spider I caught in ma hoose

[Elisabeth83]

We have those too chish.
The other night i brushed my head against a light that hangs pretty low and felt something in my hair. I brushed it away and my son starts shouting at me *look at that huuuuuuuuuge spider*
i turned round and hes pointing at my head. So of course i start dancing like granddad at a party and the thing runs down my face.
My son said that he thought it fell off run across the floor so i calm down and start to look for it to put it outside. As i'm searching i feel something on my neck and flick this thing onto the floor and i swear to god it turned round and smiled to me before diving behind some furniture. Ive never been so scared in my life! i'm getting the shivers just thinking about it

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chishnfips - That is a HUGE spider

black_angel - I swear I never would of survived your ordeal. I am seriously terrified of spiders. Last summer while watching tv I saw something scurry across the floor (brushing self off as writing this ) I got up to check if my eyes were playing tricks on me but sure enough it was a spider just a bit smaller than the one chishnfips caught sitting on the carpet. I yelled for my boyfriend to come over as I'm standing 10 foot back. He says I can't see it, I can't see anything and I say right there and as he slightly moves his hand this spider stands up half an inch off the floor and starts running My boyfriend really isn't afraid of spiders but this one made him jump back a bit. It then ran under the couch and I'm screaming you have to find it..I will not sleep here tonight if you don't find it. I then ran off into the bathroom, locked the door and put a towel under the gap of the door. 5 mins later I heard I found it and by this I'm actually sobbing telling him to just kill it!!! I hear his voice coming near and I tell him nooo don't bring it closer and he tells me he isn't that it's safe to come out that he let it go outside. After a bit of talking I finally unlock the bathroom door and come out. I ended up shutting all doors and windows (screens arn't common in Sweden) and vowed to never have a door or window open again. I'm talking about our balchony door not the front door
Last summer I only kept doors and windows open during the day and they got shut by the evening. This summer we got a cat and he wants to hunt anything even as small as a fruit fly and eat it so all this summer I've kept the doors and windows cracked all throughout the day/night feeling safe he'll either eat the spider or at least corner it until we find it.

Here's a tip if your afraid of spiders don't move to Australia!!!! Huntsmans are the scariest spider I've ever laid my eyes on. I remember at the car park while loading groceries into the back of the car I was all the way leaned into the back when I look next to me and see a big black hairy huntsman run across the floor. I swear I didn't think I had those horror movie type screams in me. Well I found mine that day!!!!! A lady who was walking past at the time started laughing after she realized what was going on. My step-dad found a stick and got it out and I cautiously got into the back seat just waiting for there to be a nest of them or something.

Ok last story I swear (I've got so many spider stories) I had just gotten back from Sweden to my parents house in Australia (my house at the time) and on the ride home I was talking with my mom about spiders and she said how since I've been gone they haven't seen hardly any spiders in the house. I had told her before I flew back to check all the rooms for spiders especially those big, long legged corner ones (daddy long legs?). She assured me there were none there. Finally back home and because it was around 4 am my mom and step-dad went back to bed. I went into the bathroom to brush my teeth and I'm standing there with my head over the sink and I tilt my head to look into the mirror and not 2 inches away from my face is the biggest daddy long leg I've ever seen dangling in front of me. I again found the horror movie type scream in me and mom immidiately got up knowing by the scream what was going on. She catches it in her hand because she's not afraid of them and takes it outside. Then she goes straight back to bed and I'm up all by myself scared with no one to talk to about my trauma

So I think you all understand now just how much I hate spiders!!! And don't even get me started on all the spider challenges they do on Fear Factor

 

[Gill]

I got Another 1

When we were little and All shared the Same room. I woke up a Little Groggy.
I see Something Move around on the Pillow, Thi shuge Spider comes into Focus. It looked bigger as it was just next to my Nose.

I cannot Remember What happened next - I think I blacked out or Mentally Blocked it out.

I think I screamed and Woke Everyone up and they had to Catch it b4 it crawled onto me.

And Another.

We were Watching ALF - How long ago was that Show on.
Anyway, we saw another huge Spider on the Wall. We were all feeling the Brave so went into the Kitchen and Climbed onto the worktop and found the Spider Spray in the Cupboard.
My Middle Brother moved the Settee out of the way and Sprayed the Spider.
Nothing Happened, so he sprayed again.
Nothing Happened.
Sprayed again, now anyone who uses Wasp and Spider Spray knows its white and Goooey. So the spider was Covered in a Film of Poison.
The Spider carries on Crawling along the Fall, jumps down onto the Floor.
So My Brother Follows it around the room - Mum and Dad have a Massive lounge. It walks out into the Conservatory and So my Brother Is still Following it Spraying it.
Picture the Scene A long Gooey trail of Poison on the walls and Carpet.
The Spider Did not Die after 1/2 a Can Of Spray was used on it.
It ran into the Air Block and Was Never Seen Again.

 

[xXMrBonesXx]

i think you should pack it up and mail to to either SRC or black angel so her friend can have a buddy

or to SirMinion so he can start a spider sledding team


i took a trantula molt off a goliath bird eater and put it in a girls locker at work and i think she srapped her pants when she opened her locker

 

[troutfly]

If I came across one of those, I run back home, the ironic part about that is I live in the US and those are in the UK, so I guess I could save on travel costs. LOL.

