Not sure if this is a cellar spider or a harvestman. All spiders are arachnids, but not all arachnids are spiders. The arachnid family includes ticks and mites. The photo below shows a type of harvestmen and what my mother always called granddaddy longlegs.
Source: Wikipedia
Harvestmen are arachnids, but not spiders. The difference? Harvestmen have fused body regions and single pair of eyes in the middle of their cephalothorax (spiders have an 'abdomen' that is separated from the cephalothorax by a constriction, as well as three to four pairs of eyes). I cropped the photo really closely and think MY specimen is a cellar spider and not a harvestmen. And, hopefully, it is now back in the 'cellar'.
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