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11th Mar 2014

Family Flees Home For Three Days When They Find Killer Spiders

You have been warned.

Alanna Alexander

Look away if you have a fear of spiders because this isn’t pretty.

The Robert family fled their home in Staffordshire in ENGLAND when they noticed little white patches of spiders on some bananas in their kitchen, which they originally mistook for mold.

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It was only when they were all over the window sill and curtains when they realized they were actually spiders.

“Hundreds of them were swarming everywhere. It was terrifying – like something out of a horror film,” Jamie Roberts told The Daily Star.

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They were Brazilian Wandering Spiders. Their venom is said to be 30 times more powerful than that of a rattlesnake. Just one bite can kill a grown man in 20 minutes.

Pest controllers in protective suits spent 24 hours pumping the house full of gas to exterminate them all, but it was three days before it was safe enough for the family to return.