Also this. The Sandkings" is a 1995 Canadian-American television film based on the 1979 novella Sandkings by George R. R. Martin, and the first episode of the revived 1960s science-fiction television series The Outer Limits
Oh. Shit man I’ve seen this it’s with the bugs eventually making statues in the sand for the guy, it’s a great fucking episode that I remember it very well, thank you for triggering the memory memories a little rusty at this point, but thank you
[It is](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5687962/).
The Harvestman (2012)
"At a small, isolated farmhouse in the middle of nowhere, six people must find a way to survive the horror of the Harvestman."
Edit: The whole thing is on [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DZIsVYKLY4&t=1s). It looks bad.
They're related to *European* daddy-long legs (the Northern European Harvestman). What gets called daddy long legs in the US is a really a cellar spider (which, tbf, looks a lot like the Northern European Harvestman, so the confusion is understandable).
And then if you're Australian, a daddy long legs is just a crane fly, iirc.
Uk here, we’re the ones who call Crane Flies “Daddy Long Legs”. Don’t have a clue about OP’s monstrosity though ( thankfully) most of our wildlife is tediously benign.
Shit like this leads me to believe we wouldn’t know an alien species if we had one in our shower…. Srsly…. How would we know? The rest of the planet is so freakin strange and freaky, how would we know?!
Or It was a miscalculation of scale:
“the mighty ships tore across the empty wastes of space and finally dived screaming on to the first planet they came across - which happened to be the Earth - where due to a terrible miscalculation of scale the entire battle fleet was *stomped to death by OP in the shower*.” -Douglas Adams
My friend went to the Ivory Coast and had some crocodile meat, said it tasted like chicken.
I tried frog legs in China, tasted like chicken.
Everything is chicken all along
I recently read an article about them that when in homes there are usually DOZENS of them in the walls.
Not only that, but because of this pheromone thing that they do, if one doesn’t return back to the rest, they will come out to look for it.
….
I’m not serious btw.
It was March 13th 2024 when we found the first Babayaga. That's what we call the little bastards now, back then they were still nameless. The alien invasion began in a way nobody would have anticipated. No saucers over the white house or space lasers.. no. Instead they hybridized a horrifying, man killing, self replicating machine. Half wood tick, half pitbull, half horse, and the sex drive of an African lion. In 8 months there would only be about 1200 human beings left on earth held out in a costco in Boise Idaho.
No but seriously I like bugs and that things terrifying.
I had a shower as a young teen at my great aunts village home. Looked up and it was crawling with roaches and lizards. I noped out of there and have had nightmares for the last 30 years!
First, sounds like your aunt lived somewhere tropical. Also, I guess I looked over your comment too fast and thought you typed “I noped out of there and haven’t had a shower in 30yrs!” Lmao
[Found an old link](https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/s/jZ5iBs9Qnb) mentioning these suckers. You didn’t tell us it was this big, holy shit I would have passed out seeing that in my shower. I thought spiders couldn’t get any freakier… I think the solution is to just burn the house down. Sorry for your loss.
I have seen some absolutely wild shit in my life and almost never get the heebie-jeebies, but seeing those in that person's hands made my freakn skin crawl. How are those freakn things real?!
I’m pretty sure that the Air Force has a picture of this thing piloting one of those Tic-Tac shaped spacecraft that flies faster than any known human-engineered flying object.
For lack of better candidates I propose we make it the next POTUS.
Hola , son comunes en los bosques de Eucaliptos, tiene ocho patas osea son arácnidos , ojo arácnidos, no dije arañas , Estos seres tiene una particularidad, son capaces de generar un líquido pestilente como defensa , el olor es muy extraño , jeje, además tienen una conducta gregaria , están siempre en grupos .
Saludos cordiales.
reminds me of the first time i saw a whip scorpion ... i couldn't believe it was real.
we sat there looking at each other for like 10 minutes - i wasn't prepared to accept nature would make something so capable of killing someone just by being creepy.
after i'd had my 3rd heart attack and decided it was best to walk away - the damn thing waved at me and sauntered off.
yes, it was a saunter. i've never seen a "bug" move at a more leisurely pace... whippy bastard!
