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Craig's grandfather was stationed in the capital city, Port Moresby, when he is said to have gone on a trek into the nearby rainforest. There, he apparently came across another vast web in the centre of which was a spider with a leg span of at least 3 to 4 feet. That would make the creature at least four times the size of the largest known spider on the planet. Unlike the species apparently spotted near the Kokoda Trail, this one was smooth rather than hairy and glimmered a striking emerald green in the dappled sunlight. Like the species apparently spotted near the Kokoda Trail, this one was smooth rather than hairy and glimmered a striking emerald green in the dappled sunlight. Craig's grandfather was said to have been so frightened by the spider that he quickly drew his machete and hacked it to death. The Pacific Island of Papua New Guinea remains one of the world's least explored landmasses. Its highlands are cloaked in dense rainforest with little or no access for vehicles. 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They had settled in what was then Rhodesia as part of the European expansion into Africa and had come to the Congo to explore its mysteries. Their ramshackle Ford truck rattled down the pockmarked jungle track, hemmed in on both sides by a thick wall of dark jungle green. Suddenly Reginald slammed on the brakes. A dozen feet ahead, something was emerging from the forest. For a few seconds, the couple watched, charmed, assuming that they were privileged to the rare sight of a large jungle cat, or perhaps a monkey, walking on all fours. Only as their eyes took in the weird, acute angles of the creature's many limbs did they recoil in horror. It was a huge spider, with a leg span easily exceeding four feet. Reginald twisted in his seat, frantically trying to reach his camera, but by the time he turned back, the spider had vanished. In the web-like way that these stories string together through the years, the Lloyds' daughter Margaret would later tell the story to William Gibbons, a cryptozoologist with particular interest in unknown African megafauna. In the 1990s, William Gibbons travelled to the Congo and Cameroon in search of Mokele Mbembe. While meeting with members of the Bacar tribe, he mentioned the Lloyd sighting of the spider 60 years earlier. Apparently the Bacar responded affirmatively, without surprise or amusement. Oh yes, they told Gibbons, the large spider did certainly exist. In their language, it was known as Chubafufi, or the Great Spider. The Chubafufi had apparently once been a common and well-known threat, similar in shape to a tarantula, only much, much larger. It had a large hairy body, covered in dense brown fur, with a noticeable purple cast to its abdomen. The leg span was truly fearsome, upwards of five feet in total, large enough to overpower and drag away antelope, birds and sadly also children that are said to be its prey. According to the Bukhar community, the Chubar Fufi typically make their den in the hollows beneath trees, Camouflaging the entrance with roots and leaves, they then lay an intricate network of webs to slow down passing prey and alert the spider to the presence of a meal. Once summoned, the Chubafufi launches itself from its nest like a trapdoor spider. The Bacar told Gibbons that the spider had once been common to the area, but deforestation and encroaching farmland had driven them further into the forest's interior. Nonetheless, sightings have apparently continued across the years, with anecdotes and accounts of spiders venturing out to drag stray dogs, and, if the stories are to be believed, even people screaming into the jungle. The deep forests of Central Africa and Papua New Guinea have long been filled with monsters in the Western imagination. It seems half-logical that if a giant unknown arachnid did exist, That's where it would be. The same cannot be said for the modern, urbanised United States, however. Nonetheless, one of the most intriguing encounters with an oversized spider is said to have taken place in the small city of Leesville, Louisiana in 1948. It was a cool evening when 48-year-old William Sladen accompanied his wife Pearl and their three children to church. The youngest of the children was Richard, only six years old. Together they walked north along Highway 171, chattering amiably until they reached a dip in the road. Suddenly, William Sladen stood ramrod still and held out his hand. to stop his family proceeding any further. The children obeyed and young Richard watched the road ahead for whatever threat had so clearly spooked his grandfather. He heard a rustling in the overgrown ditch at the side of the highway. Then he looked on with disbelief and dawning horror as something terrifying emerged from it. As Richard described it to his son Todd 50 years later, it was a huge spider the size of a washtub, hairy and black. As it crossed the road, the Sladen family watched