Biology major here. In the real world, not only do spiders not do this at all, they're actually frequent _victims_ of this at the hands of wasps. also the spider gets devoured alive when the wasp larvae hatch, which is the entire point of the wasp laying it's eggs there in the first place. In terms of critters that lay their eggs in humans there are some types of flies that do that in certain parts of the world (which is likely where the element of travel in the spider legends _actually_ comes from in my opinion), but the right doctor can offer quick and easy solutions to that problem.
@@heatherturner2366 venom reaction is not pleasant.... But you don't hatch spiders that way.... So, yes your flesh starts to break down but you aren't hatching more. The messed up thing is that brown recluses are tiny and so easy to miss that it's easy to not realize exactly what happened (my mom sat on one that bit her leg and didn't even realize what happened until she saw a doctor).
My mother told me a version she heard when growing up that it was a beautiful woman with a beehive hairdo, that she refused to take out and wash. She started to feel some itchiness in her scalp but ignored it until one day she fell asleep on the couch and while she was sleeping the SEVERAL spider eggs inside hatched and hundreds of baby spiders crawled out, hungry and ready to chow down on her face. In that version, the woman was found dead from spider bites in her home the next day. Gross.
Botflies rarely, if ever, insert their eggs into humans directly! If a human is implanted with a botfly larvae it's almost always from a secondary source (like a mosquito that had been implanted and passed the larvae on to another host) so it didn't seem as relevant or frightening as the other creepy-crawlies I mentioned - buuuut I probably should have anticipated these comments and at least referenced it 😅
@@JonSolo You should look into the human botfly then. Yes, the eggs are delivered to a human usually by mosquito. However the female botfly specifically infests the mosquitos, even through it's eggs can not mature inside it, with the intention of the mosquito infecting a human (or other similarly sized mammal).
A fly once crawled into a friend's ear while camping. She fresked out and was convinced that it was crawling up her ear canal. She said she could feel it and hear the buzzing. We even took her to the hospital. Tirns out the fly probablyleft very soon after accidentally getting in there and the rest was just my friend's panic, making her hallucinate the buzzing and crawling. She's usually psychologically stable. That experience must have triggered some primal fear.
It’s also commonly used as an allegory or metaphor for the r word since it’s happening against your will and consent and often times you can’t stop the process.
Jon, congrats on your new little one! I remember the 'Scary Stories' books. I'm old enough that we had the original versions, in our school library. They were among the most popular books there, along with Shel Silverstein. And they were all ALWAYS checked out, and there was ALWAYS a waiting list. I'd write my name on that list and man, I'd get so excited when it was my turn, lol. I read a version of the "stuck together' story on a website in college, about 25 years ago. Here it is: In this version, a guy and a girl were doing the nasty outside, on some hill that served as their town's lover's lane. While they were "busy", a storm rolled in, but caught up in the moment, they kept going. Or maybe the girl kind of wanted to stop, but the guy talked her out of it. In any case, since they were on a hill, and the guy was on top, his bare ass was the highest point, and he got struck by lightning. Somehow he survived, but the lighting traveled through his meat (lightning) rod, and into his girlfriend, melting the condom he was wearing, and fusing them together at the naughty bits. Even worse, the girlfriend was killed by the lightning, so the horrified guy finds himself in the unenviable position (pun intended) of being glued to a corpse by his pork sword. As if that wasn't enough, a bear was attracted to the smell of the girlfriend's burnt flesh, and started chowing on her deceased head, while the boyfriend, with his winkin' willie still stuck inside her, listened to the bones in her skull crunch under the bear's teeth, and screamed in brain-melting panic and revulsion. Of course the bear left him alone. I can't remember how he got out of the situation, but I think his screams alerted someone nearby. In any case, the two unfortunate lovers were taken to the hospital, still attached at the no-no squares, where the boyfriend was finally surgically liberated from his dead darling. Only he didn't come out of the ordeal physically unscathed. In the final twisted horror shock of the ending, it was said that the powerful electricity coursing through his one-eyed wonder weasel had exploded it like an oversize kernel of popcorn. The end of his trouser trout was described as looking like a big piece of cauliflower. I swear it was written just that way-except for all the colorful euphemisms I used, lol-and it was made to look like a news article. So yeah, pretty outlandish, and obviously fake. It was obviously satire-kinda like the Onion would do now-and even said so, in the very last line of the story. Obvious BS, but it still made me both laugh, and recoil in visceral horror, lol. It was a good read. I guess that's why I remember it in so much detail, even all these years later. Anyway, hope you enjoyed!
6:23 I've heard that one. But it was a bride licking wedding invitations and it was cockroach eggs. She went to the hospital because she thought she was allergic to the glue. Then the doctor cut her tongue and pulled a cockroach out.
@MamaCat956 -- And THAT IS EXACTLY WHY I will NEVER OWN OR WATCH Stephen King's Original CREEP SHOW movie EVER AGAIN!! The story with the GUY with the SERIOUS BUG AVERSION segment to the cockroaches. BLEECH!! totally made me sick to my stomach after I watched that.
