Spiders Crawling Into Places They Shouldn’t
It wouldn’t be October without a real-life tale of body horror.
This year, doctors in Taiwan reported finding a spider inside a woman’s ear—one that made itself cozy long enough to molt. The woman likely played roommate to the wayward arachnid for at least four days before she saw a doctor, all the while being bombarded with sounds of “incessant beating, clicking, and rustling” that kept her up at night. Thankfully, the spider was removed easily enough with a little suction, and the woman “went home happily.”
But at least one spider was exonerated this year. A UK man’s story of having his big toe infested with spider eggs while on vacation—reported earlier this November—is likely not plausible, according to spider experts.
