British pop singer Katie Melua's hearing is very important to her work. So, after a week of noticing a "rustling" in one ear, she decided to see a doctor. What the doctor saw stunned Melua.

Melua shared the experience with her Twitter and Instagram followers:

So I had a rustling in my ear for a week and went to the doctor to have it checked out this morning.… http://t.co/kOkC28Wnkz

— Katie Melua (@katiemelua) October 27, 2014

The doctor took a look inside Melua's ear and recorded video of a small spider that had taken up residence in her ear canal.

A video posted by Katie Melua (@katiemeluaofficial) on Oct 10, 2014 at 10:19am PDT

Using a small vacuum, the doctor removed the inner ear interloper and placed it in a small jar:

Though the thing looked TERRIFYING up-close on the doctor's camera, once he took him out ( using a micro Hoover ) it was pretty small, and now its in this little test tube, alive and seemingly fine.

A photo posted by Katie Melua (@katiemeluaofficial) on Oct 10, 2014 at 2:14pm PDT

How did the eight-legged visitor find its way into Melua's ear? The singer speculated that it was lurking in a pair of earphones she used on a recent plane trip.

Basically I used these old in-ear monitors to block out sound on a flight, little spider must have been in them and crawled inside my ear and stayed there for the week. It was no hassle at all, apart from the occasional shuffling noises...

A photo posted by Katie Melua (@katiemeluaofficial) on Oct 10, 2014 at 2:10pm PDT

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