Yet there are those here who say it's no big deal having a 4 or 5 inch tarantula climbing around the house. It's as common place to them as a mosquito. (they'd probably sh*t their pants if they actually had one in their kitchen).
Funny you should put it that way. That cabin in NM I lived in was bi-level. I had one Aladdin kerosene lamp and that usually stayed on the lower level. Too precious to carry around like a flashlight. So a trip to the kitchen was with a flashlight.
One night I went up the kitchen w/flashlight for something. As I walked in from the hallway I noticed something on the wall to my right under an old poster that didn’t lie flat on the wall. There was a spider bigger than the typical tarantula and it was black and white. Like alternating colors on its legs. I’ve never seen a pic of a spider like that so I don’t know what it was. Hairy as heck.
I turned on my heel, went back to the living room and forgot about whatever it was I went to the kitchen for. I wasn’t that hungry! lol
Never saw it again even though I searched thoroughly in the light of the next day.