My worst fears have now been realized. It seriously does not get any scarier than this for me. A family recently discovered their ceiling was quite literally crawling with spiders.
I did not know this... I knew that they were in the southwestern part of the United States, but had no clue that there are giant arachnids in our state! My wife is petrified of spiders and I find it mildly comical how hysterical she gets when even the topic of spiders come up...
When you arrive to your new place and find a package marked 'return to sender,' you might not want to open it - there might be a giant, hairy spider inside!
That's what happened to a U.K. man - a package marked 'return to sender' sent to his new address contained a Brazilian Salmon Pink Birdeater, the third largest spider in the world...
I don't know why this video is so entertaining. It could be because of the voice over, the way the spider acts or the combo of those things. The guy that created this video did such a good job nailing how the spider would probably sound.
This video starts out with a disclaimer, "Warning: Do not watch if you have a fear of spiders." I think that if you do have a fear of spiders you SHOULD watch just so people around you can laugh at you. If those people aren't afraid of spiders, make them watch it. I am not afraid of spiders, but that doesn't mean I like them. I have the feeling that one of those giant things was watching
Arachnophobes, beware! Scientists have just discovered the world's largest 8-legged creature from the Jurassic period.
The 165 million-year-old female spider is part of the Golden Orb Weavers -- a family of spiders that still exist today -- and has a leg span of nearly six inches.