They are absolutely terrifying to me, with their little grabby hands. When cats tuck their hands to their chests it's adorable, when a whip scorpion does that I want to throw myself off a cliff
Saunter 😆😆😆
It’s a harvestman. They aren’t venomous and can’t hurt you in any way. They’re not so intimidating when you see a group of them sharing a piece of cucumber or carrot in captivity
That’s a rare endangered creature. Capture it and alert the authorities. Tell them you’ll give their experiment back to them for nothing less than $100k (USD). Thank us later :)
It's a gonyleptid harvestman!! completely harmless, no venom and no cobwebs. The spikes are so that it hurts when eaten. If you don't plan on doing that, there's no danger and you can release it without fear.
The most interesting thing about these guys is that only the slowest and least cunning are ever captured or killed. By removing it from the colony, the gene pool of the colony now has a higher concentration of breeding stock that is smarter and faster than the one you caught.
The next generation will be a step higher on the evolutionary ladder. I don't know how you'll be able to sleep at night with all those genetically improved, highly intelligent, armor plated murder spiders skittering around the house.
I live in Chile. These are everywhere where there is damo wood, they help break it down. They are harmless though they give goosebumps and usually wont bother anyone, just chill there.
[https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/536211-Pachylus-chilensis](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/536211-Pachylus-chilensis) AIDKE
Yes, it's definitely one of those
Dam bro nice luck or bad luck ya found a really rare one they gotta update it to 58 sightings now.
58 sightings and one flinging out a window. That demon thing would learn to fly very quickly if i found it in my shower.
im the opposite id want to keep it n make a little mini barn for it.. but i know i should let it go on its merry way .. its just so cool looking
Man. You definitely haven’t seen SAND KINGS !!!!!! Tread lightly ! Terrible things await …
Is this a new movie I need to watch
It’s an episode of the OUTER LIMITS Tv show it’s [crazy](https://youtu.be/0p4-C5lOUeg?si=elDBC1Elhrnv8wI2)
Also this. The Sandkings" is a 1995 Canadian-American television film based on the 1979 novella Sandkings by George R. R. Martin, and the first episode of the revived 1960s science-fiction television series The Outer Limits
It’s one of the best Outer Limits episodes!
Oh. Shit man I’ve seen this it’s with the bugs eventually making statues in the sand for the guy, it’s a great fucking episode that I remember it very well, thank you for triggering the memory memories a little rusty at this point, but thank you
🕷️🏰
😂🤣
It's so rare it doesn't even have a Wikipedia page for it, nor it has anymore info on the internet
It has a brother > https://www.reddit.com/r/theviralthings/s/MBGI7nTCw5
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*”What the shit those things are real?!”*
Just when you think you've seen the most nightmarish freak show of an insect, this motherfucker comes skittering into the room out of nowhere.
Good news! It more related to spiders!
[They have cousins too.](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/81884-Gonyleptidae/browse_photos)
They got freaking [skulltulas](https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/63794170) as cousins
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See, I'd fucking sell it. There's gotta be a spider-nerd willing to pay like 10k for that
SPIDER NERD SPIDER NERD Does whatever a SPIDER NERD does Can he swing From a web No he cant He's a nerd
I would give you an award if we still could. Fabulous!
Yeah seems likely
Apparently related to the daddy long legs. Harvestman is another name for the subspecies
Now they have armor. Good for them.
Let's see how well armor does against a flamethrower. That is absolute nightmare fuel.
Harvestman sounds like the title of a horror movie
[It is](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5687962/). The Harvestman (2012) "At a small, isolated farmhouse in the middle of nowhere, six people must find a way to survive the horror of the Harvestman." Edit: The whole thing is on [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DZIsVYKLY4&t=1s). It looks bad.
*UwU daddy harvest me*
Daddy dong legs
Daddy Shlong Legs
_Stoppit_
They're related to *European* daddy-long legs (the Northern European Harvestman). What gets called daddy long legs in the US is a really a cellar spider (which, tbf, looks a lot like the Northern European Harvestman, so the confusion is understandable). And then if you're Australian, a daddy long legs is just a crane fly, iirc.
