Those are no joke. A bite from one of those put me in the hospital for a week. That was the sickest I ever was in my life.
The brown recluse spider is one bad dude. I know two people who have had bites, one almost lost his foot, the other was sick for weeks with a nasty bite / sore on his abdomen.
I had one nail me right on the elbow...fortunately there’s pretty thick skin and not a lot of muscle tissue there to be damaged. Nevertheless, I looked like Popeye for a couple weeks with a hugely swollen forearm.
OMG.... I use to have those in my house in Michigan. I didn’t know what they were until I moved to out of state and found a dead one in a box as I was unpacking. They were always in my basement and sometimes they’d crawl upstairs. I seriously don’t know how they got into the house but they were nasty as hell.