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Chapter 1: What is discussed at the start of this section?
Thank you. Welcome back to Creepcast. Today we are going to be doing a spider special. We've been saying that arachnophobia is very present amongst the online space and we have two spider stories today. The first one being my wife underwent exposure therapy to cure her arachnophobia, but it worked too well and now she's freaking me out.
And then we have an even older story from that was one year ago. It said it was posted to no sleep. And then we have one from almost 10 years ago. That's called the forest of a thousand legs, which is like one of the most brutal names of all time for a story. That's sick. Yeah, I'm pretty excited for these. Spiders freak me out. Well, some spiders freak me out.
I'm not arachnophobic to the point that if I see one, I'll lose my mind. But if I see certain ones, I lose my mind. And I have nightmares about spiders a lot and things like that.
Chapter 2: What spider stories are shared in this episode?
So the stories today definitely have the potential to bother me. You're not really afraid of spiders, just snakes, right?
yeah yeah no i mean like listen if when i see tiny spiders i'm always you know i don't want them like biting me if they're if they can bite i don't want that but i will say the like if i saw a fucking giant one of the giant like hairy spiders i mean i would not be stoked on that yeah also i feel like every depiction of the scariest version of a spider it can be is in movies is when they have a real spider come in
like into frame, walk in, you know? And then they have it on a string, like a practical version of it, and they just literally pulled at the camera, and it's just like flat, and it's flying at you. That actually freaks me out a lot. That's like in that movie Arachnophobia, when it jumps at him, when he's looking for it at the end. There's so many fun spider movies.
At least when I was younger, I really loved Arachnophobia, because John Goodman's great, but also Eight-Legged Freaks. Eight-Legged Freaks is awesome. I used to watch that all the time as a kid. Them like shooting the spiders in the mall and all that.
Chapter 3: How does exposure therapy impact the narrator's wife?
The spiders in the giant spider in Lord of the Rings and in Harry Potter both freaked me out. I'll put out this bounty. You don't get anything for it, but you'll help me feel better. So that's its own reward. I'll pull out this bounty. There was a movie when I was a kid that I watched on the sci-fi channel with my dad a couple times.
About a giant spider, or like several giant spiders in the subways under New York. And every time I look that up, it brings up a movie called Spiders, which is about like alien spiders taking over a train station underground. It's not that one. It was a movie where... That sounds a lot like what you just literally said, though. No, no, no. This movie, I remember a few very distinct scenes.
There was one scene, it's like a SWAT team goes down and they have to get on a train car to go to an abandoned part of the track where... Like there's a spider's nest and there's a shot where one of the girls SWAT team members is loading a gun and she looks down like an empty rail car tunnel as they're going. And she sees a giant shadow of a spider on the wall.
And then there's another scene where there is a wedding party on a subway train that is going to, I guess, a reception or whatever. And a giant spider gets on there. They're screaming and everything. And then there's a shot of the train car pulling up to station and the doors opening and blood pouring out of the door. And I have looked for this thing. I've looked on like old horror movie forums.
I've looked on sci-fi channel forums. I have not found this film. So if you can find it, I would really appreciate that. I'm not crazy. I have this recurring dream where I, um, There's this one kind of spider that really bothers me. They're called golden orb weavers. Even seeing them like makes me uncomfortable.
And I have this dream where like there will be a bunch on me and I can't get them off or people are throwing them at me or something like that. So I'd say I'm fairly arachnophobic. So we'll see if the stories freak me out. were you going to recommend something before I cut you off?
And I'll recommend just as a movie that it may be, I feel like it's gotten a lot of hype over the last couple of years. There's this movie called possum. It's really good. Uh, that's unsettling kind of, uh,
Very unsettling movie, but it's just about a man who's carrying around a briefcase, and there's like this puppet on the inside of it, but it's like a spider, and it's like this fucking human head. It's very, very sick. So if you haven't seen Possum, check that out. It's really good. Yeah. But guys, thank you so much.
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Chapter 4: What happens during the encounter with the giant spider?
Once again, I'm just saying, got the puncher in hand, got the card. This is a punch. This is one step closer to your free coupon. I agree. Your free shake. This is me doing, yeah. I do. I turn around, slip it on my Wrangler jeans. I do. I put it right back in my, my, my jean pocket. Yeah. But you know how many times, I wonder what would justify a stamp though.
You turn back around, baby feeling pizza. She's just like, turn back around. Back to back clicks. It's getting worse, Greg. I've done four clicks in the last two minutes. Just six more, buddy. Just hang in there. Hey, is your mom coming over this weekend? No, just the spiders. Got it. Yeah. I don't know. Look into the trees. Oh, that is so cool. So how many until you abandon your family?
