Video: It's 'Raining Spiders' in Brazil

A video has surfaced online that shows "raining spiders" falling on a town in Brazil. An observer captured the footage and posted it on YouTube.

As a major snowstorm falls on Northeastern U.S. and parts of Canada, down in the Southern Hemisphere, it appeared to be "raining spiders" this week in one area of Brazil. According to a video posted on YouTube on Feb. 7 2013, thousands of spiders were "falling" from the sky in Brazil. Titled "Raining Spiders", the video's uploader, user acoisacoisada1, said: "Hundreds (maybe thousands) of spiders congregate between poles in the town of Santo Antonio de Plantina / PR. Still do not know what causes such behavior, we are researching and will post the answer [to the question here]" (translated via Google). Watching the 4.5 minute video, a remarkable number of spiders give the appearance of "flying" across the sky in concentrated numbers; some of them appear to be on the large side.

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Screenshot of video showing 'Raining Spiders' in Brazil on Feb. 7, 2013

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According to an earlier report by The Epoch Times, this is not the first time "raining spiders" has seemingly happened. In 2007 a man in Argentina captured pictures of a spider rain. At the time, these images were considered a rarity to catch this phenomenal experience on camera. The man, Christian Oneto Gaona, told the media the incident was more of a "science fiction movie than reality". YouTube user acoisacoisada1's video appears to be going viral. After all, it's not every day one gets to see it raining spiders.

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Screenshot of video showing 'Raining Spiders' in Brazil on Feb. 7, 2013

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On Friday afternoon the video had about 1,400 views, but on Saturday the page views are closing in on 100,000.