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Gruesome footage shows a spider wriggling around inside a pensioner's ear after it crawled inside and spun a WEB.

The man in his 60s had gone to the doctors complaining about discomfort while he tried to sleep and said he could hear "noises like something was beating a drum."

Ear, nose and throat specialist Cui Shulin shared footage of the moment he found a bean-sized spider about two inches deep in his ear during an endoscope.

The medic from Dalian Central Hospital in north eastern China said the man was complaining about a possible insect in his head.

The unnamed patient told him: "I felt discomfort in my ear while sleeping last night but I tried to ignore it."

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"This morning the discomfort was still there. There were noises like something was beating a drum."

Doctor Cui and his nurses were stunned when the endoscope revealed the live spider having occupied the patient's ear canal so deep.

It had also spun elaborate webs to shield itself, the footage shows.

The experienced doctor eventually flushed the spider out by spraying the patient's ear canal with water, later confirming that the man suffered no injuries during the arachnid occupation.

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In a social media post featuring a laughing emoji Cui wrote: "This old man showed up at our outpatient clinic today saying he thought there was insect in his ear.

"I performed an endoscopy and found a spider. The thing had spun webs."

The medic said he had seen numerous cases of flying insects such as ladybirds and most commonly cockroaches ending up in people's ears.

But he rarely sees spiders spinning webs and living in a person's ear, the doctor said.