Oh, it's gotta be a 10. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's a 10 punch card. That's the universal punch card system. On the 10th purchase, you get a free one. You get the free shakes, the free fries. Coffee, the, yeah, yeah, yeah. And then she lifted the glass, snatched the spider up, and stuffed it into her mouth.
that's that's the rest of the punch card that is a that is a you do not pass go you do not collect 200 you just hit the rest of them i like to imagine he had his hand his phone in his hand he's like calling for like chinese takeout and he does all right so you're full okay none of that you know what i'll just go get it myself honey no reason to order it and he never comes back
At the same time, though, I hate to say this, but that would kind of turn me on a little bit, if I'm being honest, just a little bit. Just a hair. What? Just a spider's hair length. If my lady was like, I am deathly afraid, and she fucking picked it up and ate it, I would be like, that is fucking kind of badass. It's disgusting, but... That sounds like something I would say.
Second of all, there is nothing attractive about her putting a spider in her mouth. I just, I have got to disagree. She's got that V for Vedetta thing going on right now. You know what I mean? G.I. Jane, bald ass head, eating that stuff.
I didn't see it, not fully, but I stood frozen in terror and watched the muscles in her badly shaved head tense and relax as her jaw worked away, crunching at those hardened legs.
God, the sounds were bad enough, but when she was done, she looked over her shoulder at me and smiled, and her teeth were smeared green and black with little bits... With little bits of leg and chidin still stuck between the gums. Oh. I, uh... I don't know if I like that. I also don't like that. That's kind of a no-go for any person.
If you have a big bowl of pasta, spaghetti, and you're chewing down on it, ain't no fucking reason you should be smiling with all that sauce. You know what I mean? Yeah, she's gone. Mentally gone. I'm going to take a couple liberties and step away and, like I said, punch the rest of them. Be like, okay, well, I don't know. I need to feel better. I'm going to hold this until I feel better.
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Chapter 5: What horrifying discovery does the narrator make about his neighbor?
She touched my neighbor's head, but he barely responded. She just gazed vacantly as she rolled him over so that he was facing away from me. We're such a clever animal. She added as she parted his hair. I was curious about just how much you miss. Something was clamped around the back of his head. A throbbing bulb of molted brown skin and hair. It looked like a spider without legs. A tick maybe?
That's what I thought it was until my wife ran a finger playfully along its back, and my neighbor let out a gut-wrenching squeal of pain. Slowly, the shape seemed to wriggle and writhe, and long, thin legs emerged from beneath its body, and I realized I was looking at a spider wrapped tight around its skull, its legs buried beneath the skin and muscle of its scalp.
For a moment, it playfully curled the leg in the air before returning to the incision and sliding it back into place, every inch disappearing with a gruesome wet sound. It displaced muscle and hair, and when it came to rest, I realized just how misshapen his skull had become from all those legs wrapped tight around his head. What the fuck?
Do you ever find it weird that you can't remember what it looked like? The thing came running out of her hand. She asked before reaching over to stroke my head. Not that I want to claim any dignity right now, but that is my bear trap. When I said him throwing it on the ground was going to, you know, match something looks like I was right, but I'm also miserable. So who cares?
Chapter 6: How does the narrator react to the spider's presence?
Her hand came away covered in cobwebs. Something about her touch revolted me. It sent strange shivers coursing through my body. A deep primordial need to get away came over me. That strange revulsion all over again. The same one that had taunted me over and over again over the last few weeks.
Without even meaning to, I found myself convulsing and panicking, my body trying to thrash violently but with every limb constricted by that silk I could do nothing except writhe around on the floor. I tried with everything I had to move my hands, to get some purchase on the silk and tear away at it to free myself, but it was no use.
I could do nothing except glare at my wife in the enormous shadow behind her, the one that towered above us both, its great legs clustering around the floor and ceiling. At some point I grabbed onto my trousers and clenched my fist and felt something small and hard, the lighter. I knew there was great risk in using it, but I had no choice.
I managed to worm my hand into my pocket and find it with my fumbling fingers. My wife seemed oddly aware of what I was doing, and she seemed to tilt her head like a curious dog as I clenched my fist around the small object and used every ounce of willpower I had left to fight the violent seizures that racked my body and thumbed the trigger. The web went up in flames immediately.
must have been the glue, but the flames exploded across the silk like they'd been soaked in kerosene. Before I even realized that it had weakened enough for me to free one arm, the tongues of fire were already spreading across the floor where they found my poor neighbor. The burning sensation that crawled across my legs and chest hurt like nothing I could imagine, but I was finally free.
I rolled over and began to push myself up, already desperately patting at my body to try and put out the flames. When I looked around me, my wife and the shape that followed her were gone.
For a moment, I considered helping my neighbor, but his body thrashed too violently, and although his eyes were wide open, spiders were pouring from his mouth, and I could not summon the courage to take another step towards him. All I could think of was escape. The house was going up like a tinderbox. It wasn't far to the kitchen, but the fire had already beat me there.
