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[User 100115]

Interesting that I gave in a lab report last week on fear of animals, and that there is a definite gender difference which seems more down to the level of disgust and sensitivity.

I love snakes and find them fascinating creatures. No fear of mice, or any other bug really, aside from a healthy respect for bees and the like, and while I've been stung by a scorpion, I find them pretty cool too. Spiders however make me generate incredibly high pitched squeals and flee in terror. It's uncanny.

I have literally had scorpions rain on me from the sky and they don't inspire the same kind of terror that spiders do.

 

[Yagharek]

I have literally had scorpions rain on me from the sky and they don't inspire the same kind of terror that spiders do.

This is interesting, since theyre both arachnids. There must be something about the way spiders move that sets people off, as it is quite unlike any other bug/insect or similar size critters.

 

[Calamari41]

I wouldn't sleep until his head was mounted on my wall.

 

[User 100115]

This is interesting, since theyre both arachnids.

I think it's a size thing.

Large spiders don't freak me out as much as small ones. I grew up around wild tarantulas, and I always say 'If there's a tarantula in the room, you know it. There could be a hundred house spiders and you'd never know.'

Scorpions tend to be bigger than your general spider. Though since the raining scorpions incident, I have felt some anxiety around smaller scorpions (bad reaction to the bite + the fact they were baby scorpions is most likely why, however)

On your edit: Yep! Spiders are fast and horrible. Tarantulas are generally slow and adorable.

 

[Escape Goat]

This is interesting, since theyre both arachnids. There must be something about the way spiders move that sets people off, as it is quite unlike any other bug/insect or similar size critters.

I had a spider (possibly a brown recluse) bite my leg which caused a disgusting boil that spewed puss which later paralyzed my leg. Theres got to be an evolutionary response to this kind of creature thats so small and difficult to avoid and who can fuck your shit up with one bite.

 

[WolvenOne]

Where do you live? That isn't the highest detail photo, but that kind of looks like a Hobo spider. If so, avoid it like the plague. Like the Brown Recluse they have a venom that can cause boils, necrotic wounds, and flu-like symptoms.

 

[Unicorn]

You called?

I refuse to believe I exist in a universe where something like this can be.

 

[Yagharek]

I think it's a size thing.

Large spiders don't freak me out as much as small ones. I grew up around wild tarantulas, and I always say 'If there's a tarantula in the room, you know it. There could be a hundred house spiders and you'd never know.'

Scorpions tend to be bigger than your general spider. Though since the raining scorpions incident, I have felt some anxiety around smaller scorpions (bad reaction to the bite + the fact they were baby scorpions is most likely why, however)

On your edit: Yep! Spiders are fast and horrible. Tarantulas are generally slow and adorable.

I had a spider (possibly a brown recluse) bite my leg which caused a disgusting boil that spewed puss which later paralyzed my leg. Theres got to be an evolutionary response to this kind of creature thats so small and difficult to avoid and who can fuck your shit up with one bite.

Just on these points - I recall reading (no link sorry, didnt save it) an article about how people's fear of spiders might be due to their shape and movement and people are good at picking out those shapes - which would hint at an evolutionary reason.

Apparently we are very good at picking out snake-like shapes because at one point in our early evolutionary history, snakes were very dangerous predators of our ancestors.

I refuse to believe I exist in a universe where something like this can be.

What about this:

[not directly displayed due to concern for arachnophobes do not click if you are.

 

[Red Comet]

Oh, god. This is why I always sleep with a cat with sharp claws, to catch crap like that.

 

[iShouldGoPro]

 

[DoubleTake]

Thanks to this thread Im not going to sleep...great

 

[Kitsunebaby]

I once sprayed raid on my pillow to kill a spider that was dangling right above it. I was actually laying down to go to bed when it started lowering itself towards my face and I had to scramble to avoid it. Why do they always try to get me when I'm naked and vulnerable?

 

[Wazzy]

I'll give you some advice.

Step 1: Light your house on fire
Step 2: That's it.

