Fact or Fiction?

Can you trust information that you get from the internet? How can you be sure that the facts you have are correct? The following information came from the internet; can it be trusted? Is it fact or fiction? myth or reality?

The Deadly Camel Spider

DO NOT READ OR OPEN PICTURE IF YOU ARE SCARED OF SPIDERS
Camel Spider - Read the passage before looking

The famed camel spider or wind scorpion (Eremobates gladiolus) is found  in the Middle East. It's bigger than a human hand and very, very aggressive.

1.It can run upwards of 25 mph / 50 kph (by soldiers that have tracked the speed with humvees since it runs in their shadows).

2. It's called a camel spider because it climbs onto the bellies of camels and eats the stomach. Because the spider secretes anaesthetics to numb the flesh, the camels don't notice until their intestines fall out.

3. It makes a screaming/squealing noise when it runs, similar to a child screaming.

They faster than 10 mph, jump three feet, are a nocturnal spider, so only come out  at night unless they are in shade. When they bite you, you are injected  with a Novocaine type substance so you go numb. You don't even
know you are  bitten when you are sleeping, so you wake up with part of your leg or arm missing  because it has been gnawing on it all night.

If you are walking around and you bump something that is casting a shadow over the spider and the sun makes contact with it, you better run. It  will instantly run for your shadow,  and scream the whole time it is chasing you.

PS. The one on the bottom is eating the one on the top.   These are Spiders found daily in Iraq by US troops. Imagine waking up and finding one of these in the bottom of your sleeping bag!!!

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Do some internet research and see if these spiders actually exist. If they do exist are all the facts above true? or have some being 'stretched' to make the story more entertaining?

Check at least 3 different websites and see if the facts add up.