The Great Sac removal

A few days ago I noticed what appeared to be a cocoon or sac of some type attached waaaaaaaay up high on our family room wall. I stared and stared at it. Consulted a friend visiting about her thoughts on it. It was concluded I should remove it immediately before I was attacked by thousands of spiders. Spiders. The very thing I am most scared of in this world. Goosebumps covering my body just typing the word. After my super smart friend left, I did what any normal person would do. Spent hours of my life googling what could possibly be attached to my wall. Not feeling researched enough, I resumed the quest for identification today. I was getting no where but had manged to convince myself I was dealing with a very dangerous spider situation. Out to the garage for the ladder I went. At this point I peaked the interest of three little men ranging in ages from 10-7. Ladder is now set up and I go to climb it and lose all the courage. I was screaming and basically acting like the cliche girlie girl. Well you never saw three little chests puff up faster in all your days. In the end, it took all three of their efforts to bring the scary sac thingy down. During the removal there were many screams by only me of course. It looked very sticky and I was convinced it was going to rupture and thousands of spiders with huge eyes, hair and shiny fangs were going to attack us. Once it was down my little chivalrous crew did what any crew made up of two 10 and one 7 year old would do...they took it outside to cut it open. And guess what they found as I hid in the house watching through a window...they discovered it was...GUM!!! At which point my 7 year old turned several shades of red and said..."oops, I guess I missed the trash"