Thousands of terrified people have been locking their doors after a photo was shared on Reddit of a small hole in someone’s backyard.
A man from Australia discovered a deep hole the size of a coin and posted a picture of it on social media in an attempt to get to the bottom of what it might actually be.
He asked fellow Reddit users: “I’m in Adelaide Hills – can someone tell me what lives in here?”
Many people replying to the photo quickly decided it could be home to some spiders – especially a trapdoor spider or wolf spider.
Several shared their own stories about encounters they have had with trapdoor spiders.
One wrote: “That is probably a burrow of a trapdoor spider. Most of them don’t really build doors.”
Another commented: “There are thousands of these holes in the park across from my house – they’re all trapdoor spiders.
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