Hillary Clinton.

But seriously, I've nothing against bugs, except for one thing. A lot of them like my head. I don't like little things running into my head. This summer I was doing about 35 on a gravel road between fields when this big grasshopper somehow timed his approach right to come in through my window. He spent the next 8 miles jumping into my head as I swerved all over the road before I was finally able to kill him.

BTW though, I wasn't kidding about Clinton, or any of her friends for that matter. I am extremely distrustful of the police state the gov't wants to create.

 

Me no like them 8 legged freaks, when it comes to a spider and we're sharing the same space, he can have it all, no fighting on my part, I'm outta there.

 

Spiders (especially hairy ones), snakes, and other crawly bugs like centipedes give me the ****** but cockroaches and ghosts are the worst in my book.

I have to agree with the Southwest bug statement. They get big, big compared to the northwest anyways. Several years ago while living in Phoenix I was living in a studio apartment. After about 2 weeks in the apt. I got up in the middle of the night to take a leak. I walked into the bathroom and flipped on the light to find a 4" long (6"+ if you count the feelers) cockroach hanging out on the bathroom counter. As soon as made a move to squish him he bailed down the overflow drain in the sink. This went on for about a month. Sometimes it'd be out on the counter, sometimes just inside the overflow drain with his 2"+ feelers sticking out wagging around looking like a big V. Finally one night I managed to get the jump on him and grabbed one of his feelers before he could back down the drain. I'm tellin ya' this cockroach was STRONG. I wasn't expecting the fight it gave. I ended up breaking off the feeler about halfway down. For the next couple weeks he just hung out in the drain, one feeler poking out 1" the other 2"s. Looked like a funny looking check mark with a roach head in the middle. He eventually lost the war. Considering what that roach went through it's no wonder they've been around longer than just about any other creature.

I have a first hand ghost story that I'll TRY and make quick. The events I'll describe actually happened several times over several months in the same house.
My girlfriend and I had rented this old farm house out in the sticks that was built about 1910. It had a typical old musty concrete basement dimly lit with a single bulb with a couple of gated storage rooms on one side and space for the washer and dryer. For some reason there was a 10'x10' patch of dirt in the basement floor which was otherwise all concrete. Basically, the place felt like a dungeon.
My GF was immediately creeped out by the house, the patch of dirt in the basement especially. I was always the biggest skeptic of ghost stories and supernatural phenomenon so I dismissed my GFs worries as superstition until one night home alone doing laundry. I was sorting/folding/etc when I heard footsteps on the floor above my head walking through the kitchen and into the living room. You couldn't miss the sound of a single step from above in the basement since all the floors creaked from age. I went upstairs to greet my GF thinking she's home but she wasn't in the living room. She wasn't in the house or even home at all. I was alone. This happened a total of five times. Twice the bedroom door shut after the steps having gone that way. Every time but one (and the last time) I was alone. The one time I wasn't alone both my GF and were in the basement together when we heard the steps. We moved out a week later. All throughout our "adventure" of living in that house I couldn't help but wonder what WASN'T living under that patch of dirt.

This is one former die hard skeptic who now believes.

Sorry for such a long post. This thread brought back a few memories. Thanks to those that made it this far!

 

Michael Jackson.

 

Big spiders. Big enough that you can see hairs on them. When I see little ones in the house, I carefully moved them outside. But anything really big, gets squashed immediately.
When I was in my teens, I lived in Belize for four years. They grow really big turantulas out there. One time I saw one walking across the driveway, dragging something. I went a little closer to see what it was, and I saw that he had a small bird. This spider had to be at least 4 to 5 inches long, and stood up around 2 to 3 inches from the ground. EEWWW.

 

The one thing I've learned about Banana spiders in Japan is that no matter how tall you are, they're always face level. What's that all about?

I think my scariest thing, other than almost drowning a couple of years ago off the coast of Thailand, is laying in bed in my old house and hear it creaking. Just last night it was so loud it sounded like somebody was walking up the stairs. It's scary because I live in a bad neighborhood and one night I might open the door and there might be somebody there and it's going to come down to only one of us walking back down the stairs, and I'm willing to bet that'll be ME!!

