A CHILDREN woman made the scariest discovery when she opened her suitcase after a vacation on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus.
Unbeknownst to the holiday waiter, an uninvited guest decided to head back to the UK in her luggage before she received the terrifying surprise of flipping the laundry out of her luggage.
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In a video uploaded to TikTok, user Georgia Sinclair filmed her colleague, who is said to be phoning the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA) on her phone.
“Hi RSPCA, I think I may have brought a tarantula in my suitcase home from Cyprus,” the young woman says in the video, which has now garnered 820,000 views.
The chilling video then goes on to show a pile of clothes, from which emerges a giant black spider – Europe’s largest spider.
The spider is then seen crawling on clothing before disappearing behind what appears to be a household appliance.
The viral footage, accompanied by a “trigger warning” for the spider, has sparked a flurry of comments online.
User Charlotte Emily shared a similar story: “In Cyprus, my mom spotted someone sitting on her shoulder and screaming so loud that the hotel staff thought she was being assaulted.”
Another user, nilfgaardianlemon, also had a nightmare returning from vacation.
“We’ve got this! Bought one back from Fuerteventura! My grandfather killed it with a stilt!!!”, he said.
Larissa Rossiter, meanwhile, says she’ll burn everything in case the tarantula lays eggs.
Other users questioned whether Cyprus is known for harboring hairy spiders – the harmless spiders that humans expect because of their painful bites.
“Wait, they have recipes in Cyprus?! That’s not on the list,” says Leanne S.
“Maybe we shouldn’t have booked that holiday to Cyprus,” said one user, while user Dicko said: “Not that I was in Cyprus all of a sudden knowing there are tarantulas here”.
“Umm but no, I actually had a heart attack and died,” Elli Lloyd added.
However, there have been helpful comments from spider lovers, with many suggesting that Ms Sinclair and her friend were in contact with a group of spiders in the UK.
“If it were closer, I would add him to my collection,” said Stephanie, as a tarantula holder named Abz said she would love to adopt the creeper.
There are two species of tarantulas native to Cyprus – Chaetopelma olivaceum and Chaetopelma karlamani (Cyprus Tarantula).
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