A WOMAN was horrified after spotting a huntsman spider lurking under her toilet seat after spending 20 minutes scrolling on her phone.
Gabriella Pizzato, from Queensland Australia, shared the terrifying footage of the massive arachnid creeping out of the toilet bowl after she’d stood up and flushed.
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In the TikTok video, a tearful Gabriella explains how she was scrolling on her phone for 20 minutes before she even noticed the spider.
She said: “I just went to the toilet and I got up and flushed the toilet and there is a big f***ing spider under the seat.
“I was sitting there for about 20 minutes!
“Oh my god, I want to show you, it’s actually huge. I want to cry. It is huge.”
She then whispers: “Oh my god I just saw his legs. It’s like under the rim.”
She turns the camera to show the edge of the toilet seat when the spider’s leg slowly appears.
The creepy-crawly then scurries onto the seat before disappearing under some loo roll as she gasps in disbelief.
The video, titled ‘Welcome to Australia’, is captioned ‘I have no idea how I’m ever gonna go to the toilet again.’
Many viewers were horrified by the clip with one commenting: “Well that’s unlocked a new fear.”
Another added: “This is why I will never go to Australia.”
However, others were calmer and claimed the encounter was a rare occurrence and nothing to worry about.
One said: “I’ve been here 20 years and this has never happened to me.”
Another commented: “Legit just a huntsman…they’re like the labradors of spiders.”
Parents in the UK have been warned to look out for venomous spiders after a 10-year-old girl was ‘attacked in her sleep’.
Little Phoebe-Lee Matthews woke up on August 10 with a strange black dot on her lip which started to grow bigger and darker.
Her mum Rachel Wilson, 35, became concerned and took her to her GP five days later.
The mum-of-three said it then eventually popped and began oozing “white gunk” into her daughter’s mouth before scabbing over.
She told Wales Online: “It was absolute hell. It’s taken a good four weeks for her to get over this.
“The bite was really black with brown spots in it and it had a white ring around the black spots. It was also red where it was swollen. It’s left a hole in her face.
“The dermatologist agreed that it was a false widow spider bite.”
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