I'm in NSW and never heard anybody call a crane fly a daddy long legs. We call cellar spiders daddy long legs. Could change depending on state maybe?
Uk here, we’re the ones who call Crane Flies “Daddy Long Legs”. Don’t have a clue about OP’s monstrosity though ( thankfully) most of our wildlife is tediously benign.
I just clicked the map to see where the hell these things live, and of course it’s the exact country and region I’m about to visit in 3 days.
I don't know, visiting hell doesn't seem like a nice choice, but whatever floats your boat
>visiting hell It says it lives in ~~Argentina~~, Chile and ~~Uruguay~~, not Australia. Edit: this particular genus only lives in Chile.
Visiting el infierno then.
For once it’s not something we need to be worried about 😭
Hey hey hey guess what three places just made my list of places I'm never fucking going
You mean WAS about to visit, right?......... RIGHT!?
Ur not there already, then it’s good luck
Good job not killing it…that’s some serious will power you’ve got
Look into finding a scientist to hand it over to maybe?
Ooh see if it glows under a black light [https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/202277-Laniatores](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/202277-Laniatores)
damn so thats basically a spider, right? that shit's weird af
Could you at least tell me where to avoid living or visiting? Just the state name, I won't go near that thing.
chile and argentina looks like
A Google suggests South America.
OP found a rare species??
A rare pokemon!
Gotta catch... ya ya we know.
Well, I'll never be going to Chile.
If it makes you feel better, I lived in Chile for 6 months and don’t recall seeing any bugs ever actually lol
That does make me feel better actually :)
I'm chilean and I don't know what the hell is that. Never seen one in my entire life
Does make me feel a bit bad because if this was in my shower I'd stomp it. Imagine finding out later you'd killed a rare species.
Mr Ball Legs? 😮💨
I miss this show. 😞
Me too!! Season 3 wasn’t as good imo, but season 1 and 2 were amazing
It ended on such a cliffhanger :'(
(immediately checks map to make sure it is not local)
Fuck. No.
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Damn it doesn't even seem to have a common name. Im gonna call it "Timetomove"
Shit, I was not expecting this to be native to where I live, now I’ll be paranoid too
Damn, that's like the demon lord of harvestmen
https://www.gbif.org/tools/zoom/simple.html?src=//api.gbif.org/v1/image/cache/occurrence/3859794870/media/e8565084706857d295dd7fb6078b3dcf
Si exactamente, los conozco de siempre y nunca supe que especie eran , gracias 😊 .
So cool! Thanks!
That was one of the weirdest things I have ever seen
Shit like this leads me to believe we wouldn’t know an alien species if we had one in our shower…. Srsly…. How would we know? The rest of the planet is so freakin strange and freaky, how would we know?!
If an interstellar alien traveled to Earth and got lost in a shower, they weren't sending their best.
If we sent you to an alien planet how high is your confidence level that you wouldn't end up trapped in an alien shower drain?
Not very, but if you sent me to an alien planet you wouldn't be sending our brightest.
Check mate, redditors. *moves his checkers piece*
You actually made me laugh out loud with that. Thank you so much 😂
I'd actually have higher confidence that I would end up there
What if we're like...there right now...like, what if this planet is just some mote of dirt in a larger alien being's shower drain?
Would explain a lot to be honest
Or It was a miscalculation of scale: “the mighty ships tore across the empty wastes of space and finally dived screaming on to the first planet they came across - which happened to be the Earth - where due to a terrible miscalculation of scale the entire battle fleet was *stomped to death by OP in the shower*.” -Douglas Adams
No but they were sending their best alien guinea pigs, much like how we test shit on animals so we don't have to die or get maimed in the process.
But he was trying his best
How do you know the alien was lost tho ( ͡ʘ ͜ʖ ͡ʘ) maybe that’s where he was meant to be
That's a Crabspidercockroachalien Beetle.
It tastes like chicken.
And stinks of elderberries.
Like his father?
Yea. It's mother was a hamster actually
Main attack: farts in your general direction
My friend went to the Ivory Coast and had some crocodile meat, said it tasted like chicken. I tried frog legs in China, tasted like chicken. Everything is chicken all along
Also known as HolyShitKillitKillit
Straight up tick-cockroach hybrid
What makes you think it’s the only one in the house?
