{"id":26559,"date":"2026-10-19T08:00:19","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T13:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=26559"},"modified":"2026-10-18T21:29:39","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T02:29:39","slug":"halloween-horrors-soldiers-seeing-giant-spiders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=26559","title":{"rendered":"Halloween Horrors: Soldiers Seeing Giant Spiders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s not one, but <i>two<\/i> video compilations of purportedly true stories of soldiers encountering <i>unusually large<\/i> spiders in the course of a mission. <\/p>\n<p>The first video feature soldiers from Congo (the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=23981\">previously mentioned J&#8217;ba Fofi<\/a>), New Guinea, Vietnam and Iraq.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7u7E3WpYyYU?si=QRtobo_0xhnJoAHg\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The second features more Vietnam stories, and <i>another<\/i> New Guinea story. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AdIX6Shpggw?si=gdelRx7Q2BmfoW3G\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>You might want to pick up an extra can of Raid&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s not one, but two video compilations of purportedly true stories of soldiers encountering unusually large spiders in the course of a mission. The first video feature soldiers from Congo (the previously mentioned J&#8217;ba Fofi), New Guinea, Vietnam and Iraq. The second features more Vietnam stories, and another New Guinea story. You might want to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":5,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,12],"tags":[747,26,1979,2856,1788,219,1974,2713,2855,837],"class_list":["post-26559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-horror","category-video","tag-giant-spider","tag-halloween","tag-horror","tag-jba-fofi","tag-military","tag-spiders","tag-video","tag-vietnam-war","tag-wartime-stories","tag-world-war-ii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26559"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26574,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26559\/revisions\/26574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}