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# Watch a Reporter Keep Cool As a Gigantic Spider Crawls on Her During a Live Broadcast

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## Melissa Locker


Jul 27, 2017 4:09 PM UTC

by 

[Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/)


## Melissa Locker


Jul 27, 2017 4:09 PM UTC

A large spider made its [television](http://time.com/4603499/best-bloopers-2016/) debut earlier this week—by crawling onto a reporter during a live broadcast.

Shannon Murray was just trying to do her job, [reporting](http://time.com/4868201/hot-dog-sandwich-corrections-newspaper/?iid=sr-link6) on workers protesting at the Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport for Dallas’s Fox affiliate when the spider tried to take its chance at fame and fortune by crawling over her shoulder and onto her arm, [according to MLive](http://www.mlive.com/news/us-world/index.ssf/2017/07/large%5Fspider%5Fcrawls%5Fonto%5Ftv%5Fre.html). While viewers were undoubtedly horrified as the spider made its way across Murray’s arm, she didn’t seem perturbed in the least. Turns out it’s not just because she is a consummate professional, but because she didn’t exactly notice that the spider was there.

“For those asking, yes I felt it,” Murray wrote on her TV station’s [Facebook ](http://time.com/4876288/donald-trump-dylan-letter-internet-reactions/)page. “But I had no idea it was a spider until a viewer let me know on Facebook. EEK!” [Good Day Fox 4](https://www.facebook.com/gooddayfox4/) posted the clip of Murray and her arachnid co-anchor to Facebook on Wednesday so Murray could re-live the moment.

Of course, this isn’t the first time that a bug has tried to break into television. Murray just happened to handle the situation more professionally than, say, [this guy](https://youtu.be/M%5F6LzbM5RZI).

> [](https://twitter.com/ShannonMFox4/status/890163662786367488)

> [](https://twitter.com/ShannonMFox4/status/890176538620174336)


> [](https://twitter.com/ShannonMFox4/status/890326197065973761)

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