Arachnophobia: The Fear Of Spiders

[GranTurismo916]

I'm only scared of the really big ones. I'm really scared of centipedes though.

 

[Azure Flare]

I'm not really afraid of spiders, just the ones that are are within striking distance.

 

[Jedi2016]

I have one downstairs that monitors the front door, keeps bugs from getting in through the gaps and such. He's a tiny one, so most of the time I don't realize he's there. He appears to know better than to leave that area, though. Because if he does, he dies.

That's a single-spider exception. Any others that get near me are terminated with extreme (and I mean extreme) prejudice.

 

[kikie]

If I was living in Australia, I probably check my shoes three times before I put them on. You never know that there is a poisonous spider living in my shoe.

 

[ChromeLEDS]

I absolutely hate them, I can't even look at them for too long as I will start having dreams about getting eaten by them. Luckily there are no venomous spiders in the UK.

 

[dxm8975]

If I was living in Australia, I probably check my shoes three times before I put them on. You never know that there is a poisonous spider living in my shoe.

In Australia there are some venomous species of spiders liable to lurk within soles and above all a few of them are critically virulent.

 

[Yukon]

Spiders.

I hate them so, so much. I can't even explain why, they're just terrifying. The only time I'll kill them is if they're on the floor and I can stamp on the little devils. I'll always have someone else do it when they are above me or on the wall infront of me, or in a little nook where the outcome could be catastrophic if not done properly.

I was watching Arachnophobia the other night. It was at the point where they found out that the nest and was in the guys barn and under his house. When all hell broke loose and thousands of the creatures were anywhere and everywhere was the point I turned it off. No more.

I had a nightmare that same night that I was stuck somewhere with them all around me and some of them were huge! 👎

 

[terminator363]

Just a reminder, spiders rock!

 

[Wiegert]

Just a reminder, spiders also burn!

Well, in that instance at least.

 

[oopssorryy]

Thought I would share my favorite spider story with you all, and this one has a happy ending!

So one day my brother in law is showing off his brand new hunting rifle. We were on his grandfather's property, so we could shoot at some targets ( his grandfather lives out in the middle of no where). Before we reached their make shift shooting range a tunnel spider jumped out and tried to bite threw my brother in laws shoe. Now being deathly afraid of spiders, he had a violent reaction. Seeing the spider retreat back into it's hole, he took out his new .223 rifle suck the barrel into the spiders lair, and fired. The hole was a bit bigger, and we never saw that spider again.

 

[kikie]

My aunt told us this one when I was about 11. It terrified me and my friends. Years later, I was telling the story to a group of people, and one girl had also heard a similar version of the story. It goes like this:

A young woman was sunbathing on the beach and was just about to drop off to sleep, when she felt an insect running along her jawbone and then down her neck. She brushed it away, and thought nothing more of it.

After about a week, she noticed what she thought was a pimple growing and growing. The skin was inflamed and it looked like a blister. Then, one day, she was blow-drying her hair and hit the inflamed spot with her hair dryer. The blistered skin broke open and hundreds of tiny white baby spiders and pus came pouring out of the wound!

It seems that while she was sunbathing, her pores had enlarged enough that a mama spider could deposit her egg sac in one. They incubated under her skin until she smacked herself in the jaw with the hair dryer!

This is an old one that I haven't heard in quite some time. In its prime, I probably heard it from at least 20 different people.....

A woman decides to take a trip to a tropical location (I've heard that it was Jamaica, Cuba, Venezuela, and more!). Her plan is to relax and get a suntan for the week that she's there.

She spends the week lazing on numerous beaches, but on the last day decides to take a tour through a forested area. While in the area, she happens upon a secluded waterfall and a quiet resting place, where she decides to take a swim and then dry off in the sun.

As the story goes, the woman falls asleep in the sun and when she wakes up, she's horribly frightened by a spider crawling on her cheek. She hurriedly brushes the spider away and carries on her way.

A few weeks after returning home, the woman develops a cyst of sorts on her cheek. She goes to the emergency room, where the doctor tells her they will need to pop the cyst to let the fluid escape. The woman agrees to this simple and painless procedure. The doctor proceeds. As it's a painless procedure, the woman is not anesthetized. Soon after the doctor makes the first attempt to pop the cyst, the woman hears a gasp and then feels something trickling down her cheek. She assumes it's the fluid. The doctor tells her not to panic. Instinctively, she brings her hand to her cheek to wipe off the fluid. At that point she realizes that it's not fluid, but rather something crawling on her cheek.

Spiders.... hundreds of tiny spiders are crawling all over her face and on her hand. She lets out a blood-curdling scream and totally loses it. She is so distraught and out of control that she needs to be restrained by several staff.

To this date, she remains in the psychiatric ward of the same hospital where the procedure took place.

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[Grayfox]

True

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I will lock in False
**Plays the dee dum dum sound from who wants to be a millionare.**

 

[kikie]

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/04/new-giant-tarantula/

 

[Stavingo]

Only sorta scared by the big ones, besides that I'll try to leave them alone.

 

[dxm8975]

Just a reminder, spiders rock!

How creepy.

 

[Dean]

[Quotes...]True

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As nasty as it can be, the first one can be true.

 

[Yukon]

Yeah, I'd agree that the first one is probably true, but the second just sounds like a story people might tell to frighten others.

 

[MarinaDiamandis]

Both of those stories are absolute rubbish.

 

[Slash]

I believe the first one could happen if it was a extremely, extremely small spider but I doubt you could feel it running on you.

 

[Grayfox]

BURN IT, BURN IT.

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/world/2013/04/08/09/54/newly-discovered-giant-tarantula-species-filmed

 

[Azuremen]

What amuses me is most of the deadly spiders are quite small and discrete, yet everyone gets worked up by the large and typically less deadly varieties.

 

[Grayfox]

I think that rule also applies itself to scorpions too.

 

[MarinaDiamandis]

I think that rule also applies itself to scorpions too.

And frogs

 

[DaxCobra]

Not whales though.