I remember getting freaked out at the cockroaches story from the movie Creepshow! I would hate to be in that man's position and be in the dark with hundreds of cockroaches!
Give my greetings to little Francesca Solo! Also, fun fact on her being born by your birthday, I can relate as I share a birthday with my dad! Trust me, she’s gonna be the gift that keeps on giving to you and your wife!
1. Don't watch when you're eating, especially the initial spider hatching. 2. I actually remember reading in "The Dante Club" that blowflies will occasionally lay their eggs in open wounds. The author actually cites and retells a case of such an instance before the start of the story. I think I remember a TLC/Animal Planet series about parasites discussing this as well.
That series exists. It was around the time TLC, Discovery, and Animal Planet had not forgotten the purposes of the channels, but were still trying to stretch the meanings.
Congratulations on your newest addition to your family, but since you mentioned Changelings in the manga Delicious in Dungeon where they are a type a mushroom where if they grown into a circle (as a reference to Fairy Circle) & when a creature steps inside it the spores changes it into something else
Never want to hear "its hatching season" again. Spiders dont bother or scare me, but something about that line made me have a moment of existential crisis.
this channel has been absolutely awesome both for general entertainment/education, but also as the main inspiration for a lot of D&D writing. i like that you explain the trope/story, the origin of it, and the connection between its origins and its significance/pervasiveness within/across cultures.
I always heard that one about earwigs. The story went that it would tunnel through the brain and out the ear. The twist was that it made it out the other side with no issue aside from the many eggs it left in the brain
Spiders are cool. There was a cartoon series I watched as a kid where this teen beauty queen from the 60’s. She has a bee hive hairdo she keeps perfect and never takes down until she starts getting a headache. It gets worse and worse until finally a ton of baby spiders burst out of her hairdo. In the end she shaves her head and keeps it that way.
Dude! I’ve seen this cartoon!! Thank you!! I’m a giant cartoon nerd and so is my neighbor, but I was talking about this specific and he hadn’t seen it! I’m sorry, I’m just happy that someone else saw it! 😂😂😂❤❤❤
The thing that lends so much credibility to these scary stories is the fact that there are insects that do plant their larvae in skin of other creatures and have them grow out of them eating their way out as they hatch
Funny how you would mention the version I've heard of from the TV show on Syfy, called Urban Legends. Though that version had a cockroach.6:12-6:33. Plus, you've now covered nearly all the Scary Stories adapted in the movie, now you have Me Tie Doughty Walker/The Jangly Man left.
Great video as always! though here's something to ponder. I remember correctly (and I'm sure RUclips commentors will tell me if I don't) The premiss of Alien and idea of the Xenomorph was partly inspired by childbirth - which is why more of the male audience members found the "gut busting" scene so distressing, because having a weird little parasite growing inside you and then BURST OUT of a hole is pretty standard part of a woman's life throughout history. I'm wondering if something similar is going on with with the female-centric theming and it's either an allegory or a "whelp it could be worse! it could be spiders coming out of you!!" just a thought 😊😊
I have the same thoughts! A woman has something implant itself in her body, it grows over time, potentially makes her feel embarrassed or ashamed, and then bursts out of her in a grotesque manner
6:33 actually that envelope story is with roach eggs, and that is why they tell you to use a sponge to wet the envelopes because roaches will survive long periods of time around cardboard, and those envelope factories aren’t food sanitary so it actually has happened before from stuff I’ve read, but I could be wrong. My favorite parts of those books will always be the hearse song.
20:25 -- speaking as someone who was sideslammed by crohn's in college and should have died... yeah. Sometimes, things just happen to you, and everything you thought you could work towards is no longer a possibility. Almost 2 decades of dealing with crohn's and endometriosis destroyed my uterus, my colon, and has cost more than a few vital organs. It also... took away the dreams I had of joining conservation efforts for large cats. It's too dangerous for the animals and the people to have someone like me involved, I will always smell weak and sick.
0:14 Alright Imma pause you right there and let you know I love your Videos and I was gonna watched this one till you mention Arachnids and went to describing even more and now....Imma Mute this and let it play, it is nighttime for me and I don't want to be having Nightmares and start having sensations of something crawling on me.
Babies are often joked about as parasites. When people dont want the pregnancy, people will call them other things and avoid referring to them as babies. When I was pregnant, the doctors and nurses referred to it as my baby and would talk about when it could hear me, etc. When I had my miscarriage people were very consoling and sad for me, but it wasn't uncommon to refer to it as pregnancy materials or flesh or other things that suggested i was dealing with a fleshy mass. I am guessing a lot of women who are prochoice feel that being forced to keep the parasite is a loss of rights to their body. I really just wanted consistency from the medical staff, call it my baby, or don't. My point though this is politically charged is what he said at the end hits home. Even a human fetus which is completely normal for humans to have leeching off them, can make a person feel a loss of self if people treat them like they are less important.
