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@@droneadventures4147 That's very kind, thank you.
wow. what a joke channel
No one believes me but as a kid I saw a dragon fly that was at least two foot long .....I think sometimes strange things happen where things are genetic freaks that don't stop growing and if they get the perfect conditions and nothing else eating them when they were small they can grow to be bigger than expected.
I've told this story since this day and it was the weirdest most exciting day of my life. When I was around 12 years old, my friend Caleb Parris and me went into the mountain in front of my house, North Carolina, for the day. We walked 3-4 hours in. In the bottom of a ravine, between several trees and a rocky crag, we saw the largest spider's web we'd ever seen. We were peeling off single large webs of us 50 feet before Caleb noticed it. I would have walked right into it. We throw some branches toward it. We could see what looked like bats and or birds webbed up into it. We were freaked out. Just as we turned to leave a spider came out of the crag on the web. We almost couldn't see it at first. It was bigger than a large watermelon and it had "skin" like thick glass. or see-through. You could see dark organs moving inside of it. It let out a weird sound sound and shot a web toward us. We took off running as quick as two little boys could. We just kept running up the mountain for 10 minutes. We realized that we were lost. We started walking down the mountain before coming up on a timber rattler and running again. We got really lost. The from nowhere were 5 men with M-16s and Alice packs. They told us they were hunters, but looking back I am sure they were some sort of US special forces. At dark we were off the mountain and somehow in the middle of Maggie Valley, miles away from home, and the one who spoke the most to us dropped his gear and walked us into a diner across the road. He asked the waitress if we could call our parents and dropped a 20 on the table and told us to eat.
My parents came and took us home. I'd swear to this in court or own my death. I have never been so scared and I am afraid of spiders today.
Well considering the 1 ft long dragonfly I could believe a spider as big as a trash can lid
Two years ago I stepped out my front door to go to work when encountered a spider that was 5 foot seven getting out of a Volvo. The mother-in-lawus epicanus
lol
underrated comment lmao
That's one tall mother in law .. just run!
Or maybe just stay still. I hear their visual acuity might be based on movement like T Rex
They’re actually a quite common sighting. Which doesn’t make it any less scary when you’re face to face with one of them. 😉😎
one thing this series is making clear is that most people aren't as good at judging the size of something as they think they are lol
And people love to exaggerate to tell a good story.
I just saw a spider as big as a car in my cupboard.
@@jasongotshadowbanned
That's one big cupboard then 😂
😂🤏🏽🪱
Most women will tell you the same thing about men...
Really enjoyed making this one, the number of giant spider sightings surprised even me. Thanks for having me!
World facts should pin this
Thanks for all your help. Great to work with you!
The higher subscriber numbers go the more giant spiders stories will appear, thats true for any cryptid monster video.
I'm Australian an I'll tell you I've seen a bark napper spider with a 2 foot leg span east of glen Innes in the wytalabar valley Late one night with my uncle and brother
It crossed the road in front of our ute we pulled up to look at it an it ran off at high speed into the bush
Australia does have large very large UNDOCUMENTED spiders
If anyone other than an Australian said that I wouldn’t believe them 😄
Yeh yeh. Never happened
@@disclaimer.imjokinbloody well did three of us seen it my uncle wouldn't get out of the ute,
me an my brother got out of the ute to look at it,
it was in the middle of the road had about a 2 foot leg span
When we got about 8 foot from it it ran off into the bush
That's rubbish, you saw something else and at night it was possibly not a spider.
How do you know it’s rubbish? Oh you don’t
Back in '89 when attending Jungle School at Ft. Sherman in Panama we saw a spider big enough to scare soldiers so badly they said they would rather take a Court Martial than go back into the Jungle. We didn't have the means to capture a picture but it was easily as big as any snapping turtle I've ever seen and if it wasn't for us having to maintain Noise Discipline I would have shot it. It's legs looked as thick as an Alaskan King Crab legs.
Don't let Jamies Winston near that spider...
@@Wolf_3125because he’d eat it like a W?
@@RecklessRusty Exactly
Did it look like a tarantula?
Very much so. @@user-ot7jd9dt7t
Something I find very frustrating is when misidentification is used as grounds for dismissal. For example if I saw my neighbour's Maine Coon cat, who is about 15kg, in the garden and said I saw a lynx. Now obviously I didn't see a lynx. But that doesn't mean nothing was there. It often feels like the question of "is this just made up, or did people see something that they aren't using the right name for?" is both really interesting and often overlooked.
