Horrifying moment a spider crawls out of a woman's ear at doctors in India

Moving: As it crawls towards the light its eyes and figure can be seen. Photo / AP, Newsflare

This is the strange moment a spider calmly crawls out of a woman's ear hours after it snuck in while she slept.

A woman, identified as Lekshmi L, had fallen asleep in the afternoon on her veranda but when she awoke she had a nagging headache, slight discomfort in her right ear and an inexplicable tingling sensation.

She dug her finger into her ear canal to remove the obstruction but couldn't. She also asked her daughter to examine her ear under torch light, according to the Daily Mail.

Deep: The spider can be seen inside the woman's ear as it is forced out by doctors. Photo / AP, Newsflare

When the discomfort turned into debilitating pain, her husband rushed her to the Columbia Asia Hospital in Hebbal, India.

At the hospital, the doctor was shocked to see a live spider inside the woman's ear.

The spider slowly moved out after doctors shined a light over Lekshmi's ear in a bid to get it out.

Moving: As it crawls towards the light its eyes and figure can be seen. Photo / AP, Newsflare

Dr. Santosh Shivaswamy, Consultant ENT at Columbia Hospital, who treated the woman, said, "It is common to see emergency room visits due to the presence a foreign object in the ear and it takes a simple procedure to remove the object.

"However, when a living insect makes its way inside a human ear, the patient's anxiety makes it difficult to continue the procedure. It was a rare to see a live spider moving inside someone's ear canal.'

Free: After a couple of hours in the woman's ear the spider is out. Photo / AP, Newsflare

"I was terrified as I could feel movement of a creature in my ear. The acute earache followed by sharp pains suffocated me. I couldn't think of anything and was petrified when the doctor confirmed presence of a spider in my ear," Lekshmi said.