A woman had the fright of her life when she discovered a huge spider hiding in the door handle of her car in New South Wales, Australia. Yikes!
The woman revealed she is too afraid to drive her car after the hairy, eight-legged creature decided to make her car it's new home.
Christine Jones took the pictures of the hidden spider moments before she opened her car's door, narrowly avoiding an up close and personal encounter with the arachnid.
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She posted the pictures on an Australian Spider Identification Page on Facebook, revealing that at first she thought the strange thing hiding beneath the door handle of her car was "hairy caterpillars at first", but she soon realised it was one large spider.
Christine also shared that the incident left her so scared she has not driven her car for a week!
One user responded to her post asking, "did you touch it or see it first?", to which Christine replied, "Saw it at the last moment."
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Her pictures of the spider show it nestled in the recess of the car door handle. The post has been shared more than 1,000 times.
One user wrote: "As if 2020 wasn't enough of a frightening year, so now I need to check my car for spiders."
Another person shared their own creepy encounter with a spider. "I went to get the groceries out the back of my car today and there was one hiding where the door fits into the frame. I promptly closed it and went around the other side," they said.
A third member of the Facebook group added: "'That's not your car any more, it has a new owner. might as well hand the keys over."
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A woman described a similar incident which happened to her sister. "My sister had this happen once but she DIDN'T notice it. Spider 1: Sister 0 - She always checks now."
One person shared a different opinion, stating: "Silly responses to a cute spider!"
Most comments on the post agreed that the hairy spider was likely of the Huntsman family. There are more than 155 different species of huntsman in Australia.
Featured Image Credit: Christine Jones/Facebook