My brother ate a spider in the garden and my mum told me and my brother that it would crawl out of his bellybutton. I told all my friends because i was convinced it was true.
A childhood belief about creepy crawlies

others believed things like this
- i used to believe that scoripons could crawl up your toilet and pull you in.
No thanks to my big brother!— Alexandra - My brother once convinced me that the wind was "leftover hurricanes"— Tufty the Squirrel
- I was told when young that if i kept poking my bellybutton my bum would drop off.— vicky
- My uncle told me if you twist your bellybutton, your bum will fall off, I was terrified!— little2ft
- Someone told my that rice was really spider eggs. I still don't look at it the same. Anon
- I watched a Michael Jackson music video with my brother, and we were convinced he was a woman.— Adrian