The scariest moment of my childhood was when one of these crawled out of the drain.

scubstev834 · 1 year

Mother fucking spiderpede.

mortong · 1 year

Ahh! Kill it with f...(checks Wikipedia: House centipedes feed on spiders, bedbugs, termites, cockroaches, silverfish, ants, and other household arthropods).

Well, hello Mr. House Centipede. Doing okay? Can I get you anything?

goodfella0108 · 1 year

I find these in my basement all the time (shudder). I once attempted to kill one but failed and hours later it proceeded to scare the shit out of me by running across the keyboard.

captainbirthdaytime · 1 year

nonononononononono

somename13 · 1 year

These are actually helpful to have in your house. They hunt the bothersome bugs that you really don't want in your house. If you see one or two it's best to let them go about their business keeping your house clear of pests. They are extremely scary looking though...

awrinkleintime · 1 year

Just your childhood? It's continued into adulthood for me.

okzygen · 1 year

That was the scariest part of my right now.

JayMastahFlexx · 1 year

I remember being a kid and trying to catch them with a glass and a paper to get them the fuck away from my house. What are they called anyway?

thewrongtree · 1 year

Those die a very, very bad death in my home. It usually involves much more force than is necessary and a lot of loud swearing.

InsultComicBarbie · 1 year

They can run 4.5 mph! Sweet dreams!

KidKenosha · 1 year

I'm Australian, and you're a pussy.

bronxwasborninsweden · 1 year

one of those crawled under my bedroom door the other day. I screamed like a little girl and threw shoes at it. One of the shoes squished it. I have no regrets.

elwood78 · 1 year

I just saw one of these in my bathroom.. shutters. Even after you kill them sometimes the legs will still move.

itstractor · 1 year

Its just a house centipede. Completely harmless, but freaky.

unprotectedsax · 1 year

i was sitting on my friends stoop when i was like 10 and one crawled up my back. I. FREAKED. the FUCK. OUT.

elscorcho117 · 1 year

The worst part is that once I saw one of these bastards when I was little, I assumed every piece of fuzzy material or dust strand in the bathroom is one of them. You never feel more stupid than running away from a chunk of dust.

SXECrow · 1 year

My asshole literally imploded in on itself when i saw this.

danneh1017 · 1 year

Did you burn your house down?

magicwizardbacon · 1 year

Wikipedia: Centipede respiratory systems do not provide any mechanism for shutting the spiracles. That is why they need an environment that protects them from dehydration and excessive cold.

Canada sure is awesome, eh?

[deleted] · 1 year

Twice I've woken up to these crawling across my face. It's as horrific as it sounds. The first time I thought it was the label on my duvet, brushed it off onto the pillow next to me. Freaked out and killed that fucker with my size 9. Second time it happened, bricks were shat. I felt it crawling, I knew straight away what it was so I grabbed and clawed at my face like a deranged idiot. Turned the light on to find a nasty, jumbled up mess of legs and guts in my palm and scratches and bruises on my face. My hand smelled earthy and metallic for days.

MetalEd · 1 year

Those things are mobile cat treats.

OCDTrigger · 1 year

Nah haven't seen any of these on Reddit lately....

Bluntzelstiltskin · 1 year

Now I have something else to worry about :-/ goddammit

Tiffehx3 · 1 year

The scariest part is I have no idea which end is the head and which end is the tail...

Same experience for me though but with a giant cockroach in Hong Kong... I screamed so loud my mom thought I was being raped...

troyANDabed · 1 year

My stepmom told me that these crawl in your ear and make babies in your brain. So... yeah... feel your pain.

fortinwithwill · 1 year

thats some nasty shit. whats it called?

lehcarsue · 1 year

Yuck! One of these crawled across my bed when I was cleaning the other day. I tore apart my room and killed it with a Harry Potter book. But then I took the chance to rearrange my room very nicely. So all in all, a good motivator.

keerf · 1 year

Never seen one before, this is my scariest moment of my week, thank you.

mark636199 · 1 year

I wanna see this fight a spider.

czntix05 · 1 year

I hated the fact that whacking them with something scattered legs everywhere.

wolfpigdog · 1 year

One on my bathroom door not too long ago!

If you really think about it, one of the main reasons they are so scary is because of their SPEED! They are fast little shits!

metarugia · 1 year

If I was in a shower with one of those see through plastic/glass doors I probably would've just broken through the thing. If it was a shower with a regular shower curtain I would probably take more time getting out (like 3 seconds more) to make sure I didn't touch the curtain more than I had to (never know where those bastards are).

Also, those are house centipedes, commonly mistaken for silverfish.

[deleted] · 1 year

Oh first world problems.

baddrummer · 1 year

Shit man! does it HAVE to have that many freakin legs!! I always thought the more legs an insect has, the scarier it is.

Lanuria · 1 year

I moved to Wisconsin from Florida last summer and found one of those in my shower right when I moved in. I never screamed so loud in my life!

tuningoutthehumans · 1 year

these things used to come out of my drains and eat spiders and such....i left them alone and they left me alone. i called em ODG's....Original Drain Gangstas.

jojojiminy · 1 year

I'm Australian and what the fuck is that. Damn U.S. insects, you scary.

voidsong · 1 year

I don't care if it has a place in the ecosystem, a million years of DNA tells me that anything with more than 4 legs is kill-on-sight.

MoT · 1 year

that's gotta be a first world moment of fear if i ever saw one.

FujiDude · 1 year

I rescue these little guys in my building here in Japan all the time.

Neocrasher · 1 year

As an arachnophobic, these thing don't seem too bad. They eat the same stuff spiders do, and they eat spiders too.

megacanyon · 1 year

I just sat up and looked in the toilet bowl.

hereweareonceagain · 1 year

My landlord sprayed for them throughout the entire building, then we were overwhelmed with ants and pill bugs in our bathrooms and kitchens. Every food item was tossed and repurchased and stored in tins and Ziploc baggies. Pain in the ass. I'm out of there now but I would have kept the centipedes any day.

Bott · 1 year

Two things I found about these: 1. I crushed one and it appeared to have no insides. 2. I saw one hunt and it's attack was fast as lightening.

Seakneeboy · 1 year

We called them, Crazies. Fuck everything about those guys.

w045 · 1 year

I remember when I was younger, in grade school an I would do my homework laying on the floor of the living room one evening and one these jetted across the floor right in front of me, stopped kind of in front of me long enough for me to see it and comprehend it (otherwise it would have just been a brown blur running across from under the heater to another part of the room). I promptly stood up and left the room. NOPE. NO HOMEWORK TONIGHT.

marcusabq56 · 1 year

The scariest moment of my childhood was i thought Pennywise the Clown was in the drain.

bhtp · 1 year

I don't know why everyone is freaking out so much, it's really not a big deal, burn your house down and move.

ajf · 1 year

Man, you must have had a pretty nice childhood. The scariest moment of my childhood was when my dad got arrested on vacation for punching a stop sign he walked into and I was left alone in a shopping mall in another state. Or maybe it was when I got lost at the Bronx Zoo on a field trip and they found me a few hours later in the bat exhibit.

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