I saw this spider in my room last night and I took a picture of it. I'm not normally scared of spiders but this thing was f**king huge! It sort of looks like a Brown Recluse, but those usually live in the midwest, where as I live in Washington (state)
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You're in luck! Only a while ago, you wouldn't have seen any of these. They got established somehow around one of the ports in your area, and have thrived and spread. It's the Holy-crap-it's-Gigantic House Spider, Tegenaria duellica (formerly and more appropriately Tegenaria gigantea). Yours is a male, which has a longer leg-span than the female, and also wanders around looking for love, so gets spotted a lot. These are quite harmless, and indeed beneficial as they stimulate your cardiovascular system, test your adrenals and otherwise tone you up and perk up your reflexes. They're also good sprinters.