Man Killed and Eaten by Own Creepy Pets

Posted by Alex in Animal on August 19, 2007 at 1:39 am


Here’s life imitating the campy horror movie Arachnophobia:

Mark Voegel, 30, was found dead in his Dortmund, Germany apartment. His body was draped in spider webs and more than 200 spiders, several snakes, thousands of termites, and a gecko were feasting on his corpse. [...]

A police spokesman said: “It was like a horror movie. His corpse was over the sofa. Giant webs draped him, spiders were all over him. They were coming out of his nose and his mouth. There was everything there one could imagine in the world of reptiles. Larger pieces of flesh torn off by the lizards were scooped up and taken back to the webs of tarantulas and other bird-eating spiders.”

The spiders and termites managed to escape when the heating elements exploded and opened the lids to their tanks.

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16 comments to "Man Killed and Eaten by Own Creepy Pets"

  1. Dim67
    August 19th, 2007 at 3:08 am

    Awww no pictures? Bummer!

  2. Lasse
    August 19th, 2007 at 3:14 am

    Don’t fuck with nature.

  3. özi
    August 19th, 2007 at 3:49 am

    a gecko? feasting on a rotten body? rrright…
    he wsa surely eating the insects around the body, but no way he “tore off larger pieces of flesh”

  4. beajerry
    August 19th, 2007 at 4:39 am

    How gruesomely awesome is that story?

  5. TOM
    August 19th, 2007 at 4:46 am

    Hi,

    I’m from germany, and I did not hear that in our news so I searched the web for a german speaking version… and there seames to be none.

    I tracked this info down to a british website of the questionable newspaper “The Sun”:
    http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2004092008,00.html

    You can google the story in almost any language - except for german.
    And everything you find bases on stories from UK.

    is this a hoax made up by ALLAN HALL from The Sun? Or are german newspapers not interested in people eaten by spiders?

  6. Stacyj
    August 19th, 2007 at 5:37 am

    Hmm, I think I’m skeptical about this one, too - not to be one of those nitpicky types, but I’m fairly certain that tarantulas don’t actually spin webs … Nevertheless it does make for interesting Sunday morning reading =)

  7. Ali S.
    August 19th, 2007 at 9:29 am

    Now if that ain’t irony I don’t know anything! ;)

  8. CheeseDuck
    August 19th, 2007 at 12:46 pm

    Fake.

  9. KiM
    August 19th, 2007 at 3:39 pm

    TOM’s right. This story is a hoax. Germany has a famous tabloid. If this tabloid has not reported on that story, then it has been made up by the UK tabloid. Although BILD (the German tabloid) has been known to report hoaxes, too …

    And: geckos don’t feast on rotten bodies.

  10. KiM
    August 19th, 2007 at 3:41 pm

    Btw, has anybody noticed that the article says that “the spiders and termites managed to escape when the heating elements exploded and opened the lids to their tanks”?

    Sounds like those animals were kept in different tanks and that the heating elements exploded all at the same time? Doesn’t sound logically.

  11. Ant
    August 19th, 2007 at 5:08 pm

    At least no ants. :P

  12. Rich
    August 19th, 2007 at 8:06 pm

    The lizards were taking flesh back to the tarantulas?

  13. David B
    August 20th, 2007 at 6:43 am

    I have to call hoax too. Way too many things that don’t make any sense. Giant webs draped all over him? To what purpose? What lizard would tear off flesh just to have it taken by a spider? And what spider would want dead flesh? No doubt. A fake story.

  14. Demian
    August 20th, 2007 at 9:11 am

    I don’t know if this is a hoax or not, but this “story” is… three years old!!!
    It was reported on february 27th, 2004. You’ll have to do a search on the archives for this one.

  15. Alex
    August 20th, 2007 at 1:34 pm

    No ants, of course, because they are polite.

  16. Kueperpunk
    August 25th, 2007 at 4:28 pm

    No doubt, this is a hoax. I Live very close to dortmund, and i didnt hear anythung about that story. Like somebody wrote before, this seems to be a hoax originated by “the sun”…


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