creepy crawlies

a friend once believed that spiders screamed with pain like humans did. this came from throwing a large (tarantula-like) spider on a fire and the whistling sound that came from air blowing through its burnt body.

Anon

My belief has to do with earwigs. NO, it is not the stupid brain eating thing thats all over this site. When I was at a relative's house (Maybe grandma's) I saw some tall plants with a big mess of platelike things shaped like a pineapple. Curious, I peeled of the plates layer by layer. Well, I was on the third layer when the back end of an earwig poked out. I thought the plant was pissed at me and the pincher thing was part of it that it reached out to grab me and pull me in! Another one is when was at my old friend Steven's house and we were going to go down the slide, but there was a spider web on it. We were about 3 years old, and thought the spider would kill us if we broke it. Steven, the clever guy he is, came up with a plan. There wasn't a spider in the web,(we thought it was out hunting) so Steven broke it and placed a baby doll nearby. We thought that the spider would think it was the doll who broke the web and attack it instead!

Matt

I used to think that pack rats were a kind of rat that ran around together in packs (groups).

Julie

When I was six my mom told me I was sick and had a stomach "bug" that was making me vomit. I walked into the living room and uncontrollably puked on the floor. I looked down at the mess i had just made and notice there was string in it and on the end of the string was a bug. A lady bug to be specific (which was probably on the floor to begin with)and I was convinced I had gotten rid of the bug so I was all better. For the longest time IO thought ladybugs would make you sick if you touched them.

Sandy

I am still afraid of geckos until now because it's an old wives' tale in our country that if one stuck on you, you would never be able to take it off unless you showed it the bottom of a pot or of a Aeta, an indigenous race here. I'm still not sure until now if it's true, so I just stay away, just in case.

Andrea

My friend thought butterfly was actually called a 'flutterby.'

BlutterBly?

I used tobeleive that skin crickets would eat my fleashif i went outside after dark

Anon

When I Was Young i youst to believe that when you had pins and needles in your foot it was little tiny bugs biting your feet and i took off my sock to have a look!

lisa marie

You shouldn't play in the dirt because worms will lay eggs under your nails and when they hatch your fingers will blow off.

Danielle

when i was a kid we went camping every summer with our uncla and older nephews. My nephew Danny told us we should sleep with our mouths closed because if you don't, spiders fall/crawl in your mouth at night. every single year i didn't sleep a wink the first two or three nights.

kittykat

One morning when I was about 6 years old I found a spider in my bed. It had been there all night. From that day until I was about 8 years old, I would have to put pillows around the outside of my bed because I thought that thousands and thousands of spiders would crawl onto my bed and bite me during the night. I got over it though.

Anon

When I was young I didn’t use to look out the window of my room because I thought there was an animal outside. I thought this because it was something that had occurred to my father so that I would not open the window.

Emma Juanpere

My cousin once gave me the impression that ants 'came from' sugar (what I think now she must have said was 'came for' sugar).

So I spent my childhood years thinking that sugar was actually ants eggs(!)

srp

My older sister told me that if a dragonfly touched you, that spot would swell up for the rest of your life. I was terrified of dragonflies for years.

Anon

There has long been an urban myth that it is against the law to kill a praying mantis. This probably comes from the fact that they kill pest insects and are considered benificial.

When I was kid, my best (?) friend placed a praying mantis under a large clam shell with out me knowing it. Then bet me I could not break the shell with the heel of my shoe. After seeing the smashed shell with bug guts underneath, my friend spent the next week telling every grown up he met I had killed a mantis - hoping someone would call the police.

Watti

When I was little I had a babysitter with a big scar on her leg. I once asked her what it was from and she told me she had been attacked by a dragon fly. I was extremely scared of dragon flies after that.

Anon

I Used To Believe That Butter Came From Butterflys!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

manbytamby!

When I was a kid I was really scared of spiders. I had a blanket on my bed that had pictures of rose buds all over it, and every night before I could go to sleep, I would sit up and look at each rose because I thought that a spider might be posing as a rose bud and just waiting until I went to sleep to crawl up onto my face.

Michelle

when i was little, i never liked bugs. my dad once told me that there were a lot of bigger bugs than what i have seen in the house. i started to think about it, and thought there were gigantic grasshoppers 20 feet high that would rampage down the freeway. i never liked going on the freeway.

kevin lam

When I was really little, my mom told me that Daddy Long Leg spiders couldnt make their own webs, and that they eat dust. I believed this until one day i saw one spinning a web. I now know that they can spin webs, they eat small insects, and are venomous. (but they cant puncture human flesh because their fangs are too small).

Devin