Around the world people have told legends of giant spiders measuring up to five feet across, but the largest Monster Spiders have been sighted mainly deep in the Amazon jungle, a legendary location for lurking creatures, such as the poisonous dart frogs and anaconda snakes.
Among the Monster Spider sightings across the world, sizes and descriptions vary, but on the extreme end of the spectrum, eyewitnesses have described specimens up to five feet long. They are said to have huge fangs and hairy bodies the size of small dogs. The largest Monster Spiders are said to have fangs as long as eight or nine inches.Among the Monster Spider sightings across the world, sizes and descriptions vary, but on the extreme end of the spectrum, eyewitnesses have described specimens up to five feet long. They are said to have huge fangs and hairy bodies the size of small dogs. The largest Monster Spiders are said to have fangs as long as eight or nine inches.
American G.I.s in Iraq have claimed they have seen massive flesh-eating arachnids the size of small cats. They are known as "Camel Spiders" and have been reported to race along the desert floor at speeds of 25 miles per hour. A photograph of an enormous spider surfaced on the Internet after the start of the Second Gulf War but was quickly found out to be a hoax. The real Camel Spiders are not actually spiders but are close cousins called Solifugue.[]
To date, no one has produced evidence of a spider larger than 10.5 inches. But giant pre-historic creatures called Jaekelopterus Rhenaniae existed 390 million years ago. They were large sea scorpions and measured some eight feet in length. In 2007 a fossilized claw of this creature was found in Germany. The claw measured more than 1.5 feet long, suggesting that creatures like scorpions and spiders once grew to monster-sized proportions. The Jaekelopterus Rhenaniae ate large fish and even members of its own kind.
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