I read a different (And possibly more horrifying version) of the fly eggs in the envelope: A lady worked at an office job that involved a lot of envelopes one day noticed a small bulge on her tongue that got bigger and more painful with every passing day, so she went to the doctor, thinking it was an abscess. When the doctor cut it open, a full grown COCKROACH crawled out! I also read a few varieties of the "Beehive Hairdo" urban legend: A lady that wanted to preserve her beehive hairdo without having to use so much spray soaked her hair in sugar water to keep it solid. One day she started to get headaches, but nothing else seemed wrong with her. She eventually died, and in her hair was either a spider nest, a scorpion nest, or rats! Brr!
The strange thing is i know i read the scary stories one second. Minor gore and bug warning. The original one i hear was about a girl who was itching so bad they had to put her in a straight jacket. One day she got out of it and ripped off part of her face revealing a nest of ants under her skin.
If i'm not mistaken, but isn't there a story about the little black hearse (funeral car) in the books. I'm positive that i remember reading that story, but then again, it could've been my imagination.
My mom was bitten by a spider. She thought it was a pimpel. When it grew larger she went to the doctor. He opened it and yucky things came out. She had drink antibiotics and the wound had to close by it self.
So new kids think that if they get bitten by a spider they'll turn into spiderman, olden day kids would think that they would have hundreds of spider eggs inside of them
I remember reading this in middle school. I couldn't stop imagining baby spiders spilling out the bathtub faucet or cracks in the walls for weeks. I knew too much about spiders to know that they don't like wet nesting spots like flesh. The babies would suffocate and rot.
Hello! I've been watching you for many years, and I always love your deep dives. I don't believe I've seen a video about Calypso though, have you ever looked at her story? It's very intriguing. Well wishes!
The first book traumatized me for years. I was read this at an afterschool daycare when I was about 5 yrs old. Pretty messed up. Night terrors for years.
Even if you’re scared, please don’t kill spiders intentionally! They’re animals, too, and deserve to live! Plus, they’re important as they eat flies and help keep balance in the ecosystems! You can get a humane spider catcher with a really long handle off the internet, so that you can humanely capture the spider without touching them or getting too close and then just scoop them up and let them go outside!
I read that story in elementary school and it scared the heck out of me. It certainly did not help my fear of spiders that started developing around then-
This reminds me of the story my mom told me about a family member, I forget if they're a cousin or uncle to her. Apparently a spider bit him on his knee one night and laid eggs in the wound from it; not too long after while laying in bed to sleep, the wound burst open with baby spiders
This story is definitely traumatizing lol. I remember when I was a kid I had (and still have) bad arachnophobia and my dad knew it. He had several guns around the house because he used to do gunsmithing as a hobby, and I remember when I began looking at one of the old Winchesters he had my dad told me not to touch it because spiders would plant eggs in the barrel and hundreds of babies would come out the gun, and i pretty much avoided touching any guns he had around 😅 in hindsight now I'm almost positive he made the story up as a way to keep me away from his guns and uhhh it worked lol.
I remember reading this story out of Scary Stories 3: More Tales To Chill Your Bones. I'm not afraid of spiders, but I did find the story gruesome! I mostly hear the 8 bit soundtrack of Stage 8 Aliens Lair from the Nintendo game Contra playing in my head as I read about the spiders coming out of the girl's face!
Reputation ruiners... Interesting unintended reference to The King In Yellow and the Repairer of Reputations.... Which was also somewhat referential of a communicable infection
A somewhat similar one: A couple travels to Mexico and finds a potted cactus that will look amazing in their apartment. They buy it and bring it home. On the first night, their two cats seem absolutely fascinated by the cactus, batting at it and exploring around it. The wife is relaxing and she thinks she sees the cactus swaying a tiny bit. Assuming it's by a vent, she doesn't think much about it. But the next day, her first cat gets sick and she and her hubby rush him to the vet. Sadly, the cat passes away, much to the vet's confusion. The couple returns home to find the other cat now showing the same terribly ill symptoms. As the frantic couple grabs the cat to rush it to the vet, they notice that the cactus is now shaking vigorously. Too stressed to think about it, they rush the cat to the vet's. The vet comes out sometime later to reassure them that the second cat was saved; a necropsy had been performed on the first cat, and discovered that the cat had somehow consumed spider eggs, which had hatched in the cat's stomach and begun to eat their way out. They performed surgery which saved the second cat's life. But upon hearing the story of the cactus, the vet advises them not to try to return to their apartment, because the eggs would have hatched, exploded out of the cactus, and completely infested the building. This is of course, likewise nonsense as the spider eggs in human flesh, because the cat's stomach acid would have destroyed the eggs, and spiders do not lay eggs inside cactus plants, much less cause them to explode.
