Story highlights Spiders invade a Tennessee neighborhood, CNN affiliate WMC reports

"It's like a horror movie," one resident tells the station

(CNN) If you're scared of spiders, one's enough. Two? That's cause for a squishing party. Thousands? Millions? Time to really freak out.

That's the predicament residents in one North Memphis, Tennessee, neighborhood find themselves in after thousands -- or more -- spiders began invading their homes.

"It's like a horror movie," resident Debra Lewis told CNN affiliate WMC in Memphis.

The spiders are coming from a nearly half-mile-long web, part of what Memphis Zoo Curator Steve Reichling told the station is a natural "mass dispersal" of harmless, beneficial arachnids.

Try telling that to Lewis and her neighbors Frances Ward and Ida Morris.

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