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People all over the world are freaking over a viral photo and video of an Australian woman's horrifying discovery.
"Gaaaahhhhhhhh, a friend of mine in Sydney just walked into her daughter's room and found this," a woman wrote on Twitter Thursday.
Here's what she posted:
The "friend" of the family who hosted the hoard of eight-legged, uninvited guests first tweeted only one photo. She later followed up with a video, hoping to satisfy skeptical folks who thought the pic might be photoshopped.
Joking that "they're cute!" the woman narrating the video later asks, "Are you moving out now? Should be burn the house down?"
In just 24 hours, the post — showing what are believed to be Huntsmen spiders — has garnered hundreds of likes and re-tweets... and, of course, a fair amount of "Kill it with fire!" suggestions.
Others in the comments are offering advice and theories, "expert" and otherwise, about how the creepy crawlies came to be there.
Kerrie McGregor surmised: "They are babies just hatched from an egg that looks like a mentos. That is the window frame so they are only 2 to 3mm big."
To that, the original poster, replied: "I've seen plenty of nests of newly hatched baby Huntsmen, and they are not this big. They're not full-grown to be sure, but big enough to scare the hell out of me."
As for the true size of the "little" guys, we may never know. Not sure about you, but moving close enough to measure isn't in our weekend plans.
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According to entomologists at Cranbrook Institute of Science, an Australian Huntsman — named for its speed and the way it catches its prey — is venomous and can bite, but is not known to be aggressive or dangerous to humans.
Some more good news: the Huntsman is an extremely rare sight in Michigan, prevalent only in Asia, Africa, Australia and South America.
If you ever do encounter one in metro Detroit, experts say it likely hitched a ride in a shipment of produce.
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