Goliath Birdeater Spider The Size Of Small Puppy. Fist Sized Body W/1 Foot Leg Span. Picnic Anyone?

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28. I worked with a guy in the 80's that had served for most of two years on New Guinea.

He had been an Army National Guard guy before WWII and they all got more or less drafted and made regular army and his unit ended up over there. He survived about as bad as you've ever read about.

He said you'd be out there in conditions where they had Japanese infiltrators trying to sneak through their lines and insects big enough that you could hear them moving around. It was aboslutely terrifying not knowing if it was huge spider, venomous scorpion, centipede, snake or Japanese soldier that might be about to be in the hole with you.

I would not have done well in that place. I hate spiders.