 

Funny story- I'm not scared of spiders but back in college I was looking at an off campus apartments.

While checking out an empty apartment- I opened the closet and on the floor was the biggest gosh darn spider you ever seen. It was like one of them tarantulas- but a big one for even them. Hairs everywhere...

Talking about making my jump!

I just closed the closet door and walked out- never mentioned it to anyone.

Later when I signed the lease and went to move in- I opened that door with a baseball bat in my hand ready for action.

The spider was no where to be found. I don't know where it went.

Oh well.

 

Hmm....Spiders? Yall aint seen spiders.

Camel Spiders in the desert. things grow up to 8 inches across. They eat flesh of large animals (yes, we are large animals) There bight includes a neuro toxin than deadens the feeling. Then they eat the flesh of their prey. And they dont feel a thing. BTW, they can run over 30 miles an hour and jump like 15 feet. Our guys shoot them with M16s. People sleep with mosquito nets over themselves to try and keep them off. People have been known though to wake up in the morning and have one buried a few inches into their skin......

As far as things that creep me out.....

If it can attack me and I cannot see it...i.e....sharks...
but snakes I am kinda iffy, it is more of a mutual respect.
Spiders, ahh...no big deal, seen plenty of em, killed plenty of em, including black widows and brown recluses.

 

Living in Fl, we certainly have no shortage of creepy creatures. We have Banana spiders with bodies the size of a quarter and legs that are 4 inches long. They're nasty.

We also have scorpions...they won't kill you like in the movies, but the the sting hurts like hell and you feel like you have the flu for about an hour. I woke up one time with a nice 4-incher in bed with me gnawing on my arm. Ba$tard!

There are plenty of varieties of snakes also...6 poisonous, and dozens of others that are harmless. You'll be sure to see some on any given day in any given grassy field.

Then there are the gators...big ones. We have two in the pond that is on the property at my office. We affectionately refer to them as Lambchop and Gordo. Lambchop is about 10 feet long and almost took down one of my collegues while he was eating lunch at one of the pondside picknick tables...he was eating a lambchop from dinner the night before and fended him off with it; hence the name. Gordo is about 14 feet long and likes to do laps around the pond chasing ducks, moorhens and herons...He's fast at doing those laps, too, so he gets his name from Jeff Gordon(I didn't pick then name, some gordon fan did).

 

I want a gator as a pet, I used to catch em all the time.....reach into the water ang grab then (Do not try this with one larger then 4 feet) and I fish for them....get a small one about 1-2ft tey can be tamed...I love em!

 

Those slimy yucky disgusting Potato Bugs

 

Ahh, the joy of living in Minnesota! I can put up with winter and not have to worry about deadly spiders, really nasty poisonous snakes, scorpions, man eating reptiles, bigger man eating sharks, not so nice centipedes, attack birds, or blood sucking bats! LONG LIVE WINTER!

 

Yeah, i have been wanting to try for a while.. but you know how that goes. I went once in the day time just driving around... and gosh, i can't remember exactly where it is, but it is on the southside of 410 somewhere. I would try asking around or searching the web for an exact location. i was looking online about some things here:

San Antonio Ghosts

They said that it didn't do anything to their car... but look at those pictures.. gave me the chills. In another part of that guy's info he talks about some pictures he took at the menger hotel, and that the ones inside the hotel all came out black... but the rest on the roll of film were fine. pretty creepy.

 

Egad!!!!!

I got creeped out just reading all these posts! My imagination is just too danged vivid for my own good.

Seriously though... I have very little use for large spiders. If they stay in their space I'll leave them be, but dare to even think of touching me and they're dead meat..( or whatever spiders are made of ). The wife hates 'em even worse than me, so guess who gets spider duty every time she sees one within a block of the house?

I agree that in 'Nam there were some dang creepy critters. I also saw that 8" centipede. They had straight stingers on the hind end that were so painful that ole papa-san saw one and wouldn't come into the hangar even after I'd killed it ( after it had thoroughly freaked me out first, though.) Geeze -- it only had about 6 or 8 segments to its body, but each segment was over an inch in diameter. I heard many a sickly story about them later on. Arggggghhhhhh!