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There is a large paint chip just about right above my head where I have my computer in my slum-hell apartment. Lately there has been a squeaking noise emanating from the nasty corroded wall somewhere underneath that paint chip, definitely made by something ALIVE. It doesn't sound like a mouse though, more like some very loud insect (not a cricket either). I've tried taking a vacuum to the area behind the chip, but it doesn't get whatever it is. I don't dare break the paint chip down to look behind it because: a) I'm afraid of what I'll find, and b) the chip is so large I'm afraid my landlord won't give me my deposit back if he sees the large spot on the ceiling where the chip used to be.

I have seen bugs in this ancient house that are unlike anything I've ever seen in my life, more crustacean than insect. They're about 2.5 inches long, and have about 50 legs; but not puny centi/millipede legs but BIG powerful looking legs, as if the thing might be able to JUMP a significant distance. I'm hypothesizing that whatever is in the wall under that paint chip is like the MOTHER BUG, and I will be sorry if I ever meet it.

AARGH.

― Dan i., Wednesday, 20 November 2002 05:56 (twenty-three years ago)

maybe it's a spider?

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 06:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Do spiders squeak though?

― Dan I., Wednesday, 20 November 2002 06:05 (twenty-three years ago)

Maybe the spider is slowly eating a mouse.

― Leee (Leee), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 06:08 (twenty-three years ago)

theya re my offspring - leave them alone.

― Queen G (Queeng), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 06:15 (twenty-three years ago)

You've just tapped into all my phobias. Thanks a lot.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 06:31 (twenty-three years ago)

Now the creepy crawlies will get inside JBR's BRANE.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 06:36 (twenty-three years ago)

I've already told the story about birds in the walls of a house I lived in as a preteen.

Right now, my bedroom cieling has a large crack in it that basically becomes a waterfall when it rains.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 13:33 (twenty-three years ago)

I've already told the story about birds in the walls of a house I lived in as a preteen.

Right now, my bedroom ceiling has a large crack in it that basically becomes a waterfall when it rains.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 13:34 (twenty-three years ago)

mAYBE ITS ONE OF THOSE WALL FINKS!

― Mike Hanle y (mike), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 14:40 (twenty-three years ago)

Regarding the bugs that are more crustacean than insect: could they possibly be these?

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 16:03 (twenty-three years ago)

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