Holy crap one time I was thinking Bigfoot was real but found a ape in bce times and it looks EXACTLY what we think big foot looks like but it actually was a dinosaur with a long Name,
@@puaharris5851I appreciate you’re trying to be unkind and funny, but I think you missed the point, which is that there is something we can learn from old stories.
In the case of Vietnam War sightings, I suspect what we can learn is just how messed up soldiers were mentally, and in modern tribal cases it might be how well people learn the profit motive. In other cases it might just be that someone saw a badger and their fear turned it into a spider when it moved funny.
Obviously what you saw was a bear. Your neighbor has questionable taste in pets. Careful!
My mom thought she saw a bobcat outside. It’s just my neighbor’s fat pet cat that looks like Garfield. 🤣
I saw a leopard in Scotland, whilst hiking the Cape Wrath trail. Couldn't believe it. Was plain as day, crossed right in front of me.
That's it.. I'm going to live in Antarctica.
🕷🕸
Lol maybe this will be a selling point for homes being built in future colonies in Antarctica
While going through Jungle Warfare school in Panama in the mid 80s, my squad had to navigate through a swamp. When we got to the edge of the swamp we encountered a spider web the was approximately 15 foot high and 25 yards across. We couldn't tell if it was one single web or many smaller webs that were interconnected. Needless to say we interred the swamp at a different location.
My money would be on one of the pink toe tarantula species. They're a colony species that's known for community webs.
Been through jungle warfare training, I know what you mean. I still have my jungle expert patch.
You "interred" a swamp? How do you place a swamp inside a crypt? Swamps are usually a lot larger than a coffin…
How big was the web in football fields or subway sandwiches? It’s the only way I can picture the actual size
How many yards is a meter.?
I’ve sided with the sharks, the lions, and pretty much every other animals but spiders the size of dogs should be burned with fire.
I agree with you lad
think of all the cool animals we've driven to extinction but somehow spiders get to walk free
Agreed.
Unless it's a giant jumping spider, then it gets cuddles.
😂
Thanks, now I'll have to keep my legs up onto my chair and constantly look down under my table every minute or so for the next hour.
They are dangling from the ceiling above you.
Never been creeped out and yet fascinated at the same time 😂great content as usual 👏
Thanks!
me too one of the stories is about my mother's native country, I have been dreaming about giant spiders since my childhood
The collab we never asked but needed
And man keep making this types of video you are really good👏👏👏
In Golden Colorado, a friend & I, once saw a spider about the size of a serving platter (it’s central body about the size of a chipmunk) skittering through some dead leaves, near a dry creek bed. Freaked both of us out a bit, as we both verified to each other, what we actually think we saw…
Thanks, I'll never visit Colorado
I guess that's my next vacation spot!!❤❤
I live about an hour away from that. Great! Very strange too considering there are verrrry few spiders in Colorado due to the altitude.
@@foxglow6798 Import?
What year?
2 great youtubers collab, truly a good time to be a fan of both of your channels.
Much appreciated!
I saw a spider 23” across in Texas. Nearest town a 40 min+ drive, I called my mother for help. We used things nearby to set the scale because my mother at first didn’t believe me- to be fair I initially told her 3 feet. Afterwards, we were able to measure more accurately.
Where in Texas?
And neither of you had cameras or camera phones?
@@Ryodracolol
No you didn’t
You didn´t even call the White House for a "heater" drop:?
Maybe sightings of giant spiders are of spider species that have evolved lungs more like coconut crabs
That or it's another species that just happens to resemble a spider and even have the ability to weave web-like strings.
@@watchdogsplaythroughs9852 convergent evolution. I think that is very plausible
Species of such animals typically live in one location, not at 10 random places on Earth.
@@pavelslama5543 Who was talking about 10 different places?
Or maybe they are just sightings of large crabs, misidentified as spiders by confused observers
Spiders are one of the most alien lifeforms to us, the novel: Children of time by Adrian Tchaikovsky builds on that beautifully.
Eh, I'd put octopuses far, far more alien than spiders.
@@johndiddilyjoe6258
Funnily enough the sequal book "Children of Ruin" is about Octopus
No it's octopus
Meh the octopus is strange but also a marine animal so will always seem massively different- the “most alien” description was popularised in documentaries and is just that - a description and in no way able to be correlated from scientific data etc.