 

[TemplaerDude]

AH FUCK I DIDNT EXPECT PICS

 

[terrible]

Kill it and then sleep with the lights on every night for a few months until your memory of these events fades sufficiently.

 

[KennyLinder]

You called?

Thats a REALLLLLLY big window, right?

 

[Dennis]

It just wants to lay its eggs in your ear, bro.

Go to sleep.

 

[NastyBook]

AH FUCK I DIDNT EXPECT PICS

I have an irrational fear of spiders bigger than the size of a silver dollar, so God only knows why I fucking clicked on this fucking thread.

And this guy takes a fucking picture of the thing. That is like the last thing that'd be on my fucking mind. And FUCK Australia. Why does damn near every dangerous thing to ever exist on this planet live in ONE spot? I would love to visit the place, but I wouldn't be able to sleep. I bet people sleep naked in their sheets down there, too. Fucking daredevils. I'd rather jump out of a plane with a parachute full of pots and pans.

 

[akaoni]

Some quick research on big spiders;

The giant huntsman spider is the largest member of the Sparassidae family, boasting a 30 centimeter (12 inch) leg-span, and 4.6 centimeter (1.8 inches) body-length.

Never go to Laos.

 

[Replicant]

It just wants to lay its eggs in your ear, bro.

Go to sleep.

 

[?oe?oe]

 

[akaoni]

CANNOT UNSEE

I will now never forget that image for the rest of my life. I wish you a very warm 'fuck you'.

 

[Escape Goat]

Scary Stories?

 

[PeakPointMatrix]

Where is it you live?

So I can never go there.

 

[Twilight Gap]

OP, what you need to do is n---

-scary gif-

NOPE

 

[Frost_Ace]

It's fucking great to live in a country without shit like that.

Just wanted to let you know.

THIS.

 

[SwiftDeath]

Come on man, spiders need a little spooning too. Gets cold at night.

 

[Replicant]

Scary Stories?

If you're asking from which film, it's "The Covenant".

 

[L00P]

 

[Escape Goat]

If you're asking from which film, it's "The Covenant".

I was referencing a collection of scary stories from many years back. "Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark". One had a girl who had a boil appear on her cheek and eventually spiders burst from it.

 

[NastyBook]

I almost threw out the new copies of those books when I saw them on our bookshelf at the library I work at. There are some thing you just don't fuck with. And Stephen J. Gammel's artwork is one of them. I love how he can't help himself with drawing something scary, even when he's on books like the one where the family's making pankcakes. They have on the scariest basements I've ever seen.

 

[Jangaroo]

Oh god why did I enter this thread. I'm about to head to bed and now I'm scared there's a spider underneath my bed.

 

[SargerusBR]

Whatever you do, don't try to grab it, otherwise:

RULES OF NATURE!

 

[VanquishUK]

Anyone else just pick their feet up off the ground?

Fuck spiders.

 

[soundscream]

THIS.

Again where is this magical spider free zone.

 

[dejay]

I refuse to believe I exist in a universe where something like this can be.

Here's it's friend. He's a little ornery.

There's a small chance one of these is under my bed.

 

[siddx]

In indonesia they had some rather large spiders (about the size of an average female hand, sometimes bigger) that lived in the trees.
My room had no glass or screen, only wood shutters that I kept open because of the heat and lack of ac.
You can probably guess where this is going.
One night I heard a scratching noise on my curtains. Thinking it was a kind of beetle that commonly wandered into our house at night and would attach to fabrics and make a racket, I switched on my bedside lamp and turned over in my bed only to come face to face (im talking about an inch) from the biggest fucking spider I have ever seen. Just sitting there in my face like FUCK YOU I AM DEATH SUCK MY SPIDER DICK.
I jumped straight up and out of bed like a goddamn cartoon character and ran out of there to get the parents. We searched...and searched...and searched...and never fucking found the spider.
I got screens put on the very next day.


Same kind of spider, about a year later, taught my friend what terror truly is.

