Random Most Horrifying Spider Infestations (11 items)

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  (#8) A Utah Family Found Hundreds Of Spiders Inside Their Deck

  The Savage family in Midvale, UT, were terrified when they found hundreds of spiders outside their home in late 2015. Several different kinds of spiders were discovered, including Hobo, Grass, Wolf and Black Widow spiders. When they first noticed some of the arachnids, the family decided to investigate and ultimately uncovered hundreds of them inside their porch. 

  "The first day that we went out there and started actually hunting for them, we got 15 of them within an hour," Tami Savage said. The mother added there really wasn't much they could do to completely rid their deck of the horrifying problem.

  "Unless we were to seal off all the way around the deck, getting rid of the railroad ties [on the deck] will only get rid of part of the problem," she said. 
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  (#9) A Man Caught Hundreds Of Spiders Crawling Out Of His Wall

  A UK pest controller observed hundreds of spiders making a home inside of his wall and then crawling out of it – exposing their "glowing green" fangs.

  Grant Wood said he first found the spiders a year before a video of the infestation went viral, and there were around 100 discovered. They quadrupled since then, with almost 400 spiders living in his wall by 2017.

  "Most people's reaction to seeing them is, 'f*ck that,' everyone has been quite shocked by it," he said. "A lot of people can't believe they are actually a UK spider. They are like a mini-tarantula. The spiders aren't aggressive but other people have definitely been scared."
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  (#11) A Couple Was Attacked By Venomous Hobo Spiders

  In 2014, Bristol, UK resident Liam Forrester discovered a bite on his left arm that resulted in a deep, infected wound. After suffering the spider attack, Forrester found out the poisonous Hobo spiders had invaded his home. The arachnid epidemic was so bad that it prompted Forrester and his partner, Kirsty Garland, to consider moving out of their home and in with family.

  "They are horrible, vile things. I found one in the bath last week, and when I put a pint glass over it, its long legs just filled up the whole glass," Garland said:

  They don't seem to be scared to run at us either, they run towards us and seem very aggressive. When you corner them they rear up their legs. Their bodies are pretty much normal size but it's the legs – the front legs are the size of your hand. If we can't get rid of them I just want to move because we've got three children and I don't want them to be bitten.
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  (#2) An Infestation Of Over 4,500 Brown Recluses Forced A Family To Leave Home

  In October 2014, a Missouri family was driven from their home after it was infested with between 4,500 and 6,000 Brown Recluse spiders. The family tried to solve the problem with pesticide treatments to no avail, so they packed up and abandoned their 2,400-square-foot home. 

  The Trost family purchased the home in 2007 for $450,000 and noticed a spider web during the first day in the house. Susan Trost said she attempted to clean the spiders away, but they kept coming back and forced the family to leave. They sued the previous homeowners for not disclosing the spider problem, and were awarded $472,000, although they never collected; the previous homeowners, the Gaults, had no way of paying. 
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  (#3) Memphis Homes Were Invaded By Spiders, And Residents Said It Was Like A "Horror Movie"

  Homeowners in North Memphis, TN, described a massive plague of spiders in their homes as a "horror movie." The invasion began thanks to an almost half mile-long web of what Memphis Zoo curator Steve Reichling called a natural occurrence of "harmless" spiders. Locals weren't buying it, however.

  "They're just in the air; they're flying everywhere. They all on the house, on the side of the windows," resident Debra Lewis said of the November 2015 infestation. 

  "When I got up this morning, it was like spiders all over my door; they were coming in my house," Lewis's neighbor, Frances Ward, added.
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  (#10) Spiders Infiltrated A Canadian Town And People Lost Sleep Over It

  Several families in Cape Breton, Canada, were so terrified by an October 2017 invasion of giant house spiders they couldn't sleep. Resident Dale Capstick said she discovered the spiders during the night, calling the infestation "very frightening."

  "We always see them along the baseboard, occasionally crawling up the door trim," Capstick said. The harmless spiders were also found down the road from Capstick in one of her neighbor's homes.

  "They were very, very scary," she said. "I was afraid to go to bed at night. I just hope that they're gone."

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