Let this be a cautionary tale.
Hiker Decides To Poke A Mysterious ‘Nest’ And Gets The Worst Surprise Of His Life
By
Editorial Staff in
Bizarre
On 22nd November 2016
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#1 If you come across something that looks like a bird's nest, don't touch it. After all, why would you?
#2 Best case scenario, it's an actual bird's nest.
Wow, you've touched a bird's nest. Good for you, right?
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#3 Worst case scenario...
It's something far creepier and crawlier. This gets pretty weird.
#4 Here's a close-up view of a similar nest.
Wait, what's that attached to the pieces of dried grass? It's...oh. Those are not pieces of dried grass.
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#5 Nope, they're legs.
And this hiker has stumbled onto a horde of cellar spiders -- better known as daddy long-legs.
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#6 Now, cellar spiders aren't technically spiders.
They're actually great little helpers, as they eat mosquitoes and other pests. They're harmless to humans, and they don't build webs.
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#7 Still, if you get a few thousand of them together, it's not pleasant.
And they can bite, by the way. Let's watch this hiker make a strange, strange decision.
