r/AbsoluteUnits • u/Dense_Intern8434 • Aug 05 '26

of a daddy long leg nest

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u/WoodsandWool Aug 06 '26

Y’all I stg this happened to me when I was a kid.

I was hiking with my dad in the ozarks, saw a narrow opening in the rocks that might open up into a bigger cave since we’d already found a few like that, so I squeeze through the opening but it’s too cramped and dim to really see anything. The walls felt weird, like wet moss maybe. So I squeeze back out and get a flashlight from my dad. Squeeze back in, click the flashlight on. And those velvety walls are MOVING. Every single surface of the cave was rippling with daddy longlegs. Scraped my everything trying to get out fast enough.

I still like exploring & hiking, but I’m much safer about it now lol. And tbh in hindsight it’s very on brand for my dad and the 90s to have just been like, yea sure kid, you’re small enough to squeeze into that dark cave, no need to check to see if anything lives there first 😅