A Chinese woman was shocked to find that the ringing sound she was hearing was actually a spider raising its colony inside her ear canal.
The chilling incident took place in Sichuan, China when the woman visited a hospital, complaining of tinnitus.
A video of an endoscopy performed on the woman's ear showed the doctor pulling a layer of her 'false' eardrum that turned out to be a wall of web woven by the spider to protect its offspring. Peeling off the web showed the spider ready to attack and it immediately jumped at the endoscopic tube when it got closer.
The physician of the Department of Otolaryngology, Han Xinglong said, "The web made by this spider is very similar to the eardrum. When the ear endoscope first entered, nothing abnormal was found. But when you look closely, there seems to be something moving underneath. I pushed aside the spider web, it was about to flee, but it was finally taken out smoothly."
Fortunately, the spider was not poisonous and the damage it caused to the woman's ear canal was minor.
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