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ALBANY , Oregon ( AP ) — These guys were not incisively Snap , Crackle and Pop .

What began as a wispy popping in a 9 - twelvemonth - erstwhile boy ’s ear — “ like Rice Krispies '' — ended up as an earache , and the doctor ’s diagnosis was that a pair of spiders made a home in the pinna .

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“ They were walking on my eardrums , '' Jesse Courtney said .

One of the spiders was still alive after the doctor scour the fourth - grader ’s left ear canal . His female parent , Diane Courtney , order her Logos insisted he kept get a line a faint popping in his capitulum — “ like Rice Krispies . ''

Dr. David Irvine said it looked like the boy had something in his auricle when he examine him .

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When he irrigated the ear , the first spider came out , utter . The other spider took a 2nd dousing before it come out , still alive . Both were about the size of a pencil eraser .

Jesse was cave in the spider — now both dead — as a souvenir . He has taken them to schoolhouse and his mother has take them to work .

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