We had brown recluse in our 50 year old house. We had metal vertical blinds and you could hear the damn things drop on the window base as they fell. When we moved to a new home, we found dried out recluses stuck to the tape on the boxes.
we had Brown Grey Fishing Spiders which i guess look similar to Brown Recluse- they are huge, and one actually woke me up one night when it ran across some papers in my room- i thought it was a mouse- Nope- A huge spider- carrying it’s brood in a sack. Had the dang thing crawled on my face, it’d have looked like the Alien Movie creature-