The first being that spiders can understand and respond to basic commands.' The man himself wandered on stage and silenced the murmurs. After years and years he placed an advertisement in several academic journals to let everyone know he and was to host a live show to demonstrate his findings.Īt the event hundreds were there more out of curiosity than anything as the details of the findings were kept secret. There was a scientist working away in obscurity for years with peculiar experiments on spiders.