For terrestrial creatures I’d absolutely posit centipedes or scorpions as being the most “alien” of creatures like the op claims. I have owned many for years and am constantly fascinated and surprised by their behaviours and almost superhuman abilities and all this from probably the oldest of creatures on land.
Alright! alright! You needn't manhandle me further, it's the octopus then, you can breath, Jesus Christ!
Spiders can only get so big, that they dont choke under their own weight. They have booklungs that work different from our respiration system and is directly affected by the weight of the arachnid.
A giant spider taught me a lesson in life.. I was 13 at the time, and I used to wait until late at night to take the trash out for it to be picked up in the morning. One night I got yelled at obviously again for waiting too late to take it out. I walked out the side door and went into the backyard towards the dumpster you pull down to the street. There on top of the dumpster was an all black spider that covered the entire top of the dumpster. It was all black; black furry legs and a shiny black mid section. It began to turn towards me and as it did so I could hear the thump noises it made against the dumpster. I dropped the trash bag where I was standing and leaped over the fence at break neck speed ran through the neighbors backyard and hopped over the fence on the other side. A big Rottweiler dog was in the backyard I was running through and I used to be afraid of him but he was running next to me as if he too knew about the spider. I then ran towards the front of the house and was just standing in the middle of the street afraid out of my mind. But then I remembered if I had not taken the dumpster to the curb I’d be in a heap of trouble so I didn’t say a word about not pulling the dumpster down. I’m the morning I sprayed the dumpster down with the water hose then pulled it down. By the way, there was an old hollowed out dead tree stump in a far corner of the backyard with some very very old webs on it. I’m the tree trunk was what seemed like a burrow or tunnel that led underground. I’m willing to bet that’s where it came from.
Send a go pro in there
And then an M-80 firecracker...
DISCLAIMER:
This comment does not intend to support or suggest to use lies, neither is this an instruction on how to lie yourself to the oval office. There are people out there, that are much more experienced in telling one lie after another, without even raising an eyebrow. And you are definitely NOT one of them.
Your "childhood memories" are way to detailed (or too good) to be true. The most common mistake amongst amateur lyers is to think, a lie has to be made up completely. The truth (Isnt it ironic, dont you think?) is; The most successful lie is literally the truth. Of course, except for the one thing, that you need to cover up. Finally, add one or two "distraction lies", and youre gtg.
@@martinkaleczinski9481 people like you are just plain ridiculous. You nor anyone else has to believe me. I could care less.
@@martinkaleczinski9481 if im a liar then you are a nonjudgemental, good decent person.
If I came into contact with one of these my soul would LITERALLY leave my body 😭😭
You could safely say the these very very big spiders have a modified by nature lung to support their enormous size and about oxygen limitations the rainforest have more oxygen in it than all of New York cities combined, great great upload, never knew Suriname had a giant spider story wow, thanks I’ll subscribe.
Thanks, however I should mention it was @Truthisscarierthanfiction who informed me of the Suriname sighting, so if you're going to give your sub to anyone I'd give it to him. The man has got an encyclopaedic knowledge on Cryptozoology!
@@wildworld6264Sorry I meant to tell you the UA-cam channel Hammerson Peters mention in one of his video series about the cryptids up in the Nahanni valley area the Indians quoted seeing spiders the size of ( what for it ) Grizzly bears 🫣
If they are on par with coconut crabs in size they might be using similar mechanisms to take in air
I've seen some pretty big spiders in the tropics of Australia... Which sounds scary, but I'd suggest not as scary as a tiger. Which we don't have.
I’ll take the Tiger over a giant spider 😮
@@kathyinwonderlandl.a.8934 really?... So hypothetically you have to choose between being locked in a cage with a huge hungry spider or a even a smallish hungry tiger. You really wanna go with option number one? Really?
@@C.Fecteau-AU-MJ13 Yeah, I'd take tiger over the spider too. It's less grotesque and freaky, even if it's scary in its own way.
@@reazulzannah738 Well I bet that attitude would shift the moment you realised you're about to become tiger poop.
@@C.Fecteau-AU-MJ13 My soul will leave by the time that happens, so it doesn't bother me; we're either going to be tiger poop or insect poop eventually for we aren't immortal in body. I do however believe in the immortality of souls as a Muslim, so if I get martyred struggling against a tiger, I'm okay with it.
