# **“Spiders Invade Colorado – And the Secret Behind West-Facing Windows”**
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## **1. The First Unexplained Event**

Colorado in October is usually cold but dry. The people of the small town of **Pine Creek** live peacefully among the red rocks and pine forests.

Until one Monday night.

Gray spiders the size of teaspoons began to appear — not a few, but **hundreds**, crawling in layers on walls, ceilings, kitchen cabinets.

But the strangest thing:

**They only invaded houses with west-facing windows.**

No other houses were affected.

Within 24 hours, local social media was flooded with videos: screaming children, women throwing brooms, men lighting fires to ward off spiders.

The Jefferson County Wildlife Department called it “an unusual phenomenon never before recorded.”

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## **2. Young Biologist Gets Into Action**

The agency assigned to investigate was the entomology team at the University of Colorado.

Headed by: **Dr. Marcus Lane**, 32, specializing in arthropod behavior.

Marcus was considered an eccentric genius: always working at night, often climbing mountains alone, rumored to “hear animal sounds” after an old snow accident.

Marcus drove to Pine Creek, carrying a portable microscope and a vibration meter.

He visited each attacked house, noting:

* Spiders entered through windows
* Did not bite people
* Did not destroy nests in houses
* Only gathered in the southwest corner
* Only appeared between 6:00 PM and 3:00 AM

Marcus concluded:

> “This is not an instinctive migration. This is **purposeful behavior**.”

The whole town began to panic.

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## **3. The Mysterious Woman at the End of Town**

A clue came when Marcus turned onto the trail at the end of Pine Creek.

There was an old cabin there, owned by a **widow named Nora Beck**, 58 years old.

Her house also faced west — but strangely **there were no spiders around**.

When Marcus asked, Nora just laughed coldly:

“Spider-men know where to avoid.”

Marcus’s skin crawled.

Her voice was hoarse, like someone who had been talking to… something that wasn’t human.

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## **4. The Second Spider Storm**

On the third night, the spiders returned — thousands of them, larger, moving in hordes.

Pine Creek descended into chaos.

Ambulances rumbled by.

The grocery store closed early.
A house had to be evacuated temporarily.

Marcus immediately drove to the western hill where he suspected a natural spider nest.

He turned on his flashlight and stood still:

**The ground seemed to be breathing.**
A dense layer of spiders covered the ground, forming swirls.

But in the middle of the swirl, Marcus saw something strange:

A **1.5 meter tall metal pole**, emitting a humming sound and a pale blue light.

Not a lure.

Not a research device.

Marcus recognized it immediately:

> **It was an old-fashioned seismograph – the kind used to search for collapsed mines.**

Why was it there?
Who put it down?

He bent down to check.

The recorder attached to the device was flashing red — a recording was playing.

Marcus pressed the “play” button.

A woman’s voice rang out:

> “If anyone hears this recording… I’m sorry.

> I can’t control them anymore.”

Marcus shuddered — it was **Nora Beck’s voice.**

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## **5. The Secret of 20 Years in the Snow**

Marcus immediately returned to Nora’s house, but the door was wide open.

It was pitch black inside. On the wall, dozens of wind maps showed the wind blowing from west to east through the town.

Under the board, a small tin box:

**“Avalanche of 2003 – Search File.”**

Marcus opened it with trembling hands.

Inside:

* A photo of Marcus as a teenager
* A newspaper clipping about “The Miracle Avalanche Survivor”
* A photo of the Beck family: husband and 14-year-old daughter – both killed in the avalanche *the same year Marcus was rescued*
* A handwritten note from Nora:

> “I know you didn’t survive by luck.
> Spiders found you first.
> They smelled your body heat in the snow.
> They crawled around you, keeping you from freezing completely.”

> “I know, because I saw it with my own eyes
> – when I couldn’t save my daughter.”

Marcus was stunned.

It turned out…
20 years ago, when he was buried under snow for 14 hours, he survived because **grey spiders** had gathered together to form a “living mantle” that kept him warm.

Nora was the first to discover it.
Her daughter was only 30 meters away from Marcus — but the spiders didn’t get there in time.

She lost her son.
Marcus lived.

Since then, Nora has been obsessed with spiders. Studying them.

And maybe… controlling them.

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## **6. Confrontation in the Dark**

Marcus heard footsteps behind him.

Nora stood in the doorway, holding a red flashlight.

“You’re just in time,” she said. “They’re coming.”

“You set the device on the hill? You fooled the whole town?”

“No,” Nora said. “I tried to warn you. But no one listened.”

“The spiders are attacking people!”

Nora shook

head:

“Not an attack. They’re running away.”

“Running away from what?”

She looked at him, her eyes wet.

“From *what’s going on under the western rocks*.”

Before Marcus could ask more, the ground shook.

Crockery fell with a clatter.

Nora said quickly:

“Illegal quarrying under the mountain. Explosions every night.
The spiders hear that frequency before humans.”

Marcus felt his skin prickle.

“That means…”

“Something bigger is moving,” Nora said.
“I think the western slope is about to collapse.”

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## **7. Climax – the terrible truth**

Marcus ran up the hill with Nora. The spiders had gathered into a “waterfall” running east — away from the mountains.

A deep boom.

The ground beneath their feet shook violently.

Then, in the flashlight, Marcus saw large cracks extending from the old quarry — where a private company had been illegally mining for the past six months.

Nora shouted:

“Go! Call an evacuation!”

Marcus ran down to the town, shouting into the emergency radio:

“The West Side is about to collapse! Evacuate now!”

But it was too late.

A loud *bang* like the sky was falling.

The West Mountain broke into a huge piece.

Earth, rocks, and pine forests rushed down like a waterfall.

If the spider hadn’t forced people to close their doors, turn off their lights, and avoid the West for several nights in a row — the death toll would have been much higher.

The spider… **save them.**

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## **8. Final twist – the truth Marcus didn’t expect**

After the landslide, the town was in chaos, but fortunately only a few houses were damaged, no one died.

Nora Beck disappeared after that night.

Marcus was invited to speak to the media. He explained:

* Spiders don’t attack
* They’re just running away
* Westerly winds carry sound waves into houses with west-facing windows
* Spiders sense avalanches before humans

The story went viral.

But that night, when Marcus returned to his dorm, he opened his jacket pocket.

A small gray spider fell into his palm.

It lay there — not running — as if watching him.

Marcus whispered:

“Why are you following me?”

The spider crawled up his wrist, stopping right at the cold scar — the one he had from the avalanche 20 years ago.

And then he understood.

A cold thought ran down his spine:

**“Spiders don’t look for west-facing houses.
Spiders look for *me*.”**

They had saved him.
They recognized him.
They ran to houses with west-facing windows — because that was the wind *blowing from where Marcus was most likely to appear*.

It wasn’t Nora who controlled them.

It wasn’t pheromones.

It wasn’t a device.

**It was Marcus – the spider survivor – who was their instinctual marker.**

And as soon as he realized that, the little spider bit him… very lightly.

It didn’t hurt.

But enough for Marcus to hear Nora’s voice echo in his memory:

> “They never forget who they saved.”