in utter silence. No one said a word. The spider crossed the asphalt in a stately, unhurried fashion, eventually disappearing into the brush on the western side of the highway. The family didn't dare to cross where the spider had been. They simply turned around, and went home. Richard says that only once did he and his brothers ask their grandfather what it was they had seen. William's blunt response was that it was simply a very large spider. This apparent, strange and terrifying episode was never discussed again, but Richard would tell his own son that he suspected the old man knew more than he was letting on. Richard had the impression that Grandpa was familiar with it, he said, that he had seen one before. He was a man who'd lived deep in the woods, building makeshift towns to facilitate the logging industry. Maybe he saw things in those woods he didn't talk about to us kids. Another piece of rural folklore, perhaps. The memory of a child inflating a roaming tarantula into a gargantuan monster. Maybe. But in 2019, nearly 70 years ago, years after Richard's experience, a sergeant stationed at Louisiana's Fort Polk gave a series of strange, first-hand reports. The soldier, going by the handle Sergeant S, wrote to prominent cryptozoologist Carl Shuka detailing encounters he and his colleagues had had with an especially enormous species of spider at the base, which is situated only eight miles from the Leesville town limits. Sergeant S's first report, first apparent sighting, was in 2005, when he was part of D Company in the 101st Airborne Division, based at Fort Campbell in Kentucky. 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S pulled the still-screaming Becky to her feet, his foot landed on a rope-like filament, which stuck to his boot strongly enough that he had to cut it away with a knife. After reporting the incident, the sergeant claims that he was accompanied back to the area for an inspection, during which they found more of the sticky web-like substance surrounding a half-a-metre hole. The pit, as the sergeant described it, had a sort of circular thatched cover, hinged with some kind of glue. He described it as a construction of small sticks and leaves, arranged in a symmetrical radial pattern. It was an interesting and specific detail, considering the Bacar tribe's similar descriptions of trapdoor-like constructions apparently created by the Tuba Fufi. A strong skunk-like scent persisted in the pit, and remained in the soldiers' clothing for days. A member of senior leadership recognised the scent on them and ordered his men to find bottles of ammonia and simple green degreaser. He ordered Sergeant S and Becky to wash their hands and faces immediately, and warned them to wash both themselves and their uniforms several more times. If you don't get the smell out, they were told, she'll come after you. The senior officer did not elaborate. further. It was a few nights later when Sergeant S and a few of his fellow troops were awoken by the sound of something traversing the corrugated roof of their sleeping quarters. It sounded at first like raindrops, though with a strange, hesitant rhythm. When it abruptly stopped above them, the men, including a very nervous Sergeant S, went outside to have a look. One of the men was boosted up to the roof to check it out, but he found nothing. Elsewhere in the barracks on the same night as the strange sounds on the roof, another soldier was said to have been woken by the sound of something tapping at the window. He looked up to see what he first took to be an old bearded man wearing large goggles, peering in at the sleeping men from the doorway. The soldier hurriedly rushed outside to investigate, only to watch the strange figure crawl away rapidly, scale a ten-foot fence, and disappear into the woods. Two years later, in the spring of 2007, Sergeant S was back at Fort Polk for another pre-deployment exercise. Late one afternoon, the sergeant set out for a run on the nearby Alligator Lake Loop. In the company of two other soldiers, as they jogged down the wide dirt road that circled the water, one of the group began to suffer from heat exhaustion. They stopped and settled her in the shade, while Sergeant S ran to fetch a medic. On the return journey, as the sergeant led the medic toward his colleague, the medic stepped in something sticky on the ground. He pulled off his shoe to find a strange fibrous material. He was then taken to the hospital, and was taken to the hospital, clinging to the bottom of it and stretching across the path. Had there not been so much of it, he would have said it was some kind of spider's web. Sergeant S broke off to relieve himself in the bushes. He suddenly became aware of movement in the leaves on the other side of the trail. Staring out toward a trembling leaf, he was certain he could see something dark peeking out at the foliage. The medic saw it too. The sergeant later described it as being covered in bristles with two pebble-like