14 Oct 2004 | steve from Denver, now in FLA said...

Not sure I see it. Just discolored stone?

14 Oct 2004 | steve from Denver, now in FLA said...

Holy crap...I see it. Coffee please!!!

14 Oct 2004 | ant said...

Me either - maybe another clue?

14 Oct 2004 | matthew said...

aaaaaaaa!

that took a few seconds to find, but it's definitely the creeps

14 Oct 2004 | ant said...

Ah - the arachnophobic clue worked. Freaky!

14 Oct 2004 | Don Schenck said...

14 Oct 2004 | Don Schenck said...

Sorry, cat got my tongue. What I meant to say was ...

Cool. I like spiders. And I REALLY like Spyders!

14 Oct 2004 | Jeni said...

Holy motherbleeper ....

Gah, that's enough to ensure that I never visit Iowa. We grow 'em big here, but not THAT big.

14 Oct 2004 | Steve Smith said...

Anyone notice the fly on the boys left shoulder? Ironic, at least.

14 Oct 2004 | matt said...

Nuts! I've stared at this picture for 5 minutes, and don't see anything!

Another clue, please!

14 Oct 2004 | Dave Strus said...

If you can't see it, copy the picture into Photoshop or something similar, and raise the brightness a bunch and the contrast a little. I'm guessing it's easier for Mac users to see.

14 Oct 2004 | Mark said...

You know, if the water stain on his right cheek was closer to his eye, it would make for the perfect creepiness factor.

14 Oct 2004 | s. said...

Think about this as you're creeped out: that statue was a good 24" high, and the brim of that hat probably about 18" wide. (It was a pretty good size garden statue acting in place of a gravestone or something.) If you look in the orange circle, you see one leg near the left boundary actually wraps around the brim of the hat, while another on the right boundary stretches just past the half way mark of the width of the hat.

That means. This sucker was about 9" or 10" wide. Right in front of us. Could have jumped at our faces and crawled all over us. I don't even want to know what else we missed there.

14 Oct 2004 | scott said...

Try using the Shadow/Highlight adjustment in Photoshop CS. You can REALLY see what he's talking about.

14 Oct 2004 | d. said...

I'm not even scared of spiders - but that thing creeps the hell out of me.

14 Oct 2004 | steve from Denver, now in FLA said...

Where is this cemetery in Iowa?

14 Oct 2004 | David Woodward said...

Well, its not so scary on a computer screen. But in real life... yeah, a spider that big would make me quietly... back... away...

I guess spiders eat small mammals in Iowa, not bugs.

14 Oct 2004 | indi said...

Whoa, we're talking about the direct line of Ungoliant here. I couldn't tell the scale of that beauty until Steve pointed out the fly on the left shoulder. I am a spider fan, but yeah, I would bow in respect and move on.

14 Oct 2004 | Mark said...

Speaking of small mammals...

Given the dimensions of the statue and the estimated size of the spider, that fly on his left arm is pretty substantial as well.

14 Oct 2004 | rja said...

Ah, it's just a grandaddy longlegs... nothing to fear.

15 Oct 2004 | s. said...

Steve: The cemetery is just past the Illinois/Iowa border off I80. (The last town we passed through before we stopped there was Rock Island, IL, about fifteen miles away.) There was an old, battered sign out front that said, "Bethesda." It was a couple miles off the interstate down an empty, unmarked road. I've got a great pic of one gravestone that had a death date of 1803.

I don't even remember why we stopped there, other than we wanted to look at the corn. Not spiders.

15 Oct 2004 | Peter Parker said...

Be thankful it wasn't one of these.

And yes, that is a dinner plate.

17 Oct 2004 | the deer said...

awww, cute little spidey!

jf - did you take the picture out of rotation so that you wouldn't get scared each time it came onto your screen?

19 Oct 2004 | JF said...

did you take the picture out of rotation so that you wouldn't get scared each time it came onto your screen?

Nope, but every time I see it I say "Shit!" really quickly. You remember.

21 Oct 2004 | the deer said...

=)

21 Oct 2004 | blocked deer said...

=)

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