What Creeps Out Of This Dead Spider Will Crawl Into Your NightmaresWorking on the internet really desensitizes you to certain stuff. Things that used to be funny to you seem to lose their sparkle, DIYs feel old and worn thin, and if you see one more "social experiment" you're gonna lose your mind.
The one thing that never seems to get old, though, are shockingly WTF videos. And parkour fails – but that's probably just because I'm a horrible person.
Obviously there's a limit to how freaky I like my vids to get, but short of seeing people actually get seriously hurt, I like pretty much everything. My personal favorites come from the two best countries in the world: Australia and Russia, although Japan is a close third. They each produce their own distinct, high-quality WTF content, but Australia wins without a doubt.
Boasting a population descended from criminals and wildlife bent on eating you, poisoning you, or both, Australia seems like a place that was made up by parents trying to scare the living crap out of misbehaving children. Seriously, it's like the ultimate bogeyman — "Keep it up and you'll get sent away to Australia like the older brother you never met." *Shivers*
The poor bugger in the video below apparently has the misfortune of living in the land of things that want to kill you, and like a good Australian, he's well prepared. When he found this giant freaking spider lurking about his home, he grabbed the bug spray (not that Off! crap that we use, but the real deal), and got down to business.
For the most part, once you've smashed/sprayed/obliterated a spider, the worst part is over. What he could never have anticipated, though, is how truly messed up his country's creepy crawlies are.
After spraying the spider (and killing it), a nightmarish creature emerged from the belly of the beast, writhing around the desk. I got that weird "bugs on my skin" sensation just watching the damn thing.
If you're wondering what exactly is going on, the Science Channel has your answer. That cuddly little guy is a spiderworm, which is also known as a Mermithid.
It sounds pretty bad already, but it gets even worse. This truly effed up creature literally sucks the life from others, living inside of the spider for its entire life and eating its flesh.
Wormy the spiderworm starts out with eggs from water hatching inside of a spider. Wormy is smart, and doesn't gorge on her dinner. She keeps the host alive strategically, making it thirstier and thirstier, so that Wormy can eventually lay eggs in the water for some poor, unsuspecting spider to consume.
I'd say that this seems like a good thing if it wasn't so goddamn terrifying, but hey — that's Australia for you.
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