eyes, each three to four inches in circumference, surrounded by smaller orbs. He believed he saw its fangs too. As soon as the sergeant moved, it was said to have scurried away into the bush, and the men didn't hang around to find out more. Later in the week, the sergeant was back out on a late night exercise. It took place on the edge of the training ground, where a mock village had been built to allow troops to practice urban combat. That night, the sergeant was positioned in the top story window of a makeshift wooden house, when he spotted a friend passing on the street below, smoking a cigarette. The sergeant yelled for him to stop, then stepped onto the roof and jumped down to join him. He lit one up for himself, enjoying the brief moment of respite, under the stars. As the pair began to talk, the friend suddenly went very quiet as he looked over the sergeant's shoulder. Sergeant S, following his friend's gaze, looked up to see a familiar shape walking across the roof of the house. According to S, its legs were easily six feet apart, with a torso roughly one foot thick and two feet long. The sergeant threw rocks at the roof, until the spider skittered away, and once more disappeared into the gloom of the woods beyond. The supposed encounter in the training village was Sergeant S's last apparent encounter with giant spiders at Fort Polk, Louisiana. He did, however, follow up his story with some observations. First, he proposed that the creature, he saw on his second trip to Fort Polk, may have been female. As to his understanding, the female spiders tend to be larger and more aggressive. Second, he wondered if the spiders hunted by scent, and if it had been actively seeking him in the makeshift building on the edge of the training ground, having identified him from his urine near Alligator Lake. And lastly, he pointed out that he was not alone in his awareness of the spiders, and that local troops often made jokes about their existence and warned new recruits never to venture into the woods alone. He also pointed out that when he apparently reported each of his encounters up the chain of command, the leadership professed not to believe his story and accused him repeatedly of misidentifying a dog with severe mange. He was allegedly warned that his career would suffer were he to pursue the issue, and that he would be forced to go further. To the best of his knowledge, he writes, "No official report was ever put on the record." There is something so universally arresting about the concept of a giant spider that it has wriggled its way into both ancient myth and contemporary entertainment across the globe. From a Nancy, trickster of West African folktales and the Jorogumo spider demon of Japanese lore, to Tolkien's hideous Shelob, and Aragog from the Harry Potter universe, giant spiders clearly pull at some fundamental aspect of the human imagination. Accepted Science asserts that the real thing is impossible, however. "Due to the particular construction of a spider's respiratory system, the spider's respiratory system is impossible, and the spider's respiratory system is impossible." "Due to the particular construction of a spider's respiratory system, the spider's respiratory system is impossible." There are thought to be firm limits on how large they can really grow. Spiders do not breathe through their mouths like other animals. Instead, they get their oxygen through their skin in what is known as an open respiratory system. Through a network of tubes called trachea, oxygen is transferred to their tissue. It's a process of slow diffusion throughout the body, which rapidly becomes less efficient. As the spider increases in size, this then should put to bed any notion of the three, four, or five foot specimens said to have been glimpsed as they scamper across the back roads of the world, and yet, apparent sightings persist. In 2013, a video was uploaded to YouTube from a trail cam in Mozambique. It claims to be footage of a Chubar Fufi, or the East African equivalent, appearing to approach a watering hole. The short film is grainy and unclear, but there is definite movement across the right-hand side of the screen. When the film is enhanced and the contrast inverted, it does appear to be a bit more clear. It does appear to show something at least the size of a large dog, but with a far greater number of spindly legs skittering briskly across the ground. It's there one moment, then gone the next. And like any encounter with large spiders, glimpsed from the corner of the eye, it's hard not to wonder exactly where it might be right now. This episode was written by Neil McRobert and produced by me, Richard McLean-Smith. Neil is the creator and host of his own brilliant podcast called Talking Scared, in which he discusses the craft of horror writing with everyone from Tananarive Do to the god of horror himself, Stephen King. I can't recommend it highly enough. 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