What began as a faint popping in a 9-year-old boy's ear -- "like Rice Krispies" -- ended up as an earache, and the doctor's diagnosis was that a pair of spiders made a home in the ear.

One of the spiders was still alive after the doctor flushed the fourth-grader's left ear canal..................More at: http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/05/07/spiderboy.ap/index.html