I was traveling across country on my motorcycle and stopped at a rest area in nebraska. There was no place to rest except the lawn, but you can't pitch a tent at a rest area so I threw a sleeping bag on the grass and crawled in to get a few hours sleep. The rest stop was in the middle of corn fields and trees as far as you can see, no other buildings at all. Less than a minute of stretching out and looking at the stars, a huge spider at least the size of my hand crawled over my face. I assume it was a wolf spider since it was out looking for a meal. It covered my entire face as it passed over. Needless to say, I gave up on the idea of a comfortable snooze and left.
Would be screaming if that were me.
Yoooo....
i love the topic of giant spiders!!! I'm loving everything about this video!!!
Awesome, thank you
There was a documentary done some years ago about the "chicken spider" that tribe people in the Brazilian rainforest reported. They found some very large known species. They could not confirm the existence of the chicken killer but found some known species that may have been able to hunt a chicken.
I think I remember that show. Towards the end they found like a group of tarantulas living in a burrow together.
Loved this! This subject is so limited in its sightings, everyone who makes cryptid videos pulling out the same three or four every time. You went beyond that here, which was exciting.
Some sea spiders are freaky large, especially in polar regions where a phenomenon known as polar gigantism occurs.
They have been known to reach leg spans of over 70 centimeters (27 inches). This is quite large compared to most other species of sea spider, which tend to have leg spans of only a few centimeters.
They have an unusual body plan compared to other arthropods. They have a tiny body and long, thin legs, which makes them look somewhat like a spider, although they are not closely related to spiders. But like spiders, they also have a proboscis that they use to suck tasty juices out of their prey, which can include various types of soft-bodied invertebrates.
@@eskede4733 There IS such a thing as sea spiders- they are marine ARTHROPODS of the order Pantopoda, belonging to the class Pycnogonida. (They are NOT crabs! King crabs are of the Decapod order and belong to the Malacostraca class.) There are about 1,500 known species of sea spiders. They are widespread throughout the ocean, but are particularly abundant in the polar regions. Some have a leg span of up to 24 inches. #FactsMatter Do yourself a favor and do some research and learn a thing before looking like a fool in front of 68,000 viewers.
I bet you're Ultra-MAGA, too, huh? 🙄
@@eskede4733 You've obviously confused millimeters with inches. Only very small men delete their comments.
9:18 went to NARBC and saw a freaking huge Theraphosa stirmi for sale. Its body was the size of my palm.
I've read on forums, though I can't confirm, that people have stirmis with a 13 inch leg span.
I used to be so afraid of spiders that seeing one could ruin the rest of my day and/or keep me up all night. The fact that I was able to watch this whole thing and only moved my phone less than a foot away and looked away a few times made me feel good about how much progress I've made. Though I probably wouldn't have if you didn't make consistently good stuff.
But if I ever see one the size of a washtub I will vanish from this realm. Honestly, even if I saw one of the really big ones that's actually real I might.
That's awesome!
Considering the number of images and videos of freakishly large spiders in this video, I think you should be very proud that you were able to make it through. That's great progress. Nice work.
In Georgia, United States, I saw a spider literally the size of a dinner plate. I got some spider spray and the impact of the spray sounded like it was hitting leather. The spider moved *so* fast! I never found out if the spray worked.
Were you near water? May have been a fisherman spider. I've seen them in GA and they get pretty big
In Adrian Tchaikovsky's book "Children of Time" about giant intelligent spiders, they actually end up developing slightly more advanced book lungs with an apparatus that allows them to actively breath. But even those spider don't grow to be much larger than a small dog, they never get larger than people.
When I was 10 years old, my family were vacationing up in Wisconsin. My dad rented a motorboat and we went way up north to see the exposed cliffs. We came upon a cliff with big holes(2 feet) about 3 feet down from the cliff tops. Birds were flying in and out and seemed frantic. I saw huge spiders, at least a foot or more, battling the birds and they appeared to be trying to get into the holes to get the chicks. From the size of the holes, these were not normal sized spiders. They might have been cave spiders, I dont know. All I know is that Im 66 now and can see it in my mind like it happened yesterday. Also had a fist sized spider crawl across my garage floor in Iowa. I dont care about lung size but how could they survive the brutal winters?
