I used to be terrified of earwigs - because I thought that they would, quite literally, crawl into my ear & stay there when I was asleep in bed.
If you lie with your ear against the pillow really quietly, you can hear the faint sound of your pulse - can you imagine the terror I felt when I heard this, aged around 5/6, and thought the earwigs were already there!!!
A childhood belief about creepy crawlies
you weren't the only one
36 of you believed this
- I used to believe that ear wigs would climb in your ears while you slept and make you go mad— troy
- for the longest time, i believed that earwigs would crawl into my ears and eat my brain— Sarah
- I used to believe that "Earwigs lived in your ears", scared
me to death for years.— Will Chapman - i believed for awhile that earwigs would burrow into your ear canal and eat away at your brain. — Renae
- Earwigs crawl into your ears when your not looking and make nests in your brain.Anon