Up-Date (2020:10/06): The original link is no longer valid, but here are articles on the spider in the academic literature:

You know that childhood dread that, lurking behind things and in cracks, are big, black spiders? Some people outgrow that fear; such outgrowth is dementia. Those big, black spiders are really there.

In the course of a renovation, a local business placed a planter in front of their site; to-day, they pulled it away exposing one of those big, black spiders