Admittedly, my smile slipped slightly during this last exercise and I didn’t wholly love the sensation of the feather-light ...

"Spiders do not usually run towards people when they sense danger. This would be like humans running towards something like Godzilla," said spider scientist Sebastian Echeverri.

A woman with a crippling fear of spiders sleeps in a tent on her bed – to protect her from creepy crawlies. Estella Kyriacou, 25, grew up terrified of arachnids and was horrified when she saw ...

Estella Kyriacou, 25, is so scared, that she’s installed a tent over her bed as extra protection. ‘Some may call me insane,’ she said. ‘But I think it’s genius.’ The London-based arachnophobe has long ...

Arachnophobia, the fear of spiders, is one of the most common phobias – even for those without a full-blown fear, these eight-legged beasties still give plenty of people the creeps. But before ...

NOVA: Were you afraid of spiders when you were a kid? Maydianne Andrade: I was afraid of spiders. When I was really young, my two brothers and I were in the basement watching TV, and a fairly ...

Exposing myself to spiders I met on my porch, listening to guided hypnosis sessions on YouTube, and even trying real-life hypnotherapy sessions to "cure" my fear hadn't worked. But this time ...

New research by a University of Manchester psychologist could give new hope to people who are scared of spiders. Dr Warren Mansell says rather than encouraging arachnophobics to face their fears, ...

If I were a spider, in short, I would still be afraid of spiders. As an order, they possess a whole suite of lethal characteristics and abilities, capable of ambushing, snaring, swarming ...

Estella, a law student, said: ‘I’ve not seen any spiders since using the tent. ‘But my flatmate, Imogen, and I are too scared of spiders to catch them if they get in the flat.’ She has ...