I wonder why scientists and governments don't acknowledge the existence of giant snakes and spiders and other creatures ? To not cause panic?
Could've been equally terrifying crab like crustaceans.
Nobody ever mentions the huge black tarantula carrying away appossum, in peru, at nighttime. The birdeaters are brown so its a differant kind. Bill gibbons looked for huge spiders in peru on monsterquest but just missed them. But, shit, i aint lookin in peru at night for these newly found monsters. Peace.
Great and professionally done video love the graphics the subject matter the narration perfect viewing you help me fight the war on boredom😊
I fucking love these videos. Not only are they wildly entertaining but they're absolutely packed with great info.
🤣🤣
There are 5 feet long spiders in the Congo. They look a lot like the Huntsman spider and will kill a human if one crosses their way and have known to kill a few villagers who lived near the jungle.
and have we ever considered that these upscaled creatures could have an exponential intelligence boost alongsid that crazy size/lung buff?
Once again, great video my friend. Presenting the proper context with outlandish claims. The thing a lot of people don't understand about animal size and evolution is that if one animal evolved a certain way at a certain size, other relatives will as well. Example, full grown great whites are typically 16-18ish feet in length, weighing around 2 tons. That size plan works because we see great hammerheads and tigers grow to a similar length. Maybe not the same weight, but heavy enough. All the big tarantulas are generally in the same ball park of size, give or take a few differences and variations within context. Great Job!!
Thanks man, appreciate the support!
In 1974, I was 17 years old living on the U.S. Navy base in Millington Tennessee. One night my car wouldn’t start while visiting my girl off base. I had to walk home and entered the main gate on foot. A short cut took me through a mile wide grass field that bordered the housing area on one side and the perimeter fence on the other. Beyond the fence was a swampy area. As I neared the houses all insect sounds stopped. I stood still as the sound of a dog crying out came from a house close by. That’s when I saw a shiny black spider the size of a V.W. Beetle car. Crawling slowly, it exited the yard and was wrapping a German Shepard dog in a spray of webs from it’s rear end. I inhaled sharply and it stopped and raised up on it’s legs and I thought it was looking towards me. As I held my breath, it paused momentarily and then quickly ran to the fence. I could hear it’s legs scraping the rolls of barbed wire on top of the fence. It then darted into the swamp. After a moment I ran home. The next day at the base bowling alley, I was telling my friends what I had seen and was being ridiculed and accused of being high or drunk or just a liar. A base policeman in the next booth had me repeat my story. He then told us that they had been getting reports of a lot of missing dogs and cats. He said the official word was that a group of pet thieves were selling dogs and cats to drug research companies. We moved to Europe three weeks later. I stopped going out at night until we did. It didn’t look like a tarantula but more like a giant Black Widow. It looked hard, almost a blue black with slender pointy legs. To this day, I have never been that scared as that night.
I feel sad for that poor dog, true story?
Rosevelt wrote in his journals of giant spiders taking dogs from villages in the jungle of South America enough oxygen there to grow them big
During a Ayahuasca trip I was suspended a considerable distance at an oblique angle slightly from the rear side...to a giant super massive shiny black widow type arachnid sitting poised alertly waiting .. in the centre of a cosmic sized classic disk shape web......It was unaware of my presence!.....
The scary truth is that a spider the size of a dog isn't possible on this planet - and physics doesn't care what you believe.
Physics? Do you mean biology?
@@beantea5592both
@@beantea5592lol
Biology as you know it has been wrong several times. There are things out there that do not conform to your regular idea of biology and people encounter them
J’ba Fofi being described as a yellow spiderling with a purple abdomen makes it sound much more credible than other cryptids. When you look at baby spiders or tarantulas they all resemble this color scheme, because their exoskeleton is so transparent. The purple abdomen also makes sense, as that’s were the food goes, and harbors other major organs, hence the darker tone than the rest of the body.
Being a fully-brown adult also makes sense. Just look at the two biggest tarantula species that inhabit Central Africal - Hysterocrates gigas and Pelinobius muticus. They’re all either a reddish brown or a very dark brown.
We will explain this in detail in our next video.
Doesn't oxygen limit their size potential? Is the figure of 21% oxygen global, or are there pockets of higher/denser oxygen in remote places like the Congo where J'ba Fofi is rumoured to dwell?
