Footage shows the moment doctors find what was causing the buzzing in a woman's ear - and it is enough to give nightmares for people with a fear of insects.
The 40-year-old, from China, visited a hospital for medical help after hearing constant buzzing noise in her right ear.
And in a stomach-churning video taken by the medical professional at Huidong County People's Hospital in Sichuan, a doctor sent a camera probe down the patient's ear on April 20.
The medic found what looks like an eardrum and as he peeled it away using a special tweezer, he saw a terrifying spider rushing out and attacking the probe.
The doctor found what was a false eardrum woven by a spider raising a colony of offspring.
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A doctor used an endoscope to examine the woman's ear (Huidong County People's Hospital/AsiaWire)While the woman thought she had tinnitus, the endoscope showed in reality there was a spider breeding inside her ear and that was the cause of the strange sounds and pains that she was experiencing.
The physician of the Department of Otolaryngology, Han Xinglong, told local media said how the web made by the spider had looked very similar to an eardrum and so at first nothing strange could be found.
It was only by taking a closer look that something could be seen moving.
He said: "The web made by this spider is very similar to the eardrum. When the ear endoscope first entered, nothing abnormal was found.
"But when you look closely, there seems to be something moving underneath. I pushed aside the spider web, it was about to flee, but it was finally taken out smoothly."
Fortunately for the woman, the spider was not poisonous, and she suffered only minor damage to her ear canal.
The hospital cautioned individuals from removing foreign objects by themselves, urging them to seek professional help when available due to the risk of causing further injury.
They also reminded the patient to go regular house-keeping and avoid piling rubbish at home as it could attract bugs and insects.
Last December, Susie Torres, from Kansas in Missouri, was asleep when a venomous spider crawled inside her ear.
When Ms Torres took herself to the doctors after hearing a "swishing sound" that wouldn't budge, it was then revealed that a brown recluse spider was in fact living there.
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The venomous spider is so called due to their tendency to tuck themselves into small spaces.
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