PERTH: IT’S the strange phenomenon everyone’s talking about. The unearthly sight of hundreds of gossamer white threads floating through the air and settling on fields and houses.
If you look closely, you’ll see small, black dots nestling in these shimmering trails. This is spider rain.
The latest arachnid shower took place in Goulburn, NSW, last week, with locals spotting what looked like vapour trails drifting down to cover the area, and then melt away.
Many feared an invasion of creepy-crawlies akin to something from a horror movie.