The largest arthropod is the cocunut crab that can grow up to 40cm (1 1/3 feet) long so. A spider might be able to get that long
Karl Shuker (who collected a lot of the stories in this video) wrote "if a giant spider does thrive in some secluded, far-off realm, it must have evolved a radically different, much more advanced respiratory system, not just a greatly enlarged body"
Thats all true, but if its a newly discovered species, that all changes to the size of the new species.the black tarantula carrying the possum in peru, is a newly discovered breed and grows bigger than the bird eater. New breed, new rules.
@@davidbirch98
Wait what? What spider is this?!
Did someone ever grow a spider in a terrarium with raised oxygen levels? 😂 Just for experimentation.
Just found your channel. Subbed immediately. Let’s goooo.
What I like about this channel is I get to indulge in the fun and mystery of cryptids without the bullshit, I get to actually learn about all the amazing living things that do exist.
If spiders that big exist I'm buying a flame thrower.
About 15 years back I was working as a contractor at TVA Paradise fossil plant in Kentucky. My supervisor and me found a wolf spider the size of my rose-haired tarantula. Super scary big
The exoskeleton of a puppy sized Spider would be So Scientifically extraordinary that it would rewrite Alot of scientific perceptions. The larger a Spider, the MORE Fragile it becomes. It would literally crush itself under its own weight. The oxygen levels required to sustain such a creature would be legendary
Rubbish!
Isn't a huntsman with a 12" leg span big enough? These reports remind me of fishermen's stories of the "one that got away."
Biggest by leg span. Goliath 🐦 eating tarantula is biggest 🕷️ by weight and body length.
@@darkmatter1152No it's not, only by weight!! Huntsman spider has the biggest leg span!
@@vicgodsucks1157 that's what I said. Also bigger by body length.
@@darkmatter1152, the biggest spider that I have ever seen was about 4 inches, and that was just between its eyes.
@@darkmatter1152 Wrong!! It's not bigger in length, only weight!
Mmmmm, I like how since the advent of smart phones with decent cameras the sightings have dried up...🤔
Even if youwould claim photo shop anyway so why bother
@@residentidiot9694 Uhm distinguishing photo shops from authentic fotographs ain't rocket science... and it's even easier to distinguish fake video footage from authentic footage.
So if you really encountered a giant spider... well you'd probably run so mystery solved?
I love spiders actually
Likewise
I don't know about man eating spiders but having seen a huntsman and a bird eating tarantulas along with the vast amount of unoccupied areas all over the world I have no problem believing that there are bigger spiders out there somewhere, especially in warmer climates.
I live in a fairly isolated part of Canada and I saw a Diving Bell spider that was the size of a 10 inch frisbee whe I was fishing and I know that because it was floating down the river on it.
I thought it was fake until I tried to catch it and when my hook hit the water near the frisbee it took off towards the oppsite bank so I caught the frisbee to measure it.
"Except Antarctica"
That we know of...
Beware of ice spiders
Giant ice spiders would be so sic lol
@@GORILLA_PIMP but
But how long would it take before you were sick of ice spiders?
The giant spider is my favorite cryptid. Thanks, great presentation.
It’s hilarious that nobody has ever considered giant spider sightings to be giant spider crabs
crabs usually aren't found hundreds of miles inland or in the desert 🙄
spider crabs also move very slow and don't hunt small dogs and carry them away
Because crabs don't look like spiders.
Really great video. I've kept many different spiders over the years. From tiny jumping spiders to a big mama Blondie. Fascinating to watch them.
until they eat you lol
I hallucinated when I was younger was in the state of half asleep half awake when I saw a tarantula the size of my single bed crawl under my bed bunk , I was on the top bunk took me half an hour to build up the courage to come down , was weird af no idea what caused my brain to make me see that to this day
I think humans have a genetic fear of certain things, and spiders are one of them. They are just naturally repulsive to most people, and the brain can throw you for a loop sometimes.
While I would agree that many of these sightings are misidentifications or size exaggerations, I cannot discount the reports from people who live in the jungle. I have to trust many of the things they say about animals we consider to be cryptids because they live in those ecosystems and know the life forms that live there.
