Spiders ‘bleeding from walls’ drive family out

A family was driven from their suburban St Louis, Missouri home by up to 6,000 venomous spiders that fell from the ceiling and oozed from the walls.

Brian and Susan Trost bought the $450,000 (€354,000) home overlooking two golf holes at Whitmoor Country Club in Weldon Spring in October 2007 and soon afterward started seeing brown recluse spiders everywhere, The St Louis Post-Dispatch reported. Once when showering, Susan Trost dodged a spider as it fell from the ceiling and washed down the drain.

She said in 2012 the spiders “started bleeding out of the walls”, and at least two pest control companies were unable to eradicate the infestation.