You are the keeper of the spider horror legends.
July 31, 2005
I just found this site this morning while looking for a picture someone said
they saw of a 4-5ft camel spider a soldier was holding up. I'm pretty sure
it's the picture with the 2 normal sized spiders someone is holding up.
Anyway, here's a story.
I'm currently in Iraq and sometimes while on guard duty I see these things.
A few nights ago four of us were on duty at a little wooden shack. 2 of us
were sitting outside in chairs and the other 2 were inside. We'd already
seen about 4 fairly small spiders that night so we were glancing around
quite a bit. Suddenly there came this scream from inside, "IT'S RIGHT BY
YOUR HEAD!!!". Both of them jumped for the door at once at which point she
shoved (still screaming) the other guy (who hadn't actually seen the spider)
into the wall and flew outside. Once he was out of the way the 3rd guy and
I poked our heads inside to see this "monster" spider. There on the wall
was the smallest baby camel spider I've seen yet. about the size of a
nickel.
While 3 of us were doubled over laughing all she could say was, "It looked
alot bigger than that when I saw it"
-Sgt Schwarz