It’s like something out of a horror movie, right in the middle of Tampa. Near the corner of Florida and Hillsborough avenues, an entire colony of rats has overtaken an area where people wait for the bus, neighbors walk with their children, and homeless people occasionally camp out. Over the months, the rats have dug their way under a pyramid-shaped dome and a network of tunnels that would make your skin crawl. “I’m from New York. A native New Yorker,” Sarita Walcott said while waiting for a bus. Walcott says she always expected to see rats in the NYC subway system but was horrified to be sitting at a Tampa bus stop just feet away from such a massive rat nest. So large, locals have given it nicknames like "Ratopia" and "Ratlantis." “Yeah, I can deal with that, because I grew up with that. I mean I was understanding that was the thing. In New York in the subways. OK? But I didn’t expect it for down here. No,” Walcott said. Folks who wait for the #34 bus at the corner of Florida and Hillsborough Avenues say it's been going on for close to a year. “It’s gross. It’s disgusting,” Michael Edwards said. Edwards says he catches the bus before the sun comes up every morning. when the rats are most active. “They are jumping in and out of the trash cans. And running back inside, climbing up trees,” he said. “They’re all up in the bus stop area. You have to stomp them away sometimes. And they can get kind of aggravating.”