My house is about fifty years old, it's full of widows, and from what I've been told, the venom(at least the venom of one's indigenous to the Okanagan Valley in British Columbia) isn't all that much worse than a bee sting. Maybe it'll make you nauseated. That's what I've been told, and I grew up thinking they could put you into a state of paralysis and even kill you.

I was petrified they were all over the framing in my basement, but I never saw any in the upper two levels of my house. Than I woke up with one nestled into my chest hair. I nearly :cens0r::cens0r::cens0r::cens0r:, but they're not aggressive and I patiently "removed" him.