10/29/2026
A passenger plane was allegedly shot down shortly after taking off from an airport in Africa during the 1990s. The plane crashed in dense jungle, and when rescuers finally reached the wreckage, everyone aboard was reportedly dead. Yet, according to the online accounts, that wasn't the most horrifying discovery.
Some bodies were allegedly missing, while others supposedly had enormous puncture wounds resembling spider bites, far larger than anything a known species could produce. The stories online claim that locals avoided the surrounding jungle because something monstrous lived there. Giant spiders capable of attacking and carrying away human beings.
The Congo has its own cryptid involving an enormous spider sometimes called the J'ba Fofi, a creature described in sensational accounts as large enough to prey on people. Some have connected the airplane story to the 1998 Congo Airlines crash near Kindu, but there is no verified evidence that giant spiders were involved, that rescuers discovered enormous bite marks, or that the two stories were originally connected, but you never know...