I was waiting for the "honorary" mention of the human butterfly Also, check out "The Feather Pillow" by Horacio Quiroga, it's one of the most horrific readings you'll ever experience
This reminds of the creepypastas I dubbed "The Red String Stories". The Diary, The Town, The Memory and The Hospital. All are about invasive body horror and most don't have a happy ending
I was going to bring up Alien face hugger and chest burster stuff, but you beat me to it! I believe one of the inspirations of the xenomorph was the assassin wasp which lays eggs on a caterpillars’ body and hatch only to eat the host afterwards. By the way, in case I missed a joke or something: it’s H.R. Giger not H.G.
I'm surprised it was not mentioned. There is a non-face variant where the spiders are in a cactus often bought at some roadside stand and then the cactus explodes with spiders. I've seen two variants. One were a botanist warns them and they get out in time or it explodes in the night and they get eaten by the spiders😅
Flies do plant eggs in living flesh. My sister was a doctor who treated a woman who had fly larvae in her lower leg. Long ago I found a very young kitten with something wriggling inside a round hole on the kitten's neck. The vet extracted a fly larva from that hole. I've spent many long weeks clearing overgrowth from neglected gardens in the Midwest. I've had several bouts of poison ivy and one serious spider bite. The bite on my wrist began to itch and by evening I saw the telltale red streaks of blood poisoning had reached up to my elbow. I did nothing until the next morning when I saw the red streaks had extended up to my armpit. The ER doctor identified the mark on my wrist as a spider bite and gave me drugs to counteract the toxin.
When I was a kid I poked a weird thing hidden near my door, which I thought was some sort of mold, but as you may guess, it released a bunch of tiny spiders into my room. lol.
One of my good friends has a mother that used to work in the medical field, specifically our local hospital. One story I never forgot was the time one of her coworkers had a patient who had a full 2 liter bottle of Coke up his rectum. I don’t remember if he got the full bottle up there, but either way, how and why?
On a scale of 1-10 how afraid of spiders are you? 👀🕷
Depends on the size, but usually a 4
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1, they're just lil guys! I love them :)
Biology major here. In the real world, not only do spiders not do this at all, they're actually frequent _victims_ of this at the hands of wasps. also the spider gets devoured alive when the wasp larvae hatch, which is the entire point of the wasp laying it's eggs there in the first place.
In terms of critters that lay their eggs in humans there are some types of flies that do that in certain parts of the world (which is likely where the element of travel in the spider legends _actually_ comes from in my opinion), but the right doctor can offer quick and easy solutions to that problem.
My thoughts as well. Spiders don't do this but there are other arthropods who do lay eggs inside living hosts.
What about the brown recluse, quite a few of us have been bitten and liquidized
@@heatherturner2366 I only said that spiders don't lay eggs in other animals, I didn't say they don't bite people.
@@heatherturner2366 venom reaction is not pleasant.... But you don't hatch spiders that way.... So, yes your flesh starts to break down but you aren't hatching more. The messed up thing is that brown recluses are tiny and so easy to miss that it's easy to not realize exactly what happened (my mom sat on one that bit her leg and didn't even realize what happened until she saw a doctor).
Don't forget about squid!
3:18 "ah- damn my banana" is killing me💀
What can we say? Man had his priorities in order 🤣
Bananas will always be more important
I thought he said God damn my banana couldn't stop laughing. It's a spider bite you butt pimple
My mother told me a version she heard when growing up that it was a beautiful woman with a beehive hairdo, that she refused to take out and wash. She started to feel some itchiness in her scalp but ignored it until one day she fell asleep on the couch and while she was sleeping the SEVERAL spider eggs inside hatched and hundreds of baby spiders crawled out, hungry and ready to chow down on her face. In that version, the woman was found dead from spider bites in her home the next day. Gross.
That is the version I was thinking of, too. I only remember that tons of spiders came out of her hair, though, not that she died.
@@dianemccarty2996 the joy of urban legends. They can always change and twist.
Whoah we didn't encounter this one anywhere! WILD.
The way I was told that story the person referred to the woman as her aunt so I thought she was a real person 😭
@@JonSoloI also grew up hearing this version of the hair plus this one in the book.
Jon: no bugs lay eggs under people’s skin
Botfly: am I a joke to you?
Botflies rarely, if ever, insert their eggs into humans directly! If a human is implanted with a botfly larvae it's almost always from a secondary source (like a mosquito that had been implanted and passed the larvae on to another host) so it didn't seem as relevant or frightening as the other creepy-crawlies I mentioned - buuuut I probably should have anticipated these comments and at least referenced it 😅
@@JonSolo You should look into the human botfly then. Yes, the eggs are delivered to a human usually by mosquito. However the female botfly specifically infests the mosquitos, even through it's eggs can not mature inside it, with the intention of the mosquito infecting a human (or other similarly sized mammal).
@@TheDeinonychusyou literally repeated what he already replied and told him to research the subject.
Omg these comments but I have never heard of botfly which it's interesting to learn about now
@@blak_sstr youve never heard of them?!
