A giant spider was caught on video in Australia carrying a mouse, which might be the scariest thing we've seen leading up to Halloween.
Jason Womal of Queensland captured the spider carrying the mouse on video after his neighbor invited him over to see "something cool."
"So I am just about to leave for work about 0030 and me neighbor says 'You want to see something cool' and I say 'Hell yeah,'" he wrote on Facebook. "So we proceed to his place and he shows me this. Huntsman trying to eat a mouse."
According to 100.3 Jack FM, Huntsmans are "giant, possibly man-eating, spiders that are everything your nightmares are made of."
Womal’s video of the spider dragging the mouse quickly went viral. By Monday afternoon, the video had been viewed more than 11 million times.
Womal later took to Facebook again, this time to announce that he and his neighbor had adopted the spider and given it the name “Hermie.”
“Ok guys so just letting you all know that the spider is fine. We have named him Hermie, we have adopted him and he is now running his own extermination business out of our town Coppabella. Oh and he is now paying rent. Lol.”
Graham Milledge, the manager of the Australian Museum’s arachnology collection, told The Guardian spiders do target vertebrates occasionally, although it's rare.
"This is the first time I've seen one catch a mouse, but I have seen huntsmen catch geckos," he said. "I've seen a redback spider catch a snake in its web; I've seen a golden orb spider catch birds."
Just in case you missed the action, Wormal took to Facebook to provide you with all the video footage and images you need.
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