# Two-Sentence Horror Stories

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**Created:** [April 24, 2023, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-sentence-horror-stories/983094 "2023-04-24T02:39:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\
**Post date:** [April 24, 2023, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-sentence-horror-stories/983094/21 "2023-04-24T15:34:23Z")

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> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#):
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> …  
> My young son hollered to me from the living room, asking how many legs spiders have and how large they can get. When I answered him, he casually exclaimed, “Oh, well, _that’s_ not a spider.”

See also:

> [@What animals would be more dangerous if enlarged?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-animals-would-be-more-dangerous-if-enlarged/983050/27):
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> Although some extant exoskeleton land critters get a bunch bigger than @Charlie_Tan’s mongo grasshopper. See here for some recent Doperish exoskeleton-equipped drama: 
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> > **Spoilered for potentially alarming visual once you actually go to the link. Expanding the spoiler is safe.**
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> > \<a href="https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-caught-an-amazonian-giant-centipede-in-our-vacation-house/982249"\> We caught an Amazonian Giant Centipede in our vacation house\</a\>

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