Six-legged spider found in Minden?

Here is a weird story about a possible six-legged spider. A normal spider as shown in the National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Insects & Spiders shows spiders as having four legs on each side for a total of eight legs not including fangs, except for the daddy long legs that appears to have six legs.

This is very interesting because I have found a spider that appears to have six legs, three on each side plus fangs. This spider appears to have no abdomen but it has one central body like a crab. I have succeeded in killing two of these spiders in my bedroom which appear to be missing two legs and have one central body plus fangs and a various number of eyes in front. Running fast sideways looking from the front they run in all directions, but very fast going to the left with fangs facing you and running to the left.

Don't use a fly swatter, you must get ahead of them as you will miss them; they are similar to a jumping spider.

It is possible that I knocked a pair of legs off the two spiders that I killed, one on a vertical wall and one running across the floor. Since I am a registered professional engineer, I am certainly not a student of spiders and have only an amateur's view point of arachnids (spiders) but until somebody proves differently, I believe this spider has three legs on each side instead of four. I jokingly tell people that this spider comes from outer space and is a genuine space traveler.

Donald E. Bently is owner and chief executive officer of Bently Agrowdynamics.