You get up there with a ladder and tape measure then.

It’s the same kind of spider that was in this famous photo:

Drop Bear probably got him.

Having grown up with a very arachnophobic mother, it took me years after moving to Australia to get used to the idea of huntsman spiders. Big. Huge. Incredibly fast. Now I’m actually sort of ‘meh’ when I see one that’s snuck into the house - though the bigger they are, the less sincere the ‘meh’. It helps that, with…

LOL, but you forgot the instant death provided by a fucking seashell. I love Oz and don’t fear it, but I don’t pick up seashells there.

I know! I want to google this thing because I didn’t know such horrors existed in this world, but I’d like to sleep again sometime in my life.

I found a relatively small (15cm span) huntsman in my daughter’s baby swing last week, I’ve been having nightmares ever since. No way could I sleep knowing that was anywhere in my house!

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What the fuck. You just sleep with a spider that could eat your fucking face chilling on your fucking ceiling. DONT YOU HAVE LADDERS THERE? I am pretty chill with the creepy crawlies, I do my best to live and let live but Jesus Christ! Hell no!

Um, you continued to stay in the same house with it? As in you went about your daily life, went to sleep in that room and other various activities for a month knowing it was there and continued to stay after it disappeared? Madame or Sir, I take my hat off to you and should we ever meet, will buy you a rather large…

1.5 foot!!!!! I generally think of Huntsmen as my friends because they kill cockroaches, but I think that would test me.

jfc, before clicking the headline, I knew this was going to be Australia. Yay, I’m going there on Wednesday! To Melbourne. I will have to tell my girlfriend that if I find a snake in her parent’s house, I will be forced to burn it to the ground. Apologies ahead of time. The only thing I hate worse than snakes are…

I have so many questions. There are spiders with a span of 1.5 feet? You just let it hang out on your ceiling for month? How did you sleep in the same room with it?

They’re not actually technically that dangerous... but it’s said they’re the most lethal animal in Australia, as they have a habit of sleeping in car sun visors, and dropping on your head at 70mph.

But, but, what if you’re an Australian poisonous animal trying to lull foreigners into a false sense of security so we’ll visit and succumb to your evil ways? I don’t think so sentient clock spider!

This story, of a woman who found a giant python in her house, got even weirder when the woman recognized the snake, saying it’s been living up on her roof for a number of years. WTF lady?

Oh, Australia. You.

Maybe an Australian Jezzie can answer me but, why does it seem like everything there is trying to kill you?