Definitely dubious when the spider supposedly gushed blood when spiders don't even have blood
That guy with the hatchet came in clutch
I honestly think it is possible for a spider to get that large but there's no way to know until somebody stumbles upon one and takes video or a picture of it but like I said I do believe they do exist there's tribes that talk about it a lot of people talk about it Amazon all around the world so I wouldn't say it's not possible it is possible
there was a picture very old and blurry of a huge spider covering a large tree trunk with a big web it looked about 3 ft
A few years ago I was exiting an underground car park w some mates, I spotted a chunky wild spider clung to the top of a pillar, approx. the size of a CD (looked dark, kinda armoured and covered in fine bristles) as an arachnophobe, I feel no shame in admitting I screamed out loud. I live in the Channel Islands, I had no idea we have wild spiders that big ☠️
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Ive seen a giant Goliath bird eating spider at the museum of natural history in Washington DC. Its legs were hunched under it- if its legs were splayed out, it couldve cover a dinner plate.The spider at the end of the video was taken from a 1959 movie- "TARANTULA ". I remember the free flying web off its back.
Fun fact: Tarantula was Clint Eastwood's first movie. He played the pilot of the jet that bombs it at the end.
I love Spiders and snakes 😊
as someone whos owned tarantula, even a large one like the size of a dog or biggrer wouldnt take very many bullets, spiders are very delicate really, a reasonably short fall is enough to rupture them
It’s my understanding that spiders do not bleed so the blood of the spider putting out the fire is not possible. They do have liquid whitish/yellow guts in their abdomen but they said “blood.” Also, they are cold-blooded and could not survive in very cold weather so the Arctic sighting seems sus too but there are sea spiders that are really crabs.
I've kept the fact spiders can't get bigger than a dinner plate because of their lungs, in my useless fact brain for decades.
Big bugs are the cryptids that I have to stop at, there literally isn't enough oxygen in the air for them to be able to breathe, unless they've evolved something more akin to lungs it ain't happenin. Edit: I commented before they explained that part 😅
Coconut Crab says hi, on the lungs front.
Or . . . these big spiders are not true spiders but are something else that merely appear to be spiders. They did kinda allude to this with the sea spiders. It could be a situation akin to the cuttlefish where the outward appearance resembles one thing but internally is something else.
Places like the Congo and the Amazon rainforest have a lot more oxygen and haven't changed in thousands of years, so quite possible
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I have a pet spider name Lockhart he’s the size of my fist and I love him dearly
They are out there
Enjoyed the content learned about limitations on exoskeletons and how bookcase lungs effect it as the animal grows. Spiders are interesting though they are more paranoid about us then we are about them. Thats why their hiding in your room right now.
At 4:40, "the spider gushed so much blood that the fire was half-extinguished". Are you telling me that the big, black bug bled black bug blood? Say that three times FAST!!!
I've watched normal species in the woods, common spiders, get progressively larger over two decades...
My A geniculata, Brazilian Giant White Knee, is a juvenile coming in at about 4 inches. When people see her they'll say "what a big spider that is ", they are confounded when I explain she is still growing and can get twice this size. So yes spider size is all relative.
It's so funny how these giant spiders just happen to vanish before the person can either take a picture or get someone else there to see it also, reminds me of my Grandpa when he comes back from fishing trips saying he caught a 60ft Catfish and when he turned around to grab his camera the fish just happened to jump back in the water lmao!
I've had this happen with much smaller spiders much less big ones. Its not unbelievable at all to me. Spiders are incredibly fast and silent.
I'''ve done a lot of searching on giant spiders, and I have to congratulate you on finding out all those cases. I never was able to find more than a half dozen, half of those being of the J'ba Fofi. So many of these case I realy wish they could have found a way of trapping it since we need at least a couple of species to find out how they managed to grow so large. I'm sure they found a way to compensate for the breathing issue, and the molting problems too, but what it is we don't know..
how many people are seeing coconut crabs you think?
One night, years ago, I was driving around through the back roads of Tennessee. I saw a some motion on the road up ahead, so thinking it was some little animal, I slowed way down so I wouldn't hit it. It turned out to be a tarantula trying to cross. It wasn't like cryptid-big, but big enough for me to see it with my headlights from several hundred feet away. Probably the size of a man's hand. I just started laughing at the absurdity of having to stop in the middle of the road for a giant spider. I had been thinking it was going to be a squirrel or something.