I'm so happy you used the Spaceballs scene. I saw the face and was immediately like "Hey, that looks liike Spaceballs. Yup, there's his little hat"
Congrats on the lil solo
A fly once crawled into a friend's ear while camping. She fresked out and was convinced that it was crawling up her ear canal. She said she could feel it and hear the buzzing. We even took her to the hospital. Tirns out the fly probablyleft very soon after accidentally getting in there and the rest was just my friend's panic, making her hallucinate the buzzing and crawling. She's usually psychologically stable. That experience must have triggered some primal fear.
Congratulations on the mini solo! I'm so happy for you!
Spiders don't actually do this but a lot of parasite species do.
Ya i've mostly seen that behavior from some wasps
It’s also commonly used as an allegory or metaphor for the r word since it’s happening against your will and consent and often times you can’t stop the process.
Jon, congrats on your new little one! I remember the 'Scary Stories' books. I'm old enough that we had the original versions, in our school library. They were among the most popular books there, along with Shel Silverstein. And they were all ALWAYS checked out, and there was ALWAYS a waiting list. I'd write my name on that list and man, I'd get so excited when it was my turn, lol. I read a version of the "stuck together' story on a website in college, about 25 years ago. Here it is:
In this version, a guy and a girl were doing the nasty outside, on some hill that served as their town's lover's lane. While they were "busy", a storm rolled in, but caught up in the moment, they kept going. Or maybe the girl kind of wanted to stop, but the guy talked her out of it. In any case, since they were on a hill, and the guy was on top, his bare ass was the highest point, and he got struck by lightning. Somehow he survived, but the lighting traveled through his meat (lightning) rod, and into his girlfriend, melting the condom he was wearing, and fusing them together at the naughty bits. Even worse, the girlfriend was killed by the lightning, so the horrified guy finds himself in the unenviable position (pun intended) of being glued to a corpse by his pork sword. As if that wasn't enough, a bear was attracted to the smell of the girlfriend's burnt flesh, and started chowing on her deceased head, while the boyfriend, with his winkin' willie still stuck inside her, listened to the bones in her skull crunch under the bear's teeth, and screamed in brain-melting panic and revulsion. Of course the bear left him alone. I can't remember how he got out of the situation, but I think his screams alerted someone nearby. In any case, the two unfortunate lovers were taken to the hospital, still attached at the no-no squares, where the boyfriend was finally surgically liberated from his dead darling. Only he didn't come out of the ordeal physically unscathed. In the final twisted horror shock of the ending, it was said that the powerful electricity coursing through his one-eyed wonder weasel had exploded it like an oversize kernel of popcorn. The end of his trouser trout was described as looking like a big piece of cauliflower.
I swear it was written just that way-except for all the colorful euphemisms I used, lol-and it was made to look like a news article. So yeah, pretty outlandish, and obviously fake. It was obviously satire-kinda like the Onion would do now-and even said so, in the very last line of the story. Obvious BS, but it still made me both laugh, and recoil in visceral horror, lol. It was a good read. I guess that's why I remember it in so much detail, even all these years later. Anyway, hope you enjoyed!
This *CURSED* story made me sleep with my face covered for a whole week the first time I read it...and it was summer time 😭
Seriously same and I lived in AZ at the time 🥵🫠
6:23 I've heard that one. But it was a bride licking wedding invitations and it was cockroach eggs. She went to the hospital because she thought she was allergic to the glue. Then the doctor cut her tongue and pulled a cockroach out.
@MamaCat956 -- And THAT IS EXACTLY WHY I will NEVER OWN OR WATCH Stephen King's Original CREEP SHOW movie EVER AGAIN!! The story with the GUY with the SERIOUS BUG AVERSION segment to the cockroaches. BLEECH!! totally made me sick to my stomach after I watched that.
I remember getting freaked out at the cockroaches story from the movie Creepshow! I would hate to be in that man's position and be in the dark with hundreds of cockroaches!
Give my greetings to little Francesca Solo!
Also, fun fact on her being born by your birthday, I can relate as I share a birthday with my dad! Trust me, she’s gonna be the gift that keeps on giving to you and your wife!
1. Don't watch when you're eating, especially the initial spider hatching.
2. I actually remember reading in "The Dante Club" that blowflies will occasionally lay their eggs in open wounds. The author actually cites and retells a case of such an instance before the start of the story. I think I remember a TLC/Animal Planet series about parasites discussing this as well.
That series exists. It was around the time TLC, Discovery, and Animal Planet had not forgotten the purposes of the channels, but were still trying to stretch the meanings.
YUP! I know it well, It was a series that ran for Several seasons Called "Monsters inside me." You tube has many full episodes here of it actually.
The show you're talking about is monsters inside me
@@killapicklepiratepanda7373 Yeah, I answered that for the person who couldn't recall the show title 5 days ago, when the comment was posted.
Wow! Even the parasites were discussing this! I might be a fan….
