When I heard my daughter scream, I knew there was something terribly wrong. She pointed to the air vent and kept saying spiders. I opened the air vent cover while my wife calmed our daughter down, but I saw nothing. I started putting the air vent cover back on when I saw a large spider crawling through. I immediately knew what was happening. I called my son and told him he had to get himself to his sister’s bedroom. I pointed to the spider coming out of the air vent and asked if he had put it there. He said it wasn’t one that would bite, and he didn’t think it would hurt anything. I told him his sister was petrified of the spider, and it was still inside the air vent. He brought his spider cage to her room and carefully pulled the spider from the air vent and put it in his cage. I made him apologize to his sister, and he had to sleep in her room for the night. The next day, he released the spider back into the garden. He wasn’t happy because I made him release the spider, but he understood. I told him if I had called the HVAC company and the exterminator, he would have been paying both bills. I’m hoping he learned his lesson, but if he’s anything like I was, I’ve got a feeling this was just the beginning of the pranks. I just hope our daughter and the HVAC system are going to survive them all. I’m not sure I will.