Real-life Arachnaphobia - Page 2

It's funny, most threads can't get past a few dozen posts. But start one about spiders and people go nuts.

Because I have nothing better to do, here are some threads about Chewers and their spider experiences:

<a href="http://chud.com/board/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=24&t=003589&p=" target="_blank">Shelby catches a huge ass spider</a>

<a href="http://chud.com/board/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=24&t=003244&p=" target="_blank">The spider of my nightmares!</a>

<a href="http://chud.com/board/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=24&t=002646&p=" target="_blank">Nick catches a brown recluse</a>

<a href="http://chud.com/board/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=24&t=002523&p=" target="_blank">rath freaking out about invisible spider</a>

<a href="http://chud.com/board/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=24&t=002381&p=" target="_blank">Deep fried spiders, anyone?</a>

<a href="http://chud.com/board/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=24&t=002139&p=" target="_blank">billylove finds brown recluse in his house</a>

There's more, but you get the idea. I can safely say, Chewers do not like spiders!

Isn't there a thread about those kids or tourists in South America or something that moved a rock and found the scariest sight I have ever beholden? Didn't it look like some kind of cross between a freaking crab and spider?

You can tell it left an impression to this day...

<a href="http://chud.com/board/ubbhtml/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=24;t=002646" target="_blank">http://chud.com/board/ubbhtml/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=24;t=002646</a>

Check this out

<a href="http://chud.com/board/ubbhtml/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=24;t=003244" target="_blank">http://chud.com/board/ubbhtml/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=24;t=003244</a>

They moved the giant spider pic here:
<a href="http://www.xs4all.nl/~rpronk/clock.htm" target="_blank">http://www.xs4all.nl/~rpronk/clock.htm</a>

Oy yea....

Here ya go...

<a href="http://www.getlostmagazine.com/bug/0206bug/bugeats.jpg" target="_blank">http://www.getlostmagazine.com/bug/0206bug/bugeats.jpg</a>

Oh and the accompanying story...

<a href="http://www.getlostmagazine.com/bug/0206bug/bug.html" target="_blank">http://www.getlostmagazine.com/bug/0206bug/bug.html</a>

Neither will I. I fucking HATE spiders. Enough to seriously ponder waiting outside the theatre when Return of the King until Shelob is over with. But I probably will bite the bullet, and as such won't sleep for another five weeks after seeing it.

Although this thred freaked me out enough that I'm gonna go clean my room now. Make sure there aren't any eight-legged minions of evil hiding underneath my bed.

Yeah, I'm a pussy when it comes to spiders. I don't care.

Please please please PLEASE tell me that was a Photoshop job, or a gimmick toy, or SOMETHING. PLEASE. Or At least tell me that that thing in no way exists on the North American continent. Holy FUCK, why did I click on that?

See I've got a sick fascination mixed with an unhealthy fear of them. I loved 8LF but watched most of it through my fingers adn am convinced some night that one of those insanely big critters is gonna crash through my window. I can't wait to see Shelob because I know she'll be awesome and scare the holy crap out of me.

G-dude, I'm pretty sure that's a fake but I'm also sure that spiders that big exist. Not in North AMerica thankfully, but you never know when one might escape from a rare collector...

Good God!!! I will NEVER EVER sleep again in life.

I think my fear has just trippled.

I vaguely recall about 2 years ago on The Discovery Channel there being a special about insects. Extinct ones. And I do belive they had made mention of a spider existing that spun a web that could trap airplanes in it's web..

Spiders are the devil's play things..

I´m glad I live in a land named Iceland. Not many spiders and bugs where I live.

Gandalf may I come live with you? I don't mind the cold and I cook real well. So long as you're not over run with insects I think I could swing it

Sure you can. Have you seen the movie The Thing? You remember how horrible the weather was? The weather is similar here, only windier. wink

Call John Goodman.

Just for reference, Brown recluse spiders are also known as the Fiddleback.

Seems like the dry weather here is bringing the spiders out in droves. Can't step through an outside door without getting a face full of spider web.

Anybody old enough to remember this episode of Night Gallery?

<img src="http://www.nightgallery.net/artpics/26FearSpider.JPG" alt="" />

Every time he washed the spider down the sink it crawled back out twice as big.

Well, being the suggestible person that I am I had a nightmare about spiders. I hope you people are happy!

Not a spider story, but it involves creepy crawlies, so...

Over the weekend I had to do work on some water lines in our crawlspace. Now, I hate the crawlspace more than I hate the Dutch so it took some working up to prepare myself for spending more than 30 seconds in the hellhole. So, I get down to where I need to work, get my tools in order, and swing around to come face to face with a SNAKE. Grated, it was a small baby snake, but a snake nonetheless.

I scrambled back to the ladder and practically jumped out of the crawlspace. You will believe a fat man can fly. I grabbed a shovel and somehow managed to get down the ladder to face the creature. It could sense it's impending doom because the beastie started to move. I quickly brought the edge of the shovel down and chopped the head off. It was weird to see the body go immediately limp while the head wriggled around for a good while longer.

When I took it outside the limp body started to convulse when the cold wind hit it. That was pretty freaky. I don't know what kind of snake it was but my wife and my uncle think it was a baby rattlesnake. It was pale with a brown spotted design on its back.

So, that's my fun for the weekend and I'll never go in the crawlspace again.

Yep that is terrifying. Snakes and Spiders are the devil's play things.. I know they serve apurpose in the good chain and all that rot but they are still creepy as all get out! Gravedigger you are a brave soul.

That's a pretty big spider if you could feel it hit your foot.

Was it... one of *them*?

Not being funny, but didn't they treat your parents' house already? Sounds increasingly like there's no problem there that an emergency evacuation of said parents, a gallon of kerosene, and a book of matches wouldn't solve...

All through high school and college I worked in the dairy department of the local Foodtown (Now Stop & Shop) as the dairy manager.
About 11 years ago, I was hanging out in the produce cooler with a bunch of other workers, and one of the guys open a case of grapes from Brazil or another South American country or somewhere...

We found a sizable black spider with red markings on it's back. We figured it was a black widow, never did get confirmation, and ended up putting it in one of those clear plastic salad containers with some holes poked in the top.

If we slid a coffee stirrer in the hole, the spider would go at the stirrer and freak out.

There were little streaks of fluid all over the stirrer and the inside of the container.

We paraded the spider all over the store, until one of the managers, saying it was bad for business, took it away and stomped on the container outside, effectivly killing the spider.

I don't know what kind of spider it really was, but it was a deep black with bright red marks on the back. It sure looked like a black widow, but I won't go on record saying that it was.

A few years ago I worked at a produce delivery warehouse and was always a bit skittish about what I might find in the boxes. I've found some odd bugs...

I'm imagining things crawling on my hairy legs now.

By the way, why in that link did whoever it was wait for the flesh to be eaten to the bone by the spider bite? Did he get treatment ever? That's the main thing creeping me out right now.

<a href="http://www.abidingpresence.net/T1501/Information/BrownRecluse/" target="_blank">http://www.abidingpresence.net/T1501/Information/BrownRecluse/</a>