Congratulations on your newest addition to your family, but since you mentioned Changelings in the manga Delicious in Dungeon where they are a type a mushroom where if they grown into a circle (as a reference to Fairy Circle) & when a creature steps inside it the spores changes it into something else
Never want to hear "its hatching season" again. Spiders dont bother or scare me, but something about that line made me have a moment of existential crisis.
This was so awesome thanks Jon! Congratulations on the baby!
this channel has been absolutely awesome both for general entertainment/education, but also as the main inspiration for a lot of D&D writing. i like that you explain the trope/story, the origin of it, and the connection between its origins and its significance/pervasiveness within/across cultures.
11:26 Oh same here! I watched that episode when I was a kid too and I have *never* forgotten about it 😅
the variant I remember hearing was the spider crawls in your ear while you're sleeping and lays eggs.
I always heard that one about earwigs. The story went that it would tunnel through the brain and out the ear. The twist was that it made it out the other side with no issue aside from the many eggs it left in the brain
Spiders are cool.
There was a cartoon series I watched as a kid where this teen beauty queen from the 60’s. She has a bee hive hairdo she keeps perfect and never takes down until she starts getting a headache. It gets worse and worse until finally a ton of baby spiders burst out of her hairdo. In the end she shaves her head and keeps it that way.
Dude! I’ve seen this cartoon!! Thank you!! I’m a giant cartoon nerd and so is my neighbor, but I was talking about this specific and he hadn’t seen it! I’m sorry, I’m just happy that someone else saw it! 😂😂😂❤❤❤
,,Spiders lay their eggs in places that are dark, quiet, and unlikely to be disturbed.'' So... I should worry about other places on my body.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣. Some days I don't brush my hair. There's a lit of it.
There have been documented cases of spiders crawling into people's ears.
Jon, be a better father than Zeus or his dad
that’s setting a very low bar 🤣
"Fun Tunnel"? That's a new one for me! 😂
The thing that lends so much credibility to these scary stories is the fact that there are insects that do plant their larvae in skin of other creatures and have them grow out of them eating their way out as they hatch
For instance botflies.
Funny how you would mention the version I've heard of from the TV show on Syfy, called Urban Legends. Though that version had a cockroach.6:12-6:33. Plus, you've now covered nearly all the Scary Stories adapted in the movie, now you have Me Tie Doughty Walker/The Jangly Man left.
since you’ve brought up Mexican folklore in this episode i would love if you could cover more of that! like la llorona or popcatapetal
I’m so happy for your daughter! Welcome to the solo family!❤ congratulations!!🎉
Great video as always! though here's something to ponder.
I remember correctly (and I'm sure RUclips commentors will tell me if I don't)
The premiss of Alien and idea of the Xenomorph was partly inspired by childbirth - which is why more of the male audience members found the "gut busting" scene so distressing, because having a weird little parasite growing inside you and then BURST OUT of a hole is pretty standard part of a woman's life throughout history.
I'm wondering if something similar is going on with with the female-centric theming and it's either an allegory or a "whelp it could be worse! it could be spiders coming out of you!!"
just a thought 😊😊
I have the same thoughts! A woman has something implant itself in her body, it grows over time, potentially makes her feel embarrassed or ashamed, and then bursts out of her in a grotesque manner
6:33 actually that envelope story is with roach eggs, and that is why they tell you to use a sponge to wet the envelopes because roaches will survive long periods of time around cardboard, and those envelope factories aren’t food sanitary so it actually has happened before from stuff I’ve read, but I could be wrong. My favorite parts of those books will always be the hearse song.
20:25 -- speaking as someone who was sideslammed by crohn's in college and should have died... yeah. Sometimes, things just happen to you, and everything you thought you could work towards is no longer a possibility. Almost 2 decades of dealing with crohn's and endometriosis destroyed my uterus, my colon, and has cost more than a few vital organs. It also... took away the dreams I had of joining conservation efforts for large cats. It's too dangerous for the animals and the people to have someone like me involved, I will always smell weak and sick.
The part where he says don't give the Liderc an impossible task otherwise it will commit unlife cracks me up
Please cover the mythology behind Stravinsky's Firebird for a more positve Halloween.
0:14 Alright Imma pause you right there and let you know I love your Videos and I was gonna watched this one till you mention Arachnids and went to describing even more and now....Imma Mute this and let it play, it is nighttime for me and I don't want to be having Nightmares and start having sensations of something crawling on me.
Lol. I puased 18 seconds in. I'm as allergic to spider bites as some ppl are allergic to bee stings. I am not a fan of arachnids.
Babies are often joked about as parasites. When people dont want the pregnancy, people will call them other things and avoid referring to them as babies. When I was pregnant, the doctors and nurses referred to it as my baby and would talk about when it could hear me, etc. When I had my miscarriage people were very consoling and sad for me, but it wasn't uncommon to refer to it as pregnancy materials or flesh or other things that suggested i was dealing with a fleshy mass. I am guessing a lot of women who are prochoice feel that being forced to keep the parasite is a loss of rights to their body. I really just wanted consistency from the medical staff, call it my baby, or don't. My point though this is politically charged is what he said at the end hits home. Even a human fetus which is completely normal for humans to have leeching off them, can make a person feel a loss of self if people treat them like they are less important.