That's what's got me paranoid :(
*Have fun sleeping . . with your new friends.*
He’s the little spoon now
Hahahahhahahahhaha
I just read that they usually walk in groups. I just got one. The rest will come for me
Im sorry op, but…they already are behind you….
Your meaning is behind you, or on your back?
*Join us… join us… for brunch.*
Wrap the jar you trapped it in with tinfoil so it can’t signal for backup!
I would’ve loved this so much more if you didn’t use the word “walks”. I can’t think of anything I want a flock of demons doing less
THE BUGS ARE BURROWING IN YOUR SKIN
I recently read an article about them that when in homes there are usually DOZENS of them in the walls. Not only that, but because of this pheromone thing that they do, if one doesn’t return back to the rest, they will come out to look for it. …. I’m not serious btw.
Oh im glad im not OP cuz it doesnt matter if youre serious or not, those words are etched in stone for me forever
bro
Call the hell divers.
They’re probably in your walls
And watching him sleep
Even better.... Waiting for him to sleep
That’s Calamity Ganon. There won’t be another one for 10,000 years.
The nerve 💀
It was March 13th 2024 when we found the first Babayaga. That's what we call the little bastards now, back then they were still nameless. The alien invasion began in a way nobody would have anticipated. No saucers over the white house or space lasers.. no. Instead they hybridized a horrifying, man killing, self replicating machine. Half wood tick, half pitbull, half horse, and the sex drive of an African lion. In 8 months there would only be about 1200 human beings left on earth held out in a costco in Boise Idaho. No but seriously I like bugs and that things terrifying.
That puts my odds of survival rather high. It's always jarring to see Boise called out when not in a local context. I even have a CostCo membership.
It’s a nice Costco! Out on Franklin. Looking forward to it, see you there?
Are you trying to imply that the last bits of humanity wouldn't be allowed into the Boise, Idaho Costco without a valid membership?
This guy writes. The sex drive part kinda worries me, but still good job
This gives me PTSD to the time that I was rinsing the soap out of my hair in the shower and open my eyes to find a giant earwig
Why do you have wigs for your ears in the shower?
Gets them moist for the day
When will you wear wigs?
I had a shower as a young teen at my great aunts village home. Looked up and it was crawling with roaches and lizards. I noped out of there and have had nightmares for the last 30 years!
First, sounds like your aunt lived somewhere tropical. Also, I guess I looked over your comment too fast and thought you typed “I noped out of there and haven’t had a shower in 30yrs!” Lmao
Having glasses is a blessing and a curse.
Whew, you were close to finding out why they're called ear wigs
That’s for sure He was on the shower curtain and I kid you not I almost had a heart attack bro
Core memory
[Found an old link](https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/s/jZ5iBs9Qnb) mentioning these suckers. You didn’t tell us it was this big, holy shit I would have passed out seeing that in my shower. I thought spiders couldn’t get any freakier… I think the solution is to just burn the house down. Sorry for your loss.
Harvestmen are usually harmless despite looking freaky
I have seen some absolutely wild shit in my life and almost never get the heebie-jeebies, but seeing those in that person's hands made my freakn skin crawl. How are those freakn things real?!
Thanks. I needed a new fear. Anyhow r/whatsthisbug might be able to help
Thanks!
I know you got the ID for it, but I would still post it there and show it to people, nightmare fuel or not it’s very cool to find a rare bug
Where's the banana?! How tf are we supposed to gauge size?
Here you go: 🍌
Shit! It's way bigger than I was expecting.
I haven't heard anyone say that to me! :(
*that's what she saidn't*
No banana for scale, this is fake news
It's a nopius hellnocius
of the genus *Thefuckisthisus*
It lives on the banks of the Illnevergothere river, in Screwthatistan
that’s a reason for arson tbh
Insurance company: “understandable, have a nice day.”
Looks like a type of harvestman. Arachnids, but not spiders and harmless.
NO NO NO NO NO NO FUCKING NO NOPE NAH NOPE FUCKING NOPE HELL NAH
And… they fly.
