Pack your bags and kiss your loved ones goodbye — Argentina may have just coughed up the eight-legged horseman of the apocalypse.
So what exactly are we looking at here?
Back in March 2015, in Catamarca Province, where residents were already battling biblical floods, young activists stumbled upon something far worse than climate change: a giant tarantula the size of your nightmares. Forget your cozy garden spiders; this beast reportedly stretches 40 inches long and tips the scales at 300 grams. That’s not a spider — that’s a housemate.
Locals claim the hairy overlord resembles a Goliath Tarantula, the Amazon’s reigning nightmare fuel, which normally maxes out at 30 cm and maybe 100 grams. Cute. Baby food. This Catamarca specimen makes the Amazon version look like Charlotte from Charlotte’s Web.
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A mutant Goliath born from radioactive rainfall?
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A plush toy prank gone viral?
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Or perhaps the first scout in the spider uprising that every doomsday prepper warned us about?
Whatever the case, if spiders are now hitting 40 inches, humanity is one shaky web away from extinction. Start practicing your flamethrower skills — or your apologies to our new arachnid overlords.
What do you think? Hoax, mutation, or end-times prophecy?
If they have 40 inch tarantulas in Argentina…I want to move there! South America has some of the most beautiful and diverse arachnids & they’re completely under-appreciated. This 40-inch specie may be a hoax, but I wouldn’t be surprised if some larger species other than the 12-inch T. blondi & stirmi were to be discovered in the future. This is why the forests in South America need to be protected! For its inhabitants!
In Answer to “Doubtful News” Unquote – Hoaxers Usually do not Have Anything To SHOW As PROOF Of A LIE Being TRUE This PERSON HOLDS The TARANTULA In His/Her HANDS – WHERE do u Think That ALL The ILLEGAL AND TOXIC CHEMICALS THAT NASA / NOOA / RICHARD BRANSON AND MANY MORE + THE ARMY AND ISRAEL HAVE USED IN TESTING THE SHUTTLES FUELS AND KILLING HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS Through The DANGEROUS USE Of WHITE PHOSPHOROUS – LIQUID OXYGEN And LIQUID HYDROGEN +Oxyliquit…… DEPOSIT THEMSELVES? IN The – ONCE LUSH GRASS Of The ONCE LUSH Fields – WHO DO U THINK EATS THE GRASS And WHATEVER ELSE Is FOUND In the EARTH????? – WHAT GOES UP MUST COME DOWN WHAT DO U THINK CAUSED The NEPALESE EARTHQUAKE??? The SILENT SEISMOLOGY PROVOKED / CAUSED By The ILLEGAL NUCLEAR TESTS UNDERGROUND – NOT VERY FAR FROM NEPAL – PAKISTAN In MARCH 2015
WHAT DO U THINK CAUSED The Amtrak Train To Quote “An Amtrak Train travelling from Washington D.C. to New York City crashed in Philadelphia late Tuesday evening, leaving at least several people dead and over 65 people injured”????? Unquote GO And STUDY The CONNECTION Between The TECTONIC PLATES And The FAULTS In AMERICA AND U MIGHT Find YOUR ANSWER…
NOW Mr DOUBTFUL give me YOUR ANSWER
THINK WHAT GOES UP MUST COME DOWN W
I think the main writer on Doubtful News is a woman! Thank you for answering her!
40 inches?
You do a disservice to your readers and the internet community to promote nonsense and fear mongering of apocalyptic events without being knowledgable about earth sciences, biology, sociology, or how viral hoaxes will get you.
The giant spider story… hoax. http://www.bubblear.com/arachnaphoney-lets-all-calm-down-about-the-spider/
Also, your site is chock loaded with ads, self-promotion and hoaxes so it appears you are in this for cash, not with the goal of providing actual accurate information. Disgraceful.
Thank you for following what I am doing! Really happy that somebody that does not like what I do still reads me! :-). It seems that I still have sometimes good think to talk about… If you read the article carefully, last sentence, I do add it may be a hoax… If it is so I want people like you – readers – to tell me what they think about this news… And I do have a PhD in Geology!
All the best,
MP