I read a different (And possibly more horrifying version) of the fly eggs in the envelope: A lady worked at an office job that involved a lot of envelopes one day noticed a small bulge on her tongue that got bigger and more painful with every passing day, so she went to the doctor, thinking it was an abscess. When the doctor cut it open, a full grown COCKROACH crawled out!
I also read a few varieties of the "Beehive Hairdo" urban legend: A lady that wanted to preserve her beehive hairdo without having to use so much spray soaked her hair in sugar water to keep it solid. One day she started to get headaches, but nothing else seemed wrong with her. She eventually died, and in her hair was either a spider nest, a scorpion nest, or rats! Brr!
I’m honestly surprised that he didn’t bring up botflies
Now I'm more afraid of worms than spiders. Thanks, Jon.
Also congrats on the new addition.
Appreciate the warning
Congratulations on new baby girl!
Congratulations again on the baby. Beautiful name!
No wonder J.R.R. Tolkien was afraid of Spiders!
Congratulations to you and your wife on your bundle of joy.
The strange thing is i know i read the scary stories one second.
Minor gore and bug warning.
The original one i hear was about a girl who was itching so bad they had to put her in a straight jacket. One day she got out of it and ripped off part of her face revealing a nest of ants under her skin.
Love your work dude
And here I thought botflies were scary. That worm is horrifying! I'd take a spider over that any day of the week!
Congrats Jon 🎉🎉 Wish you the best and the misses a speedy recovery! 🙌🏿
This is the story that freaked me out the most as a kid
Good luck to the new dad!!! So happy for you my dude!
6:36 self sealing envelope spend the extra cents
If i'm not mistaken, but isn't there a story about the little black hearse (funeral car) in the books. I'm positive that i remember reading that story, but then again, it could've been my imagination.
My mom was bitten by a spider. She thought it was a pimpel. When it grew larger she went to the doctor. He opened it and yucky things came out. She had drink antibiotics and the wound had to close by it self.
But it definitley wasn't eggs.
So new kids think that if they get bitten by a spider they'll turn into spiderman, olden day kids would think that they would have hundreds of spider eggs inside of them
I remember reading this in middle school. I couldn't stop imagining baby spiders spilling out the bathtub faucet or cracks in the walls for weeks.
I knew too much about spiders to know that they don't like wet nesting spots like flesh. The babies would suffocate and rot.
Love the Space Balls reference 😂
Hello! I've been watching you for many years, and I always love your deep dives. I don't believe I've seen a video about Calypso though, have you ever looked at her story? It's very intriguing. Well wishes!
A side tip for the "if it looks like it'll fit" one at the end: "Without a base, without a trace"
It makes me happy to know space balls hasn’t been forgotten lol
Great video, this one always freaked me out as a kid.. also, congrats Jon!!!
So that was definitely one of your most horrifying episodes. The worm part had me cringing so hard. Terrifying!
The first book traumatized me for years. I was read this at an afterschool daycare when I was about 5 yrs old. Pretty messed up. Night terrors for years.
Even if you’re scared, please don’t kill spiders intentionally! They’re animals, too, and deserve to live! Plus, they’re important as they eat flies and help keep balance in the ecosystems! You can get a humane spider catcher with a really long handle off the internet, so that you can humanely capture the spider without touching them or getting too close and then just scoop them up and let them go outside!
flamethrowers also get the job done nicely 👌
I read that story in elementary school and it scared the heck out of me. It certainly did not help my fear of spiders that started developing around then-
Don't threaten me with a good time Jon.
Love your videos and congratulations again on your baby I’m so happy for you guys.
Congratulations to the baby. 😊
This reminds me of the story my mom told me about a family member, I forget if they're a cousin or uncle to her. Apparently a spider bit him on his knee one night and laid eggs in the wound from it; not too long after while laying in bed to sleep, the wound burst open with baby spiders
Not Jon dragging Logan 😂❤
John: Saying there’s no record of insects inserting eggs in humans for the third time.
Me: BOTFLIES!!!!!!
This story is definitely traumatizing lol. I remember when I was a kid I had (and still have) bad arachnophobia and my dad knew it. He had several guns around the house because he used to do gunsmithing as a hobby, and I remember when I began looking at one of the old Winchesters he had my dad told me not to touch it because spiders would plant eggs in the barrel and hundreds of babies would come out the gun, and i pretty much avoided touching any guns he had around 😅 in hindsight now I'm almost positive he made the story up as a way to keep me away from his guns and uhhh it worked lol.
Love this series!!!
Jon Looking more fatherly every episode 💪🏾
Freaky Stories' take on this tale involved a lazy teen with a beehive that was never washed
I remember reading this story out of Scary Stories 3: More Tales To Chill Your Bones. I'm not afraid of spiders, but I did find the story gruesome! I mostly hear the 8 bit soundtrack of Stage 8 Aliens Lair from the Nintendo game Contra playing in my head as I read about the spiders coming out of the girl's face!