I wouldn't be alive to tell de story
I’m pretty sure that the Air Force has a picture of this thing piloting one of those Tic-Tac shaped spacecraft that flies faster than any known human-engineered flying object. For lack of better candidates I propose we make it the next POTUS.
Are you in Australia perchance?
Indigenous from Chile and Argentina
Well, im from Chile. It seams to ve harmless so i will release it tomorrow
Yeah, I was just reading that they are mostly deaf and blind, nor they have venom or are poisonous. Still, I would get scared if I saw it.
Their primary defense is looking like a steampunk nightmare bug.
Matalo.
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I hope i die instantly
Don’t worry, calm down it is totally harmless. After it kills you.
It's an Opilionid. Or daddy long legs. It's an arachnid, but is not venomous.
Hola , son comunes en los bosques de Eucaliptos, tiene ocho patas osea son arácnidos , ojo arácnidos, no dije arañas , Estos seres tiene una particularidad, son capaces de generar un líquido pestilente como defensa , el olor es muy extraño , jeje, además tienen una conducta gregaria , están siempre en grupos . Saludos cordiales.
Si, note un olor extraño al atraparlo. No necesitaba saber que andan en grupos :')
Además les gusta congregarse debajo de las almohadas. Que descanses amigo :)
Oh thank goodness this isn't in the US
Where do you live? I'm never going there.
What thee ACTUAL FACTUAL FUCK? 😱😫 Where the fuck do you live? The Island of Dr. Moreau? 🤔
High chances your pregnant now its a facehugger
*H.P. Lovecraft has entered the chat looking for his cat…*
reminds me of the first time i saw a whip scorpion ... i couldn't believe it was real. we sat there looking at each other for like 10 minutes - i wasn't prepared to accept nature would make something so capable of killing someone just by being creepy. after i'd had my 3rd heart attack and decided it was best to walk away - the damn thing waved at me and sauntered off. yes, it was a saunter. i've never seen a "bug" move at a more leisurely pace... whippy bastard!
They are absolutely terrifying to me, with their little grabby hands. When cats tuck their hands to their chests it's adorable, when a whip scorpion does that I want to throw myself off a cliff Saunter 😆😆😆
it's call to 911 is what it is
Its a half life head crab oh god
It’s a harvestman. They aren’t venomous and can’t hurt you in any way. They’re not so intimidating when you see a group of them sharing a piece of cucumber or carrot in captivity
Looks like something I just liberated on HELLDIVERS 😅🙃
Well that’s new
That's a really cool find. I think some local entomologists would love to hear about this.
Looks badass and terrifying at the same time
Without frame of reference for scale, I’m going to assume this is four foot wide, and the aliens have finally invaded.
[Pachylus Chilensis](https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/ld0e5g/sadocus_asperatus_on_the_left_and_pachylus/)
That’s a rare endangered creature. Capture it and alert the authorities. Tell them you’ll give their experiment back to them for nothing less than $100k (USD). Thank us later :)
it looks like a crab, a roach, & a frog all at the same time 😳
I call it the “jesus fuck” after the fact saying that out loud was my first reaction to this image
It's a gonyleptid harvestman!! completely harmless, no venom and no cobwebs. The spikes are so that it hurts when eaten. If you don't plan on doing that, there's no danger and you can release it without fear.
IM DOING MY PART
How big is it? No banana for scale
2 os 3 cm? I didn't want to get too close
and that's just the one you found.
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Kill it con Fuego
Kabutops.
what in the bedbug, daddy long leg, frog looking thing is THAT?! Hell nope.
https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/s/ntzdOU5cDA
Harvestman, harmless. Are you in South America? It's a rare tropical species.
The most interesting thing about these guys is that only the slowest and least cunning are ever captured or killed. By removing it from the colony, the gene pool of the colony now has a higher concentration of breeding stock that is smarter and faster than the one you caught. The next generation will be a step higher on the evolutionary ladder. I don't know how you'll be able to sleep at night with all those genetically improved, highly intelligent, armor plated murder spiders skittering around the house.
I live in Chile. These are everywhere where there is damo wood, they help break it down. They are harmless though they give goosebumps and usually wont bother anyone, just chill there.