This is the stuff of nightmares.

A Kansas City, Missouri woman thought that she had water in her ear – but it was actually a venomous spider.

When Susie Torres went to go to see a doctor about her ear, the medical assistant who first checked her out seemed shocked, Torres told KSHB-TV.

“She ran out and said I’m going to get a couple more people,” Torres recalled to the news outlet, adding, “She then said, ‘I think you have an insect in there.'”

Torres said she continued to remain calm.

“[The medical assistant] came back in and told me it was a spider,” Torres said. “They had a few tools and worked their magic and got it out.”

Torres was later informed by doctors that she had a brown recluse spider hiding out in her ear.

Fortunately, the creepy crawler did not bite her.

“I never thought they would crawl in your ear or any part of your body,” said Torres.

Now the woman says she’s taking extra precautions before she goes to sleep.

“I went and put some cotton balls in my ear last night, because I did not have any ear plugs,” she told the news outlet. “I’m pretty terrified of spiders.”