These are my rankings of the scariest spiders to least scary.

Wolf spider
Brown spider
Camel spiderJumping spider (move too quickly making them hard to kill, very creepy)
Trapdoor spider
Cobweb spider
Black Widow  Brown widow
Tarantula
Daddy Long Leg 
1/12/22

It was a nice summer day and I had just gotten home from football practice. My dad always leaves a note of all the chores I have to do and one of them was to mow the lawn. So, I go into the shed on the side of the property to get the mower and when I open the door and walk to where the mower is, I see a huge wolf spider sitting there like it was about to mow the lawn. I spend about 5 minutes running around the yard trying to distance myself from the spider as much as possible when finally I get enough courage to go and kill it. Even when I felt that I had built up enough courage to finally kill the beast I still couldn’t bring myself to it when I reached the shed door. Luckily enough, my Mom happened to be home. So I called her and asked her to come outside because I was having a problem. My mom, being a good parent, immediately thought of the worst possible thing that could happen. Whether it be me burning down the shed or something even worse. She ran outside to see what the fuss was all about only to see a spider sitting on the lawn mower. Instead of killing it herself she forced me to take off my shoe and smash the thing. I argued with her for a little bit before eventually killing the spider myself. I still cannot get over them to this day and this happened about three years ago.

1/13/22

Another time I have encountered a spider is when I was playing ping pong with my brother about 8 years ago at my old house in my basement. My brother was destroying me when out of nowhere a huge wolf spider appeared on the wall next to us. Me, not ever having seen one before, obviously started to freak out. My brother’s friend who also was with us at the time reassured me that the spider was more scared of me than I was of it. That statement did not help me with my fear of the thing. Even after my brother’s friend kept telling me that I was much bigger than the spider and not to be afraid of it, I still was very much afraid. Eventually after me freaking out over the thing for a little while I mustered up the courage to throw the ping pong paddle at the spider. I must have become Tom Brady for five seconds because I hit the spider dead on.

1/14/22

I got home from a long football practice. This was when Two-a-days were in session and we would practice for about 7 hours. I was ready to relax and get in the shower. As I walk into the bathroom I see a huge black and yellow spider on the wall to the right of my toilet. Obviously I’m not getting into the shower with that thing anywhere near me in fear that it might crawl in the shower. So, I start looking around for objects to throw at it. My brother’s room is right next to the bathroom so I go in there to look for something like a shoe. Instead of a shoe I found something much more effective. I see a metal ruler. This is perfect because I can keep my distance and kill the spider at the same time. I do end up getting the job done of killing the spider and I took a long and happy shower afterwards. But even after killing it I still would peek over the shower curtain to make sure it didn’t revive itself back to life looking for revenge.

1/18/22

One night I was on my phone about to go to bed when all of a sudden a small spider walked across my phone screen. I jumped out of bed and turned the light on to see the spider just relaxing on the edge of my bed. This time, the spider wasn’t huge so it didn’t really scare me that badly. But, there was still a spider on my bed. I went over to my nightstand where I had tissues and killed the spider. This story isn’t as dramatic as the others but still creeps me out that there was a spider on the bed.

1/19/22

One day my dad tells me that I need to go out to our backyard and chop some wood. The wood that needed chopped was in a car hut type structure and was located in the back which was closest to our woods. Unfortunately, this area attracted a lot of spiders. So, I go down with an ax ready to get my work done. When I reach the area I start grabbing logs, and under every log I grab is at least either a spider or some sort of bug. Even after describing the horrific scene to my dad he still forced me to do it. While I was down there basically trapped in an area full of webs, logs and spiders it felt as if the world was crashing down on me. I would feel them crawling up my leg and trying to get under my socks. I did end up getting the work done but in the end I am terrified to go down to that carport because of the horrible spider infestation we have down there.

Here is another shed story. One day when I'm getting the weed eater out of the shed, I open the shed door and surprisingly don’t see any monstrous spider on the door. I go into the shed unschathed and come out thinking everything is good. I feel a slight tickle in my hair and swat my head. I then feel something on my leg and when I look down I see a huge brown spider. I slap the disgusting eight-legged creature off my leg and start sprinting as far away as I can. When I came back to the area that I ran from, the spider must have crawled away in the grass because when I got back I didn’t see it. I still don’t know how I got the spider on my head in the first place, I think it must have fallen from the top of the shed door or maybe jumped from the weedeater onto me. But now whenever I walk into the shed I feel the overwhelming feeling of just a trillion spiders staring at me watching my every move. Very scary.

1/21/22

You must be thinking that I’ll eventually run out of spider stories in the shed. I won’t. One day in the summer of sixth grade, I had just gotten home from the Shawnee Braves football camp. My dad had called me down and told me that he needed my help outside. So, I go outside and he tells me that I need to go into the shed and grab a gas canister and fill up the lawn mower. When I walk into the shed I see a ginormous wolf spider sitting beneath the gas canister perfectly still. The way that my shed is layed out is, on the right there was a stack of bricks that only the spiders used to make homes, and on top of these bricks were the gas canisters. So, I freeze up not knowing what to do just hoping that the spider will move away. I wait for a couple of seconds and try to poke at it with a couple of tools when eventually it does move, just closer to the gas canister. At this point I can’t deal with it anymore and I know that my dad is still busy working on the yard, so I get the most reliable person I can think of, my mother. She of course was not pleased that I had bothered her on her day off as she was relaxing watching TV. I ask her to come and kill the spider and she retorts with “Why can’t you just do it”. I almost told her that was the stupidest thing she could’ve said but I decided not to because I didn’t want to get yelled at. Instead, I told her that I was too scared and that dad needed my help as soon as possible. This did get her to come to the shed. I stood outside as I watched my mom walk into the “Spider Dungeon” as I call it, and heard a loud smack. When she walked out she gave me the look of “now you really couldn’t have done that?” and I thought to myself, “No mom I couldn’t have”. 

1/27/22
I’m about eight years old at the time and my friends and I decided we wanted to play a game of Gorilla. This is basically hide-and-seek in the dark, but outside. So I go outside to grab my shoes and when I put my foot inside the shoe I feel something crawl against the bottom of my foot. Out of all the shoes in my garage the spider decided to pick mine? I didn’t know what it was at first so I started to smack the bottom of my shoe just thinking it was a rock. What I unfortunately found out as the thing fell into my lap was that it was a spider. I sat there in shock for a second wondering if what I saw was really true. Until finally I slapped the spider off of me and grabbed my shoe and smacked it. I don’t know how I got the courage to do it with no hesitation but I’m glad I did. Now I know to check my shoes for spiders before putting them on.

1/31/22

This writing project so far has only been about my terrifying experiences with spiders. Now, I’m going to transition into a more positive topic about spiders. Now, I will be writing about how spiders are good for the environment and what they do for humans that we don’t realize. According to www.modernpest.com, Spiders occupy an important place in the food chain, as both predator and prey. They keep insect populations in check which basically means that they prevent them from overpopulating and causing problems. Which in turn, stops the spread of disease by poisonous bugs. They do however serve an incredible source of nutrients for birds and other small animals. One reason why spiders are good for humans is that they keep bugs out of our homes. Spiders are great for protecting our houses from dangerous and annoying bugs.