Myth Buster: Opossums Don't Really Hang By Their Tails To Sleep. Opossums have some unusual behaviors, but spending long periods hanging by their tails or sleeping while hanging by their tails isn't something they really do. ... The myth of them sleeping while hanging upside down by their tails just isn't true.

Where does a possum sleep at night?

>> Virginia opossums are nocturnal (most active at night). They sleep during the day in a den in a hollow tree or in an abandoned rodent burrow.

How and where do Possums sleep?

Opossums prefer to sleep alone. They are sound sleepers and usually like to snooze out of sight. Like under the house, behind that old pile of cardboard boxes in a back corner of the garage, or in that hole under the shed.