Image from ‘Infested’

Spiders…nature’s creepiest crawlies. Personally, I’m an “oh hell no” when it comes to anything related to the eight-legged critters. So, imagine my horror when it was announced over the weekend that the world’s largest spiderweb had been found in a sulfuric cave on the border between Greece and Albania.

According to Live Science, spelunkers discovered a colony of over 111,000 (!!!) spiders living in what appears to be the world’s biggest spiderweb, deep inside a pitch-black cave on the Albanian-Greek border. The web is said to stretch 1,140 square feet (106 square meters) along the wall of a narrow, low-ceilinged passage near the entrance of the cave.

Though the researchers found new information regarding the spider colony, they apparently weren’t the first to find it. Cavers with the Czech Speleological Society discovered it in 2022 during an expedition, followed by a team of scientists who then visited the cave in 2024. An analysis conducted by the scientists revealed that two spider species live in the colony: Tegenaria domestica (domestic house spider) and Prinerigone vagans.

Get Caught In This Video of the Nightmare-Fuel Spiderweb:

Ignore the sobbing you’re hearing right now. That’s just me imagining waking up in this cave. Films like Arachnophobia or last year’s Infested terrify me to the core, but they have nothing on this nightmare-fuel.

As much as I would like to say burn it with fire, though, I’d like to remind you all that spiders are not the monsters we sometimes think of them as. Skin-crawling as it is, what we have here is a beautiful example of the wonders of nature.

You just couldn’t pay me enough to go see it for myself.

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