When It Rained Spiders on Goulburn, Australia

Residents of an Australian town woke up to spider-rain last week, only to find that their neighborhoods were covered in webs.

Citing local news sources, USA Today reported that millions of spiders appeared to rain down on Goulburn, which is about two hours away from Sydney. For the town people it was a sight to behold but equally scary as small spiders flew and landed on their homes and lawns.

"Imagine waking up to find your garden, car and home are now all covered in a dense layer of cobwebs, teeming with millions of baby spiders. It's the stuff of nightmares for those with arachnophobia," a resident reportedly said.

According to Martyn Robinson, a naturalist from Australian Museum, the spiders were actually migrating using a technique called ballooning. Spiders cast out webs into the breeze and hop-on till the breeze can carry them.

"They can literally travel for kilometers ... which is why every continent has spiders. Even in Antarctica they regularly turn up but just die," he reportedly said.

He added that spiders can travel very long distances as they get carried about 1.8 miles above the ground.