A woman excited to mow her lawn for the first time after moving into a new house got the shock of a lifetime when she opened her shed to grab the mower.
Sarah, who gave her first name only, lives in Baltimore, Maryland, and recently moved into a cottage owned by a family friend.
She now shares snippets of her life in her cottage home to her TikTok account, @shefoundthat—and while most videos are wholesome, showing her decorating and enjoying life in her new home, Sarah has now gone viral for the horror show she found in the shed.
“I moved into this house a few months ago during the winter months and the homeowner, a family friend, was kind enough to leave me her lawnmower and some lawn supplies,” Sarah explained to Newsweek.
Sarah never opened the shed during the winter, but with spring and warmer weather finally here, she recently decided it was time to mow her own lawn for the first time—and “immediately jumped back” after opening the door.
What Sarah found inside has now gone viral, being viewed close to 5 million times in just five days.
She wrote over the video: “Me, an independent woman about to mow my lawn when…”
It showed her opening the door to the shed, the lawnmower stacked in the corner—along with thick cobwebs, and dozens if not hundreds of spiders on every wall, suspended in the air, and covering the mower.
Sarah zoomed in, showing just how many spiders were visible—before shutting the door again and locking it, writing over the video: “Oh hell no.”
She added in the caption: “Can somebody please send me a brand new lawn mower [because] I’m burning my shed there’s no way.”
Sarah told Newsweek that after seeing the “lair of spiders,” she “knew there was no chance I was going to save that mower.”
“There’s no way I’m opening that thing up again. I have made peace with the fact that the spiders now own everything in there!” she said.
Her video caught the attention of arachnophobes around the world, racking up more than 521,000 likes, as one asked: “Genuinely what the hell do you do in that situation?”
Others tried to reassure Sarah that the spiders appeared to be “harmless” cellar spiders, but as one admitted: “I actually like spiders but this does make me uncomfortable, there’s just too many, idk how to address this. I’m sorry, good luck.”
“Imagine walking in there when it’s dark,” another shuddered, while another joked: “As an independent man I’m not grabbing the mower either.”
And one user declared they had found the solution: “If you have cats, they LOVE having longer grass. If you don’t have a cat, get a cat, and it will LOVE having longer grass. You wouldn’t want to disappoint your cat, would you?”
Sarah had tagged multiple home and garden companies in the caption to her video pleading for a new lawnmower—and, she revealed to Newsweek, one came through for her.
“After seeing the video, Lowe’s was kind enough to send me a gift card to shop for a new lawn mower which I’ll be doing this weekend!” she said.
And as for the shed itself, she admitted her uncle “offered to take care of it soon, but I’m not sure what that will entail.”
As she put it: “I just want to bulldoze it and start over with a new one!”
While spiders are vital for the environment, and most people know and accept this, a huge amount of people still fear them.
According to a 2022 report from YouGov, almost a quarter of Americans fear spiders, at 24 percent. This was among the biggest fears on the list, beaten out only by heights at 28 percent, and snakes—which 30 percent of respondents admitted to fearing.
Of those who admitted a fear of spiders, 51 percent described themselves as fearing them “a great deal,” while 37 percent said they had “a moderate amount” of fear, and just 12 percent said they feared spiders “a little.”
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