--- title: Watch Blooper Shows Spider Crawl On Reporter in Video description: The news reporter didn't even flinch when a spider crawled on her during a live broadcast canonical: https://time.com/4874658/news-blooper-spider/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-07-27T16:09:39.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:45:51.153Z og:title: Giant Spider Crawls On Chill Reporter During Live Broadcast og:description: The news reporter didn't even flinch og:url: https://time.com/4874658/news-blooper-spider/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Giant Spider Crawls On Chill Reporter During Live Broadcast twitter:description: The news reporter didn't even flinch twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch a Reporter Keep Cool As a Gigantic Spider Crawls on Her During a Live Broadcast by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## 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) Watch Blooper Shows Spider Crawl On Reporter in Video ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4874658/news-blooper-spider/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4874658/news-blooper-spider/"},"headline":"Watch a Reporter Keep Cool As a Gigantic Spider Crawls on Her During a Live Broadcast","datePublished":"2017-07-27T16:09:39.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:45:51.153Z","description":"The news reporter didn't even flinch","url":"https://time.com/4874658/news-blooper-spider/","keywords":["Newsfeed","animals","viral"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4874658/news-blooper-spider/","name":"Watch a Reporter Keep Cool As a Gigantic Spider Crawls on Her During a Live Broadcast"}}]}] ```