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Man's Horror At Discovering Giant Centipede Inside House

Man's Horror At Discovering Giant Centipede Inside House

NDTV
Thursday, August 26, 2021 04:30:58 AM UTC

The Reddit user who shared the image says he found it in my apartment while living in Japan

A nightmarish image of a gigantic centipede crawling on a wall has left many people horrified on Reddit. The image showed a very leggy arthropod inside an apartment and the Reddit user who shared it said they found it during their time living in Japan. Centipedes are usually found in soil and litter, and other high humidity habitats. However, finding a giant one inside a house can surely frighten anyone. Also, they are venomous and have distinct pairs of legs for each body segment except for the last. If you see centipedes once, they are likely to remain in the head for a long time. And this one, with particularly large legs, a la Spider Man's retractable metal armour from his Avenger suit upgrade by Tony Stark, had that effect. The Reddit user said these centipedes “are fast”. Here's the image: What would it be like to be chased by this one? Another user backed him up saying that large centipedes have an “average a speed of 1.3 feet (0.4 m) per second”. For the benefit of everyone, a user, “explodingtuna”, converted the figure in terms of miles per hour.
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