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As any soldier who has served time in the Middle East will know, the camel spider is LEGENDARY. But this story takes it to a whole new level:
A British paratrooper’s family have been forced out of their home after a dangerous camel spider hitched a ride back from Afghanistan with him.
Terrified Lorraine Griffiths thinks the sandy-coloured desert creature may have killed their pet dog, Bella, and is now hiding in her 18-year-old daughter’s bedroom.
The mother is so scared she has moved out of her four-bedroom army home in Colchester, Essex, with children Cassie, 18, Ricky, 16, and Ellie-Rose, four, and is now living with her mother.
Mrs Griffiths said the spider appeared after her 32-year-old husband, Rodney, returned from a four-month tour in Helmand Province with the 16 Air Assault Brigade in June.
She said: ‘My son Ricky was in my bedroom looking for his underwear and he went into the draw under my bed and something crawled across his hand.
‘He saw a huge spider and screamed to his sister Cassie. They tried to put a pint glass over it but it was too big, so they poked it with a coat hanger and the spider bit it.
‘The dog came in, jumped on the bed and barked at it. The spider hissed and Bella went running out whimpering.
‘There was an electrician in the house and he came and looked but just ran out of the house.’
Mrs Griffiths, a care worker, got a description of the creature from the workman and her children and scoured the internet until they picked out a camel spider.
She said: ‘They said it was the size of my palm, sandy coloured with a pink body and red knees.
‘I think it must have hitched a lift back with my husband in June so it’s been in my house for seven weeks. He’s back out there now, I called him and he said one of his friends had been bitten by one.
An arachnophobic’s worst nightmare.
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