Spiders creep most people out. Arachnophobia, the fear of spiders, is the No. 1 phobia in the world. So while we might be in awe of the intricate webs they spin in nature, seeing them in the house fills many with dread. Now imagine one crawling on your shoulder, slowly stepping its eight legs down […]
Spiders creep most people out.
Arachnophobia, the fear of spiders, is the No. 1 phobia in the world.
So while we might be in awe of the intricate webs they spin in nature, seeing them in the house fills many with dread.
Now imagine one crawling on your shoulder, slowly stepping its eight legs down your arm.
And you’re a TV reporter in the middle of a live shot.
Shannon Murray, a reporter for KDFW, the Fox O&O in Dallas, was in the middle of a routine live shot covering a workplace protest, the kind of live shot she says she’s done hundreds of times.
A large spider can be seen walking down her arm, but Murray was calm and unfazed.
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“I was aware there was something on my arm, I thought it was a mosquito,” said Murray.
“I just kind of ignored it.”
She said her photographer didn’t notice it as he was concentrating on the shot nor did anyone back in the TV station’s control room.
It wasn’t until the shot was over that a viewer pointed it out.
“I got in the car and I got a notification for a viewer on Facebook, ‘Oh my God, Shannon, you have a spider on your arm’. It really creeped me out at that point, I didn’t realize how large the spider was.”
She says she’s been told it was probably a wolf spider, which is a menacing name for a spider that’s relatively harmless.
Has Murray ever had problems with insects before?
“I’ve was doing a live shot standing in a pile of fire ants before.”
NOTE: Years ago, while working at WDSU in New Orleans, one of our reporters was doing a live shot and accidentally stepped into a fire ant pile. Suddenly, he drops out of the frame, and can be heard saying, “Goddamn fire ants,” then he valiantly pops back up and tries to continue, to no avail.
That appeared on the station’s blooper reel for years.
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