Thousands of venomous brown recluse spiders forced a suburban St. Louis family from their nearly half-million-dollar home shortly after moving in, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

Brian and Susan Trost bought the Weldon Spring 2,400-square-foot home in 2007 for $450,000 and discovered the spiders soon after moving in, Post-Dispatch reported.

The family said the spiders were everywhere, including one she had to dodge as it fell from the ceiling and washed down the drain as she was showering, according to the Post-Dispatch. According to one estimate by a biology professor at the University of Kansas, the home was infested with between 4,500 and 6,000 brown recluse spiders.

Jamel Sandidge testified in the trial against the previous homeowners who sold the house to the Trost family that the amount of spiders was "immense," adding that the spider count was done in the winter time, when they are the least active, the Post-Dispatch reported.

During the trial, Trost testified she contacted a pest control company that came in on a weekly basis, spraying the interior and exterior and setting down sticky traps, but to no avail, according to the Post-Dispatch.

"After the attic treatment, it seemed to help for quite a while, although we were still capturing them," Susan Trost testified. "It just was a decline; they weren't gone."

The Trosts were eventually forced out of their home, which overlooks a country club golf course and now is in foreclosure, the Post-Dispatch reported.

In 2008, after attempting to live with the spiders, the Trosts sued the home's former owners and their insurance company, State Farm, the Post-Dispatch reported.

The court ruled in their favor and the family was supposed to be awarded more than $472,000 in a 2011 civil trial, but they never collected because State Farm denied the payment, according to the Post-Dispatch.

This house is now covered in blue-and-orange striped tarp as an exterminator blasts the spiders and eggs with 200 pounds of sulfuryl fluoride gas, pumped in at 67 degrees below zero, the Post-Dispatch reported.