Creepy

holy hell thats creepy

that looks pretty cool

That's some pretty cool fungus o:

There were a lot of these spiders in that house, all dead. It was weird, I've never seen anything like it before, but apparently this fungal infection is common on these spiders in dank/dark environments.

wow what the! never seen anything like that befor :S

I've seen pictures in books D: But never in real life, and so much of it!

I want to stumble across abandonned houses in forests! That thing is really creepy.;.; I'm really arachnaphobic. But it still looks really cool!

It was a really random find. Obviously few people even notice the place, given the lack of graffiti or other signs of visitors. Kinda scary when I realised there were a LOT of these things around the walls and overhead D:

Freaky deaky >_>

Spooge with legs.
Yup.

I want to wash my face with it.

http://oglaf.com/cumsprite/ <this

o_o;

that's creepy.

That's bizarre.. Life is disgusting and beautiful.

It was cool. Rather creepy too, and pretty nasty given the state of the house and what we were able to discern about former going-ons in the place.

I once worked in a basement that had the entire ceiling plastered with dead spiders like that.....makes you scared to breath in deeply. °_°

Yep. The house was covered in mold, and the air was thick with spores. There were tons of these things all around it.

That is fucking amazing. I wish I could witness natural phenomena like the one you have here!

I'm glad I found such things. Hoping to find some fungus caterpillars one day.

Kyma likes this.

that would be a nice find :3

DEATH TO ALL CATERPILLARS.

Oh wow, thats an amazing find :D

For a moment, I actually thought I was looking a bio-luminescent spider...pretty creepy.

That would be awesome.

Holy crap o.o Don't you think it's dangerous to go into a house like that? I mean, this is a pretty cool find and everything, but it's really bad for your health =<

Lol. I'm quite aware.

THAT is EPIC.

Thank you for sharing this picture!!

Is that thing real? o.o,

yup :3
i've never seen one like Zarthus here, but that's actually a fungus taking over and killing a spider. when i first saw a picture i was like aww D: i was hoping this was a new breed. but it's just a fungus that eats some species of spiders, om nom.

At first I thought it was some odd species I'd never seen before too. But no. There were hundreds of them and they were all dead. Kinda creepy but pretty interesting at the same time.

Yes.

Eat 3 of them and you can gain the 2nd sight, and see the old road through the sands of the swirling Roba El-Kalieh, long forgotten, that leads to the broken pillars of ancient Irem,

;_; holawd. Its too bad I won't be seeing any of that then.
But I'll gift them to whoever is willing to eat a few xD

...I take it you've not read The Necronomicon then? :3

Naw. But I've been curious to do so. Maybe one day >>

hehe :3

Is that where that's from?

Perhaps

What?

Few are the mysteries revealed to the dull of wit
Fewer still are taken to heart

WHAT.

That thing didn't even look real at first, its like some kind of bio-luminescent cave spider from Xen.

how the hell did I do that?

Cordyceps is a type of fungus that takes over the brain of the host, slowly killing them as it urges them to get to the highest point possible to spread its spores and live to infect another day.

This is a fine example of such a fungus.

*nods* It looks to be a species of Beauveria. Was a really fascinating find. I've been curious to find vegetable caterpillars or cicadas, but was not formerly aware of this one that parasitises spiders. It's just daddy-long legs/cellar spiders too, other species were unaffected.

I get these under the foundations of my house some times. New ones keep getting in and keep getting infected from the previous batch.

Hah, yeah, you could see that was the case in this place too, given the ridiculous number of them.

I wonder if you put that in a jar with another spider if that fungus will infest and kill that one...
...

If it was the same species of spider, and the fungus was still producing spores then I suspect it would.

That would be one delicious jar of treats.

With some zesty Korean dipping sauce.

mmmnom

Interesting, a fungus that grows on spiders. Kind of feel sorry for the creepy biting buggers.

Good god, that's amazing. I love exploring old buildings. I'm glad I read down to find it was dead and covered in fungus, otherwise I might have gone on believing there are spiders who look like that while still alive.

Well. According to other peoples' accounts, these things can be seen while still alive. It doesn't kill the spiders instantly D: I'm not sure how long it takes before the spider is killed by it.
Abandoned places are fascinating to explore. There is seemingly not much variety of such places to explore around where I live, but random findings like this always prove interesting.

I live in the middle of the 'rust belt', so there are a large number of old factories and warehouses to explore. There are abandonments in the woods and forests near here, but most of them are worn down to foundations by now, the previous owner's possessions filling most of them. I did once find a bus and RV next to each other which had some interesting finds, all grown over by local flora. I found an old answering machine tape and some photographs, among the items of note.

Hey, that's awesome. I would love to investigate such places, if I get the chance to travel. I've found old steel ball barings at gold batteries, pteri dishes, various cutlery. I think this most recent outing yielded the most, as far as past possessions go. It was rather telling of the person who had formerly lived, and perhaps died there.

What do you mean by gold batteries?

Wow this is awesome. I had to read most of the comments to understand what was going on.

I saw these everywhere when we tore the floorboards up from my old deck... O_o Creepy as hell...

I'm gunna have really bad dreams tonight! hahaha officially NEVER going to New Zealand, amazing find though, thanks for sharing! Nature manages some very strange things.

This delights me, but I'm not sure why. 8D

This is the kind of place I'd be packing EMF gauges, cameras, thermals, IF lighting, etc.

How big is this place? Your lucky to live near something so cool.

But, what were you doing in an abandoned house in a forest? : o

Exploring. :3

Have you heard of the fungus that bats are getting? That white-nose stuff? It's killing them... Do you think this is where it's coming from? They could be eating the infected spiders and contracting it themselves, in a way. If the spiders make it into a cave where the bats are, also dark and damp, the bats could be eating the poisons! D:

I just looked it up :O But no, its an entirely different type of fungus. The species of cordyceps here only targets this particular species of spiders, and most cordyceps only infects anthropods, as far as I know.
Thanks for mentioning that though, that's very interesting and rather disturbing what the bats have been getting.

And thanks for looking that up. :o I don't know much about the bats' situation (mum came home and told me one tired night), but I do find it worrysome...

Oooooh, I really like your photo. It's cool that this one was near a reflective surface :D

Haha yes, there were a few in a dusty old display cabinet which made for good photos x3

That is some crazy shit, dude, but really neat... I had to go google it after finding this/reading the comments. Sounds like a pretty awesome place to go exploring, too!

I think I'm going to make a plushie of this.
I think it looks kinda cool.

YES holy crap that would be the best plushie. xD
They were pretty interesting, the whole house was full of them.

Where is this forest?

I remember when I found these. It was in the cellar of a tree nursery's central building. I was down there to see some kittens a mother cat had down in there, and looked up to see what I thought were spiders that had been wrapped up by another spider. Which meant to be that the other spider had to be some big damn badass monster spider to be preying on other spiders. Later i learned what cordyceps were and I assume, this is a fungus that either is or is similar to cordyceps.