A mum was left horrified after she noticed a creepy pair of black eyes staring at her through the branches of her Christmas tree.
In a video shared on TikTok, Gina revealed she hoped she was mistaken when she caught sight of a creature looking at her through her decorations.
When Gina went to investigate it by using the end of a sweeping brush to pull back the branches of her tree, she revealed the two eyes peering back at her.
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In the caption on the clip, which has gained more than 2.5million views, she simply wrote; "Help!!!!!" as Michael Buble’s ‘It’s Beginning to Look a Lot like Christmas’ was playing over the top.
She was startled by a little grey mouse that had been hiding out inside the tree, which she confirmed in a follow-up video.
The second video shows her cats chasing it before she safely escorted it outside.
However, she wrote: "No mouse was harmed in the making of this video. He’s safely outside now along with my Christmas tree."
Thousands of people flocked to the comments section, equally as afraid as the mum as they claimed they would have panicked if they had been in a similar situation.
One user wrote: "One of my biggest fears." Another said: "I would have destroyed the whole tree in a panic."
A third added: "I simply would have set the whole tree on fire."
“I would have died on the spot," a fourth commented.
Others suggested she should always “shake the tree before you bring it out of storage”.
However, others claimed that it wasn't a scary situation and that they actually found the rodent adorable.
One user said: "So cute, he wants to be a decoration!"
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