A Chinese man had to seek medical attention after a spider crawled inside his ear and spun a thick web while he slept.

The unnamed man, from the city of Shangrao, located in Jiangxi province, first realised something was wrong when he woke up one morning with a feeling of discomfort in his ear.

He immediately sought help from doctors, who using a specialised medical device shockingly discovered the eight-legged crawler had crept inside his ear and made it its temporary home.

With the help of an otoscope, Dr Cheng carefully examined the situation and saw the spider had even weaved a web inside the patient's ear canal.

Hair-raising footage shows the creature burrowing inside the man's ear as it appeared to be trapped behind its own webbing on July 15.

Using specialised tools and forceps, the doctor was able to remove the spider and send the patient home. The man reportedly suffered from a damaged eardrum and ear canal, but luckily, his hearing was unaffected.

Dr Cheng assured him that the injuries would heal naturally, without any lasting impact on his auditory abilities.

A similar incident also happened recently in China, when a spider had crawled inside a woman's ear and woven a false eardrum, and even began raising a colony of offspring.

The nerve-wracking footage was released by Huidong County People's Hospital, in Sichuan province, on April 20.

Video footage from an endoscope shows the doctor probing the patient's right ear with special tweezers fitted with a camera. The medic found what looked like an eardrum but realised it was a silky web. Then as he peeled it away, the terrifying spider raising a family behind it rushed out and attacked the probe.

The woman had come to the hospital with what at first seemed like a case of tinnitus. But medics soon realised that the strange sounds and pain were coming from the spider making its home in her ear.

The physician of the Department of Otolaryngology, Han Xinglong, told local media: 'The web made by this spider is very similar to the eardrum. When the ear endoscope first entered, nothing abnormal was found.

'But when you look closely, there seems to be something moving underneath. I pushed aside the spider web, it was about to flee, but it was finally taken out smoothly.'

Fortunately for the woman, the spider was not poisonous, and she suffered only minor damage to her ear canal.