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Originally Posted by octothorp
Sounds consistant with the Giant House Spider; I've never seen one in person, but I've heard that they're gradually becoming more common in western north america.
edit: curse you for making me google pictures of spiders before going to bed.
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Yeah that was it.
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With speeds clocked at 1.73 ft/s (0.53 m/s), the giant house spider held the Guinness Book of World Records for top spider speed until 1987 when it was displaced by sun spiders (solfugids) although the latter are not true spiders as they belong to a different order.[1]"
**** me.
So does that mean I probably have more of them crawling around in here?