The thumbnail is from a 1955 sci-fi horror movie called, wait for it .... Tarantula. I saw it when I was 11 (in 2017) during the start of my Kaiju phase. Nothing gets past me!!!
60 cm could be the max believable length.
Biggest spiders here get to about the size of the palm of one''s hand including the legs. They look scary but don't bite. Their webs are very impressive. The orb part of their web can be six feet across and they can stretch between trees that are 10 feet apart. I know this from working in orchards. Though the spiders are not particularly large sometimes they appear larger due to optical illusions and perspective.
From chatgpt:
The size of a spider is limited by its exoskeleton and respiratory system. Spiders, like other arthropods, have an exoskeleton made of chitin, which provides structural support but becomes less efficient as the size of the organism increases. Larger spiders would require thicker exoskeletons, which would in turn increase their weight and the stress on their legs.
Additionally, spiders rely on a respiratory system consisting of book lungs and/or tracheae, which are less efficient at transporting oxygen as the size of the spider increases. This limits the size of spiders because they need a sufficient supply of oxygen to support their metabolism.
The largest known spider is the South American Goliath birdeater (Theraphosa blondi), with a leg span of up to 30 cm (12 inches) and a body weight of up to 170 grams (6 ounces). Beyond this size, it's likely that the structural and respiratory limitations would prevent spiders from getting much larger without significant evolutionary changes.
Theoretically, if a spider were to grow much larger, its legs would eventually break under the force of its own weight due to the square-cube law. This law states that as an object's size increases, its volume and weight increase faster than its structural strength. In the case of a spider, this would mean that at some point, the legs would not be able to support the increased weight of the body, leading to structural failure.
Without specific data on the tensile strength of chitin and the precise mechanical properties of spider legs, it's difficult to give an exact size. However, it's reasonable to speculate that a spider much larger than the Goliath birdeater, perhaps with a leg span of 40 to 50 cm, would be approaching the limit of what its legs could support before breaking under the force of its own weight. This is a rough estimate and would depend on various factors, including the exact proportions and structure of the spider's body and legs.
Some fish like Robin Fish have there weird long finger like appendages that they use to scuttle and sift through the substraight, so I can imagine those being mistaken for a some kind of aquatic spider if all you could see what its outline.
Chilobrachys natanicharum( Chilobrachys sp. electric blue) was actually know in the hobby for a long tim. It was not recently discovered but recently described.
I heard a theory that people are seeing undiscovered crabs that are huge since a lot of these sightings were near rivers in the jungles.
Female spiders from some species grow for their entire lives, continuing to molt after adulthood, and possibly living for up to 20 years. Just as the Coconut Eating Crab has adapted to life on land, (so much so that they will drown if submerged), with adapted gills for breathing, it's possible there is an undiscovered spider with adaptations to the book lung that allow them to achieve a larger size. Since most large spiders are nocturnal, and very, very good at camouflage, there must be a substantial number of species that we haven't discovered yet. Often mistaken for spiders, Tailless Whip Scorpions, which are sort of between spiders and invertebrates, have been known to live 15 years in captivity, and the Charon grayi has pincers that can reach 27 inches long! I'm moving to Antarctica.
Good video, firmly based on good science…
Is it possible for a species to evolve smaller and then bigger again
Horse-eating spiders? This is a good reason to bring back the "Howdah" pistol. Look it up...
We need to cover every inch of the earth in nuclear fire I guess.
Ever heard of the Sabince Tomatovic tape? No? Good.
Is it legit?
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@wild world when I was a kid in the Dominican Republic I saw a spider the size of a shoe I was so scared I had one of my neighbors kill it with a machete
A couple of work mates and my self saw the biggest huntsman we had ever seen a few weeks ago in Gold Coast Aus, I’ve seen plenty of huntsman but this was enormous it’s Lego span would have been bigger then my hand a lot bigger, and it’s body looked like the size of a 50cent piece and 20cent piece joint together, I did the bolt pretty quick
What else can a Stellar Sea Cow look like? Insert anything that is unknown but your mistaken and it's actually a Stellar Sea Cow
I would love to see a giant tarantula! I believe it is possible for giant spiders to exist because even they, could evolve to survive these days with this oxygen.❤❤
9:05-9:06 The Giant Huntsman Spider has a leg span of 1 foot; soooooo who knows what’s out there.
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I got a nice picture of a field spider and put it on you tube he,s big for a field spider great video 👍