Recently, a man attempted to a kill a spider after noticing it while filling his car at a gas station, Fox 2 Detroit reports—an understandable impulse, if somewhat gratuitous. However! His weapon of choice was a lighter, and he set the whole pump on fire. Haha, whoops.

An urban legend joined forces with a recurring nightmare and the worst case scenario to permanently traumatize a young mother who found dozens of the world's most venomous spiders crawling all over the banana she was preparing to consume.

Global News meteorologist Kristi Gordon was caught off guard last week when a sudden downpour of spiders resulted in a particularly large creepy crawler landing on her head.

Just when you thought spiders couldn't possibly get any worse, along comes Poecilotheria rajaei.

What's that? You're worried about a little snow falling on your head? How adorable.

Fear makes us act irrationally. That's kind of its "thing."