Can’t believe you didn’t bring up botflies
Reputation ruiners... Interesting unintended reference to The King In Yellow and the Repairer of Reputations.... Which was also somewhat referential of a communicable infection
Thank you for telling me to skip today even though I didn’t give you Adsense - I’m phobic enough to hallucinate 😳
It feels like I'm the only one unbothered by this to the point of being able to snack on things while watching it. Too many scp articles I guess.
You know shits gonna get real when theres an actual warning in the title in addition to the usual VERY messed up portion
We're not messing around this week
@@JonSolo And Im all for it. Congrats on your newborn btw. Good health and a long long life to all of you
thank you so much! 🙏
As someone with a bad case of arachnophobia, this made me afraid of spiders more
There’s also botflies that lay their eggs in humans and animals. There’s a few vids of them being removed.
The logan pual roasts are on another level💀🔥
15:07 when it busted out of ripley at the end of the 3rd one I bout died as a kid. Scarred me for life
There was a show called the monster inside me where people had moths and magot ect in their bodies ears, head. Horrific.
I definitely got my fair share of childhood trauma from that show
@@elizabethmartin6707 nightmare fuel.
Damn. My banana! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
A somewhat similar one: A couple travels to Mexico and finds a potted cactus that will look amazing in their apartment. They buy it and bring it home. On the first night, their two cats seem absolutely fascinated by the cactus, batting at it and exploring around it. The wife is relaxing and she thinks she sees the cactus swaying a tiny bit. Assuming it's by a vent, she doesn't think much about it. But the next day, her first cat gets sick and she and her hubby rush him to the vet. Sadly, the cat passes away, much to the vet's confusion.
The couple returns home to find the other cat now showing the same terribly ill symptoms. As the frantic couple grabs the cat to rush it to the vet, they notice that the cactus is now shaking vigorously. Too stressed to think about it, they rush the cat to the vet's.
The vet comes out sometime later to reassure them that the second cat was saved; a necropsy had been performed on the first cat, and discovered that the cat had somehow consumed spider eggs, which had hatched in the cat's stomach and begun to eat their way out. They performed surgery which saved the second cat's life. But upon hearing the story of the cactus, the vet advises them not to try to return to their apartment, because the eggs would have hatched, exploded out of the cactus, and completely infested the building.
This is of course, likewise nonsense as the spider eggs in human flesh, because the cat's stomach acid would have destroyed the eggs, and spiders do not lay eggs inside cactus plants, much less cause them to explode.
I was waiting for the "honorary" mention of the human butterfly
Also, check out "The Feather Pillow" by Horacio Quiroga, it's one of the most horrific readings you'll ever experience
I am not afraid of spiders and I am horrified of this story.
This reminds of the creepypastas I dubbed "The Red String Stories". The Diary, The Town, The Memory and The Hospital. All are about invasive body horror and most don't have a happy ending
I was going to bring up Alien face hugger and chest burster stuff, but you beat me to it! I believe one of the inspirations of the xenomorph was the assassin wasp which lays eggs on a caterpillars’ body and hatch only to eat the host afterwards. By the way, in case I missed a joke or something: it’s H.R. Giger not H.G.
I'm surprised it was not mentioned. There is a non-face variant where the spiders are in a cactus often bought at some roadside stand and then the cactus explodes with spiders. I've seen two variants. One were a botanist warns them and they get out in time or it explodes in the night and they get eaten by the spiders😅
Flies do plant eggs in living flesh. My sister was a doctor who treated a woman who had fly larvae in her lower leg. Long ago I found a very young kitten with something wriggling inside a round hole on the kitten's neck. The vet extracted a fly larva from that hole. I've spent many long weeks clearing overgrowth from neglected gardens in the Midwest. I've had several bouts of poison ivy and one serious spider bite. The bite on my wrist began to itch and by evening I saw the telltale red streaks of blood poisoning had reached up to my elbow. I did nothing until the next morning when I saw the red streaks had extended up to my armpit. The ER doctor identified the mark on my wrist as a spider bite and gave me drugs to counteract the toxin.
When I was a kid I poked a weird thing hidden near my door, which I thought was some sort of mold, but as you may guess, it released a bunch of tiny spiders into my room. lol.
Thanks Jimmy Carter for helping to eliminate the guinea worm!
I’m pretty sure this legend was born from the discovery of Australian spiders
One of my good friends has a mother that used to work in the medical field, specifically our local hospital. One story I never forgot was the time one of her coworkers had a patient who had a full 2 liter bottle of Coke up his rectum. I don’t remember if he got the full bottle up there, but either way, how and why?
The WHO? I didn't know about that. Parasitic worms curing parasitic worms haha
I remember that episode about the worms on believe it or not, still creeps me out ..
Does anyone know the name of the movie 19:14