What To My Wondering Eyes Should Appear

Ok, this is just way too scary looking.  My grandkids were walking out of their basement apartment on Sunday and this is what they saw.   

 It's a freaking huge wolf spider.  This is the actual size of the thing.  All of the sudden I hear 6 feet running up the stairs to get me.  "Grammie, grammie, you have to come see this huge spider".  Ummmm, do I have to.  Of course, I did because they are just little and I'm an adult, and I'm not supposed to be scared of them, right? I think the only scarier looking spider we could see would be this one, staring right at us. Run, run for your lives :)