Many people are scared of spiders, and that's for understandable reasons. After all, no one would want to come upon this huge ...

Ellinor Smith said the spider "wasn't causing any harm" so she just left it there. It was harboring a surprise though.

put the estimated proportion of the general population affected by arachnophobia at somewhere between 2.7 percent and 6.1 percent. The study also found the phobia was more prevalent among women ...