Oh yeh, there real, I had a buddy go over to the middle east when this whole conflict thing started and they called them camel spiders, you had to make sure when you slept that the blanket was tucked in on all sides so they couln't crawl in bed with you. And they always check your shoes before you step into them. He said ontime they were loading a cargo plane and one of those spiders just came out of nowhere and started chasing him up the ramp into the plane he has tons of pictures of those things...