[VIDEO] A Live Spider Found ‘Nesting’ In Woman’s Ear

This TikTok is truly the stuff of nightmares...

A woman recently shared a video on the popular social media platform, recounting a disturbing hospital visit where a live spider was discovered in her ear. Yes, you read that correctly: in her ear.

To add to the horror, doctors reported that the spider was not only in her ear but actively "nesting" there, according to her account.
 

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In response to numerous viewer requests, the woman finally described the spider's appearance. While she didn't have an actual picture of the intruder, she did share a Google image of a small jumping spider, claiming it bore a striking resemblance to the one she found in her ear.

Incredibly, this isn't the first time the internet has exposed us to the chilling ordeal of having a spider lodged in one's ear. Just this month, a woman in Taiwan shared a similar tale to the TikTok user mentioned above.

From NBC News:

It started with a strange sensation in her left ear: the feeling of movement, followed by incessant clicking and rustling sounds.

After struggling to sleep for several nights, the 64-year-old woman in Taiwan visited an ear, nose and throat clinic. There, doctors discovered a small spider moving about her ear canal. It had discarded its exoskeleton, which sat nearby.

Doctors in April used a tube to suction out the spider and exoskeleton, according to a case report published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine. 

"She didn't feel pain because the spider was very small. It's just about 2 to 3 millimeters," said Dr. Tengchin Wang, the report's co-author and the director of the otolaryngology department at Tainan Municipal Hospital. (Two-and-a-half millimeters is about one-tenth of an inch.)

After witnessing all of this, you can bet I'll be  sporting a pair of earmuffs from now on.

No way I'm letting any spiders set up camp in my ears.