May 6

ALBANY, Ore. -- These guys weren't exactly Snap, Crackle and Pop. What began as a faint popping in a 9-year-old boy's ear - "like Rice Krispies" - ended up as an earache, and the doctor's diagnosis was that a pair of spiders made a home in the ear.

"They were walking on my eardrums," the boy said.

One of the spiders was still alive after the doctor flushed the fourth-grader's left ear canal. His mother said her son insisted he kept hearing a faint popping in his ear - "like Rice Krispies."

The doctor said it looked like the boy had something in his ear when he examined him.

When he irrigated the ear, the first spider came out, dead. The other spider took a second dousing before it emerged, still alive. Both were about the size of a pencil eraser.

The boy was given the spiders - now both dead - as a souvenir. He has taken them to school and his mother has taken them to work.

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*faints* deargawd.... I'd need to be sedated.. then I'd tape my ears shut forever...

Jesus, a simple bath would have dislodged the spiders..don’t these people have baths?
Oh wait,
On closer inspection- the story is from Albany and the name of the boy is ‘Jesse’
mmh that explains it then.

"It was real interesting, 'cause, two spiders in my ear - what next?" Jesse said.

Yep, whatever next Jesse...oh whatever next..

lol Me to Nyx. I couldnt handle that. Reminds me of the story from that old TV show "Night Gallery" about a guy who had an earwig crawl in his ear then into his brain then come out the other ear. Problem was she laid eggs in his brain. That story still freaks me out.

Oh. my. god.

I have chills. The bad kind. I don't mind spiders, but I would mind if they decided to live in me. And most likely reproduce

I had a beetle crawl in my ear once. God that ****ing hurt and it sounded horrible. I was paranoid for months, if anything touched my ears I would freak out.

*revives after fainting* Can you imagine how it looked when the live one ran out of his ear??? *faints again*

yeah.... thanks for that...

That is so disgusting. Makes you paranoid even hearing about something like that. This reminds me of another case where eel was living in guy's nostril.

I was ok with the story, now the visual-ugh!

Omg. That would more than freak me out. I would be screaming like crap if anything like that happened to me. And I wouldn't be able to sleep at night.

you and your freakin spider pictures billy.....

i would never sleep well again, seeing as that's when they probably crawled in his ears. bet that kids gonna be sleeping with ear plugs for the rest of his life.

Horrible isn't it lol

*Swoons too* it's hard to imagine how I would feel, not something I want to dwell on.

Wow.

ew ew ew... he was hearing spider-love
wonder if there was webbing and eggs

Also if that happened to me I would probably duck tape my ears shut for the rest of my life.

Well, the average human is suppose to eats at least 8 spiders in their lifetime, during the night when asleep, so I guess they could crawl anywhere.

That is nothing...I once had a family of racoons that made their homes in my ears:



The really bad part was that they had a family of spiders in their ears...

For a spider to get into your mouth while you're sleeping, (a) you must have your mouth OPEN, which is certainly not universal, so there's a big chunk of people who can never swallow anything; ( there has to be a wandering spider in your immediate vicinity, also something which--for most people in the civilized world, at least--is a fairly rare occurrence; © the spider has to either jump or fall into your mouth from a long distance, because they won't go near your mouth otherwise (they're not suicidal), and the odds are pretty astronomical of a spider randomly dropping into your mouth from the ceiling. http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mspidereat.html

But how? I don't understand that.

Feel free to pm the answer.

It is an old urban legend, right up there with the spider eggs in bubble gum...it isn't true. Racoons on the other hand...

Raccoons can get into the darndest places

I thought urban legend to untill I saw the 10:00 news tonight. It was on with the boy and pics of the spiders. "shudders"

i want them on my ears !!

Poor spiders lost there cozy little home.

Oh God .... *shivers*

Use a Q-Tip once in a while

Yeah yucko. I dreamt something similar once a few years ago so I might share the dream just for fun.. This is what I dreamt ages ago.. just cut n pasted..

I dream't that I had little white baby spiders in my left ear. I pulled out one and thought..bloody hell! and crushed it I think. Then I felt another and pulled it out too. . I could feel the panic rising(as you would)lol, but I thought I kept quite calm after realising that I had a nest of them hatching. Anyway I woke up after the third spider was coming out but wasnt too worried cause I was happy they were coming out at least. It was weird.. I just kept thinking how the f**k did this happen.

Ah the memories.

This is one of the most disturbing threads ever.

Whoever wrote that doesn’t understand arachnids. Most house Spiders are attracted to warm moist places.. they will seek them out- which is why you might find one in the bath. Ever notice if you spot a house spider in your room, if you don’t kill it.. it’ll try and make its way toward you because you’re a good source of heat.
There’s a spider video on youtube somewhere showing a House spider drinking the saliva from a sleeping man’s mouth.
Also think how many spiders are near you at any given time.. between the walls in the cavities, under the flood boards.
The male house spider has to wander to find a mate- and the female spider has to wander around to find food.
Still, depending where you live of course.. in the UK the spiders are harmless. Learn to love em I say.

Take one sleeping man-

plus one of these and...

sound like a crappy movie

Oh man. What did you have to go and do that for? Just when I was happy cause I thought it couldnt be true. Know I'm gonna have to sleep with duct tape over my mouth and ears. Oh crap I just realized they might go for the nose to. "goes to make lots of coffee cause I'm never sleeping again"

I had to wonder what the results would be.. purely in the name of science, you understand.

Wow thats my biggest fear... insects nesting in me and parasites...

Yeah that was the worse pic of a spider I could find...
Face your fears... mind yoy you're from OZ.. nasty spiders there..shudders

lol "but shudders at the pic"

so this guy was just sitting around and then suddenly a spider came out of his mouth? presumably a camera was around and someone caught it.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

THE SCREAMS WILL ECHO IN MY MIND FOR DECADES TO COME

What if it laid eggs. Oh what a horrible thought! <shudders>