Smoke billowed upwards and, trapped by the ceiling, started to fill the air with choking soot. The only escape was the back door, and I stumbled towards it, but was stopped at the last moment by the sight of my wife standing there. You really are such a fascinating spe- I barreled past her, but to my surprise, she offered no resistance.
I merely merged into the open air, my lungs gasping desperately for clean air as I collapsed onto long, unkempt grass. I looked over my shoulder and saw orange tongues of fire were already leaping out of the windows on the upper floor. Left uncontrolled, the fire would rage and consume the entire row of terrace houses.
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Chapter 7: What traumatic event does Robert Jr. recount about Lucy?
I've enjoyed living inside your head quite a bit. That explains his forgetfulness, not remembering things and all that. Struggling to make sense of her words, but still somehow aware of their terrifying implications, I placed one hand on the back of my head and felt it. Felt her. The mere touch was enough to fill my mouth with a coppery taste, while my vision blurred at the edges.
Something beneath my skin shifted, and I felt a terrible pressure behind my eyes. I had to get rid of her, and I only knew of one weakness. Oh well, she said as she watched me fumble desperately for the lighter. Not every relationship has to last forever to be meaningful. I lit my hair on fire. My last memories were of heat and a sudden release of pressure. I couldn't possibly describe it to you.
Not really. Something slid out of my skull and Lily waved me from the fence before she seemed to blink out of existence and then... Nothing. Not even darkness. Just total absence. I wouldn't regain a sense of self until the hospital several weeks later. So I'm assuming that Lily never made it out of therapy. She was always gone and the spider just gave him the apparition of her.
Yeah, I don't know. I'm like, well, let's finish it and see. There was nothing left of either house, but they did manage to control the fire before it spread to the others. I'm sure there was still some damage and to this day I feel guilty about it. I think I was charged with arson. Maybe more. I have vague memories of being wheeled into a courtroom.
The doctors have agonized over me for a long time, and one mentioned amateur trepanation. He said I must have practiced it on my wife, at least based on the body they found in my neighbor's house, but I can't really be sure of anything. I am forever tipping in and out of reality. Writing this down has been difficult.
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Chapter 8: How does the story conclude with the encounter in the woods?
I'm not entirely aware where I am right now. One doctor told me I might make some kind of recovery if it was just a normal brain damage, but I'd never seen anything like it, so I couldn't be sure. Feels like it's a different doctor every time I see them. Then again, I don't always recognize myself when I look in the mirror.
Of course, that could just be the burns, but I reckon even then, I still look a fair bit older than I should. There's one orderly who's stuck around long enough to get to know me. He knows me by name, smiles a lot when he sees me, talks to me about all sorts of things. He seems genuinely interested in me and what I remember.
I called him in once to get rid of a spider that had spun a web on the window outside, and he did so with a warm smile. I told him I was deathly afraid of them, and he said he already knew that, but I shouldn't worry because he was going to keep an eye on me, make sure nothing bad happened. I'm glad he's around.
Ever since he started working here, I haven't seen many of the nasty little things hanging around my room. I guess he's not that bothered by them. At least not if the cobwebs in his hair or anything to go by. What a fun ending. Do you think that the spiders are real or do you think they're just a manifestation in his mind?
No, I think they're real because what started all was the windy day when one blew in and then got in her hair and he thought it pulled it out, but she was actually infected by the spider that had burrowed into her brain and then his brain. Um... And now they've gotten to either, I guess the orderly has it because of the cobwebs in his hair, or they're backing him.
The trepanation thing means that it burrows into the skull. That's what the doctors suspect happened. That's what led to him burning down the neighbor's house and stuff. So I think at the very least, the spider that's in his brain is real. Maybe not the giant one in the house. And I don't think the visage of his wife was real, but...
yeah i the her shaving her head and stuff makes me think that that's what she was trying to get the thing off yeah the back of her head you know what i mean yeah yeah yeah i think uh well i think she was and that's what she's talking about spiders in the walls because there was one in her head but he was also under the influence somehow because if she had a shaved head and he didn't see it um that could be the dementia could be the thing he's forgetting
I think by that time he was already... Or he was also infected. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I think by that time he was already hooked. Yeah. For sure. Gosh. That was a great story, though. That was very creepy. Dude, I can't remember being that scared of a story in a while. That was... That was one too, where I feel like the ending had a really fun payoff as well. Yeah. Which doesn't happen a lot.
No, sometimes the ending and like the explanations kind of sours it, but I feel like the spider in the brain thing is a good, a good fit there. And I like the neighbor and then like, it's the, obviously the webs, everything webbed up and stuff like that. I think that's all awesome. I think it's all very well done. Yeah. OK, well, excellent spider story. Christian Wallace link in the description.
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