World of the Bizarre

Family flee home as spiders 'bleed from walls'

By T.K. Randall
October 17, 2014 ·  79 comments

A spider-filled house is the stuff of nightmares. Image Credit: CC BY-2.0 Nicholas Ta At first Brian and Susan Trost couldn't be happier with their $450,000 purchase of a new home overlooking a golf course in Weldon Spring, Missouri. Things soon took a turn for the worse however when the couple discovered that they were sharing their new property with a rather excessive number of arachnids.

Shortly after moving in the pair started finding the creatures everywhere. In one case a spider fell from the ceiling above the shower and only narrowly missed landing on someone.By 2012 the problem had become so bad that they had reported brown recluse spiders "bleeding from the walls" within the rooms of the house. Two separate pest control companies were called in but neither was able to remove the infestation.

The couple ended up taking the previous owners of the building to court for not disclosing the existence of the problem before they went through with the purchase. During a civil trial hearing a leading brown recluse researcher indicated that there were up to 6,000 spiders in the house.

The couple moved out two years later.

Source: Irish Examiner | Comments (79)

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