Homeowner wakes up to Halloween horror in his backyard: I almost had a heart attack!

There is nothing like that turfing “world wide web”.

A Polish homeowner said he almost had a “heart attack” after waking up on Halloween morning to find his yard engulfed in a sprawling spider web.

“Spiders gave my garden a makeover on Halloween,” Maciej Wąsiatycz, 28, joked on a Reddit post after describing the arachnid metropolis that appeared on his front lawn in Poznań.

He shared a photo of the tire flats, which completely covered his garden like a horror movie prop.

“At first we thought the webs on the flowers were from spider mites, so when I saw the whole lawn covered in webs a few days later, I almost had a heart attack! the horrified friend told Newsweek.

Arachnid lawn ornaments are likely spun by members of the sheet web family, which are known to cover fields with their mist-like structures.

German biomaterials expert Thomas Scheibel told Livescience that the webs of the sheets consist not only of one type of spider silk, “but usually of several silks with different properties.”

Wąsiatycz said he has seen the phenomenon, called “lato baby” (gossamer), in the woods, but “never to this degree.”

Despite asking several gardeners about the takeover, the homeowner remains unsure why silkworms decided to colonize his yard.

“My lawn is paved with turf rolls, so one of the rolls may have had a large number of spiders or their eggs,” Wąsiatycz claimed. “However, the garden was completed in August, so there was quite a delay before this happened.

He said that people advised him to “burn the house and give the garden to the spiders”.

Indeed, Redditors were horrified, with one writing: “This will ensure you don’t get scammers.”

Wąsiatycz says he hasn’t removed the webs yet as he “thought the spiders would keep the pests away from the plants”, saying he now has “free Halloween decorations”.

“As long as they don’t get into the house, I’m not too worried,” added the homeowner, who said he will likely take down the website in the coming days.

While the origins of this city of spiders remain a mystery, the web weavers are known to balloon — pre-buried on higher ground in silken threads — in record numbers during natural disasters.

Upon finding a suitable landing site, the eight-legged exiles use their tiny filaments to bend the tops of vegetation, which they then cling to.

A flood can prompt millions of spiders to deploy their sticky lifelines at once, covering fields of silk like an arachnid refugee camp, as was the case during this biblical exodus to Australia in 2021.