I apologize to any arachnophobes out there, but I'm about to make your day a whole lot worse.
This is the moment doctors found a spider spinning webs inside a woman's ear canal after she sought medical attention for itching and stinging pain.
If you dare, you can watch the footage below:The video, which was recorded in the city of Mianyang in Sichuan Province in China, was captured on April 22 and shows the three-millimeter arachnid crawling around in the patient's ear - its webs clearly visible.
Per reports, the woman's ear had become itchy and she said she was experiencing tinnitus (a persistent noise or ringing in the ears) after carrying out some work in her yard.
In order to remove the creature, Doctor Liu Jun squirted some chemical ear drops into the woman's ear in order to sedate the minibeast, before successfully removing it.
Due to the fact the spider was so small, the woman's hearing was not impaired, and her ear was cleaned with a saline solution.
It doesn't matter what size they are, spiders continue to freak me out - mainly because you never know where you're going to find them lurking.
For example, while driving down the road with her father, this unnamed woman decided to check her face in the sun visor mirror. Little did she know she was about to get one hell of a right from a MUCH bigger spider.
Check out the footage below:I honestly don't know how they didn't crash the car.
The footage was captured in Coolah, New South Wales, Australia, and has become yet another reason why I will never visit Australia in my life.
The woman who recorded the terrifying footage said:
"I was traveling home with my father, I had tomato sauce on my face after eating a pie from the service station. I went to wipe my mouth and was already leaning forward to look at the mirror then the spider was there. It was so close to my face. I then filmed it before it ran away."
There has been vast research to try and determine exactly why humans are so darn terrified of spiders. One study out of the University of Maastricht determined that one possible reason for arachnophobia is down to something called "spider trauma". This is essentially a spider-related event in a person's life that conditions the individual to fear arachnids.
I'm attributing both of these events to my own fear...