Couple Returns From Vacation, Unprepared for What They Find at Home: 'Help'
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A couple returning to their home in Spain after vacation stopped dead in their tracks after discovering spiders had taken over the house.
Julia, who is known on TikTok as @guavouk, explained in a June 11 video how scared she was after coming home and noticing not one or two, but several groups of tiny, black items peppered on the walls and ceilings of her home. Upon closer look, she realized these black figures had eight legs. Her nightmare just got worse. They were clusters of spiders spread throughout the house.
The clip shows at least a dozen different spots on the walls and ceilings where the spiders have congregated, mainly all overhead. Some of the clusters appear to have three or four, while others had as many as 20 spiders. She kept repeating to herself "why," as she went from one room to the next, zooming in on the creepy crawlies.
Hoping to get some answers, she took to TikTok and asked what was happening: "Help, is this normal?" But even if she received a logical explanation, she wrote in the caption that her mind is made up: "I guess we're moving."
Screenshots from a June 11 TikTok video of a woman freaked out after coming home from vacation to a house filled with spiders.
Screenshots from a June 11 TikTok video of a woman freaked out after coming home from vacation to a house filled with spiders.
@guavouk/TikTok
She thought this issue had been resolved before going on vacation. She told Newsweek via TikTok: "I actually had a neighbour come clear the same amount of spiders the week prior."
But the spiders returned, and so did the horror. Even her partner looked distressed, walking around the house with his hands on his head. With seemingly no explanation or solution at the moment, they're left puzzled. A cleanup of the spiders is only met with more spiders.
"It's been progressively getting worse and worse," she said. "They just seem to move in overnight."
Viewer Reactions
Feeling the same, grossed-out sentiment, TikTok viewers flooded the comment section with their disgust, claiming that it is now the spiders' house. The clip amassed over 192,600 views, 8,395 likes and 542 comments as of Tuesday.
"I would have to call my insurance company to tell them my house burnt down," commented a viewer, while a second person said: "I'd simply pass away."
A third added: "Sorry, but I couldn't step foot in there."
Another wrote: "And I immediately went on vacation again."
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