Our school was built as an outdoor school, with the hallways just being open aired walkways. We were going down one towards the soccer field when we saw some small brown object at the very end just sitting there like he owned the place.
As we got closer we realized it was a spider.
Holy shit why is he just sitting there? Is it dead?
The closer we got, the true horror of this creature became apparent. It was monstrous, as large as a small squirrel, all fangs and legs and hate. Clearly it was built to murder children and kittens and dreams.
And it was blocking the path to the picnic tables we normally ate at.
Lets just go around I mumbled in my sageness.
Fuck that, its just a spider, I'll scare it away. My fucking idiot friend proclaimed in his hubris.
He approached the spider, who was now gently lifting both front legs up ever so slightly, left then right...left then right...left then right....
BWAH! My brain damaged friend sputtered out in a war call shriek fit only for a small infant, while simultaneously stomping his right foot down in the world worst attempt to scare anything.
Satan Spider responded by raising himself up on his back legs and, I fucking shit you not swear on everything I am, HISSED at my friend.
My friend ran.
The spider gave chase.
My friend looked back to see Satan Spider chasing him.
My friend screamed the most terrified scream I have ever witnessed in my entire life. It was the most pure example of fear and terror I will ever hear.
He managed to reach a classroom and fling himself into it, slamming the door shut behind him.
For a moment the spider stared through the door, and I genuinely, honestly, 100% believed he was going to break through the fucking door and devour my friend alive.
I blinked.
Satan Spider was gone.
We never talked about it with each other again.

People I tell don't believe me. But I don't care...I know what I saw. I know I witnessed the prince of spider demons in action. I know he was sent there to kill my friend. I know these things. And no amount of incredulous looks can convince me other wise.




No seriously that fucking spider hissed and chased him. It was incredible.

 

[BraXzy]

I survived the night GAF. I don't think it crawled down my throat so winwin! It's probably still under my bed plotting my demise but ahh well.

 

[Can Crusher]

Here's it's friend. He's a little ornery.

There's a small chance one of these is under my bed.

Jesus FUCK

 

[bud]

You called?

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what the fuck.

 

[EdibleKnife]

Here's it's friend. He's a little ornery.

There's a small chance one of these is under my bed.

 

[Deleted member 10571]

Here's it's friend. He's a little ornery.

There's a small chance one of these is under my bed.

Mine did that all the time when she got annoyed by their food lol

One day I literally left her door open, she escaped from her terrarium over night and I was all like OH GOD WHERE IS SHE WHERE IS SHE the next day, then i noticed she just managed to climb down the cupboard she was on and thought "fuck, might as well leave it with that" and waited for me to put her back in

After I did just that, I took this photo of her, 'cause she looked badass.

She died last year though, but it were fun 8 years with her

 

[DedValve]

I love snakes and find them fascinating creatures. No fear of mice, or any other bug really, aside from a healthy respect for bees and the like, and while I've been stung by a scorpion, I find them pretty cool too. Spiders however make me generate incredibly high pitched squeals and flee in terror. It's uncanny.

I have literally had scorpions rain on me from the sky and they don't inspire the same kind of terror that spiders do.

Raining scorpions? I am justified in keeping a gun on me

Spoiler

to commit suicide

 

[Stahsky]

Tarantulas are fucking cool

 

[Kid Ska]

Spider threads bring out the worst in GAF.

 

[strafer]

 

[pottuvoi]

Spider threads bring out the best in GAF.

Fixed.

There are plenty of creepier threads in GAF.

 

[NEO0MJ]

After I did just that, I took this photo of her, 'cause she looked badass.

She died last year though, but it were fun 8 years with her

Nice. I'm considering buying one but I only ever found two in a store, and they seem a little sick. One seems to be hugging the corner of the terrarium with half her legs spread forward the other backwards while another seems to be sitting near the water bowl with her legs slightly pointing inwards, but I'm not sure if that's the death pose.

 

[friskykillface]

there's random spiders around my home but I let them be, except the ones in my room, I usually try to kill them asap

lol not as huge as those ghouls and thank goodness

 

[Daffy Duck]

Have we hard from the OP?

I do hope the OP's location of Manchester is Manchester in the US.