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You know those random itches and niggling weird feelings you sometimes get? They’re even more annoying when they happen in hard to reach places like inside your ear. They’re normally harmless, but occasionally they will result in you going through a horror movie style living nightmare - at least that’s what happened to mother-of-two, Angela Colborn last week.
‘I just knew there was something wriggling around in my head’
Angela headed into her local emergency department after suffering from an itchy ear, followed by a swollen face. She had walked her nine-year-old daughter to school on an overgrown path, and she told The Sun that she felt sheer panic a few hours later when she felt something ‘wriggling’ in her ear.
At the emergency room the next day she was horrified when a doctor peered into her ear canal and spotted the spindly legs of a spider.
“It was like a horror film had become real,” she told The Sun.
She was “being driven crazy”‘ by the “noise and sensation” of “the spider” in her ear.
“I had a meltdown when the nurse said she couldn’t see anything,” she added.
“I was going mad and banging my feet against the bed.
“Then a doctor came in and laid me down to have another look and that’s when he found it - I just told him to get it out.”
Apparently the critter was “lodged too deep” to be grabbed using forceps, so they flooded the ear with oil for 15 minutes to drown it.
Nope. No thank you. No.
Angela was naturally relieved when the Hitchcock-esque nightmare was over, but it isn’t something she (or us) will be able to shake off completely any time soon.
She has taken to wearing a hoodie outside and checks her bed and pillow thoroughly before going to sleep every night. She says she’s a bit paranoid, but I think that is a perfectly reasonable response.
Mine would look more like this:
