This was one that I heard when I was at school in the late 80s. Marc, the friend who told us the story, claimed to have read it in the Daily Mail, which (if true) doesn't say a whole lot for that paper's standards of investigative journalism.
A family bought a large Yucca plant. The family noticed that when they watered the plant, it would hiss. They wondered if this was some kind of respiration sound. After this had happened several times, the family sought professional advice from a pest controller, who arrived swiftly and removed the plant from the house before explaining that the plant had a fully grown female tarantula nesting in it, and that the spider was about to give birth.
Do tarantulas even give birth as such? Or nest in Yucca plants?? The answer to both questions is no. A rather more melodramatic version of this story is reproduced on Snopes.com here:
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