Let me start this one with ginormous caveat. If you are scared of creepy-crawlies, now is your moment to run very, very far away.
Personally, I’m not usually too freaked by creepy critters; if there’s an interloping moth or bumblebee in my apartment, I’m usually the one you’ll find trapping it in a jar to release outside. That said, there are a few things that push my buttons.
Cockroaches, for example, are a frequent visitor to my nightmares since I became a city-dweller, and if I ever had the misfortune to encounter a black widow in my produce, I would absolutely lose my mind. Daddy longlegs, however, never really bothered me.
After all, much like this creepy salsa-dancing contraption, they aren’t even a real spider; just a funky attenuated insect like a Tim Burton version of a water strider. They’re also totally harmless, despite a persistent urban legend billing them as the most venomous animal in the world.
So, no big deal, right? Well, I probably would have gone the rest of my life thinking just that, if I hadn’t stumbled across what is definitely the scariest video on the internet. Turns out that the fear factor with Daddy longlegs comes not with quality, but with quantity.
Yes, friends, there is such a thing as a herd of Daddy longlegs, and you will never see anything that will make your skin crawl like this ever again, that is a promise. If you think there’s something creepier out there, I invite you post it in the comments.
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