This is why personal hygiene is important. A nine year old kept hearing “Rice Krispies” in his ear and when his mother finally took him to the doctors they discovered two spiders chilling on his ear drum.

When he irrigated the ear, the first spider came out, dead. The other spider took a second dousing before it emerged, still alive. Both were about the size of a pencil eraser. Jesse was given the spiders — now both dead — as a souvenir. He has taken them to school and his mother has taken them to work.