I was in Haiti in 93 and a huge tarantula was on my ruck sack (military backpack for those who didn't know) and I told my buddy to get rid of it or I was going to shoot it, he took his weapon and with a golf swing like a 9 iron, knocked that thing about 75 feet from where we were, it freaked me out because we had spent all night in elephant grass the was 3 feet tall and no telling how many more of those things were running around before I found that one the next day....YUCK.

I know, I'm whinning about this, but hard to belive a guy who was in the military is afraid of spiders.....LOL

 

[black angel]

All these spider stories are going to give me nightmares, i'm getting goosebumps reading them.

 

[MAM]

I have issues with critters that have more than four legs. Not sure why, but they just creep me out. I can tolerate the fatter furry varieties of spiders (ex: tarantulas) as long as they're not touching me, but the really skinny leg type, where the legs almost look like the ends would be sharp (real pointy and skinny at the tip), those make me jump and shiver and run screaming from the room. You should see me at work when one of those little speedy spiders goes zooming across my desk: "bang, bang bang" as I try to smash it with whatever is handy.....................

*MAM looks at the pictures again and runs screaming from the thread*

 

[Elisabeth83]

I keep checking this thread to see what others have posted and everytime I keep my eyes towards the banner and click page 3 because I can't stand to see the pics of the spider anymore Creepy!!!!!!

After reading this thread throughout the day...at dinner time I stepped on a fork that fell on the floor and I jumped thinking it was a spider I'll have to check the bedroom over a few times..look under the pillows and blanket to make sure nothing is there.

Have any of you seen the fear factor episodes with all the spiders?? Ohh what about that old James Bond movie where the tarantula is crawing up his body in bed?

I'm usually ok with spiders as long as they are outside or behind glass but if one gets anywhere near me I freak out

 

[houndour]

oh my god we had 2 of those huge spiders in our house today!!! We took pics too The first one was this morning, he was on my towel in the bathroom, I've never moved so quick! And then tonight when we came home there was another one....or the same one maybe I wonder if my boyfriend _really_ got rid of the one this morning.

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is it true that spiders come in 2's? Or is it an old wives tale that my mum's told me? Cos I dunno about you guys, but whenever I see one big spider I can pretty much gaurantee I'll see it's girlfriend within a day or 2. Or maybe its just cos I'm looking for them?

 

[Weaver]

I was always taught it was bad luck to kill a spider and that superstition has stayed with me all through my life.If I see one I just lift it and put it outdoors Theres a huge one at the moment in this room somewhere but I havent been able to get hold of it yet
The only things to get an immediate death sentence in this house are earwigs and wasps!!

 

[Squirrelbuddies]

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is it true that spiders come in 2's? Or is it an old wives tale that my mum's told me? Cos I dunno about you guys, but whenever I see one big spider I can pretty much gaurantee I'll see it's girlfriend within a day or 2. Or maybe its just cos I'm looking for them?

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Yes, I think they do come in two's! Last week I went to make coffee in the AM and there was a BIG brown spider in the sink. The next day there was another! I promptly took the sprayer thing (both days) and washed them down the drain and then ran the garbage disposal for 3 minutes...just to be sure.

Several years ago I decided to take the air conditioner out of the window on my own (while hubby was picking up breakfast.) To my dismay, a HUGE black, thick legged spider jumped into the room. I would not take my eyes off of him and called hubby on the cell phone and pleaded for him to return home ASAP to help me!

He came home and removed the spider from the house. He then went to finish removing the air conditioner from the window, where I had left it balancing precariously on the edge of the sill. Well....he didn't know it was just balancing there and when he went to remove it, the thing promptly fell out the window, six feet to it's death....We really DID need a new AC unit -- but what a way to get one!!

 

[Cian McLiam]

I like spiders, they are good to have in the house because they catch all the really troublesome flies and other creepies that spread disease etc. I would never kill a spider, I dont believe in luck but I do think most of the 'unlucky' things to do originally became 'unlucky' because there was a good reason for it. Instead of appealing to the rational side of people ie. -spiders are ugly but they do far more good than harm- its easier and more successful to appeal to the irrational side 'it will rain if you kill a spider..' etc.

Leave the spiders alone!! Curb injustice to our eight legged crawly friends

 

[Adistar]

i hate spiders period lol.

i flip out if one is near me, let alone on me!

 

[boozybears]

any spider daring to show it's ugly face near me gets a swift and harsh death.

 

[Elisabeth83]

Even though I'm terrified of spiders I know it isn't their fault for having 8 legs and being creepy so if there does happen to be one in the house I have my boyfriend catch them in a jar and let them go outside. Thankfully he's been home most of the times there has been a big spider in the house. I admit if he's not home I have been known to squash some

Has anyone ever seen that episode of Ripley's believe it or not about the family that keeps like hundreds of spiders in their house just walking around? I could hardly watch the tv when that story was on. They had spiders everywhere. When they got a glass out of a cupboard there were spiders all over the cupboards and inside the glasses and when they sat down for dinner there were spiders crawing all over the table on their bread and everything There was all types and all sizes. The family had kids too and the kids didn't mind. It's those daddy long leg types that really freak me out!!!!

 

[Scott MacAdam]

I have some huge ones that live out side my door they made a web accross my windows.. there almost the size of that.. but see it you can figuer this one out..... a guy i know was taking a hike up to a waterfall a couple of km away from my house and he said that he saw a spider bigger than his hand (and he has BIG FRICKIN HANDS) i think some one must have bought a tarantula or bird eating spider and it got away or something because i live in Nova Scotia Canada and it gets pretty cold here in the winter.......