Different people suffer to different degrees. For some people with arachnophobia, it is just a mild condition. Others will yell and scream if they see a spider or spider web. They might become very anxious or start sweating. their heart might start to speed up or they might have trouble breathing. A person who suffers from arachnophobia might avoid going near dark corners. They might even avoid reaching underneath their kitchen sink to grap a bottle of detergent. They do this because they fear that a spider is living there and will attack them. People who suffer badly from arachnophobia cannot enter a room unless someone else checks it out for spiders first. One woman, called Miss Muffet, was so afraid of spiders that she washed her car twice a day. She even used a burning cigarette to scare off the spiders.