Horror moment ‘spider rain’ falls from sky in terrifying phenomena… but experts reveal REAL reason for bizarre spectacle

THIS is the terrifying infinitesimal hundreds of spiders look to “rain down” from the sky.

Hundreds of eight-legged crawlers seemingly fell from the sky successful a bizarre improvement which was caught successful uncommon footage.

The nightmare country took spot successful Sao Thome das Letras, successful the Brazilian authorities of Minas Gerais. 

Hair-raising video footage - which seems arsenic if it was taken consecutive from a horror film - was uploaded to social media connected 28 December - haunting and baffling viewers.

One idiosyncratic said: “Spider heaven!”

Another user, who appeared to person witnessed the horrific occurrence before, said: “It was successful my brother's backyard successful Tiradentes. Always successful the precocious afternoon. I was frightened erstwhile I archetypal saw it.”

The incidental was aboriginal picked up by section media connected 24 January, catching the attraction of biology boffins who tried to explicate what happened.

One adept and biologist, Kayron Passos, untangled the concern for section media, giving his mentation for the countless arachnids floating successful the air.

He said: “It's a spider orgy, the females person thing called spermatheca, wherever they store the semen of antithetic males to fertilise the eggs.”

"This way, the pistillate ensures that she volition person respective antithetic offspring and summation familial variability," the idiosyncratic added.

Passos besides explained that adjacent aft fertilising the eggs, pistillate spiders proceed to cod semen for aboriginal use. 

He said: "This behaviour increases resistance, making these offspring much resistant to diseases."

Experts person concluded that the spiders were having a spider mating orgy - performing the ritual whilst stuck unneurotic connected a precise ample web. 

Arachnologist Ana Lucia Tourinho, who has a PhD successful Biological Sciences and works astatine the National Institute of Amazonian Research, besides shared her opinion.

"Spiders mostly bash not enactment together, but immoderate taxon grounds this societal behaviour of forming colonies. 

“The strategy of staying unneurotic successful a radical increases the nutrient proviso for the offspring and juveniles."

The researcher, who has been studying spiders for much than 27 years, added: "The colony usually forms each year, astir of them successful the colony are relatives, they are usually generations of mothers and daughters together, but aft they mate they volition disperse."

In 2019, residents successful the aforesaid authorities of Minas Girais reported seeing the aforesaid scary improvement of “raining spiders”.

Photos and videos posted to societal media showed the haunting ritual successful which hundreds of the creepy crawlers dangled successful the air.

João Pedro Martinelli Fonseca, who filmed the affair, told a section paper that helium was “stunned and scared”.

Experts told however this unnerving behaviour was much communal during blistery and humid weather successful the region.

In 2013, different akin incidental made planetary headlines erstwhile residents successful Santo Antônio da Platina successful confederate Brazil witnessed the aforesaid raining spiders astir telephone poles.