeling lightheaded and slightly faint after the incident.

The students were visiting the ROM on Tuesday, when there is free admission to the museum for post-secondary students.