Haha I have so many memories like that of spiders...
I remember one time when I was about five, my sisters and I flipped over a cardboard box in our room and there was a huge black spider on the box...and I'm not saying it was probably a black widow, it was about the size of one of those giant cockroaches (which I hate as well, especially when they fly at me), so to a five-year-old, it was huge. We all jumped up on the bed and started screaming...our parents ran in, freaking out cause according to them it "sounded like somebody was dying." They squished the spider and left, but we stayed huddled on the bed for a while until we were sure there weren't anymore.