Monday, June 4, 2007
Not-lanta News of the Weird: Arachnophobia
Posted by Chuck Shepherd on Mon, Jun 4, 2007 at 7:19 PM
Medical literature reports, from time to time, patients with spiders nesting in their ears, and in May in Albany, Ore., Dr. David Irvine said that he chased a spider the size of a pencil eraser from the ear of 9-year-old Jesse Courtney (and then recovered a dead spider from his other ear.) Jesse thought the whole thing was cool and showed off the spiders in school. In a 1993 News of the Weird story, a British machinist with bad earaches was found to have a pregnant spider living in his ear, but he told a reporter afterward that he had grown fond of the spider and intended to keep her as a pet.
© 2007 Chuck Shepherd
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