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  • Katie Melua Has Spider That Took Up Residence in Her Ear Removed

    Katie Melua has revealed that she had a live spider who took up residence in her ear removed by a doctor.

    The revelation of the disturbing news came via a video the British singer posted of the creature on her Instagram account, with the caption, “So I had a rustling in my ear for a week and went to the doctor. This little fella is what they found!”

    Melua said she believes the spider climbed into earbud headphones she had used on a recent flight.

    The spider was reportedly removed using a micro-vacuum. The singer then took the spider home alive and released it in her garden.

    “The ear specialist said he’d never in his career taken out a live bug before. Plenty of dead ones. When it was out, it was pretty tiny,” said a spokeswoman for the singer.

    “Basically I used these old in-ear monitors to block out sound on a flight, little spider must have been in them and crawled inside my ear and stayed there for the week. It was no hassle at all, apart from the occasional shuffling noises…,” wrote Melua.

    Melua is best known for her hits Nine Million Bicycles and The Closest Thing to Crazy.

    Does anyone else have suddenly itchy ears right now?

  • Spider Crawls Into Woman’s Ear, Settles In For Week

    In news that will make you cringe, or scream, or perhaps pee your pants, a tiny spider crawled into some lady’s earhole in China and made himself a cozy little nest for five days. She only discovered it after going to the hospital with an “itchy” ear, and after doctors took some terrifying X-rays, they swished some saline solution in there and essentially waterboarded him. Only, if it had been a truly successful waterboarding, they would have gotten him to talk about why spiders are so unequivocally sneaky and grodie. And don’t drag out that old chestnut about spiders being good for wiping out other annoying bugs, or remind me that Charlotte was sweet and intelligent. You don’t need that many legs to kill other bugs, and swinging around from webs over my head is just unnecessary. Also, Charlotte wasn’t real. Even if I did cry over her.

    As someone who has harbored a deep-seeded fear of spiders since childhood, this story makes me want to seal up all my orifices while I sleep. Breathing? Who gives a crap about breathing? There are spiders crawling into people’s earholes. That’s only a few inches away from the mouth. Breathing can wait until I’m not lying prone and can arm myself with a spatula and some high-powered insect poison.

    At any rate, no one has reported yet on how the lady in China feels about all this, but at least the spider didn’t inseminate her, like this squid did to a woman in South Korea.

    Image credit: Rednet/Weibo